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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. Who developed hermeneutics?
2. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."
3. According to Eagleton, why is E.D. Hirsch able to maintain his view that literary meaning is absolute and resistant to historical change?
4. According to Eagleton, what becomes the "panacea for all problems" as part of the romantics' aesthetic theory at the turn of the eighteenth century?
5. In the eighteenth-century, what was the whole body of writing in society considered, including philosophy, letters, history, poems, and essays?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the critic E.D. Hirsch, Jr. believe about the reader's relationship to a text?
2. What is the reach of the "theoretical revolution" and why is it significant?
3. What were the Russian formalists responding to in terms of literary criticism?
4. What is "Tristram Shandy" 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. How does phenomenological criticism view literature and what is Eagleton's response?
7. What is the significance of Viktor Shklovsky's 1917 essay "Art as Device," according to Eagleton?
8. In the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, what was considered "fact" and what was considered "fiction," and how is it significant?
9. What did new American criticism focus on and why is it significant?
10. How does Eagleton define elitism in literary studies and why is it important?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Define the notion of estrangement and choose two examples from the book as evidence for this concept.
Essay Topic 2
What is the basic problem of literary theory, according to Eagleton? Why does Eagleton that "literature" should not be any more important in terms of a field of study as film or television shows? For Eagleton, why is rhetoric a more comprehensive and constructive discipline and methodology?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Jacques Lacan's work on language as it relates to psychoanalytic theory. How does Lacan's work differ from Freud's?
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