Packet 7: Bonus 2

David Haglund wrote of the “long shadow” that Zadie Smith cast over these two writers through a 2008 essay that contrasts their attitudes toward 21st-century fiction’s dominant “Balzac–Flaubert model.” For 10 points each:
[10h] What two subjects of Smith’s “Two Paths for the Novel” respectively wrote Remainder and Netherland?
ANSWER: Tom McCarthy AND Joseph O’Neill
[10e] Smith used Netherland’s descriptive prose and “authentic story of a self” to critique a “lyrical” kind of this style. James Wood used Smith’s novel White Teeth to trace a “hysterical” kind of this style.
ANSWER: realism [accept realist; accept lyrical realism; accept hysterical realism]
[10m] The “inauthentic” narrator of Remainder begins his re-enactments with one of these places inspired by a false memory. Robert Laing eats a dog to open a J. G. Ballard novel in which society collapses in one of these places.
ANSWER: apartment building [accept apartment block, apartment complex, tower block, tenement house, or flats; accept High-Rise; prompt on building; prompt on bathrooms or synonyms by asking “in what larger kind of place?”]
<Editors, British Literature> | P. Playoffs 7 (Editors 7)

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British ColumbiaMIT0101020EM
BrownChicago B0101020EM
CambridgeWashU010010E
Chicago AUC Berkeley A0101020EM
Columbia BRutgers010010E
CornellNorthwestern B010010E
GeorgetownNorth Carolina010010E
Georgia Tech BMichigan010010E
HarvardVirginia Tech010010E
IndianaColumbia A0101020EM
Johns HopkinsBruin010010E
Maryland AUC Berkeley B010010E
Maryland BIllinois B0000
MinnesotaGeorgia Tech C010010E
NYU AStanford A010010E
Ohio StatePenn State010010E
PurdueSwarthmore010010E
Stanford BNYU B0101020EM
TexasUCLA010010E
Toronto ANorthwestern A010010E
Toronto BIllinois A010010E
VanderbiltPittsburgh010010E
VirginiaGeorgia Tech A010010E
WaterlooUCF010010E

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2411.6796%21%0%