Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work’s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work’s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?

   A. Plato’s The Republic
   B. T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
   C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology
   D. Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”

2. Which of the following poets would be least likely to explore the meaning of beauty or imagination in a poem ?

   A. Lord Byron
   B. Percy Shelley
   C. John Keats
   D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3. 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.

4. The following extract presents a suitable answer to the hacknied argument drawn by the defender of Slavery from the songs of the Slave, and is also a good specimen of the powers of observation and manly heart of the writer. The word hacknied is an old form of the word hackneyed. What does it mean ?

   A. Lacking in freshness and originality
   B. Saddened
   C. Double meaning
   D. Blue-eyed

5. What approach is described by the paragraph? Users of this approach believe that all information essential to the interpretation of a work must be found within the work itself; there is no need to bring in outside information about the history, politics, or society of the time, or about the author’s life ?

   A. Historical/Biographical Approach
   B. Moral/ Philosophical Approach
   C. Formalism
   D. Psychological Approach

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. 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

8. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?

   A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
   B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
   C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

9. Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?

   A. Aristotle’s Poetics
   B. Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata
   C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
   D. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk

10. 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