awarding the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature to Peter Handke - 2023 ARCADIA

Question

Elaine Castillo’s essay “Reading Teaches Us Empathy, and Other Fictions” criticizes this decision by decrying the idea of a binary “between political art and the Real Art that transcends such dogma.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Describe this controversial decision made in 2019, in which an award was given to an author who has denied the Bosnian genocide and supported Slobodan Milošević.

ANSWER: awarding the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature to Peter Handke [or equivalents; prompt on the awarding of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature by asking “to whom?”; prompt on giving an award to Peter Handke by asking “which award?”]

[10h] Castillo’s essay denounces the racism and “edgelord narcissism” of a Handke protagonist with this surname. This term titles a novel in which Wertheimer is destroyed by his jealousy of Glenn Gould’s talent at piano.

ANSWER: loser [accept Andreas Loser or The Loser; accept Der Untergeher] (by Thomas Bernhard)

[10e] Castillo criticizes Andreas Loser’s murder of a member of this party as the erasure of history, rather than justice. Anne Frank’s diary chronicles her life hiding from members of this political party.

ANSWER: Nazi Party [or National Socialist German Workers’ Party; or NSDAP or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; accept Nazism; accept neo-Nazis]

<CM, European Literature>

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2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	25.00	100%	50%	100%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	N	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	N	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

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Berkeley A	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20
Berkeley B	Stanford A	10	10	10	30
Georgia A	Georgia Tech D	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Warwick	Durham	10	0	10	20
Imperial B	Edinburgh	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Cambridge A	10	0	10	20
McDouble West-Carleton	Ottawa A	10	0	10	20
I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me	SGV Capital	10	0	10	20
Duke	NC State	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins	Maryland B	0	0	10	10
George Washington B	Maryland A	0	0	10	10
Kenyon A	Kenyon B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Farrellmagnetism	MSU A and Friend	0	10	10	20
Boston College	Ganon Evans Fan Club	0	0	10	10
Syracuse+Rochester	Cornell R	0	0	10	10
Texas A	TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version	10	10	10	30
WUSTL XYZ	Missouri B	0	0	10	10
Chicago B	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Notre Dame B	10	10	10	30