Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

Peter Barry
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Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

Peter Barry
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ecocriticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Peter Barry, the aim of Marxism was to bring about a ________ society, based on the common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.
(a) Thoughtless.
(b) Homeless.
(c) Lawless.
(d) Classless.

2. In the phrase "the archival continuum," an important difference between old and new historicisms is encapsulated in the word ________, for that word indicates that new historicism is indeed a historicist rather than a historical movement.
(a) New.
(b) Continuum.
(c) Archival.
(d) Historic.

3. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
(a) Adolf Loos.
(b) Le Corbusier.
(c) Kurt Switters.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

4. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled Structuralism, the novel "Middlemarch" is an example of a literary ________.
(a) Pardigm.
(b) Paradigmatic.
(c) Parole.
(d) Icon.

5. The chapter titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" discusses the use by the unconscious of these linguistic means of self-expression is part of ________'s evidence for the claim that the unconscious is structured like a language.
(a) Lacan.
(b) Murray.
(c) Washington.
(d) Barry.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.

2. The notion of the ________, posited by Levi-Strauss, denoting the minimal units of narrative "sense," is formed on the analogy of the morpheme, which, in linguistics, is the ________ unit of grammatical sense.

3. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?

4. Who wrote the 1986 book "Linguistic Criticism," which characterized linguistic criticism as "objective description of texts"?

5. Peter Barry explains that post-colonial criticism emerges as a distinct category only in the ________.

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