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Thomas Mann’s essay on “Goethe as a Representative” of this term’s “Age” is quoted in a book about this term “between history and literature” by Franco Moretti. In “Conversations on The Natural Son,” a moralizing style of “drame” (“drahm”) sometimes named for this word was pioneered by Denis Diderot (“did-uh-ROH”). Gotthold Lessing’s Emilia Galotti and Miss Sara Sampson exemplify a type of 18th-century “tragedy” named for this term. (-5[1])This (-5[1])original-language adjective appears in the title of a 1670 comedy-ballet whose protagonist discovers that he has spent his (10[1])whole life speaking (10[1])prose, (10[3])and tries to learn philosophy and fencing. (10[2])The socially-climbing Monsieur Jourdain (10[1])(“zhoor-DAN”) is this kind of (10[1])“gentleman” (10[1])according to (10[1])the title (-5[1])of a (10[1])Molière play. (10[1])For 10 points, what term names a group that (10[1])Marxist (10[1])literary (10[1])theorists (10[1])contrast (10[2])with the proletariat? (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

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