📚✨ TERM OF THE DAY ✨📚
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📅 October 21
🔤 WORLD-SYSTEMS THEORY
🖋️ Immanuel Wallerstein
💭 A model viewing global literature and economics through core and periphery nations bound in unequal relationships.
📝 Postcolonial critics use world-systems theory to explain why certain national literatures circulate more widely than others.
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📅 October 21
🔤 WORLD-SYSTEMS THEORY
🖋️ Immanuel Wallerstein
💭 A model viewing global literature and economics through core and periphery nations bound in unequal relationships.
📝 Postcolonial critics use world-systems theory to explain why certain national literatures circulate more widely than others.
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Lauren Berlant's concept of 'cruel optimism' describes what?
Anonymous Quiz
3%
False consciousness
8%
Revolutionary hope
88%
An attachment to a desired object that actively obstructs one's flourishing
2%
Irrational pessimism
Which critic's Blindness and Insight (1971) argues that critics' sharpest insights emerge precisely at their point of systematic blindness?
Anonymous Quiz
17%
J. Hillis Miller
29%
Harold Bloom
34%
Barbara Johnson
20%
Paul de Man
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📚✨ TERM OF THE DAY ✨📚
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📅 October 22
🔤 UNTRANSLATABILITY
🖋️ Translation studies
💭 The idea that certain words, ideas, or effects in one language resist full equivalence in another.
📝 Translators of Kalidasa's Sanskrit poetry face untranslatability when rendering culturally specific imagery into English.
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📅 October 22
🔤 UNTRANSLATABILITY
🖋️ Translation studies
💭 The idea that certain words, ideas, or effects in one language resist full equivalence in another.
📝 Translators of Kalidasa's Sanskrit poetry face untranslatability when rendering culturally specific imagery into English.
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The term 'implied author' was introduced by which narratologist?
Anonymous Quiz
50%
Wayne C. Booth
16%
Seymour Chatman
32%
Gerard Genette
2%
Mieke Bal
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In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the 'mirror stage' occurs in which developmental register?
Anonymous Quiz
12%
The Real
49%
The Symbolic
12%
The Sinthome
27%
The Imaginary
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📅 October 23
🔤 THICK DESCRIPTION
🖋️ Clifford Geertz, adopted by New Historicism
💭 A detailed, context-rich account of a cultural practice that reveals its layered meanings.
📝 Greenblatt borrowed thick description from anthropology to read Renaissance court rituals alongside Shakespeare's plays.
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📅 October 23
🔤 THICK DESCRIPTION
🖋️ Clifford Geertz, adopted by New Historicism
💭 A detailed, context-rich account of a cultural practice that reveals its layered meanings.
📝 Greenblatt borrowed thick description from anthropology to read Renaissance court rituals alongside Shakespeare's plays.
Which theorist distinguished metaphor and metonymy as two fundamental poles of language, mapping them onto Freud?
Anonymous Quiz
49%
Roman Jakobson
33%
Ferdinand de Saussure
16%
Charles Sanders Peirce
2%
Umberto Eco
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Which Indian-American critic wrote In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987)?
Anonymous Quiz
12%
Aijaz Ahmad
31%
Homi Bhabha
53%
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
3%
Sara Suleri
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📅 October 24
🔤 DOCILE BODIES
🖋️ Michel Foucault
💭 Bodies made obedient and productive through disciplinary institutions like schools, prisons, and armies.
📝 Foucault argued that military drill produces docile bodies through repetitive, controlled training.
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📅 October 24
🔤 DOCILE BODIES
🖋️ Michel Foucault
💭 Bodies made obedient and productive through disciplinary institutions like schools, prisons, and armies.
📝 Foucault argued that military drill produces docile bodies through repetitive, controlled training.