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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. Author Peter Barry explains that a major "moment" in the history of postmodernism was the influential paper "Modernity-an Incomplete Project" delivered by the contemporary ________ theorist ________.

2. Author Peter Barry informs the reader that the feminist literary criticism of today was the direct product of the "women's movement" of the ________.

3. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.

4. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" informs the reader that "for her notion of the basic opposition between semiotic and the symbolic Kristeva was indebted to Jacques Lacan and his distinction between two realms, the ________ and the ________.

5. Sigmund Freud connects infantile sexuality to the ________, in which the male infant conceives the desire to eliminate the father and become the sexual partner of the mother.

Short Essay Questions

1. In which way is post-structuralism more fundamental than structuralism?

2. What does the formula SQ3R mean? Explain.

3. Who was I.A. Richards?

4. What is "ecriture feminine"?

5. Explain what author Peter Barry means when he says the frame of mind he would recommend his readers is threefold.

6. What are some of the important characteristics of the literary modernism practice?

7. Why was Freudian interpretation interesting to literary critics?

8. Who was Jean Baudrillard? How was he associated with "the loss of the real"?

9. Explain the Oedipus complex of Sigmund Freud.

10. What is structuralism? Where and when did it begin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss how and why Sigmund Freud is relevant to literary theory. Give at least five supporting examples that indicate that relevance.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss Peter Barry's instructional approach to literary theory.

Essay Topic 3

Identify, analyze, and discuss the significance of the ten principles of liberal humanism that Peter Barry summarizes within the book "Beginning Theory."

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