Online Test: Unit 2: Cultural Studies: Types of CS & Theories
Refer to internet and Wilfred Guerin A Handbook of Critical Approached to Literature - Chapter 9
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1. Tick mark the types of Cultural Studies:
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2. Who is the writer of pioneering anthropological study, 'Primitive Culture' (1871) which argued that 'Culture or civilization, taken in its widest ethnographic sense, is a complex whole includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits, acquired by man as a member of society'.
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3. Whose work influenced to move British thinkers to assign 'Culture' to 'Primitive peoples'?
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4. Whose work influenced to move British thinkers to attribute 'Culture' to the 'working class' as well as to 'elite'?
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5. Who said: "There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing (other) people as masses". - ?
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6. In modern Britain, two trajectories for 'culture' developed. Identify:
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7. From __________ , an Italian Marxist, for example, they got the concept of cultural 'hegemony', referring to relations of domination not always visible as such.
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8. Who insisted that ideology was ultimately in control of the people. that 'the main function of ideology is to reproduce the society's existing relations of production, and that that function is even carried out in literary texts.'
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9. Who observed 'Popular literature' as merely 'carrying the baggage of a culture's ideology', whereas 'high' literature retained more autonomy and hence had more power.
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10. Who attacked fascism by questioning the value of what he called the 'aura' of culture. He also helped explain the frightening cultural context for a film such as leni Riefenstahl's 'Triumph of the Will' (1935).
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11. On whose life is Leni Riefenstahl's film 'The Triumph of the Will based?
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12. Who developed what he called a 'reflection theory', in which he stressed literature's reflection, conscious or unconscious, of the social reality surrounding it - not just a flood or realistic detail but a reflection of the essence of a society, Fiction formed without a sense of such reflection can never fully show the meaning of a given society.
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13. Who said: "If the 1970s could be the Age of Deconstruction, some hypothetical survey of late twentieth-century criticism might well characterised the 1980s as marking the Return of History, or perhaps the Recovery of the Referent." - ?
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14. Who phrases the motto of New Historicism as 'The Text is historical, and history is textual'.
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15. Who said: 'Always historicize!' - ?
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16. As a return to historical scholarship, new historicism concerns itself with extraliterary matters - letters, diaries, films, paintings, medical treatises - looking to reveal opposing historical tensions in a text. True or False?
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17. Identify the difference:
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It saw history as 'world views magisterially unfolding as a series of tableaux in a film called Progress', as though all Elizabethans, for example, held views in common.
it rejects this periodization of history in favour of ordering history only through the interplay of forms of power
Old Historicism
New Historicism
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18. Who may be credited for coining the term 'New Historicism'?
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19. A new historicist Stephen Greenblatt identifies major influence on his thought from _____ , ________ and ______, all of whom raises the question of art and society as related to institutionalized practices.
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20. Match
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He blames capitalism for perpetrating a false distinction between the public and the private
He argues that capitalism has forced a false integration of these worlds
He explains that New Historicism exists between these two poles in an attempt to work with the 'apparently contradictory historical effects of capitalism' without insisting upon an inflexible historical and economic theory.
Aram H. Veeser
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Frederic Jameson
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21. "_____ " is still a critical feature of American life, full of contradictions and ambiguities; it is at once the greatest source of social conflict and the richest source of cultural development in America.
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22. Who argued in 'Shadow and Act' (1964) that any 'viable theory of Negro American culture obligate us to  fashion a more adequate theory of American culture as a whole.' ?
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23. Identify primary features of African American writings and value systems as reviewed by Bernard Bell in 'The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition'. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.
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24. Match the primary features of African American writing and compare value systems
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providential vision of history
cyclical, Judeo-christian vision of history
as Euro-Americans as a chosen people
as African-American as a disinherited colonized people
vision that sanctions their individual and collective freedom in the pursuit of property, profit and happiness.
vision that sanctions their resilience of spirit and pursuit of social justice
White American
Black American
25. Radical Protestantism, Constitutional democracy, and industrial capitalism are th white American trinity of values. True or False?
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26. _________ signaled a tremendous upsurge in black culture, with an especial interest in primitivist art.
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27. Which of the following works is written by Toni Morrison?
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28. Which of the following works is written by Ralph Ellison?
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29. identify the writer of 'Native Son' (1938) and 'Black Boy (1945):
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30. Given the frequent cultural silencing of Asian women, they have produced an astonishing array of literary works, far outdistancing Asian men. True or False?
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31. While _______ presented a fragmented view of human history (as in Eliot's The Waste Land), this fragmentation was seen as tragic. Despite their pessimism, modernist works still hope that art may be able to provide the unity, coherence, and meaning that has been list in most of modern life, as church and nation have failed to do.
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32. _______ not only does not mourn the loss of meaning, but celebrates the activity of fragmentation. It explores the provisionality and irrationality of art.
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33. Match the postmodernist thought with the thinker:
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Stability is maintained through 'grand narratives' or 'master narratives', stories a culture tells itself about its practices and beliefs in order to keep going.
A grand narrative in American culture might be the story that democracy is the most enlightened or rational form of government, and that democracy will lead to universal human happiness.
Postmodernism is characterized by 'incredulity toward metanarratives' that serve to mask the contradictions and instabilities inherent in any social organization.
Postmodernism prefers 'mini-narratives' of local events.
'simulacra' of postmodern life which have taken the place of 'real' objects.
Postmodernism marks a culture composed 'of disparate fragmentary experience and images that constantly bombard the individual music, video, tv, ad, and other form of e-media.
The speed and ease of reproduction of these images mean that they exist only as image, devoid of depth, coherence or originality.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Jean Baudrillard
34. Match these types of analyses necessary for popular culture:
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Asks questions: who owns the media? who creates texts and why? Under what constraints? How democratic or elitist is the production of popular culture? what about works written only for money?
Examines how specific works of popular culture create meanings.
Asks how different groups of popular culture consumers, or users, make similar or different sense of the same texts.
Investigates how these other three dimensions change over time.
Historical analysis
Audience analysis
Production analysis
Textual analysis
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35. In 4 types of analyses of' popular culture', a key here is how texts create 'subject positions' or identifies for those who use them.           Postmodernists tend to speak more of 'subject positions' rather than the 'humanist' notion of independent individual. Do you agree with this observation?  
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36. Whose concept was an important touchstone to postcolonial studies, as s/he described the stereotypical discourse about the East as constructed by the West?
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37. Who drew upon his/her own horrific experiences in French Algeria to deconstruct emerging national regimes that are based on inheritances from the imperial powers, warning that class, not race, is a greater factor in worldwide oppression, and that if new nations are built in the molds of their former oppressors, then they will perpetuate the bourgeois inequalities from the past?
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38. Who critiques the presumed dichotomies between center and periphery, colonized and colonizer, self and other, borrowing from deconstruction the argument that these are false binaries. He proposes instead a dialogic model of nationalities, ethnicities, and identities, characterized by what he calls 'hybridity'; that is they are something new, emerging from a 'Third Space' to interrogate the givens of the past.
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39. Who examined the effects of political independence upon 'subaltern' or sub-proletarian women in the Third World?
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40. Match the thinkers of technoculture with their work/concept
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Simulation & Simulacra
The Risk Society
Speed and Politics
In Praise of Slow
Jean baudrillard
Carl Honore
Ulrich Beck
Paul Virilio
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41. Match the writers with the books on American Dumbness
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The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
diot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
The Age of American Unreason
Tom Nicholas
Charles P. Pierce
Susan Jacoby
Mark Bauerlein
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42. Match the items based on the blog on 'Why are we so scared of robots / AI?
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The robot is the servant man
The robot is the woman who cares for children when mother is outside
The robot is the boy who gives company to the lonely kid in the empty house
iMOM
Ghost Machine
Anukul
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43.  Match the items based on the blog on 'Why are we so scared of robots / AI?
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Ghost Machine
iMOM
Anukul
Robo-servant kills cousin of the owner
Robo-boy hacks the mind of the boy to kill the mother
Robo-Mom cooks child as chicken
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44. Match with reference to blog on Cyberfeminism
https://blog.dilipbarad.com/2020/02/cyberfeminism-ai-and-gender-biases.html
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A Cyborg Manifesto
The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture
How to keep human bias out of AI?
Can we protect AI from our biases?
Kriti Sharma
Donna Harraway
Bruce Granville
Robin Hauser
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