Which theorist is associated with the idea that art is a copy of a copy ?
A. Plato
B. Claude Lévi-Strauss
C. Julia Kristeva
D. Walter Benjamin
MCQs / Q&A
Which of the following statements best explains Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of language ?
Which of the following statements best explains Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of language ?
A. Language includes multiple social dialects and jargons.
B. Language can include socioideological contradictions from the past.
C. Language exhibits and is bound up in the social lives and historical context of the people who speak it.
D. Language is loaded with the intentions of others.
What is New Historicism ?
What is New Historicism ?
A. A theory that abandons the idea of history as an imitation of events
B. A theory that regards history as a series of narratives
C. A theory that capitalizes on the interplay between literature and history
D. All of the above
Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work’s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?
Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work’s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?
A. Plato’s The Republic
B. T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology
D. Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”
What fundamental idea does psychoanalytic criticism hold about literary texts ?
What fundamental idea does psychoanalytic criticism hold about literary texts ?
A. Literary texts should not be read as a projection of the author’s psyche.
B. Literary texts solely reflect an author’s intentions.
C. Literary texts are unlike dreams because they have a system of order and produce meaning.
D. Literary texts reveal secret elements of an author’s unconscious.
What is mimesis ?
What is mimesis ?
A. A reversal
B. An imitation
C. A satire
D. A poetic metaphor
Which school of theorists is most closely associated with phenomenology ?
Which school of theorists is most closely associated with phenomenology ?
A. The Moscow School
B. The Chicago School
C. The Frankfurt School
D. The Geneva School
Trauma theory primarily developed out of the work of which psychoanalyst ?
Trauma theory primarily developed out of the work of which psychoanalyst ?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Carl Jung
C. Michel Foucault
D. Jacques Derrida
Which of the following is a rule of semiotics ?
Which of the following is a rule of semiotics ?
A. All linguistic concepts evolve solely out of the responses of people within a specific historical era.
B. All linguistic and social phenomena are texts, and the object of studying these texts is to reveal the underlying codes that make them meaningful.
C. All linguistics is in some way related to class struggle.
D. All linguistics is related to history, and therefore the meaning of linguistics relies exclusively on historical context.
What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?
What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?
A. A language about another language
B. A supernatural language
C. A language that does not yet constitute a real language
D. A language used by a particular marginalized group of people within a larger dominant culture