Who was the first literary critic who said that “Art is twice removed from reality” ?

Related Mcqs:

1. A critic examining John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” focuses on the physical description of the Garden of Eden, on the symbols of hands, seed, and flower, and on the characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, and God. He pays special attention to the epic similes and metaphors and the point of view from which the tale is being told. He looks for meaning in the text itself, and does not refer to any biography of Milton. He is most likely a critic ?

   A. Reader Response
   B. Feminist
   C. Mimetic
   D. Formalist

2. 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

3. A critic argues that in John Milton’s “Samson Agonistes,” the shearing of Samson’s locks is symbolic of his castration at the hands of Delilah. What kind of critical approach is this critic using ?

   A. Mimetic approach
   B. Formalist approach
   C. Historical approach
   D. Psychological approach

4. A critic examining Pope’s “An Essay on Man” asks herself: How well does this poem accord with the real world? Is it accurate? Is it moral? She is most likely a critic?

   A. Feminist
   B. Reader Response
   C. Formalist
   D. Mimetic

5. What approach to literary criticism requires the critic to know about the author’s life and times ?

   A. Historical
   B. Formalist
   C. Mimetic
   D. All of these

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. This literary critic coined the term “fancy.” ?

   A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   B. Virginia Woolf
   C. Matthew Arnold
   D. Carl Jung

8. This literary critic warned: “We must remember that the greater part of our current reading matter is written for us by people who have no real belief in a supernatural order . . . And the greater part . . . is coming to be written by people who not only have no such belief, but are even ignorant of the fact that there are still people in the world so ’backward’ or so ’eccentric’ as to continue to believe.” ?

   A. C.S. Lewis
   B. T.S. Eliot
   C. G.K. Chesterton
   D. Matthew Arnold

9. 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

10. According to the literary critic, Paul Fussell, which of the following was a central trope of English poetry written during the Great War ?

    A. Patriotic imagery
    B. Irony
    C. Nihilism
    D. Apocalyptic imagery