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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 provides the analogy of finding a "scrap of writing from a long-vanished civilization" to make what point about deciphering its meaning?
(a) That we would be able to see that poetry didn't exist by looking at its language.
(b) That we would be able to learn that it was a piece of poetry by looking at the language.
(c) That we would not know whether it was a piece of poetry or ordinary language.
(d) That we would be able to tell that it was a piece of poetry regardless of access to its language.
2. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."
(a) Pendantic.
(b) Profound.
(c) Pragmatic.
(d) Peculiar.
3. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."
(a) Violence; people.
(b) Violence; speech.
(c) Religion; writing.
(d) Protest; speech.
4. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?
(a) The text.
(b) The fiction.
(c) The critic.
(d) The facts.
5. According to Eagleton, when did the Russian formalists emerge?
(a) After WWI.
(b) Before the Bolshevik Revolution.
(c) Before WWII.
(d) During the Russian Revolution.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Eagleton, "if one were asked to provide a single explanation for the growth of English in the later nineteenth century" what would it be?
2. Who wrote "What is Literature" on literary reception and was published in 1948?
3. Eagleton argues that the criteria for what counted as literature in the eighteenth-century was what?
4. What year did Terry Eagleton's "Literary Theory: An Introduction" first appear?
5. According to Eagleton, who "harnessed this Romantic humanism to the cause of the working class" in the late nineteenth-century?
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