Exerciciso literatura inglesa II

English Romantic poets were numerous, but the canon established for representing the period
nominates six key names as representatives of this type of poetry. These six poets belong to the first
and second generations, respectively, and their names are:

Charlotte Smith, Keats, Shelley, Blake, Byron and Coleridge.

Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Shelley, Byron and Keats. 

Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, Anna Seward, Coleridge and Wordsworth.

Anna Seward, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Byron.

Anna Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, Anna Seward, Byron and Blake.
Data Resp.: 16/11/2022 08:38:17

Explicação:

The "Big Six" were Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Shelley, Byron and Keats. The six women
mentioned in the options were widely read, popular and role models for many of those male
Romantic poets, but they are not considered part of the English Romantic canon.

2. The Early Romantic poets supported the cause of the French Revolution because:

many French artists and writers supported and were engaged with the cause.

they believed it would bring social justice and better living conditions to the poor.

their experience with the monarchy led them think that old systems should die. 

its ideal of liberty was aligned with the individualism characteristic of the age. 

  the stability of the English old monarchical system did not bring novelty to them.
Data Resp.: 16/11/2022 08:38:42

Explicação:

The Romantic poets were concerned about the social inequality and exploitation of the poor in
England, as a consequence of the Industrial Revolution. For them, a successful rebellion led by
common people, the masses, would be democratic and would help the fight against injustice and a
despotic power. The French Revolution ideals promised justice and better living conditions for the
people, and greatly inspired the poets. Their experience with the stable English monarchy made
them, in the beginning, support the French cause, however, after the Reign of Terror, their view
changed and they felt deeply disillusioned. Individualism was a characteristic of Romantic poetry,
but was not directly linked to the Romantic poets’ sympathy with the French Revolution, as well as
the fact that French artists were engaged with the cause.

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3. Patrick Brontë exemplifies the type of social mobility that was possible at that time. He rose from
being a farmer¿s boy to a clergyman. In 1820 he was offered perpetual curacy.
 Bearing this information in mind, assess the statements below and the relationship between them:

I. Patrick exemplifies the type of social mobility characteristic of Victorian age.

Because

II. He was able to get on in his career and character played a great role in his life story.

I is a correct statement and II is a false statement.

I and II are false statements.

I is a false statement and II does not justify I.

I and II are correct statements and II justifies I

I and II  are correct statements but ii. does not justify I

Data Resp.: 16/11/2022 08:40:46

Explicação:

Both statements are correct and ii. justifies i. Patrick Brontë is an example of the type of social
mobility characteristic of Victorian age. Progressing in life was dependent of being `of good
character¿ rather than being born to a rich family.

4. Read the definition below:

"Bildungsroman, class of novel that depicts and explores the manner in which the protagonist
develops morally and psychologically. The German word Bildungsroman means "novel of
education" or "novel of formation".

Source: https://www.britannica.com/art/bildungsroman.

Having this information in mind, assess the statements below and the relationship between them:

I. The Picture of Dorian Gray is an example of a Bildungsroman.

Because

II. It explores how Dorian develops morally and psychologically.

Option I is false and II is correct.

Option I and II are correct and II justifies I.

Option I is correct and II is false.

ptions I and II are correct but II does not justify I.

Options I and II are false.

Data Resp.: 16/11/2022 08:41:36

Explicação:

Dorian Grays does not develop psychologically or morally, quite the opposite, in fact. There is no
spiritual or moral progress, as he seems to embody, as a character, the life under one paradigm:
that of the appearances. Hence both statements are incorrect.
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5. Allegory is used, in James Joyce¿s writings, as a literary device. In Dubliners, for instance, the city
of Dublin is an allegory of paralysis. But what is allegorical literature?

a type of literature that is clear and explicit.

a narrative that describes the setting and characters thoroughly.

a symbolic narrative that reveals a non-explicit meaning. 

a narrative that expresses the feelings of a character.

a type of literature that reflects about itself.

Data Resp.: 16/11/2022 08:42:09

Explicação:

Allegorical literature refers to a symbolic narrative that conveys a meaning that is not explicit in
the text. The understanding of this meaning depends on a process of interpretation from the part
of the reader. A thorough description may be allegorical or not, because what characterizes
allegory is the meaning that is not explicit but may be inferred by interpreting the fable or symbol.
The narrative that expresses the feelings of a character is called impressionistic, a type of
literature that is clear and explicit is the opposite of an allegorical text, and literature that reflects
about itself is known as metafiction.

6. Based on a series of lectures Virginia Woolf delivered at Newnham College and Girton College,
the extended essay A Room of One's Own was first published in 1929. Its central idea is that:

men and women are not paid the same for the books they publish.

all women writers should adopt a feminist approach in their fiction.

women should have material means and freedom in order to be creative.

financial independence is more important than creativity for women.

literature is a type of art that never represented women¿s needs.

Data Resp.: 16/11/2022 08:43:02

Explicação:

According to Woolf, it is important for women to have money and a room of their own, i.e. a
means to live and a place to write, so that they can exercise their intellectual activities and do
creative work. The text talks about the importance of literature, and does not rank financial means
over creativity, but it says that the former helps the latter. Furthermore, there is no discussion in
relation to mandatory feminism or payments for publication. The only correct option is "women
should have material means and freedom in order to be creative".

MODERNIDADE E PÓS-MODERNIDADE
 
 7. In contemporary Irish writing it is possible to identify two different schools. Which features would
you associate with them?

One is postcolonial and the other is romantic.

One is nationalist and the other is anti-nationalist.

One is concerned with language and the other with Irishness.

One is historical and the other metafictional.

One is modernist and the other is experimentalist.

Data Resp.: 16/11/2022 08:45:00

Explicação:

Right answer: One is concerned with language and the other with Irishness.

Feedback: One school of writing responds to the lessons taught by Modernism, and key issues to
their work are language, memory and perception. Plots and characters tend to be less precisely
drawn than in the realist novel, and the subject-matter is non-Irish. Another school of
contemporary Irish writing responds to the images of Irishness, both modern and historical, which
serves to confirm various expressions of a unique cultural consciousness within the writing of
Ireland. This reflection of the social and historical concerns, as well as a response to
postcolonialism and other politicized modes of reading, is present in contemporary writers.
Metafiction is a literary genre used in both schools, and historical or romantic are approaches to
the themes dealt with in writing.

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8. According to Adam Roberts, the novum is defined as "the thing or things that differentiate the
world portrayed in science fiction from the world we recognize around us". (ROBERTS,
Adam. Science Fiction. New York: Routledge, 2000. p. 25). Perdido Street Station, by China
Miéville's, takes place in the fictional world of Bas-Lag, where the scientist Isaac Dan Der
Grimnebulin has to fight against creatures known as slake-moths, mind-consuming beasts that
terrorize the city of New Crobuzon. In Bas-Lag steam punk technology coexists with magic.
Considering that the novum is a defining characteristic of science fiction, one novum of China
Miéville¿s Perdido Street Station is:

the reaction to escapist fantasy.

the presence of advanced artificial intelligence.

the mixture of literary genres.

the anti-capitalist perspective.

the intricately described urban setting.

Data Resp.: 16/11/2022 08:45:45

Explicação:

Right answer: the presence of advanced artificial intelligence.

Feedback: The novum is an element in science fiction novels that distinguishes that world from
the world of the reader, or the world of a realist novel. In the case of Perdido Street Station, the
presence of characters who possess advanced artificial intelligence (something still not present in
our reality) marks a distinctive novum. The mixture of literary genres is not connected
with novum and neither is a reaction to escapist fantasy. An urban setting would not be discernible
from the world of the reader and also an anti-capitalist perspective does not refer to novum either.
 CRÍTICA SOCIAL
 

9. Mark two works of George Orwell:

1Q84 and Brave New World

Joyce and The Waves

Animals Farm and The Waves

Heart of Darkness and Brave New World

Animals Farm and 1984

Data Resp.: 16/11/2022 08:46:19

Explicação:

FEEDBACK: George Orwell wrote six novels, namely Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter,
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up for Air, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Waves
was written by Virginia Woolf and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

10. Which of these titles is not an Aldous Huxley's work:

Brave New World Revisited

Antic Hay

Brave New World

Crome Yellow

The Waves
Data Resp.: 16/11/2022 08:46:35

Explicação:

FEEDBACK: Aldous Huxley was an English novelist whose most famous work is Brave New World.
His first two published novels were Crome Yellow and Antic Hay. Thirty years after Brave New
World was published, Huxley assessed his prophecies in Brave New World Revisited. Therefore,
The Waves is the only novel which was not written by Huxley.

SIMULADO I

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          Questão
Consider the last extract of Animal Farm:

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to
man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which" (ORWELL, 2013,
Chap. X). What did George Orwell mean ?
 That men were transformed into pigs (by a witch).
That Fordism made Humanity lose its creativity.
That all the pigs in the farm were transformed into men.
  That Humanity of that time was losing its "humanity".
That Stalinism made Humanity lose its kindness.
Respondido em 16/11/2022 08:48:19

Explicação:

FEEDBACK: By the end of the novel, man and pig were two indistinct beings. Pigs grew
corrupt as men before had been. The corrupting effect of power divided the farm and
distanced the animals from the ideals of the revolution. Pigs become just like men
(oppressive), in the end. Pigs ended up taking over control and acting in the same oppressive
manner as men. This allegorical novel, then, goes to show the human behavior mirrored in the
pigs' behavior. The unending search for power and control leads to a loss in humanity and
Utopia, this way, becomes Dystopia. 

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          Questão
The fall of protecting class walls transformed the slumbering majorities behind all
parties into one great unorganized, structureless mass of furious individuals who had
nothing in common except their vague apprehension that the hopes of party members
were doomed, that, consequently, the most respected, articulate and representative
members of the community were fools and that all the powers that be were not so
much evil as they were equally stupid and fraudulent. (ARENDT, 1962, p.315)

Source: ARENDT, Hannah, The Origins of Totalitarianism. Ohio: Meridian Books, 1962.

After reading the excerpt above, mark the option indicating the correct set of
affirmatives.

I. The mass wars that occurred throughout the twentieth century helped totalitarian
regimes to establish mass control.

II. The mass of individuals mobilized by the Party were not intelligent and, peacefully,
let themselves be ordered around.

III. Ideologically, totalitarian regimes produced the equivalence between Nation and
Party as best as they could through propaganda.
I, only.
II, only.
II a III, only.
  I, II and III.
  I and III, only.
Respondido em 16/11/2022 08:49:55

Explicação:

FEEDBACK: The massive communication skills that totalitarian regimes such as Nazi Germany
 had, are known today, particularly, because of the impactful imagery they could provide with
the result to produce in the general imagination of their citizens (and the world) of a
successful State. Mass wars, in all their extent, highlighted how untruthful to the reality of the
country those means of propaganda could actually be, resulting in distortion favoring the
ruling Party.

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          Questão
Even though James Joyce became worldly famous for a distinct type of writing, his body
of work is not necessarily so homogeneous. Bearing this information in mind, choose
the alternative that best completes the paragraph below:

Although Dubliners is filled with symbols and allegories, the short stories that compose
it are considered more traditional narratives, as well as the narrative in the novel A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, because they are _________. In Ulysses and
Finnegans Wake the narration becomes more ___________.
  realistic - experimental
impersonal - personal
historical - metaphorical
unreliable - reliable
non-linear - linear
Respondido em 16/11/2022 08:50:41

Explicação:

In Joyce's early works, the narration was more realistic and conventional, depicting a realistic
scenario, while in his later works, the narration becomes more experimental in language, as
well as in other elements of fiction, such as setting, characters and plot. The narration in the
later works is much less linear than in the early ones, as well as less reliable and personal.
Metaphorical narration is present in all works in different degrees, as well as the presence of
historical elements.   

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          Questão
Virginia Woolf's style has been described as impressionistic. The comparison
between Virginia Woolf's writing and the style of post-impressionist painters is
justified because her novels:
  favor intuitive and figurative representations of reality.
were read by artists such as Vang Gogh and Cézanne.
are filled with touching and melodramatic moments.
have an emphasis on the representation of beauty.
  focus on a detailed description of actions and events.
Respondido em 16/11/2022 08:51:56

Explicação:

Like the works of post-impressionist painters, the novels of Virginia Woolf emphasize
depictions of reality that focus more on symbols and perceptions of reality, instead of trying to
 show the world as it really is. The novel does not particularly highlight representations of
beauty, actions or melodrama. Moreover, the fact that post-impressionist painters read
Woolf¿s works is not mentioned. Her impressionistic writing, therefore, favors intuitive and
figurative representations of reality.

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          Questão
The themes, structures and styles of Postmodern Scottish novels are enmeshed in the
ground of the Scottish Devolution. Bearing this information in mind, why did the
novelist Irvine Welsh use a Scottish proletarian speech in his
book Trainspotting (1993)?
To show the exoticism of the country to the Anglophone public.
To erase the prejudice against proletarians. 
  To make this sector of Scottish society visible to the world.
To make readers interested in learning Scottish language.
  To depict the Scottish society as it really is.
Respondido em 16/11/2022 08:53:20

Explicação:

Right answer: To make this sector of Scottish society visible to the world.

Feedback: Empowering Scottish subaltern speech, representing it in literature is a way of

marketing Scottish workers' lives and language in the Anglophone middle-class world of
literary consumption and make this sector of Scottish society visible to the rest of the world.
Depicting society as it is, is not conceivable in a world of constructed realities, as the one we
live in; erasing the prejudice against proletarians and making readers interested in learning
the Scottish language cannot be associated with purposes of a contemporary fictionist, as well
as the exoticism of the country is a romantic idea that does not find echoes in a postmodern
society.

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          Questão
The New Weird is a kind of subgenre of speculative fiction that emerged in the early
twenty-first century. The literary mode of the New Weird, which has China Miéville as
one of its main authors, is characterized by:
focusing on themes related to Marxism.
  establishing a contrast between fantasy and speculative fiction.
describing the details of alien encounters.
rejecting the main features of science fiction.
  embracing an atmosphere of estrangement and diversity.
Respondido em 16/11/2022 08:53:46

Explicação:

Right answer: embracing an atmosphere of estrangement and diversity.

Feedback: Works associated with the New Weird develop stories that aim to create a world
 that is unfamiliar to the reader, making the setting and characters appear strange or
fantastical. Moreover, the narrative approach is multiple, embracing a variety of styles from
different literary genres. It neither rejects the main features of science fiction nor does it
establish a contrast between fantasy or speculative fiction, rather it blends science fiction with
magic realism and surrealism, for instance. It is actually a subgenre of speculative fiction. In
the case of Miéville, we have stories that present multiple possibilities of discovering
fantastical elements in the ordinary world, creating a strange and defamiliarizing effect.
Therefore, only option "embracing an atmosphere of estrangement and diversity" is correct.

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          Questão
Romantic women poets were well respected, popular and widely read during the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but their works were not easily found after
the late nineteenth century and before 1980s they were scarcely studied by academics
or students. Why were they erased from the literary canon for so long?
  Because of cultural disabilities imposed on women, seen as subordinate
beings.
Because their works were not considered qualified literary texts by the critics.
Because the themes of their works were domestic and referred to their private
lives.
Because male writers and poets outnumbered women in the Romantic period.
Because of their lack of formal education, their literary resources were limited.
Respondido em 16/11/2022 08:54:19

Explicação:

Women's history is one of usurpation and injustice. They were seen as subordinate social
beings, dependent on men, either husbands, fathers or brothers. Many cultural disabilities
were imposed on women, as well as lack of education from the nineteenth century onwards.
This status started to change with the feminist waves that shook the western world in the
20th century. But many brilliant talented women writers were forgotten, and their writings had
to wait for a long time to be recognized and adequately researched and studied. The reasons
for such an erasure are not linked to the themes of the writings, as the domestic spheres and
their private lives or the quality of their writings, and not even the number of male and female
writers in the Romantic period.        

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          Questão
Which sad issue was worsened by the Industrial Revolution in England?
Government debt.
Poor harvests.
  Social inequality.
Lack of schools.
Lack of farmers.
Respondido em 16/11/2022 08:54:38

Explicação:

The Industrial Revolution created fortunes but also increased the exploitation of workers, who
 were insufficiently paid and had to live in slums in the overcrowded growing industrial cities.
The government strived at the time, agrarian products continued to be grown and sold, and
the number of schools was not significantly affected by industrialization.

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          Questão
The gothic novel Frankenstein derives from a writing competition suggested by Lord
Byron. While Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Polidori and Lord Byron were kept indoors
due to incessant rains, they read gothic stories, discussed science, philosophy and
natural science. Frankenstein is not only a gothic novel, as it presents gothic elements,
but also written in epistolary form. Why is it correct to say that the novel is written in
epistolary form?
  The novel starts with letters written by Robert Walton to his sister.
  The novel is told through the medium of letters, exchanged by Frankenstein
and Walton.
The novel is told through the medium of letters, written by Frankenstein.
The novel is told through the medium of letters, written by the creature.
The novel is told through the medium of letters, exchanged by Frankenstein
and the creature.
Respondido em 16/11/2022 08:55:40

Explicação:

In the novel, letters are used as a way of telling the story. The novel starts with Robert
Walton¿s letters, addressed to his sister, Margaret Saville. At first he is describing his trip to
Russia and the arrangements for his expedition to the Arctic. At some point in the novel both
Victor Frankenstein and the creature are able to tell their stories; however, the whole
structure of the novel is based on this first exchange of letters. Therefore, the only correct
answer is The novel starts with letters written by Robert Walton to his sister. The story then is
not told through the medium of letters, exchanged by Frankenstein and the creature, nor by
Frankenstein and Walton. What¿s more, Frankenstein¿s and the creature¿s letters do not
organize the structure of the novel.

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          Questão
In chapter VII, Victor Frankenstein announces:

"Two years had now nearly elapsed since the night on which he first received life; and
was this his first crime? Alas! I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch,
whose delight was in carnage and misery; had he not murdered my brother?"

Source: SHELLEY, Mary. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometeus. Project Gutenberg.

March 13, 2013

Why is Victor¿s perception about the creature not entirely correct?

  Because he mistook it for another being.
  Because it was not really a depraved wretch.
Because the creature did not kill his brother.
Because the creature was never actually alive.
Because he did not actually create the creature.
 Respondido em 16/11/2022 08:56:41

Explicação:

Even though Victor Frankenstein sees the creature as a "depraved wretch", the creature, in
fact, was not always a revenge-seeking being. When it was first created it was amicable and
loving and like all beings just wanted to be loved. The constant rejections made him loathe his
creator, Victor Frankenstein, and pursue revenge. The creature then was alive, it was created
by Victor whose brother it killed. The alternative that states why Victor¿s perception was
incorrect is: because it was not really a depraved wretch.

SIMULADO II

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          Questão
Britain was never the same again after 1918 because the country had ruined its
economy by waging a war substantially beyond its resources. Moreover, total victory,
ratified by a penal, dictated peace, ruined what little chances there were of restoring
something even faintly like a stable, liberal, bourgeois Europe, as the economist John
Maynard Keynes immediately recognized. If Germany was not reintegrated into the
European economy, i.e. if the country¿s economic weight within that economy was not
recognized and accepted there could be no stability. But this was the last consideration
in the minds of those who had fought to eliminate Germany. (HOSBAWM, 1995, p. 30-
31)

Source: HOBSBAWM, Eric. Age of Extremes: the short XX century. Great Britain:
Abacus, 1995.

According to the text above, the interwar period was ...

... a political stable moment, especially amongst the European countries which
participated in the war, since everyone helped each other to maintain a regular
economic growth.
  ... a moment deeply immersed in political and economic tensions, given that
since the First World War ended there was a general need for recovery in
Europe.
  ... a politically stable period, given that the economic powers established by the
victory in World War I aided and provided healthcare to the defeated countries.
... a politically unstable period, through which the victorious countries never
withdrew their forces from the battlefield, continuously insisting to threat the
defeated countries with another war.
... a moment deeply invested in its future possibilities, given that the war had
come to a halt after a settlement was agreed upon and every country affected
by the war could start to recover.
Respondido em 16/11/2022 09:00:19

Explicação:

FEEDBACK: Any alternative claiming that the World War I gave way to a stable economic and
political period in Europe is wrong, since the settlement which determined the victors and the
defeated in the war never fully satisfied the greedy powers of Great Britain, France (and the
United States). Their wish was for "total victory", which meant the full subjugation of the
enemy to their political will and power - this created a feeling of "enforced peace", leading,
finally, to a problematic European recovery in the years after World War I.
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          Questão
Regarding both novels (Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984), it is correct to
affirm that:
  They establish rich comparative possibilities.
  Brave New World is denser than 1984.
1984 is denser than Brave New World.
They have nothing in common.
They are both irrelevant literary works for the contemporary reader.
Respondido em 16/11/2022 09:26:36

Explicação:

FEEDBACK: As both novels are thematically related and were written at the same historical
moment, with the convergence of the same political interests, it is expected and absolutely
possible that the two novels are open to establish comparative dialogues.

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          Questão
Based on the context of Joyce's writing, choose the option that best completes the
following sentence:

Joyce wrote about mankind and the pressure people suffer in the modern world. He
used Ireland, the city of Dublin, and the two major local issues of his time:
____________ and ___________ as allegories of that suffering to motivate reflections
upon it.
poverty and faith
  colonization and religion
education and hypocrisy
alcoholism and paralysis
  corruption and desire
Respondido em 16/11/2022 09:07:00

Explicação:

Joycess works tackled the effects of colonization and the moral constraints imposed by the
Catholic religion on Ireland, as sources of suffering to the Irish people. The other issues such
as poverty, alcoholism and corruption are possible consequences of that suffering. Desire, faith
and education are positive driving forces that are undermined by the suffering, which results in
paralysis and hypocrisy, together with the problems mentioned before. 

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          Questão
Without certain discoveries and developments, modernist writing would never have
 existed. Therefore, James Joyce's and Virginia Woolf's literary innovations, in a way,
owed their existence to thinkers that challenged the nineteenth century paradigm.
Darwin, Marx, Freud and Nietzsche were such thinkers.

Choose the alternative that correctly associates the thinkers with the fields of
knowledge they revolutionized:

Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche were important
thinkers that changed the paradigms of nineteenth-century fields of ___________,
________, __________ and ___________, respectively.
  Biology - Economics - Psychology - Philosophy
Economics - Law - Biology - Arts
Geography - Biology - Arts - Poetry
Philosophy - Medicine - Letters - Visual Arts
  Politics - Economics - Law - Psychology
Respondido em 16/11/2022 09:26:26

Explicação:

Darwin developed the field of Biology with the theory of evolution, Marx, with his political and
philosophical thought greatly influenced Economics, Freud founded the clinical method of
psychoanalysis, which contributed a lot to the field of Psychology, and Nietzsche¿s work
exerted a profound influence in Philosophy and in modern intellectual history, as a whole.    

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          Questão
In The Postmodern Condition, Jean-Francois Lyotard analyzes how Postmodern societies
differ from Modern ones. A key issue is Lyotard¿s view is Postmodernity¿s attitude
towards grand narratives. What does the French theorist Jean François Lyotard define
as grand narratives or metanarratives?
Narratives that describe the reality in lots of ways, not only one.
Local and temporary knowledge found in narratives.
Narratives describing small practices and local events.
  Multiple narratives which present distinct points of view.
  Universalizing narratives that establish their views as absolute truths.
Respondido em 16/11/2022 09:15:43

Explicação:

Right answer: Universalizing narratives that establish their views as absolute truths.

Feedback: Grand narratives, or metanarratives, are authoritative narratives which establish

that their political or cultural views are absolute truths, and are beyond any criticism.
Narratives that describe reality in lots of ways, with distinct points of view, associated with
small practices, local events, local and temporary knowledge are characteristics of mini-
narratives, that do not contain universalizing truths.
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          Questão
In contemporary Britain stereotypical views have been scrutinized, which allowed for a
variety of views and perspectives both in cultural and literary studies. A consequence of
the rise of cultural diversity in contemporary British literature is:
  the number of texts expressing discriminatory positions.
  a questioning of what it means to be a "true" British author.
the growing number of works by British authors not written in English.
a decline in the number of novels written by members of the upper class.
the establishment of policies to stimulate marginalized groups to write.
Respondido em 16/11/2022 09:16:58

Explicação:

Right answer: a questioning of what it means to be a "true" British author.

Feedback: With texts exploring more diverse realities in contemporary Britain, stereotypical

ideas related to who can be considered a "true" British author have come into question. The
early twentieth century witnessed the decline of the so-called British Empire. Inhabitants of
former colonies started writing in English or even moved to Britain, and, as a consequence, a
fresh and distinctive voice which represented their perspectives based on specific ethnic and
national experiences emerged. This meant that if there were fewer upper-class white writers
writing novels this was a direct consequence of the questioning of identities rather than a
phenomenon itself. The same holds true for denouncing discriminatory positions, or even
policies to encourage marginalized groups. Therefore, the only correct option is "a questioning
of what it means to be a "true" British author".

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          Questão
Some of Coleridge¿s poems present ___________elements, as in The Rhyme of
Ancient Mariner, part IV: They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose/ Nor spake,
nor moved their eyes/It had been strange, even in a dream/to have seen
those dead men rise. 
  natural.
sentimental.
emotional.
rational.
  supernatural.
Respondido em 16/11/2022 09:18:35

Explicação:

Coleridge preferred the dark side of Romanticism, with the beautiful but destructive power of
nature, and mysterious elements that are not natural, but infused with a supernatural energy,
instead. In the excerpt, the poet describes dead men moving, groaning and stirring.
Concerning the other adjectives, natural, emotional and sentimental are normally associated
with romantic poetry, while rational is a characteristic of neoclassical poetry. 

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          Questão
Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems written by Coleridge and Wordsworth, marked the
beginning of English Romanticism. The preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1802) set the
elements to compose Romantic poetry, that are:
  simple language, imagination, emotions, spontaneity and legends.
  complex versification, melancholic themes, reverence for nature and humans.
extended metaphors, analytical poetry, sophisticated language and legends.
emotions, melancholic themes, cultivated language and accurate grammar.
reason, retelling of classical myths and legends, witty language and puns.
Respondido em 16/11/2022 09:20:47

Explicação:

Wordsworth says that poetry is (or should be) the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
recollected in tranquility, which means that emotions and spontaneity are key elements of
Romantic poetry. When he says that language may be the one that resembles ordinary men¿s
speech he advocates for the use of simple language. Imagination is considered superior to
rationality (in direct opposition to the previous neoclassic poetry). Legends and folklore are
also valued because they express the cultural heritage of a nation, as well as reverence for
nature. Melancholic themes are present in the second phase of Romanticism, represented by
the second generation of poets.  Reason, sophisticated or cultivated language, complex
versification and retelling of classical myths are characteristics of the poetry of the
Enlightenment. Extended metaphors, puns, analytical poetry and witty language resembles
Metaphysical poetry from the 17h century.  

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          Questão
Which master narratives informed the Victorians "pursuits"?

I. Pursuit of material well-being.

II. Search for knowledge.

III. Control of the spiritual world.

IV. Pursuit of justice.

  Options I and II are correct.
Options II, III, and IV are correct.
  Options I, II and IV are correct.
Options II and III are correct.
Options III and IV are correct.
Respondido em 16/11/2022 09:22:34

Explicação:

The Victorians attempted to gain control over nature, to be freed from ignorance and
superstition and they also pursued freedom from political tyranny and economic exploitation.
In other words, three master narratives informed their pursuits: the pursuit of material well-
being, the search for knowledge and the pursuit of justice. Therefore, option i., ii. and iv. are
correct.
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          Questão
Charles Dickens was a prolific writer, who started his career as a journalist and
ascended to a widely read novelist. Choose the alternative that presents a correct
statement about his literary works:
  His first literary works, such as The Pickwick Papers was more serious in tone
than any other novel later published.
He never wrote any type of historical novels.
None of his novels presents semi-autobiographical undertones.
  Hard Times is an attack against utilitarianism.
None of his novels is thought to be a type of Bildungsroman.
Respondido em 16/11/2022 09:25:46

Explicação:

The Pickwick Papers presented humorous types and grotesque incidents. In fact, Dickens¿s
earlier works were more humorous falling under the picaresque novel genre. He actually wrote
two historical novels: Barnaby Rudge and A Tale of Two Cities. David Copperfield is a semi-
autobiographical novel. And in many ways, David Copperfield is considered to be a
Bildungsroman. Therefore, the only correct option is Hard Times is an attack against
utilitarianism.