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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?
2. Sigmund Freud connects infantile sexuality to the ________, in which the male infant conceives the desire to eliminate the father and become the sexual partner of the mother.
3. The notion of the ________, posited by Levi-Strauss, denoting the minimal units of narrative "sense," is formed on the analogy of the morpheme, which, in linguistics, is the ________ unit of grammatical sense.
4. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.
5. All of the following authors were considered some of the literary "high priests" of the modernist movement according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postmodernism," except for which one?
Short Essay Questions
1. Do liberal humanists use the term "human nature"? Explain.
2. Explain how literary theory, after Sir Phillip Sydney, was significantly advanced in the eighteenth century.
3. Discuss how J.A. Cuddon describes postmodernism in his "Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory."
4. In which way is post-structuralism more fundamental than structuralism?
5. What are some of the important characteristics of the literary modernism practice?
6. Discuss what higher education was like in England until the first quarter of the nineteenth century, according to the chapter titled "Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism."
7. Explain the Oedipus complex of Sigmund Freud.
8. Explain what Peter Barry means when he informs the reader "that it is much better to read intensely in theory than to read widely".
9. How does Disneyland fit into the concept of hyperreality according to Baurdrillard?
10. What is structuralism? Where and when did it begin?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain how Peter Barry draws a parallel between gay and lesbian theory.
Essay Topic 2
Identify, analyze, and discuss the significance of the ten principles of liberal humanism that Peter Barry summarizes within the book "Beginning Theory."
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss how and why Sigmund Freud is relevant to literary theory. Give at least five supporting examples that indicate that relevance.
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