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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, who would an ideal reader be for a structuralist?
2. What year did France's student movement strike against the authoritarianism of the educational institutions and in solidarity with the working-class?
3. According to Eagleton, the women's movement is not just about women having equal status and power as men, it is what?
4. Eagleton writes that his book is less an introduction to literary theory than a what?
5. What does Jacques Derrida label any thought system which depends on an unassailable foundation?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Eagleton's main critique of the some forms of post-structuralism and why is it significant?
2. For Roland Barthes, what does literature embody and why is it significant?
3. How does the philosopher Jacques Derrida conceive of language?
4. What was the significance of the Prague structuralists?
5. What is structuralism's lasting impact on literary theory and what is Eagleton's critique of their methodology?
6. What was a "healthy" sign according to Roland Barthes and why is it significant?
7. How did Mikhail Bakhtin view language?
8. What are the four areas Eagleton discusses rhetoric should target that would bring about transformation in society?
9. Why does Eagleton claim that Northrop Frye's work emphasized the "utopian root'" of all literature and what is his response?
10. How did post-structuralism develop and why is it significant?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast structuralism with phenomenology.
1) What are the basic tenets of each school of thought?
2) What are the similarities between them?
2) What are their differences?
Essay Topic 2
Choose two Russian formalists and discuss their work.
1) How did they define literature?
2) What aspects of literary production did they focus on?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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