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Which theorist is most closely associated with the idea of art as imitation ?
A. Jacques Derrida
B. Jacques Lacan
C. Edward Said
D. Plato
Which of the following is a theme of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s book Epistemology of the Closet ?
A. Understanding sexuality is crucial to understanding culture.
B. Understanding homosexuality has little effect on understanding culture.
C. Literary study is unaffected by a lack of interest in sexuality.
D. All of the above answers are correct.
Christopher Ricks would most likely DISAGREE with which of the following claims about literary theory ?
A. Literary theory is limited in its ability to interpret a text.
B. Literary theory often depends on esoteric knowledge to be properly understood.
C. Literary theory is employed mostly by academics.
D. Literary theory is the only proper way to conceptualize literary texts.
Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of firstwave feminism ?
A. Hélène Cixous
B. Judith Butler
C. Lucy Irigaray
D. Mary Wollstonecraft
The phrase “willing suspension of disbelief” applies to which poet/critic ?
A. Charles Lamb
B. Joseph Conrad
C. Coleridge
D. Wordsworth
Who is the meaning of the term Peripeteia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy ?
A. Change in the fortune of the hero from bad to good
B. Change in the fortune of the hero from good to bad
C. Constancy in the fortune of the hero
D. Fluctuations occurring in the fortune of the hero
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was written by_______________?
A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge
C. Southey
D. Shelly
What is affective fallacy ?
A. A term first used by literary theorists William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
B. 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
C. An important term in the field of New Historicism
D. All of the above answers are correct.
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