June 2004 LSAT - Section 1 - Question 16
Emil-Kunkin June 26, 2023
Hi, B and D broadly fit with the two theories of literary analysis in the passage. B is more or less a summation of the goals of RRT, that we can gain more understanding of a work by looking at the ways that readers interact with it. D is more or less a description of the formalist approach, that the main goal of literary criticism is to find the true meaning of a work. Since the author is mostly defending RRT against formalism, we know that author would agree with B, and likely disagree with D.