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Solved Paper III December- 2012
Solved Paper III
December- 2012
1. Which of the
following book by V.S.
Naipaul is subtitled The
Caribbean
Revisited ?
(A) In a Free State
(B) A Bend in the River
(C) The Middle Passage
(D) An Area of Darkness
2. ‘Fluency’ in
language is the same as
(A) the ability to put oneself
across
comfortably in speech and/or
writing.
(B) the ability to command
language rather than language
commanding the user.
(C) glibness
(D) accuracy
3. Which of the
following statements on
Pathetic Fallacy is NOT TRUE ?
(A) This term applies to
descriptions that are not true
but imaginary and fanciful.
(B) Pathetic Fallacy is generally
understood as human traits
being applied or attributed to
non-human things in nature.
(C) In its first use, the term
was
used with disapproval because
nature cannot be equated with
the human in respect of
emotions and responses.
(D) The term was originally used
by Alexander Pope in his
Pastorals (1709).
4. Identify the
correctly matched group :
List – I List –
II
i. ‘L’ Allegro and
‘Il Pensoro so’
1. Pastoral elegy
ii. ‘Lycidas’ 2. Masque
iii. Comus 3. Sonnet
iv. ‘On His
Blindness’
4. Prose tract
v. Areopagitica 5. Companion
poems in
octo-syllabic
couplets
Codes :
i ii iii iv v
(A) 1 2 3 4 5
(B) 5 1 2 3 4
(C) 1 3 2 4 5
(D) 5 1 2 4 3
5. The
Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood –
The University Wits – The
Rhymers’
Club – The Transitional Poets –
The
Scottish Chaucerians.
The right chronological sequence
would be
(A) The Scottish Chaucerians –
The University Wits – The
Transitional Poets – The Pre-
Raphaelite brotherhood – The
Rhymers’ Club.
(B) The Rhymers’ Club, The
University Wits – The Scottish
Chaucerians – The Transitional
Poets, The Pre-Raphaelite
brotherhood.
(C) The Pre-Raphaelite
brotherhood – The Rhymers’
Club – The Transitional Poets,
The Scottish Chaucerians –
The University Wits.
(D) The University Wits, The
Scottish Chaucerians – The
Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood,
The Transitional Poets – The
Rhymers’ Club.
6. ‘Aucitya’ refers
to :
I. Decorum
II. Propriety
III. Proportion
IV. Accuracy
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II is correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
7. In the closing
paragraph of The Trial
two men accompany Joseph K to a
part of the city to eventually
execute
him. The place is
(A) a Public Park
(B) a Church
(C) a Quarry
(D) an Abandoned Factory
8. Match List – I
with List – II according
to the code given below :
List – I
(Character)
List – II
(Work)
i. Telemachus 1. Notes from
underground
ii. Anya 2. Old Goriot
iii. Zverkov 3. The Cherry
Orchard
iv. Rastignac 4. The Odyssey
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 3 1 4 2
(C) 2 4 1 3
(D) 4 3 1 2
9. This renowned
German poet was born
in Prague and died of Leukemia.
When
young he met Tolstoy and was
influenced by him. The titles of
his last
two works contain the words
“sonnets”
and “elegies”.
He is
(A) Herman Hesse
(B) Heinrich Heine
(C) Joseph Freiherr Von
Eichendorff
(D) Raine Marie Rilke
10. Which of the
following plays gained
notoriety for its caricature of
the
philosopher Socrates ?
(A) The Birds (B) The Wasps
(C) The Clouds (D) The Frogs
11. Raskolnikov
murders the old lady :
I. to get her money and achieve
his ambition in life.
II. to achieve his political goal
as
an extremist and a nihilist
III. to prove his superiority
over
other young men of the time.
IV. All of the above
Find the correct combination
according to the code :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) I, II and III are correct.
12. In his preface
to The Order of
Things, Foucault mentions being
influenced by a Latin American
writer and his work.
Choose the correct answer :
(A) Marquez – “The Solitude
of Latin
America”
(B) Borges – “Chinese
Encyclopaedia”
(C) Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
(D) Alejo
Carpentier
– “On the
Marvelous in
America”
13. Here is a list
of Partition novels
which have ‘violence on the
woman’s body’ as a significant
theme. Pick the odd one out :
(A) The Pakistani Bride
(B) What the Body Remembers
(C) Train to Pakistan
(D) The Ice-Candy Man
14. Match the
translators in List – I with
the English translations of
Indian
Literature texts in List – II
according
to the code given below :
List – I List –
II
i. K.B. Vaid 1. Says Tuka
ii. O.V. Vijayan 2. The Diary of
a
Maid Servant
iii. Dilip Chitre 3. Samskara
iv. A.K.
Ramanujan
4. Saga of
Dharmapuri
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 2 4 1 3
(D) 1 2 3 4
15. In his poem “A
Morning Walk”
Nissim Ezekiel talks about a
‘Barbaric City sick with slums /
Deprived of seasons, blessed with
rains / Its hawkers, beggars, ironlunged
/ Processions led by frantic
drums.’ Identify the city :
(A) Calcutta (B) Banares
(C) Bombay (D) Agra
16. In Practical
Criticism I.A. Richards
links four kinds of meanings in
most
human utterances to four aspects.
These are
(A) Sense, Feeling, Tone,
Intention
(B) Sound, Feeling, Nuance,
Intention
(C) Sense, Voice, Emotion,
Intention
(D) Sense, Image, Tone, Intention
17. In ‘Christabel’
after Geraldine enters
Sir Leoline’s castle on her way
to
Christabel’s chamber there are
several ill omens which warn the
reader about Geraldine. Pick out
the
phrase which does not serve as an
omen :
(A) the ‘angry moan’ of the
ailing
mastiff bitch
(B) ‘The Owlet’s Scritch’
(C) ‘The Moaning Wind’
(D) ‘a tongue of light, a fit of
flame’
18. The word resurrect
is
(A) an abbreviation
(B) a spurious verb
(C) a back-formation
(D) a disguised compound
19. Match List – I
with List – II according
to the code given below :
List – I List –
II
i. Annie John 1. Picaresque
ii. Tom Jones 2. Bildungsroman
iii. The
Sorrows of
Young
Werther
3. Gothic
iv. Vathek 4. Epistolary
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 4 1 2
20. Ted Hughes’s
poem ‘The Thought-
Fox’ is
I. About Thought as Fox
II. About the Fox as Thought
III. About the process of writing
poetry.
IV. About Thought entering the
poet’s brain like the Fox
emerging from darkness.
Find the most appropriate
combination according to the code
:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct.
21. In Aristotle’s
Poetics we read that it
is the imitation of an action
that is
complete and whole, and of a
certain
magnitude….having a beginning, a
middle, and an end’.
What is ‘it’ ?
(A) tragedy (B) epic
(C) poetry (D) farce
22. According to Matthew
Arnold,
‘touchstones’ help us test truth
and
seriousness that constitute the
best
poetry. What are the
‘touchstones’ ?
(A) The purple passages of lyric
poetry
(B) Passages from ancient poets
(C) The lines and expressions of
the great masters
(D) Passages of epic strength and
vigour
23. ‘An extremely
simplified form of
language used for oral, verbal
contact
among a community whose members
speak different languages but do
not
share a common language in order
to
fulfill the essential needs of
communication.’
Which of the following is best
described by this definition ?
(A) Creole
(B) Pidgin
(C) Dialect
(D) Lingua franca
24. What do the
prosodic features of a
language tell us ?
(A) The speaker’s native language
and its cognate languages.
(B) The speaker’s age, emotional
state, social class, educational
background, geographical
provenance etc.
(C) The speaker’s self-confidence
or lack of it.
(D) The speaker’s command of the
resources of the language
spoken by him/her and their
deployment.
25. What novel
answers to the following
descriptions ?
This was a 1990 best-seller by a
British writer. The work
incorporates
many genres such as letters,
diaries
and poetry as also third-person
narratives. The plot here
involves
two time-periods – contemporary
and
Victorian. The work is subtitled
A
Romance.
(A) The Virgin in the Garden
(B) Possession
(C) The Girl in the Polka Dot
Dress
(D) The Sea Lady
26. The following
words and phrases,
‘peace makers’, ‘help-meet’, ‘the
fat
of the land’, ‘a labour of love’,
‘the
eleventh hour’ and ‘the shadow of
death’ were made current by
(A) the British Greek scholars
like
Roger Ascham
(B) the fifteenth century British
prelates
(C) the Puritan tractarians
(D) the sixteen-century
translators
of the Bible
27. Who among the
following writers
asserted ‘Commonwealth
Literature’
does not exist ?
(A) Amitav Ghosh
(B) Sulman Rushdie
(C) V.S. Naipaul
(D) Nirad Chaudhari
28. Identify the one
in correct
chronological sequence :
(A) The Norman Conquest – The
Death of Geoffrey Chaucer –
William Tyndall’s New
Testament – The Birth of
William Shakespeare
(B) The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer
–
William Tyndall’s New
Testament – The Birth of
William Shakespeare – The
Norman Conquest
(C) The Norman Conquest –William
Tyndall’s New Testament – The
Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – The
Birth of William Shakespeare
(D) William Tyndall’s New
Testament – The Norman
Conquest – The Death of
Geoffrey Chaucer – The Birth of
William Shakespeare
29. Which of the
following arrangements is
in the correct chronological
sequence ?
(A) Mary Wellstone Craft’s A
Vindication of the Rights of
Woman – Lyrical Ballads by
Wordsworth and Coleridge –
Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’,
second edition by Wordsworth
and Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s
Reflections on the Revolution in
France.
(B) Edmund Burke’s Reflections on
the Revolution in France – Mary
Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication
of the Rights of Woman – Lyrical
Ballads by Wordsworth and
Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with
‘Preface’, second edition by
Wordsworth and Coleridge.
(C) Lyrical Ballads with
‘Preface’,
second edition by Wordsworth
and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads
by Wordsworth and Coleridge –
Edmund Burke’s Reflections on
the Revolution in France – Mary
Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication
of the Rights of Woman.
(D) Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth
and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads
with ‘Preface’, second edition by
Wordsworth and Coleridge –
Edmund Burke’s Reflections on
the Revolution in France – Mary
Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication
of the Rights of Woman.
30. Who is John
Keats’s ‘Sylvan Historian’ ?
(A) Fanny Brawne
(B) Nightingale
(C) The Grecian Urn
(D) The Bridge of Quietness
31. This periodical
was started in 1709
with a motive ‘to expose the
false
arts of life, to pull the
disguise of
cunning, vanity and affectation,
and
to recommend a general simplicity
in
our dress, our discourse and our
behaviour.’ The founder of the
periodical wrote under the
pseudonym of Isaac Bickerstaff.
The periodical described above is
(A) The Tatler
(B) The Spectator
(C) The Critical Review
(D) The Rambler
32. Arrange the
following in the order in
which the details of a research
article /
essay appear in your
bibliography.
(A) Page numbers, the title of
the
essay, the title of the journal,
volume & issue numbers, year
of publication
(B) The title of the essay, page
numbers, the title of the
journal, volume and issue
numbers, year of publication
(C) The title of the journal, the
title
of the essay, page numbers,
volume and issue numbers,
year of publication
(D) The title of the essay, the
title
of the journal, volume &
issue
numbers, the year of
publication, page numbers
33. From the
following indicate the work
which is not a Dystopia :
(A) Aldous
Huxley
– A Brave
New World
(B) George
Orwell
– 1984
(C) Yevgeny
Zamyatin
– We
(D) Evelyn
Waugh
– Brideshed
Revisited
34. ‘Unless wariness
be used, as good
almost kill a man as kill a good
book.
Who kills a man kills a
reasonable
creature, God’s image, but he who
destroys a good book, kills
reason itself,
kills the image of God as it were
in the
eye. Many a man lives a burden to
the
earth; but a good book is the
precious
life-blood of a master spirit….’
Where is the passage from ?
(A) Milton’s Areopagitica
(B) Sidney’s Apologie for Poetry
(C) Dryden’s ‘Preface to the
Fables’
(D) Marvell’s The Rehearsal
Transposed
35. Virginia Woolf
rubbished the idea of
character and the understanding
of
realism of writers like Arnold
Bennett, John Galsworthy and H.G.
Wells. Her famous essay is called
‘Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown’. Who
is Mrs. Brown ?
(A) The name Woolf gives a
woman whom she happens to
meet in a train.
(B) A servant in Mr. Bennett’s
household.
(C) A character in a Bennett
story.
(D) Mr. Bennett’s neighbour who
happens to be a writer.
36. E.M. Forster
uses some recurrent
images in A Passage to India.
Pick
the odd one out :
(A) Wasp (B) Stone
(C) Thunder (D) Echo
37. ‘Now stop your
noses, readers, all
and some,
For here’s a tun of midnight-work
to
come,
Og, from a treason-tavern rolling
home.
Round as a globe, and liquor’d
ev’ry
chink
Goodly and great he rails behind
his
link’.
In the above extract from Absalom
and Achitophel Og is
(A) Elkanah Settle
(B) Lord Harvey
(C) Thomas Shadwell
(D) Joseph Addison
38. D.H. Lawrence
uses the expression
‘a bright book of life’ to
describe
(A) the novel
(B) the dramatic monologue
(C) the Bible
(D) the short lyric
39. Identify the
correctly matched group :
List – I List –
II
i. Where Angles
Fear to Tread
1. Malay
ii. A Portrait of the
Artist as a
Young Man
2. Russia
iii. The Plumed
Serpent
3. Italy
iv. An Outcast of
the Islands
4. Mexico
v. Under Western
Eyes
5. Dublin
Codes :
i ii iii iv v
(A) 3 5 4 1 2
(B) 4 3 5 2 1
(C) 5 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 3 4 5
40. Given below are
two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Chaucer
describes
‘Madame Eglentyne’ thus :
‘She was so charitable and so
pitous, She wolde wepe, if that
she sawe a mous caught in a
trappe’
Reason (R) : On her ‘broche
of
gold full shene’ was written
Amor Vincit Omnia.
In the context of the two
statements, which one of the
following is correct ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and
(R)
is the correct explanation of
(A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but
(R) is not the correct
explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
41. Identify the
correct statements on
Langue and Parole below :
1. Langue is the abstract
language
system, the grammar of a
language.
2. Parole is the language
actually
produced by its user following
langue.
3. Langue is the language
actually
produced by its users following
parole.
4. Parole is the abstract
language
system, the grammar of a
system.
(A) 1 and 3 are correct.
(B) 1 and 2 are correct.
(C) 2 and 3 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct.
42. In Monica Ali’s
Brick Lane which
among the following characters
has
‘a face like a frog’ ?
(A) Nazneen (B) Chanu
(C) Hasina (D) Karim
43. ‘The grey-eyed
morn smiles on the
frowning night,
Check’ring the eastern clouds
with
streaks of light;
And flecked darkness like a
drunkard
reels
From forth day’s path and Titan’s
burning wheels.’
(Romeo and Juliet II 3, 1 – 4)
The speaker describes
(A) The Setting Sun
(B) The Return Home of a
Drunkard
(C) The Drawing of a New Day
(D) The Rising Sun
44. ‘How noble in
reason ! how infinite
in faculty !
in form and moving how express
and
admirable ! In action how like an
angel !
in apprehension how like a God !’
What does Hamlet marvel at in
this
passage ?
(A) His own self
(B) His father
(C) Man
(D) Woman
45. Said identifies
Orientalism as :
I. What an Orientalist does.
II. A style of thought based on
an
ontological and
epistemological distinction
made between the Orient and
the Occident.
III. a discourse dealing with the
Orient
IV. a fact of nature rather than
one
of human production
In the light of the statement
above :
(A) II and III are correct, I and
IV
are wrong.
(B) I and III are correct, II and
IV
are wrong.
(C) I, II and III are correct and
IV
is wrong.
(D) IV is correct and I, II and
III
are wrong.
46. Identify the
period during which the
Puritans under the rule of Oliver
Cromwell and his Commonwealth
shut down all English theatres on
religious and moral grounds :
(A) 1640-1660 (B) 1649-1660
(C) 1649-1659 (D) 1640-1659
47. “To tell the
truth Shug act more manly
than rest, men. I mean she
upright,
honest, speak her mind…”
What light does the quotation
throw
on Shug Avery ?
(A) She is a manly woman.
(B) She is upright and honest in
asserting her lesbian identity.
(C) She is bent on self-assertion
(D) Both (B) and (C)
48. 1. A content
word is not a
function word.
2. A content word has lesser
meaning than a function word.
3. A content word has no
function.
4. A content word bears lexical
meaning whereas a function
word just about means
functionally.
Which of these statements are correct
?
(A) 1 and 4 are correct.
(B) 1 and 2 are correct.
(C) 3 and 4 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct.
49. The year 1828 is
a landmark in the
history of American language and
literature. Identify the reason
from
the following :
(A) Mark Twain’s The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn was
published in that year.
(B) The Southern Literary
Messenger gained wide
circulation since that year.
(C) Washington Irving was
adjudged the nation’s greatest
writer in that year.
(D) Noah Webster published An
American Dictionary of the
English Language in that year.
50. What alternative
title to her
Frankenstein did Marry Shelley
give ?
(A) A Gothic Tale
(B) A Gothic Romance
(C) The Modern Prometheus
(D) A Modern Parable
51. Which of the
following statements on
George Lamming’s In the Castle of
My Skin [1953] is not true ?
(A) On one level this is a
comingof-
age story.
(B) It is an elegiac account of a
village’s growth into awareness
in the late colonial period.
(C) Its themes parody The
Tempest.
(D) This was George Lamming’s
first novel.
52. We are likely to
misunderstand an
Emily Dickinson poem if we take
her
famous dashes to be …
(A) quite specific and
unambiguous
(B) ambiguous and indeterminate
(C) suggestive of both forward
and
backward movements in terms
of sense
(D) suggestive of links but
equivocally
53. Readers of Tayeb
Salih’s Seasons
of Migration to the North will
undoubtedly notice its parallels
with
the story/stories of :
I. Death in Venice
II. Othello
III. Bartleby the Scrivener
IV. Heart of Darkness
Of the above :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) Only IV is correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
54. Which statement
is not true of
Benedict Anderson’s Imagined
Communities ?
(A) It is a prosaic response to
the
myth of El Dorado.
(B) It is subtitled Reflections
on the
Origin and Spread of Nationalism.
(C) In this book, Anderson
advances the view that nations
are not natural entities but
narrative constructs.
(D) In Anderson’s view, modern
nationalism was basically a
consequence of the convergence
of capitalism, the new print
technology and the fixity that
resulted from print extending to
‘Vernacular’ languages.
55. ‘By swaggering
could I never thrive,
For the rain it raineth
everyday.’
These lines from Twelfth Night
occur in the novel :
(A) Middlemarch
(B) Vanity Fair
(C) Our Mutual Friend
(D) Far From the Madding Crowd
56. What is a
mock-heroic poem ?
A mock-heroic poem
(A) mocks at heroic pretensions
in
poets and critics
(B) mocks heroism, an exaggerated
virtue in all epics
(C) uses a heroic style to deride
airs and affectations
(D) uses a mocking style to
deride
heroes and hero-worship
57. Which of the
following statements is
not true of Laurence Sterne’s
Tristram Shandy ?
(A) It has a linear plot.
(B) It opens and ends with the
theme of birth.
(C) It contains a trip to France.
(D) It contains a marbled page.
58. In drama, an
aside is addressed…
(A) to an audience by an actor;
the
words so spoken are not meant
to be heard by other actors on
the stage.
(B) to other actors on the stage;
the
words so spoken are not meant
to be heard by the audience.
(C) by the playwright to the
audience.
(D) by the protagonist to his/her
antagonist
59. Match List – I
with List – II according
to the code given below :
List – I
(Novels)
List – II
(Last Lines)
i. The Mayor
of
Casterbridge
1. ‘He walked
towards the
faintly
humming,
glowing town,
quickly.’
ii. Sons and
Lovers
2. ‘In their death,
they were not
divided.’
iii. The Great
Gatsby
3. ‘Happiness was
but the
occasional
episode in a
general drama
of pain.’
iv. The Mill on
the Floss
4. ‘So we beat on,
boats against
the current,
borne back
ceaselessly
into the past.’
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 1 4 2
60. “There is
nothing outside the text,” is
a statement by
(A) Victor Shklovsky
(B) Jacques Derrida
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure
61. Here is a list
of women abandoned
by their lovers in Hardy’s
novels.
Pick the odd one out :
(A) Fanny Robin
(B) Tess D’Urberville
(C) Marty South
(D) Bathsheba Everdene
62. What is the
following a description of ?
‘a loose sally of the mind; an
irregular indigested piece’
(A) Essay
(B) Autobiography
(C) Epistolary Fiction
(D) Diary
63. From the
following indicate the critic
who is not a New Critic :
(A) Allen Tate
(B) Robert Penn Warren
(C) Cleanth Brooks
(D) Claude Levi-Strauss
64. From the
following list, pick out a
woman character who does not
belong to Amitav Ghosh’s novels :
(A) Ila (B) Urvashi
(C) Sonali (D) Piyali
65. Pick the odd man
out of the following
members of the subaltern group :
(A) Ranajit Guha
(B) Partha Chatterjee
(C) Dipesh Chakrabarty
(D) Sumit Sarkar
66. Statement
(S) : “Our
birth is but a
sleep and forgetting.”
Interpretation
(I) : The
human soul
never tires in the course of
life,
it never dies. Therefore, the
human life is a long sleep and
ephemeral events are better
forgotten.
(A) (S) is a view and (I) is not
correct.
(B) (S) is a view and (I) is
correct.
(C) (S) is a poetic view, the (I)
does not suit it.
(D) (S) is a poetic view and
bears
no relationship to (I).
67. ‘The parish of
rich women, physical
decay, /
Yourself…’
What do these make of W.B. Yeats
in W.H. Auden’s view ?
(A) Proud
(B) Vainglorious
(C) Avaricious
(D) Silly
68. Who among
Charles Dickens’s
characters is ‘umble’ and who
‘willin’ ?
(A) Mr. Pickwick, Mrs. Gamp
(B) Master Humphrey, Nicolas
Nickleby
(C) Martin, Little Nell
(D) Uriah Heep, Barkis
69. “Fourth World
Literature” refers to
I. the works of native people
living in a land that has been
taken over by non-natives.
II. the works of black people in
the United States.
III. the literature of the
marginalized.
IV. refers to the works of
nonheterosexuals
Of the above :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct.
70. Assertion
(A) : In
The Duchess of
Malfi Ferdinand sets a whole
group of mad men on the
Duchess and they dance and
sing in a crazy manner.
Reason (R) : His desire was
to
provide a strange entertainment
to drive the Duchess mad.
In the context of the two
statements, which one of the
following is correct ?
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is
wrong.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is
correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
71. Why is The
Signifying Monkey of
Henry Louis Gates JR. a notable
contribution to the study of
African-
American literature ?
(A) It focuses on largely
neglected
African-American novelists
and poets.
(B) It offers a theory of
African-
American criticism that draws
upon rhetorical and signifying
practices.
(C) It offers a theory of
African-
American films and dramatic
arts that signify Black ethos.
(D) It departs from critical
theory
of autobiographical narratives
involving Black lives and
cultural traditions.
72. This influential
critic
I. wrote influential commentaries
on such poets as Shelley, Blake
and Yeats.
II. published such titles as The
Anxiety of Influence, A Map of
Misreading, Poetry and Repression
and The Western Canon.
III. asserted that most literary
criticism is but slightly
disguised religion and
IV. is, arguably, the most widely
known and contrarian among
his American peers in the
English Academy.
Identify the critic
(A) Edward Said
(B) Geoffrey Chaucer
(C) Harold Bloom
(D) Sven Birkrets
73. According to the
Italian Marxist
theorist Antonio Gramsci :
(A) hegemony is synonymous with
domination
(B) hegemony involves a degree of
consent on the part of subject
people.
(C) hegemony involves a degree of
coercion on the part of a
dominant political entity.
(D) hegemony is synonymous with
subjugation
74. Match the
following :
i. George Peele,
Robert Greene,
Thomas Lodge,
Thomas Kyd
1. The
Rhymers’
Club / The
Decadents
of the
1890’s
ii. William Congreve,
William Wycherley
George Eltherege,
George Farquhar
2. The Pre-
Raphaelite
Brotherhood
iii. John Everett
Millais, James
Collinson, Ford
Madox Brown,
Dante Gabriel
Rossetti
3. The
University
Wits
iv. Ernest Dowson,
Lionel Johnson,
W.B. Yeats
4. The
Restoration
Playwrights
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 1 4 3 2
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 3 4 2 1
75. Combine the
statements correctly :
According to Homi Bhabha
________
1. mimicry is not mere copying or
emulating the colonizer’s
culture, behaviour and
manners.
2. but it is further aimed at
perfection and excess.
3. mimicry is mere copying the
colonizer’s culture, behaviour
and manners…
4. but is informed by both
mockery and a certain menace.
(A) 1 and 4 (B) 1 and 2
(C) 3 and 4 (D) 3 and 2
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