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
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.
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
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.
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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).