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Critical Insights
For the Love of Jane
Zombie Apocalypse
If It Fits
Old School
100
The literary critical term used to describe the shaping of events; organizing the [material] and selecting what you take to be the most effective and meaningful facts [presenting them as facts]”
What is narrative?
100
The town where the Austen daughters enjoy going shopping.
What is Meryton?
100
The part of London in which the Gardiner's live and where Mr. G's gunpowder factory is in PPZ.
What is Section Six East.
100
The first move of engagement in a text in which one notes the aims, methods, and materials of the critic.
What is "coming to terms"?
200
The way that discourses work in a text like Pride and Prejudice suggests that texts have two sorts of cultural effects at once.
What is "resist and reinscribe"?
200
2000 pounds
What is the amount Mr. Bennet's estate is worth?
200
Lady Catherine claims that "had her daughter been blessed with a more suitable constitution" she would have trained in one of these in Japan at age 4.
What is a dojo?
200
A form of this critical move might examine the values underpinning the use of the word "genteel," pointing out that the original critic didn't consider that "genteel" means "gentry."
What is "Countering"?
200
The "prolegomena" of a literary text that points the reader toward what the editor found important, and gives the reader a line of thought to use to read the entire text.
What is a scholarly introduction?
300
A social class between that is strictly part of the aristocracy and is above the unpropertied middle class.
What is "the gentry"?
300
Mr. Darcy invites Mr. Gardiner "with the greatest civility, to do this at Pemberley as often as he chose, while he continued in the neighbourhood, offering at the same time to supply him with the equipment needed for this activity."
What is "fishing"?
300
Designed to slow— or even reverse— the effects of the strange plague.”
What is Lady Catherine's anti-Zombie serum?
300
In a scholarly essay about social class in Jane Austen, Downie argues that this author does not acknowledge a gentry when she argues for a middle-class ethos in the novel.
What/who is Nancy Armstrong?
300
In sermons from the eighteenth century, this man argued that love may begin as gratitude but should progress to esteem.
What/who is James Fordyce?
400
The regularity of statements which then define an object—whether it be sexuality or madness, criminality or economics—and supply a set of concepts which can be used to analyse the object, to delimit what can and cannot be said about it, and to demarcate who can say it.
What is discourse?
400
Mrs Gardiner “shall never be quite happy till I have been all round the park. A low phaeton, pulled by a pair of captured zombies, would be the very thing”
What is a phaeton?
400
In this critical move, you take words, images or ideas from another scholar's work and put them in a new context."
What is "Forwarding"?
400
The "logic" one uses to perform research in a database using more than one keyword.
What is "Boolean"?
500
The kind of adaptation that changes the form of a text from one thing--like literature--to another form--like biography.
What is a transformative adaptation?
500
The literary critical term for how we read with and through a particular point of view.
What is focalization?
500
"When the creature seized her arm and forced the dagger from it. She pulled free before he could get his teeth on her" and takes this position.
What is the crane position?
500
Established the metaphor of the ongoing conversation in the parlor to talk about the way scholars/critics interact with each other in print about a literary text.
What/who is Kenneth Burke?
500
The full name of the database available through the UConn Library that includes primary texts from the whole of the eighteenth century.
What is Eighteenth Century Collections Online.