UGC - NTA - NET - Question Paper Analysis - Literary Theory and Criticism - 350 questions
December 1994
1. By character Aristotle means
Personages
in character
2. Dryden in Essay of Dramatic Poesy rejects
tragi-comedy because
It violates
the unity of tone
3. According to Dr.Johnson, Shakespeare have no
Moral purpose
4. T.S. Eliot’s Objective Correlative signifies the
writer’s ability to
Objectify
the desired states of mind.
5. Negative Capability means
Depersonalized
enrichment of the society.
6. Plurality according to John Stuart Mill is
necessary for the
Intellectual enrichment of the
society
7. “A little learning is a dangerous thing” is said by
Alexander
Pope
8. Appologia Pro Vista Sua by Newman is
A defence
of the author’s stand
9. The dictum ‘only connect’ is central to the writing
of
E. M
Forster
10. The criterion of Leavis’ Great Tradition is
Reader-response
11. ‘Life is not a luminous halo, a semi-transparent
envelope’ was said by
Virginia
Woolf in Modern Fiction
June 1995
12. Defamiliarization as a function of Art was stressed
by
Russian
formalists.
13. Peripetia is seen in tragedy when there is reversal
of fortue as
When the
Protagonist takes a course of action and it brings about the opposite of the
expected result.
14. The Principle of Literary Criticism was
published in
1924
15. The central function of criticism according to
Arnold is
To help
the writer to write competently.
16. The author of Revaluations is
F.R.
Leavis
17. According to Sidney, a poet
Represents
an idealized world.
18. What according to Johnson was a ‘fatal Cleopatra’
to Shakespeare
Pun
19. The book which proposes a political theory is
Leviathan
20. Pope’s An Essay on Man is based on the ideas
of
Lord
Bolingbroke
21. Which of Johnson’s work imitates the tenth satire
of Juvenal.
Vanity
of Human Wishes
22. The final version of Wordsworth’s The Prelude appeared
in
1850
23. Which Victorian poet is sensitive to the conflict
between the old and the new?
Tennyson
24. _____ distinguished between ‘literature of
knowledge’ and ‘literature of power’
De
Quincey
25. The line ‘Poetry is a Criticism of life occurs in
The
Study of Poetry
26. The
Term Stream of Consciousness’ was taken from the book
The
Principles of Psychology
27. J.G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough focuses on
Archetypes
28. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is written
by
Edward
Albee
29. New Criticism considers text as a
Autotelic
30. The word ‘Catharsis’ signifies
Purgation
31. The rejection of ‘Universalism’ is a mark of
Post-colonial
Criticism
32. Eliot’s theory of ‘objective correlative’ appeared
in his essay entitled
Hamlet
June 2005
33. Dr. Johnson’s The Lives of the Poets is an
example of
Biographical
Criticism
34. Who described poetry as ‘inspired mathematics’
Ezra
Pound
35. The soul of tragedy according to Aristotle is
Plot
36. The discussion of Fabula/Syuzhet occurs in
Formalism
37. Stages in Shakespeare Criticism
A.C.
Bradley, Caroline Spurgeon, T.S. Eliot, and Stephen Greenblatt
38. Match
- The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry - Cleanth Brooks, published in 1947.
- The Verbal Icon: Studies in the
Meaning of Poetry - William K. Wimsatt
(co-authored with Monroe Beardsley on key essays within the collection),
published in 1954.
- Theory of Literature -
René Wellek and Austin Warren, originally published in 1949.
- Literary Theory: An Introduction -
Terry Eagleton, originally published in 1983.
39.
Mimetic Criticism views literary works as
Imitation
40.
The concept of ‘arche writing’ is developed by
Derrida
41.
Chronological order of the authors:
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
- Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
- Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
- Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
42. Match
- Sublime: Edmund Burke in his A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 1757.
- Negative Capability: John Keats in a letter to his brothers George and Tom 1817.
- Dissociation of Sensibility: T.S. Eliot in The Metaphysical Poets 1921.
- Heteroglossia: Mikhail Bakhtin in Discourse in the Novel 1934
43. Match
- The Two Uses of Language by I. A. Richards in Principles of Literary Criticism in 1924
- The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes 1967
- Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the
Human Sciences by Jacques Derrida 1967
- Signs taken from the wonder: relate to semiotics and post-structuralism.
44. Match
- The Craft of Fiction (Percy Lubbock) -1922
- Aspects of the Novel (E.M. Forster) – 1927
- The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (Frank Kermode) – 1967
- The English Novel: Form and Fiction (Paul O'Brien)
45. Who is a Naturalist
Zola
June – 2006
46. Coleridge’s statement that imagination ‘dissolve,
diffuse, dissipates in order to recreate’ refers to
Primary
imagination.
47. Stanley Fish is associated with
Reader-response
theory
48. Sequence of the school of criticism: Structuralism-1916,
New Criticism – 1941, Deconstruction – 1967, Reader-response – 1970.
49. Peripeteia means
Reversal
of fortune
50. Pope’s Essay on Criticism sums up the art of
poetry taught first by
Longinus
51. The Empire Writes Back was written by
Bill
Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Gareth Griffiths
December – 2006
52. About whom did T.S. Eliot write ‘A thought to him was
an experience’
Donne
53. John Locke’s Essays Concerning Human Understanding
is about
Nature of
the human mind
54. The quotation ‘a repetition in the finite mind of
the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM’ appears in
Biographia
Literaria
55. the quotation ‘when a man is capable of being in
uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and
reason’ is a definition of
Negative
capability.
56. Deconstruction theory was propounded by
Derrida
57. Hamartia means
Error of
judgement
58. The term ‘gynocriticism’ was coined by
Elaine Showalter
59. The author of Ars Poetica is
Horace
60. The term ‘Negritude’ is coined by
Ainee
Caesaire and Leopold Senghor
61. Bertolt Brecht’s concept of theatre was influenced
by
Irwin
Piscator
June – 2007
62. Which modern critic described value judgement as ‘the
donkey’s carrot of literary criticism’?
Northrop
Frye
63. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry is
written by
Harold
Bloom
64. ‘Victorian Compromise’ is an expression first used
by
G.K.
Chesterton
65. The term ‘American Renaissance’ was first used by
F.O. Matthiessen
66. The Egoist is written by
Meredith
67. The Death of the Author is written by
Roland Barthes
68. The Romantic Imagination is the title of the
book by
C.M.
Bowra
69. Match
- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir– 1949
- Sexual Politics (1970) by Kate Millett
- The Prisoner of Sex (1971) by Norman Mailer
- Thinking About Women (1968) by Mary Ellmann
December 2007
70.
Feminine ending refers to
The ending of a poem in an unstressed
syllable.
71.
Death of the Author is written by
Roland Barthes
72. Inscape refers to
The individuating character of a natural
thing
73.
Shakespeare was described as upstart crow by
Robert Greene
74.
The term ‘metaphysical poets’ was first used by
Dryden
75.
‘Anagnorisis’ is a term used by Aristotle for describing
The moment of discovery by the
protagonist
76.
The term ‘Gynocriticism’ was first used by
Elaine Showalter
77. ‘Poetry is a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism
by laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty’-who made this statement
Matthew Arnold Study of Poetry
June 2008
78.
Who used the term ‘romantic’ for the first time.
Friedrich Schlegel
79.
Gestalt theory of literature considers text as
A unified whole
80.
‘Fancy’ deals with
Fixities and definities
81.
Johnson’s The Lives of the Poets was based on
Biographical Criticism
82.
Dr. Johnson is intimately associated with ______ in his personal life
Boswell.
December 2008
83.
‘Imagism’ is associated with ______
T. E. Hulmes
84.
Formal Criticism relates to the structure of
Literary devices
85.
Who is known for his aphoristic prose style?
Francis Bacon
86.
In formalist school of Criticism art is
Style.
87.
The earliest women novelist in the 18th century is
Mary Edgeworth.
88.
Who spoke about the 11,396 definitions of romanticism given by German writers.
F. L. Lucas
89.
The term stream of consciousness is derived from the writings of
William James
90.
The reader-response theory implies
The readers of an age construct the
meaning
91. Myth Criticism focuses on
Recurrence of archetyoal patterns
92. The phrase ‘disassociation of sensibility’ was first used by
T. S. Eliot
93.
In Juvenalian satire the speaker is
A serious moralist
94.
The term ‘magic realism’ was first introduced by
Frans
Roh (1925)
June 2009
95.
Who coined the term ‘Lake School of Poets’
Francis Jeffrey
96.
‘Strategic essentialism’ term was developed by
Gayathri Chakravorty Spivak
97.
The term ‘horizon of expectations’ is associated with
H.R.
Jauss
98.
The term diaspora was originally applied to the
Jews
99. Understanding ‘Poetry used to be a classic textbook’ encapsulates the principles of
New Criticism
December 2009
100.
“Provincializing Europe” is a concept propounded by
Dipesh Chakravarty
101.
The earliest tract on feminism is
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication
of the Rights of Women
102.
William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity is
An analysis of poetic ambivalence
103.
Who is associated with the ideology of Utilitarianism
J.S. Mill
104.
Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry is a response to
Stephen
Gosson’s The School of Abuse
105.
Imagined Communities is a concept propounded by
Benedict Anderson
106.
The New Historicists include
Greenblatt, Montrose, Goldberg
107.
The structural analysis of signs was practised by
Roland Barthes
108.
The Uncanny follows which concept
Freudian concept
the
uncanny is a form of fear arising from something that is simultaneously
familiar and unfamiliar, or "unhomely".
109.
Magic Realism is associated with
Italo Calvino
June 2010
110.
Who grouped the Lake School Poets
Francis Jeffrey
111.
The term ‘theatre of cruelty’ was coined by
Antonin
Artaud
112.
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses is an essay by
Louis Althusser
113.
The term ‘cultural materialism’ is associated with
Raymond Williams
114.
To which nationality Northrop Frye belong to
Canadian
115.
Imagined Communities is a book by
Benedict Anderson
116.
the phrase ‘willing suspension of disbelief’ occurs in
Biographia Literaria
117.
Who coined the phrase ‘spots of time’
William Wordsworth
118.
The statement ‘I think, therefore, I am’ is by
Descartes
119.
The concept of ‘star-equilibrium’ appears in
Women in Love
December 2010
120.
The English satirist who used the sharp edge of praise to attack his victims
was
John Dryden.
121.
The concept of Deconstruction was given by
Jacques Derrida
122.
The work The New Criticism published in 1941 was by
John Crowe Ransom
123.
Who rejected the Aristotelian concept of tragic-play as imitation of reality
Bertolt Brecht
124.
‘There is nothing outside the text’ is a key statement of
Deconstruction theory
125.
The concept of human mind as tabula rasa or blank tablet was propounded by
John
Locke
126.
The terms ‘resonance’ and ‘wonder’ are associated with
Stephen Greenbalt
127.
The term ‘intentional fallacy’ is first used by
Wimsatt and Beardsley
June 2011
128. Few formalist critic are
Allen Tate, Cleanth Broks,
William Empson
129. ‘The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry
…. Our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay’-This
claim for poetry is made in
Arnold’s
The Study of Poetry
130. Plato censured poetry because he believed it
Distorts
reality
130. T.S. Eliot uses the term ‘Objective correlative’ in
his essay
Hamlet
132. Which Marxist critic has reconsidered the classic
problem of ‘base and superstructure’ in relation to literature.
Raymond
Williams
133. ‘Heteroglossia’ refers to
The
juxtaposition of multiple voices in a text
134. Byron’s The Vision of Judgement is a satire
directed against
Robert
Southley
135. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University due
to the publication of
The
Necessity of Atheism
December 2011
136. ‘Panopticism’ is the title of a chapter in a
well-known book by
Michel
Foucault
137. Which women writer famously imagined the plight of
Shakespear’s sister.
Virginia
Woolf
138. ‘All great literature is, at bottom, a criticism of
life’-this statement is attributed to
Matthew
Arnold
139. The phrase ‘only connect’ is associated with
E.M.
Forster
140. The term ‘egoistic sublime’ was coined by
John
Keats
141. Who are all associated with the ‘Great Tradition’
enunciated by F. R. Leavis?
Joseph
Conrad, Jane Austen, George Eliot.
142. Helene Cixous is associated with
Radical
feminists
143. The term ‘Practical Criticism’ is coined by
I. A.
Richards
144. Victor Shklovsky’s name is associated with
Russian
Formalism
June 2012
145. The concept ‘world literature’ is associated with
Johann
Wolfgang Von Goethe, Johann Goltfried Herder
146. ‘It blurs distinction among literary, non-literary
and cultural text…’ what does it in this statement stands for
New
Historicism
147. Alexander Pope’s An Essay in Criticism which
purports to define ‘wit’ and ‘nature’ as they apply to the literature of his
age appeared in
1701
148. One of the most important themes the speakers
debate in Dryden’s An Essay on Dramatic Poesy is
The
relative merits of French and English theatre.
149. Match
- Langue and Parole – Ferdinand de Saussure
- Competence and Performance – Noam Chomsky
- Ieonic and Indexical - C. S. Pierce
- Readerly and Writerly – Roland Barthes
150. Why does Jean Baudrillard adopt Disneyland as his
own sign?
Disneyland
is an artefact that so obviously announces its own fictiveness that it would
seem to imply some counter balancing reality.
151. I.A. Richards’ famous experiment with poems and his
Cambridge students is detailed in Practical Criticism : A Study of Literary
Judgement (1929), Richard was astonished by
The
poor quality of his students’ ‘stock responses’
152. In his distinction between imagination and fancy,
Coleridge identifies
Fancy:
it has aggregative and associative power, it plays fixities and definities.
Imagination:
it dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to recreate, it also has shaping
and modifying power.
153. Julia Kristeva’s “Intertextuality’ derives from
Saussure’s
Signs and Bakhtin’s Dialogism
154. “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender”.
This is an important statement defining the womanist perspective advanced by
Alice
Walker
155. A Subaltern perspective is one where
The
politically dispossessed could be voiceless, written out of the historical
record and ignored because their activities do no count for ‘cultural’ or ‘structured’
156. The line ‘A woman writing thinks back through her
mothers’ occurs in
Virginia
Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
157. Who compares walking with criticism because he
considers both to be ‘arts’ of similar kind that call for attention to detail
and utmost care.
R. P. Blackmur
A Critic’s Job of Work
158. Match
- Third Space – Edward Soja
- Hybridity – Homi Bhabha
- Reception aesthetics – Wolfgang Iser
- Langue – Ferdinad de Sausssure
159. Derrida uses the term _____ to refer to the
unresolvable difficulties a text may open up
Aporia
160. Chronological Order
·
Percy’s
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765)
·
French
Revolution (1789)
·
Mary
Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women(1792)
·
Lyrical
Ballads (1798)
161. ‘He found it brick and left it marble’, who
remarked on whom
Johnson
on Dryden
162. “Art for Art’s Sake’ became a rallying cry for
The
Aesthetes
163. Match the lines
·
Good
sense is the body of poetic genius – Coleridge Biographia Literaria
·
Poetry
is the breath and a finer spirit of all knowledge – Wordsworth Preface to
Lyrical Ballads
·
Literary
criticism is a description and evaluation of its object – Brook’s The
Formalist Critic
·
Nature
never set forth the earth in as rich a tapestry as diverse poets have done –
Sidney An Apology for Poetry
164. Edward’s Said Orientalism makes use of
Foucault’s
concept of discursive formulation
165. which is the founding texts of Postcolonial theory
Edward
Said’s Orientalism
166. Edward Said’s Orientalism utilizes the
Gramscian
notion of hegemony
167. Material feminism studies inequality in terms of
Both
class and gender
168. Match the work with Authors
·
James
Joyce – Richard Ellman
·
T.
S. Eliot – Peter Ackroyd
·
Life
of Johnson – James Boswell
·
Lives
of the Poets – Samuel Johnson
December 2012
169. The theorist who divided poets into ‘strong’ and
‘weak’ and popularized the practice of misreading
Harold
Bloom
170. In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668), who
opens the discussion on behalf of the ancients.
Crites
171. The term invective refers to
The abusive
writing or speech in which there is harsh denunciation of some person or thing
172. In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha discuss the
‘discovery’ of English in colonial India?
Signs
taken for Wonders
173. Which work set a course for academic literary
feminism?
A
Room of One’s Own
174. What does the term episteme signify
Knowledge.
175. In literary writing what is the best definition for
an image?
A
speaking picture
176. Whom does Keats regard as the prime example of ‘negative
capability’
William
Shakespeare
177. The term homology means a correspondence between
two or more structures. Who developed the theory of relations between literary
works and social classes in terms of homologies.
Lucien
Goldman
178. F. Turner’s famous hypothesis is that
The Frontier
has been the one great determinant of American Civilization
June 2013
179. Derrida’s metaphysics of presence talks about
The desire
for immediate access to meaning privileges presence over absence, A fleeting meaning
of the text is created through the play of ‘difference’ and ‘differance’.
180. Charles Baudelaire is associated with which
literary type of poetry?
Flaneur
(the casual wanderer)
181. Helen Cixous coined the term ‘Ecriture feminine’
and it signifies a textual production not necessarily written by women. Which male
writer she gives as an example.
James
Joyce.
182. According to New Historicism
It is
treacherous to reconstruct the past
183. Edward Said points to two forms of Orientalism. They
are
Latent
and manifest
184. In Marxist criticism the term interpellation
defines
The ways
in which the subjects of an ideology are placed in false position of knowledge
regarding themselves – it was given by Louis Althousser
185. According to Longinus the sublime is
The essence
of all great poetry and oratory
186. Practitioners of Archetypal criticism are
Northrop
Frye, Maud Bodkin
187. Match (statements on imagination)
· One power alone makes a poet – The Imagination, The Divine Vision : Blake
· …what the imagination seizes on beauty must be the truth : Keats
· The great instrument of moral good is the imagination : Shelley
· Works of imagination should be written in a very plain language : Coleridge
188. These critics transcend the subjective point of
view. They bow to other forms of objective authority: the authority of the past
and the authority of the social consensus. They adopt the scientific attitude
without the science.
The
Neoclassical Critics
189. How does John Stuart Hall define happiness
Pleasure
and the absence of pain
190. Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate Millet’s Sexual
Politics and Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch were published in
1970
191. Who defined poetry as ‘the best words in the best
order’
Coleridge
192. what did Thomas Carlyle mean by ‘Close thy Byron;
open they Goethe’
Abandon
the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found
in Goethe
193. Who defined free verse as playing tennis without a
net
Robert
Frost
194. According to Barthes, a text which draws attention
to its artifice, to the ways in which it is structure is called
Writerly
text
195. Who described himself as agnostic
George
Eliot
196. Who formulated the concept of the utile dulci, profit
combined with delight.
Horace
197. Which romantic poet is respected the ‘The Sage of
Highgate’
S. T. Coleridge
198. The Anatomy of Melancholy is a reflection
on human learning and endeavor and it was published under the pseudonym
Democritus
Junior (Robert Burton)
199. According to Bakhtin the idea of the Carnivalesque
represents the character of
A
liberation from the prevailing truth and establishing order, emphasis to play
parody, pleasure and the body and the suspension of all hierarchical rank
200. Which seeks to expose the problematic nature of ‘centered’
discourses.
Deconstruction
201. Postmetropolis (a part of a trilogy) is
written by
Edward
Soja.
202. Edward Soja’s main concept in Postmetropolis is
Second space
(Symbolic representation of reality)
203. Who describes novels as ‘not form which you see
but emotion which you feel’
Virginia
Woolf
204. Which criticism locates the meaning of a literary
work in the internal relations of the language that constitute a text.
New
Criticism
205. Jacques Lacan posits three ‘orders’ which
structure human existence. They are
Imaginary,
Real and Symbolic
206. Which concept of reading is apolitical. It also
conveys it is difficult to pin down meaning.
Deconstructive
207. Who proclaimed that language do not get borne,
they evolve out of previously existing linguistic situations
Ferdinand
de Saussure (Words Upon Words)
208. What did Henry James describe as “Loose Baggy
Monsters”
Novels
209. Which psychoanalysis rewrote Descarte’s dictum ‘I
think therefore I am’, as ‘I am not where I think, and I think where I am not’
Jacques
Lacan
210. The term ‘ecological imperialism’ was coined by
Alfred
Crosby
211. Which theory argues that every sign refers to
every other sign adequately.
Post-structuralism
212. Modernism has been described as being concerned
with ‘disenchantment of our culture with culture itself’ by
Lionel Trilling
213. In the Defence of Poetry what did Sidney
attribute to poetry?
A moral
power whereby poetry encourages the reader to evaluate virtuous models.
214. Some of the works that talks about post-colonial
theory
Nation
and Narration, Orientalism, White Mythologies
215. Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding is
a classic statement of ____ philosophy.
Empiricist
216. ‘Power circulates in all directions, to and from
all social levels, at all times’ is said by
Michael
Foucault
217. Who defined poetic imagination as ‘a repetition in
the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM’
Coleridge
218. Match (School/Critics)
·
Formalism
– Victor Shklovsky
·
New
Critics – John Crow Ransom
·
Psychological
theory of the value of literature – I. A. Richards
·
Literary
art as archetypal image – The Jungians
219. Who used the phrase ‘dark Satanic mills’
William
Blake
220. Bacon follows ____ style in his essay
Aphoristic
221. Who coined the phrase ‘Two Nations’ to describe
the disparity in Britain between the rich and the poor.
Benjamin
Disraeli
222. Who defined slave as ‘a person perverted into a
thing’
Coleridge
December 2013
223. In his Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton
proposes the principles of
Love and Religious
224. Which deals with how human beings read and
interpret signs they receive will determine their modes of knowing and being,
whether those signs come in the form of literary texts or bank statement.
Deconstructive
critics
225. What is the subtitle of I.A. Richards’ Practical
Criticism’
A Study
in Literary Judgement
226. ‘The Poet and his Public’ was written by
Robert
Graves
227. The History
of Sexuality is written by
Michael Foucault
228. The real name
of Maxim Gorky is
Aleksei Peshkov
229. Virginia Woolf
borrowed the idea of the common reader from
Dr. Johnson’s The Lives of the Most
Eminent English Poets (Essay on Gray).
230 Theorist and Critical
concepts.
- ·
Pierre
Bourdieu – Habitus
- ·
Julia
Kristeva – Chora
- ·
Jean
Baudrillard – Simulacrum / Simulacra
- ·
Gayathri
C. Spivak – The Subaltern
- ·
Hayden
White – Metahistory
- ·
Mikhael
Bakhtin – Polyphony
- ·
Antonio
Gramsci – Hegemony
231. Epiphany is a
theological term brought into literary Criticism by
James Joyce
232. Which critic
talks about the relation between idea to form
Henry James’ The Art of Fiction
233. ‘Late
Capitalism’ by which is meant accelerated to technological development and the
massive extension of intellectually qualified labour was first popularized by
Ernst Mandel
234. The phrase ‘leaves
dancing’ is an example of
Pathetic fallacy
235. Who proposes
that the unconscious comes into being only in language.
Jacques Lacan
June 2014
236. The famous phrase
‘The motive-hunting of motiveless malignity’ is given by
S. T. Coleridge
237. Match (author
and their works)
- ·
Vladimir
Nabokov – Lolita
- ·
Italo
Calvino – If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
- ·
Umberto
Eco – Foucault’s Pendulum
- ·
Emile
Zola – Germinal
238. Critics and
Works
· Horace – Std Poetica
· Aristotle – Poetics
· Quintillian – Institutio Oratoria
· Ben Jonson – Discoveries
· Sidney – An Apology for Poetry
· Dryden – An Essay on Dramatic Poesy
239. Some Myth
critic are
Robert Graves, Francis Fergusson, Northrop Frye
240. According to
Northrop Frye the four main narrative genres associated with the seasonal cycle
of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The are?
Comedy, romance, tragedy and
irony(satire)
241. Match (critics
and theory)
- Cleanth Brooks – Paradox
- William Empson – Ambiguity
- Mark Schorer – Techniques as discovery
- Maud Bodkin – Archetypal patterns in poetry
242. ‘The artist may
be present I his work like God in
creation, invisible and almighty, everywhere felt but nowhere seen’, Henry
James is talking here about the artist’s
Impersonality
243. Match
(Theorist/work)
- Michel Foucault – History of Sexuality
- Judith Butler – Gender Trouble
- Alan Sinfield – Cultural Politics Queer Reading
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick – Epistemology of the Closet
244. ‘The greatness
of a poet’ Arnold says, ‘lies in his powerful and beautiful application of
ideas to life’. But a critic pointed out it was ‘not happy way of putting it,
as if ideas were a lotion for the inflamed skin of suffering humanity’. Who was
the critic?
T. S. Eliot
245. Derrida’s
American disciples were
Geoffrey Hartman,
Paul de Man, J. Hills Miller
246. An Essay on
Man by Alexander Pope is a
Poem
247. Who is the
author of Mary, and the unfinished The Wrongs of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
248. According to
Henry James a novel should be
Objective, realistic and has to be
viewed as an artistic form
249. D. H. Lawrence
popularized the concept of ----- in his novels
Primitivism
December 2014
250. Match (Terms and Theorists)
·
Apollonian
– Dionysian (Friedrich Nietzche)
·
Fancy
– Imagination (S.T. Coleridge)
·
Hellenism
– Hebraism (Mathew Arnold)
·
Inscape
– Instress (G.M. Hopkins)
251. Author and Works
·
Claude
Levi-Strauss – Structural Anthropology
·
Jacques
Derrida – Of Grammatology
·
Northrop
Fyre – Anatomy of Criticism
·
Michael
Focult – The Archaeology of Knowledge
252. The theorists who talks about ‘the circulation of social energy’
Stephen
Greenblatt
253. Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a work
associated with
Ernst
Cassirer
254. Coleridge’s companion in establishing Utopian
community on the banks of Susquehaina river?
Robert Southey
255. The issue of privileging speech over writing was taken up for discussion in Plato’s
Phaedrus
256. ‘The Medium is the Message’ is a concept given by
Marshal McLuhan
257. Who does Levi-Strauss contrast bricoleur within the
terms of method and approach?
Engineer
258. Michel Foucault’s earlier ‘archaeological’ study is found in
The
Birth of the Clinic
259. Name the women writers Simon-de-Bevoir in the
chapter of Myth of Women in Five Authors in the work The Second Sex talks
about
Henri
de Montherlant, D. H. Lawrence, Paul Claudel, André Breton, Stendhal.
260.
In A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf refers to _______ History of
England.
Trevelyan
261. The author of Black Skin, White Mask is
Frantz Fanon
262.
______ is a Neo-Aristotelian critic?
R.S. Crane
263.
Edward Said’s Orientalism was published in
1978
264.
The epigraph to Jacques Derrida’s Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse
of Human Science is -----
We need to interpret interpretations
more than to interpret things. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
265.
The Term womanism was first used by
Alice Walker
266.
Which critic dealt with the reproduction of motherhood in feminist theory?
Nancy Chodorow & Judith Fetterley
June 2015
267. Matthew Arnold, didn’t included _____ classicist in
his touchstone method.
Chaucer
268. Few Marxist Critics are
George
Lukacs, Louis Althusser, Raymond Williams
269. In the lines ‘With gold jewels cover every part,/And
hide with ornaments their want of art’ from Essay on Criticism Pope
rejects
Artificiality
270. Match
(a) The Function of
Criticism - T. S. Eliot
(b) The Function of Criticism at
the Present Time - Matthew Arnold
(c) The Function of
Criticism:
From ‘The Spectator’ to
Poststructuralism - Terry Eagleton
(d) The Function of English at
the Present Time - Richard Ohmann
271.
In her essay Professions for Women Virginia Woolf finds an analogy
between the act of writing and
Fishing
272. Identify the author of the following lines; ‘it
used to be said everyone had a novel in them… just now, though, in 1999, you
would probably be obliged to doubt the basic proposition: what everyone has in
them, these days, is not a novel but a memoir’
Martins
Amis Experience
273. Samuel Johnson wrote London in imitation of
Juvenal
274. Samuel Johnson’s use of the term ‘metaphysical’ in
a piece of criticism was
Disapproving
275. Ferdinand de Saussure argued that meaning is
generated through
A system
of structured differences in language.
276. F.R. Leavis and Q.D. Leavis launched a critical
journal devoted to the moral centrality of English Studies. Name of the journal
is ____
Scrutiny.
277. Philip Sidney defended poetry against such descriptions
of it as ‘the mother of lies’ and ‘the nurse of abuse’. His main argument here
is
The poet
cannot lie because he is not claiming to tell us the truth.
278. In 1668 Dryden wrote Of Dramatic Poesie, an
essay which uses ____ separate characters to dramatize the conflicting view
points which new thertrical activity had produced
Four
279. In which essay does Virginia Woolf observe that ‘if
a writer were a free man and not a slave…. Not a single button sewn on as the Bond
Street tailors would have it.
Modern
Fiction
280. Aristotle argued that poetry provides a/an _____
outlet for the release of intense emotions
Safe
281. Who wrote the autobiography entitle Not Entitle
in 1995. The epigraph reads ‘he was a kind of nothing, titleless’
Frank
Kermode
282. Thomas Gray in his work Progress of Poesy invokes
which poet?
John
Milton
283. In John Dryden’s Essay on Dramatic Poesy Neander
defends the English invention of
Tragi-comedy
284. Le Figaro, the first futurist manifesto was
written by ____ (glorifies the beauty of speed)
F. T. Marinetti
285. Julia Kristeva’s ‘intertextuality’ derives from
Mikhail
Bakhtin’s dialogism
286. ‘In the 17th century’ writes T. S.
Eliot in The Metaphysical Poets ‘a dissociation of sensibility set in
from which we have never recovered and this dissociation as is natural was
aggravated by the influence of the two most powerful poets of the century. They
are
John Milton
and John Dryden
287. The label ‘material feminist’ refers to the work
of those thinkers who study inequality in terms of
Both gender
and class difference
288. who displayed the dual influence of feminism and
magic realism?
Angela
Carter
289. Few British poets who evidently draw upon the new
trends in literary theory and wrote poems that reflect on themselves and the
language used in/by them.
Christopher
Middleton, Roy Fisher, J. H. Prynne
290. The ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’ is a term coined
by _______ (distrustful attitude towards text)
Paul Ricoeur
291. The term ‘poetic justice’ was coined by
Thomas Rymer
292. Few of William Empson’s work are __
Seven
Types of Ambiguity, Milton’s God, Some versions of the Pastoral
293. This was a path-breaking feminist essay written in
the 1970’s which used hybrid term like ‘sext’ and ‘chaosmos’. Who is the author
of this essay
Helene
Cixous.
December 2015
294. Who advanced the theory that the mind is a tabula
rasa at birth, and acquires all ideas by experience?
John
Locke
295. Who is the author of Studies in the History of the
Renaissance?
Walter
Pater
296. In which works did Bakhtin propose his widely cited
concept of the ‘Carnivalesque’
Rabelais
and his World
297. In New Criticism, the key term ‘tension’ is
associated with
Allen
Tate
298. According to Sidney which form of poesy offers a
foil that helps to perceive the beauty of virtue? (Defense of Poesy)
Comedy
299. About whom did John Dryden described ‘a rough
diamond, and must first be polished ere he shines’
Chaucer
300. Which critic wrote about Benedict Anderson’s
definition of the nations as ‘an imagined political community’
Raymond
Williams, The Country and the City
301. ______ may be defined as any departure from the
rules of pronunciation or diction for the sake of rhyme or meter, or an
unjustifiable departure from fact.
Poetic
license
302. That Humanities and the science were in face ‘two
cultures’ was suggested by
C. P.
Snow in his Rede lecture
303. Samuel Johnson’s Dissertation upon Poetry is
a part of which novel ______.
Rasselas
304. A new series called ‘New Accents’ was launched by
Methuen in 1977. The first title to be published in the series was
Structuralism
and Semiotics
305. Which author remarked ‘Oh dear, yes-the novel
tells a story’ and also wrote about what is a novel and why it matters?
E. M.
Forster
306. The idea of ‘new ethnicities’ in post-war Britian
was advanced by
Stuart
Hall
307. Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler’s edition of The
Family Shakespeare gave rise to the word ‘Bowdlerize’. What does it mean
The
expurgation of indelicate language
308. First follow ______ and your judgement frame. By her
just _____ which is still the same.
Nature,
standard
309. Who used the term ‘Empire’ instead of ‘imperialism’
Michael
Hardt and Antonio Negri
310. Who among the following critic discerned in
Shelley an Lyricist?
T. S.
Eliot
311. Two critical journals associated with New
Criticism are
Southern
Review and Kenyon Review
312. Author and Works
1.
Robert Burton - The Anatomy
of Melancholy
2.
Richard Hooker - Of the Laws
of Ecclesiastical Politie
3. Thomas
Browne - Urn Burial
4.
Thomas Nashe - The
Unfortunate Traveller
313. Which New Critic served as the cultural attache at
the American Embassy in London from 1964 to 1966
Cleanth
Brooks
314. The Gilded Age term was coined by
Mark
Twain
315. Match (Terms / Descriptions)
1. Ambiguity - by William Empson to indicate
that a word, phrase or text can be interpreted in more than on way
2. Aporia An
irresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction in a text, usually
associated with deconstructive thinking
3. Intertextuality By
Julia Kristeva to refer to the fact that texts are constituted by a tissue of
citations.
4. Heteroglossia By
Mikhail Bakhtin to describe the variety of language and voices within a novel.
316. The formalist critic ____ mocked the
character-based criticism of ____ posing famous question, ‘How many children
has Lady Macbeth’
L. C. Knights,
A. C. Bradley
317. Who is the major proponent of presentism (Our
knowledge of works from, the past is conditioned by and dependent upon the ideologies
of the present)
Hugh
Grady
318. ‘If Poetry _____ as naturally as the leaves to a
tree, it ____ at all’ (John Keats)
Come not;
had better not come
319. What term does Philip Sidney use to characterize
the plays that are neither right tragedies not right comedies and which unity
of Aristotle did they violate?
Mongrel
tragicomedy: unity of action
320. The works written by Frank Kermode are
The
Sense of an Ending, Not Entitled – A Memoir, The Genesis of Secrecy
321. Milton and Dryden were influenced by
Lodovico
Castelvetro and Torquato Tasso
322. During Neoclassicism took its final form during
the reign of
Louis
XIV
323. Pope’s Essay on Criticism was influenced by
Boilean’s
L’Art Poetique
324. Self -Reliance is written by
Emerson
325. Lacan’s symbolic is governed by
Language
and law
326. Who wrote ‘football and sport are important, the
worship of fashion the buying of clothes trivial’
Virginia
Woolf A Room of One’s Own
327. According to Coleridge the ‘secondary imagination’
dissolves, diffuses, ____ in order to recreate’
Dissipates
328. The Neoclassical work Philosophical Enquiry
into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful is written by
Edmund
Burke
July 2016
329. T. S. Eliot found spiritual support in
Christianity
330. Some Russian formalist
Roman Jakobson, Boris
Eichenbaum, Victor Shklovsky
331. The another term to describe ‘art for art’s sake’
Aestheticism
332. In ‘Tradition and Individual Talent’ traditional
usually means (According to T.S. Eliot)
Something
historical
333. Some Jacques Derrida’s work
Of
Spirit : Heidegger and the Questions, Of Grammatology, The Work of Mourning.
334. Which Aristotelian dramatic unities does Johnson
believe Shakespeare observe
Action
335. Who translated Homer’s work
Alexander
Pope
336. Name few imagist
Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, T.E.
Hulme
337. In Biographia Literaria, S. T. Coleridge defines the
imagination as the faculty by which,
The soul
perceives the spiritual unity of the universe
338. Michel Foucault’s discourse means,
Conceptual
frameworks which enable some mode of thought and deny or severely constrain others
339. In literary studies structuralism promotes
The view
that literature is one signifying practice among others.
340. Which criticism movement made literary criticism
more relevant
Practical
Criticism
341. Feminist literary critic focused on the female writer
who were _____ by the canon.
Ignored
342. Which of the following theoretical movements
claimed that ‘device is the only hero of literature’
Russian
formalism
343. The term ‘language games’ or ‘phrase regiments’ is
given by
Jean
Francois Lyotard
344. Jacques Derrida’s work received some criticism
from analytical philosophers. Name the philosopher.
John
Searle
345. In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy to whom does
Dryden refer with the phrase ‘he needed not the spectacles of books to read
nature’
William
Shakespeare
346. In his Defence of Poesy what is the ‘best and
most accomplished kind of poetry’ in Sidney’s estimation.
Heroical
or epic poetry.
347. Who commented: ‘The poet is far from dealing only
with these subtle and analogical truths. Truth of every kind belongs to him,
provided it can bud into any kind of beauty, or is capable of being illustrated
and impressed by poetic fallacy’
Leigh
Hunt in What is Poetry?
348. According to Julia Kristeva, it is the eruption of
the _____ within the ____ that provides the creative and innovative impulse of
modern poetic language.
Semiotic,
Symbolic
349. Bertolt Brecht’s term ‘alienation’ is best
described as
Distancing
artistic conventions to prevent an emotional catharsis.
350. Which critics Alexander Pope commend as exemplary
in Essay on Criticism
Aristotle,
Horace, Dionysius, Quintilian Longinus
(Will be Continued)
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