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Quiz about Romanticism and Critical Theory

Romanticism and Critical Theory Quiz

This is a quiz about the Romantics and some basic theory stuff that I'm currently revising, I'll give you a quotation and you simply have to choose the person who wrote it. The theory is all mixed up with the Romantics :)

A multiple-choice quiz by Angelic101. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Angelic101

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
39,099

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
380

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Question 1 of 10

1. 'With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.' Hint

Keats

Wordsworth

Shelley

Blake

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Question 2 of 10

2. 'There is no unity or absolute source of the myth. The focus or the source of the myth are always shadows and virtualities which are elusive, unactualised, and non-existent in the first place.' Hint

Levi-Strauss

de Saussure

Barthes

Derrida

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Question 3 of 10

3. 'But the ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm'. Hint

Blake

De Quincey

Coleridge

Byron

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Question 4 of 10

4. 'A literary work, even if it seems new, does not appear as something absolutely new in an informational vacuum.' Hint

Fiske

Lyotard

Jauss

Baudrillard

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Question 5 of 10

5. 'And I have felt A presence that disturbes me with the joy Of elevated thought, a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused.' Hint

Blake

Keats

Coleridge

Wordsworth

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Question 6 of 10

6. '... linguistically the author is never more than the instance writing, just as 'I' is nothing more than the instance saying 'I'.' Hint

Althusser

Derrida

Barthes

Lacan

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Question 7 of 10

7. 'Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know But leech-like to their fainting country cling.' Hint

Godwin

Lockhart

Pain

Shelley

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Question 8 of 10

8. '... if intention, form and the shape of the reader's experience are simply ways of refering to (different perspectives on) the same interpretive act, what is that act an interpretation of?' Hint

Virilio

Adorno

Fish

Foucault

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Question 9 of 10

9. 'Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.' Hint

Shelley

Wordsworth

Blake

Keats

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Question 10 of 10

10. 'The notion of writing ... is concerned with neither the act of writing nor the indication - be it symptom or sign - of a meaning which someone might have wanted to express.' Hint

Lyotard

Lemarque

Foucault

Eco

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.'

Answer: Keats

This is from one of Keats' many letters, which are vaguely interesting - except when he begins to waffle. Unfortunately, beauty didn't obliterate all of Keats' considerations as he died at the age of 25. However, he was incredibly prolific.

Answer: Derrida

This was written about Levi-Strauss in Derrida's 'Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences'. Derrida never makes too much sense if he can help it - I think he feels it makes him look intellectual. However, I would recommend you read him, he's such a lot of fun.

3. 'But the ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm'.

Answer: Blake

It's from Blake's 'Songs of Innocence and Experience' the poem is called 'The Little Vagabond'.

4. 'A literary work, even if it seems new, does not appear as something absolutely new in an informational vacuum.'

Answer: Jauss

Comes from Jauss' 'Literary History as a Challenge'. I don't have anything bad to say about Jauss. I agree with the idea expressed above, and what I have read by him seems fairly sane. After all, nature abhors a vacuum.

5. 'And I have felt A presence that disturbes me with the joy Of elevated thought, a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused.'

Answer: Wordsworth

From Wordsworth's poem (abbreviated to) 'Tintern Abbey'. It's a nice poem about Pantheism and Nature and the wonderfully ameliorating effects of Imagination. Otherwise, there are interesting rumours that Wordsworth was sleeping with his sister (and we were told this in a lecture - so no complaints.)

6. '... linguistically the author is never more than the instance writing, just as 'I' is nothing more than the instance saying 'I'.'

Answer: Barthes

Barthes - from the essay 'Death of the Author' in which Barthes kills off and reduces to redundancy all the authors living and dead. But it was written in 1967, so what do you expect? Barthes is great really, he introduced some new ideas and kept swapping schools.

7. 'Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know But leech-like to their fainting country cling.'

Answer: Shelley

From 'The Mask of Anarchy' written in the aftermath of the Peterloo Massacre. Shelley was both deeply idealistic and critical of the oppression by the state. Also fairly good looking - in the style of the time - he ran off and eloped with Godwin's daughter, despite having a wife and two children already.

8. '... if intention, form and the shape of the reader's experience are simply ways of refering to (different perspectives on) the same interpretive act, what is that act an interpretation of?'

Answer: Fish

This is from 'Interpreting the Variorium'. Fish is a fruit loop. He uses too many parentheses and more or less leans to the right in what he suggests about the interpretation of the text. But all in all, I kind of like him. He's American, and quite influential.

9. 'Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.'

Answer: Shelley

Shelley again - definitely idealistic. This is from the verbose 'Defence of Poetry'.

10. 'The notion of writing ... is concerned with neither the act of writing nor the indication - be it symptom or sign - of a meaning which someone might have wanted to express.'

Answer: Foucault

From Foucault's essay ' What is an Author'. Another mad French theorist, Foucault was writing after Barthes bumping off of the author and he carries on the theme, also tracing the rise of the author initially and attempting to place it in a socio-historical context. They're all nut bars though.

Source: Author Angelic101

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