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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stylistics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.
(a) Horizon of expectation.
(b) Diegesis.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Human nature.

2. From which of Babara Johnson's literary pieces can the following definition of deconstructive reading be found according to author Peter Barry: "Deconstruction is not synonymous with 'destruction.' It is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word 'analysis,' which etymologically means 'to undo'"?
(a) The Critical Difference.
(b) Trustee from the Toolroom.
(c) Of Grammatology.
(d) The Age of Innocence.

3. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.
(a) Symbolic.
(b) Natural.
(c) Imaginary.
(d) Semiotic.

4. The narrator explains in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" that distrust of Freud has grown in recent years, partly as a result of his mainly negative views on ________.
(a) Women.
(b) Men.
(c) Americans.
(d) Children.

5. Whom does author Peter Barry say was a French psychoanalyst whose work had an extraordinary influence upon many aspects of recent literary theory and who began his career by taking a medical degree and then training in psychiatry in the 1920s?
(a) Euripides.
(b) John Maynard Keynes.
(c) Jacques Lacan.
(d) Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who argued in 1905 that literature must become an instrument of the party and that "literature must become Party literature"?

2. 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."

3. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?

4. 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.

5. During the 1980s, linguists consulted and incorporated non-linguistic material in which came to be called the ________, which had a limited degree of eclecticism and was less likely to claim that it alone studied literature in an objective way.

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