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 assumptions about cultures of space are NOT true? A. Space is about the power to control access, representation and use. B. Space is simply land or built-up area. C. Space shapes social relations and communities.…
- Which assumptions about standpoint theory are NOT true? A. Social position can give a privileged perspective on certain knowledge. B. Marginalised groups may have insights the dominant group lacks. C. The oppressed clas…
- In The Long Revolution (1961), Raymond Williams analysed the social origins of 350 writers from the Oxford Introduction to English Literature for the years:
- In The Dialogic Imagination, Bakhtin: A. develops a theory of polyphony and many voices B. holds that language is imaginary C. holds that language evolves dynamically D. argues that language is shaped by and shapes cult…
- Match List I with List II: List I: Term List II: Meaning A. Heteroglossia I. Deliberate foolishness or nonsense for effect B. Homosociality II. The diversity of languages and voices within a text C. Mathnawi III. Same-s…
- Match List I with List II: List I: Work List II: Author A. Critique of Judgement I. Martin Heidegger B. The Phenomenology of Spirit II. Sigmund Freud C. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego III. Immanuel Kant D.…
- Rudolf Pannwitz used 'postmodern' in 1917 to describe:
- Which of the following are true of M. H. Abrams's The Mirror and the Lamp (1953)? A. It describes eighteenth-century literature as a mirror. B. It describes nineteenth-century (Romantic) literature as a lamp. C. It desc…
- Match List I with List II: List I: Concept List II: Thinker A. Othering I. Robert Young B. Ecological imperialism II. Gayatri Spivak C. Colonial desire III. Alfred W. Crosby D. Third space IV. Homi K. Bhabha
- Who among the following is NOT associated with lesbian and gay studies? A. Jane Rule B. Jonathan Dollimore C. John Wamn D. Elizabeth Jennings E. Richard Dyer
- What prompted Sidney to write An Apology for Poetry?
- Who called Dryden 'the father of English criticism'?
- Pope's line usually quoted as 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing' comes from:
- Who defined taste as 'that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike'?
- Which is NOT one of Lacan's three orders?
- Who said that 'the object of study in literary science is not literature but literariness'?
- Arrange the following works of theory in chronological order: A. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge B. Barthes, Mythologies C. Derrida, Of Grammatology D. Lacan, Écrits E. Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition
- Announcing the eclipse of grand narratives in The Postmodern Condition, Lyotard in effect declared the death of:
- Who published The New Criticism (1941)?
- Match List I with List II: List I: Critic List II: Work A. Raymond Williams I. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism B. Herbert Marcuse II. Preface to Film C. Fredric Jameson III. One-Dimensional Man…
- Arrange the following works of Raymond Williams in chronological order: A. Keywords B. Culture and Society C. The Long Revolution D. The Country and the City E. Modern Tragedy
- Which of the following statements are correct? A. 'Performativity' was coined by Derrida. B. 'Meme' was coined by Richard Dawkins. C. 'Culture industry' was coined by Adorno and Horkheimer. D. 'Ideological State Apparat…
- Arrange the following thinkers by year of birth: A. Simone de Beauvoir B. Walter Benjamin C. Jean Baudrillard D. Mikhail Bakhtin E. Roland Barthes
- Who wrote The Implied Reader and The Act of Reading?
- Which of the following statements are correct? A. Diegesis is used by Plato to mean statement and by Aristotle to mean narration. B. Foucault's 'biopolitics' refers to governments' attempts to rationalise the problems p…
- Match List I with List II: List I: Writer List II: Work A. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o I. Toward the African Revolution B. Aimé Césaire II. There Was a Country C. Frantz Fanon III. The Language of Languages D. Chinua Achebe IV. D…
- Which of the following statements are correct? A. 'Nation language' was coined by Derek Walcott. B. 'Poetic justice' was coined by Thomas Rymer. C. 'Neo-colonialism' was coined by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. D. 'Nihilism' was in…
- Match List I with List II: List I: Term List II: Theorist A. Culture industry I. Raymond Williams B. Anxiety of influence II. Adorno and Horkheimer C. Cultural materialism III. Mikhail Bakhtin D. Dialogism IV. Harold Bl…
- Which of the following are LGBTQ+ writers? A. David Gauntlett (Making Is Connecting) B. Torrey Peters (Detransition, Baby) C. Casey McQuiston (Red, White & Royal Blue) D. Alyssa Huynh (Safe Space)
- Who wrote The Arte of Rhetorique?