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- How do Marxist theorists react to ideology ?
MCQs: How do Marxist theorists react to ideology ?
They accept ideology as an essential, although sometimes problematic, part of society.
They subject all ideologies to critique in order to expose biased interests.
They reject the idea that ideology has real effects on social progress.
All of the above answers are correct.
MCQs 1: What approach to literary criticism requires the critic to know about the author’s life and times ?
MCQs 2: How many times do the word Katharsis appear in the Poetics________________?
MCQs 3: Ecotheorists tend to show an interest in which of the following ?
How writers conceptualize natural environments and the representation of environmental issues in literature and culture
How writers have damaged the environment
How the environment can be repaired
Who is responsible for damaging the environment
MCQs 4: Which school of theorists is most closely associated with phenomenology ?
MCQs 5: What has Dryden to say about the observance of the three Classical Dramatic Unities ?
He advocates their strict observance
He does not advocate their strict observance
He says that every dramatist should decide it for himself
He is silent about this issue
MCQs 6: What is the purpose of feminist theory ?
To advocate for women’s rights
To create literary subjects with which female readers can identify
To critique phallocentric assumptions about literature
All of the above answers are correct.
MCQs 7: On the Sublime is considered ______________?
MCQs 8: Who coined the expression “objective corelative” ?
MCQs 9: Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?
Aristotle’s Poetics
Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk
MCQs 10: Who for the first time discriminated between imagination and fancy ?
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