Literary Terms
Monster Theory
Literary Terms
Miscellany
Victorian Era History
100
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
Those who, by virtue of their race, class, beliefs, gender, or sexuality, operate outside the cultural norm.
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 claim that the events in the novel "really happened" is known as:
What is the claim to historicity?
200
The classification of literary texts into categories. `
What is "Genre"?
200
In the Victorian era, there was a strong sense that men and women should “labor” in opposite “spheres" known as . . .
What are the public and private (domestic) spheres?
300
A sub-genre of the novel, this kind of literary text attempts to present life as it really is.
What is realism?
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
A sub-genre of literature that glories in the supernatural and typically features a castle far, far away.
What is the Gothic Novel?
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
A form of narration in which the character speaks to the reader directly.
What is first-person narration?
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
A method of narration wherein the thoughts and feelings of a given character are given without quotation marks or other identifying features.
What is "Free Indirect Discourse"?
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
A novel that presents the colonial Other or the East as gothic is a sub-genre known as:
What is "The Imperial Gothic"?
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
The dates of the Victorian era are:
1837-1901
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