A. A term that describes the absence of racial others in the canon
B. A term that describes the attempt to read homosexuality into literature
C. A term that describes the effect of autobiography on text
D. A term that describes the interpretation of meaning
Related Mcqs:
- What is hermeneutics ?
A. A system for categorizing books
B. The psychological study of authors
C. The study of textual interpretation
D. A reader-response test - What is hermeneutics ?
A. A term that describes the absence of racial others in the canon
B. A term that describes the attempt to read homosexuality into literature
C. A term that describes the effect of autobiography on text
D. A term that describes the interpretation of meaning - Which is a common postcolonial critique of the West ?
A. The West spends too much time trying to consider an Asian perspective.
B. The West tends to look at Asian countries as individual units rather than lump them together.
C. The West views matters through its own limited historical position.
D. The West refuses to apply economic and political coercion to Asian writers. - Sublimity has_______________?
A. 2 sources
B. 3 sources
C. 4 sources
D. 5 sources - Who considers poetry ‘a mother of lies’ ?
A. Aristotle
B. Plato
C. Pope
D. Stephen Gosson - Who was the originator of the Theory of Imitation in Literature ?
A. Longinus
B. Aristotle
C. Plato
D. Horace - According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader ?
A. Understanding the author’s ideas in the context of the real world
B. Entering the author’s mind through his or her literary works
C. Reproducing the author’s thoughts in a critical context
D. All of the above answers are correct. - What is false consciousness ?
A. A term for the false neuroses expressed in dreams
B. A feminist term for the state that occurs when texts written by women are not considered in the study of literature
C. Another term for the unconscious
D. An ideology that involves dominating the consciousness of exploited classes - Which literary theory would most directly explore questions of the role of spatial setting in a poem ?
A. Trauma theory
B. Ecotheory
C. Game theory
D. Marxist theory - Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of firstwave feminism ?
A. Hélène Cixous
B. Judith Butler
C. Lucy Irigaray
D. Mary Wollstonecraft
