Literary Theory and Criticism

A. Plato’s The Republic
B. T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology
D. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage…..

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

A. Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble
B. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk
C. Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”
D. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage . . . “

A. Art Poetique
B. Poetics
C. Rhetoric
D. Ars Poetica

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.

A. Saintsbury
B. Murray
C. Atkins
D. Tyllard

A. It suggests that the suppression of women is part of a historical climate that will naturally fade away.
B. It suggests that gender roles are conditioned by the possession of money and power.
C. It suggests that gender has power over class.
D. All of the above answers are correct.

A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge
C. Arnold
D. Goethe

A. Charles Lamb
B. Joseph Conrad
C. Coleridge
D. Wordsworth

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