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COMENTARIO DE TEXTOS LITERARIOS EN LENGUA INGLESA

Prueba de Evaluacin Continua


PEC 2016-2017

PART A: choose the correct answer in each case. Highlight your answers in the
Word document and upload it as a Word file onto Entrega de tareas. You must
have 7 correct answers out of 12 in order to pass and have PART B marked as well.
MAX: 6 POINTS (0.5 each)

1. Indicate the critical school the following quote is referring to: writing, by
contrast, tends to be much more emotive. Often the tone is urgent and euphoric,
and the style flamboyant and self-consciously showy.
a) New historicist
b) Poststructuralist
c) Feminist
d) Cultural materialist

2. What discipline does structuralism derive from?


a) Philosophy.
b) Cultural criticism.
c) Anthropology.
d) Linguistics.

3. The decentering of our intellectual universe, as regarded by poststructuralism


and as suggested by Derrida, was primarily influenced by:
a) Nietzsche, Heidegger and Freud.
b) Barthes and Hegel.
c) Althusser and Gramsci.
d) Foucault.

4. According to the stages of the deconstructive process, the textual stage would
be:
a) The first.
b) The second.
c) The third.
d) The fourth.

5. Which of these philosophers and critics decisively influenced New Historicism?


a) Barthes.
b) Derrida.
c) Foucault.
d) Raymond Williams.

6. According to New historicists, contexts and co-texts


a) are different
b) are the same.
c) can be applied to fiction and poetry respectively.
d) are two categories of analysis used by New Historicism and
Cultural Materialism respectively.
7. Elizabeth Bishop was a
a) British Modernist poet.
b) American Modernist poet.
c) British Inter-War poet.
d) American post-World War II poet.

8. wrote that the intention and objective of his critical school was an
intensified willingness to read all of the textual traces of the past with the
attention traditionally conferred only on literary texts
a) Derrida
b) Greenblatt
c) Barthes
d) Foucault

9. Roland Barthes relates the ideology of capitalism to the figure of ..


a) the critic.
b) the philosopher.
c) the editor.
d) the author.

10. According to Derrida, a transcendent reading


a) searches for the signified outside the text.
b) searches for the spirituality within the text.
c) looks for abstraction in the signifier.
d) tries to move deep into the text.

11. From a New historicist approach Bishops poem 12 OClock News can be
studied in relation to
a) World-War II texts.
b) First World War texts.
c) Vietnam War texts.
d) Korean War texts.

12. Who wrote that historical texts can be read as narratives that correspond to
the diverse literary genres of comedy, tragedy, romance, satire or epic?
a) Greenblatt.
b) Hayden White.
c) Barthes.
d) Foucault.

END OF PART A. PART B FOLLOWS ON THE NEXT PAGE.


PART B: this part of the PEC must be written in full paragraphs in correct English.
Make sure that you discuss all the aspects indicated. Please write 1) CONTEXT, 2)
FORM AND CONTENT, and 3) THEORY AND CRITICISM, before you answer each
section, not exceeding the limit of words for each part. Start writing on the
following page. MAX.: 4 POINTS.

TEXT FRAGMENT FOR THE COMMENTARY

Never until []

Shall I let pray the shadow of a sound


Or sow my salt seed
In the least valley of sackcloth to mourn

The majesty and burning of the childs death.


I shall not murder
The mankind of her going with a grave truth
Nor blaspheme down the stations of the breath
With any further
Elegy of innocence and youth
[]

1) CONTEXT (MAX. 70 WORDS). Indicate the author and the title of the text and explain their
historical, literary and cultural contexts. (Up to 0.5 point).

2) FORM AND CONTENT (MAX. 70 WORDS EACH QUESTION). Answer the following questions
following the instructions. (Up to 1.5 points).

Analyze the poetic voice in this fragment and relate it briefly to the whole poem.

Analyze the poetic devices, meter and rhythm used in lines 2, 3 and 4 of the fragment;
What does Nor blaspheme down the stations of the breath refer to on a metaphorical
level?

3) THEORY AND CRITICISM (MAX. 200 WORDS). Answer the following question following the
instructions. (Up to 2 points).

From a deconstructive point of view analyze two elements of contradiction in this


fragment that reveal breaches or faults in the poetic discourse.
WRITE YOUR ANSWERS TO PART B ON THIS PAGE (DO RESPECT THE EXTENSION LIMITS):

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