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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. For Celine, what is the foundation of human existence?
2. During the 1930s, what group does Kristeva say was unhappy with the division that was caused by economic inequality, even if they did not call for radical economic restructuring?
3. Celine wrote during the rise of National Socialism in what country?
4. What does Kristeva call Celine's idea that through violent confrontation, each person is reduced to the same, miserable state?
5. What act of depravity does Kristeva point out that Celine uses in relation with very young girls to revolt his reader?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Kristeva say her reading of Celine will not be a thematic one?
2. What does Kristeva mean when she says Celine's language exhibits a fascination with what might be called "binary" speech?
3. How does Kristeva say Celine's work represents the division caused by economic inequality?
4. How did Celine present very young girls in his works?
5. What does Kristeva say makes literature "abject"?
6. How does Kristeva say Celine captures the abject in his writing?
7. How did Celine seem to feel about the French language and the English language?
8. Explain how Kristeva says Celine used grotesque acts in his works.
9. Why does Kristeva say it makes sense that Celine would say his style was the most important part of his writing?
10. Describe Celine's mother type of character.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explore Kristeva's use of the the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle. Why is it the perfect tool to explain the abject? How does she expand upon it? Why does she say it is flawed?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the concept of the "zero-state" in young children. What does Kristeva mean when she talks about the zero state? What happens when a child starts to come out of the zero state? What are some of the fears and desires that a young, pre-cognitive child might have? How do the fears and desires sync up with Freud's model of the Oedipal triangle? How do they go against it?
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