A. An assault on the notion that there is any knowable truth
B. An assault on the sexual mores of the Victorian Age
C. A reaffirmation of Romantic notions of the sublime
D. All of the above
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following Post-Modern theoreticians explores the contradictions of colonial discourse and the ambivalence that the colonizer feels towards the colonized “other” in works such as “Nation and Narration” ?
A. Linda Hutcheon
B. Homi Bhabha
C. Jacques Derrida
D. Fredric Jameson - Which of the following are well-known Post-Modern theoreticians ?
A. Linda Hutcheon
B. Jean Baudrillard
C. Thomas Hobbes
D. Both A and B - Literary critics who analyze the works of Salman Rushdie often engage which “Post-Modern” school of criticism ?
A. Marxism
B. Post-Colonial Theory
C. Deconstruction
D. Feminism - In the first lecture of his Modern Poetry course, what argument does Professor Langdon Hammer make about the relationship between the modern city and poetic modernism ?
A. Most modernist poets lived in large cities; therefore, they often used urban imagery in their poetry.
B. Many languages and many forms of language were used in large cities; modernist poets often treated language not as something given and natural but as a construct which they could manipulate.
C. Individuals often felt lost and alienated in large cities, and among poets this resulted in turning inward and focusing only on the world of one’s own imagination.
D. All of these answers - How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ?
A. Literary theory engages with theoretical rather than real-world issues.
B. Literary theory asks fundamental questions about literary interpretation, and at the same time builds specific systems of literary interpretation.
C. Literary theory relies totally on speculation rather than history.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - Which of the following serves as the best definition of the literary critical practice of formalism ?
A. Formalism focuses on examining how a text exemplifies its writer’s psychology.
B. Formalism focuses on examining the structural dynamics of poems.
C. Formalism focuses on examining the use of literary devices within a literary text.
D. Formalism focuses on examining the historical contexts and backgrounds of literary texts. - How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ?
A. Literary theory engages with theoretical rather than real-world issues.
B. Literary theory asks fundamental questions about literary interpretation, and at the same time builds specific systems of literary interpretation.
C. Literary theory relies totally on speculation rather than history.
D. Literary theory is detached from the reality of politics and the economy. - With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?
A. eugenics
B. psychoanalysis
C. phrenology
D. all of the above - With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?
A. eugenics
B. psychoanalysis
C. phrenology
D. anarchism - Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?
A. William Blake
B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
C. Samuel Johnson
D. William Wordsworth
