English Literature MCQs

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How are Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theories distinct from traditional Freudian concepts ?


aKristeva rejects the idea that neuroses provide insight into the unconscious.


bKristeva suggests that women are not subject to traditional fetishes.


cKristeva offers a more central place for women’s issues within psychological development.


dAll of the above answers are correct.



What does Judith Butler mean when she suggests that gender is “performed” ?


aGender does not reflect an essential truth, but rather is a role people play based on their internalization of socially constructed gender roles.


bGender roles do not exist.


cReal gender roles are scripted by excellent writers.


dAll of the above answers are correct.



What is hermeneutics ?


aA term that describes the absence of racial others in the canon


bA term that describes the attempt to read homosexuality into literature


cA term that describes the effect of autobiography on text


dA term that describes the interpretation of meaning



The phrase “willing suspension of disbelief” applies to which poet/critic ?


aCharles Lamb


bJoseph Conrad


cColeridge


dWordsworth


View Answer Coleridge

Who contributed the term “to see the object as in itself it really is” ?


aWordsworth


bColeridge


cArnold


dGoethe


View Answer Arnold

How does VirginiaWoolf’s essay “A Room of One’s Own” contribute to feminist theory ?


aIt suggests that the suppression of women is part of a historical climate that will naturally fade away.


bIt suggests that gender roles are conditioned by the possession of money and power.


cIt suggests that gender has power over class.


dAll of the above answers are correct.



Who called Aristotle “the very Alexander of criticism” ?


aSaintsbury


bMurray


cAtkins


dTyllard


View Answer Saintsbury

In her essay “The Laugh of the Medusa,” what does Hélène Cixous suggest for women ?


aWomen should write for and about themselves in order to counter phallocentric texts.


bWomen should write, but they should do so only within the existent male canon.


cWomen should primarily dedicate themselves to studying women’s literature from the past.


dAll of the above answers are correct.



Aristotle discusses the theory of Tragedy in _______________?


aArt Poetique


bPoetics


cRhetoric


dArs Poetica


View Answer Poetics

Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others ?


aJudith Butler’s Gender Trouble


bW.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk


cRoland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”


dJacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage . . . “



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