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Queer Theory
Marxist Theory
New Historicist/ Cultural Theory
Postcolonial/ Race Theory
Reader-Response Theory
100
Because Holmes and Watson live together in domestic tranquility with little explicit erotic connections, they exemplify this relationship.
What is homosocial?
100
When Jabez Wilson is depicted making money by copying an encyclopedia, Doyle parodies the meaninglessness of so many middle-class jobs, exemplifying this marxist concept.
What is the alienation of labor?
100
Critics who bring together literary studies with popular culture are part of this practice.
What is cultural materialism?
100
When Roylott exhibits characteristics that are Indian and British, he suggests this concept.
What is hybridity?
100
New critics find meaning in the text; informed by political and social movements many other critics also find meaning in the author and the context; reader-response critics focus on how meaning is found here.
What is in the reader?
200
Akiko marries Ueno without ever questioning her sexual identity. She is deeply influenced by this cultural assumption.
What is compulsory heterosexuality?
200
By comparing two cultures in her novel, Ozeki reveals this, the unconscious set of beliefs and assumptions, about U.S. culture.
What is ideology?
200
New historicists differ from old historicists (as Parker explains it) because rather than try to ignore that we only see history through the lens of the present, they embrace that fact with this concept.
What is presentism?
200
Even though Japan is a first-world country, in Ozeki's narrative it's treated like this.
What is settler or occupation colony?
200
When Stephen Knight studies the male readers of The Strand magazine where Doyle published his stories, he is trying to identify the actual as well as this kind of reader for Doyle.
What is the implied reader?
300
When in "Charles Augustus Milverton," the mask-wearing Holmes and Watson exchange intimate gestures while hiding behind the window curtain, queer critics can't help but interpret this hidden sexual life as an image of this.
What is the closet?
300
Ozeki uses Wal-Mart to illustrate our commodity driven culture, leading to this concept from Marx.
What is commodity fetish?
300
When Audrey Jaffe compares the language the sociologist Mayhew uses about beggars to how Conan Doyle describes beggars in "The Man with the Twisted Lip," she shows how knowledge is constructed using two types of this.
What is discourse?
300
The intention of Beef-Ex is really a new form of colonialism, disguised as globalization, but referred to by critics as this.
What is neocolonialism?
300
Watson in the Holmes' stories and Akiko in My Year of Meats, fictional readers in these respective works, are called this by narratologists.
What is the narratee?
400
When Irene Adler dresses as a boy and Jane Takagi-Little refuses to conform to expectations about women's clothing and body language both illustrate this idea from Judith Butler's idea about gender and sexuality.
What is performativity?
400
Marx argues and Ozeki demonstrates how commodification reduces people--in Ozeki's novel women--to things that intensify their alienation from society, a practice that Marx called this.
What is reification or thingification?
400
A new historicist would analyze Frye's Grammar School Geography in My Year Of Meats not as factual but as this kind of account that is an important indicator of a racist ideology.
What is fictional?
400
Kabnis in Toomer's Cane exemplifies Du Bois's concept of twoness as an American and a Negro.
What is double consciousness?
400
We read the Holmes stories differently in this classroom than we probably would read them on our own. As part of this, we have our own interpretative strategies and conventions.
What is an interpretative community?
500
In the final section of Cane, Toomer conveys an intimacy between Lewis and Kabnis that disappears when "Lewis finds himself completely cut out. The glowing within him subsides. It is followed by a dead chill" (110). A queer critic might build an analysis of this scene as illustrating this concept.
What is homosexual panic?
500
When characters are passively and unconsciously drawn into dominant social assumptions, they experience this process.
What is interpellation?
500
In the Conan Doyle stories, Holmes's function is to regulate, surveil, police, and discipline society. His role works much like this structure.
What is the Panopticon?
500
When Doyle reduces characters to their racial identity, his narrative reflects this.
What is radicalization?
500
When as readers we become annoyed at how Doyle depicts Malaysians as opium addicts, frustrated by how Toomer's narrators fail to develop the female characters, and disturbed by how Ozeki stereotypes Japanese men, we become what feminist reader-response critic Judith Fetterly called this kind of reader.
What is a resisting reader?