Deck 3: Literary and Critical Theory

Question 1

What is the subtitle of The Fragile Absolute by Slavoj Zizek?.

A)why is the christian legacy worth fighting for?
B)is the christian legacy worth fighting for?
C)christian legacy
D)none of these

Answer 1

why is the christian legacy worth fighting for?

Question 2

Zizek's favourite philosopher who influences his works most is

A)jacques lacan
B)lyotard
C)foucault
D)habermas

Answer 2

jacques lacan

Question 3

Who is called "the French Freud"?

A)c j yung
B)jacques lacan.
C)lyotard
D)foucault

Answer 3

jacques lacan.

Question 4

Jacques lacan's formulation of the concept of psycho?sexual development has the following three stages of symbolic, imagination and the

A)object
B)subject
C)self
D)mirror stage

Question 5

"The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious" is a celebrated essay by

A)jacques lacan
B)bakhtin
C)derrida
D)foucault

Question 6

Ferdinand de Saussure who played an important part in the development of structuralism is a _ linguist.

A)german
B)italian
C)british
D)swiss

Question 7

Course in General linguistics published in 1975 is written by

A)barthes
B)derrida
C)saussure
D)lacan

Question 8

The figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole as in "ten hands" for "ten workers" is called

A)simile
B)metaphor
C)personification
D)synecdoche

Question 9

"Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human sciences" is an essay by

A)saussure
B)lacan
C)jacques derrida
D)julia kristeva

Question 10

Which of the following books is not of Jacques Derrida?

A)of grammatology
B)dissemination
C)writing and dif erence
D)waste land

Question 11

Who coined the new word "difference" to mean "to differ" and "to defer" at the same time?

A)lacan
B)derrida
C)barthes
D)tudor

Question 12

Who is the proponent of affective stylistics?

A)harold bloom
B)derrida
C)lacan
D)stanley fish

Question 13

Who says that all "reading is …….misreading"?

A)harold bloom
B)foucault
C)m h abrams
D)todorov

Question 14

Which critical school has its ideal the establishment of an authentic text?

A)new criticism
B)aesthetic criticism
C)textual criticism
D)structuralism

Question 15

wrote the text Principles of Textual Criticism .

A)james thorpe
B)vladimir propp
C)eliot
D)eagleton

Question 16

Who wrote the famous essay "The Death of the Author"?

A)roland barthes
B)lacan
C)foucault
D)derrida

Question 17

Whose book is The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis?

A)jacques lacan
B)siigmund freud
C)earnest jones
D)jung

Question 18

"The Philosophy of Composition" is by

A)keats
B)edgar allan poe
C)coleridge
D)tennison

Question 19

Which critic made a revaluation of Metaphysical poets and praised them for blending states of mind and feeling

A)t s eliot
B)f r leavis
C)samuel jonson
D)shelley

Question 20

wrote After the New Criticism(1980)

A)f r leavis
B)samuel jonson
C)frank lentricchia
D)shelley

Question 21

wrote Defence of poetry

A)shelley
B)keats
C)longinus
D)shakespeare

Question 22

The title of the book The Well Wrought Urn (1947) by Cleanth Brooks is taken from the poem by John Donne.

A)the flee
B)valediction
C)the canonization
D)the anniversary

Question 23

The term is suggestive of carefully worked out images that were elaborated over a number of lines.

A)well wrought
B)simile
C)humour
D)zeitgeist

Question 24

According to Freud all human behavior is motivated by or Sexual energy.

A)libido
B)thanatos
C)eros
D)oedipus complex