Literary Theory: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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Literary Theory: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many decades, according to Eagleton, has there been a "striking proliferation of literary theory" since the publication of the Russian formalist's pioneering essay?
(a) One.
(b) Five.
(c) Six.
(d) Two.

2. According to Eagleton, "in the terminology of reception theory, the reader _________ the literary work, which is in itself no more than a chain of organized black marks on a page."
(a) Rationalizes.
(b) Concretizes.
(c) Terrorizes.
(d) Sanitizes.

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

4. What novel by John Updike does Eagleton discuss from the position of reception theory?
(a) Rabbit Run.
(b) Of the Farm.
(c) Terrorist.
(d) Couples.

5. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."
(a) Art; theory; practise.
(b) Film; viewing; education.
(c) Literature; reading; criticism.
(d) Power; authority; freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the economist Eagleton discusses in his preface?

2. What genre of writing does Eagleton provide that is an example of writing that is NOT considered to be literature?

3. Why is the example Eagleton gives of the sign in the London Underground system that "dogs must be carried on the escalator" a case of estrangement?

4. What is the name of the American hermeneuticist E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s famous 1967 book?

5. Eagleton argues that the criteria for what counted as literature in the eighteenth-century was what?

(see the answer key)

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