Literary Criticism and Theory – Previous Year Questions
452 questions from past UGC NET English papers, each with the correct answer. Open any question for its explanation.
Topic-wise mock tests
- Which questions would cultural studies be most interested in asking of a cultural artefact? A. Who decides what is produced? B. Who can afford the artefact? C. How is the artefact marketed? D. What is the register of sp…
- Which element do Dorfman and Mattelart identify in How to Read Donald Duck as important to Disney's imperialist ideology?
- Match List I with List II: List I: Text List II: Author A. Modernity at Large I. John Urry B. The Tourist Gaze II. Edward W. Said C. Culture and Imperialism III. C. L. R. James D. The Black Jacobins IV. Arjun Appadurai
- Which two concepts are used in Fredric Jameson's work? A. Pastiche B. The hyperreal C. Schizophrenia D. Habitus
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is generally associated with the idea of:
- Arrange the following feminist texts in chronological order: A. Moraga and Anzaldúa (eds), This Bridge Called My Back B. Kate Millett, Sexual Politics C. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble D. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Myst…
- Into which two broad divisions does Plato's Divided Line split reality?
- Which two poets defended poetry against Plato's charges? A. John Dryden B. P. B. Shelley C. T. S. Eliot D. Philip Sidney
- Who argued that the poet 'nothing affirms, and therefore never lieth', answering Plato?
- Into which three kinds does Bacon divide poetry in The Advancement of Learning?
- Which two of the following are Johnson's views on the metaphysical poets? A. They were 'singular in their thoughts'. B. They were careful of their diction. C. They combined dissimilar images. D. They avoided occult rese…
- Arrange the following critical works in chronological order: A. Preface to Lyrical Ballads B. A Defence of Rhyme C. Life of Cowley D. 'The Frontiers of Criticism'
- Match List I with List II: List I: Critic List II: Essay A. L. C. Knights I. 'The Study of Poetry' B. Lionel Trilling II. 'Restoration Comedy: The Reality and the Myth' C. Matthew Arnold III. 'Poetry for Poetry's Sake'…
- Who coined the term 'aesthetics'?
- Which two plays does Eliot mention in 'Tradition and the Individual Talent'? A. Agamemnon B. Antigone C. Othello D. Doctor Faustus
- Who highlighted the role of print-languages in the rise of nationalism?
- In which essay does Pound define the Image as 'that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time'?
- Which of the following does a deconstructive reading show? A. A text must always be read in context. B. 'Il n'y a pas de hors-texte' (there is no outside-text). C. A text may betray itself. D. A text may have an ascerta…
- Match List I with List II: List I: Linguist / theorist List II: Work A. Ferdinand de Saussure I. 'Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances' B. Edward Sapir II. Of Grammatology C. Jacques Derrida III…
- Who described the novel as 'multiform in style and variform in speech and voice'?
- Which statement about Jakobson's account of metaphor and metonymy in aphasia is correct?
- Match List I with List II: List I: Concept pair List II: Theorist A. Competence / performance I. Noam Chomsky B. Signifier / signified II. Roman Jakobson C. Metaphor / metonymy III. Louis Hjelmslev D. Content / expressi…
- Match List I with List II: List I: Term List II: Theorist A. Heteroglossia I. Michel Foucault B. Heterotopia II. Louis Althusser C. Grand narrative III. Mikhail Bakhtin D. Interpellation IV. Jean-François Lyotard
- Which of the following essays have been productive in cultural studies? A. Laura Mulvey, 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' B. Viktor Shklovsky, 'Art as Technique' C. Sigmund Freud, 'The Uncanny' D. Stuart Hall, 'En…
- Who developed the idea of 'interpretive communities'?
- Which of the following are features of Barthes's 'writerly' text? A. The reader accepts its meaning with little effort. B. It focuses attention on what is written. C. It makes the reader a producer of the text. D. It te…
- Which statement represents the Frankfurt School's view of culture?
- Which word group gives the moments of communication in Stuart Hall's 'Encoding/Decoding'?
- Arrange the following works in chronological order: A. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage B. Swift, A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue C. Partridge, Usage and Abusage D. W…
- Who wrote The Complete Plain Words?