What does hermeneutic theory suggest about how readers view literature ?

A. It is impossible to view a piece of literature as its author intended.
B. It is impossible to divorce a text from capitalist ideology.
C. It is impossible to view a piece of literature correctly, because we can only work within the hetero-normative paradigm.
D. It is impossible to separate a text from the linguistics that compose it.

What is affective fallacy ?

A. A term that suggests that a critic should study the structural and thematic elements of a poem rather than the effect it has on the emotions of the reader b. a term that describes the confusion between a poem and its result
C. An important term in the field of new historicism
D. All of the above.

How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ?

A. Literary theory engages with theoretical rather than real-world issues.
B. Literary theory asks fundamental questions about literary interpretation, and at the same time builds specific systems of literary interpretation.
C. Literary theory relies totally on speculation rather than history.
D. Literary theory is detached from the reality of politics and the economy.

Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ?

A. Texts are examined to see how colonizers and the colonized interact.
B. Texts are examined to see how the formal aspects of the text create meaning.
C. Texts are examined to determine how they reveal social realities.
D. Texts are examined to determine the author’s intent.

Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others? A. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk______________?

B. Roland barthes’s “the death of the author”
C. Jacques derrida’s of grammatology
D. Jacques lacan’s “the mirror stage …”

What did Sigmund Freud believe about the unconscious ?

A. It contains secret instincts and desires that are repressed.
B. It has little impact on human behavior.
C. It is the only significant aspect of the human psyche.
D. It can never be accessed.

With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated ?

A. Elaine showalter
B. Julia kristeva
C. Lucy irigaray
D. Hélène cixous

With which theorist is the term implied reader associated ?

A. Wolfgang iser
B. William wimsatt
C. Cleanth brooks
D. Harold bloom

Which of the following human behaviors is important to a Freudian psychoanalytic study of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet ?

A. Changes in emotional states
B. Obsessions
C. Slips of the tongue
D. All of the above.

What does Elaine Showalter argue about gender in terms of representations of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet ?

A. It is nearly impossible to represent women as anything other than mad in patriarchal discourses.
B. Feminist critics need to re-appropriate ophelia for their own purposes.
C. Women’s tragedies tend to be subordinated to those of men.
D. All of the above