UGC NET Paper 2 — English

Who among the following theorists has written on affective economies?

The journal Scrutiny was founded in 1932 by

Who among the following is NOT a Yale critic?

Jonathan Bate's The Song of the Earth was published in

Who among the following were revaluing 'the masses' as sources and subjects of literature?

Who among the following theorists has written on narrative empathy?

The science that systematically studies the function of signs is known as

Who among the following first framed a theory of general hermeneutics?

Roland Barthes' Image, Music, Text was published in

According to Stuart Hall, the concept of played a seminal role in Cultural Studies.

The book Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism was jointly edited by

Which of the following is true in the context of New Criticism?

Identify the work which has NOT been authored by the famous cultural critic Raymond Williams:

The phrase "structure of feeling" is attributed to

Which among the following are true in the context of Chinua Achebe?

Which among the following are true in the context of literary research? A) It is devoted to the enlightenment of criticism B) It seeks to illuminate the work of art as it really is

Which of the following books are written by Julia Kristeva? A) Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art B) Illuminations C) Syntax and Semantics

To which of the following theories New Historicism is indebted? A) Marxism B) Formalism C) Reader-response Theory D) Existentialism E) Hermeneutics Choose the correct answer from t...

Which among the following are written by Mikhail Bakhtin? A) White Mythology B) Freudianism: A Marxist Critique C) The Ideology of the Aesthetics D) Rabelais and His World E) Morph...

Identify the correct pairs: A) J. C) Ransom - Criticism, InC) B) William Empson - Seven Types of Ambiguity C) C) Brooks and R. P. Warren - Understanding Poetry D) R. P. Blackmur -...

Which among the following are written by Roland Barthes:

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 - Criticis...

E) Methods are concerned with the perspectives one brings to bear on one's work. Choose the correct option:

According to the English Subject Centre report, skills needed for postgraduate work in English include A) Searching skills in libraries B) Editorial skills C) Bibliographic skills...

Which of the following are possible ways of turning a topic into an argument? A) An argument for or against an existing critic (or critical position) in relation to the author or g...

Identify the correct pairs: A) Aristotle Rhetoric B) Quintilian - Oratorical Institutions C) Brooks and R. P. Warren - Understanding Fiction D) Allen Tate - The Verbal Icon E) Haro...

Match List I with List II LIST I A) Aporia B) Scapes C) Interpellation D) Mirror Stage LIST II I. Marxism II. Psychoanalysis III. Deconstruction IV. Globalisation Choose the correc...

Match List I with List II LIST I A) The Poetics of Prose B) Structuralist Poetics C) The Implied Reader D) Is There a Text in This LIST II I. Wolfgang Iser II. Tzvetan Todorov III....

Match List I with List II LIST I A) Bertrand Russell B) Thomas Stearns Eliot C) W.K. Wimsatt D) Cleanth Brooks LIST II I. The Verbal Icon II. The Well Wrought Urn III. History of W...

Arrange the works in chronological sequence: A) The Theatre of Revolt by Robert Brustein B) The Theater of the Absurd by Martin Esslin C) The Playwright as Thinker by Eric Bentley

Choose the correct chronological sequence in which the following texts were published: A) Madness and Civilization B) The Archaeology of Knowledge C) The Language of the Self: The...

Choose the correct chronological sequence in which the following theories appeared: A) Structuralism B) Psychoanalysis

Find the chronological order of publication of the given works: A) Structuralist Poetics

Arrange the works in chronological sequence: A) Structuralist Poetics

Given below are two statements: Statement I: The Book The Theatre of Revolt was written by Robert Brustein Statement II: The Book The Theatre of Revolt is written in the context of...

Given below are two statements: Statement I: It is true that there is an analogy between the works of an author and the experiences of his life Statement II: The works may be seen...

What is the implication of the statement: "In this sense, one can think of literature less as some inherent quality or set of qualities displayed by certain kinds of writing all th...

In the above passage, Christopher Caudwell's statement, "Poetry in its use of language continually distorts and denies the structure of reality to exalt the structure of the self"...

What is the implication of the phrase, “there is no 'essence' of literature whatsoever" in the passage?

What does Caudwell imply by the statement: "The novel blots out external reality by substituting a more or less consistent mock reality which has sufficient 'stuff' to stand betwee...

What is the significance of the analogy drawn between "weed" and "literature" in the context of the passage?

What is the meaning of the word "ontological"?

Match List I with List II LIST I A) The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act B) The Pleasure of the Text C) The Straight Mind and Other Essays D) Literary Da...

Choose the correct answer from the options given below: B) Course in General Linguistics C) The Pursuit of Signs D) The Pleasure of the Text E) The Implied Reader