GRE Question of the Day (January 23)

Verbal

If impact on one’s contemporaries is the test of (i) _________, Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman cannot be said to be among the most significant postmodern novels, as it went unpublished and unread for twenty-seven years. The literary theorist Keith Hopper, though, appeals to standards other than (ii) _________ when he argues persuasively that The Third Policeman is among the most important of early postmodern works, not least because of its deep subversion of both enlightenment and modern traditions in literature.

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