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. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
   D. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk

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 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.

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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”

8. 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.

9. 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”

10. 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\