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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. The transition from structuralism to post-structuralism is partly in response to what movement?
2. Why is structuralism "anti-humanist," for Eagleton?
3. According to Eagleton, "the idea that there are 'non-political' forms of criticism" is a what?
4. For Eagleton, what are the two ways in which literary theory can have a distinct purpose and identity?
5. According to Eagleton, structuralism maintains that "individual units of any system have meaning only by virtue of" what?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to Eagleton, why should rhetorical science replace literary theory and what is its objective?
2. Why does Eagleton claim that Northrop Frye's work emphasized the "utopian root'" of all literature and what is his response?
3. How does Julia Kristeva view language and why is it significant?
4. What does Julia Kristeva define as "semiotic" and why is it significant?
5. Why does Eagleton argue that politics should engage with questions of sexual ideology?
6. Beyond helping the status of women, what is the women's movement's goal and why is it significant?
7. What is structuralism and how what does it share in common with formalism?
8. How did post-structuralism develop and why is it significant?
9. Who developed semiotics and what was his contribution to literary theory?
10. What is Sigmund Freud's Oedipus complex and why is it significant?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Sigmund Freud's Oedipus complex.
1) Identify and analyze the three stages of human development-- the oral, anal, and phallic stage.
2) Compare and contrast Freud's views on males and females.
Essay Topic 2
Define the notion of estrangement and choose two examples from the book as evidence for this concept.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Jacques Lacan's work on language as it relates to psychoanalytic theory. How does Lacan's work differ from Freud's?
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