Who is the author of Symposium ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Formalist critics believe that the value of a work cannot be determined by the author’s intention. What term do they use when speaking of this belief ?

   A. The pathetic fallacy
   B. The intentional fallacy
   C. The affective fallacy
   D. The objective correlative

2. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: “The historical approach, for instance, might be helpful in addressing a problem in Thomas Otway’s play Venice Preserv’d. Why are the conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, portrayed in a sympathetic light? If we look at the author and his time, we see that he was a Tory whose play was performed in the wake of the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Bill Crisis, and that there are obvious similarities between the Conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot in history. The Tories would never approve of the bloody Popish Plot, but they nonetheless sympathized with the plotters for the way they were abused by the Tory enemy, the Whigs. Thus it makes sense for Otway to condemn the conspiracy itself in Vencie Preserv’d without condemning the conspirators themselves.” What purpose does this prescribe to ?

   A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the readin
   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.

3. The term Electra Complex has originated from a tragedy entitled Electra. Who is the author of his tragedy ?

   A. Aeschylus
   B. Sophocles
   C. Euripides
   D. Seneca

4. Who is the author of Ars Poetica ?

   A. Plato
   B. Aristotle
   C. Horace
   D. Longinus

5. 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…..

6. With what literary critic is the term the author function most closely associated ?

   A. Claude Lévi-Strauss
   B. Jacques Derrida
   C. Jacques Lacan
   D. Michel Foucault

7. In his essay “The Death of the Author,” Roland Barthes argues what about literature ?

   A. Biographical information about the author must be considered when evaluating literature.
   B. A text and its author text are unrelated.
   C. It is possible to distill meaning from a work based on the author’s politics.
   D. Literature is inextricably connected to its creator.

8. A critic of Thomas Otway’s “Venice Preserv’d” wishes to know why the play’s conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, are portrayed in a sympathetic light. She examines the author’s life and times and discovers that there are obvious similarities between the conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot. She is most likely a critic ?

   A. Historical
   B. Feminist
   C. Tory
   D. Psychological

9. Name the author of The New Criticism ?

   A. F. R. Leavis
   B. Allen Tate
   C. John Crowe Ransom
   D. R. P. Blackmur

10. In his essay “What Is an Author?” what position(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault take ?

    A. The idea of the author came into being at a certain point in history.
    B. The names of authors serve a classificatory function.
    C. The author may not always exist.
    D. All of the above answers are correct.