Dr. Amal's comparative literature

Comparative literature has first emerged in France ........

• around the beginning of the seventeenth century

• around the beginning of the eighteenth century

• around the beginning of the nineteenth century

• around the beginning of the twentieth century

According to American critics, French school concept of comparative literature

• has a determination of method

• has an idealistic methodology

• gives limited scope to 'general literature'

• is colored by binary studies

According to the French comparatists, the movement of an idea, a theme, or an image from a literary text to another is called.................

• reception

• literary influence

• borrowing

• non-literary influence

French comparatists believe that...........

• direct influence needs no documentary information

• there can never be indirect influence

• indirect influence can take place through translations

• influence can never exist between two different writers

French comparatists believe that...........

• the reception of a foreign work means that it is a sign of 'positive influence'

• there is no difference between 'influence' and 'reception'

• 'influence' can be taken as a step on the road to 'reception'

• 'reception' can be taken as a step on the road to 'influence'

The founding father of the American school of comparative literature is..................

• Tieghem

• Jean Marie Carre

• Henry Remak

• Baudelaire

American school comparatists believe that.............

• comparative literature should be regarded as a discipline on its own

• there can never be a comparative study between literature and other fields of cognition

• comparison can be made between two or more different literatures and between literature and other disciplines

• comparative literature can never connect different subject areas

Parallelism refers to..................

• affinities between the literatures of different people regardless of direct relations

• affinities between the literary works in a certain nation

• the reference of a text to another

• direct relation and mutual influence between texts

intertextuality refers to.....................

• a particular theme, story or myth that can be repeated in different ways

• the impossibility that a writer blends another text into his own

• references inside the text itself

• a specific approach of reading and interpreting a text

Salah Abdul-Sabur does not show much interest in myths. Instead, he uses ............. to link the past with the present

• visual imagery

• historical figures

• myths

• impersonality