Category: Introduction to Literary Theory

A. Psychoanalysis
B. Marxism
C. Feminism
D. Deconstruction

A. Literary texts should not be read as a projection of the author’s psyche.
B. Literary texts solely reflect an author’s intentions.
C. Literary texts are unlike dreams because they have a system of order and produce meaning.
D. Literary texts reveal secret elements of an author’s unconscious.

A. Jacques Lacan
B. Edward Said
C. Stephen Greenblatt
D. Plato

A. It is impossible to view a piece of literature as its author intended.
B. It is impossible to divorce a text from capitalist ideology.
C. It is impossible to view a piece of literature correctly, because we can only work within the hetero-normative paradigm.
D. It is impossible to separate a text from the linguistics that compose it.

A. It suggests that the suppression of women is part of a historical climate that will naturally fade away.
B. It suggests that gender roles are conditioned by the possession of money and power.
C. It suggests that gender has power over class.
D. It suggests that education, rather than money, is needed for the liberation of women.

A. Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are entirely random.
B. Strange attractors are complex forces that are determined by the laws of physics.
C. Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are both random and determined.
D. Strange attractors are complex forces that are entirely random.

A. New Historicism does not make strict delineations between literary and nonliterary texts.
B. New Historicism takes a particular interest in marginalized peoples.
C. New Historicism is interested in how texts help us understand economic realities.
D. All of the above.

A. A reversal
B. An imitation
C. A satire
D. A poetic metaphor

A. Wolfgang Iser
B. Jean-Paul Sartre
C. Emmanuel Lévinas
D. All of the above.

A. Examining only female-authored literature more critically
B. Considering women’s literature outside of its historical context
C. Studying women’s literature for its linguistic qualities only
D. Becoming more familiar with the history of women and women’s writing