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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 was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?
2. What does the narrator say the reader will have the most difficulty as the result of what?
3. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."
4. The chapter "Postmodernism" details that Ezra Pound calls his major work, "The Cantos" a ________.
5. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.
Short Essay Questions
1. How is French feminism different from American feminism?
2. What did Ferdinand de Saussure say about linguistic structures which the structuralists found so interesting?
3. 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."
4. What are some of the important characteristics of the literary modernism practice?
5. Do liberal humanists use the term "human nature"? Explain.
6. Compare post-colonialism to postmodernism as discussed in the chapter "Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism."
7. Explain the Oedipus complex of Sigmund Freud.
8. Explain what author Peter Barry means when he says the frame of mind he would recommend his readers is threefold.
9. Discuss how J.A. Cuddon describes postmodernism in his "Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory."
10. What are the five (5) codes identified by Barthes in S/Z? Explain.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Identify, list, and describe the specific functions ecocritics perform in their analysis of literary text.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss what it means to read literature with the perspective of "Orientalism" in mind.
Essay Topic 3
Explain Edgar Allan Poe's impact on structuralism. Be sure to cite Poe's literary works and discuss how they fit into the structuralist theory.
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