A. Hellenic
B. Hellenistic
C. Renaissance
D. Graeco-Roman
Related Mcqs:
- Arnold summarises the rule of English criticism in one word, in The Function Of Criticism. What is the word ?
A. Disintrestedness
B. Intresedness
C. Purification
D. Civilization - What is the difference between traditional literary criticism and post-New Criticism literary theory ?
A. Traditional literary criticism is mainly focused on exploring gender issues.
B. Traditional literary criticism only examines pre-20th-century literary texts.
C. Traditional literary criticism focused on tracking influences and textual allusions and considering the historical contexts of literary texts.
D. Traditional literary criticism attempted to consider the psychological aspects of literary texts. - A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ?
A. Marxist criticism
B. Reader-response criticism
C. Psychoanalytic criticism
D. New Criticism - Who called Aristotle “the very Alexander of criticism” ?
A. Saintsbury
B. Murray
C. Atkins
D. Tyllard - Plato equated poetry with painting, and Aristotle equated it with_______________?
A. drama
B. music
C. dance
D. none - How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ?
A. Literary theory engages with theoretical rather than real-world issues.
B. Literary theory asks fundamental questions about literary interpretation, and at the same time builds specific systems of literary interpretation.
C. Literary theory relies totally on speculation rather than history.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ?
A. Literary theory engages with theoretical rather than real-world issues.
B. Literary theory asks fundamental questions about literary interpretation, and at the same time builds specific systems of literary interpretation.
C. Literary theory relies totally on speculation rather than history.
D. Literary theory is detached from the reality of politics and the economy. - What is the main goal of ethnic criticism ?
A. To bring attention to false Euro-centric paradigms
B. To rectify the double experiences of certain racial groups
C. To reconcile cultural identity with individual identity
D. All of the above answers are correct. - Arnold’s views on poetry and criticism are discussed in ?
A. Preface to the Poems
B. On translating Homer
C. “Scholar Gypsy”
D. Culture and Anarchy - Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?
A. Harold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon”
B. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage . . . ”
C. Cleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan Historian”
D. Edward Said’s Orientalism
