Literary Theory: An Introduction Quiz

Terry Eagleton

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

According to Eagleton, structuralism has proved that there is nothing _____ about codes. (from Chapter 3, Structuralism and Semiotics)

Guilty.

Evaluative.

Innocent.

Progressive.

2.

Why do feminists embrace the work of Jacques Lacan, despite the fact that he was contemptuous of the women's movement? (from Chapter 5, Psychoanalysis)

Because Lacan embraced Freudianism.

Because Lacan taught Freudianism.

Because Lacan rewrote Freudianism.

Because Lacan rejected Freudianism.

3.

What literary movement, according to Eagleton, "brought structuralist and post-structuralist criticism to birth in the first place"? (from Chapter 4, Post-Structuralism)

Romanticism.

Modernism.

Surrealism.

Post-modernism.

4.

Eagleton argues that for Stanley Fish, what a text "does" to us is a matter of what we do to what? (from Chapter 2, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory)

To the reader.

To the critic.

To the text.

To the author.

5.

In structuralism, the relationship between the sign and what it refers to is what? (from Chapter 3, Structuralism and Semiotics)

Necessary.

Arbitrary.

Opposite.

Identical.

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