Packet 5: Bonus 22
Alexander Manshel’s 2023 book Writing Backwards argues that literary prizes and MFA programs have pigeonholed authors of color into writing in this genre. For 10 points each:
[10e] The Walter Scott Prize is given to novels in what broad genre, as defined by their settings? Previous entrants in this genre include The Zone of Interest and Wolf Hall.
ANSWER: historical fiction [or the historical novel] (Writing Backwards notes that 70 percent of major American literary prizes in the 21st century have been won by historical novels.)
[10m] This critic’s influential study of the genre praised Scott for depicting social transformations rather than world- historical individuals. This Hungarian Marxist coined the term “reification” in History and Class Consciousness.
ANSWER: György Lukács (“loo-KAWCH”) [or György Bernát Löwinger; or Georg Bernard Baron Lukács von Szegedin]
[10h] Frederic Jameson analyzes the historical novel as “Harlequin history” and “nostalgia art” in a book titled for the “antinomies” of this concept. Lukács lauded Thomas Mann in an essay titled for this concept “in the balance.”
ANSWER: realism [accept The Antinomies of Realism; accept “Realism in the Balance”]
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| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |