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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. 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"?

2. The chapter "Stylistics" states that the stop-start quality can be removed and cohesion achieved by what linguists call "pronominalization," using ________.

3. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," Frantz Fanon was a ________ from Martinique.

4. ________ is a co-founder of ecocriticism with Harold Fromm that developed in the early-1990s in the USA.

5. Who argued the fluidity of identity, including sexual identity in their highly influential "Epistemology of the Closet"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Barry use the term "discourse" in relation to narratology? Who else used such term according to Barry?

2. What are the four characteristics that define the term "Political Shakespeare"?

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

4. Briefly explain what lesbian/gay critics do.

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

6. Who was Karl Marx?

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

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

9. What four areas of ecocriticism does Peter Barry identify?

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

Identify, discuss, and analyze the history of English studies as foretold by Peter Barry.

Essay Topic 2

Distinguish modernism from post-modernism according to the book "Beginning Theory." Be sure to include the origin of both theories.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the relevance of Beginning Theory to English literature today.

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