What do many contemporary theorists find problematic about the literary canon ?

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The concept of otherness is related to which of the following theories ?

A. Feminist theory B. Ethnic criticism C. Postcolonial theory D. All of the above....

What is hermeneutics ?

A. A term that describes the absence of racial others in the canon B. A term that describes the attempt to read homosexuality into literature C. A term that describes the effect of autobiography on text D. A term that describes the interpretation of meaning...

In his essay “What Is an Author?” what position(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault take ?

A. The names of authors serve a classificatory function. B. The author is not a source of infinite meaning. C. The author may not always exist. D. All of the above....

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 …”...

Which school of theorists is most closely associated with phenomenology ?

A. The Moscow School B. The Chicago School C. The Frankfurt School D. The Geneva School...