In Fredric Jameson’s book The Political Unconscious, what does Jameson suggest about literature ?

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1. In Fredric Jameson’s book The Political Unconscious, what does Jameson suggest about literature ?

   A. History comprises the essential framework for the performance of literary analysis
   B. Politics and the economy are the most important factors in literary analysis
   C. Biography is essential to literary analysis
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

2. What does hermeneutic theory suggest about how readers view literature ?

   A. It is impossible to view a piece of literature as its author intended.
   B. It is impossible to divorce a text from capitalist ideology.
   C. It is impossible to view a piece of literature correctly, because we can only work within the hetero-normative paradigm.
   D. It is impossible to separate a text from the linguistics that compose it.

3. What does hermeneutic theory suggest about how readers view literature ?

   A. It is impossible to view a piece of literature as its author intended.
   B. It is impossible to divorce a text from capitalist ideology.
   C. It is impossible to view a piece of literature correctly, because we can only work within the hetero-normative paradigm.
   D. It is impossible to separate a text from the linguistics that compose it.

4. 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

5. In her essay “The Laugh of the Medusa,” what does Hélène Cixous suggest for women ?

   A. Women should write for and about themselves in order to counter phallocentric texts.
   B. Women should write, but they should do so only within the existent male canon.
   C. Women should primarily dedicate themselves to studying women’s literature from the past.
   D. Women should be unconcerned with the struggle for identity.

6. In her essay “The Laugh of the Medusa,” what does Hélène Cixous suggest for women ?

   A. Women should write for and about themselves in order to counter phallocentric texts.
   B. Women should write, but they should do so only within the existent male canon.
   C. Women should primarily dedicate themselves to studying women’s literature from the past.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

7. How does this quotation from Behn’s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: “I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet’s pleasure.” ?

   A. It focuses on a royal hero.
   B. It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.
   C. It focuses on adventures.
   D. It connects to poetry.

8. In “Dracula” what does the death of Lucy suggest ?

   A. That sexual purity was less important than society’s safety
   B. That female sexuality is dangerous and must be destroyed
   C. That women are not one-dimensional
   D. That men consider themselves responsible for their own fates

9. “It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.” How does this opening sentence of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” NOT immediately suggest the Gothic ?

   A. The reference to ancestral halls
   B. The uncommon nature of the event
   C. The first-person narrator
   D. The dichotomy between the concepts of ordinary and estate

10. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” what does Gilman suggest about madness ?

    A. That it is necessary to contain mad women
    B. That it is an artificial patriarchal tool
    C. That men also are mad
    D. That female madness is a serious obstacle to women’s liberation