From whom did New Historicists draw the idea of “self-regulating systems” ?

Related Mcqs:

1. From whom did New Historicists draw the idea of “self-regulating systems” ?

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

2. From whom does Stephen borrow his idea of clarity ?

   A. Thomas Aquinas
   B. W.B. Yeats
   C. Augusta Gregory
   D. Ezra Pound

3. Complete the following sentence. Keats’s idea of “negative capability” refers to the idea that______________?

   A. certain people are simply incapable of understanding poetry.
   B. the true poet must be comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas.
   C. the poet cannot express anything beyond his own experience.
   D. it is only in the absence of experience that true poetry can emerge.

4. Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________?

   A. The leading characteristic of the age
   B. Monarchs or political events
   C. The primary author of the age
   D. The language of the age

5. What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics ?

   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.

6. Which theorist is most closely associated with the idea of art as imitation ?

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

7. To what idea does the term heteroglossia refer ?

   A. An infant’s inability to speak prior to the mirror stage
   B. The referential relationships among symbols, signifiers, and signs
   C. The multi-layered nature of language in a literary work
   D. The formulaic shift between economic and political themes

8. To what idea does the ancient Greek term aporia refer in terms of deconstruction theory ?

   A. The ability of a text to contain truth
   B. The “undecidability” and essentially unstable nature of a text
   C. The idea that a text has a specific meaning that can be understood through a process of deconstruction
   D. Jacques Derrida’s style of writing

9. What fundamental idea does psychoanalytic criticism hold about literary texts ?

   A. Literary texts should not be read as a projection of the author’s psyche.
   B. Literary texts solely reflect an author’s intentions.
   C. Literary texts are unlike dreams because they have a system of order and produce meaning.
   D. Literary texts reveal secret elements of an author’s unconscious.

10. Which theorist is associated with the idea that art is a copy of a copy ?

    A. Plato
    B. Claude Lévi-Strauss
    C. Julia Kristeva
    D. Walter Benjamin