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

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1. 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

2. Which of the following texts provides the best example of medieval estates satire ?

   A. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
   B. “Piers Plowman”
   C. “The Canterbury Tales”
   D. “The Book of Margery Kempe”

3. Which of the following texts provides the best example of the comitatus ethic ?

   A. Caedmon’s Hymn
   B. The Battle of Maldon
   C. The Canterbury Tales
   D. The Dream of the Rood

4. What is defamiliarization ?

   A. A term that describes how literature exposes its own artificiality
   B. An idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky
   C. A term that describes the capacity of art to counter the effects of habit
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

5. What is defamiliarization ?

   A. A concept associated with Russian formalism
   B. An idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky
   C. A term that describes the capacity of art to counter the effects of habit
   D. All of the above.

6. 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…..

7. 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

8. Which of the following texts are associated with the alliterative revival ?

   A. “The Dream of the Rood”
   B. “The Wanderer”
   C. “The Seafarer”
   D. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”

9. From which of the following Italian texts might Tudor courtiers have learned the art of intrigue and the keys to gaining and keeping power ?

   A. Castiglione’s \The Courtier\
   B. Dante’s \Divine Comedy\
   C. Boccaccio’s \Decameron\
   D. Machiavelli’s \The Prince\

10. Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?

    A. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men
    B. Paine’s Rights of Man
    C. Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
    D. Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France