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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 does Peter Barry say is the topic of the book Beginning Theory?
2. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?
3. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?
4. 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.
5. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Ferdinand de Saussure say about linguistic structures which the structuralists found so interesting?
2. What are the three stages of the deconstructive process? Explain.
3. According to the "Introduction," what does the saying that "after the moment of theory comes the 'hour' of theory" mean?
4. What is "ecriture feminine"?
5. What are the five (5) codes identified by Barthes in S/Z? Explain.
6. Do liberal humanists use the term "human nature"? Explain.
7. Explain the Oedipus complex of Sigmund Freud.
8. How is French feminism different from American feminism?
9. What are some of the important characteristics of the literary modernism practice?
10. What is structuralism? Where and when did it begin?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Distinguish modernism from post-modernism according to the book "Beginning Theory." Be sure to include the origin of both theories.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Identify, analyze, and discuss the significance of the ten principles of liberal humanism that Peter Barry summarizes within the book "Beginning Theory."
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