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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Conclusion, Political Criticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eagleton argues that for Stanley Fish, what a text "does" to us is a matter of what we do to what?
(a) To the reader.
(b) To the author.
(c) To the text.
(d) To the critic.

2. For Eagleton, opposition between "historical" and "artistic" truth does NOT apply to what?
(a) Early Icelandic sagas.
(b) Fairy-tales.
(c) Late Victorian novels.
(d) Middle English.

3. The English philosopher J. L. Austin saw language as what?
(a) Penultimate.
(b) Performative.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Pejorative.

4. What is the example Eagleton provides of a metalanguage, where one sign-system denotes another sign-system?
(a) The relation between philosophy and literature.
(b) The relation between literary criticism and religion.
(c) The relation between philosophy and religion.
(d) The relation between literary criticism and literature.

5. Eagleton argues that a literary work in Romantic society becomes what rather than rational and mechanical?
(a) Interesting.
(b) Ideological.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Spontaneous.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, what becomes the "panacea for all problems" as part of the romantics' aesthetic theory at the turn of the eighteenth century?

2. According to Eagleton, who would an ideal reader be for a structuralist?

3. According to Eagleton, the Western philosophical tradition has "consistently vilified" what?

4. Jacques Lacan argues that like _______ desire emerges from a lack, which it strives to fulfill.

5. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."

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