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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, what becomes the "panacea for all problems" as part of the romantics' aesthetic theory at the turn of the eighteenth century?
(a) The text.
(b) The image.
(c) The word.
(d) The symbol.

2. Eagleton argues that if literature includes much factual writing, it also excludes "quite a lot of" what?
(a) Biography.
(b) Autobiography.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Nonfiction.

3. What example from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries does Eagleton provide that was not considered purely factual?
(a) News.
(b) Decrees.
(c) Sermons.
(d) Novels.

4. According to Eagleton, formalism is the application of what to the study of literature?
(a) Economics.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) Psychology.

5. According to Eagleton, the subject in phenomenology was the source of all what?
(a) Violence.
(b) Meaning.
(c) Life.
(d) Oppression.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"

2. According to Viktor Shklovsky, what novel was "the most typical novel in world literature" because it impeded its own story-line so that it never gets off the ground?

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

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

5. According to Eagleton, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" has managed to reach readers beyond __________.

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