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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. Which of the following terms best fit the following definition: "a form of literary criticism which uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature"?

2. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.

3. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?

4. The chapter titled "Postmodernism" states the term "postmodernism" was used in the 1930s, but its current sense and vogue can be said to have begun with ________'s "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge."

5. According to Peter Barry, the ________ aspect of discourse is characterized not by logic and order, but by "displacement, slippage, condensation."

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the formula SQ3R mean? Explain.

2. Who was I.A. Richards?

3. Why was Freudian interpretation interesting to literary critics?

4. What are some of the important characteristics of the literary modernism practice?

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

6. Discuss Sigmund Freud's concept of "dream work."

7. Do liberal humanists use the term "human nature"? Explain.

8. Briefly explain what post-structuralist critics do.

9. Explain how literary theory, after Sir Phillip Sydney, was significantly advanced in the eighteenth century.

10. What is the most basic difference between liberal humanist and structuralist reading?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss Peter Barry's instructional approach to literary theory.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Explain how deconstruction ties into post-structuralism. Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.

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