MCQs / Q&A

A. New Historicism does not make strict delineations between literary and nonliterary texts.
B. New Historicism takes a particular interest in marginalized peoples.
C. New Historicism is interested in how texts help us understand economic realities.
D. All of the above.

A. An approach that emphasizes literary devices in a text
B. An approach that emphasizes the historical context of a text
C. An approach that emphasizes the biographical intent of a text
D. An approach that emphasizes racial issues in a text

A. To create literary subjects with which female readers can identify
B. To critique phallocentric assumptions about literature
C. To counter stereotypes about women
D. All of the above.

A. T.S. Eliot
B. Jacques Lacan
C. Jacques Derrida
D. Stanley Fish

A. A feminist term for the state that occurs when texts written by women are not considered in the study of literature
B. Another term for the unconscious C. A term related to the period of psychosexual development that occurs before an infant reaches the mirror stage
D. An ideology that involves dominating the consciousness of exploited classes

A. Women’s gender is artificial, while men’s gender is not.
B. While gender is not real, the stereotypes that accompany it are true.
C. Gender is a problematic, but essentially true, category.
D. Gender is largely a cultural construct.

A. Humanism
B. Formalism
C. Structuralism
D. Poststructuralism

A. A term that describes the absence of racial others in the canon
B. A term that describes the attempt to read homosexuality into literature
C. A term that describes the effect of autobiography on text
D. A term that describes the interpretation of meaning

A. The reader is acted upon by the text.
B. The reader acts upon the text.
C. The reader brings individual knowledge to his or her reading of the text.
D. All of the above.

A. The examination of structures informing our conscious experience
B. The examination of desires informing our consciousness
C. The examination of our unconscious experience
D. The examination of intricate structures within our unconscious