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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, what is the "point" of literary theory?
2. 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?
3. Eagleton writes that his book is less an introduction to literary theory than a what?
4. For Jacques Lacan, "meaning is always in some sense an _______."
5. What is the "impotence" of liberal humanism a symptom of, according to Eagleton?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the three stages of development in psychoanalysis and how do they relate to literary theory?
2. What is Sigmund Freud's Oedipus complex and why is it significant?
3. According to Sigmund Freud, what are the two conflicting principles that all people are motivated by and why is it significant?
4. How did Mikhail Bakhtin view language?
5. Who is Ferdinand de Saussure and what was his contribution to the field of literary theory?
6. What was a "healthy" sign according to Roland Barthes and why is it significant?
7. What are the four areas Eagleton discusses rhetoric should target that would bring about transformation in society?
8. How does the philosopher Jacques Derrida conceive of language?
9. Why does Eagleton claim that Northrop Frye's work emphasized the "utopian root'" of all literature and what is his response?
10. What is multiple pluralism and why does Eagleton object to it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the ways in which the concept of literature has changed from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century.
1) What was considered literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
2) How do the romantic movement transform the definition of literature?
3) What was the function of literature during the Victorian era?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Discuss Jacques Lacan's work on language as it relates to psychoanalytic theory. How does Lacan's work differ from Freud's?
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