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

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Christopher Ricks would most likely DISAGREE with which of the following claims about literary theory ?

A. Literary theory often depends on esoteric knowledge to be properly understood. B. Literary theory is employed mostly by academics. C. Literary theory should not be an academic focus in English departments. D. Literary theory is the only proper way to conceptualize literary texts....

Jacques Derrida’s concept of différance challenges us to think about language as a system that___________?

A. mirrors our physical evolution as human beings. B. prevents us from communicating through writing or speech. C. involves a constant process of deferred meaning. D. evolved exclusively as a function of our individual psyche....

Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others? A. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk______________?

B. Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author” C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology D. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage …”...

To what idea does the ancient Greek term aporia refer in terms of deconstruction theory ?

A. The ability of a text to contain truth B. The “undecidability” and essentially unstable nature of a text C. The idea that a text has a specific meaning that can be understood through a process of deconstruction D. Jacques Derrida’s style of writing...

Reader-response theory is focused on considering which of the following ?

A. How readers learn to read B. How readers imagine visual images in a text C. How readers participate in creating the meaning of a text D. How readers regard critics...