Question

This critic called Orwell’s account of a condemned man’s avoidance of a puddle as “significantly insignificant” in a chapter defending another author’s inaccurate description of a cigar tip as “off-duty detail.” This critic imagined a Hell’s Angels group dedicated to late Wordsworth and a punningly named Toby Awknotuby (15[1]-5[2])(“aw-NOT-too-BE”) when ridiculing books that pursue “vitality at all costs.” This spouse of novelist Claire Messud (-5[1])is the current Professor (-5[1])of the Practice of Literary Criticism (15[1])at (*) Harvard (10[1])University. This author called Flaubert’s free indirect discourse the establishment (-5[1])of “modern realist narration” (10[2])in a 2008 (-5[1])book on craft. In (10[1])a piece for The New Republic titled “Human, All Too Inhuman,” (10[1])this critic (10[1])attacked the excessive detail in contemporary novels (10[1]-5[1])like Zadie Smith’s (10[1])White Teeth. (10[4])For 10 points, name this English-born (-5[1])coiner of “hysterical realism” and author of How Fiction Works. (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[10])

ANSWER: James Wood [or James Douglas Graham Wood] (The other author in the lead-in is Henry James; the cigar tip detail is from The Aspern Papers.)
<Literature - British Literature - Misc Literature>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Mike BentleyMusic to Help You Stop SmokingBHSU ReFantazio47-5
Joseph KrolCien Años de QuizboledadCambridge47-5
Tim MorrisonStanford+Cry of the Common Loon4715
Neil GurramA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairsWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?62-5
Jason RohfritschRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken66-5
Ryan RosenbergCope is the thing with feathersWalston et. al.7215
Tejas RajeBHSU RebirthWho is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?7410
Joel MilesThompson et al.CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!84-5
Benjamin WatsonLimp FranceskitDefying Suavity8810
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange8810
Ayaan GhoriAw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big boomsUBC91-5
Jordan Brownstein"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question broImport Pandas9510
Michael WuGrzegorz BrzęczyszczykiewiczSimple Vibes10610
Jaimie CarlsonBanned from ARGOS|madam|10810
Patrick QuionNortheast by NorthwesternClown Senpais115-5
Nathaniel HullBerkeleynumber of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku11510
Sinecio Moraleshawk two ofWashU11810
Ned TagtmeierThe Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)Notre Dame12010
Halle Friedmanjeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club12 Litres of Green Tea12010
Stephen LiuWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs12010
King VidorI wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retirethrow away your cards, rally in the streets12010
Gareth ThorlaksonSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit126-5
Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers13610
Sam/Cypress MacchiPahkin' the AhgoHu up Jinning they Tao1370
Jonathan SchnipperHu up Jinning they TaoPahkin' the Ahgo1370
Coby TranThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five DaysClown Squad1370
Matt BollingerBHSU ReFantazioMusic to Help You Stop Smoking13710
Leo TaoClown SquadThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days1370
Anwen KelleherNJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)just one more half-dot bro1370
Eshan Pantjust one more half-dot broNJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)1370
Mattias EhatammYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut1370
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up as rational as the square root of two power bottoms1370
Yihong ChenModerator Can't Neg me While in AlphaShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere1370
Elijah Mandelbaumas rational as the square root of two power bottomsI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 1370
Kevin WangCLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!Thompson et al.13710