Class Texts
Who is Shirley Jackson
The scholar who created the frame work for "Monster Culture: Seven Theses"
Who is Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
The thesis, which states that a monster, once widely embraced by a culture, will always return in a new form to reflect changes in the social values and fears of that or another culture.
What is Thesis 2, "The Monster Always Escapes"
What is the subject of Essay 3
What is the application of Monster Theory to real life.
True or False: Papers in MLA should always include page numbers, a title (other than the assignment title name), and be written in Times New Roman, 12 pt. font
What is true
The director of the Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
Who is Mike Flannagan
What is atrocity propaganda
The thesis that states that monsters usually have characteristics of those marginalized by society.
What is thesis 5: "The Monster Dwells at the Gates of Difference."
True or False--students essays will be graded on the following criteria"1) The strength of the thesis statement2) Incorporation of evidence 3) The use of MLA 4) Grammar and Punctuation
False: student essays will be graded by individual rubrics, as determined in student confrences.
The punctuation mark which can be used to link two independent clauses
What is a semi-colon
The writer of The Metamorphosis
Who is Franz Kafka
The theory that claims that spaces or houses may be perceived as "haunted" because they are different from the norm or hard to categorize.
What is heterotopia
The sensuality of vampires is an example of the idea from Thesis VI that "the fear of the monster is really a kind of-----"
What is desire?
The approximate length of the essay
What is 1500 words
An annotated bibliography should contain what elements
What is the citation (in MLA), a brief summary of the work, and a brief application of how the work will be relevant to the scholar's research.
The writer of Carmilla
Who is Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
"The return or persistence of elements from the cultural past, as in the presence of a ghost."
What is Hauntology
Which thesis claims that "the monster is an embodiment of a certain cultural moment."
What is thesis I: The Monster's Body is a Cultural Body.
The element of the assignment, involving your references, which is worth 50 points
What is the annotated bibliography
The method for combining a dependent clause to an independent clause when the independent clause comes second
What is place a comma after the dependent clause, before the independent clause
ex: (Having not enjoyed English class, I became a Chemistry major.)
In The Metamorphisis, Gregor's hybrid animal/human nature is a good example of which concept from Cohen's third thesis?
What is category crisis.
A code for the behavior of women emphasizing purity, piety, submissiveness, and domesticity
What is the cult of domesticity?
What is Thesis VII: The Monster Stands at the Threshold of Becoming.
The length of your in-class presentation
What is 5-10 minutes
Which is the correct in-text citation, using MLA format
A. "Monsters ask us why we have created them" (Cohen, "The Seven Theses on Monster Culture," pg 44)
B. "Monsters ask us why we have created them" (Cohen)
C. "Monsters ask us why we have created them (Cohen 44)
What is B