Quiz for Psychoanalytic Criticism: Freud, Lacan



Quiz for Psychoanalytic Criticism: Freud,

 

1. How does Freud address the issue of intention?

2. What is the nature of fantasies?

3. How does Freud distinguish between types of writers?

4. How are writers addressing their own psychological desires in writing?

5. Why do we experience pleasure in reading, and what is the nature of that pleasure?

6. What role does “the self” play in psychoanalysis?

7. What is the difference between the Oedipal Complex and the Electra Complex? How do they apply to literature?

8. Dreams use two main mechanisms to disguise forbidden wishes…what are they and how do they work?

9. Choose any story and show how the operations of repression structure or inform the works?

10. What role do dreams play in commenting on a literary work/author’s intent and what might be the difficulties inherent in such a commentary?

11. In general, there are four ways to focus a psychoanalytical interpretation:

1.

2.

3.

4.

12. Psychoanalyze the grandma from “A Good Man is Hard to Find”.

Quiz for Feminism: Showalter, Fetterly, Cixous

1. What were the obstacles to the articulation of a feminist critical practice in the late 1970s, according to Showalter?

2. What are two types of feminist criticism? Describe each.

3. Discuss in detail her (Showalter’s) description of gynocriticism.

4. What does Showalter define as the Feminine, Feminist, and Female stages? How does this issue relate to one of the key tasks of gynocriticism?

5. What, then, is the task that faces feminist criticism?

6. Why is American literature a male literature for Fetterly? What are the implications for women readers?

7. Discuss the different ways in which male "designs" are encoded in literature (see the examples of Faulkner, Fitzgerald, James, Mailer).

8. What view of the author-text-culture relationship does Fetterly expound?

9. What does she mean by the "immasculation" of women? How can women reverse this process?

10. What is meant by the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd waves of women writers?

11. What is the great crime that men have committed (according to Cixous)?

12. What is the feminist view of Gender?

13. What is the difference between masculine and feminine writing?

14. Critique Joy/Hulga from “Good Country People”.

Quiz for Reader-Response Criticism

 

1. What is the phenomenological view of literature and how does the play into the reader response theory? How is it different from the epistemological view?

2. What does "concretization" refer to?

3. What are the 2 poles of the literary work? What is the difference between the work and the text? What does Iser mean by the "virtual dimension of the text"?

4. What does Iser mean by the "gaps" of a text? How do they relate to a text’s "realization"?

5. What is the relationship between individual readings and the interpretation of a text? Is there a correct interpretation for Iser?

6. What is the relationship between the polysemantic nature of the text and our illusion-making activities as a reader?

7. What are the 2 elements that control the process of imaginative recreation?

8. What is the difference between the actual audience and the authorial audience in Rabinowitz? How does this relate to authorial intention?

9. How do conventions play a role in the reading process?

(also see Culler and Radway)

10. How does a text construct its reader, according to Rabinowitz?

11. Why does the authorial reading have a special status?

12. What are some of the difficulties associated with the concept of authorial audience and authorial reading?

13. What role does the implied reader play?

14. Some critics claim the Reader Response does not denote any specific theory……What do they mean?

15. Critique “Good Country People” from the Reader Response point of view.

Archetype/Myth quiz

1. What did the “ancients” call archetypes?

2. What role does the collective unconscious play in archetypes? According to Jung, what is the collective unconscious?

3. What is a mythical construct?

4.What are the drawbacks of Archetypal criticism?

5. What is the difference between revealed religion and natural religion and what is Modern Man’s view of the two?

6. What was Jung talking about with “The first act of Courage?”

7. According to Jung, where do archetypes come from?

8. ____________is the personification of that part of human, psychic possiblity that we deny in ourselves and project onto others. The goal of personality integration is to integrate the rejected, inferior side of our life into our total experience and to take responsibility for it. Fill in the blank and give an example.

9. In which archetype do we meet our inner opposite, what are they and who meets which?

10. What is another name for the Divine couple, explain what it is and give an example.

11. What does Jung mean when he uses the term psychoid?

12. In The Lord of the Rings, Frodo destroying the ring and being carried off in victory by the great eagle or Harry Potter fighting a duel with Voldermort and then being whisked away by the port key are examples of which archetype and why (think carefully on this one)?

13. What are The Four Cardinal Orientations and list the 3 archetypes that are attached to each Orientation.

14. Critique “A Good Man is Hard to Find”.

Deconstruction Quiz (

1. What does is mean to destabilize hierarchical oppositions?

2. What are binary oppositions?

3. Derrida entirely agrees with Heidegger that the task of the thinker is to what?

4. Define the following terms; trace, différance, archi-écriture, supplement ,aporia, & Transcendental Signifier.

5. What are some of the criticisms of Derrida?

6. “Deconstructive criticism is not intended to suggest a way to make the book finally complete, but to show its necessary incompleteness” Explain this quote.

7. “…The claim is not that there is no meaning -- that is a misunderstanding of deconstruction” Explain this quote.

8. Many claim that Deconstruction is a criticism of reading, not of literature. What might this mean?

9. What is logocentrism and what do Deconstructionist think about it?

10. Although meaning is context-bound, context is boundless – explain this concept.

11. What is meant by the polysemous nature of both language and of rhetoric?

12. Deconstruct “A Good Man is Hard to Find” or “Good Country People

................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download