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

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

Bakhtin's 'dialogic' novel features diverse voices and perspectives, rejecting a single authoritative narrative

What King Lear strips away — power, identity, sanity — until only bare humanity remains on the heath

King Lear reveals the fragility of human identity and power through loss and madness

What Shylock's 'Hath not a Jew eyes' speech does — forces the audience to confront their own prejudice

Shylock's speech humanizes Jews, challenging societal bias

What Derrida's 'there is nothing outside the text' means for literary criticism — all meaning is textual, context is text

Derrida's assertion implies that all meaning is derived from textual analysis, dismissing external contexts

What the Impressionists broke — academic painting's rules by capturing light and moment over form and narrative

Impressionists defied academies by prioritizing light and moment over traditional form and storytelling

What Rimbaud's 'systematic derangement of all the senses' sought — a new poetic language through extremity

Rimbaud's 'systematic derangement' aimed to revolutionize poetry via sensory disruption