LITERARY THEORIES
1.	Psychoanalysis	2.	Postcolonialism
3.	Feminism	4.	Eco-Criticism
5.	Structuralism	6.	Poststructuralism
7.	Modernism	8.	Postmodernism
9.	New Criticism	10.	New Historicism
11.	Formalism	12.	Cultural Materialism
13.	Marxism	14.

The _______________ which we first come across as we proceed with our analysis often strike us by the unusual form in which they are expressed.

A. Character
B. Event
C. Dream – Thought
D. Conflict

C. Dream – Thought

One may psychoanalyze a particular character within a literary work, but it is usually assumed that all such characters are projection of the author’s ____________________

A. Psyche
B. Personality
C. Ego
D. Experience

A. Psyche

It is argued that literary texts, like _________________ , express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is manifestation of the author’s own neuroses.

A. slips of the tongue
B. Dreams
C. Hallucination
D. Intuition

B. Dreams

Psychoanalytic criticism adopts the method of “reading” employed by ___________________ and later theorists to interpret texts.

A. Erik Erikson
B. Freud
C. Carl Jung
D. Karl Marx

B. Freud

Who is the critic most interested in how those in power police the behavior and thoughts of those without power in his books Discipline and punish: The birth of the Prison and The History of Sexuality?

A. Bernard Berenson
B. Arthur Danto
C. Michel Foucault
D. Michael Fried

C. Michel Foucault

The ideas of the “political unconscious” and “subject-positions” are those of

A. Frederic Jameson
B. Daniel Nettle
C. William Shakespeare
D. T. S. Eliot

A. Frederic Jameson

Who compares the behavior of apes to characters in a Shakespeare play?

A. Daniel Nettle
B. Shakespeare
C. Saussure
D. T.S Eliot

A. Daniel Nettle

New historicism acknowledges and embraces the idea that, as ___ change so will our understanding of great literature.

A. Environment
B. Literacy rate
C. Time
D. Intellect

C. Time

Current literary criticism is affected by and reveals the beliefs of our times in the same way that literature reflects and is reflected by its own ___ contexts.

A. Philosophical
B. Structural
C. Historical
D. Cultural

C. Historical

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