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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. For the economist Eagleton discusses, "those economists who dislike theory or claimed to get along better without it" were what?

2. What is the name of the critic from the Constance school of reception aesthetics and the author of "The Act of Reading" who Eagleton discusses at length?

3. What is the German word for how reality is not objective, but experienced and organized by an individual subject?

4. For E.D. Hirsch, the aim of "policing" an author's meaning is to what, according to Eagleton?

5. According to Eagleton, what idea is "truly elitist" in literary studies?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Martin Heidegger's philosophy similar to that of the Russian formalists?

2. How has the population in higher education changed in Britain since the 1960s and what it its significance?

3. What kind of thought does a literary education not encourage, according to Eagleton, and what does this signify?

4. What is the reach of the "theoretical revolution" and why is it significant?

5. How does phenomenological criticism view literature and what is Eagleton's response?

6. What were the Russian formalists responding to in terms of literary criticism?

7. How does Eagleton respond to critics who claim that literary theory as irrelevant or elitist and what are its implications?

8. During the eighteenth century, how was art perceived in England and why is it significant?

9. How did new criticism emerge in England and America?

10. What is the significance of Viktor Shklovsky's 1917 essay "Art as Device," according to Eagleton?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Eagleton's argument for a movement that would reform the academy and society at large by identifying and analyzing the 4 major goals of this political movement.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss modernism as a literary movement.

1) Identify two modernist writers and four characteristics of modernist literature.

2) Discuss the emergence of modernism and the literary theories that developed from this movement.

Essay Topic 3

What is the relationship between politics and literature, according to Eagleton? How does the production of literature inculcate and disseminate ideological values?

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