View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through New historicism and cultural materialism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The chapter titled "Postmodernism" states the term "postmodernism" was used in the 1930s, but its current sense and vogue can be said to have begun with ________'s "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge."
(a) Mies van der Rohe.
(b) Jean Baudrillard.
(c) L.S. Lowry.
(d) Jean-Francois Lyotard.

2. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?
(a) Zoology.
(b) Physics.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Pyschology.

3. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."
(a) Queen Mab.
(b) A Defence of Poetry.
(c) The Necessity of Atheism.
(d) Cenci.

4. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Textual.
(b) Verbal.
(c) Linguistic.
(d) Visual.

5. In the chapter titled Structuralism, Saussure used the terms ________ and ________ to signify language as a system or structure on the one hand, and any given utterance in that language on the other.
(a) Humanism / icon.
(b) Logocentrism / margin.
(c) Langue / parole.
(d) Paradigm / paradigmatic.

Short Answer Questions

1. The chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism states that the conventional reading of the origins of the subject of English is that this kind of thinking begins with who?

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.

3. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.

4. Which of the following essays is an example of new historicism in practice written by Louis Montrose?

5. Who was the major theorist of postmodernism and French writer of the book "Simulations"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 308 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample