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ENGL301 Final Exam - Introduction to Literary Theory
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ENGL301 Final Exam - Introduction to Literary Theory
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1. Which of the following ideas relates to J.L. Austin's performativity theory?
2. What is the main goal of ethnic criticism?
3. Modern literary theory began with the work of which theorist?
4. How does New Historicism differ from traditional historicism?
5. In Fredric Jameson's book The Political Unconscious, what does Jameson suggest about literature?
6. To what idea does the ancient Greek term aporia refer in terms of deconstruction theory?
7. Jacques Derrida's concept of différance challenges us to think about language as a system that:
8. In general, what is Judith Butler's concept of gender?
9. What does Edward Said argue about the concept of the Orient?
10. Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism?
11. What is double consciousness?
12. Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism?
13. What is the purpose of feminist theory?
14. With which theorist is phenomenology associated?
15. With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated?
16. From whom did New Historicists draw the idea of 'self-regulating systems'?
17. Which of the following is a rule of semiotics?
18. Which theorist is most closely associated with the idea of art as imitation?
19. What is hermeneutics?
20. Which of the following human behaviors is important to a Freudian psychoanalytic study of William Shakespeare's Hamlet?
21. What does gynocriticism recommend as an approach to literature?
22. What does Elaine Showalter argue about gender in terms of representations of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet?
23. Which of the following statements best describes Cleanth Brooks's attitude towards studying literature?
24. How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle?
25. What is dialogism?

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