Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?

   A. Harold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon”
   B. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage . . . ”
   C. Cleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan Historian”
   D. Edward Said’s Orientalism

2. 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

3. 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

4. As a mode of literary criticism or theory, gender theory attempts to bring which of the following to literary texts ?

   A. An understanding of the various conceptions and understandings of gender that have carried throughout various cultures
   B. An understanding of gender as a human construct
   C. An understanding of how standard histories of western societies are presented in terms of heterosexual identity
   D. All of these.

5. Feminist criticism focuses on exploring which of the following aspects of literary texts ?

   A. How women are portrayed in literary texts
   B. The psychologies of female writers
   C. How women have been socially oppressed in literary texts
   D. All of these

6. What fundamental idea does psychoanalytic criticism hold about literary texts ?

   A. Literary texts should not be read as a projection of the author’s psyche.
   B. Literary texts solely reflect an author’s intentions.
   C. Literary texts are unlike dreams because they have a system of order and produce meaning.
   D. Literary texts reveal secret elements of an author’s unconscious.

7. What fundamental idea does psychoanalytic criticism hold about literary texts ?

   A. Literary texts should not be read as a projection of the author’s psyche.
   B. Literary texts solely reflect an author’s intentions.
   C. Literary texts reveal secret elements of an author’s unconscious.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

8. Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of England’s large-scale imperialism ?

   A. Salman Rushdie
   B. Joseph Conrad
   C. Rabindranath Tagore
   D. John Ruskin

9. 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

10. 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