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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. Both F.R. Leavis and Edmund Husserl seek to grasp the thing in itself, or the ______for Husserl and ______for Leavis.

2. What is the name Edmund Husserl gave to his philosophical method?

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

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

5. For Eagleton, E.D. Hirsch attempts to "offer a form of knowledge" that is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Eagleton call the emergence and development of literary theory a "theoretical revolution" and what does it signify?

2. How does Eagleton define elitism in literary studies and why is it important?

3. What is phenomenology and when did it emerge as a serious discipline?

4. What is Eagleton's argument regarding the literary canon as the "unquestioned" great tradition of national literature?

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

6. What was the romantics relationship to the symbol and why is it significant?

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

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

9. How did the romantic movement develop and why is it significant?

10. What is Eagleton's major problem with formalism and why is it significant?

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

Explain Eagleton's ideas on structuralism.

1) Choose two positive aspects of structuralism.

2) Choose two negative aspects of structuralism.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Sigmund Freud's Oedipus complex.

1) Identify and analyze the three stages of human development-- the oral, anal, and phallic stage.

2) Compare and contrast Freud's views on males and females.

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