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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. What was the name of the American journal that was considered the "house magazine" of the new historicism?
2. According to the chapter titled "Marxist Criticism," what was the name of the group that had flourished in the 1920s until disbanded by the Party, even though their work was not strictly Marxist in spirit?
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 does Peter Barry credit with partially defusing the conflict between heterosexual feminists and lesbians in an important essay which introduced the notion of the "lesbian continuum"?
5. What is the term used to describe the study of narrative structures that combines characteristics and is derived from structuralism and linguistic theory?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were some of the influences on early Marxist thinking?
2. In what way does the narrator say queer theory differs from lesbian feminism?
3. How does stylistics differ from standard close reading?
4. What four areas of ecocriticism does Peter Barry identify?
5. Briefly discuss the ancestry of post-colonial criticism.
6. How does Barry use the term "discourse" in relation to narratology? Who else used such term according to Barry?
7. What do ecocritics do according to Peter Barry?
8. Explain the meaning of "adopt," "adapt," and "adept" phases as they relate to post-colonial criticism.
9. What is narratology?
10. What does ecocriticism study? What is another term for ecocriticism?
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
Analyze and discuss Peter Barry's instructional approach to literary theory.
Essay Topic 3
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."
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