What is the main goal of ethnic criticism ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What is the main goal of ethnic criticism ?

   A. To rectify the double experiences of certain racial groups
   B. To reconcile cultural identity with individual identity
   C. To expand the canon to include works authored by different racial groups
   D. All of the above.

2. Arnold summarises the rule of English criticism in one word, in The Function Of Criticism. What is the word ?

   A. Disintrestedness
   B. Intresedness
   C. Purification
   D. Civilization

3. What is the difference between traditional literary criticism and post-New Criticism literary theory ?

   A. Traditional literary criticism is mainly focused on exploring gender issues.
   B. Traditional literary criticism only examines pre-20th-century literary texts.
   C. Traditional literary criticism focused on tracking influences and textual allusions and considering the historical contexts of literary texts.
   D. Traditional literary criticism attempted to consider the psychological aspects of literary texts.

4. A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ?

   A. Marxist criticism
   B. Reader-response criticism
   C. Psychoanalytic criticism
   D. New Criticism

5. What is the main function of postcolonial criticism ?

   A. To represent the relationship between colonizers and the colonized
   B. To draw attention to the positive effects of colonization on literature
   C. To explain why there are few examples of successful non-Western literature
   D. To show the ways in which most Western literature is superior

6. What is the main function of postcolonial criticism ?

   A. To represent the relationship between colonizers and the colonized
   B. To draw attention to the positive effects of colonization on literature
   C. To explain why there are few examples of successful non-Western literature
   D. To show the ways in which mostWestern literature is superior

7. Which of the following best describes the difference between literary criticism and literary theory ?

   A. Literary criticism is concerned only with the meaning of a literary work, while literary theory is concerned only with the structure of a literary work.
   B. Literary criticism draws upon research derived from sources outside literature, while literary theory draws upon sources within a text.
   C. Literary theory is concerned with the method used to interpret a work, while literary criticism is the application of literary theory.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

8. Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is believed to be the Preamble to Romantic Criticism. In which year was it published ?

   A. 1798
   B. 1800
   C. 1801
   D. 1802

9. Name the author of The New Criticism ?

   A. F. R. Leavis
   B. Allen Tate
   C. John Crowe Ransom
   D. R. P. Blackmur

10. Who originated the term “objective correlative,” which is often used in formalist criticism ?

    A. C.S. Lewis
    B. Virginia Woolf
    C. Matthew Arnold
    D. T.S. Eliot