Match List I with List II:

List I	List II
[A] The poetics of prose	[I] Stanley fish
[B] Problems of Dostoevsky’s poetics	[II] Tzvetan Todrov
[C] Surprised by sin	[III] Mikhail Bakhtin
[D] The way women write	[IV] Mary Hiatt

The correct option is (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV).

Let's break down the matching step-by-step to understand the correct associations between the literary works in List I and their respective authors in List II:

1. [A] The Poetics of Prose matches with [II] Tzvetan Todorov
The Poetics of Prose (originally published in French as Poétique de la prose in 1971) is a seminal work in structuralist literary criticism written by the Bulgarian-French literary theorist Tzvetan Todorov. In this book, Todorov applies structuralist methodologies to narrative, contributing significantly to the field of narratology.

2. [B] Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics matches with [III] Mikhail Bakhtin
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics is one of the most famous works by the Russian philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin. Published originally in 1929 (and revised in 1963), this book introduces key concepts in modern literary theory, such as "dialogism" and the "polyphonic novel," using Fyodor Dostoevsky's novels as primary examples.

3. [C] Surprised by Sin matches with [I] Stanley Fish
Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost is a landmark study by the American literary theorist Stanley Fish, first published in 1967. In this book, Fish explores how John Milton manipulates the reader's response in Paradise Lost, laying the foundational framework for what would become known as reader-response criticism.

4. [D] The Way Women Write matches with [IV] Mary Hiatt
The Way Women Write is a scholarly book published in 1977 by Mary Hiatt. This work uses stylistic and linguistic analysis, leveraging early computer-aided analysis of text, to examine whether there are measurable differences in style between the writing of men and women, challenging historical biases against women's prose.

By compiling these correct pairings, we get:
(A) matches with (II)
(B) matches with (III)
(C) matches with (I)
(D) matches with (IV)