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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
According to Aristotle the unravelling of the plot_____________?
A. Should arise from the circumstances of the plot itself
B. By supernatural machinery
C. By narration
D. By the choral odes
Michael Foucault was the major practitioner of this school of criticism?
A. Formalist Criticism
B. Deconstructionism
C. Structuralism
D. Mimetic Criticism
What do structuralist and formalist critics have in common ?
A. Both sets of critics reject the importance of historical context in studying literature.
B. Both sets of critics look for an objective way to view texts.
C. Both sets of critics focus on evaluating literature in a scientific manner.
D. All of the above answers are correct.
A critic argues that in John Milton’s “Samson Agonistes,” the shearing of Samson’s locks is symbolic of his castration at the hands of Delilah. What kind of critical approach is this critic using ?
A. Mimetic approach
B. Formalist approach
C. Historical approach
D. Psychological approach
According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror stage is the point at which a child _______________?
A. refuses maternal bonds.
B. is able to separate the “I” from the “Other.”
C. looks into a mirror for the first time.
D. All of the above answers are correct.
Trauma theory primarily developed out of the work of which psychoanalyst ?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Carl Jung
C. Michel Foucault
D. Jacques Derrida
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