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 of the following is true about New Criticism?
- Who is credited with the phrase 'structure of feeling'?
- Statement I: Poststructuralist genre critics argue that genre should be 'de-essentialised' by recasting it in terms of discourse. Statement II: Discourse-based genre theory has limitations deriving from poststructuralis…
- Which of the following were written by (or under the name of) the Bakhtin circle? A. 'White Mythology' B. Freudianism: A Marxist Critique C. The Ideology of the Aesthetic D. Rabelais and His World E. Morphology of the F…
- Which of the following pairs are correctly matched? A. John Keble – On the Healing Power of Poetry B. Carl G. Jung – Writing and Difference C. Jacques Derrida – Modern Man in Search of a Soul D. Harold Bloom – The Anxie…
- Which two paradigms does Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus fuse? A. Marxism B. Poststructuralism C. Psychoanalysis D. Feminism
- Which two of the following books are rooted in Foucault's ideas of sexuality? A. Metahistory B. Gender Trouble C. The Role of the Reader D. Epistemology of the Closet E. Sexual Politics
- Which theorist has written on 'affective economies'?
- 'Demythologising' is associated with:
- Which of the following thinkers is known as a post-Marxist?
- Who among the following is NOT a Yale critic?
- Who among the following is NOT a member of the Frankfurt School?
- Match List I with List II: List I: Author List II: Work A. Plato I. Rhetoric B. Aristotle II. Symposium C. P. B. Shelley III. An Apology for Poetry D. Philip Sidney IV. A Defence of Poetry
- What did Thomas Rymer mean by 'poetic justice'? A. The distribution of earthly rewards and punishments in proportion to virtue or vice B. That a literary work should be governed by decorum and morality C. That a literar…
- Which of the following statements about Pope's An Essay on Criticism are correct? A. It analyses the causes of faulty criticism and praises the great critics of antiquity. B. It analyses the causes of faulty criticism a…
- Which of the following were written by Thomas De Quincey? A. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater B. The French Revolution C. Hudibras D. Autobiographic Sketches E. Suspiria de Profundis
- What does Arnold mean by 'Hebraism' in Culture and Anarchy?
- Match List I with List II: List I: Author List II: Work A. Bertrand Russell I. The Verbal Icon B. T. S. Eliot II. The Well Wrought Urn C. W. K. Wimsatt III. A History of Western Philosophy D. Cleanth Brooks IV. The Sacr…
- Match List I with List II: List I: Concept List II: Critic A. Negative capability I. Matthew Arnold B. Sweetness and light II. S. T. Coleridge C. Esemplastic III. T. S. Eliot D. Dissociation of sensibility IV. John Keats
- Which of the following New Critics are correctly paired with their texts? A. J. C. Ransom – 'Criticism, Inc.' B. William Empson – Seven Types of Ambiguity C. Cleanth Brooks and R. P. Warren – Understanding Poetry D. R.…
- Who revalued 'the masses' as sources and subjects of literature?
- Who first framed a theory of general hermeneutics?
- In which year was Roland Barthes's Image–Music–Text published?
- Which of the following were written by Roland Barthes? A. Allegories of Reading B. Mythologies C. The Pleasure of the Text D. Some Versions of Pastoral E. 'What Is an Author?'
- Which of the following are correctly matched? A. Jonathan Culler – Culture and Society B. Raymond Williams – Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction C. Terry Eagleton – Criticism and Ideology D. Walter Benjamin – Ill…
- Arrange the following texts in chronological order of publication: A. Foucault, Madness and Civilization B. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge C. Lacan, The Language of the Self (tr. Wilden) D. Foucault, The Birth o…
- Arrange the following theories in the chronological order of their emergence: A. Structuralism B. Psychoanalysis C. Ecocriticism D. Orientalism (colonial discourse analysis) E. New Criticism
- Arrange the following works in chronological order: A. Arnold, Culture and Anarchy B. The Anatomy of Melancholy C. Hobbes, Leviathan D. Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance E. Shelley, A Defence of Poetry
- Match List I with List II: List I: Field / concept List II: Thinker A. Structural anthropology I. Edward Soja B. Postmodern geography II. Martin Heidegger C. Diaspora space III. Claude Lévi-Strauss D. Dasein IV. Avtar B…
- Match List I with List II: List I: Work List II: Author A. The Poetics of Prose I. Wolfgang Iser B. Structuralist Poetics II. Tzvetan Todorov C. The Implied Reader III. Stanley Fish D. Is There a Text in This Class? IV.…