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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. Why is structuralism "anti-humanist," for Eagleton?
2. According to Eagleton, what is the disadvantage of claiming literature as more valuable and rewarding than other texts?
3. According to Eagleton, what term is "most-widely touted" in cultural theory?
4. What is the object named literature, according to Eagleton?
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. Why does Eagleton reject the idea of a disconnected individual in society?
2. What is significant about the ways in which Sigmund Freud treated women and men?
3. For Roland Barthes, what does literature embody and why is it significant?
4. What is structuralism's lasting impact on literary theory and what is Eagleton's critique of their methodology?
5. What is structuralism and how what does it share in common with formalism?
6. How does the philosopher Jacques Derrida conceive of language?
7. How did Mikhail Bakhtin view language?
8. What does Julia Kristeva define as "semiotic" and why is it significant?
9. What is Sigmund Freud's Oedipus complex and why is it significant?
10. During the 1960s and 1970s why did feminist scholars reject Marxist thought on the left?
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
What was the relationship between the 1968 student movement in Paris and post-structuralism? What were their similarities and differences?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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