English MCQs — Test 55

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Question 1

How are Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theories distinct from traditional Freudian concepts ?

Question 2

According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror stage is the point at which a child_________________?

Question 3

What is New Historicism ?

Question 4

Which of the following statements best explains Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of language ?

Question 5

Which theorist is associated with the idea that art is a copy of a copy ?

Question 6

What fundamental idea does psychoanalytic criticism hold about literary texts ?

Question 7

Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work’s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?

Question 8

Which of the following is a rule of semiotics ?

Question 9

Trauma theory primarily developed out of the work of which psychoanalyst ?

Question 10

Which school of theorists is most closely associated with phenomenology ?