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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. Dollimore and Sinfield defined the term "Political Shakespeare" as designating a critical method which has ________ characteristics.

2. In the chapter titled "Stylistics," whom does Peter Barry credit with inventing the term "under-lexicalization"?

3. The panopticon was a design for a circular prison conceived by the eighteenth-century utilitarian ________.

4. Which of the following realism terms best illustrates the straight realism which was imposed in the 1930s?

5. Throughout the nineteenth century, linguistics was usually known as ________, and was almost entirely historical in emphasis.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the advantages of new historicism?

2. Briefly explain new historicism as it is described by the author.

3. What do ecocritics do according to Peter Barry?

4. Briefly discuss what post-colonial critics do according to the narrator.

5. According to the narrator, what is one significant effect of post-colonial criticism?

6. What was the "Vulgar Marxism"?

7. What are the ambitions of stylistics as defined by Peter Barry?

8. What is discourse as it relates to new historicism?

9. What is lesbian feminism?

10. What is the aim of Marxism, according to the narrator?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss the ambitions of stylistics as described by Peter Barry.

Essay Topic 2

Identify, analyze, and discuss the significance of the ten principles of liberal humanism that Peter Barry summarizes within the book "Beginning Theory."

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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