COMENTARIO DE TEXTOS LITERARIOS EN LENGUA INGLESA

Prueba de Evaluación 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.

PART B FOLLOWS ON THE NEXT PAGE. Roland Barthes relates the ideology of capitalism to the figure of …. satire or epic? a) Greenblatt. END OF PART A. b) American Modernist poet. 10. . c) Barthes. d) the author. c) the editor. d) Korean War texts. tragedy. c) British Inter-War poet. c) looks for abstraction in the signifier. b) First World War texts. romance. Elizabeth Bishop was a a) British Modernist poet. Who wrote that historical texts can be read as narratives that correspond to the diverse literary genres of comedy. 11. b) Hayden White. 12. a “transcendent reading” a) searches for the signified outside the text. c) Vietnam War texts. d) Foucault.. d) tries to move deep into the text. b) the philosopher. d) American post-World War II poet. …… 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. According to Derrida. 8. a) the critic. From a New historicist approach Bishop’s poem “12 O’Clock News” can be studied in relation to a) World-War II texts. b) searches for the spirituality within the text.7.

Indicate the author and the title of the text and explain their historical.  From a deconstructive point of view analyze two elements of contradiction in this fragment that reveal “breaches” or “faults” in the poetic discourse. (Up to 1. Start writing on the following page. (Up to 2 points). Please write 1) CONTEXT.5 points). Answer the following question following the instructions. 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). Answer the following questions following the instructions.: 4 POINTS. (Up to 0. MAX.PART B: this part of the PEC must be written in full paragraphs in correct English. 3 and 4 of the fragment. 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 child’s death. 2) FORM AND CONTENT (MAX. not exceeding the limit of words for each part. before you answer each section. What does “Nor blaspheme down the stations of the breath” refer to on a metaphorical level? 3) THEORY AND CRITICISM (MAX.  Analyze the poetic voice in this fragment and relate it briefly to the whole poem.5 point). Make sure that you discuss all the aspects indicated.  Analyze the poetic devices. 200 WORDS). 70 WORDS EACH QUESTION). 2) FORM AND CONTENT. meter and rhythm used in lines 2. . literary and cultural contexts. and 3) THEORY AND CRITICISM.

WRITE YOUR ANSWERS TO PART B ON THIS PAGE (DO RESPECT THE EXTENSION LIMITS): .