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LITS2607 TERM PAPER 2004-2005
(BASED ON MODULE ONE)

Answer ONE (1) of the following questions:

1. Compare and contrast Freud's model of the psyche with Jung's.
2. "For Freud, a literary work is analogous to its author’s dream."  Referring closely to his essay "Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming," discuss Freud's conception of literature.
3. Referring closely to his views in both The Anxiety of Influence and A Map of Misreading, explain Bloom’s model of literary history.  Do you find it persuasive?
4. "For Jung, the significance of a literary work transcends the personal life of its author."  Referring closely to his essay "On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry," discuss Jung's conception of literature.
5. Through close reference to Frye's “The Archetypes of Literature,” explain his statement that the “unity of a work of art . . . has not been produced solely by the unconditioned will of the artist.”
6. Illustrating you answer with reference to a brief literary work of your choice (e.g. a short story or poem), outline the main objectives of and characteristic steps taken by either a Freudian or an Archetypal critic.
7. In what ways are Chodorow's views on the nature of femininity a significant departure from Freud's?
8. Referring closely to The Madwoman in the Attic, discuss the model of women's literary history advanced by Gilbert and Gubar.
9. What archetypal patterns does Annis Pratt discern in women's fiction?
10. Discuss Fanon's conception of the psyche of the 'Negro Antillean,' showing how he engages with both Freudian and Jungian ideas.
11. "I read white books and little by little I take into myself the prejudices, the myths, the folklore that have come to me from Europe" (192-3).  How exactly, according to Fanon, does this process occur and what is its most important effect?
12. What are the "epic stratagems" (378) which, according to Harris, the "arts of the imagination" (378) make "available to Caribbean man in the dilemmas of history which surround him" (378)?
13. Would you agree that Brathwaite's claim concerning the African presence in Caribbean literature and culture is 'psychoanalytically-inflected'?  If so, in what way?

DEADLINE: 6 pm, Tuesday, April 5, 2005

LENGTH: 7 pages maximum (typewritten, double-spaced)

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