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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to Eagleton, formalism is the application of what to the study of literature?
(a) Linguistics.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Economics.
(d) Psychology.
2. What is the German word for how reality is not objective, but experienced and organized by an individual subject?
(a) Vorgeschichte.
(b) Wendepunkt.
(c) Bildungsroman.
(d) Lebenswelt.
3. According to Eagleton, the subject in phenomenology was the source of all what?
(a) Life.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Meaning.
(d) Violence.
4. What word does Eagleton discuss that is both a descriptive term to mean "literally untrue" as well as an evaluative term to mean "visionary" or "inventive"?
(a) Unimaginative.
(b) Idealistic.
(c) Unrealistic.
(d) Imaginative.
5. What three sequential stages does Eagleton point out in the development of modern literary theory?
(a) The preoccupation with the critic, the exclusive concern with the author, and a shift toward the text.
(b) The preoccupation with the reader, the exclusive concern with the text, and a shift toward the critic.
(c) The preoccupation with the author, the exclusive concern with the text, and a shift toward the reader.
(d) The preoccupation with the text, the exclusive concern with the reader, and a shift toward the author.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the key figure in the Victorian period Eagleton cites as "preternaturally aware of the needs of his social class"?
2. According to Eagleton, why did the Russian formalists NOT see a literary work as a vehicle for ideas, reflection of reality, or transcendental truth?
3. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."
4. By the early 1930s, the study of English literature became what kind of pursuit?
5. Who silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?
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