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>
Summary
| 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% |
Data
| Johns Hopkins | Maryland B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| George Washington B | Maryland A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |