Category: Introduction to Literary Theory

A. How women really feel about male writers
B. The inscription of womanhood and femininity in texts
C. Second-wave feminism
D. Psychological studies of women

A. Cleanth Brooks
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. Karl Marx
D. Sigmund Freud

A. Critics should examine historical information surrounding a literary work.
B. Critics should develop universal readings of texts.
C. Critics should consider evolving notions of a text over time.
D. Critics should attempt to paraphrase texts in order to find out what they mean

A. He considers it to be vital in order to understand literary texts.
B. He considers theory to be the only way that literary texts can be interpreted.
C. He has no misgivings about the practical usability of literary theory.
D. He feels that literary theory is ultimately too limited in scope to serve as a proper method of interpretation.

A. Changes in emotional states
B. Obsessions
C. Slips of the tongue
D. All of the above.

A. The names of authors serve a classificatory function.
B. The author is not a source of infinite meaning.
C. The author may not always exist.
D. All of the above.

A. Aristotle’s Poetics
B. Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata
C. John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
D. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

A. Harold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon”
B. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage … ”
C. Cleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan Historian”
D. Edward Said’s Orientalism

A. A figure of judgment
B. Religious belief
C. A witness
D. Psychological treatment

A. Trauma theory
B. Ecotheory
C. Game theory
D. Marxist theory