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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. About how long has it been since the publication of "Journey to the End of the Night" when this book was written?
2. Kristeva says literature undermines itself when it attempts to analyze what?
3. 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?
4. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying he is not a man ideas but a man of what?
5. Celine's doctoral dissertation dealt with what topic?
Short Essay Questions
1. How, according to Kristeva, do Celine's works draw the reader to their primal repressions?
2. Why would Celine's work not be considered abject when he was actively writing them?
3. Why does Kristeva say that in Germany, even when Jews were seriously persecuted, they were punished with an increased vigor?
4. How did Celine use strong women in his works?
5. What reasons does Kristeva give for why Celine agreed with anti-Jew sentiments?
6. How does Kristeva say Celine's depictions of females relate to the abject?
7. Why does Kristeva say her reading of Celine will not be a thematic one?
8. Why does Kristeva say it is rash to ignore any value one might find in the Anti-Semitism in Celine's work?
9. How does Kristeva say Celine displaced the mother in his depiction of very young girls?
10. How does Kristeva say Celine's work represents the division caused by economic inequality?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Celine's views on human suffering and Kristeva's interpretation of this. Why did he believe that to be human is to suffer? How does Kristeva relate this sentiment to the abject? How does she then relate suffering to horror? What does she say man is afraid of? How do these feelings unify people?
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
Why do you think Kristeva set out on this journey to explain and even further understand the abject herself? If the abject is not expressible through language, what would be the purpose of trying to explain it in words, the way Kristeva has? What does she say the purpose of understanding and even confronting the abject is? How effective do you think Kristeva was at explaining the abject? Explain your answer with examples from the text.
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