Literary Theory: An Introduction Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

In American deconstruction, why does literary criticism become an "ironic, uneasy business"? (from Chapter 4, Post-Structuralism)

Because it lays bare the illusoriness of meaning.

Because it lays bare the permanence of meaning.

Because it lays bare the physicality of meaning.

Because it lays bare the temporality of meaning.

2.

Eagleton argues that for Stanley Fish, what a text "does" to us is a matter of what we do to what? (from Chapter 2, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory)

To the author.

To the critic.

To the reader.

To the text.

3.

Who said "there is no cultural document that is not at the same time a record of barbarism"? (from Conclusion, Political Criticism)

Michel Foucault.

Julia Kristeva.

Walter Benjamin.

Karl Marx.

4.

For Eagleton, what are the two ways in which literary theory can have a distinct purpose and identity? (from Conclusion, Political Criticism)

It can define itself in terms of other methods of inquiry and the manner of enquiry.

It can define itself in terms of methods of inquiry or the object being enquired into.

It can define itself in terms of eradicating inquiry or the object being enquire into.

It can define itself in terms of methods of inquiry and the manner of enquiry.

5.

In structuralism, the relationship between the sign and what it refers to is what? (from Chapter 3, Structuralism and Semiotics)

Identical.

Arbitrary.

Opposite.

Necessary.

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