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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 was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?

2. ________ is defined as the meanings of words according to Saussure.

3. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."

4. Who does Peter Barry claim described the feminist change in the late 1970s as a shift of attention from "andro-texts" to "gyno-texts"?

5. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" suggests that feminist criticism became much more ________, meaning that it began to draw upon the findings and approaches of other kinds of criticism.

Short Essay Questions

1. How is French feminism different from American feminism?

2. What is "ecriture feminine"?

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

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

5. What are the three stages of the deconstructive process? Explain.

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

7. What does the formula SQ3R mean? Explain.

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

9. Briefly explain what post-structuralist critics do.

10. What is the purpose of displacement and condensation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

Analyze and discuss the background and history of Marxism theory.

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