A detailed paragraph from the readings for each of the following questions. Please label each question clearly.

*Authority:

1. Talk about the problems associated with the concept of “canonicity”. What is “the canon”?
2. What are the possible functions of “the author”, in any given context? (As opposed to biographical and historical content).
3. What are some problems with the author-centered approach to reading?
4. What are the differences between the two meanings of authority? (One refers to authorship, the other refers to someone whose has “authority” over another individual with a way of controlling them).

*Reading:

1. What are the problems with the reader-centered approach to interpretation?
2. Dagenais–Who is the author of the Book of Good Love (El Libro de Buen Amor)…(Juan Ruiz= John Smith).
3. What are the “ethics of reading” in medieval “manuscript culture”?
4. How should one handle the reader-centered approach?

*Subjectivity:

1. What is the difference between “the subject” and “the self”? (Primarily focus on Martin’s critique of both Greenblatt and Burkhardt).

2. What is “interpellation”? (Pg. 144 of Theory Toolbox)

*Culture:

1. Why do we study “media” and the different types?
2. Why do we study culture?
3. What are 2 definitions of culture?
4. What is multiculturalism?
5. Significance of “pop culture” and “subjectivity”?
6. Problems with the hierarchical categorization of “high” culture vs. “low” culture?
7. Meaning of “Thick Description”, as described by Geertz?
8. Know the meaning of the “Web of Rules” vs. the “Web of Means”.
9. What are the differences between “binary” and “ternary” understandings of language? When did “binary” understanding begin? (Read from Foucault).