What is generally considered to be Theodor W. Adorno’s primary concern as a theorist ?

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1. What is generally considered to be Theodor W. Adorno’s primary concern as a theorist ?

   A. The effect of literature in enlightening the human mind
   B. The effect of modern society on human suffering
   C. The effect of the economy on women’s concerns
   D. The effect of the unconscious mind on the conscious self

2. According to Theodor Adorno’s and Max Horkheimer’s “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” which of the following is true of the culture industry ?

   A. The culture industry is classified by ruthless uniformity of all ideas.
   B. The culture industry is the chief method by which technology brings true democracy to all.
   C. The culture industry is a fundamental way to promote individuality.
   D. The culture industry is chiefly intended to offer consumers the opportunity to classify wants and desires as well as corresponding production.

3. Theodor Adorno’s “Culture Industry Reconsidered” further examines the notion of the “culture industry” and suggests which of the following about the “culture industry ?”

   A. It destroys notions of high and low culture and replaces it with mass culture.
   B. It is an industry in the sense that its aim is to standardize aesthetic taste and value.
   C. It is a radical rethinking of mass culture in that it promotes the values of high culture and attempts to eradicate more popular forms of expression.
   D. Both A and B

4. Which of the following authors is considered a major theorist of deconstruction ?

   A. Raymond Williams
   B. Jacques Derrida
   C. Fredric Jameson
   D. Both A and B

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

   A. Plato
   B. Julia Kristeva
   C. Walter Benjamin
   D. Louis Althusser

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

   A. Jacques Derrida
   B. Jacques Lacan
   C. Edward Said
   D. Plato

7. With which theorist is the term identity thinking most closely associated ?

   A. Sigmund Freud
   B. Carl Jung
   C. William James
   D. Theodor W. Adorno

8. With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated ?

   A. Elaine Showalter
   B. Julia Kristeva
   C. Lucy Irigaray
   D. Louise M. Rosenblatt

9. With which theorist is phenomenology associated ?

   A. Edmund Husserl
   B. Wolfgang Iser
   C. Jean-Paul Sartre
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

10. Modern literary theory began with the work of which theorist ?

    A. Ferdinand de Saussure
    B. Viktor Shklovsky
    C. Roland Barthes
    D. Michel Foucault