POSTTEST_SEEL 113

This critical method argues that culture is a constitutive social progress which actively creates different ways of life. Which methods is this?

• textual analysis

• historical context

• theoretical materialism

• cultural materialism

Which was characterized as propaganda that reveals the spirit of times, the issues that mattered to people which is much more than enjoyment and a manifestation of class struggle?

• literature

• hegemony

• cultural fantasies

• imaginary villains

What do you call this approach which focuses not only on the readers' or writers' personal psychology but also on the relationship between collective unconscious myths, thoughts, desires, images, and culture?

• literary criticism

• archetypal criticism

• psychoanalytic criticism

• artist symptoms criticism

Which of the following emerges only with a reader who is actively involved in the reading process with the text?

• assumption

• interpretation

• meaning

• transactions

All of the following are the inescapable elements of literary criticism, EXCEPT

• the author

• the reader

• the responses

• the work or the text

A man can use the expression for his sexual urges by taking benefits from religious longings. How do you call this promotion of excruciating experiences, drives, agonies and fears into something noble, disguised or grander?

• paraprax

• neologism

• repression

• sublimation

Which coined term designates a group of readers who share the same interpretive strategies?

• affective stylistics

• reading community

• reception aesthetics

• interpretive community

Many postmodern scholars believe that, despite our best efforts, we can never fully grasp the historical context or authorial intent of a text because our own experiences and biases influence our readings and study of biblical texts. In which context is this TRUE?

• History criticism today

• Historical criticism in the future

• Historical criticism and its relationship with other approaches

• Historical criticism and the fundamentalist-modernist controversy

It seeks to determine how biblical writers have modified the sources. Which method is also regarded as the refinement of historical criticism?

• form criticism

• source criticism

• redaction criticism

• presupposition criticism

Which of the following is a key assumption underlying poststructuralism?

• The concept of "self" as a singular and coherent entity is a fictional construct

• It is necessary to utilize a variety of perspectives to create only one interpretation of a text

• An author's intended meaning is primary to the meaning that the reader perceives

• The interpretation of the meaning of a text is independent on a reader's own personal concept of self