MA English Literature Postcolonialism — practice questions

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Edward Said's 'Orientalism' belongs to which school?Read the answer and worked solution →Order the ages of English writingRead the answer and worked solution →

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Edward Said's 'Orientalism' belongs to which school?

New Criticism
Formalism
Russian Formalism
Postcolonialism

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Correct answer: D. Postcolonialism

1. Said (1978) inaugurated postcolonial discourse analysis. 2. Postcolonialism reads literature through empire's afterlife. 3. The brief names Postcolonialism explicitly. _Source: Coverage brief — BA English Literature syllabus areas — "Literary Theory — ... Postcolonialism"_

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Order the ages of English writing

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Anglo-Saxon
Medieval
Restoration
Enlightenment
Romantic
Victorian
Modern
Postmodern

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Tap the eight periods of English literature in order, from the oldest one to the newest.

_Source: Coverage brief — Literary History bucket — "periods (Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, Restoration, Enlightenment, Modernism, Postmodernism)"_

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