Bonus
Mikhail Bakhtin introduced “monologic” and “dialogic” subdivisions of this form, distinguishing stylistic agreement between authors and narrators within works in this form. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Russian literary form first codified by Boris Eikhenbaum. This form is characterized by stories with narration and dialect reminiscent of oral literature and folk tales.
ANSWER: skaz
[10e] Eikhenbaum first coined the concept of skaz in an essay about this Nikolai Gogol story, in which Akaky Akakievich loses the title garment.
ANSWER: “The Overcoat” [or “The Cloak” or “Shinyel”; accept “How Gogol’s Overcoat Was Made”]
[10m] Walter Benjamin’s essay “The Storyteller” praises the skaz stories of this author, such as “The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea.” A novella by this author analogizes Katerina Ismailova to a Shakespeare villainess.
ANSWER: Nikolai Leskov (The novella is Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.)
<HG, European Literature>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 | 14.21 | 100% | 21% | 21% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Carnegie Mellon B | Ohio State B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgetown A | Notre Dame A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Harvard A | Brown A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| MIT A | Brandeis B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Michigan A | Kenyon | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
| Michigan B | Case Western B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Michigan State | Case Western A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Missouri | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Northwestern A | Purdue | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State A | Michigan D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Oxford A | Cambridge A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford B | Iowa | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| TAMU | ASU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Texas A | Texas B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Tufts A | Brandeis A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
| UBC | Alberta | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UW A | UW B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech A | Virginia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 0% | 17% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |