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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 Martin Taylor's poems that Mark Lilly used in his straight-forward essay that surveyed the range of First World War poetry?
2. The chapter "Postcolonial Criticism" states that post-colonial critics celebrate hybridity and ________, which is the situation whereby individuals and groups belong simultaneously to more than one culture.
3. In the chapter titled "Narratology," Peter Barry uses ________ rather than ________ to incorporate style, pace, and viewpoint, packaged to cause the desired effect.
4. What is thecritical approach which uses the methods and findings of the science of linguistics in the analysis of literary texts?
5. According to the narrator, post-colonial critics would discuss the representation of what country in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss the three elements Aristotle identified in a plot. What key point does Barry suggest about timing as it relates to plot?
2. What is the purpose of lesbian/gay criticism according to the "Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader"?
3. Explain what liberal humanism and stylistics have in common.
4. What is discourse as it relates to new historicism?
5. Is stylistics confined to just the analysis of literature? Explain.
6. Briefly define "mimesis" and "diegesis" as determined by Peter Barry.
7. What four areas of ecocriticism does Peter Barry identify?
8. How does Barry use the term "discourse" in relation to narratology? Who else used such term according to Barry?
9. Briefly explain what lesbian/gay critics do.
10. What are the four characteristics that define the term "Political Shakespeare"?
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
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.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and describe Jacques Lacan's impact and purpose in psychoanalytic criticism.
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