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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 narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.
2. Whom does Peter Barry credit with the suggestion that language used is gendered, so that when a woman turns to novel writing she finds that there is "no common sentence ready for her use"?
3. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.
4. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," who did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play to?
5. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to the "Introduction," what does the saying that "after the moment of theory comes the 'hour' of theory" mean?
2. What are the five (5) codes identified by Barthes in S/Z? Explain.
3. Discuss Sigmund Freud's concept of "dream work."
4. Explain the Oedipus complex of Sigmund Freud.
5. What is the purpose of displacement and condensation?
6. What is structuralism? Where and when did it begin?
7. What is the most basic difference between liberal humanist and structuralist reading?
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. What are some of the important characteristics of the literary modernism practice?
10. What are the three stages of the deconstructive process? Explain.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss how the women's movement is relevant to feminine criticism, as well as lesbian feminine criticism.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze and discuss the ambitions of stylistics as described by Peter Barry.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and discuss the background and history of Marxism theory.
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