LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Understanding sexuality is crucial to understanding culture.
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Understanding homosexuality has little effect on understanding culture.
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Literary study is unaffected by a lack of interest in sexuality.
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All of the above answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Epistemology of the Closet, Sedgwick states that standard binary oppositions limit freedom and understanding, especially in the context of sexuality. Sedgwick argues that limiting sexuality to homosexuality or heterosexuality, in a structured binary opposition, is too simplistic.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sedgwick argued that an understanding of virtually any aspect of modern Western culture would be incomplete if it failed to incorporate a critical analysis of modern homo/heterosexual definition. She coined the terms “homosocial” and “antihomophobic".
Detailed explanation-3: -Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, whose critical writings on the ambiguities of sexual identity in fiction helped create the discipline known as queer studies, died on Sunday in Manhattan. She was 58.
Detailed explanation-4: -Queer Theory critically examines the way power works to institutionalize and legitimate certain forms and expressions of sexuality and gender while stigmatizing others. Queer Theory followed the emergence and popularity of Gay and Lesbian (now, LGBT or Queer) Studies in the academy.