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

2. 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-historic.
(b) Because meaning is viewed as pre-arranged.
(c) Because meaning is viewed as pre-modern.
(d) Because meaning is viewed as pre-linguistic.

3. According to Eagleton, Stanley Fish's model excludes the possibility that there is a ______ of interpretations?
(a) Acceptance.
(b) Struggle.
(c) Rejection.
(d) Dominance.

4. According to Eagleton, why is Hans-Georg Gadamer not concerned about bringing our cultural preconceptions to a literary work?
(a) Because like the literary work, they come from tradition.
(b) Because unlike the literary work, they come from modernity.
(c) Because like the literary work, they come from modernity.
(d) Because unlike the literary work, the come from tradition.

5. What novel by John Updike does Eagleton discuss from the position of reception theory?
(a) Couples.
(b) Of the Farm.
(c) Terrorist.
(d) Rabbit Run.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who developed hermeneutics?

2. According to Eagleton, what kind of thought does literary education NOT encourage?

3. How did the Romantic artist reflect her or his work in its detachment from history itself?

4. Who was glad to abandon the "feminine vagaries of literature" in favor of penning war propaganda?

5. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?

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