Deck 4: Literary Criticism and Theory: Part A

Question 1

Oedipus Complex is a hypothesis developed by

A)adler
B)freud
C)jung
D)piaget

Answer 1

freud

Question 2

Ernest Jones Hamlet and Oedipus originally published in 1910in the first full scale study of major work

A)formalist
B)psychoanalytic
C)structuralist
D)textual

Answer 2

psychoanalytic

Question 3

Hamlet is a

A)tragedy
B)comedy
C)farce
D)novel

Answer 3

tragedy

Question 4

Which critic spoke about four kinds of meaning?

A)ia richards
B)t.s.eliot
C)f rleavis
D)coleridge freud

Question 5

Who defined a good work as one which successfully communicates a valuable experience?

A)coleridge
B)t.s.eliot
C)f.r.leavis
D)ia richards

Question 6

Gusto is a concept of the Romantic critic

A)hazlitt
B)coleridge
C)wordsworth
D)f.r.leavis

Question 7

"Horizon of expectation " is a term used in the reception theory of

A)hans robert gauss
B)george gardener
C)robert c holub
D)j p stern

Question 8

Ecriture the French word is used for

A)speaking
B)reading
C)writing
D)note making

Question 9

Writing Degree Zero is a book written by

A)geoffrey hartman
B)roland barthes
C)derrida
D)barthes

Question 10

"Writerly books" and "Readerly books" are a distinction made by

A)samuel johnson
B)umberto eco
C)derrida
D)roland barthes

Question 11

The book The New Criticism 1941 is written by

A)john crowe ranson
B)ia richards
C)t.s.eliot
D)milton

Question 12

Which group of critics relied on "explication" or "close reading"?

A)structuralist
B)new critics
C)romantics
D)neo classical critics

Question 13

Who wrote the book Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)?

A)ts eliot
B)william empson
C)fr leavis
D)ia richards

Question 14

According to Allan Tate the meaning of good poetry is its _

A)tension
B)irony
C)paradox
D)extension

Question 15

Rene Wellek, American critic and Austin warren coauthored the book_ in 1949

A)principles of literary criticism
B)theory of literature
C)language of fiction
D)on the sublime

Question 16

Who used the phrase "the heresy of paraphrase"?

A)cleanth brooks
B)austin warren
C)rene wellek
D)william empson

Question 17

Who wrote the works Practical criticism (1929) and Principles of Literacy Criticism (1924)

A)ia richards
B)austin warren
C)rene wellek
D)william empson

Question 18

Which important writer other than George Eliot and Henry James according to FR Leavis formed The Great Tradition in English novel?

A)d h lawrence
B)emilebronte
C)joseph conrad
D)golding

Question 19

Multiple meaning and plurisignation are alternative terms for the word

A)ambiguity
B)paradox
C)simile
D)metaphor

Question 20

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) by Albert Camus is an important work on

A)expressionism
B)impressionism
C)ambiguity
D)existentialism

Question 21

Who criticizes William Empson's theory of ambiguity in "William Empson, Contemporary criticism and poetic diction"?

A)ezra pound
B)elder olson
C)allan tate
D)r s crane

Question 22

The idea of "depth psychology" an important antecedent of archetypal criticism is of

A)freud
B)adler
C)cg jung
D)piaget

Question 23

Allan Tate's "Tension in poetry" appears in the book

A)one the limits of poetry
B)tensions in poetry
C)the limits of poetry
D)poetry

Question 24

denotes recurrent narrative designs, patterns of action, character types, themes and images which are identifiable in literature, myths, dreams and even social rituals.

A)image
B)motif
C)archetype
D)mythology

Question 25

The slogan of the cultural movement launched by clack students in Paris in 1932 is

A)negritude
B)black art movement
C)black aesthetics
D)black movement