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Note to moderator: Read the alternative answerlines carefully. The narrator of Sylvie has a vision of Sylvie against a window in which these two plants are “interlaced.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these two plants. The speaker of Gerard de Nerval’s sonnet “El Desdichado” mentions an “arbor” or “trellis” where these two plants “twine joyously.”
ANSWER: the vine AND the rose [for the vine: accept the grape-vine; accept the grape-vine; accept the vine-leaf; accept le Pampre; for the rose: accept the rose-tree; accept la rose]
[10m] Umberto Eco contrasted the “mad innocence” in Sylvie’s visions and flash-forwards with the “excess of formulas” present in this author’s essay “The Philosophy of Composition.”
ANSWER: Edgar Allan Poe
[10e] Eco’s Six Walks in the Fictional Woods repeatedly cites this author’s analysis of Sylvie, including his claim that it is a “dream of a dream.” Nerval may have inspired the dreaminess of this author’s novel Swann’s Way.
ANSWER: Marcel Proust [or Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust]
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