What is the purpose of feminist 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...

Ultimately, the literary theory of deconstruction argues that___________?

A. texts are always heterogeneous. B. the instability of a text is actually evident in the text itself. C. any system for the production of meaning is inevitably bound by context, yet also limitless. D. All of the above....

How does Wolfgang Iser envision the reader ?

A. The reader fills in the gaps imposed by an author’s intention. B. The reader is sublimated beneath the author. C. The reader is less important than the author’s context. D. The reader is totally subject to the author’s intention....

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...

Which of the following statements best explains Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of language ?

A. Language includes multiple social dialects and jargons. B. Language can include socioideological contradictions from the past. C. Language exhibits and is bound up in the social lives and historical context of the people who speak it. D. Language is loaded with the intentions of others....