Category: Introduction to Literary Theory

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

A. Claude Lévi-Strauss
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. Viktor Shklovsky
D. Roland Barthes

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

A. It contains secret instincts and desires that are repressed.
B. It has little impact on human behavior.
C. It is the only significant aspect of the human psyche.
D. It can never be accessed.

A. Formalism
B. Structuralism
C. Poststructuralism
D. Marxism

A. T.S. Eliot
B. Jacques Lacan
C. Jacques Derrida
D. Stanley Fish

A. A concept associated with Russian formalism
B. An idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky
C. A term that describes the capacity of art to counter the effects of habit
D. All of the above.

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

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.

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.