Marxist Theory
Attempts to show how our lives revolve around ______________ systems and hierarchies.
What is "economic"?
The Bechdel Test is an example of how to apply Feminist Theory to a text by analyzing the extent to which _______ characters are included, speak, and wat they speak about, in a text.
What is "female"?
Sigmund Freud believed this particular period in our lives is formative, having significant influence over our future behaviours, motivations, fears, and desires.
What is "childhood"?
When applying CRT to a text, a reader is looking for evidence of prejudice, bias, and discrimination in relation to race.
To do so, they might identify ______________, or incomplete representations of racial groups/individuals in a story.
What are "stereotypes"?
What is "author"?
Focuses on analyzing differences of _________ (rather than race, gender, or sexuality) in a text.
What is "class"?
A system in which males are dominant, as well as a related system in which hetereosexuality is dominant/the assumed norm.
What is "patriarchy" and "heteronormativity?
This person believed all humans have a collective unconscious, which gives us the ability to recognize and make meaning from patterns/symbols.
Who is Carl Jung?
When applying CRT to a text, the reader is looking for evidence of the impacts of ________________ on characters and story development.
Hint: there are 4 levels!
What is "systemic racism"?
Marxist theory suggests that those who have the most money have the most...
What is "power"?
Women were often left out of this list of great literary writers and titles.
What is the "literary canon"?
Based on a Greek tragedy, describes the unconscious desire to "marry" the mother figure and "kill" the father figure.
What is the "Oedipus Complex"?
When applying CRT to a text, a reader might ask: "How does the text represent the ____________ dynamics rooted in race, racism, and white supremacy?"
What is "power"?
According to ______________, the author is metaphorically "dead" once their text has been produced.
Who is Roland Barthes?
A Marxist term for workers or working class people.
What is the "proletariat"?
Feminist literary theory explores ways that literature reinforces or challenges the economic, political, social, psychological and cultural __________ of women.
What is oppression?
The three areas of the unconscious mind, according to Sigmund Freud.
What are the id, ego, and superego?
The interconnected or overlapping nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender-- interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
What is "intersectionality"?
An alternate view of Reader-Response suggests that the relationship between text and reader is more of a _____________________, whereby one informs the other.
What is "transaction"?
An economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit ($)
This term, coined by Queer theorist Judith Butler, states our identities, particularly in relation to gender, sexuality, and expression, are socially constructed and reproduced.
What is "gender as performance"?
The Persona, Mask, and Shadow are all examples of _________________. Another word for this is _________________.
What are "archetypes" or "symbols"?
CRT aims to seek out more _____________ voices and experiences in texts by asking are the characters: Leaders? Active? Positive? Visible?
What is "diverse"?
When analyzing a text through Reader-Response theory, a reader might ask....
- How does this text make me feel?
- How is this text similar to, or different from, my experience?
- How might I understand this text differently from other readers?