A. A term used to describe how texts include a variety of styles
B. A term used to explain the use of multiple points of view in literature
C. A term that explains resistance to a monolithic text
D. All of the above.
Related Mcqs:
- What is dialogism ?
A. A term developed by Mikhail Bakhtin
B. A term used to describe how texts include a variety of styles
C. A term used to explain the use of multiple points of view in literature
D. All of the above answers are correct. - Which of the following offers the best definition of écriture féminine ?
A. How women really feel about male writers
B. The inscription of womanhood and femininity in texts
C. Second-wave feminism
D. Psychological studies of women - What is hermeneutics ?
A. A term that describes the absence of racial others in the canon
B. A term that describes the attempt to read homosexuality into literature
C. A term that describes the effect of autobiography on text
D. A term that describes the interpretation of meaning - Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of first-wave feminism ?
A. Hélène Cixous
B. Judith Butler
C. Lucy Irigaray
D. Mary Wollstonecraft - Which of the following ideas relates to J.L. Austin’s performativity theory ?
A. Performance is the ultimate objective of all human beings.
B. Language is used to indicate action as well as thought.
C. Individuals perform gender actively.
D. Individuals develop consciousness through speech - In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida argues what about literature ?
A. No fixed, stable meaning is possible.
B. Language must be studied in conjunction with history in order to create meaning.
C. There is no potential for multiple and differing meanings in a work of literature.
D. Literature is timeless, and thus meaning does not change. - How does Wolfgang Iser envision the reader ?
A. The reader fills in the gaps imposed by an author’s intention.
B. The reader is sublimated beneath the author.
C. The reader is less important than the author’s context.
D. The reader is totally subject to the author’s intention. - What is affective fallacy ?
A. A term that suggests that a critic should study the structural and thematic elements of a poem rather than the effect it has on the emotions of the reader B. A term that describes the confusion between a poem and its result
C. An important term in the field of New Historicism
D. All of the above. - What is mimesis ?
A. A reversal
B. An imitation
C. A satire
D. A poetic metaphor - According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader ?
A. Entering the author’s mind through his or her literary works
B. Understanding the author’s consciousness
C. Reproducing the author’s thoughts in a critical context
D. All of the above.
