Quiz 📖 Literature
ENGL 300: Literary Theory Schools
Formalism, structuralism, deconstruction, and criticism.
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Question 1
New Criticism is most associated with which practice?
- Close reading of the autonomous literary text
- Ranking authors by sales
- Rejecting all attention to language
- Studying only reader brain scans
Question 2
Structuralism often treats meaning as produced by what?
- Relations within systems of signs
- The author's handwriting alone
- A fixed dictionary entry outside culture
- Random page length
Question 3
Deconstruction is most concerned with what feature of texts?
- Internal tensions, unstable binaries, and deferred meaning
- The best way to bind a book
- Only plot summary
- Making texts easier by removing ambiguity
Question 4
Reader-response criticism shifts attention toward what?
- The role of readers in producing meaning
- The chemical composition of ink
- The abolition of interpretation
- Legal jurisdiction
Question 5
New Historicism generally reads literature in relation to what?
- Power, culture, and historical discourse
- Only meter and rhyme detached from context
- Only author birthdays
- Laboratory animal behavior
Question 6
Postcolonial criticism often examines which issue?
- Empire, representation, language, and resistance
- How to solve quadratic equations
- Whether all texts have no politics
- Only punctuation marks
Question 7
A feminist literary reading might ask which question?
- How gender shapes authorship, representation, power, and reception
- How to calculate molecular mass
- Which judge has jurisdiction
- Whether novels contain pages
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