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1. Which of the following observations are true about Roland Barthes’ contributions to literary theory?

[A] He rejected the model for structural analysis of narratives

[B] He perceived “meaning” as an effect of various interconnections among linguistic codes

[C] He identified the various codes found in the process of structuration

[D] He played a significant role in the development of ‘semiology

[E] He questioned the concept of literary criticism as an act of uncovering some hidden truth intended by the “author”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A, Band C only

[2] C, D and E only

[3]B,C,D and E only

[4] A, B, C, D and E only

ANSWER:3

2. Identify the group of British poets who evidently draw upon new trends in literary theory (such as post structuralism) and wrote poems that react on themselves and the language used in/by them.

(1)Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon

(2)Medbh McGuckian, Denise Riley, Wendy Cope

(3)Christopher Middleton, Roy Fisher, J. H. Prynne

(4)Donald Davie, Charles Tomlinson, Thom Gunn

Answer: 3

3. Arrange the following terms in the chronological order of their use in literary theory:

1. gynesis

2. scriptible

3. negritude

4. paratext

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A. A, B, C, D

B. B, C, D, A

C. C, A, D, B

D. D, A, C, B

Answer: 3

4. Arrange the following terms in the chronological order as these appeared in literary theory:

A. phallocentric

B. locutionary act

C. interpellation

D. interpretive community

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

A-A, D, C, B

B- B, C, A, D

C- C, B, D, A

D-D, A, B, C,

Answer: 2

What is New Criticism?

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

1) It follows the tradition of Historical Criticism.

2) The main law of New Criticism is that it should be subjective analysis.

3) The distinctive procedure for a New Critic is explication.

4) The distinction between literary genres does play an essential role in New Criticism.

Answer: 3

2. Which of the following is applicable to ‘new criticism’?

[A] It draws considerably from the works of I.A. Richards and the critical essays of T.S Eliot

[B] Some of its concepts are pre-empted by F.R. Leavis.

[C] It distinguishes between literary and scientific usage of language.

{[D] It encourages an extensive exploration of the contextual and autobiographical background.

[E] It vouches for a historical analysis of a text.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A,B and C only

[2] B, E and D only

[3] A, C and D only

[4] B and D only

Answer: 1

3. New Criticism considers text as a :

(A) Cultural construct

(B) Historical construct

(D) Autotelic

Answer: D

4. The title, The New Criticism, published in 1941, was written by

(A) Cleanth Brooks

(B) John Crowe Ransom

(D) Allan Tate

Answer: B

5. In New Criticism, the key term ‘tension’ is associated with:

(1) Cleanth Brooks

(2) John Crow Ransom

(3) Austin Warren

(4) Allen Tate

Answer: 4

6. Understanding Poetry used to be a classic textbook that encapsulates the principles of …

(A) New Historicism

(B) New Aristotelianism

(D) The New Left

Answer: C

7. Two among the following critical journals became strongly associated with New Criticism.

(a) Partisan Review

(b) Southern Review

(d) Hudson Review

The right combination according to the code is :

(1) (a) and (b)

(2) (a) and (d)

(3) (b) arid (c)

(4) (c) and (d)

Answer: 3

8. Which one of the following best describes the basic principle of New Criticism?

(A)An emphasis on the distinctive style and personality of the authors.

(B) Stressing the virtues of discipline, order and the ethical mean.

(D) Evaluating a literary text against a backdrop of historical events.

Answers: (C)

William Empson

1. William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity is

(A) A structuralist study of narrative

(B) A piece of psychoanalytic criticism

(D) An analysis of poetic ambivalence

Answer: D

2. Which of the following is not a critical study by William Empson ?

(1) Seven Types of Ambiguity

(2) The Dyer’s Hand

(3) Milton’s God

(4) Some Versions of the Pastoral

Answer: 2

I.A.Richards

1. The term ‘Practical Criticism’ is coined by

(A) William Empson

(B) W. K. Wimsatt, Jr.

(D) F. R. Leavis

Answer: C

2. In his Practical Criticism I.A. Richards suggests that there are several kinds of meanings and that the “total meaning” is a blend of contributory meanings which are of deferent types. He identified four kinds of meaning, or the total meaning of a word depends upon four factors. Choose the right combination as proposed by Richards.

1. Sense, feeling, Tone and Matter

2. Image, Feeling, Tone and Intention

3. Sound, Sense, Tone and Matter

4. Sense, Feeling, Tone and Intention

Answer: 4

3. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing

(A) Practical Criticism

(B) New Criticism

(D) Basic English Project

Answer: (D)

4. . In Practical Criticism I.A. Richards links four kinds of meanings in most human utterances to four aspects. These are

(A) Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention

(B) Sound, Feeling, Nuance, Intentionwww.netugc.com

(D) Sense, Image, Tone, Intention

Answer: (A)

5. I.A. Richards’ Practical Criticism (1929) inaugurated a new phase in the history of English critical thought. What was this book’s subtitle?

(A) Studies in Poetry

(B) A Study in Literary Judgement

(D) A Theoretical Guide

Answer: (B)

6. I-A. Richards’s famous experiment with poems and his Cambridge students is detailed in Practical Criticism : A Study of Literary Judgement (1929). Richards was astonished by

(A) the poor quality of his students’ “stock responses”

(B) the very astute remarks made by his students

(D) the success of his experiment

Answer: A

7. Which two of the following are works by I. A. Richards?

A. Concepts of Criticism

B. Science and Poetry

C. The Philosophy of Rhetoric

D. English Literature in Our Time and the University

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

A and B only
B- A and D only
C- B and C only
D- B and D only

Answer: c

Cleanth Brooks

1. Which of the following New Critics put forward the idea of the ‘heresy of paraphrase’ ?

(1) Allen Tate

(2) Cleanth Brooks

(3) W.K. Wimsatt

(4) Monroe C Beardsley

Answer: 2

2. Identify the New Critic who served as the cultural attaché at the American Embassy in London from 1964 to 1966 :

(1) John Crowe Ransom

(2) Cleanth Brooks

(3) Allen Tate

(4) Robert Penn Warren

Answer: 2

3. Who among the following considered paraphrase as ‘a heresy’?

A. Cleanth Brooks

B. Edmund Wilson

C. I.A.Richards

D. Percy Lubbock

Answer: A

F.R.Leavis

1. In his recasting the canon of English poetry in New Bearings in English Poetry which of the following pairs was downgraded by F.R.Leavis ?

A- Browning and Arnold,

B- Milton and Shelley

C-Pound and Hopkins

D-Tennyson and Swinburne

Answer: B

2. The journal Scrutiny was founded in 1932 by

1) I. A) Richards

2)F. R. Leavis

3) Cleanth Brooks

4) John Crowe Ransom

Answer: 2

3. “The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.” Which one of the following critical texts begins with the above assertion?

1. Walter Allen, The English Novel

2. Terry Eagleton, The English Novel

3. F. R. Leavis, The Great Tradition

4. Ian Watt, Rise of the Novel

Answer: 3

4. The pre-eminent evaluative criterion of F.R. Leavis’s Great Tradition is

(1) moral purpose

(2) sublime subject matter

(3) reader-response

(4) truth to life

Answer: 1

5. Who, amongst the following, does not belong to the ‘Great Tradition’, enunciated by F. R. Leavis ?

(A) Joseph Conrad

(B) James Joyce

(D) George Eliot

Answer: B

6. F. R. Leavis and Q. D. Leavis launched a critical journal devoted to the moral centrality of English Studies. Name the Journal.

(1) The English Historical Review

(2) The Criterion

(3) Scrutiny

(4) The Edinburgh Review

Answer: 3

7. In his recasting the canon of English poetry in New Bearings in English Poetry which of the following pairs was downgraded by F.R.Leavis ?

A- Browning and Arnold,

B- Milton and Shelley

C-Pound and Hopkins

E-Tennyson and Swinburne

Answer: B

Wimsatt & Beardley

1. The term ‘Intentional Fallacy’ is first used by

(A) William Empson

(B) Northrop Frye

(D) Wimsatt and Beardsley

Answer: D

R.P.Blackmur

1. “Like walking, criticism is a pretty nearly universal art; both require a constant intricate shifting and catching of balance; neither can be questioned much in process; and few perform either really well. For either a new terrain is fatiguing and awkward, and in our day most men prefer paved walks and some form of rapid transport some easy theory or overmastering dogma.” (R.P.Blackmur, “A Critic’s Job of Work”)

(a) Blackmur compares walking with criticism because he considers both to be “arts” of a similar kind that call for attention to detail and utmost care.

(b) Blackmur admits that some people do however manage to be good critics and good walkers.

(c) Critics prefer tried and tested approaches for much the same reason as Walkers would look for paved walks and rapid transport.

(d) Blackmur does not quite give us the equivalents of “Some paved walks and some form of rapid transport” in order to press his comparison.

(A) (a) and (d) are correct.

(B) (a) and (c) are correct.

(D) only (b) is correct.

Answer: B

Allen Tate

1. Allen Tate once made a useful distinction between structure and texture. The distinction referred to

1. the main line of a narrative, argument, etc., and the rhetorical, stylistic, metaphorical and other devices respectively.

2. the devices employed to enlighten objects and materials in a narrative , and the objects and material themselves, respectively.

3. objects and materials on which a narrative casts light, and the devices employed to enlighten them respectively.

4. the rhetorical, stylistic, metaphorical and other devices, and the main line of a narrative, argument, etc., respectively

Answer: 1

John Crowe Ransom

1. The title, The New Criticism, published in 1941, was written by

(A) Cleanth Brooks

(B) John Crowe Ransom

(D) Allan Tate

Answer: B

Neo Aristotelian

1. Who of the following playwrights rejects the Aristotelian concept of tragic play as imitation of reality ?

(A) G.B. Shaw

(B) Arthur Miller

(D) John Galsworthy

Answer: C

2. Shakespeare famously neglects to observe Aristotle’s rules concerning the three dramatic unities, and Samuel Johnson undertakes to defend Shakespeare from these criticisms in his Preface to Shakespeare. Which of the Aristotelian dramatic unities does Johnson believe Shakespeare to observe most successfully?

(1) Time

(2) Place

(3) Action

(4) Johnson does not feel that the Aristotelian dramatic unities are important

Answer: 3