English Literature Mcqs — Test 41

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Question 1

How did the New Critics view literature ?

Question 2

In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida argues what about literature ?

Question 3

With which theorist is the concept imaginative geography associated ?

Question 4

Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?

Question 5

Jacques Derrida’s concept of différance challenges us to think about language as a system that___________?

Question 6

Which literary theory would most directly explore questions of the role of spatial setting in a poem ?

Question 7

What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics ?

Question 8

With which theorist is the term identity thinking most closely associated ?

Question 9

From whom did New Historicists draw the idea of “self-regulating systems” ?

Question 10

Which theorist is most closely associated with the idea of art as imitation ?