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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Post-Structuralism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Eagleton, the Western philosophical tradition has "consistently vilified" what?
(a) Writing.
(b) Myth.
(c) Man.
(d) Speech.

2. How many decades, according to Eagleton, has there been a "striking proliferation of literary theory" since the publication of the Russian formalist's pioneering essay?
(a) Two.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) One.

3. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?
(a) Heinrich Wolffin.
(b) Viktor Shklovsky.
(c) Boris Tomashevsky.
(d) Roman Jakobson.

4. How did post-structuralism respond to France's student movement's failed attempt to break state power?
(a) Post-structuralism sought to create a more powerful language.
(b) Post-structuralism sought to break the structures of language.
(c) Post-structuralism sought to break state power.
(d) Post-structuralism sought to create a free language.

5. According to Eagleton, what becomes the "panacea for all problems" as part of the romantics' aesthetic theory at the turn of the eighteenth century?
(a) The image.
(b) The text.
(c) The word.
(d) The symbol.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eagleton argues that a literary work in Romantic society becomes what rather than rational and mechanical?

2. According to Eagleton, what is ironic about those who complain of the difficulty of literary theory?

3. What commonality does structuralism and phenomenology share, according to Eagleton?

4. Literary texts are code-productive, code-transgressive, and code_____.

5. According to Eagleton, the sentence "this is awfully squiggly handwriting" from Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" tells him its literary because of what reason?

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