What is phenomenology ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which school of theorists is most closely associated with phenomenology ?

   A. The Moscow School
   B. The Chicago School
   C. The Frankfurt School
   D. The Geneva School

2. With which theorist is phenomenology associated ?

   A. Wolfgang Iser
   B. Jean-Paul Sartre
   C. Emmanuel Lévinas
   D. All of the above.

3. Which school of theorists is most closely associated with phenomenology ?

   A. The Moscow School
   B. The Chicago School
   C. The Frankfurt School
   D. The Geneva School

4. With which theorist is phenomenology associated ?

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

5. 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

6. Which school of literary theory shows a particular interest in the role of testimony in literature ?

   A. Trauma theory
   B. Ecotheory
   C. Chaos theory
   D. Formalism

7. 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

8. Which of the following ideas relates to J.L. Austin’s performativity theory ?

   A. Performance is the ultimate objective of all human beings.
   B. Language is used to indicate action as well as thought.
   C. Individuals perform gender actively.
   D. Individuals develop consciousness through speech

9. In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida argues what about literature ?

   A. No fixed, stable meaning is possible.
   B. Language must be studied in conjunction with history in order to create meaning.
   C. There is no potential for multiple and differing meanings in a work of literature.
   D. Literature is timeless, and thus meaning does not change.

10. What does hermeneutic theory suggest about how readers view literature ?

    A. It is impossible to view a piece of literature as its author intended.
    B. It is impossible to divorce a text from capitalist ideology.
    C. It is impossible to view a piece of literature correctly, because we can only work within the hetero-normative paradigm.
    D. It is impossible to separate a text from the linguistics that compose it.