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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. What are Northrop Frye's three recurrent patterns of symbolism in literature?
2. What is the root of the present crisis in literary studies, according to Eagleton?
3. According to Eagleton, why is Sigmund Freud's discussion of women problematic?
4. How did post-structuralism respond to France's student movement's failed attempt to break state power?
5. According to Eagleton, "any method or theory which will contribute to the strategic goal of human emancipation" is what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Julia Kristeva view language and why is it significant?
2. What is significant about the ways in which Sigmund Freud treated women and men?
3. According to Eagleton, why should the notion of literary theory be abolished?
4. What was the significance of the Prague structuralists?
5. What was a "healthy" sign according to Roland Barthes and why is it significant?
6. Beyond helping the status of women, what is the women's movement's goal and why is it significant?
7. How did Northrop Frye attempt to combine the formalist focus on the text with the essence of new American criticism?
8. What is multiple pluralism and why does Eagleton object to it?
9. How does the philosopher Jacques Derrida conceive of language?
10. What is structuralism's lasting impact on literary theory and what is Eagleton's critique of their methodology?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the relationship between individualism and authoritarian capitalism? Why does Eagleton argue that literary theory's attempt to validate the individual as disconnected from society a myth?
Essay Topic 2
What is the relationship between politics and literature, according to Eagleton? How does the production of literature inculcate and disseminate ideological values?
Essay Topic 3
What was the relationship between the 1968 student movement in Paris and post-structuralism? What were their similarities and differences?
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