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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. All of the following are part of the four areas identified as "outdoor environment" in the Chapter "Ecocriticism," except for which one?
2. Which of the following authors wrote the essay "What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Criticism" and attacked "essentialism," pointing out the way "the perceptual screen of hetero-sexism" prevented any consideration of lesbian issues in pioneering feminist writing?
3. Peter Barry states that ________ is best understood by seeing it initially in the context of its own origins within feminism in the 1980s.
4. Peter Barry states that in the 1990s a second, less essentialist, notion of lesbianism emerged, within the sphere of what is now known as ________.
5. The term "reification" was used in Karl Marx's major work ________, and it concerned the way, when capitalist goals and questions of profit and loss are paramount, workers are bereft of their full humanity and are though of as "hands" or "the labor force."
Short Essay Questions
1. Briefly define "mimesis" and "diegesis" as determined by Peter Barry.
2. What were some of the influences on early Marxist thinking?
3. What are some of the advantages of new historicism?
4. What does ecocriticism study? What is another term for ecocriticism?
5. Briefly explain what lesbian/gay critics do.
6. What is discourse as it relates to new historicism?
7. Who was Karl Marx?
8. How does stylistics differ from standard close reading?
9. What are the four characteristics that define the term "Political Shakespeare"?
10. Briefly explain new historicism as it is described by the author.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the relevance of Beginning Theory to English literature today.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss what it means to read literature with the perspective of "Orientalism" in mind.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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