Exam 3 Terms

Question 1

Humanist History

Question 2

New Historicism

Answer 2

examines texts as narratives and agrees that all texts can be deconstructed to reveal ideological assumptions
- Clifford Geertz

Question 3

Base

Answer 3

What everything in society is connected to and determined by

- Karl Marx

Question 4

Superstructure

Answer 4

COntains all other types of social systems (politics, religion, morality) created by the base
- Marx

Question 5

Mode of Production

Answer 5

The relations of production, how people relate to eache other and their society, and forces of production
- Karl Marx

Question 6

ideology

Answer 6

How a society thinks about itself

- Marx

Question 7

Surplus Value

Answer 7

What the Laborer adds to the raw materials

- Marx

Question 8

Alienation

Answer 8

Labor which produces surplus value (no longer belongs to laborer)
- Marx

Question 9

ISA

Answer 9

Ideological State Apparatuses
Institutions that generate ideologies that we internalize (School, Religion, Family)
- Louis Althusser

Question 10

RSA

Answer 10

Repressive State Apparatuses
systems that enforce behavior directly (police criminal justice system)
- Louis Althusser

Question 11

Interpellation

Answer 11

bring into being or give identity to (an individual or category).

• Louis Althusser
• John Fiske

Question 12

Panopticism

Answer 12

A society based on surveillance where one is never sure if they are being watched. This makes the person behave well as they never know if they are being watched.
- Michel Foucault

Question 13

Orientalism

Answer 13

A set of practices used by western Anglo-European cultures to create the “orient” in the east
- Edward Said

Question 14

Metanarratives

Answer 14

a narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience, or knowledge, which offers a society legitimation through the anticipated completion of a (as yet unrealized) master idea.
- Jean-François Lyotard

Question 15

Power|Knowledge

Answer 15

How one needs knowledge in order to have power, and one needs power in order to have knowledge
- Michel Foucault

Question 16

Postmodernism

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Rejects boundries between “high” and “low” forms of art and sees the world as meaningless, but wants to ply within the meaninglessness.
- Frederic Jameson

Question 17

Postcolonial Theory

Answer 17

Examines the effect colonialism had on literature and literary studies
- Edward Said

Question 18

Pastiche

Answer 18

a work that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists, pastiche celebrates
- Frederic Jameson

Question 19

Parody

Answer 19

a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.
- Frederic Jameson

Question 20

Hybridity

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When one occupies multiple subject positions

- Homi Bhaba

Question 21

Overdetermination

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Identity is determined by innumerable ideologies and discourses
- Homi Bhaba

Question 22

Discourse

Answer 22

A conglomeration of all types of writing, thinking, talking, and acting about a topic
- Michel Foucault

Question 23

Signifying Monkey

Answer 23

The archetype and origin of the practice of signifying in African American Community
- Henry Louis Gates

Question 24

The rise of English (English as an ideology)

Answer 24

Became an ideology when religion failed to. Provided the masses with moral law to follow
- Terry Eagleton