🧠 More practice: Reader-Response MCQs in the topic-wise 1000+ Literary Theory MCQs, solved with explanations.
UGC-NET Literature Quiz – Reader Response & Critical Theory
1. Given Below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labeled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): The implied reader shifts attention from the real reading individual to a disembodied dimension of reception, intricately interwoven into the text.
Reason (R): The ‘Dear Reader’, invoked in the realist novels, is a fictional representation of the distant reader.
Assertion (A): The implied reader shifts attention from the real reading individual to a disembodied dimension of reception, intricately interwoven into the text.
Reason (R): The ‘Dear Reader’, invoked in the realist novels, is a fictional representation of the distant reader.
2. Who is the author of “Radiant Textuality”?
3. Who among the following posits the tradition of great writers as an inescapable fact, and takes the ambivalent position of considering it as both a blessing and a curse?
4. Which of the following are true in the context of “phenomenology”?
[A] It is “a form of methodological idealism” which seeks to explore ‘human consciousness’.
[B] As a philosophical method, it was developed by Edmund Husserl.
[C] Martin Heidegger is one of its leading philosophers.
[D] Martin Heidegger’s approach is ‘essentialist’.
[E] Text is considered purely as an embodiment of the author’s consciousness.
[A] It is “a form of methodological idealism” which seeks to explore ‘human consciousness’.
[B] As a philosophical method, it was developed by Edmund Husserl.
[C] Martin Heidegger is one of its leading philosophers.
[D] Martin Heidegger’s approach is ‘essentialist’.
[E] Text is considered purely as an embodiment of the author’s consciousness.
5. Which of the following statements are true about reader response criticism?
[A] It challenges the notion that the meaning is located within the text.
[B] It refutes that the author is the originator of meaning.
[C] It sees the reader as a source of meaning.
[D] It treats the text as self sufficient.
[E] It appreciates the texts that are historical.
[A] It challenges the notion that the meaning is located within the text.
[B] It refutes that the author is the originator of meaning.
[C] It sees the reader as a source of meaning.
[D] It treats the text as self sufficient.
[E] It appreciates the texts that are historical.
6. Given below are two statements: one is labeled as assertion A and the other is labeled as reason R:
Assertion (A): In so far as we are taught how to read, what we engage are not texts but paradigms.
Reason (R): We appropriate meaning from a text according to what we need or desire, or, in other words, according to the critical assumptions or predispositions that we bring to it.
Assertion (A): In so far as we are taught how to read, what we engage are not texts but paradigms.
Reason (R): We appropriate meaning from a text according to what we need or desire, or, in other words, according to the critical assumptions or predispositions that we bring to it.
7. Match List I with List II:
List I (Books)
[A] The Poetics of Prose
[B] Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics
[C] Surprised by Sin
[D] The Way Women Write
List II (Authors)
[I] Stanley Fish
[II] Tzvetan Todorov
[III] Mikhail Bakhtin
[IV] Mary Hiatt
8. Who among the following theorists has written on narrative empathy?
9. Who among the following first framed a theory of general hermeneutics?
10. Match List I with List II:
List I (Books)
A) The Poetics of Prose
B) Structuralist Poetics
C) The Implied Reader
D) Is There a Text in This Class?
List II (Authors)
I. Wolfgang Iser
II. Tzvetan Todorov
III. Stanley Fish
IV. Jonathan Culler
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