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Classical Theory
Week 3 - Romanticism
Week 4 - Marxism &
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Week - 5 Psychoanalysis and
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Week 6 - Post Structuralism
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Structuralism - Part A Post
Structuralism - Part B Post Colonialism - Part A
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism - Part A
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism - Part B
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Assignment 6
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Answer True or False: The term New Historicism was coined by Jacques Derrida.
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Answer True or False: Texts have a single meaning according to Post-structuralists like Derrida and Barthes.
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False
According to Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield the process of Cultural Materialism combines attention to the following. Identify the incorrect option:
Historical Context Theoretical Method Religious Commitment Textual Analysis No, the answer is incorrect.
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Religious Commitment
The roots of deconstruction can be found in _______ semiotic theory of language.
Claude Levi-Strauss’
Ferdinand de Saussure’s Jacques Derrida’s Charles Sanders Peirce’s No, the answer is incorrect.
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Ferdinand de Saussure’s
(a) Post-structuralism can be seen as a response to Structuralism.
(b) Post-structuralist theorists argued that human culture could be understood by means of a structure.
Both the statements are true.
Both the statements are false
Only statement (a) is true and statement (b) is false.
Only statement (b) is true and statement (a) is false.
No, the answer is incorrect.
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Only statement (a) is true and statement (b) is false.
The science of signs is called _________.
Linguistics Semiotics Symbolism None of the above No, the answer is incorrect.
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Semiotics
Homi K. Bhabha has given many of the neologisms and critical concepts associated with Post-colonial theory. Identify the term not coined by Bhabha out of the following:
Hybridity Repression Mimicry Ambivalence
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Repression
Answer True or False: Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) focussed on exploring the stereotypical and artificial boundaries drawn between the East and the West.
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True
(a) In Elements of Semiology (1967), Roland Barthes discusses the idea of meta-language.
(b) Meta Language is a systemised way of talking about concepts like meaning and grammar where symbols replace words and phrases
Both the statements are true.
Both the statements are false
Only statement (a) is true and statement (b) is false.
Only statement (b) is true and statement (a) is false.
No, the answer is incorrect.
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Both the statements are true.
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1 point 10)British critic _________ defines “Cultural Materialism” as a “politicized form of
historiography”. This implies the study of historical material including literary texts within a politicised framework.
Graham Holderness Jonathan Dollimore Alan Sinfield Raymond Williams No, the answer is incorrect.
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Graham Holderness
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