Henry James - 2023 ARCADIA

Question

Answer the following about Dunwich, a melancholy Suffolk port village that sank slowly but inexorably into the sea over the centuries, in the imaginations of various authors, for 10 points each.

[10e] In The English Hours, this author recalls fondly of Dunwich that “the minor key is struck here with a felicity that leaves no sigh to be breathed.” This author wrote The Turn of the Screw after moving to Britain.

ANSWER: Henry James

[10h] The narrator of this novel describes Dunwich as a city “dissolved into water, sand, and thin air,” beneath a forlorn photo of the All Saints’ Parish. This novel’s unnamed narrator meets his friend Michael Hamburger in Middleton.

ANSWER: The Rings of Saturn [or Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt] (by W. G. Sebald)

[10m] This chronically nervous poet found respite in the ruins of Dunwich, and took long walks along its cliffs, inspiring the poem By The North Sea. This Victorian poet wrote Atalanta in Calydon.

ANSWER: Algernon Swinburne

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2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley C	10	0	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley A	10	10	10	30
Ottawa C	McDouble West-Carleton	0	0	0	0
Ottawa A	Ottawa B	10	0	0	10
Waterloo	Toronto Ray of Sun in the Sky	10	0	0	10
Auxiliary CLU	Claremont	10	0	10	20
Duke	South Carolina B	10	0	0	10
James Madison A	North Carolina A	0	0	0	0
North Carolina B	James Madison B	10	10	10	30
South Carolina A	NC State	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Emory A	10	0	10	20
Georgia A	Georgia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech B	10	0	10	20
Edinburgh	Birmingham	10	0	10	20
Warwick	Cambridge A	10	10	0	20
Durham	Imperial B	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	Cambridge B	10	0	10	20
Oxford	Bristol	10	10	10	30
Chicago A	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Indiana	10	10	10	30
Purdue A	Notre Dame A	10	0	10	20
Illinois B	Purdue B	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt	Notre Dame B	10	0	0	10
George Washington A	George Washington B	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins	Maryland A	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Kenyon B	10	0	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan A	10	0	10	20
Kenyon A	Ohio State B	10	0	0	10
Arizona State	Boston College	10	0	0	10
Farrellmagnetism	Zen and the Art of Buzzing	10	0	10	20
MSU A and Friend	Ganon Evans Fan Club	10	10	10	30
Cornell R	Cornell MATLAB	10	10	10	30
RIT	Syracuse+Rochester	10	0	0	10
TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version	HCC	10	0	0	10
TAMU	Texas A	10	0	0	10
Texas B	Texas C	0	0	0	0
Missouri A	WUSTL XYZ	10	0	10	20
SIUE	Missouri B	10	0	0	10
Squidward Community College	WUSTL H2O	10	10	10	30