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Category: Introduction to Literary Theory
According to Plato, what is the moral purpose of art ?
A. To connect human beings with a higher ideal
B. To entertain those who enjoy it
C. To criticize society through satire
D. To bring to light social oppressions
How do Marxist theorists react to ideology ?
A. They accept ideology as an essential, although sometimes problematic, part of society.
B. They subject all ideologies to critique in order to expose biased interests.
C. They reject the idea that ideology has real effects on social progress.
D. They promote ideology because it helps to create a dominant social order
According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror stage is the point at which a child_________________?
A. refuses maternal bonds.
B. is able to separate the “I” from the “Other.”
C. looks into a mirror for the first time.
D. first engages with speech.
With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated ?
A. Elaine Showalter
B. Julia Kristeva
C. Lucy Irigaray
D. Hélène Cixous
Which is a common postcolonial critique of the West ?
A. TheWest spends too much time trying to consider an Asian perspective.
B. The West tends to look at Asian countries as individual units rather than lump them together.
C. The West views matters through its own limited historical position.
D. The West refuses to apply economic and political coercion to Asian writers.
What is the purpose of feminist theory ?
A. To create literary subjects with which female readers can identify
B. To critique phallocentric assumptions about literature
C. To counter stereotypes about women
D. All of the above.
With which theorist is the term implied reader associated ?
A. Wolfgang Iser
B. William Wimsatt
C. Cleanth Brooks
D. Harold Bloom
Which school of literary theory is associated with the phrase “to make the stones stonier” ?
A. Humanism
B. Formalism
C. Structuralism
D. Poststructuralism
What do many contemporary theorists find problematic about the literary canon ?
A. It includes too few works by nonwhite writers.
B. It includes too few works by women.
C. It includes too few works by non- Western writers.
D. All of the above.
Which school of literary theory shows a particular interest in the role of testimony in literature ?
A. Trauma theory
B. Ecotheory
C. Chaos theory
D. Formalism
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