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contemporary literary criticism

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
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1.

______ delivered the lecture "sign, structure and play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences".

a)

a. Michel Foucault

b)

b. Jacques Lancan

c)

c. Jacques Derrida

d)

d. Roland Barthes

2.

The event Derrida's essay coincided with____.

a)

The publication of Of Grammatology

b)

The John Hopkins University symposium on structuralism

c)

The May 1968 protests in Paris

d)

The release of Saussure's Course in General Linguistics

3.

Derrida means by the 'center' of a structure is ------.

a)

The physical middle of a system

b)

Fixed point that organizes meaning and limits play

c)

A subjective interpretation

d)

The heart of language

4.

Derrida uses to describe the endless deferral of meaning ------.

a)

Binary Opposition

b)

Structuralism

c)

Differance

d)

Essentialism

5.

Derrida challanges the idea of a fixed center in structurses, proposing instead _____.

a)

A Hierarchical Model

b)

A Decentered Structure

c)

A Linear Progression

d)

An Absolute Origin

6.

In Derrida's essay, ---- is meant by " structurality of Structure".

a)

Material composition of Texts

b)

Principles govering how elements relate within the structure

c)

Instability of meaning

d)

Cultural significance of structure

7.

Derrida refers to thinkers like Nietzsche, Freud and Heidegger as exemplifying ___ concept.

a)

Binary Opposition

b)

Decentering or rapture in metaphysics

c)

Structural integrity

d)

Presence of the center

8.

Derrida challanges the idea that meaning is ____.

a)

Created by God

b)

Based on sound

c)

Unique to each person

d)

Fixed and stable

9.

____ is the " Deconstructive Angel" that Abrams critiques.

a)

Stanley Fish

b)

J. Hillis Miller

c)

Jacques Derrida

d)

Harold Bloom

10.

The intellectual movement is Derrida's work most closely associated with ____.

a)

Modernism

b)

Structuralism

c)

Romanticism

d)

Post-Structuralism