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Which of the following critics preferred Shakespeare’s Comedies to his Tragedies ?
A. Dryden
B. Pope
C. Dr. Johnson
D. Addison
With which theorist is the term implied reader associated ?
A. Wolfgang Iser
B. William Wimsatt
C. Cleanth Brooks
D. Harold Bloom
How does VirginiaWoolf’s essay “A Room of One’s Own” contribute to feminist theory ?
A. It suggests that the suppression of women is part of a historical climate that will naturally fade away.
B. It suggests that gender roles are conditioned by the possession of money and power.
C. It suggests that gender has power over class.
D. All of the above answers are correct.
What does Judith Butler mean when she suggests that gender is “performed” ?
A. Gender does not reflect an essential truth, but rather is a role people play based on their internalization of socially constructed gender roles.
B. Gender roles do not exist.
C. Real gender roles are scripted by excellent writers.
D. All of the above answers are correct.
Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others ?
A. Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble
B. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk
C. Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”
D. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage . . . “
In her essay “The Poem as Event,” Louise M. Rosenblatt sees the reader as performing what function ?
A. The reader participates in a transaction with the text.
B. The reader is acted upon by the text.
C. The reader acts upon the text.
D. All of the above answers are correct.
What does hermeneutic theory suggest about how readers view literature ?
A. It is impossible to view a piece of literature as its author intended.
B. It is impossible to divorce a text from capitalist ideology.
C. It is impossible to view a piece of literature correctly, because we can only work within the hetero-normative paradigm.
D. It is impossible to separate a text from the linguistics that compose it.
“The end of writing is to instruct, the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.” Whose view is this ?
A. Wordsworth’s
B. Coleridge’s
C. Dr. Johnson’s
D. Matthew Arnold’s
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