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Worksheetscontemporary literary criticism
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
______ delivered the lecture "sign, structure and play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences".
a. Michel Foucault
b. Jacques Lancan
c. Jacques Derrida
d. Roland Barthes
The event Derrida's essay coincided with____.
The publication of Of Grammatology
The John Hopkins University symposium on structuralism
The May 1968 protests in Paris
The release of Saussure's Course in General Linguistics
Derrida means by the 'center' of a structure is ------.
The physical middle of a system
Fixed point that organizes meaning and limits play
A subjective interpretation
The heart of language
Derrida uses to describe the endless deferral of meaning ------.
Binary Opposition
Structuralism
Differance
Essentialism
Derrida challanges the idea of a fixed center in structurses, proposing instead _____.
A Hierarchical Model
A Decentered Structure
A Linear Progression
An Absolute Origin
In Derrida's essay, ---- is meant by " structurality of Structure".
Material composition of Texts
Principles govering how elements relate within the structure
Instability of meaning
Cultural significance of structure
Derrida refers to thinkers like Nietzsche, Freud and Heidegger as exemplifying ___ concept.
Binary Opposition
Decentering or rapture in metaphysics
Structural integrity
Presence of the center
Derrida challanges the idea that meaning is ____.
Created by God
Based on sound
Unique to each person
Fixed and stable
____ is the " Deconstructive Angel" that Abrams critiques.
Stanley Fish
J. Hillis Miller
Jacques Derrida
Harold Bloom
The intellectual movement is Derrida's work most closely associated with ____.
Modernism
Structuralism
Romanticism
Post-Structuralism
