Answer TWO (2) questions.  In each response, you should refer closely to those essay(s) by the theorists in question which you have studied this semester.

1.    Compare Freud’s model of the psyche with Jung’s.

2.    What light does Freud’s comments on the ‘dream-work’ in The Interpretation of Dreams shed on his views on literature in either "Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming" or "The Uncanny"?

3.    What does Bloom mean when he speaks of the "psychology of belatedness which necessarily afflicts all literary creation"? How, according to Bloom, does this notion help us to understand the emergence of Post-colonial literatures?

4.    Jung maintains that the literary work has its main source not in the "personal unconscious of the poet, but in a sphere of unconscious mythology whose primordial images are the common heritage of mankind . . . the collective unconscious" (80). Discuss.

5.    In what ways are Frye’s views on literature similar to Jung’s and in what way are they different?

6.    "There is no reason to be surprised when an Antillean . . . relives the same fantasies as a European. It is because the Antillean partakes of the same collective unconscious as the European" (Fanon).  In his effort to grasp the ‘psychopathology of the negro,’ why does Fanon prefer to engage with Jungian analytical psychology over Freudian psychoanalysis?

1.    Examine Elaine Showalter’s notions of feminist critique and gynocriticism from a Marxist feminist perspective.

2.    To what extent would you agree that Frantz Fanon offers a ‘misreading’ of Marx’s Base/Superstructure model?

3.    Elaborate on Amuta’s presentation of six (6) categories for the study of African literature.

5.    With reference to Walter Benjamin’s "The Author as Producer," discuss the implications of the writer’s awareness of his/her position in the process of production.

6.    Analyze Gramsci’s notion of hegemony with reference to a Marxist model of society.

1.    Why does Sartre argue that the "error of realism has been to believe that the real reveals itself to contemplation, and that consequently one could draw an impartial picture of it"?

2.    Compare the views of Hirsch and Iser on the nature and process of interpretation.

3.    In what ways is Jauss’ model of literary history "radically different" from traditional views? Answer by outlining his four theses.

4.    What, according to De Beauvoir, is a woman?

5.    In the process of reading a woman’s text, Schweickart argues, the feminist reader "encounters . . . the ‘heart and mind’ of another woman." In what ways are Schweickart’s views similar to and different from Poulet’s?

6.    What light does the "Hegelian dialectic," according to Fanon, shed on the predicament of the "Antillean negro"?

7.    Discuss JanMohamed’s view that the "manichean allegory" is the "central trope" of the "colonialist economy of representation."