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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Structuralism and Semiotics.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to Eagleton, why is E.D. Hirsch able to maintain his view that literary meaning is absolute and resistant to historical change?
(a) Because meaning is viewed as pre-modern.
(b) Because meaning is viewed as pre-linguistic.
(c) Because meaning is viewed as pre-historic.
(d) Because meaning is viewed as pre-arranged.
2. For Eagleton, E.D. Hirsch attempts to "offer a form of knowledge" that is what?
(a) Titular.
(b) Temporary.
(c) Telling.
(d) Timeless.
3. According to Eagleton, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" has managed to reach readers beyond __________.
(a) Academia.
(b) Students.
(c) Literature.
(d) Historians.
4. Literary texts are code-productive, code-transgressive, and code_____.
(a) Confirming.
(b) Orienting.
(c) Saturating.
(d) Affirming.
5. According to Eagleton, what does his book try to demonstrate about a body of literary theory?
(a) That there are several bodies of literary theory that spring from and is applicable to literature alone.
(b) That there is one body of literary theory that springs from and is applicable to literature alone.
(c) That there is sometimes a body of literary theory that springs from and is applicable to literature alone.
(d) That there is no body of literary theory that springs from or is applicable to literature alone.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was glad to abandon the "feminine vagaries of literature" in favor of penning war propaganda?
2. What three sequential stages does Eagleton point out in the development of modern literary theory?
3. Eagleton argues that the criteria for what counted as literature in the eighteenth-century was what?
4. According to Eagleton, why does Northrop Frye emphasize the "utopian root of literature"?
5. According to Eagleton, the sentence "this is awfully squiggly handwriting" from Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" tells him its literary because of what reason?
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