Literary Theory: An Introduction Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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Literary Theory: An Introduction Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Psychoanalysis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The English philosopher J. L. Austin saw language as what?
(a) Pejorative.
(b) Penultimate.
(c) Performative.
(d) Progressive.

2. What example from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries does Eagleton provide that was not considered purely factual?
(a) Decrees.
(b) News.
(c) Sermons.
(d) Novels.

3. What is the name Edmund Husserl gave to his philosophical method?
(a) Hermeneutics.
(b) New criticism.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Reception theory.

4. From a structuralist perspective, why could literature could no longer claim to be a unique discourse?
(a) Because structures could be found in all texts.
(b) Because structures considered literature a base form of discourse.
(c) Because structures could not be found in literature.
(d) Because structures placed a hierarchy on texts other than literature.

5. According to Jacques Lacan, what is the "symbolic order"?
(a) It is the emergence of an imaginary conflict with the parental figures.
(b) It is the pre-given structure of social and sexual desires that make up a self.
(c) It is the reconciliation of an imaginary conflict with the parental figures.
(d) It is the pre-given structure of social and sexual roles that make up the family and society.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the last decades of the eighteenth-century, the word prosaic begins to acquire what a kind of connotation?

2. Who is the founder of modern structural linguistics?

3. According to Eagleton, what kind of thought does literary education NOT encourage?

4. What are Northrop Frye's four narrative categories at the root of all literature?

5. According to Eagleton, what "staggering fact" could not be put right by a theoretical technique?

(see the answer key)

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