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What is the meaning of the term Anagnorisis as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy ?
A. The hero’s recognition of his tragic flaw
B. The hero’s ignorance about his tragic flaw
C. The hero’s recognition of his adversary
D. The hero’s recognition of his tragic end
In which essay did Arnold say that for good literature to flourish two powers are necessary – creative and the critical ?
A. The Function of Criticism
B. The Study of Poetry
C. Preface to Eighteen Fifty Three poems
D. Essay on Wordsworth
What are some common criticisms of literary theory ?
A. Theory has replaced literary appreciation with formulas for understanding
B. The reasoning of theory is often too circular
C. Many theories have been pushed too far into abstraction
D. All of the above answers are correct
What does Elaine Showalter argue about gender in terms of representations of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet ?
A. Ophelia’s madness represents the social oppression of women.
B. It is nearly impossible to represent women as anything other than mad in patriarchal discourses.
C. Feminist critics need to re-appropriate Ophelia for their own purposes.
D. All of the above answers are correct.
They believe that this approach tends to reduce art to the level of biography and make it relative (to the times) rather than universal. What approach possess this disadvantage ?
A. Moral/Philosophical
B. Formalism/New Criticism
C. Historical/Biographical
D. Psychological
The structure of tragedy according to Aristotle is________________?
A. Simple
B. Complex
C. Loose
D. Episodic
From whom did New Historicists draw the idea of “self-regulating systems” ?
A. Theodor W. Adorno
B. Claude Lévi-Strauss
C. Julia Kristeva
D. Jacques Derrida
Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?
A. Agathon
B. Aeschylus
C. Sophocles
D. Euripides
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