What is the main function of literary theory ?

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Which of the following is a theme of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s book Epistemology of the Closet ?

A. Understanding sexuality is crucial to understanding culture. B. Understanding homosexuality has little effect on understanding culture. C. Literary study is unaffected by a lack of interest in sexuality. D. Understanding homosexual themes in novels has become too routine...

In her essay “The Laugh of the Medusa,” what does Hélène Cixous suggest for women ?

A. Women should write for and about themselves in order to counter phallocentric texts. B. Women should write, but they should do so only within the existent male canon. C. Women should primarily dedicate themselves to studying women’s literature from the past. D. Women should be unconcerned with the struggle for identity....

What is dialogism ?

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 C. A term that explains resistance to a monolithic text D. All of the above....

New trends in literary theory tend to do which of the following ?

A. Reject all previous modes of literary theory B. Focus on a return to traditional critical methods C. Make use of different literary theories in order to develop new theories D. Work only with ideas developed by post-Marxist theorists...

In what way does Julia Kristeva build on Jacques Lacan’s theory of psychosexual development ?

A. Kristeva wholly rejects Lacan’s theory of psychosexual development. B. Kristeva centralizes the maternal and the feminine in her revisions of Lacan’s theory. C. Kristeva argues that the mirror stage does not occur until the individual embraces a distinct gender role. D. All of the above....