Category: Introduction to Literary Theory

A. The reasoning of theory is often too circular.
B. Many theories have been pushed too far into abstraction.
C. Many theories are no longer accepted by their parent disciplines.
D. All of the above.

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.

A. Sigmund Freud
B. Carl Jung
C. Michel Foucault
D. Jacques Derrida

A. It is nearly impossible to represent women as anything other than mad in patriarchal discourses.
B. Feminist critics need to re-appropriate Ophelia for their own purposes.
C. Women’s tragedies tend to be subordinated to those of men.
D. All of the above

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.

A. Performance is the ultimate objective of all human beings.
B. Language is used to indicate action as well as thought.
C. Individuals perform gender actively.
D. Individuals develop consciousness through speech

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

A. Plato’s The Republic
B. T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology
D. Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”

A. A language about another language
B. A supernatural language
C. A language that does not yet constitute a real language
D. A language used by a particular marginalized group of people within a larger dominant culture

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