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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. Who argued the fluidity of identity, including sexual identity in their highly influential "Epistemology of the Closet"?
3. In the chapter titled "Narratology", ________ means slow telling where an author stages a tale for readers whereas ________ means relating where the narrator summarizes events without trying to create an illusion.
4. Peter Barry states that in the 1990s a second, less essentialist, notion of lesbianism emerged, within the sphere of what is now known as ________.
5. In the phrase "the archival continuum," an important difference between old and new historicisms is encapsulated in the word ________, for that word indicates that new historicism is indeed a historicist rather than a historical movement.
Short Essay Questions
1. What were some of the influences on early Marxist thinking?
2. What is the purpose of lesbian/gay criticism according to the "Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader"?
3. Who are Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm? Explain the ecocriticism movement.
4. What four areas of ecocriticism does Peter Barry identify?
5. Is stylistics confined to just the analysis of literature? Explain.
6. What does ecocriticism study? What is another term for ecocriticism?
7. What are the four characteristics that define the term "Political Shakespeare"?
8. What are the ambitions of stylistics as defined by Peter Barry?
9. What do ecocritics do according to Peter Barry?
10. What is lesbian feminism?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss what it means to read literature with the perspective of "Orientalism" in mind.
Essay Topic 2
In an argumentative essay, state whether you believe stylistics is a theory or a practice.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and describe the organizational structure of New Historicism theory.
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