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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 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 sometimes a body of literary theory that springs from and is applicable to literature alone.
(c) That there is one 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.
2. According to Eagleton, what kind of thought does literary education NOT encourage?
(a) Creative thought.
(b) Analytical thought.
(c) Irrational thought.
(d) Rational thought.
3. According to Eagleton, what kind of age do we live in, where "meaning, like everything else, is expected to be instantly consumable"?
(a) Modern.
(b) Traditional.
(c) Esoteric.
(d) Postmodern.
4. Who is the key figure in the Victorian period Eagleton cites as "preternaturally aware of the needs of his social class"?
(a) George Gordon.
(b) William Morris.
(c) Percy Shelley.
(d) Matthew Arnold.
5. 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 word.
(b) The text.
(c) The symbol.
(d) The image.
Short Answer Questions
1. For Eagleton, Gadamer's theory only holds if one makes what "enormous assumption"?
2. What date does Eagleton settle on as the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
3. The distinction between fact and fiction in defining literature is what?
4. What three sequential stages does Eagleton point out in the development of modern literary theory?
5. According to Eagleton, the literary work in Romantic society is seen as a ________ that is in contrast to the "fragmented individualism" of capitalist society?
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