Who is often considered the pioneer of American literary criticism?
a) Edgar Allan Poe
b) Ralph Waldo Emerson
c) Henry James
d) Nathaniel Hawthorne
Answer: b) Ralph Waldo Emerson
Which literary critic is known for his work “The Souls of Black Folk?
a) W. E. B. Du Bois
b) T. S. Eliot
c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: a) W. E. B. Du Bois
Who wrote the influential essay “The Death of the Author?
a) Roland Barthes
b) Harold Bloom
c) Adrienne Rich
d) Toni Morrison
Answer: a) Roland Barthes
This literary critic is known for his theory of the “objective correlative.
a) T. S. Eliot
b) Ezra Pound
c) Wallace Stevens
d) W. H. Auden
Answer: a) T. S. Eliot
Which literary critic coined the term “The Great American Novel?
a) Henry James
b) Mark Twain
c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
d) H. L. Mencken
Answer: d) H. L. Mencken
Who wrote the groundbreaking work “The Anxiety of Influence”?
a) Harold Bloom
b) Lionel Trilling
c) Cleanth Brooks
d) Northrop Frye
Answer: a) Harold Bloom
This literary critic and novelist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
a) Ralph Ellison
b) W. H. Auden
c) Robert Penn Warren
d) Ernest Hemingway
Answer: c) Robert Penn Warren
Which literary critic co-founded the New Critics school of thought?
a) John Crowe Ransom
b) F. R. Leavis
c) Cleanth Brooks
d) I. A. Richards
Answer: a) John Crowe Ransom
This critic is known for his book “Culture and Anarchy.”
a) Matthew Arnold
b) T. S. Eliot
c) Allen Tate
d) Wallace Stevens
Answer: a) Matthew Arnold
Who authored the influential essay “The American Scholar?
a) Edgar Allan Poe
b) Henry David Thoreau
c) Ralph Waldo Emerson
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: c) Ralph Waldo Emerson
This literary critic is associated with the concept of “New Criticism.”
a) Northrop Frye
b) Cleanth Brooks
c) Leslie Fiedler
d) W. H. Auden
Answer: b) Cleanth Brooks
Who is known for his work “The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages”?
a) Lionel Trilling
b) Harold Bloom
c) Edmund Wilson
d) T. S. Eliot
Answer: b) Harold Bloom
This literary critic is famous for his concept of “heresy of paraphrase.”
a) F. R. Leavis
b) W. H. Auden
c) Cleanth Brooks
d) T. S. Eliot
Answer: d) T. S. Eliot
Who authored the groundbreaking book “The Second Sex”?
a) Simone de Beauvoir
b) Adrienne Rich
c) Susan Sontag
d) bell hooks
Answer: a) Simone de Beauvoir
This critic is known for his work “The Anatomy of Criticism.”
a) Northrop Frye
b) Harold Bloom
c) Lionel Trilling
d) W. E. B. Du Bois
Answer: a) Northrop Frye
Who is associated with the concept of “Theory of Affect”?
a) Stanley Fish
b) Fredric Jameson
c) Judith Butler
d) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Answer: d) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
This literary critic is famous for his work “The Western Canon.”
a) Harold Bloom
b) T. S. Eliot
c) W. H. Auden
d) Wallace Stevens
Answer: a) Harold Bloom
Who is known for the essay collection “The Liberal Imagination?
a) Lionel Trilling
b) Leslie Fiedler
c) John Crowe Ransom
d) Cleanth Brooks
Answer: a) Lionel Trilling
This literary critic is known for her feminist work “The Madwoman in the Attic.”
a) Adrienne Rich
b) Sandra Gilbert
c) Susan Sontag
d) bell hooks
Answer: b) Sandra Gilbert
Who authored the influential work “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”?
a) Joseph Campbell
b) Edmund Wilson
c) Robert Penn Warren
d) F. R. Leavis
Answer: a) Joseph Campbell
This critic is known for his work “The Anxiety of Influence.”
a) Harold Bloom
b) T. S. Eliot
c) Lionel Trilling
d) W. E. B. Du Bois
Answer: a) Harold Bloom
Who wrote the influential essay “The New Negro”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) W. E. B. Du Bois
c) Ralph Ellison
d) James Baldwin
Answer: b) W. E. B. Du Bois
This literary critic is associated with the concept of the “intentional fallacy.”
a) Cleanth Brooks
b) T. S. Eliot
c) W. K. Wimsatt
d) John Crowe Ransom
Answer: c) W. K. Wimsatt
Who is known for the influential work “The Heroine’s Journey”?
a) Joseph Campbell
b) Carol Gilligan
c) Leslie Fiedler
d) bell hooks
Answer: b) Carol Gilligan
This literary critic is famous for his work “The American Adam.”
a) Leslie Fiedler
b) Cleanth Brooks
c) Lionel Trilling
d) R. W. B. Lewis
Answer: d) R. W. B. Lewis
Who is known for her work “Against Interpretation”?
a) Adrienne Rich
b) Susan Sontag
c) Sandra Gilbert
d) bell hooks
Answer: b) Susan Sontag
This critic is associated with the concept of “repressive desublimation.”
a) Fredric Jameson
b) Judith Butler
c) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
d) Stanley Fish
Answer: a) Fredric Jameson
Who authored the influential book “The Anatomy of Influence”?
a) Harold Bloom
b) Northrop Frye
c) Lionel Trilling
d) T. S. Eliot
Answer: a) Harold Bloom
This literary critic is known for his work “The Western Canon.”
a) W. H. Auden
b) T. S. Eliot
c) Robert Penn Warren
d) Wallace Stevens
Answer: a) Harold Bloom
Who is associated with the concept of “Theory of Affect”?
a) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
b) Stanley Fish
c) Fredric Jameson
d) Judith Butler
Answer: a) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
This critic is known for his work “The Anxiety of Influence.”
a) Harold Bloom
b) Lionel Trilling
c) T. S. Eliot
d) W. E. B. Du Bois
Answer: a) Harold Bloom
Who wrote the influential essay “The New Negro”?
a) W. E. B. Du Bois
b) Langston Hughes
c) Ralph Ellison
d) James Baldwin
Answer: a) W. E. B. Du Bois
This literary critic is associated with the concept of the “intentional fallacy.”
a) W. K. Wimsatt
b) Cleanth Brooks
c) T. S. Eliot
d) John Crowe Ransom
Answer: a) W. K. Wimsatt
Who is known for the influential work “The Heroine’s Journey”?
a) Carol Gilligan
b) Joseph Campbell
c) Leslie Fiedler
d) bell hooks
Answer: a) Carol Gilligan
This literary critic is famous for his work “The American Adam.”
a) R. W. B. Lewis
b) Leslie Fiedler
c) Lionel Trilling
d) Cleanth Brooks
Answer: a) R. W. B. Lewis
Who is known for her work “Against Interpretation”?
a) Susan Sontag
b) Adrienne Rich
c) Sandra Gilbert
d) bell hooks
Answer: a) Susan Sontag
This critic is associated with the concept of “repressive desublimation.”
a) Fredric Jameson
b) Judith Butler
c) Stanley Fish
d) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Answer: a) Fredric Jameson
Who authored the influential book “The Anatomy of Influence”?
a) Harold Bloom
b) Northrop Frye
c) Lionel Trilling
d) T. S. Eliot
Answer: a) Harold Bloom
This literary critic is known for his work “The Western Canon.”
a) Robert Penn Warren
b) T. S. Eliot
c) W. H. Auden
d) Wallace Stevens
Answer: a) Harold Bloom
Who is associated with the concept of “Theory of Affect”?
a) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
b) Stanley Fish
c) Fredric Jameson
d) Judith Butler
Answer: a) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
This critic is known for his work “The Anxiety of Influence.”
a) Harold Bloom
b) Lionel Trilling
c) T. S. Eliot
d) W. E. B. Du Bois
Answer: a) Harold Bloom
Who wrote the influential essay “The New Negro”?
a) W. E. B. Du Bois
b) Langston Hughes
c) Ralph Ellison
d) James Baldwin
Answer: a) W. E. B. Du Bois
This literary critic is associated with the concept of the “intentional fallacy.”
a) W. K. Wimsatt
b) Cleanth Brooks
c) T. S. Eliot
d) John Crowe Ransom
Answer: a) W. K. Wimsatt
Who is known for the influential work “The Heroine’s Journey”?
a) Carol Gilligan
b) Joseph Campbell
c) Leslie Fiedler
d) bell hooks
Answer: a) Carol Gilligan
This literary critic is famous for his work “The American Adam.”
a) R. W. B. Lewis
b) Leslie Fiedler
c) Lionel Trilling
d) Cleanth Brooks
Answer: a) R. W. B. Lewis
Who is known for her work “Against Interpretation”?
a) Susan Sontag
b) Adrienne Rich
c) Sandra Gilbert
d) bell hooks
Answer: a) Susan Sontag
This critic is associated with the concept of “repressive desublimation.”
a) Fredric Jameson
b) Judith Butler
c) Stanley Fish
d) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Answer: a) Fredric Jameson
Who authored the influential book “The Anatomy of Influence”?
a) Harold Bloom
b) Northrop Frye
c) Lionel Trilling
d) T. S. Eliot
Answer: a) Harold Bloom
This literary critic is known for his work “The Western Canon.”
a) Robert Penn Warren
b) T. S. Eliot
c) W. H. Auden
d) Wallace Stevens
Answer: a) Harold Bloom
Who is associated with the concept of “Theory of Affect”?
a) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
b) Stanley Fish
c) Fredric Jameson
d) Judith Butler
Answer: a) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
