Category: Introduction to Literary Theory

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.

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.

A. Wolfgang Iser
B. William Wimsatt
C. Cleanth Brooks
D. Harold Bloom

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

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.

A. Trauma theory
B. Ecotheory
C. Chaos theory
D. Formalism

A. Theodor W. Adorno
B. Claude Lévi-Strauss
C. Julia Kristeva
D. Jacques Derrida

A. An approach that emphasizes literary devices in a text
B. An approach that emphasizes the historical context of a text
C. An approach that emphasizes the biographical intent of a text
D. An approach that emphasizes racial issues in a text

A. A term that suggests that a critic should study the structural and thematic elements of a poem rather than the effect it has on the emotions of the reader B. A term that describes the confusion between a poem and its result
C. An important term in the field of New Historicism
D. All of the above.

A. The effect of literature in enlightening the human mind
B. The effect of modern society on human suffering
C. The effect of the economy on women’s concerns
D. The effect of the unconscious mind on the conscious self