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- New trends in literary theory tend to do which of the following ?
MCQs: New trends in literary theory tend to do which of the following ?
Reject all previous modes of literary theory
Focus on a return to traditional critical methods
Make use of different literary theories in order to develop new theories
Work only with ideas developed by post- Marxist theorists
MCQs 1: In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four interlocuters representing four different ideologies. Which of them expresses Dryden’s own views ?
MCQs 2: What do many contemporary theorists find problematic about the literary canon ?
It includes too few works by non- European writers.
It includes too few works by non-white writers.
It includes too few works by women.
All of the above answers are correct.
MCQs 3: How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ?
Literary theory engages with theoretical rather than real-world issues.
Literary theory asks fundamental questions about literary interpretation, and at the same time builds specific systems of literary interpretation.
Literary theory relies totally on speculation rather than history.
All of the above answers are correct.
MCQs 4: What did Sigmund Freud believe about the unconscious?
It contains secret instincts and desires that are repressed.
It is the only significant aspect of the human psyche.
It can never be accessed.
All of the above answers are correct.
MCQs 5: What approach is described by the paragraph? Those who apply this approach believe it is necessary to know about the author and the political, economical, and sociological context of his times in order to truly understand his works ?
MCQs 6: In her essay “The Poem as Event,” Louise M. Rosenblatt sees the reader as performing what function ?
The reader participates in a transaction with the text.
The reader is acted upon by the text.
The reader acts upon the text.
All of the above answers are correct.
MCQs 7: Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?
Harold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon”
Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage . . . ”
Cleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan Historian”
Edward Said’s Orientalism
MCQs 8: In his essay “What Is an Author?” what position(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault take ?
The idea of the author came into being at a certain point in history.
The names of authors serve a classificatory function.
The author may not always exist.
All of the above answers are correct.
MCQs 9: Among the following which is not a work by Aristotle ?
MCQs 10: In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as____________?
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