What is hermeneutics ?

A. A term that describes the absence of racial others in the canon
B. A term that describes the attempt to read homosexuality into literature
C. A term that describes the effect of autobiography on text
D. A term that describes the interpretation of meaning

Which school of literary theory is associated with the phrase “to make the stones stonier” ?

A. Humanism
B. Formalism
C. Structuralism
D. Poststructuralism

In general, what is Judith Butler’s concept of gender ?

A. Women’s gender is artificial, while men’s gender is not.
B. While gender is not real, the stereotypes that accompany it are true.
C. Gender is a problematic, but essentially true, category.
D. Gender is largely a cultural construct.

What is double consciousness ?

A. An understanding of how double experiences create identity
B. A concept developed by w.e.b du bosi
C. An attempt to explain dual identity
D. All of the above.

Which of the following is a theme of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s book Epistemology of the Closet ?

A. Understanding sexuality is crucial to understanding culture.
B. Understanding homosexuality has little effect on understanding culture.
C. Literary study is unaffected by a lack of interest in sexuality.
D. Understanding homosexual themes in novels has become too routine

With what literary critic is the term the author function most closely associated ?

A. Claude lévi-strauss
B. Jacques derrida
C. Jacques lacan
D. Michel foucault

What are some common criticisms of literary theory ?

A. The reasoning of theory is often too circular.
B. Many theories have been pushed too far into abstraction.
C. Many theories are no longer accepted by their parent disciplines.
D. All of the above.

How do Marxist theorists react to ideology ?

A. They accept ideology as an essential, although sometimes problematic, part of society.
B. They subject all ideologies to critique in order to expose biased interests.
C. They reject the idea that ideology has real effects on social progress.
D. They promote ideology because it helps to create a dominant social order

Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?

A. Aristotle’s poetics
B. Leo tolstoy’s the kreutzer sonata
C. John keats’s “ode on a grecian urn”
D. Joseph conrad’s heart of darkness

What is dialectical materialism ?

A. A form of literary criticism that is based on historical context
B. A form of literary criticism that does not incorporate economic concerns
C. A form of literary criticism based on linguistic analysis
D. A term related to gender theory that argues that men are dominant in society by virtue of their economic privilege