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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. 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.

2. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?

3. Who was the first critic to develop a "reader-centered" approach to literature?

4. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.

5. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare post-colonialism to postmodernism as discussed in the chapter "Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism."

2. Briefly explain what post-structuralist critics do.

3. What does the formula SQ3R mean? Explain.

4. Who was I.A. Richards?

5. What is structuralism? Where and when did it begin?

6. How does Disneyland fit into the concept of hyperreality according to Baurdrillard?

7. Explain F.D. Maurice's opinions of literature as detailed in the chapter "Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism."

8. What are the three particular areas that are debated and disagreed upon when it comes to feminist criticism?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Analyze and describe the organizational structure of New Historicism theory.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss what it means to read literature with the perspective of "Orientalism" in mind.

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