What is defamiliarization ?

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What is phenomenology ?

A. The examination of structures informing our conscious experience B. The examination of desires informing our consciousness C. The examination of our unconscious experience D. The examination of intricate structures within our unconscious...

How does New Historicism differ from traditional historicism ?

A. New Historicism does not make strict delineations between literary and nonliterary texts. B. New Historicism takes a particular interest in marginalized peoples. C. New Historicism is interested in how texts help us understand economic realities. D. All of the above....

In his essay “What Is an Author?” what position(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault take ?

A. The names of authors serve a classificatory function. B. The author is not a source of infinite meaning. C. The author may not always exist. D. All of the above....

What does Elaine Showalter argue about gender in terms of representations of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet ?

A. It is nearly impossible to represent women as anything other than mad in patriarchal discourses. B. Feminist critics need to re-appropriate Ophelia for their own purposes. C. Women’s tragedies tend to be subordinated to those of men. D. All of the above...

To what idea does the ancient Greek term aporia refer in terms of deconstruction theory ?

A. The ability of a text to contain truth B. The “undecidability” and essentially unstable nature of a text C. The idea that a text has a specific meaning that can be understood through a process of deconstruction D. Jacques Derrida’s style of writing...