WORKSHEET #4

 

DUE WEDNESDAY APRIL 2!

 

 

Answer ONE of the following questions clearly and completely.  

 

 

1. What is “l’ecriture feminine,” according to Cixous? Using explanations from “The Laugh of the Medusa,” define this mode of writing and then apply that definition to a text. (You can use the Woolf passage we discussed in class, or find another passage from another literary text).

 

 

2. How are subjects interpellated within an ideology, according to Althusser? Give an example or two of such interpellation. How do you know when you’ve been “successfully” interpellated? How is the idea of interpellation relevant to literary texts?

 

 

3. Explain how Althusser defines the distinction between “Ideology” and “ideologies.” Why does he say “Ideology has no history”?

 

 

4.  Explain the title of Cixous’  essay. Why is Medusa laughing?