1. According to Eagleton, "In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the word ______seems to have been used about true and fictional events."
(a) Novel.
(b) Memoir.
(c) News.
(d) Theory.

2. For Eagleton, hostility toward theory means what?
(a) Opposition to other people's theories.
(b) Opposition to other people's theories and oblivion of one's own.
(c) Acceptance to some people's theories and protective of one's own.
(d) Acceptance to some people's theories.

3. What word does Eagleton discuss that is both a descriptive term to mean "literally untrue" as well as an evaluative term to mean "visionary" or "inventive"?
(a) Idealistic.
(b) Imaginative.
(c) Unrealistic.
(d) Unimaginative.

4. What commonality does structuralism and phenomenology share, according to Eagleton?
(a) They both immerse themselves in the material world in order to become conscious of it.
(b) They both shut out the material world in order to revert to pre-consciousness.
(c) They both shut out the material world in order to understand our consciousness of it.
(d) They both immerse themselves in the material world in order to understand the subconscious.

5. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."
(a) Religion; writing.
(b) Protest; speech.
(c) Violence; people.
(d) Violence; speech.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, what becomes the "panacea for all problems" as part of the romantics' aesthetic theory at the turn of the eighteenth century?

2. What proposes a "severe problem" for Husserl's theory?

3. Literary texts are code-productive, code-transgressive, and code_____.

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

5. What year did Terry Eagleton's "Literary Theory: An Introduction" first appear?

(see the answer key)

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