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- What approach is described by the paragraph? Users of this approach believe that all information ess...
MCQs: What approach is described by the paragraph? Users of this approach believe that all information essential to the interpretation of a work must be found within the work itself; there is no need to bring in outside information about the history, politics, or society of the time, or about the author’s life ?
MCQs 1: Who proposed that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic ?
MCQs 2: What does gynocriticism recommend as an approach to literature ?
Examining only female-authored literature more critically
Considering women’s literature outside of its historical context
Becoming more familiar with the history of women and women’s writing
All of the above answers are correct.
MCQs 3: Horace was a_____________?
MCQs 4: A critic examining Pope’s “An Essay on Man” asks herself: How well does this poem accord with the real world? Is it accurate? Is it moral? She is most likely a critic?
MCQs 5: The statements below are steps on “How to Read and Understand an Expository Essay”. Which comes in as an initial thing to do before writing an expository essay ?
Identify the Mode of Development
Analysis of the Author
Subsequent Readings/Reviews
All of the above answers are correct.
MCQs 6: This literary critic warned: “We must remember that the greater part of our current reading matter is written for us by people who have no real belief in a supernatural order . . . And the greater part . . . is coming to be written by people who not only have no such belief, but are even ignorant of the fact that there are still people in the world so ’backward’ or so ’eccentric’ as to continue to believe.” ?
MCQs 7: 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 8: In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four interlocuters representing four different ideologies. Which of them expresses Dryden’s own views ?
MCQs 9: 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 10: 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.
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