A. “The modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously with his text.”
B. “Once the Author is gone, the claim to “decipher” a text is quite simple.”
C. “A text never consists of multiple writings, it is always the product of a monolithic culture.”
D. Both A and B
Related Mcqs:
- According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s “General Introduction to Postmodernism,” what is the meaning of the term “simulacra” ?
A. “Something that replaces reality with its representation”
B. “A stable referent to a knowable original cultural artifact”
C. “An exact imitation of the material world”
D. “A basic affirmation of everyday reality” - According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s module on Freud, Sigmund Freud’s work on transference and trauma argues which of the following points ?
A. There is an undeniable “tension between the death-instinct and the sexual instincts.”
B. Repetition-compulsion does not help to come to terms with one’s own mortality.
C. Most victims of trauma do not exhibit “the compulsion of the human psyche to repeat traumatic events over and over again.”
D. Talk therapy will not help cure one’s psychological neuroses concerning past trauma. - In his essay “The Death of the Author,” Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
A. Biographical information about the author must be considered when evaluating literature.
B. A text and its author text are unrelated.
C. It is possible to distill meaning from a work based on the author’s politics.
D. Literature is inextricably connected to its creator. - In his essay “The Death of the Author,” Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?
A. Biographical information about the author must be considered when evaluating literature.
B. A text and its author text are unrelated.
C. It is possible to distill meaning from a work based on the author’s politics.
D. Authorial intent must be considered when evaluating literature. - In his essay, “The Significance of Fictionalizing”, Wolfgang Iser argues which of the following points ?
A. Historically, writers have been considered liars or at the very least irrelevant.
B. Fictionalizing reality is a basic human need.
C. Every text includes traces from the outside world, including social, historical, and literary remnants.
D. All of these. - In Dr. R. Allen Shoaf’s article, “’Hamlet’: Like Mother, Like Son”, Shoaf argues which of the following points about the relationship between Hamlet and his mother ?
A. Hamlet is placed in a position that can be conceptualized as feminine.
B. Hamlet despises his mother and suspects she has killed his father.
C. Hamlet is entirely masculinized throughout the play, and thus, is ultimately unlike his mother in terms of his position in the play.
D. Hamlet has a personality disorder. - “Your goodness must have some edge to it—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines.” In this work the author argues in favour of____________?
A. Communism
B. Revolution
C. An independent nation of independent individuals
D. Abolition - Dr. Allen Shoaf’s essay, “’Hamlet’: Like Mother, Like Son”, argues which of the following points ?
A. Hamlet’s father’s ghost is not really a ghost.
B. Hamlet feels a sense of desire for both his mother and his father.
C. Hamlet is truly insane in the play.
D. Hamlet is an impossible play to truly understand. - Professor Hammer argues that in Hart Crane’s poem “Legend,” Crane introduces himself to his readers. The poem opens with the lines: “As silent as a mirror is believed/ Realities plunge in silence by …/I am not ready for repentance;” according to Professor Hammer, Crane’s refusal to repent is an assertion of which of the following ?
A. His political views
B. His will to imaginative freedom
C. His will to sexual freedom
D. Both B and C - His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?
A. Long, wide petticoats
B. A trench-coat
C. Loose, wide breeches
D. Underpants
