the closet - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

The introduction to a book of literary criticism with this metaphorical place in its title defines the “minoritizing” and “universalizing” views. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this metaphorical place. The lack of desire that the character John Marcher feels for May Bartram is discussed in an essay with this metaphorical place in its title, which puns on the title of a 1903 story.

ANSWER: the closet [accept Epistemology of the Closet; accept but DO NOT REVEAL, “The Beast in the Closet”]

[10m] In that essay, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick discusses “male homosexual panic” in this story by Henry James in which John Marcher believes that the title hypothetical monster will ruin his life.

ANSWER: “The Beast in the Jungle”

[10e] In Epistemology of the Closet, Sedgwick discusses the prevalence of “men’s desire for men” in Billy Budd, a novella by this author of Moby-Dick.

ANSWER: Herman Melville

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	10	11.00	100%	10%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	8	11.25	100%	13%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT	01/27/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


UNC C (UG)	GWU B (Grad)	0	0	10	10
UNC A (Grad)	JMU A (UG)	0	0	10	10
Liberty A (Grad)	JMU B (UG)	0	0	10	10
Liberty C (DII)	GWU A (UG)	0	0	10	10
South Carolina	Alabama	0	0	10	10
MTSU	Georgia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Maryland A (Grad)	Duke A (UG)	0	10	10	20
Maryland B (UG)	Liberty B (DII)	0	0	10	10
Maryland C (DII)	UNC D (DII)	0	0	10	10
Virginia B (UG)	UNC B (UG)	0	0	10	10
Virginia C (UG)	Roanoke College A (DII)	0	0	10	10
Virginia A (UG)	William & Mary A (UG)	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Minnesota C	0	0	10	10
Minnesota B	Arizona State	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Cedarville	0	0	10	10
Harding	Tennessee	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Kentucky	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt A	Vanderbilt B	0	10	10	20
Boston University	Dartmouth B	0	0	10	10
Brandeis B	Brown A	0	0	10	10
Yale B	Harvard A	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
Berkeley B	Stanford C	0	0	10	10
Stanford B	Stanford A	0	0	10	10
Cornell B	Cornell A	0	0	10	10
RIT A	Cornell C	0	0	10	10
Binghamton	RIT B	0	0	10	10
Kenyon	Ohio State A	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Columbia C	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
John Jay	Haverford	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Johns Hopkins	0	10	10	20
Penn	Rowan	0	10	10	20
Vassar	Columbia A	0	0	10	10
Bristol	Durham A	0	0	10	10
Durham B	Cambridge A	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh	Kiel	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Oxford B	KCL	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Sheffield	0	0	10	10
Oxford C	Warwick	0	0	10	10