Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund Freud, psychological “transference” helps to understand the nature of ________________? A. Incest B. Trauma C. Taboo D. Love
According to Max Simon Nordau in his work “Degeneration,” which of the following best describes the term “Fin de Siècle” ? A. “The impotent despair of a sick man, who feels himself dying by inches in the midst of an eternally living nature blooming insolently forever” B. A term that means nothing except for the signification given to it by the user C. “A confession and a complaint” D. All of the above
Which of the following statements best describes the “Bloomsbury Group” ? A. The “Bloomsbury Group” consists of a group of English writers, thinkers, and artists who met in the Bloomsbury district of London. B. The group consisted of survivors of World War II. C. The Bloomsbury group included E.M. Forster, Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes, and Virginia Woolf. D. A and C only
Which of the following is NOT a tenet of F.T. Marinetti’s “Futurist Manifesto” ? A. “We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of danger and of temerity.” B. “The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, daring, and revolt.” C. “We want to sing the man who holds the steering wheel, whose ideal stem pierces the Earth, itself launched on the circuit of its orbit.” D. “We want never to glorify war, the scourge of the planet.”
