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BC critic quiz Flashcards

1
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Women displayed as sexual objects is the leitmotif of erotic spectacle

A

Mulvey

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2
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The Marquis, as he is called (suggesting, of course, the Marquis de Sade), is a parodic evil aesthete

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Simpson - marquis

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3
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Lovers are lethal, traditional romantic patterns kill, and sex leads to death

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Simpson - sex and death

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4
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Just like Eve and Pandora, the heroine’s actions lead to her own corruption: in succumbing to her curiosity, she damns herself

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Link

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5
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Each one is tempted when, by his own desire, he is dragged away and enticed

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James 1:14-15

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6
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A gothic reimagining of the fruits of Eve’s sin. / His forbidden chamber likened to a circle of hell in Dante’s Inferno

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Stilling - Eve

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7
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Death and phallic sexuality are one

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Lokke - lily

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8
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The lion lays down with the lamb

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Isaiah 16

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9
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An amount of tigerishness is necessary for women, if they are to escape being victimized by men

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Atwood - tiger

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10
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Exploration of the narrative possibilities of De Sade’s lamb-and-tiger dichotomy

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Atwood - du Sade

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11
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The beast is male sexuality / this hairy thing

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Carter - Beast

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12
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The mask of masculinity was infinitely more beastly than the Beast himself

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Halpin

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13
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The female becomes a reflexive image

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Linkin

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14
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The Count is in the position of the author. The girl is a helpless character, unable to control her destiny

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Bacchilega

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15
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Once she has fulfilled her purpose of becoming a sexual object, she can die.

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Bacchilega

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16
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Carter’s belief that liberating change is possible informs her portrayal of the Countess

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Tucker

17
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Women troubled by and even empowered by their own violence

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Makinen

18
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Carter was obviously acquainted with the theories that deconstruct the concept of the essential self or soul and posit instead a subject in process

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Bugrass

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