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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, the literary work in Romantic society is seen as a ________ that is in contrast to the "fragmented individualism" of capitalist society?

2. What is the name Edmund Husserl gave to his philosophical method?

3. According to Eagleton, what kind of thought does literary education NOT encourage?

4. What date does Eagleton settle on as the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?

5. During the 1960s, what kind of students began to enter higher education that broke down assumptions about literary studies?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has the population in higher education changed in Britain since the 1960s and what it its significance?

2. What were the Russian formalists responding to in terms of literary criticism?

3. What was the romantics relationship to the symbol and why is it significant?

4. What kind of thought does a literary education not encourage, according to Eagleton, and what does this signify?

5. How did the Russian formalists answer the question "what is literature?" and why was it significant?

6. In the nineteenth century, what was the outcome of religion as a result of the industrial revolution where new technologies and science were being developed?

7. In the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, what was considered "fact" and what was considered "fiction," and how is it significant?

8. How did the romantic movement develop and why is it significant?

9. What was the dominant ideology of eighteenth-century England?

10. What is "Tristram Shandy" and why is it significant?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the ways in which the concept of literature has changed from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century.

1) What was considered literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

2) How do the romantic movement transform the definition of literature?

3) What was the function of literature during the Victorian era?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the women's movement.

1) Identify four major goals of the women's movement.

2) What is the relationship between politics and sexual ideology?

3) How did the women's movement respond to dominant literary theories?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the work of Northrop Frye with Stanely Fish. What are their methodologies?

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