A) Jacques Derrida’s

A) in the 1950s

b) in the 1960s

c) in the 1940s

d) no correct answer.

“Function” according to V. Propp is

a) the way the sign is interpreted though communicative symbols

B) the basic unit of the narrative and refers to the significant actions which form this narrative

c) the most elementary division of the sentence unit

d) the typical characters of the literary texts.

Claude Levi-Strauss applied the structuralist outlook to the interpetation of

a) Myth of Pandora's Box

b) religious myth

c) myth about the birth of the hero

D) the Oedipus myth.

What is “the death of the author” according to Roland Barthes?

a) is the most important instance for interpreting literary texts

B) the author isn’t the origin of the text, the source of its meaning, and the only authority for interpretation

c) the text is produced by the author rather than by the reader

d) the reader and the author form a unity while analyzing the text.

The starting point of post-structuralism may be taken as his 1966 lecture 'Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences'. Whose lecture is this?

a) Jacques Derrida’s

b) Roland Barthes’

c) Carl Jung’s

d) Jacques Lacan.

Jean Baudrillard is associated with what is usually known as 'the loss of the real'. What doe it mean?

a) the view that in contemporary life the pervasive influence of images from film, TV, and advertising has led to a loss of the distinction between real and imagined, reality and illusion, surface and depth

b) the imagined is prior in our life

c) there is a distinction between reality and illusion that can be easily observed in the texts

d) the real lost its meaning in contemporary life.

Pragmatics refers

a) to the study of the language in terms of signifier and signified

b) to the study of the factors which govern our choices of language (social awareness, culture, sense of etiquette)

c) to the study of the structural elements of the literary text

d) to the study of syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations in the text.

How many waves of feminism were there?

a) two

b) only one

c) three

d) four.

What feminist critics do?

a) 're-read' psychoanalysis to further explore the issue of female and male identity, question the popular notion of the death of the author

b) recognise the role of language in making what is social and constructed seem transparent and “natural”

c) foreground literary genres, previously neglected, which significantly influenced ideals of masculinity or femininity

d) are sure that the 'politicisation of literary form', that is, the claim that literary forms are themselves determined by political circumstance.

What is the name of Kate Milett’s work that at once marks the moment when second-wave feminism becomes a highly visible, self-aware and activist movement?

a) Thinking About Women

b) Sexual Politics

c) The FemaleEunuch

d) Patriarchal Attitudes.

The ancestry of postcolonial criticism can be traced to

a) Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth

b) Gayatri Spivak’s In Other Worlds

c) Homi Bhabha’s Nation and Narration

d) Bill Ashcroft’s The Empire Writes Back.

What does the phenomenon of ‘Orientalism’, as Said reasons, designate:

a) only the 4000-year history of and cultural relations between Europe and Asia

b) only the scientific discipline producing specialists in Oriental languages and culture from the early nineteenth century

c) only the long-term images, stereotypes and general ideology about

‘the Orient’ as the ‘Other’, constructed by generations of Western scholars

d) a), b) and c).

Jacques Lacan is the representative of

a) structuralism

b) poststructuralist theory

c) postmodernism

d) queer theories.

How is the desire for a centre called in Derrida’s classic work, Of Grammatology?

a) logocentrism

b) deconstruction

c) marginalization

d) construction.

What is the name of the fundamental work by F. de Saussure?

a) “Course in General Linguistics”

b) “The Double Essence of Language”

c) “Memoir on the Primitive System of Vowels in Indo-European Language”

d) “Fundamentals of Language”.

According to C. S. Pierce the types of sign are

a) signifier, signified

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