Critical Theories
Critical Theory for Today
Short Stories
The Great Gatsby
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100
This critical theory is concerned with how socioeconomic forces affect human experience.
What is Marxist Criticism?
100
The functional structures that underlie human behavior and human experience constitute this critical strategy.
What is Structuralism?
100
Which kind of criticism would argue that the young narrator in "Battle Royal" is oppressed by socioeconomic forces?
What is Marxist Criticism?
100
Tyson's argument that the novel criticizes the "New Woman" is an example of which critical strategy?
What is Feminist Critical Strategy?
100
A critic who classifies "Battle Royal" as a coming-of-age story is using this type of critical theory.
What is Structuralism?
200
This critical theory is concerned with the oppression of women.
What is Feminist Criticism.
200
Frye's theory of myths identifies these four narrative patterns.
What are comedy, romance, tragedy, and irony/satire?
200
From a feminist perspective, the diary is used as a symbol for this in "The Yellow Wallpaper" symbolizes this.
What is her husband's preventing her from any form of productive and creative work, ultimately silencing her voice as a woman and as an individual?
200
Gatsby's house symbolizes this seminal concept in the culture of the United States.
What is the American Dream?
200
Since the first person narrator in "Battle Royal" is telling the story after twenty years have passed, he can be defined as this kind of narrator.
What is a reflective narrator?
300
This ideology works to keep women and men in traditional roles and thereby maintain male dominance, and it is of interest to Feminist critics.
What is patriarchy?
300
After identifying underlying structures, Structuralists studying literature examine how the identified structure relates to this.
What is human behavior or human experience?
300
Feminist critics would be interested in the young woman in "Battle Royal" for these reasons.
What is because she symbolizes the oppression of women during that time period, literally under the control of the leading men in the town.
300
Unfulfilled longing is the theme of the novel according to which Tyson's interpretation using this strategy.
What is Psychoanalytical Criticism?
300
The phrase Tyson uses to suggest considering a text's unintended meaning.
What is reading against the grain?
400
Critics who seek to classify a text by its framework are using this type of literary criticism.
What is Structuralism?
400
Claude Levi-Strauss examined the underlying common denominators (structures) that link these aspects of different cultures to show that certain human concerns cross cultural boundaries.
What are myths?
400
Connie's insecure or unstable sense of self is symbolized by this item.
What is a mirror?
400
Using a Structuralist Critical perspective, Tyson argued that the novel's structure can be reduced to these three verbs.
What is seek, find, lose?
400
The time period in which "Battle Royal" occurred.
What is 1930s?
500
Lacan used this term to suggest that humans seek a kind of fulfillment that reflects a union with our mother/world.
What is objet petit a?
500
In this way, the stories "Battle Royal" and "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" are structurally similar.
What is . . . ?
500
Of the four genres identified by Frye in his theory of myths, "Battle Royal" would fit into this one for this reason.
What is irony/satire because the narrator is trapped in a world of human folly and excess? Alternately, what is tragedy because the narrator moves from the world of innocence to the world of experience?
500
A thesis statement for Structuralist interpretation of the novel (not including Tyson's).
What is . . . ?
500
This argument could be made about "The Yellow Wallpaper" using a Structuralist critical strategy.
What is . . . ?
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