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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, structuralism exposed what "shocking truth"?
2. In psychoanalytic treatment, what happens during transference?
3. According to Eagleton, what "staggering fact" could not be put right by a theoretical technique?
4. Why do feminists embrace the work of Jacques Lacan, despite the fact that he was contemptuous of the women's movement?
5. According to Sigmund Freud, what is the process by which human beings cope with desires they cannot fulfill by directing them towards a more socially valued goal?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to Sigmund Freud, what are the two conflicting principles that all people are motivated by and why is it significant?
2. What does Julia Kristeva define as "semiotic" and why is it significant?
3. Who developed semiotics and what was his contribution to literary theory?
4. For Roland Barthes, what does literature embody and why is it significant?
5. According to Eagleton, why should rhetorical science replace literary theory and what is its objective?
6. How did Northrop Frye attempt to combine the formalist focus on the text with the essence of new American criticism?
7. During the 1960s and 1970s why did feminist scholars reject Marxist thought on the left?
8. What was a "healthy" sign according to Roland Barthes and why is it significant?
9. How did post-structuralism develop and why is it significant?
10. According to Eagleton, why should the notion of literary theory be abolished?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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 Roland Barthes work on signs. In particular, how did he categorize signs in terms of their function?
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