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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Eagleton's goal in "Literary Theory: An Introduction" is to provide a comprehensive account of literary theory for whom?
2. Who developed hermeneutics?
3. According to Eagleton, Stanley Fish's model excludes the possibility that there is a ______ of interpretations?
4. Eagleton writes that "New Criticism was the ideology of an ________, _______intelligentsia who reinvented in literature what they could not locate in reality."
5. According to Eagleton, what happens when literary theory becomes "turgidly unreadable"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were the Russian formalists responding to in terms of literary criticism?
2. What period of literature did the critic Roland Barthes focus on and why is it significant?
3. How did new criticism emerge in England and America?
4. What is Eagleton's major problem with formalism and why is it significant?
5. In the nineteenth century, what was the outcome of religion as a result of the industrial revolution where new technologies and science were being developed?
6. What was the romantics relationship to the symbol and why is it significant?
7. How did the romantic movement develop and why is it significant?
8. What is hermeneutics and how is it significant?
9. How has the population in higher education changed in Britain since the 1960s and what it its significance?
10. What is Eagleton's goal in writing "Literary Theory: An Introduction"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Define, discuss, and analyze the emergence and development of romantic aesthetic theory.
1) What were the romantic writers responding to in terms of the society in which they lived and worked?
2) What was the role of the romantic artist in society?
3) According to the romantics, why was the symbol so central to the meaning of a text?
4) What are some of the lasting effects of romantic theory?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Roland Barthes work on signs. In particular, how did he categorize signs in terms of their function?
Essay Topic 3
What was the relationship between the 1968 student movement in Paris and post-structuralism? What were their similarities and differences?
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