LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Question
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Christopher Ricks would most likely DISAGREE with which of the following claims about literary theory?
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Literary theory is limited in its ability to interpret a text.
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Literary theory often depends on esoteric knowledge to be properly understood.
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Literary theory is employed mostly by academics.
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Literary theory is the only proper way to conceptualize literary texts.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Answer. Explanation: In literary theory, formalism refers to critical approaches that analyze, interpret, or evaluate the inherent features of a text.
Detailed explanation-2: -Literary theory enables readers and critics a better understanding of literature through close readings and contextual insights.
Detailed explanation-3: -Noam Chomsky is known as the father of modern linguistics.
Detailed explanation-4: -For Derrida, ‘there is nothing outside of the text’. In the original French, Derrida wrote: ‘Il n’y a pas de hors-texte’ [There is no outside-text]. Language is a constant movement of differences and everything acquires the instability and ambiguity inherent in language (Callinicos 2004).
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