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This critic’s 2024 book Inventions of a Present examines the Utopianism of The Wire and critiques James Dickey’s Deliverance for its “political and social wish-fulfillment.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this critic who used Greimas (“greh-MAHSS”) squares to analyze the “character systems” of the novels of Joseph Conrad in a book with chapters on the narrative heterogeneity of Balzac and ideologemes in the work of George Gissing.
ANSWER: Fredric Jameson [or Fredric Ruff Jameson] (That book is The Political Unconscious.)
[10m] Inventions of a Present describes the stylistic shift in this author’s 2002 novel Pattern Recognition. He criticized Singapore’s technocracy in the article “Disneyland with the Death Penalty.”
ANSWER: William Gibson [or William Ford Gibson]
[10e] Inventions of a Present includes a chapter on “Language and Conspiracy” by Sol Yurick and this postmodern author of White Noise and Underworld.
ANSWER: Don DeLillo [or Donald Richard DeLillo]
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Arizona StateWUSTL B001010E
British ColumbiaNYU001010E
Chicago BCornell A001010E
Columbia BIllinois B001010E
FloridaWaterloo B0101020ME
Illinois AColumbia A0101020ME
Iowa StateJohns Hopkins1001020HE
LSEGeorgia State001010E
MITTexas001010E
MarylandVirginia001010E
MichiganNorth Carolina B001010E
MinnesotaGeorgia Tech0101020ME
North Carolina ANorthwestern001010E
Ohio StateCornell B001010E
Penn StateOttawa0101020ME
RITWinona State001010E
Toronto AChicago A0101020ME
Toronto CToronto B0101020ME
UC Berkeley AIndiana0101020ME
UC Berkeley BYale0101020ME
VanderbiltUCF0101020ME
Virginia TechHarvard001010E
WUSTL AStanford001010E
Waterloo ARutgers0101020ME

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TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2414.58100%42%4%