Question
This book notes that “To be alone and poor is, in a sense, everybody’s fate” in the section “Solitary Confinement.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this book by the literary critic Frank Kermode that discusses the effect of apocalyptic thought on literature.
ANSWER: The Sense of an Ending [or The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction]
[10e] The opening epigraph of Kermode’s The Sense of an Ending is from this author’s poem A Vision of the Last Judgment. Northrop Frye’s book Fearful Symmetry is a study of this author of the poem “The Tyger.”
ANSWER: William Blake
[10m] This British author claimed to not know about Frank Kermode’s book The Sense of an Ending after he chose the exact same title for a 2011 novel in which Tony Webster’s friend Adrian commits suicide.
ANSWER: Julian Barnes [or Julian Patrick Barnes]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 67% | 17% |
Data
| Cambridge C | Bristol | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford A | Cambridge A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Warwick | Cambridge B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Durham A | Edinburgh | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Imperial B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Oxford B | Sheffield | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |