B. Literary theory depends on specialized knowledge that is outside the realm of literary studies.

C. Literary theory is sometimes very abstract and difficult to read.

D. Literary theory does not offer a holistic interpretation of a text.

A. A feminist term for the state that occurs when texts written by women are not considered in the study of literature

B. Another term for the unconscious C. A term related to the period of psychosexual development that occurs before an infant reaches the mirror stage

B. While gender is not real, the stereotypes that accompany it are true.

C. Gender is a problematic, but essentially true, category.

D. Womens gender is artificial, while mens gender is not.

A. Machiavelli

B. Dante

C. Petrarch

A. The need for linguistic correctness as exemplified in his Dictionary

B. The promise of universal knowledge as epitomized by the Encyclopdie

D. The need for self-sufficiency as detailed in novels like Robinson Crusoe

A. Cleanth Brookss Keatss Sylvan Historian

C. Harold Blooms An Elegy for the Canon

D. Jacques Lacans The Mirror Stage

A. Ecotheory

C. Chaos theory

D. Formalism

A. Percy Shelley

B. Alexander Pope

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A. Critics should examine historical information surrounding a literary work.

B. Critics should consider evolving notions of a text over time.

D. Critics should attempt to paraphrase texts in order to find out what they mean

B. Anachronistic

C. Solipsistic

D. Marxist

A. William Wordsworth

B. William Blake

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Paradise Lost

C. Piers Plowman

D. Canterbury Tales

B. Both are largely set in South America, reflecting the relationship between empire and the early English novel.

C. Oroonoko seems to defend the aristocracy, where Robinson Crusoe elaborates the struggles of the middle class.

D. Both make claims to historical veracity.

A. Radcliffes The Mysteries of Udolpho

B. Richardsons Pamela

D. Congreves The Way of the World

B. What is literature?

C. What are the effects of literature?

D. Why do people write literature?

A. Harold Bloom

C. Cleanth Brooks

D. Wolfgang Iser

A. To reconcile cultural identity with individual identity

C. To expand the canon to include works authored by different racial groups

D. To rectify the double experiences of certain racial groups

A. The examination of intricate structures within our unconscious

C. The examination of our unconscious experience

D. The examination of desires informing our consciousness

B. Dante

C. Milton

D. Virgil

A. Industrial Revolution

B. Technological Revolution

C. Scientific Revolution

B. It is impossible to view a piece of literature as its author intended.

C. It is impossible to divorce a text from capitalist ideology.

D. It is impossible to view a piece of literature correctly, because we can only work within the hetero-normative paradigm.

A. All of the above

C. Heroic couplets

D. Hexagrams

B. Romance

C. Comedy

D. Satire

A. refuses maternal bonds.

C. first engages with speech.

D. looks into a mirror for the first time.

A. 14th and 15th

B. 12th and 13th

C. Non of these

B. Sigmund Freud

C. William James

D. Carl Jung

B. Buddhist

C. Quaker

D. Catholic

B. the ultimate expression of humankinds ability to control its own destiny.

C. an event that had little consequence to England

D. a necessary change that was beginning to go astray.

A. Arguing that language, and therefore literary texts, relies on the difference between terms and therefore constantly defers meaning.

C. Suggesting that the study of literature is based on the breakdown of language into signs

D. Calling into question the capacity of language to communicate

A. It offers a strong outline for how theory can be conducted in the 21st century.

C. It offers a strong counterpoint to Jacques Derridas notion of deconstruction.

D. It should not be read or considered by any student or scholar.

B. The reader brings individual knowledge to his or her reading of the text.

C. The reader is acted upon by the text.

D. The reader acts upon the text.

A. Satire

C. Comedy

D. Tragedy

A. Reincarnation

B. Reproduction

D. Recapitulation

A. he was endowed with a great poetic talent.

B. he was given special educational opportunities.

C. his brothers died in their youth.

A. Utopia

B. Zelauto

D. Paradise Lost

A. Both sets of critics look for an objective way to view texts.

B. Both sets of critics study the underlying forms of texts.

C. Both sets of critics focus on evaluating literature in a scientific manner.

A. Sir Walter Raleigh

B. John Donne

C. Sir Thomas More

A. All of the above

B. The idea that William Shakespeare was a Catholic.

D. The idea that William Shakespeare never lived.

B. New Historicism

C. Marxism

D. Feminism

A. Politicians

B. Women

C. Pantomimes

A. Scientific research became a more collaborative effort.

B. Print halted the corruption of texts by copyists, giving everyone identical texts.

C. Learning to read was made easier as print was standardized and made clearer.

A. Popes The Rape of the Lock

C. Swifts A Modest Proposal

D. Lewiss The Monk

A. Work only with ideas developed by post-Marxist theorists

B. Focus on a return to traditional critical methods

D. Reject all previous modes of literary theory

A. 10

B. 12

C. 9

A. Wordsworths We Are Seven

C. Swifts A Modest Proposal

D. Benns Oroonoko

A. Kristeva suggests that women are not subject to traditional fetishes.

B. Kristeva rejects the idea that neuroses provide insight into the unconscious.

C. Kristeva fundamentally disagrees with the idea of the mirror stage.

A. an epic describing a great romance.

B. a dramatic monologue spoken by Browning.

C. a sonnet expressing his devotion to his wife.

A. Claude Lvi-Strauss

B. Jacques Lacan

C. Jacques Derrida

B. Emmanuel Lvinas

C. Wolfgang Iser

D. Jean-Paul Sartre

A. A term used to describe how texts include a variety of styles

B. A term used to explain the use of multiple points of view in literature

D. A term that explains resistance to a monolithic text