Literary Theory: An Introduction Quiz

Terry Eagleton

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Preface

Introduction: What is Literature?

Chapter 1, Rise of the English

Chapter 2, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory

Chapter 3, Structuralism and Semiotics

Chapter 4, Post-Structuralism

Chapter 5, Psychoanalysis

Conclusion, Political Criticism

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Literary Theory: An Introduction Quiz

Literary Theory: An Introduction Quiz

Eagleton writes that "New Criticism was the ideology of an __, _intelligentsia who reinvented in literature what they could not locate in reality." (from Chapter 1, Rise of the English)

What is the name of the American hermeneuticist E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s famous 1967 book? (from Chapter 2, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory)

The German philosopher Edmund Husserl argued that objects can be regarded as things ______ by consciousness. (from Chapter 2, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory)

According to Eagleton, "the tactic of _________criticism ... is to show how texts come to embarrass their own ruling systems of logic." (from Chapter 4, Post-Structuralism)

Eagleton argues that reading literature in a new critical way was a recipe for what? (from Chapter 1, Rise of the English)

Literary Theory: An Introduction Quiz

Literary Theory: An Introduction Quiz

Eagleton writes that "New Criticism was the ideology of an ________, _______intelligentsia who reinvented in literature what they could not locate in reality." (from Chapter 1, Rise of the English)

What is the name of the American hermeneuticist E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s famous 1967 book? (from Chapter 2, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory)

The German philosopher Edmund Husserl argued that objects can be regarded as things ______ by consciousness. (from Chapter 2, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory)

According to Eagleton, "the tactic of _________criticism ... is to show how texts come to embarrass their own ruling systems of logic." (from Chapter 4, Post-Structuralism)

Eagleton argues that reading literature in a new critical way was a recipe for what? (from Chapter 1, Rise of the English)

Eagleton writes that "New Criticism was the ideology of an __, _intelligentsia who reinvented in literature what they could not locate in reality." (from Chapter 1, Rise of the English)