A. Cleanth Brookss Keatss Sylvan Historian

B. Harold Blooms An Elegy for the Canon

C. Jacques Lacans The Mirror Stage

B. Literary theory engages with theoretical rather than real-world issues.

C. Literary theory relies totally on speculation rather than history.

D. Literary theory is detached from the reality of politics and the economy.

B. Judith Butler

C. Cleanth Brooks

D. Terry Eagleton

A. Lucy Irigaray

B. Hlne Cixous

C. Judith Butler

A. The author may not always exist.

C. The names of authors serve a classificatory function.

D. The author is not a source of infinite meaning.

A. To create literary subjects with which female readers can identify

C. To counter stereotypes about women

D. To critique phallocentric assumptions about literature

B. All linguistics is related to history, and therefore the meaning of linguistics relies exclusively on historical context.

C. All linguistics is in some way related to class struggle.

D. All linguistic concepts evolve solely out of the responses of people within a specific historical era.

B. Its literature is less proud that that of the West.

C. It has little relationship to the colonization of Asian countries by the West.

D. It illustrates the fundamental political equality of all nations.

A. Julia Kristeva

B. Claude Lvi-Strauss

D. Walter Benjamin

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

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

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

B. mirrors our physical evolution as human beings.

C. prevents us from communicating through writing or speech.

D. evolved exclusively as a function of our individual psyche.

B. To rectify the double experiences of certain racial groups

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

D. To reconcile cultural identity with individual identity

A. An important term in the field of New Historicism

C. A term that suggests that a critic should study the structural and thematic elements of a poem rather than the effect it has on the emotions of the reader B. A term that describes the confusion between a poem and its result

A. It includes too few works by women.

B. It includes too few works by nonwhite writers.

C. All of the above.

A. It has little impact on human behavior.

B. It is the only significant aspect of the human psyche.

C. It can never be accessed.

B. Jacques Derrida

C. Fredric Jameson

D. Terry Eagleton

B. Roland Barthess The Death of the Author

C. Jacques Derridas Of Grammatology

A. Sigmund Freud

C. Cleanth Brooks

D. Karl Marx

B. Womens tragedies tend to be subordinated to those of men.

C. Feminist critics need to re-appropriate Ophelia for their own purposes.

D. It is nearly impossible to represent women as anything other than mad in patriarchal discourses.

B. Stanley Fish

C. T.S. Eliot

D. Jacques Lacan

A. Formalism

B. Structuralism

C. Poststructuralism

A. Biographical information about the author must be considered when evaluating literature.

B. It is possible to distill meaning from a work based on the authors politics.

D. Authorial intent must be considered when evaluating literature.

B. refuses maternal bonds.

C. first engages with speech.

D. looks into a mirror for the first time.

A. John Keatss Ode on a Grecian Urn

B. Aristotles Poetics

D. Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness

A. The Frankfurt School

C. The Moscow School

D. The Chicago School

B. Cleanth Brooks

C. Viktor Shklovsky

D. Stanley Fish

A. Lucy Irigaray

B. Julia Kristeva

C. Hlne Cixous

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. Texts are examined to determine the authors intent.

B. Texts are examined to see how the formal aspects of the text create meaning.

C. Texts are examined to see how colonizers and the colonized interact.

B. Julia Kristeva

C. Fredric Jameson

D. Terry Eagleton

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

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.

A. A theory that capitalizes on the interplay between literature and history

C. A theory that abandons the idea of history as an imitation of events

D. A theory that regards history as a series of narratives

A. Feminist theory

B. Postcolonial theory

D. Ethnic criticism

A. To bring to light social oppressions

B. To criticize society through satire

D. To entertain those who enjoy it

A. 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. Language includes multiple social dialects and jargons.

B. Language can include socioideological contradictions from the past.

C. Language is loaded with the intentions of others.

A. Considering womens literature outside of its historical context

B. Examining only female-authored literature more critically

C. Studying womens literature for its linguistic qualities only

B. To evaluate the role of historical context in the interpretation of literature

C. To formulate relationships among an author, a reader, and a literary work

D. To understand the role of sexuality, gender, race, and ethnicity in literary study

B. New Historicism is interested in how texts help us understand economic realities.

C. New Historicism does not make strict delineations between literary and nonliterary texts.

D. New Historicism takes a particular interest in marginalized peoples.

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

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

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

A. Claude Lvi-Strauss

C. Jacques Derrida

D. Jacques Lacan

A. Biography is essential to literary analysis

B. Politics and the economy are the most important factors in literary analysis

D. Psychoanalysis is critical to literary analysis

A. An idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky

B. A term that describes the capacity of art to counter the effects of habit

D. A concept associated with Russian formalism

A. Literary theory is employed mostly by academics.

B. Literary theory should not be an academic focus in English departments.

D. Literary theory often depends on esoteric knowledge to be properly understood.

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

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

B. Understanding the authors consciousness

C. Reproducing the authors thoughts in a critical context

D. Entering the authors mind through his or her literary works

A. The examination of desires informing our consciousness

B. The examination of our unconscious experience

C. The examination of intricate structures within our unconscious

A. Psychological treatment

B. A figure of judgment

D. Religious belief

B. How writers have damaged the environment

C. How the environment can be repaired

D. Who is responsible for damaging the environment

B. As an aesthetic object that is influenced by historical context

C. As a historical object that is also aesthetic

D. As a historical object that is not necessarily aesthetic