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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. According to Jacques Lacan, what is the "symbolic order"?
2. The transition from structuralism to post-structuralism is partly in response to what movement?
3. According to Roland Barthes, what kind of sign draws attention to its own arbitrariness?
4. According to Eagleton, why is it an illusion to think that he can be present to us in what he says and writes?
5. According to Eagleton, the French structural anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss did pioneering work on what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Beyond helping the status of women, what is the women's movement's goal and why is it significant?
2. What is the dominant ideology within academia and what are its major problems?
3. What does Julia Kristeva define as "semiotic" and why is it significant?
4. What was the significance of the Prague structuralists?
5. During the 1960s and 1970s why did feminist scholars reject Marxist thought on the left?
6. Why does Eagleton claim that Northrop Frye's work emphasized the "utopian root'" of all literature and what is his response?
7. What is Sigmund Freud's Oedipus complex and why is it significant?
8. Who developed semiotics and what was his contribution to literary theory?
9. According to Sigmund Freud, what are the two conflicting principles that all people are motivated by and why is it significant?
10. What is multiple pluralism and why does Eagleton object to it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain Eagleton's ideas on structuralism.
1) Choose two positive aspects of structuralism.
2) Choose two negative aspects of structuralism.
Essay Topic 2
What is the basic problem of literary theory, according to Eagleton? Why does Eagleton that "literature" should not be any more important in terms of a field of study as film or television shows? For Eagleton, why is rhetoric a more comprehensive and constructive discipline and methodology?
Essay Topic 3
What is the relationship between politics and literature, according to Eagleton? How does the production of literature inculcate and disseminate ideological values?
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