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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. What fundamental idea does psychoanalytic criticism hold about literary texts?
2. What is mimesis?
3. What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics?
4. How does New Historicism differ from traditional historicism?
5. From whom did New Historicists draw the idea of 'self-regulating systems'?
6. What did Sigmund Freud believe about the unconscious?
7. In general, what is Judith Butler's concept of gender?
8. Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of first-wave feminism?
9. With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated?
10. With which theorist is the concept imaginative geography associated?
11. Which theorist is most closely associated with the idea of art as imitation?
12. Modern literary theory began with the work of which theorist?
13. The Frankfurt School of literary theory was most greatly influenced by which of the following schools of thought?
14. In her essay 'The Laugh of the Medusa,' what does Hélène Cixous suggest for women?
15. How do Marxist theorists react to ideology?
16. What is the main goal of ethnic criticism?
17. Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization?
18. According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader?
19. Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism?
20. What is dialectical materialism?
21. What is defamiliarization?
22. With which theorist is phenomenology associated?
23. What does hermeneutic theory suggest about how readers view literature?
24. 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?
25. Which school of literary theory is associated with the phrase 'to make the stones stonier'?

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