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
- The term 'Remainder' was first used by:
- The term 'Chronotope' was coined by:
- 'The notion of author constitutes the privileged moment of individualization in the history of ideas, knowledge, literature, philosophy and the sciences.' Identify the critical essay in which the line occurs.
- 'Territorialization' is a term given by:
- In which text do these lines occur? 'Of all the causes which conspire to blind / Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, / What the weak head with strongest bias rules, / Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.'
- Arrange the following works in chronological order of publication: A. Culture and Anarchy B. The Anatomy of Melancholy C. A Defence of Poetry D. Leviathan E. Studies in the History of the Renaissance
- Match List I with List II: List I: Theorist List II: Idea A. Mikhail Bakhtin I. An archaeology of the human sciences B. Michel Foucault II. Texts are either readerly or writerly C. Roland Barthes III. Dialogue as an int…
- Match List I with List II: List I: Concept List II: Theorist A. Defamiliarization I. Giorgio Agamben B. The Uncanny II. Bruno Latour C. Actor-Network Theory III. Viktor Shklovsky D. Homo Sacer IV. Sigmund Freud
- Arrange the following in chronological order of publication: A. Deconstruction and Criticism B. Multiculturalism: Roots and Realities C. Literary Theory and the Claims of History D. The Western Canon E. An Appetite for…
- 'There is nothing outside the text' is a statement by:
- What is 'Practical Criticism'?
- Identify the one who was not a New Critic:
- Which of the following statements are true about Modernism? A. It broke with formal conventions. B. Older modes of thought underwent a cultural shift. C. Liberal humanism declined. D. It revived classical scholarship. E…
- Arrange the following in chronological order: A. Nation and Narration B. The Dialogic Imagination C. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter D. Discourse on Colonialism E. Orientalism
- Which of the statements given below are true? A. The CCCS was founded at Berkeley in 1960. B. Habermas links the rise of the public sphere to print culture. C. Paul Gilroy introduced the term 'Black Atlantic'. D. Adorno…
- Identify the statements which are true for psychoanalytic criticism: A. Freud established its premises and procedures. B. Freud said artists are like neurotic patients. C. Psychoanalysis can explain developments in the…
- Match List I with List II: List I: Text List II: Critic A. Bodies That Matter I. Barbara Johnson B. A World of Difference II. Judith Butler C. A Literature of Their Own III. Camille Paglia D. Vamps and Tramps IV. Elaine…
- Identify the correct statements about ecocriticism: A. It explores the web of interrelations between human and non-human. B. Human accountability to the environment is part of a text's ethics. C. It explores the interpl…
- Match List I with List II: List I: Author List II: Work A. Paul Ehrlich I. The Environmental Imagination B. Lawrence Buell II. On the Beach C. Nevil Shute III. Silent Spring D. Rachel Carson IV. The Population Bomb
- Arrange the following in chronological order of publication: A. J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition B. Donna Haraway, When Species Meet C. Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat D. Francis Fukuyama, The End of History an…
- The Greek word polis refers to: A. a social structure B. a political structure C. a legal structure D. a city-state E. barbarians
- Plato regarded poetry as: A. an imitation of reality B. a self-subsistent entity C. distant from reality D. a manifestation of reality E. life as experienced in reality
- Neoplatonism was founded by: A. Plato B. Plotinus C. Porphyry D. Aristotle E. Pythagoras
- Match List I with List II: List I: Term List II: Meaning A. Catastrophe I. The introductory part of a play or narrative poem B. Epistasis II. The final action that completes the unravelling of the plot, especially in tr…
- In Dryden's Of Dramatic Poesy: An Essay (1668), Neander represents:
- Which of the following are true of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music (1872)? A. It examines the origins and development of Greek tragedy. B. It argues that Socratic rationalism and optimism kille…
- Who held that language is a system of signs whose parts must be considered in their synchronic solidarity?
- Which of the following are true of the 'collective unconscious'? A. Freud introduced the term. B. Jung introduced the term. C. It contains archetypes, universal primordial images and ideas. D. It contains stereotypes an…
- Announcing the eclipse of grand narratives in The Postmodern Condition, Lyotard sought above all to declare the death of:
- Which statement about 'cultural intermediaries' is NOT true?