1. In literature, how does the postmodern hero differ from his or her predecessors?
Answer
Has been rejected by society for not conforming
Embraces his or her ordinariness and lack of purpose
Has no definable goal and merely wanders through life
Accepts that the search for meaning is never-ending
2. In Thomas Pynchon's novel V. why can protagonist Herbert Stencil never fulfill his quest for the mysterious V?
Answer
V. died in Italy during World War II
Not a person, V. is an unreachable vanishing point
V. moved to Africa and changed her name
V. was a figment of his father's imagination
3. On what painting did Yasumasa Morimura model his photograph Portrait (Twins)?
Answer
Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror
Manet's Olympia
Morisot's Summer Day
Matisse's Blue Nude