EN 466 LITERARY THEORY
MIDTERM EXAM PART ONE
DEFINITIONS 

Directions: define the terms, including in your definition the name of the person/theoretical approach most closely related to each term. Each item worth 3.3 points (30 items distributed over 14 questions)

  1. A. canny/uncanny criticism: relate to
    B.  engineer/bricoleur
  2. "guilty silence"

  3. "culture" according to:
    a. Matthew Arnold
    b. T.S. Eliot
    c. Raymond Williams

  4. Intentional Fallacy/Affective Fallacy
  5. Field coverage principle/"teaching the conflicts"
  6. "theory" according to:
    1. the ancient Greeks
    2. Derrida
    3. J. Hillis Miller
    4. Frank Lentricchia
  7. "mise en abime"
  8. the four grounds of meaning

    9. a.
    b.
    c.
    d.

  9. "Cratylian awareness of the sign"
  10. referentiality/phenomenalism
  11. "horizon of expectation" vs "semantic horizon"
  12. "interpretative community"
  13. "resisting reader"
  14. aporia and the deconstructive turn
  15. the "return of the repressed" and the historical u

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