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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. For Eagleton, how did the romantics usher a "forestalling of reasoned critical enquiry"?
(a) Because the image was seen as material reality that you saw immediately.
(b) Because the word was seen as a refleciton of religious truths that you either saw or didn't see.
(c) Because the symbol was regarded as an absolute spiritual truth that you either saw or didn't see.
(d) Because the text was regarded as a reflection of society that you either saw or didn't see.

2. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?
(a) Heinrich Wolffin.
(b) Viktor Shklovsky.
(c) Boris Tomashevsky.
(d) Roman Jakobson.

3. Eagleton writes that "New Criticism was the ideology of an ________, _______intelligentsia who reinvented in literature what they could not locate in reality."
(a) Apathetic, placid.
(b) Uprooted, defensive.
(c) Aggressive, violent.
(d) Educated, grounded.

4. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?
(a) The fiction.
(b) The facts.
(c) The text.
(d) The critic.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name Edmund Husserl gave to his philosophical method?

3. The distinction between fact and fiction in defining literature is what?

4. For E.D. Hirsch, the aim of "policing" an author's meaning is to what, according to Eagleton?

5. During the Romantic period, how is literature more than "idle escapism"?

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