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 (“aw-NOT-too-BE”) when ridiculing books that pursue “vitality at all costs.” This spouse of novelist Claire Messud is the current Professor (-5[1])of the Practice of Literary Criticism at (*) Harvard University. This author called Flaubert’s free indirect discourse the establishment of “modern realist narration” (10[1])in a 2008 book on craft. In a piece for The New Republic titled “Human, All Too Inhuman,” this critic attacked the excessive detail in contemporary novels like Zadie Smith’s White Teeth. For 10 points, name this English-born (-5[1])coiner of “hysterical realism” and author of How Fiction Works. (10[1])■END■ (0[4])

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.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jason RohfritschRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken66-5
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange8810
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
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
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

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