Question

9.Reader response has the following purpose:

a.to turn the spotlight on the reader for his/her attention and reactions to the text.

b.to show the inequitable economic relationships as the source of class conflict.

c.to be concerned with social and cultural forces that create a community or threaten it.

d.to show that language, not the external world, mediates our reality.

10.The definition of new historicism is:

a.Denying that anyone can ever know exactly what happened at a given time and place; all we can perceive is what we have as artifacts and stories, making history a narration, not a pure, unadulterated set of precise observations. Thus, this approach is difficult because the theorist can only base his/her research on what has been told from someone's point of view, and no matter how hard he/she tries, she/he can't be 100% objective.

b.An examination of the relationship of literature and nature as a way to renew a reader's awareness of the nonhuman world and his or her responsibility to sustain it.

c.An approach that focuses on the concern for ambiguity or loss of identity--written by culturally displaced people, it investigates the class of cultures in which one deems itself to be superior and imposes its own practices on the less powerful one. Its writers examine their histories, question how they should respond to the changes they see around them, and wonder what their society will become.

d.Working from the assumption that language is inherently ambiguous and not the clear, efficient tool for communication we would like to think it is, this approach recognizes that any human utterance has a multitude of possibilities for meaning. The simplest statement may be heard in a variety of ways, giving language a tendency to undermine itself by refuting what it appears to be saying. It contradicts itself as it moves from one meaning to another.

11.The definition of deconstruction is:

a.An approach that focuses on the concern for ambiguity or loss of identity--written by culturally displaced people, it investigates the class of cultures in which one deems itself to be superior and imposes its own practices on the less powerful one. Its writers examine their histories, question how they should respond to the changes they see around them, and wonder what their society will become.

b.Working from the assumption that language is inherently ambiguous and not the clear, efficient tool for communication we would like to think it is, this approach recognizes that any human utterance has a multitude of possibilities for meaning. The simplest statement may be heard in a variety of ways, giving language a tendency to undermine itself by refuting what it appears to be saying. It contradicts itself as it moves from one meaning to another.

c.An examination of the relationship of literature and nature as a way to renew a reader's awareness of the nonhuman world and his or her responsibility to sustain it.

d.Denying that anyone can ever know exactly what happened at a given time and place; all we can perceive is what we have as artifacts and stories, making history a narration, not a pure, unadulterated set of precise observations. Thus, this approach is difficult because the theorist can only base his/her research on what has been told from someone's point of view, and no matter how hard he/she tries, she/he can't be 100% objective. 12.Deconstruction didn't set out as a way to interpret text but as a set of social, economic, and political ideas that sees inequitable economic relationships as the source of class conflict. a.True b.False