EN 466 LITERARY THEORY
MORE STUDY QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER 1

  1. What is the difference between such Modernist universals as "the mind of Europe" and traditional schemes of order like the "The Great Chain of "Being?"
  2. What is "experience" according to Saussure?
  3. What is the double task of Modernism?
  4. According to DeMan, what assumption underlies this task?
  5. What is "the fetishism of literature" according to West?
  6. How did New Criticism avoid the 2 crises of Modernism?
  7. What is the difference between New Criticsm and Formalism?
  8. What is the Intentional Fallacy? The Affective Fallacy?
  9. How can contemporary theory address aesthetic questions?

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