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. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage…..

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 are unlike dreams because they have a system of order and produce meaning.
   D. Literary texts reveal secret elements of an author’s unconscious.

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 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.

6. 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

7. 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

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

   A. Aristotle’s Poetics
   B. Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata
   C. John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
   D. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

9. 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

10. Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me and be my love”; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?

    A. William Shakespeare
    B. Thomas Kyd
    C. John Dryden
    D. John Donne