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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 way does Kristeva say a person will begin to act in when he no longer has any regard for the law?
2. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?
3. Kristeva points out that there is a corresponding amount of importance placed upon social status in societies where the autonomy of women is relatively what?
4. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?
5. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reason does Kristeva give for why Christianity disregards the Levitical law?
2. According to class theory, how are the drives of an individual divided?
3. What does Kristeva say are the two prevailing interpretations of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament?
4. What does it mean when Kristeva says she gives a "phenomenological" account of the abject?
5. What example does Kristeva give phobias which involves beautiful women?
6. What does Kristeva say is the most plausible interpretation of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament?
7. Why does Kristeva say man gained permission to eat some animals?
8. How does Kristeva explain phobias?
9. How do some societies try to purify a "defiled" person?
10. How does Kristeva point out that Judaism differs from other old world religions in terms of worshiping gods?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the feeling Kristeva says the reader gets from reading Celine. How does she describe the feeling? How do his writings seem to capture the abject? How does she, specifically, say reading Celine makes her feel? What do you think she means when she says his writings are liberating?
Essay Topic 2
How does Celine use female characters to disrupt the traditional model of the Oedipal triangle? What are some of the female characters he uses? What are their characteristics? How do these characters differ from the ones in the triangle? What roles are reversed or distorted? What seems to be Celine's goal with these characters? What does it seem like he wants the reader to feel?
Essay Topic 3
What does Kristeva mean when she says abject literature is an unstable category? What qualities does literature have to have to be abject? What is the narrative in abject literature supposed to be like? How does this cause a problem for the writer? How does language cause a problem?
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