A. A term that suggests that a critic should study the structural and thematic elements of a poem rather than the effect it has on the emotions of the reader B. A term that describes the confusion between a poem and its result
C. An important term in the field of New Historicism
D. All of the above.
Related Mcqs:
- What is affective fallacy ?
A. A term first used by literary theorists William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
B. A term that suggests that a critic should study the structural and thematic elements of a poem rather than the effect it has on the emotions of the reader
C. An important term in the field of New Historicism
D. All of the above answers are correct. - What is “the gender fallacy” ?
A. the problem of a “man writing as a woman”
B. the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men
C. the idea that noble women are more similar to men than peasant women are
D. the notion that chastity is impossible for men - What is affective piety ?
A. a term associated with oral transmission
B. an important trait of the medieval lay
C. a literary device used in estates satire
D. a dramatic demonstration of faith - The concept of otherness is related to which of the following theories ?
A. Feminist theory
B. Ethnic criticism
C. Postcolonial theory
D. All of the above. - What is phenomenology ?
A. The examination of structures informing our conscious experience
B. The examination of desires informing our consciousness
C. The examination of our unconscious experience
D. The examination of intricate structures within our unconscious - Who coined the term New Historicism ?
A. Jacques Derrida
B. Terry Eagleton
C. Fredric Jameson
D. Stephen Greenblatt - In his essay “What Is an Author?” what position(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault take ?
A. The names of authors serve a classificatory function.
B. The author is not a source of infinite meaning.
C. The author may not always exist.
D. All of the above. - According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader ?
A. Entering the author’s mind through his or her literary works
B. Understanding the author’s consciousness
C. Reproducing the author’s thoughts in a critical context
D. All of the above. - 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 - What do many contemporary theorists find problematic about the literary canon ?
A. It includes too few works by nonwhite writers.
B. It includes too few works by women.
C. It includes too few works by non- Western writers.
D. All of the above.
