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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Post-Structuralism.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the example Eagleton provides of a metalanguage, where one sign-system denotes another sign-system?
(a) The relation between literary criticism and religion.
(b) The relation between philosophy and literature.
(c) The relation between literary criticism and literature.
(d) The relation between philosophy and religion.
2. For Eagleton, hostility toward theory means what?
(a) Opposition to other people's theories.
(b) Acceptance to some people's theories and protective of one's own.
(c) Opposition to other people's theories and oblivion of one's own.
(d) Acceptance to some people's theories.
3. According to Eagleton, the Western philosophical tradition has "consistently vilified" what?
(a) Speech.
(b) Man.
(c) Writing.
(d) Myth.
4. According to Roland Barthes, what kind of sign draws attention to its own arbitrariness?
(a) A healthy sign.
(b) An unproductive sign.
(c) An unhealthy sign.
(d) A productive sign.
5. From a structuralist perspective, why could literature could no longer claim to be a unique discourse?
(a) Because structures considered literature a base form of discourse.
(b) Because structures could be found in all texts.
(c) Because structures placed a hierarchy on texts other than literature.
(d) Because structures could not be found in literature.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Eagleton, the subject in phenomenology was the source of all what?
2. What "twin impacts" does Eagleton cite in the mid-Victorian period that was particularly worrisome to the ruling class?
3. For Eagleton, opposition between "historical" and "artistic" truth does NOT apply to what?
4. Who wrote "What is Literature" on literary reception and was published in 1948?
5. For Roland Barthes, what kind of literature attempts to conceal the constructed nature of language?
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