Literary Theory and Criticism

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 ?

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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

What approach is described by the paragraph? This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that “literature” exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader ?

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What approach is described by the paragraph? This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that “literature” exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader ?

A. Historical/Biographical Approach
B. Reader Response Approach
C. Formalism
D. Mimetic Approach

Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others ?

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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 . . . “

How does VirginiaWoolf’s essay “A Room of One’s Own” contribute to feminist theory ?

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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.