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Structuralism
Post-structuralism
Psychoanalysis
Race and Gender
Post-colonial and cultural studies
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This school of thought provided the foundation for structuralism
What is Formalism?
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These French thinkers are commonly referred to as post-structuralists.
What are Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Jean Baudrillard commonly referred to as?
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This idea is central to Freudian psychoanalysis. It is regarded as essential to civilization and the conversion of animal instinct into civil behavior, but it creates a second self, a stranger within, a place where all that cannot for one reason or another be expressed or realized in civil life takes up residence.
Repression is key to which theory?
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The emergence of this movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s intersected with the work of feminists and theorists of racial and ethnic identities.
How did the Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement influence the academe?
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Post-colonial studies' attention to these key concepts reflects the influence of post-structuralism's re-examination of taken-for-granted notions of identity.
What is the relationship between the concepts of exile, home, and diaspora and post-structuralism?
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This linguist contributed to Structuralism the notions of the linguistic sign (the signifier and the signified).
Who is Ferdinand de Saussure?
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Around this time, post-structuralism replaced the dominant French structuralism as a new intellectual movement.
When happened around 1967 in Paris in the intellectual scene?
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Freud discovered this by studying patients with neurotic symptoms.
How did Freud discover the unconscious?
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This critic proposed the idea that gender identities are constituted through performative acts.
What is Judith Butler's contribution to gender theories?
200
This critic suggested that the "Orient" is constructed in necessarily stereotypical ways in Western academic discourse to underwrite colonial policy and license further imperial undertakings.
What is Edward Said's theory about empire?
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This notion is central to the Structuralism thought.
The notion of an implied order is central to which theory?
300
This term is widely associated with post-structuralism.
What is deconstruction?
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Freud insisted this is evident throughout life, from childhood on (and in dreams and literature). Therefore, Freud proposed the so-called Oedipus Complex.
What did Freud think of sexuality?
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These movements created a new cultural impetus that led to new courses and programs in African-American literature in the 1970s.
What did the Civil Rights movement and the Black Arts movement create?
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This critic is a primary source of influence over Edward Said.
What is Michel Foucault's role in the development of theories about Orientalism?
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The impulse in Formalist finds its fulfillment in Structuralist emphasis on the task of adducing the internal system or order of linguistic, cultural and literary phenomenon.
What does the scientific impulse in Formalist lead to in Structuralism?
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This French philosopher proposed the key concepts of differance and difference.
What did Derrida do that was so revolutionary?
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This psychoanalytic critic shifted the attention to language and saw it and the unconscious as almost identical.
What was Lacan's contribution to psychoanalysis?
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This critic outlined an indigenous theory of African American literature in a repetitive trope.
What did Henry Louis Gates propose in his book The Signifying Monkey?
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These critics argued that mass culture (the culture of television, radio, film and cheap paperbacks) is a tool of domination, a way for capitalism to offer ephemeral gratification to people condemned to lives of work.
Who are Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer?
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Structuralism influenced the work of historian Michel Foucault, psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, literary critic Julia Kristeva, and philosopher Louis Althusser.
Who were influenced by Structuralism in the mid-1960s?
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This idea is proposed by Stanley Fish.
Who suggested interpretive community as a theoretical model to understand the text-reader interactions?
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This process displaces unacceptable material onto acceptable images, condenses several different though related unconscious elements into a single image.
What does Freud mean by the "dream work"?
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This theorist is critical of the nativist discourse of ethnic identity. Instead, the theorist proposes a nomadic or migratory paradigm.
What is Lisa Lowe's contribution?
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This critic argued that culture, like capitalist society itself, is hierarchical -- those who are born into upper-class echelons will acquire dispositions that allow them to appreciate forms of culture (high art) and such abilities will help them secure elevated positions in the class hierarchy.
What is Pierre Bourdieu's contribution to cultural studies?