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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. How does Celine often depict maternal figures?
2. What type of creature does Kristeva say Celine saw man as?
3. Kristeva says a laughing apocalypse is an apocalypse without what?
4. Chapter 7 "Suffering and Horror" begins with a quote from Celine which says "one can be a virgin with respect to Horror as one is a virgin toward" what?
5. Chapter 9 "Ours to Jew or Die" begins with a quote that was taken from a letter written to whom?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Kristeva mean when she says Celine is neither actor nor martyr?
2. How does Kristeva say Celine captures the abject in his writing?
3. Why would Celine's work not be considered abject when he was actively writing them?
4. Describe Celine's mother type of character.
5. What does Kristeva mean when she says Celine's language exhibits a fascination with what might be called "binary" speech?
6. How does Kristeva say Celine's depictions of females relate to the abject?
7. Why does Kristeva say it makes sense that Celine would say his style was the most important part of his writing?
8. What reasons does Kristeva give for why Celine agreed with anti-Jew sentiments?
9. How, according to Kristeva, do Celine's works draw the reader to their primal repressions?
10. Explain how Kristeva says Celine used grotesque acts in his works.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the motif of incest in the book. Why do you think Kristeva spends so much time on this topic? Why does she say there is such a taboo around incest? How does it relate to the abject? What does she seem to think about this taboo?
Essay Topic 2
Explore the use of rites and laws in the book. Why does Kristeva make use of these concepts? What are they examples of? How do rites and laws attempt to combat the abject? What does Kristeva seem to think of these rites and laws?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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