Introduction to Literary Theory

A. To represent the relationship between colonizers and the colonized
B. To draw attention to the positive effects of colonization on literature
C. To explain why there are few examples of successful non-Western literature
D. To show the ways in which mostWestern literature is superior

A. Jacques Lacan
B. Edward Said
C. Stephen Greenblatt
D. Plato

A. Theodor W. Adorno
B. Claude Lévi-Strauss
C. Julia Kristeva
D. Jacques Derrida

A. Sigmund Freud
B. Carl Jung
C. William James
D. Theodor W. Adorno

A. Language is inseparable from its historical context.
B. There are five phases of linguistic development.
C. Language can be analyzed as a formal system of elements.
D. Linguistics is too complicated to be distilled to a formula.

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

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.

A. Jacques Derrida
B. Terry Eagleton
C. Fredric Jameson
D. Stephen Greenblatt

A. Claude Lévi-Strauss
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. Viktor Shklovsky
D. Roland Barthes

A. texts are always heterogeneous.
B. the instability of a text is actually evident in the text itself.
C. any system for the production of meaning is inevitably bound by context, yet also limitless.
D. All of the above.