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Formalist critics believe that the value of a work cannot be determined by the author’s intention. What term do they use when speaking of this belief ?
A. The pathetic fallacy
B. The intentional fallacy
C. The affective fallacy
D. The objective correlative
Who for the first time discriminated between imagination and fancy ?
A. Coleridge
B. William Wordsworth
C. John Ruskin
D. Schegell
Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?
A. Texts are examined to see how colonizers and the colonized interact.
B. Texts are examined to see how the formal aspects of the text create meaning.
C. Texts are examined to determine how they reveal social realities.
D. Texts are examined to determine the author’s intent.
A critic of Thomas Otway’s “Venice Preserv’d” wishes to know why the play’s conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, are portrayed in a sympathetic light. She examines the author’s life and times and discovers that there are obvious similarities between the conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot. She is most likely a critic ?
A. Historical
B. Feminist
C. Tory
D. Psychological
The fall of the prison of Bacille, that marks the begining of French Revolution occurred on______________?
A. June 14,1789
B. June 14, 1798
C. July 14, 1789
D. July 14,1798
In her essay “The Laugh of the Medusa,” what does Hélène Cixous suggest for women ?
A. Women should write for and about themselves in order to counter phallocentric texts.
B. Women should write, but they should do so only within the existent male canon.
C. Women should primarily dedicate themselves to studying women’s literature from the past.
D. All of the above answers are correct.
Who proposed that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic ?
A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Sir Philip Sidney
D. Sir Thomas More
With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated ?
A. Elaine Showalter
B. Julia Kristeva
C. Lucy Irigaray
D. Louise M. Rosenblatt
What is the original meaning of the term Hamartia ?
A. To miss the mark
B. Sin
C. Tragic flaw
D. Flaws
Which theorist is associated with the idea that art is a copy of a copy ?
A. Plato
B. Julia Kristeva
C. Walter Benjamin
D. Louis Althusser
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