Postmodern Literature Quiz

Who wrote The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979)?

• Jean-François Lyotard

• Fredric Jameson

• Ihab Hassan

• Linda Hutcheon

The concept of "pastiche" in postmodern literature is most associated with:

• Linda Hutcheon

• Fredric Jameson

• Jean Baudrillard

• Ihab Hassan

Who coined the term "simulacra" to describe copies without originals?

• Jean Baudrillard

• Jean-François Lyotard

• Brian McHale

• David Harvey

The term "historiographic metafiction" was introduced by:

• Linda Hutcheon

• Brian McHale

• David Lodge

• Patricia Waugh

White Noise (1985), a postmodern novel about media saturation, is by:

• Don DeLillo

• Thomas Pynchon

• Paul Auster

• David Foster Wallace

"Hyperreality" is a central concept in the work of:

• Jean Baudrillard

• Fredric Jameson

• Linda Hutcheon

• Ihab Hassan

Who wrote Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)?

• Fredric Jameson

• Jean-François Lyotard

• David Harvey

• Ihab Hassan

The term "intertextuality" is most closely associated with:

• Julia Kristeva

• Jacques Derrida

• Roland Barthes

• Jean Baudrillard

If on a winter's night a traveler (1979), a novel about reading itself, is by:

• Italo Calvino

• Umberto Eco

• Thomas Pynchon

• John Barth

The phrase "incredulity toward metanarratives" is from:

• Jean-François Lyotard

• Linda Hutcheon

• Fredric Jameson

• Jean Baudrillard