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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. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."
2. Eagleton's goal in "Literary Theory: An Introduction" is to provide a comprehensive account of literary theory for whom?
3. What is "imaginative" literature or literature that is not necessarily true?
4. What is the name of the economist Eagleton discusses in his preface?
5. According to Eagleton, in the romantic aesthetic theory the meaning of the word literature became what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Eagleton's argument regarding the literary canon as the "unquestioned" great tradition of national literature?
2. 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?
3. How does Eagleton respond to critics who claim that literary theory as irrelevant or elitist and what are its implications?
4. How does Eagleton define elitism in literary studies and why is it important?
5. How did the Russian formalists answer the question "what is literature?" and why was it significant?
6. How is Martin Heidegger's philosophy similar to that of the Russian formalists?
7. What is hermeneutics and how is it significant?
8. Why is literature an unstable term, according to Eagleton?
9. What is the significance of Viktor Shklovsky's 1917 essay "Art as Device," according to Eagleton?
10. Why does Eagleton argue that the demarcation between fiction and fact in writing is "questionable"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Roland Barthes work on signs. In particular, how did he categorize signs in terms of their function?
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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