English Literature Mcqs

What is affective fallacy ?

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What is affective fallacy ?

A. A term that suggests that a critic should study the structural and thematic elements of a poem rather than the effect it has on the emotions of the reader B. A term that describes the confusion between a poem and its result
C. An important term in the field of New Historicism
D. All of the above.

What does hermeneutic theory suggest about how readers view literature ?

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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.

In his essay “The Business of Theory,” William Deresiewicz argues which of the following about Terry Eagleton’s book After Theory ?

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In his essay “The Business of Theory,” William Deresiewicz argues which of the following about Terry Eagleton’s book After Theory ?

A. It offers a strong outline for how theory can be conducted in the 21st century.
B. It should not be read or considered by any student or scholar.
C. It offers some valid ideas and critiques, but its author is not entirely trustworthy.
D. It offers a strong counterpoint to Jacques Derrida’s notion of deconstruction.

Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others? A. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk______________?

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Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others? A. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk______________?

B. Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”
C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology
D. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage …”

Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?

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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.

How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ?

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How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ?

A. Literary theory engages with theoretical rather than real-world issues.
B. Literary theory asks fundamental questions about literary interpretation, and at the same time builds specific systems of literary interpretation.
C. Literary theory relies totally on speculation rather than history.
D. Literary theory is detached from the reality of politics and the economy.

Which is a common postcolonial critique of the West ?

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Which is a common postcolonial critique of the West ?

A. TheWest spends too much time trying to consider an Asian perspective.
B. The West tends to look at Asian countries as individual units rather than lump them together.
C. The West views matters through its own limited historical position.
D. The West refuses to apply economic and political coercion to Asian writers.