What is mimesis ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What is mimesis ?

   A. A reversal
   B. An imitation
   C. A satire
   D. A poetic metaphor

2. Plato used the word mimesis in relation to literature with the meaning ?

   A. Copying
   B. Criticism of life
   C. Representation
   D. Interpretation

3. What is “Mimesis” ?

   A. It is a philosophical term which means “imitation” or “mimicry.”
   B. It is a philosophical and critical term meaning “otherness.”
   C. It is a critical term, which describes the act of expression and the presentation of self-identity, theorized by academics, such as Erich Auerbach.
   D. A and C only

4. Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?

   A. Cleanth Brooks
   B. Ferdinand de Saussure
   C. Karl Marx
   D. Sigmund Freud

5. With what literary critic is the term the author function most closely associated ?

   A. Claude Lévi-Strauss
   B. Jacques Derrida
   C. Jacques Lacan
   D. Michel Foucault

6. How does New Historicism differ from traditional historicism ?

   A. New Historicism does not make strict delineations between literary and nonliterary texts.
   B. New Historicism takes a particular interest in marginalized peoples.
   C. New Historicism is interested in how texts help us understand economic realities.
   D. All of the above.

7. Jacques Derrida’s concept of différance challenges us to think about language as a system that___________?

   A. mirrors our physical evolution as human beings.
   B. prevents us from communicating through writing or speech.
   C. involves a constant process of deferred meaning.
   D. evolved exclusively as a function of our individual psyche.

8. What does Elaine Showalter argue about gender in terms of representations of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet ?

   A. It is nearly impossible to represent women as anything other than mad in patriarchal discourses.
   B. Feminist critics need to re-appropriate Ophelia for their own purposes.
   C. Women’s tragedies tend to be subordinated to those of men.
   D. All of the above

9. In Fredric Jameson’s book The Political Unconscious, what does Jameson suggest about literature ?

   A. History comprises the essential framework for the performance of literary analysis
   B. Politics and the economy are the most important factors in literary analysis
   C. Biography is essential to literary analysis
   D. Psychoanalysis is critical to literary analysis

10. What is New Historicism ?

    A. A theory that abandons the idea of history as an imitation of events
    B. A theory that regards history as a series of narratives
    C. A theory that capitalizes on the interplay between literature and history
    D. All of the above