Literary Criticism and Theory — Mock Test 1

Which of the following are chapter titles in I. A. Richards' Principles of Literary Criticism (1924)?

1. A. 'Poetry for Poetry's Sake'
2. B. 'Critical Principles: The Indemonstrability of Values'
3. C. 'On Looking at a Picture'
4. D. 'The Theory of Interpretation'
5. E. 'The Analysis of a Poem'

Which quotations are correctly matched with their texts?

1. A. Poets are 'the right popular philosophers' — An Apology for Poetry
2. B. The critic must halt at the frontier of metaphysics — 'The Metaphysical Poets'
3. C. 'Frantic novels, sickly and stupid German tragedies' — Preface to Lyrical Ballads
4. D. 'For poetry the idea is everything' — 'The Study of Poetry'
5. E. A fool might once himself alone expose; now one in verse makes many more in prose — An Essay on Man

Match List I with List II:

Assertion (A): Sidney's Apology for Poetry is a seminal text of literary criticism. Reason (R): It is the first English synthesis of Renaissance criticism, drawing on Aristotle, Horace, Boccaccio and Scaliger.

Which work by Arnold preaches that 'the kingdom of God is within you'?

Which issue does Horace NOT address in the Ars Poetica?

Arrange the following critical works in chronological order:

1. A. T. S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
2. B. J. C. Smith, A Study of Wordsworth
3. C. D. G. James, Scepticism and Poetry
4. D. Marjorie L. Barstow, Wordsworth's Theory of Poetic Diction
5. E. Josephine Miles, Pathetic Fallacy in the Nineteenth Century

Arrange Kuntaka's levels of vakrata (obliquity) from the smallest to the largest unit:

1. A. Episodic (prakarana)
2. B. Compositional (prabandha)
3. C. Phonetic (varna-vinyasa)
4. D. Lexical (pada-purvardha)
5. E. Grammatical (pratyaya)

Match List I with List II:

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Assertion (A): Post-structuralism and deconstruction are virtually synonymous. Reason (R): Deconstruction arises out of Barthes's structuralism, as a reaction against its certainties.

Which statement on the arbitrariness of the sign in Saussure's Course is INCORRECT?

According to Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, which symbol is NOT correctly glossed?

Who held that the interplay of introjection and projection builds the ego and superego and lays the ground for the Oedipus complex?

Assertion (A): The technique of art is to make objects 'unfamiliar', to make forms difficult, and to increase the difficulty and length of perception. Reason (R): The process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged.

Who became known in the popular imagination as the notorious French postmodernist philosopher?

Which of the following were written or edited by Toril Moi?

1. A. French Feminist Thought: A Reader
2. B. Feminisms: A Reader
3. C. Feminist Literary Criticism
4. D. Sexual/Textual Politics
5. E. What Is a Woman?

Which writer asked why men drank wine and women water, and why one sex was so prosperous and the other so poor?

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In which of Showalter's phases did women writers imitate the dominant male tradition?

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Which is NOT part of Dollimore and Sinfield's definition of cultural materialism?

According to Fiona Tolan, the one theme that runs through every feminist debate is:

Which critic defined colonialism as 'the conquest and control of other people's land and goods'?

Since the publication of Samuel Johnson's 'Preface to Shakespeare' (1765), which of the Unities have been regarded as optional devices, available to playwrights in England to achieve special effects of dramatic concentration?