A. The reasoning of theory is often too circular.
B. Many theories have been pushed too far into abstraction.
C. Many theories are no longer accepted by their parent disciplines.
D. All of the above.
A. Claude Lévi-Strauss
B. Jacques Derrida
C. Jacques Lacan
D. Michel Foucault
A. Understanding sexuality is crucial to understanding culture.
B. Understanding homosexuality has little effect on understanding culture.
C. Literary study is unaffected by a lack of interest in sexuality.
D. Understanding homosexual themes in novels has become too routine
A. A form of literary criticism that is based on historical context
B. A form of literary criticism that does not incorporate economic concerns
C. A form of literary criticism based on linguistic analysis
D. A term related to gender theory that argues that men are dominant in society by virtue of their economic privilege
A. Aristotle’s Poetics
B. Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata
C. John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
D. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
A. They accept ideology as an essential, although sometimes problematic, part of society.
B. They subject all ideologies to critique in order to expose biased interests.
C. They reject the idea that ideology has real effects on social progress.
D. They promote ideology because it helps to create a dominant social order
A. Cleanth Brooks
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. Karl Marx
D. Sigmund Freud
A. Psychoanalysis
B. Marxism
C. Feminism
D. Deconstruction
A. Critics should examine historical information surrounding a literary work.
B. Critics should develop universal readings of texts.
C. Critics should consider evolving notions of a text over time.
D. Critics should attempt to paraphrase texts in order to find out what they mean
A. How women really feel about male writers
B. The inscription of womanhood and femininity in texts
C. Second-wave feminism
D. Psychological studies of women