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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. The chapter titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" discusses the use by the unconscious of these linguistic means of self-expression is part of ________'s evidence for the claim that the unconscious is structured like a language.

2. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.

3. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.

4. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?

5. Barry states in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism" that the British "socialist feminist" tradition produced its key works in the ________.

Short Essay Questions

1. In which way is post-structuralism more fundamental than structuralism?

2. 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."

3. What is the most basic difference between liberal humanist and structuralist reading?

4. Briefly summarize author Peter Barry's own introduction to literary theory as seen in "My own stock-taking" found within the "Introduction."

5. What are the five (5) codes identified by Barthes in S/Z? Explain.

6. Explain the Oedipus complex of Sigmund Freud.

7. What did Ferdinand de Saussure say about linguistic structures which the structuralists found so interesting?

8. Discuss how J.A. Cuddon describes postmodernism in his "Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory."

9. What is structuralism? Where and when did it begin?

10. Explain F.D. Maurice's opinions of literature as detailed in the chapter "Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism."

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

Analyze and discuss the background and history of Marxism theory.

Essay Topic 3

Identify, discuss, and analyze the history of English studies as foretold by Peter Barry.

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