Reimagined Worlds Module
How many prescribed texts are we required to study within this module?
3
Who wrote Death of the Author?
Roland Barthes
What language was If On A Winter's Night A Traveller originally published in?
Italian
What is the name of the character the other reader marries at the end of the novel?
Ludmilla
What is the technical word for hybridity?
Pastiche
How many related texts are you required to study?
2
Who argued that meaning is always unstable because of the nature of language?
Derrida
The Da Vinci Code opens with a murder in which famous museum?
The Louvre
Who is Ludmilla's sister?
Lotaria
What is the technique for when a story exists inside another story?
Fill in the blank:
Texts can be drawn from a range of times, contexts and media and should explore the possibilities of texts to offer insights into ___________ through imagined worlds.
humanity
Who believed that language creates meaning through signs and semiotics?
Saussure
What is the name of one of the most adapted characters from the famous novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
Sherlock Holmes
Who writes the diary entry in Chapter 8?
Silas Flannery
What is the difference between mimesis and diegesis?
Mimesis: Showing
Diegesis: Telling
Finish this sentence:
In this elective, students explore and evaluate the textual representations of a variety of reimagined worlds that challenge or confirm the known, question the unknown and explore the possibilities of different ____________.
realities
What are the two French terms for text of pleasure and text of bliss?
Plaisir (pleasure) and Jouissance (bliss)
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights recounts the tragic romance between which two lovers?
Catherine and Heathcliff.
What is the name of the university professor that the reader visits in search of story completion?
Uzzi Tuzzi
What is the name of the three techniques for flash forward, flash back, and flash out?
Prolepsis, Analelpsis, Metalepsis
How many times is the word 'text' said in the elective statement?
Points to closest
14
Who coined the concept of defamiliarisation?
Victor Schlovsky
What poet wrote the following lines: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I… I took the one less traveled by”?
Robert Frost
How many key characters are in the novel? Points to the closest.
25
What type of narrative code refers to leaving logical clues to reach a conclusion?
Hermaneutic