A character’s inner thoughts and feelings are referred to as his/her ...
What is interiority?
100
“In each of these vampire stories, the undead returns in slightly different clothing, each time to be read against contemporary social movements.” This quote illustrates which of Cohen's theses?
What is "The Monster always Returns"?
100
The way a story is told (the method of telling a story) is referred to as . . .
What is "narration?"
100
The term for those who, by virtue of their race, class, beliefs, gender, or sexuality, operate outside the norm is ...
What is the Other?
100
"The occurrence of imperial superpowers (such as England) being taken back over by the countries they originally colonized (such as India)."
What is Reverse Colonization/Colonialism?
200
The manipulation of fonts and other visual aspects within a work of literature is referred to as...
What is textuality?
200
According to Cohen, Werewolves and Vampires are scary because . . . ?
What is "they refuse easy categorization"?
200
In literature, the story of a woman who has “lost her innocence” and subsequently sickens
or dies is known as the ...
What is the Fallen Woman Plot?
200
_________________ are “topics of concern for any given culture. These are typically abstract issues that a particular culture tends to ‘worry about.’"
What are "Cultural Issues"?
200
In the Victorian era, there was a strong sense that men and women should “labor” in opposite “spheres" known as . . .
What is the public and private (domestic) spheres
300
The structure of a literary text--the way it is put together--is referred to as...
What is literary form?
300
In Thesis #4, Cohen argues that "The Monster Dwells at the Gates of Difference." What types of "difference" do monsters often represent?
What is sexual, racial, cultural, ethnic, and gender?
300
"A tale told in folklore or literature, to warn its hearer/reader of danger" is referred to as . . .
What is a cautionary tale?
300
The research and study of an artifact of a particular culture (such as monster narratives, or food advertisements) is know as _____________________...
What is Cultural Studies/Cultural Analysis?
300
At the end of the nineteenth century, women began asserting their sexual and personal independence--finding jobs, refusing to stay at home, remaining unmarried. This type of woman was often referred to as . . .
What is the New Woman?
400
A work of literature written in diary or letter form is known as . . .
What is "Epistolary Form"?
400
Cohen argues that monsters “are disturbing hybrids whose externally incoherent bodies resist attempts to include them in any systematic structuration. And so the monster is dangerous, a form suspended between forms that threatens to smash distinctions” (6). Cohen calls this thesis . . .
What is "The Monster is the Harbinger of Category Crisis"?
400
A passage of literature written to create a sense of extreme immediacy--that it is being written at that very second.
What is "to the moment"?
400
People being pursued by the law or other bodies of authority historically have been allowed to claim _______________________ in a church building.
What is "Sanctuary"?
400
The ideal Victorian woman was a picture of innocence and purity, making the home into a sanctuary for her husband and children. This ideal is called . . .
What is "The Angel in the House"?
500
Most stories follow a certain trajectory (known as the Five Stages of Plot). These are . . .
What are "Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution?"
500
“The same monsters who terrify can provoke potent escapist fantasies; the linking of monstrosity with the forbidden makes the monster all the more appealing as a temporary break from constraint” (17). To which thesis does this refer?
What is "Fear of the Monster is really a form of desire"?
500
The type of narrative that begins with a courtship and ends at the altar is known as . . .
What is "The Marriage Plot"?
500
Why, according to Cohen, is the monster continually linked to forbidden practices?
"In order to normalize, validate, and to enforce certain behaviors, certain beliefs."
500
Bram Stoker public Dracula at the end of the nineteenth century, a historical moment often referred to as: