Deck 5: Literary Criticism and Theory: Part B

Question 1

Who described new historicism as "a reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts and textuality of history?

A)louis montrose
B)stephen green blatt
C)catherine galager
D)none of these

Answer 1

louis montrose

Question 2

is the term used by new historicists to suggest verbal formations which are the "Ideological products" or "cultural constructs" of a specific area.

A)representations
B)mythologies
C)products
D)ideology

Answer 2

representations

Question 3

The book The New Historicism, a collection of essays by new historicists, Louis Montrose, Stephen Green Blatt and others is edited by_

A)h aram veeser
B)louis montrose
C)stephen green blatt
D)catherine galager

Answer 3

h aram veeser

Question 4

Who used the term "ecocriticism" for the first time in 1978?

A)william rueckert
B)raymond williams
C)leo marx
D)donald worster

Question 5

An early ecocritical work The country and the City (1973) is written by

A)raymond williams
B)william rueckert
C)leo marx
D)donald worster

Question 6

The book Romantic Ecology (1991) is written by the British critic

A)rachel carlson
B)joseph meeker
C)raymond williams
D)jonathan bate

Question 7

Who wrote the book Silent Spring (1962) on toxic effects of residue of chemicals?

A)rachel carson
B)william rueckert
C)raymond williams
D)leo marx

Question 8

is a term used for placing human beings at the centre of everything and its opposite is ecocentrism.

A)anthropocentrism
B)phonocentricism
C)logocentricism
D)technocentricsm

Question 9

Who coined the term "Literary ecology" in 1972?

A)william ruckert
B)rachel carlson
C)joseph meeker
D)raymond williams

Question 10

Who wrote the essay "nature" which argued that all human actions are irrational because they try to change or alter the course of nature?

A)js mill
B)rachel carlson
C)joseph meeker
D)wordsworth

Question 11

Who wrote The Population Bomb (1972) one of the most popular environmentalist books ever written?

A)rachel carlson
B)paul ehrlich
C)joseph meeker
D)jonathan bate

Question 12

argue that patriarchal societies' values and beliefs have resulted in the oppression of both women and nature.

A)ecofeminists
B)feminists
C)ecologists
D)economists

Question 13

Vandana Shiva's book_ an important ecofeminist book saw ancient India as possessing a more environment friendly culture.

A)mother earth
B)moby dick
C)staying alive
D)made from this earth

Question 14

The main charge of cultural Materialists against New Historicists is that their readings are

A)non political
B)historical
C)economical
D)political

Question 15

A term that regularly occurs in New Historicists books is_

A)hybridity
B)dialogism
C)intertextuality
D)circulation

Question 16

is an alternative term for Cultural Materialism

A)new historicism
B)deconstruction
C)structuralism
D)cultural poetics

Question 17

Of the following which is not a feature of post modernist writing

A)pastiche
B)parody
C)eclectic approach
D)symbolism

Question 18

Who wrote The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1984) which is an analysis of various aspects of post modernism?

A)jean-francois lyotard
B)saussure
C)barthes
D)terry eagleton.

Question 19

Who put forward the proposition that all literary texts have gaps or lacunae, which is an important concept in reader?response theory?

A)wolfgang iser
B)saussure
C)lacan
D)freud

Question 20

Who made a distinction between 'open' and 'closed texts?

A)gayathri spivak
B)derrida
C)lacan
D)umberto eco

Question 21

In post colonialism the condition of being the subject of cross?breeding is called_

A)marginality
B)colonialism
C)hybridity
D)modernism

Question 22

Who made a controversy by famously saying that the Gulf war did not take place

A)barthes
B)jean baudrillard
C)lyotard
D)saddam hussein

Question 23

Simulation and simulacra are whose notions?

A)jean budrillard's
B)lyotard's
C)barthe's
D)babha's

Question 24

The term "Social realism" is connected with

A)structuralism
B)marxist criticism
C)modernism
D)post structuralism

Question 25

Hungarian Marxist Critic Georg Lukacs developed a theory known as seeing literary works as reflections of a kind of system that was gradually unfolding

A)realism
B)expressionism
C)reflection
D)dadaism