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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Psychoanalysis.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."
(a) Film; viewing; education.
(b) Literature; reading; criticism.
(c) Power; authority; freedom.
(d) Art; theory; practise.
2. According to Eagleton, the literary work in Romantic society is seen as a ________ that is in contrast to the "fragmented individualism" of capitalist society?
(a) Imperious mechanical unity.
(b) Mysterious inorganic unity.
(c) Mysterious organic unity.
(d) Imperious inorganic unity.
3. The English philosopher J. L. Austin saw language as what?
(a) Penultimate.
(b) Performative.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Pejorative.
4. What three sequential stages does Eagleton point out in the development of modern literary theory?
(a) The preoccupation with the critic, the exclusive concern with the author, and a shift toward the text.
(b) The preoccupation with the reader, the exclusive concern with the text, and a shift toward the critic.
(c) The preoccupation with the author, the exclusive concern with the text, and a shift toward the reader.
(d) The preoccupation with the text, the exclusive concern with the reader, and a shift toward the author.
5. According to Eagleton, "properly understood, literary theory is shaped by a ______impulse rather than an _______one."
(a) Democratic; elitist.
(b) Popular; unpopular.
(c) Different; indifferent.
(d) Cultivated; uncultivated.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Jacques Lacan, what stage does a child first develop an ego?
2. What period did our own definition of literature begin to emerge, according to Eagleton?
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. According to Eagleton, who "harnessed this Romantic humanism to the cause of the working class" in the late nineteenth-century?
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