Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Quiz

Peter Barry
This Study Guide consists of approximately 32 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Beginning Theory.

Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Quiz

Peter Barry
This Study Guide consists of approximately 32 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Beginning Theory.

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________. (from Postmodernism)

2.

The chapter titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" discusses the use by the unconscious of these linguistic means of self-expression is part of ________'s evidence for the claim that the unconscious is structured like a language. (from Psychoanalytic criticism)

3.

________ read major works from an ecocritic point of view and extend the application of concepts to areas other than the natural world. (from Ecocriticism)

4.

A book in which author Peter Barry claimed to properly inaugurate post-colonial criticism was Edward Said's ________, which was a specific expose of the Eurocentric universalism which took for granted both the superiority of that which was European or Western. (from Postcolonial criticism)

5.

Which of the following terms best fit the following definition: "a form of literary criticism which uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature"? (from Psychoanalytic criticism)

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