English Literature Mcqs

A. No fixed, stable meaning is possible.
B. Language must be studied in conjunction with history in order to create meaning.
C. There is no potential for multiple and differing meanings in a work of literature.
D. Literature is timeless, and thus meaning does not change.

A. As an aesthetic object that is independent of historical context
B. As an aesthetic object that is influenced by historical context
C. As a historical object that is also aesthetic
D. As a historical object that is not necessarily aesthetic

A. The names of authors serve a classificatory function.
B. The author is not a source of infinite meaning.
C. The author may not always exist.
D. All of the above.

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

A. Trauma theory
B. Ecotheory
C. Game theory
D. Marxist theory

A. Harold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon”
B. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage … ”
C. Cleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan Historian”
D. Edward Said’s Orientalism

A. Julia Kristeva
B. Fredric Jameson
C. Terry Eagleton
D. Edward Said

A. To represent the relationship between colonizers and the colonized
B. To draw attention to the positive effects of colonization on literature
C. To explain why there are few examples of successful non-Western literature
D. To show the ways in which mostWestern literature is superior

A. Jacques Lacan
B. Edward Said
C. Stephen Greenblatt
D. Plato