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 of the Practice of Literary Criticism at (*) Harvard University. This author called Flaubert’s free indirect discourse the establishment of “modern realist narration” 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 coiner of “hysterical realism” and author of How Fiction Works. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Jason Rohfritsch | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 66 | -5 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 88 | 10 |
Gareth Thorlakson | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 126 | -5 |
Caleb Ott | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 136 | 10 |
Yihong Chen | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 137 | 0 |
Elijah Mandelbaum | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 137 | 0 |
Mattias Ehatamm | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 137 | 0 |
Erik Christensen | I'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 bottoms | 137 | 0 |
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 94.00 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 128.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 101.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 40% | 112.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 33% | 0% | 96.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 112.25 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 97.00 |