What Bakhtin's concept of the 'dialogic' novel means — multiple voices and perspectives without a dominant one

What Kurosawa's Rashomon revealed — the same event told by four witnesses yields four incompatible truths

Rashomon exposes subjective reality and moral ambiguity through conflicting testimonies

What Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' asks — whether marginalized voices can be heard within dominant discourse

Examines if marginalized individuals can express themselves in prevailing power structures

What Pinter's 'comedy of menace' does — ordinary conversations become threatening through what's left unsaid

Pinter's 'comedy of menace' transforms mundane dialogue into menace via implied, unspoken tension

What Blake's prophetic books create — an entire mythology to explain the fall and redemption of the human imagination

Blake's prophetic books construct a mythology for human imagination's fall and redemption

What the New Critics argued — the poem is an autonomous object, ignore the author's biography and intentions

New Critics emphasized the poem's self-contained meaning, disregarding authorial context

What Said's Orientalism exposes — Western literary representations of the East as a form of cultural domination

Said's Orientalism critiques Western depictions of the East as exotic and inferior, reinforcing cultural hegemony