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1.
Name the dyads of Walton\'s quest / meeting Victor
Respuesta: - friendship/loneliness - curiosity/disinterest - strangeness/familiarity - hope/despair - resolve/resignation
2.
What are the centres and marges in Frankenstein?
Respuesta: - Beauty/ugliness - Love/hate - Society/isolation
3.
What is logocentrism and who coined it?
Respuesta: The notion that we can trust language to reflect reality. Jacques Derrida
4.
Explain poststructuralism in short
Respuesta: - Our experience is shaped through language - Texts set up centres and margins that implicitly prefer certain aspects over others and thus create inequality - Texts are intrinsically unstable
5.
For Derrida, a text is not a structure, but a what?
Respuesta: A chain of signs that generate meaning, with none of these signs occupying a privileged position
6.
The Romantic Period is one of the literary contexts for Frankenstein. Explain this
Respuesta: - Inspired by ideals of revolution - Forceful expressions of individual feelings - Imagination over reason
7.
What is the ultimate goal of narratology?
Respuesta: To discover a general model of narration that will cover all the possible ways in which stories can be told
8.
How did othering justify the colonisation of native people?
Respuesta: By degrading them and by claiming that it had a civilising mission
9.
What is John Brannigan\'s definition of New Historicism?
Respuesta: A mode of critical interpretation which privileges power relations as the most important context for texts of all kinds
10.
What is central to postmodern fiction?
Respuesta: That it unsettles or even deconstructs traditional modes of fiction
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