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Historical Criticism I: Author as Context
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1
Which of the following pieces of evidence would not be of primary interest to a genetic critic:
A)
the text of Shakespeare's will as it appeared 1616
B)
a copy of Montaigne's essays signed, "property of William Shakespeare"
C)
the number of productions of
Measure for Measure
between the time of Shakespeare's death and the beginning of the Commonwealth
D)
proof that Shakespeare attended a production of
The Jew of Malta
2
Which of the following course titles indicates a predominantly genetic/historicist approach?
A)
Shakespeare in Performance
B)
Chaucer's England
C)
The Epic Poem in English
D)
Milton and the Language of Patriarchy
3
The historical relativist (as described in this chapter) would argue that
A)
our judgment of a poem's meaning should be guided by standards of the period in which it was produced
B)
the meaning of a poem varies according to which historian happens to be studying it
C)
a poem's meaning accrues over time with the interpretation of each new generation
D)
a poem exists only as an historical document and is no more valuable than any other kind of document
4
Which of the following would be considered a genetic/historicist thesis?
A)
Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" involves an unreliable narrator and can therefore be read as a psychological profile rather than a ghost story
B)
Melville's "Benito Cereno" does not accurately portray the conditions of the slave trade as it existed in the early 19
th
century
C)
The 1850 revised version of Wordsworth's "Prelude" is a much less accurate record of the growth of [this] poet's mind and should be read as a separate document by a virtually different author
D)
In Keats's "Hyperion," the stylistic voice of the lyric poet is embedded within the conventions of the Miltonic epic
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