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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stylistics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.
(a) Eddison.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Barthes.

2. The chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism" explains that the practice of giving ________ to literary and non-literary material is the first and major difference between the "new" and the "old" historicism.
(a) Deep structure.
(b) Equal weighting.
(c) Emotive language.
(d) Catharsis.

3. The chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" states that ________ is the notion that sexuality begins not at puberty, with physical maturing, but in infancy, especially through the infant's relationship with the mother.
(a) Infantile sexuality.
(b) Pansexuality.
(c) Omnisexuality.
(d) Polysexuality.

4. What is the name given to the movement that dominates the arts and culture of the first half of the twentieth century?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Structuralism.
(c) Historicism.
(d) Modernism.

5. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," who did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play to?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) God.
(d) Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. The gist of "Style in Language," edited by ________, is to claim that linguistics offers a more objective way of studying literature, and the book tends to set up "a confrontation of camps" between literary and language studies.

2. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?

3. The chapter "Postmodernism" details that Ezra Pound calls his major work, "The Cantos" a ________.

4. The British critic ________ described cultural materialism as "a politicized form of historiography."

5. What was the name of the American journal that was considered the "house magazine" of the new historicism?

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