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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, why is it an illusion to think that he can be present to us in what he says and writes?

2. When did Sigmund Freud develop psychoanalysis?

3. What commonality does structuralism and phenomenology share, according to Eagleton?

4. According to Eagleton, literary theorists "are not so much ______of doctrine as ________of a discourse."

5. According to Jacques Lacan, what stage does a child first develop an ego?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the philosopher Jacques Derrida conceive of language?

2. During the 1960s and 1970s why did feminist scholars reject Marxist thought on the left?

3. For Roland Barthes, what does literature embody and why is it significant?

4. What is Eagleton's main critique of the some forms of post-structuralism and why is it significant?

5. What does Julia Kristeva define as "semiotic" and why is it significant?

6. According to Eagleton, why should the notion of literary theory be abolished?

7. What is Sigmund Freud's Oedipus complex and why is it significant?

8. How does Julia Kristeva view language and why is it significant?

9. Why does Eagleton reject the idea of a disconnected individual in society?

10. How did Mikhail Bakhtin view language?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the arguments for and against literary theory.

1) According to Eagleton, why have people opposed literary theory?

2) What is Eagleton's position regarding literary theory?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Explain Eagleton's ideas on structuralism.

1) Choose two positive aspects of structuralism.

2) Choose two negative aspects of structuralism.

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