The relevance of the literary personality—a writer’s distinctive attitudes, concerns, and artistic choices—to the analysis of a

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问题     The relevance of the literary personality—a writer’s distinctive attitudes, concerns, and artistic choices—to the analysis of a literary work is being scrutinized by various schools of contemporary criticism. Deconstructionists view the literary personality, like the writer’s biographical personality, as irrelevant. The proper focus of literary analysis, they argue, is a work’s intertextuality (interrelationship with other texts), subtexts (unspoken, concealed, or repressed discourses), and metatexts (self-referential aspects), not a perception of a writer’s verbal and aesthetic “fingerprints.” New historicists also devalue the literary personality, since, in their emphasis on a work’s historical contexts, they credit a writer with only those insights and ideas that were generally available when the writer lived. However, to readers interested in literary detective work-say scholars of classical (Greek and Roman) literature who wish to reconstruct damaged texts or deduce a work’s authorship—the literary personality sometimes provide vital clues.
It can be inferred from the passage that on the issue of how to analyze a literary work, the new historicists would most likely agree with the deconstructionists that

选项 A、the writer’s insights and ideas should be understood in terms of the writer’s historical context.
B、the writer’s literary personality has little or no relevance
C、the critic should primarily focus on intertextuality, subtexts, and metatexts.

答案B

解析 B项是两个学派的共同点。A项对应新历史主义学派。C项对应解构主义学派。
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