A. Linda Hutcheon
B. Jean Baudrillard
C. Thomas Hobbes
D. Both A and B
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 - 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 - What is the “Post-Modern” practice of “Deconstructionism” ?
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 - 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 - Which of the following literary terms is NOT commonly deployed in Post- Colonial theory ?
A. Mimicry
B. Ambivalence
C. Hybridity
D. Serendipity - Which of the following are contemporary Indian artists who have begun to more critically examine India’s post-colonial situation ?
A. Ravinder Reddy
B. Rummana Hussain
C. Dadabhai Naoroji
D. A and B only - “Post-Modernism” is often characterized by which of the following attitudes ?
A. A fascination with the past but a past that is used out of its original context as pastiche
B. A reinforcement of master narratives
C. A rejection of master narratives
D. Both A and C - Which novelist is NOT commonly thought of as producing Post-Colonial work ?
A. Arundhati Roy
B. Salman Rushdie
C. Seamus Heaney
D. Vladimir Nabokov - What is “Post-Modernism” ?
A. A term used to describe contemporary cultural production
B. A literary movement concerned with extreme self-reflexivity
C. An attempt to break down the barriers between high and low culture
D. All of the above - Which Post-Colonial theorist employs an extended analysis of the term “Orientalism” ?
A. Edward Said
B. Arundhati Roy
C. Salman Rushdie
D. Homi Bhaba
