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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. Whom does author Peter Barry say was a French psychoanalyst whose work had an extraordinary influence upon many aspects of recent literary theory and who began his career by taking a medical degree and then training in psychiatry in the 1920s?

2. According to the narrator in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism, the "Anglo-American" tradition appeared when?

3. Who wrote the following statement on the mythologized misrepresentation of the United States and Disneyland: "All its [the USA's] values are exalted here, in miniature and comic-strip form. Embalmed and pacified"?

4. The chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" states that ________ is the notion that sexuality begins not at puberty, with physical maturing, but in infancy, especially through the infant's relationship with the mother.

5. 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.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the representation of women in literature felt to be one of the most important forms of socialization?

2. Explain the Oedipus complex of Sigmund Freud.

3. According to the "Introduction," what does the saying that "after the moment of theory comes the 'hour' of theory" mean?

4. Who was Jean Baudrillard? How was he associated with "the loss of the real"?

5. What does the formula SQ3R mean? Explain.

6. Explain what author Peter Barry means when he says the frame of mind he would recommend his readers is threefold.

7. What are some of the important characteristics of the literary modernism practice?

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

9. Briefly explain what post-structuralist critics do.

10. How is French feminism different from American feminism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify, analyze, and discuss the following quote: "The most basic difference between liberal humanist and structuralist reading is that the structuralist's comments on structure, symbol, and design, become paramount, and are the main focus of the commentary, while the emphasis on any wider moral significance, and indeed on interpretation itself in the broad sense, is very much reduced."

Essay Topic 2

Describe the "landmarks" in postmodernism as discussed by Peter Barry.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how women are represented by both men and women in a piece of literature that you have read in the past. Explain how this representation of women would be viewed by feminist critics.

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