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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. Eagleton argues that reading literature in a new critical way was a recipe for what?
(a) Political ambition.
(b) Political progress.
(c) Political inertia.
(d) Political consciousness.
2. What is the name of the Russian formalist who published the pioneering essay that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(b) Alexander Pushkin.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Viktor Shklovsky.
3. According to Eagleton, when did the Russian formalists emerge?
(a) Before the Bolshevik Revolution.
(b) After WWI.
(c) Before WWII.
(d) During the Russian Revolution.
4. According to Eagleton, why did the Russian formalists NOT see a literary work as a vehicle for ideas, reflection of reality, or transcendental truth?
(a) Because they saw language as potentially empowering the masses.
(b) Because they saw language as obtuse, vague, and ephemeral.
(c) Because they saw language as a mode of speech for the wealthy.
(d) Because they saw language as words and not objects or feelings.
5. The Russian formalists rejected what kind of doctrines that had influenced literary criticism?
(a) Quasi-mystical psychoanalytic doctrines.
(b) Quasi-mystical religious doctrines.
(c) Quasi-mystical symbolist doctrines.
(d) Quasi-mystical fictional doctrines.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Eagleton, what kind of age do we live in, where "meaning, like everything else, is expected to be instantly consumable"?
2. According to Eagleton, in the romantic aesthetic theory the meaning of the word literature became what?
3. What is the name of the economist Eagleton discusses in his preface?
4. Who is the key figure in the Victorian period Eagleton cites as "preternaturally aware of the needs of his social class"?
5. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."
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