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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 is the name given to the movement that dominates the arts and culture of the first half of the twentieth century?
2. Lacan argues that the two "dream work" mechanisms identified by Freud correspond to the basic poles of language, identified by the linguist Roman Jakobson, to ________ and ________.
3. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?
4. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
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. Explain what author Peter Barry means when he says the frame of mind he would recommend his readers is threefold.
2. What are some of the important characteristics of the literary modernism practice?
3. Why was Freudian interpretation interesting to literary critics?
4. What are the five (5) codes identified by Barthes in S/Z? Explain.
5. Why was the representation of women in literature felt to be one of the most important forms of socialization?
6. What are the three stages of the deconstructive process? Explain.
7. Explain the Oedipus complex of Sigmund Freud.
8. What is a theoretical difference between structuralist and post-structuralist?
9. What is the purpose of displacement and condensation?
10. What did Ferdinand de Saussure say about linguistic structures which the structuralists found so interesting?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze and describe the organizational structure of New Historicism theory.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Discuss what it means to read literature with the perspective of "Orientalism" in mind.
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