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Category: Introduction to Literary Theory
How are Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theories distinct from traditional Freudian concepts ?
A. Kristeva rejects the idea that neuroses provide insight into the unconscious.
B. Kristeva suggests that women are not subject to traditional fetishes.
C. Kristeva offers a more central place for women’s issues within psychological development.
D. Kristeva fundamentally disagrees with the idea of the mirror stage.
With what literary critic is the term the author function most closely associated ?
A. Claude Lévi-Strauss
B. Jacques Derrida
C. Jacques Lacan
D. Michel Foucault
What does Edward Said argue about the concept of the Orient ?
A. It has little relationship to the colonization of Asian countries by the West.
B. It illustrates the fundamental political equality of all nations.
C. It was produced by Western scholarship.
D. Its literature is less proud that that of the West.
Which theorist is associated with the idea that art is a copy of a copy ?
A. Plato
B. Claude Lévi-Strauss
C. Julia Kristeva
D. Walter Benjamin
To what idea does the term heteroglossia refer ?
A. An infant’s inability to speak prior to the mirror stage
B. The referential relationships among symbols, signifiers, and signs
C. The multi-layered nature of language in a literary work
D. The formulaic shift between economic and political themes
Jacques Derrida’s concept of différance challenges us to think about language as a system that___________?
A. mirrors our physical evolution as human beings.
B. prevents us from communicating through writing or speech.
C. involves a constant process of deferred meaning.
D. evolved exclusively as a function of our individual psyche.
How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ?
A. Literary theory engages with theoretical rather than real-world issues.
B. Literary theory asks fundamental questions about literary interpretation, and at the same time builds specific systems of literary interpretation.
C. Literary theory relies totally on speculation rather than history.
D. Literary theory is detached from the reality of politics and the economy.
How does Wolfgang Iser envision the reader ?
A. The reader fills in the gaps imposed by an author’s intention.
B. The reader is sublimated beneath the author.
C. The reader is less important than the author’s context.
D. The reader is totally subject to the author’s intention.
What is New Historicism ?
A. A theory that abandons the idea of history as an imitation of events
B. A theory that regards history as a series of narratives
C. A theory that capitalizes on the interplay between literature and history
D. All of the above
In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida argues what about literature ?
A. No fixed, stable meaning is possible.
B. Language must be studied in conjunction with history in order to create meaning.
C. There is no potential for multiple and differing meanings in a work of literature.
D. Literature is timeless, and thus meaning does not change.
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