Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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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. What description fits with the "Acephale" group?

2. What does standing upright do for man in "The Big Toe"?

3. What paradoxical action does Bataille describe in "Materialism"?

4. What was the "Acephale" group's primary purpose?

5. What does Bataille say was the driving force beneath his heterodox theory?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Bataille's involvement with "Acephale"?

2. What were Bataille's early publications?

3. What are the terrifying images in "[Dream]"?

4. What is expressed in the language of flowers in "The Language of Flowers"?

5. How does the mouth in "Mouth" compare with the eyeball in ''The Eye'?

6. What examples does Bataille cite to illustrate the horror of the eye's vulnerability?

7. What is the value of intellectual violence in Bataille's work?

8. What does Bataille say about surrealism in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?

9. What distinguished the big toe in "The Big Toe"?

10. How does the notion of parody apply to the sun in "The Solar Anus"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bataille aligned himself with Catholicism before he broke with it as a young man--but what religion can we interpolate from Bataille's writing? Analyze his writings and describe the religion or lack of religion in Bataille's writing.

Essay Topic 2

How did the Popular Front fulfill Bataille's ideal of heterogeneity? Analyze his description of the organization in relation with his other essays about revolution and order.

Essay Topic 3

Describe Bataille's opposition to dialectics. Is he consistent with his own anti-dialectic stance in his writing? Identify the places where Bataille's writing is most successful in opposing dialectics.

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