Question
The question of what these novels, “with their queer elements of the accidental and the arbitrary, artistically mean” is raised in the preface to The Tragic Muse. For 10 points each:
[10h] With what memorable two-word phrase did Henry James disparage “large, loose” 19th century novels like The Newcomes, The Three Musketeers, and War and Peace?
ANSWER: large, loose, baggy monsters [prompt on partial answer]
[10e] Presumably this James novella, by its nature, is neither large, nor loose, nor baggy, nor monstrous. It does feature the ghosts Miss Jessel and Peter Quint, though.
ANSWER: The Turn of the Screw
[10m] This author wrote “It cannot be too loose, too baggy or monstrous; but a novel built as prettily as a teacup is not of much use” in The Art of Fiction. After having an arm ripped off in a fight, the title character of his most famous novel says he's “had an accident… so may you all.”
ANSWER: John (Champlin) Gardner Jr. (The second novel is Grendel.)
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Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 83% | 33% | 33% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Stanford B | Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| It's Joever | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley A | [Insert Lawyer Joke Here] | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Amartya Senpai Notice Me | Chicago B+ | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago A | Epic Games | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois A+ | Maryland B- | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Mojo Shojo | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| OSU | WUSTL | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland B- | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Maryland A | Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery | The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland B+ | Rutgers Diaspora | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Milan et al. | Cameron et al. | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Vulture's Guide to Buzz | Parth et al. | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style | The Passion According to C.H. | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UG Championship Players (and Mazin) | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry | nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again | meet the new weird, same as the old weird | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |