ENG 1120 Study Guide - Final Guide: Short Story Cycle, Marxist Literary Criticism, Feminist Literary Criticism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Lorrie Graham

Document Summary

A short story cycle is a series of stories connected in some way. The connection can be by theme, characters, or location. Each story can be read on its own and have meaning. Medicine river is like a short story cycle. Anima is the life force in men the feminine principle. Animus is the life force in women the masculine principle. Archetypes (jung) term for a character, place, or event that represents a universal truth . Discourse is next level jargon shared by groups of people. Ego is what thinks, reasons, and attempts to understand and control the psyche"s urges. Encyclopaedic writing: uses long lists of things to make a point. Tttc: lists things they were carrying to convey the heaviness of what they actually carried. Feminist criticism in its simplest form examines images of women in literature. Id/freud is the impulsive part of the brain where unconscious desires live. If the id is not controlled chaos reigns.