EN 466 LITERARY THEORY
STUDY QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER 1 

  1. What had been the dominant trend in literary study in the 20th century?

    2. What 3 features of the scientific method characterize this trend?

  2. What dynamic shapes literary studies?
  3. What were Eliot and Frye seeking in literature?
  4. What are Graff and West seeking in literature?


    5. Literary Criticism

  5. What did Arnold seek in literature? What is "belles lettres"?
  6. What is "philology’?
  7. What is criticism for Showalter?
  8. What does Barthes mean by the "guilty silence" of traditional humanism?
  9. How does Eliot define "culture"?

    10. Criticism and the Question of History
  10. What did Matthew Arnold call culture?
  11. What is meant by the interest of criticism?

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