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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. Stylistics is the modern version of the ancient discipline known as ________, which taught its students how to structure an argument.
2. Which of the following two writers were stigmatized as exemplars of "bourgeois decadence"?
3. Which of the following terms is defined as the view that, in spite of the connections between culture and economics, art has a degree of independence from economic forces?
4. New historicists focus attention on issues of ________ and how it is maintained, on patriarchal structures and their perpetuation, and on the process of colonization, with its accompanying "mind-set."
5. According to the narrator, post-colonial criticism gained currency through the influence of all the following books except for which one?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the "Vulgar Marxism"?
2. According to the narrator, what is one significant effect of post-colonial criticism?
3. What does ecocriticism study? What is another term for ecocriticism?
4. Who was Karl Marx?
5. Briefly discuss the ancestry of post-colonial criticism.
6. What is narratology?
7. In what way does the narrator say queer theory differs from lesbian feminism?
8. What is lesbian feminism?
9. What is discourse as it relates to new historicism?
10. How does stylistics differ from standard close reading?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Identify, list, and describe the specific functions ecocritics perform in their analysis of literary text.
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
Describe and discuss how the women's movement is relevant to feminine criticism, as well as lesbian feminine criticism.
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