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In his essay “What Is an Author?” what position(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault take ?
A. The idea of the author came into being at a certain point in history.
B. The names of authors serve a classificatory function.
C. The author may not always exist.
D. All of the above answers are correct.
One of the potential disadvantages of this approach to literature is that it can reduce meaning to a certain time frame, rather than making it universal throughout the ages ?
A. Formalist
B. Historical
C. Feminist
D. Mimetic
A critic examining Pope’s “An Essay on Man” asks herself: How well does this poem accord with the real world? Is it accurate? Is it moral? She is most likely a critic?
A. Feminist
B. Reader Response
C. Formalist
D. Mimetic
The key word that characterised the Romantic movement was_______________?
A. Inspiration
B. Imagination
C. Fancy
D. Decorum
Coleridge considered imagination as______________?
A. Critical faculty
B. Modifying power
C. A psychological experience
D. A product of intellect
What is phenomenology ?
A. The examination of structures informing our conscious experience
B. The examination of desires informing our consciousness
C. The examination of our unconscious experience
D. The examination of intricate structures within our unconscious
Ecotheorists tend to show an interest in which of the following ?
A. How writers conceptualize natural environments and the representation of environmental issues in literature and culture
B. How writers have damaged the environment
C. How the environment can be repaired
D. Who is responsible for damaging the environment
Which literary theorist argues that “there is nothing outside the text” ?
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Jacques Lacan
C. Jacques Derrida
D. Stanley Fish
Who was the originator of the Theory of Imitation in Literature ?
A. Longinus
B. Aristotle
C. Plato
D. Horace
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