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What does subaltern mean?
Marginality
"above others"
"below others"
Centrality
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What is emplotment?
The recording of historical fact
The encoding of the historical chronicle into a cohesive narrative
That history is fiction
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How can metaethics be applied to literature?
Get us to think about how we view & understand our connection to others
To get people to disconnect from literature; death of the author
Teach and please
Death in literature
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How would you describe Benjamin's aura?
The here and now of the work; the original
The reproduction of art
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What does Aristotle mean by
Catharsis
Affecting through love and the sublime
Poetry to please people
Affecting via pity & fear; release for those watching/reading
Re-representation
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What does Eliot (in Formalism) mean by there is no Platinum in Sulfuric Acid?
The reader should know what the red wheel barrow means
There is no poet in literature
There is only the poet in literature
We need to start mining for sulfuric acid
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What does Laura Mulvey not discuss?
Exhibitionism
Male gaze
Scopophila
Castration
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Which theory suggests to focus on
the text itself
and not the author and intention
Cultural Studies
Structuralism
Formalism
Post-Structuralism
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What is the definition of eco criticism?
The farming industrial complex
The study of why the dinosaurs died
The study of the relationship between literature and the environment
The analysis of the anthropocene
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Levinas describes the face as having two contradictory messages, also known as faciality:
Vulnerability and Authority
Vision and Motion
Silence and Power
Time and Distance
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What does the phallus mean/represent?
only a penis
A free floating signifier constructed with systems and how we name them
Homosexual desire
Castration anxiety
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What role does catharsis play in Freud's analysis of the Oedipus Complex?
The reproduction of the play means we have some connection to it
That we self-censor our dreams
Freud wants to have sex with his mom
Oedipus' castration anxiety is present in all literature
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What's the right way to spell the Prof's name?
Markus Poetzsch
Marcus Petch
Marcus Poetezsch
Markus Poetezsch
14
The difference between formalism and structuralism is: intrinsic and extrinsic
True
False
15
What word best describes Derrida's "frontier, bordering on, adjacent to"?
Oligotrophy
Limitrophy
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What is not part of de Saussure's Introduction to General Linguistics?
Ideas came before language
Theory is used to explain text
Positive and Negative values
Sign + Signifier + Signified
17
De Man's "Semiology and Rhetoric" allows us to think about the inside/outside binary of texts differently
True
False
18
According to Althusser, what are Ideological State Apparatuses (ISA)
Private companies that operate independently from the state
Structures in the state that help indoctrinate people into capitalism
Oppressive structures to ensure survival of the state (courts, police, etc)
Temporary political campaign used to manipulate public opinion in elections
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What does Cixous describe as
Ecriture Feminine
The anxiety of authorship for women
Distinctly female writing, notice something of women
Writing for pleasure
20
What is Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of the Enlightenment about?
culture industry and passive consumers
passive consumers and power dynamics between work and leisure
All of the above
culture industry and capitalism
21
What is gynocentrism?
The gynecologist
Worshipping the phallus
Women's experience apart from phallocentrism
Worshipping women
22
According to Morton, what is Object Oriented Ontology?
Objects might have some state of being that we're unaware of
The study of the orientation of objects
That humans are aware of being
23
Prodese
, the Latin phrase Horace uses to describe that literature should:
Allow the reader to sympathize
Imitate life
Teach and Please
24
Barthes'
Death of the Author
suggests that the:
When the author dies, so does the text
The author is arbitary to the text
Takes power away from the reader
Authoritarianization of literature
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How does Derrida think of literature?
We need to read that 2nd layer
Both blue and yellow
Texts are never straight forward, can't take texts at face value
Leading to the democratization of literature
26
What is the definition of postcolonialism?
writing back to the colonial powers
the study of the mechanisms of colonial power, recover subaltern voices
the study of the global impact of mainly European colonialism
All of the above
27
What do Marx and Engles suggest about the production of literature?
lit part of the capitalism; linked w/ those who control means of production
Literature as part of the fifth stages of history
Lit as part of the communist revolution
All of the above
28
What does faciality mean?
Fear
Quality of human face is communicated across texts; essence
Resistance
Inability to connect with other
29
What is the definition of post-structuralism/deconstructionalism?
Questions institutions effects on the world
Questions objectivity and naturalized structures; power dynamics
Questions subjectivity and passivity
30
What does Todorov's deem essential to achieving a
New Equilibrium
in plot?
Regular Equilibrium
Emplotment
Disruption
