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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Eagleton, opposition between "historical" and "artistic" truth does NOT apply to what?
(a) Late Victorian novels.
(b) Fairy-tales.
(c) Early Icelandic sagas.
(d) Middle English.

2. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."
(a) Peculiar.
(b) Pendantic.
(c) Pragmatic.
(d) Profound.

3. According to Eagleton, why is it an illusion to think that he can be present to us in what he says and writes?
(a) Because the language he uses is not a tool but something he is made of and therefore always divided.
(b) Because he is a concrete entity but language is not.
(c) Because he is no longer present in the world but in some other present in the future.
(d) Because language is only a tool, not something he is made of.

4. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."
(a) "A disproportion between two signifieds."
(b) "A disproportion between one signifier for every other signified."
(c) "A disproportion between signifiers and signifieds."
(d) "A disproportion between two signifiers."

5. According to Eagleton, when did the Russian formalists emerge?
(a) Before the Bolshevik Revolution.
(b) During the Russian Revolution.
(c) After WWI.
(d) Before WWII.

Short Answer Questions

1. Both F.R. Leavis and Edmund Husserl seek to grasp the thing in itself, or the ______for Husserl and ______for Leavis.

2. Who developed hermeneutics?

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

4. For Jacques Lacan, "meaning is always in some sense an _______."

5. Who wrote "What is Literature" on literary reception and was published in 1948?

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