One of the potential disadvantages of this approach to literature is that it can reduce meaning to a certain time frame, rather than making it universal throughout the ages ?

Related Mcqs:

1. This approach provides a universalistic approach to literature and identifies a reason why certain literature may survive the test of time. It works well with works that are highly symbolic.What approach has this advantage ?

   A. Mimetic
   B. Psychological
   C. Historical/Biographical
   D. Mythological/Archetypal

2. They believe that this approach tends to reduce art to the level of biography and make it relative (to the times) rather than universal. What approach possess this disadvantage ?

   A. Moral/Philosophical
   B. Formalism/New Criticism
   C. Historical/Biographical
   D. Psychological

3. What approach is described by the paragraph? This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that “literature” exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader ?

   A. Historical/Biographical Approach
   B. Reader Response Approach
   C. Formalism
   D. Mimetic Approach

4. Detractors argue that such an approach can be too “judgmental.” Some believe literature should be judged primarily (if not solely) on its artistic merits. What approach possess this disadvantage ?

   A. Psychological
   B. Formalism/New Criticism
   C. Moral/Philosophical
   D. Historical/Biographical

5. Why do most critics also refer to the Middle Ages as the Dark Ages ?

   A. it was a period of surging Roman institutions
   B. the production of historical records increased
   C. there are few primary sources that reconstruct the history of the time
   D. the lack of technology made it literally dark

6. Choose the best answer to fill in the blanks. Throughout the Middle Ages, English drama, like that of other European countries, was mainly ______________ and ______________?

   A. Psychological, Sexual
   B. Religious, Didactic
   C. Emotional, Psychological
   D. none of these

7. Between which movements do historians situate literature in the Middle Ages ?

   A. English Reformation and Elizabethan Age
   B. Civil war and the Restoration
   C. Roman departure and the Renaissance
   D. Romanticism and the Enlightenment

8. Who said that Arnold was a propagandist for literature rather than a critic ?

   A. Carlyle
   B. Ruskin
   C. T. S. Eliot
   D. F. R. Leavis

9. One of the disadvantages of this school of criticism is that it tends to make readings too subjective ?

   A. Reader Response Criticism
   B. Formalist Criticism
   C. Historical Criticism
   D. These are all equally subjective

10. Plato used the word mimesis in relation to literature with the meaning ?

    A. Copying
    B. Criticism of life
    C. Representation
    D. Interpretation