Elements of Literature - Literary Criticism and Theory

Formalism originated in what two countries?

• Moscow and

  St. Petersburg

• St. Petersburg and Paris

• Warsaw and Moscow

• Austria and St. Petersburg

What decade did formalism become popular?

• 1920s

• 1930s

• 1940s

• 1950s

Which theory/criticism is concerned with literariness?

• Formalism

• Marxism

• New Criticism

• Psychoanalytical Criticism

At what university did New Criticism originate?

• Harvard

• Yale

• Vanderbilt

• University of Chicago

“Organic unity” is important to what school of criticism?

• Formalism

• New Criticism

• Marxism

• Feminism

“Close reading” of the text is a characteristic of literary theory?

• Formalism

• New Criticism

• Marxism

• Psychoanalytical Criticism

Cleanth Brooks is an important figure to what school of criticism?

• Formalism

• New Criticism

• Marxism

• Psychoanalytical Criticism

What is the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way in order to enhance perception of the familiar?

• defamiliarization

• Intentional fallacy

• Affective fallacy

• literariness:

Boris Eichenbaum is often associated with what literary theory?

• Formalism

• New Criticism

• Marxism

• Psychoanalytical Criticism

Roman Jakobson is associated with what literary theory?

• Marxism

• Formalism

• New Criticism

• Psychoanalytical Criticism