Beowulf/Formalism and Psychological Criticism – Flashcards
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Who is Shield Sheafson?
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Danish king, ancestor of Hrothgar
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Why does Beowulf sail to the land of the Danes?
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hears about Grendel and wants to help
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How/Why Beowulf explains why he "lost" a swimming match against Breca.
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Unferth accuses him of being a loser so Beowulf tells that he got pulled under by a monster and had to fight off 8 more
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Where do Beowulf and Grendel fight?
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Mead Hall
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What is the nature of how they fight?
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no weapons or armor
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What does Beowulf rip from Grendel?
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Arm
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What does Unferth give Beowulf before his battle with Grendel's mother?
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a sword, Hrunting
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Where for Beowulf and Grendel's mother fight?
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Her underwater lair
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How is beowulf able to destroy her
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with her own big sword for giants
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What does Beowulf eventually become?
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King
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What caused the dragon to rampage?
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stolen treasure
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How long does Beowulf reign?
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50 years
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Who is the father of Beowulf?
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Ecgtheow
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Which of his men does not run away and remains loyal to Beowulf in the fight with the dragon?
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Wiglaf
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What is the narrative point of view in "Araby?"
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first person looking back, boy looks back on his past
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Who was the previous deceased tenant of the house in Araby?
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priest
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With which character is the protagonist infatuated?
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Mangan's sister
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When the protagonist finally gets to Araby, what does he discover?
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It is closing
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In Richard Cory, what does the eponymous character do at the end?
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kills himself
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In The Soote Seasons, what of his does the speaker say "springs?"
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sorrow
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In the formalist analysis of The Soote Season, what is the main idea/argument/thesis with which the essay interprets the poem?
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Speaker is aware of his own isolation
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In Meagan Cass's mythological criticism on To Autumn, what is her main interpretive idea or thesis?
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it's about grief and dealing with loss
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What is the narrative point of view in The Sky is Gray?
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first person in present, young boy telling about right now
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What is the purpose of the trip that the protagonist and his mother make to Bayonne?
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tooth pulled
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In a flashback, what does his mother do to make the protagonist kill a redbird for dinner?
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beats him
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What does the mother purchase before leaving the old lady who has given them lunch?
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meat
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In To His Coy Mistress, what is the speaker trying to convince his mistress to do?
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have sex
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In the psychological criticism essay on To His Coy Mistress, what's the main idea with which the essay interprets the poem?
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there is a conflict between Freud's id and ego
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What does TS Eliot mean by "objective correlative?"
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objects or situations are related to emotions so whenever you see it you feel that emotion
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What distinction do the Russian formalists make between "story" and "plot?"
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story is the sequence of events, plot is the way in which they are presented
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What does Bakhtin call the condition in which people cannot be completely known (in literature and in life)?
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unfinalizability
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Explain what Bakhtin means by the concept of "dialogized heteroglossia."
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dialogue having different meaning within itself because of differing social contexts
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Explain what Bakhtin means by the concept of "carnival."
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voices heard separately by working together to be cohesive and create the full story
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Define etymology
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history of a word
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Define ambiguity
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using language with multiple meaning to create more interpretations
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What does a formalist mean by a given literary work's "tension?"
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conflicting elements against each other
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What is meant by the "affective fallacy?"
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making the reader think about their reaction
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What is meant by the "intentional fallacy?"
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creating questionable author intent
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What does Freud believe is the nature of the relationship between dreams and the unconscious?
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dreams are the voice of the unconscious
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What is Freud's concept of the "superego?"
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a conscience, morals
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What sort of symbol might a Freudian literary analyst make of the appearance of a cigar in a story or poem?
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phallic symbol
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What's Freud's term for the female version of the "Oedipus complex?"
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Electra complex
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What is an archetype?
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A stereotype, image attributed to a certain figure or type of figure
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What does Jung mean by the "collective unconscious?"
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shared memory of the past, storing knowledge and experience
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Who wrote Anatomy of Criticism?
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Northrop Frye
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What is Lacan's notion of the "mirror stage?"
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when a baby sees it's reflection for the first time and starts to discern itself from it's surroundings.
