literature
This inanimate object is a notable foe of the fictional “hero” Don Quixote
A: what is a windmill
This Palestinian-American theorist is the author of many notable works including “the question of palestine”, “Beginnings: Intention and Method” and “orientalism”
A: who is Edward Said
This intellectual and cultural revival based in part of Manhattan, NY “helped African American writers and artists gain more control over the representation of Black culture and experience” in the 20s and 30s
A: What is the Harlem renaissance
This American Marxist literary theorist who, in the namesake work, characterizes “postmodernism” as disconnected from history, has an immense impact on the contemporary Chinese intellectual scene.
A: Who is Frederic Jameson
What makes Trinity, St. Mikes, and Victoria college different from the other UofT colleges
A: what is that they are federated colleges
The son of Odysseus and Penelope.
A: who is Telemachus
The Canadian culture and media theorist who the quote “The Medium is the Message” is attributed to
A: who is Marshall McLuhan
This revolution which lasted from 1791-1804 created the second independent country in the Americas after the USA
A: what is the Haitian Revolution
These two 19c.-born German Jewish anti-capitalist philosophers are known for their common focus on capitalist production, their exile from their native country, and their interest to the city of Paris. Who are they?
A: Karl Marx and Walter Benjamin.
Name one author that appeared on at least 2 different LCT syllabi.
Bonus: Name one work that appeared on at least 2 different LCT syllabi.
A (non-exhaustive):
Adorno, Theodor
Benjamin, Walter
Cesaire,
Aime
Defoe, Daniel
Equiano, Olaudah
de Montaigne, Michel
Morrison,
Toni
Shakespeare, William
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
A Extra:
Robinson Crusoe
The Tempest
A Tempest
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Of Cannibals
This play by Derek Walcott is based on the novel Robinson Crusoe, and is a staple of LCT syllabi
A: what is Pantomime
This queer theorist notably used an architectural structure created by Jeremy Bentham to illustrate his theory of the modern disciplinary society.
For 100 bonus points what is the structure?
Who was Foucalt
What is the Panopticon
The modern printing press was invented in this year
(100 bonus points if you can tell me something cool about the impact/early days of the printing press)(I will use my discretion on “cool”)
What is 1440
This German philosopher and sociologist, one of the first to be known as a Critical Theorist, is known for hating jazz music.
Bonus: Name the terminology he used for jazz music, beer advertisement, radio shows and other similar cultural products and the institutions producing and regulating them.
A: Who is Theodor Adorno.
Bonus: “culture industry” or “mass culture”.
This poem begins “April is the cruelest month…”
For 200 bonus points what is the rest of the line and the next line
A: what is the waste land
Bonus: “breeding/ Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing”
This UofT educated classicist and poet briefly took time off from her studies to pursue an alternate career.
For 200 bonus points what was the career
A: Who is Anne Carson
Bonus: What is Graphic Design
This Algerian born French philosopher is most famous for his “theory of deconstruction”
For 300 bonus points can you explain what the theory of deconstruction is?
A: who is Jaques Derrida
Bonus: “The main point of Derrida's theory of deconstruction is to show that the meaning of a work is unstable and could have multiple or alternative meanings. So the meaning could easily be the center as it could be marginal.”
Julius cesar was stabbed this many times
A: what is 23
This French philosopher, in collaboration with a French psychoanalyst, developed an oeuvre with weirdly specific terms derived from plant parts, body parts, animals, and mental conditions
Bonus: Name the French psychoanalyst.
A: Who is Gilles Deleuze.
Bonus: Who is Felix Guattari.
Who is Frankenstein?
A: Roughly, the doctor and not the monster. Any correct details about the doctor counts!