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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. Barry structures the work of Genette on a range of ________ questions to detail the process of telling.

2. What was the name of Martin Taylor's poems that Mark Lilly used in his straight-forward essay that surveyed the range of First World War poetry?

3. Peter Barry states that in the 1990s a second, less essentialist, notion of lesbianism emerged, within the sphere of what is now known as ________.

4. Who wrote the following statement, which is found in the chapter "Postcolonial Criticism": "We cannot easily say that since Mansfield Park is a novel, its affiliations with a particularly sordid history are irrelevant or transcended, not only because it is irresponsible to say that, but because we know too much to say so with bad faith"?

5. Which of the following people broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does ecocriticism study? What is another term for ecocriticism?

2. Who are Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm? Explain the ecocriticism movement.

3. What were some of the influences on early Marxist thinking?

4. Briefly discuss the ancestry of post-colonial criticism.

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

6. In what way does the narrator say queer theory differs from lesbian feminism?

7. What was the "Vulgar Marxism"?

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

9. Is stylistics confined to just the analysis of literature? Explain.

10. What is lesbian feminism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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