CULTURAL STUDIES

In which book does Louise Rosenblatt talk about the importance of the reader’s response to a literary work?

(A) The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response(B) “Literature in the Reader: Affective Stylistics”(C) Subjective Criticism (D) Literature as Exploration

Historical-biographical approaches involve

(A) a focus on the life, time, and environment of the author and/or characters(B) an examination of how external factors affect the text(C) a focus on the aesthetics of the text (D) both a and b

Edward Brathwaite’s poem “Calypso” assumes that you are familiar with _____ .

(A) the business of Calypso during the Middle Passage (B) the West Indian music in syncopated African rhythm(C) the folk ways and mores of Trinidadian merchants(D) the operatic performance of Banjos