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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Eagleton, William Empson "insists on treating poetry as a species of ______language."
(a) Secular.
(b) Religious.
(c) Spectacular.
(d) Ordinary.

2. According to Eagleton, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"
(a) Excluding; oppression.
(b) Dismissing; idea.
(c) Studying; truth.
(d) Emancipating; stranglehold.

3. How far has the "theoretical revolution" spread according to Eagleton?
(a) Far beyond the circle of specialists and enthusiasts.
(b) Within the inner circle of critics and readers.
(c) To the outer circle of critics and readers.
(d) Not beyond the circle of specialists and enthusiasts.

4. What is the name of the American hermeneuticist E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s famous 1967 book?
(a) "Truth and Fact."
(b) "Being and Time."
(c) "Meaning or Method."
(d) "Validity in Interpretation."

5. During the last decades of the eighteenth-century, the word prosaic begins to acquire what a kind of connotation?
(a) A familiar connotation.
(b) A negative connotation.
(c) A positive connotation.
(d) A unfamiliar connotation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the German word for how reality is not objective, but experienced and organized by an individual subject?

2. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."

3. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."

4. Who was Husserl's most famous pupil who broke with his system of thought?

5. According to Eagleton, in the romantic aesthetic theory the meaning of the word literature became what?

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