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.
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- Match List I with List II: List I: Concept List II: Theorist A. Deconstruction I. Jacques Derrida B. Hegemony II. Antonio Gramsci C. Habitus III. Louis Althusser D. Interpellation IV. Pierre Bourdieu
- Assertion (A): Poststructuralism is unthinkable without structuralism. Reason (R): Poststructuralism retains the humanism of structuralism and agrees that language is not central to understanding ourselves and the world.
- Which theorist described myth as 'depoliticised speech' in bourgeois society?
- Which of the following statements does Barthes make in 'From Work to Text'? A. The work is a methodological field. B. The Text must be understood as a computable object. C. The Text is plural. D. The work is never caugh…
- Statement I: Althusser's interpellation is the 'hailing' ('Hey, you there!') by which individuals are constituted as ideological subjects. Statement II: Interpellation is very similar to Derrida's deconstruction.
- Arrange the following works in order of first publication: A. Edward Said, Orientalism B. Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious C. T. S. Eliot, Notes towards the Definition of Culture D. Raymond Williams, Keywords…
- Arrange the following books in order of publication: A. Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture B. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornel West, The Future of the Race C. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (ed.), Black Literature and Liter…
- According to Andrew Milner, which three of Williams's early meanings of 'culture' survive in Keywords? A. A general state or habit of the individual mind B. The general state of intellectual development of a whole socie…
- Who held that 'significant breaks', where old lines of thought are disrupted and elements regrouped around new premises, matter most in cultural studies?
- Which of the following books was NOT written by Raymond Williams?
- Along with Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall, who is a founding figure of British cultural studies?
- Which of the following features are generally accepted as true of Birmingham cultural studies, as described by Stuart Hall? A. It strengthened the barrier between high and low culture. B. It privileged text over context…
- Match List I with List II: List I: Critic List II: Work A. Peter Middleton I. New Relations: The Refashioning of British Poetry 1980–1994 B. Patricia Waugh II. Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption i…
- Match List I with List II: List I: Concept / work List II: Critic A. A reply to Stephen Gosson I. Aristotle B. 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' II. Matthew Arnold C. Catharsis III. T. S. Eliot D. Sweetness and ligh…
- Arrange the following in chronological order: A. Bacon, The Advancement of Learning B. Sidney, An Apology for Poetry C. Addison and Steele, The Spectator D. Lamb, 'My Relations' E. Browning, 'How It Strikes a Contempora…
- To whom did Francis Bacon dedicate The Advancement of Learning?
- In which year was Hobbes's Leviathan first published?
- Which of the following were written by John Dennis? A. The Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry B. The Christian Hero C. The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry D. The Conscious Lovers E. An Essay on the Genius and W…
- Statement I: Criticism is the judgement of the merits and faults of something. Statement II: Criticism may be theoretical, practical, impressionistic, affective, prescriptive or descriptive.
- In Dryden's An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, which speaker argues for the superiority of French drama over English?
- Arrange the following in chronological order of publication: A. Dryden, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy B. Woolf, A Room of One's Own C. Arnold, Culture and Anarchy D. Johnson, Lives of the Poets E. Wordsworth, Preface to Ly…
- Match List I with List II: List I: Concept List II: Critic A. Egotistical sublime I. Matthew Arnold B. Willing suspension of disbelief II. Joseph Addison C. Touchstone III. John Keats D. Pleasures of the Imagination IV.…
- Who proposed that the mind at birth is a blank slate (tabula rasa)?
- An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage (1744) was the first major biography published by:
- Which of the following were written by Thomas Carlyle? A. Chartism B. Past and Present C. The French Revolution D. Suspiria de Profundis E. The English Mail-Coach
- The 'Condition of England' debate was initiated by:
- Who wrote that Charlotte Brontë's mind contained 'nothing but hunger, rebellion, and rage'?
- Thomas Love Peacock wrote the essay:
- Which of the following are significant texts of Victorian criticism? A. Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance B. Jessie Weston, From Ritual to Romance C. Eliot, 'Hamlet and His Problems' D. Arnold, 'The Funct…
- Arrange the following prose writers in order of birth: A. Joseph Addison B. Francis Bacon C. Charles Lamb D. Virginia Woolf E. Matthew Arnold