Literary Approaches (Recap)

Which literary approach treats a text as a self-contained work, focusing only on its form and structure?

• Psychological Criticism

• Formalism

• Reader-Response Critism

• Marxist Critism

Freud’s ideas on the unconscious, repression, and dreams influenced which literary approach?

• Marxist Criticism

• Feminist Criticism

• Psychological Critism

• Ecocriticism

Which approach examines class struggles, exploitation, and ideologies represented in texts?

• New Historicism

• Marxist Criticism

• Deconstruction

• Postcolonialism

Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex inspired which literary approach?

• Reader-Response Criticism

• Feminist and Queer Criticism

• Ecocriticism

• Formalism

According to Reader-Response Criticism, the meaning of a literary text is:

• Fixed and determined by the author

• Dependent on the structure of the text alone

• Created through the interaction between reader and text

• Based solely on historical context

Jean Jacques Derrida is most associated with which approach?

• Postcolonialism

• Deconstruction

• Formalism

• Ecocriticism

Which literary approach asserts that all history is subjectively written and shaped by power structures?

• New Historicism

• Formalism

• Ecocriticism

• Psychological Criticism

Edward Said’s Orientalism is a foundational text for which approach?

• Postcolonialism

• Feminism

• Reader-Response Criticism

• Ecocriticism

Which approach studies the relationship between literature and the physical environment?

• Formalism

• Ecocriticism

• Marxist Criticism

• Reader-Response Criticism

Which literary approach challenges patriarchal assumptions and works to empower marginalized groups such as women and LGBTQ+ communities?

• Formalism

• Psychological Criticism

• Feminist and Queer Criticism

• Deconstruction