What is New Historicism?
1. 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 the options given below:
1) A and C
2)B and A
3)A and E
4) Band C
Answer: 1) A and C
2. “It blurs distinctions among literary, non-literary and cultural texts, showing how all three intercirculate, share in, and mutually constitute each other.” What does it in this statement stand for ?
(A) Marxism
(B) Structuralism
(C) Formalism
(D) New Historicism
Answer: D
3. Which of the following statements is not applicable to the definition of New Historicism? New historicist critics
(A) Remind us that it is treacherous to reconstruct the past as it really was – rather than as we have been conditioned by our own place and time to believe the way it was.
(B) Are less likely to see history as linear and progressive, as something developing toward the present.
(C) Tend to view history as literature’s background.
(D) Are unlikely to suggest that a literary text has a single or easily identifiable historical context.
Answer: (C)
Raymond William
1. Identify the work which has NOT been authored by the famous cultural critic Raymond Williams:
1) The Country and the City
2) Culture and Society
3) Modern Tragedy
4) The Making of the English Working Class
Answer: 4
2. The phrase “structure of feeling” is attributed to
1) Lauren Berlant
2) Terry Eagleton
3) Raymond Williams
4) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Answer: 3
3. What, according to Raymond Williams, is the right description of the term ‘Cultural Materialism’?
1. The cultural effect that religion has in social life
2. The political effect that matter has in social lives
3. The material effect that culture has in wider social life
4. The effect of social life in cultural situations of uncertainty
Answer: 3
4. In a remarkably proleptic insight, a critic wrote the following, anticipating Benedict Anderson’s definition of the nation as “an imagined political community”:
“Most novels are in some sense knowable communities. It is part of a traditional method — an underlying stance and approach — that a novelist offers to show people and their relationships in essentially knowable and communicable ways”.
Name the critic and the reference
(1) Van Wyck Brooks, The writer in America
(2) Raymond Williams, The country and the city
(3) Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper
(4) T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards a Definition of culture
Answer: 2
5. The term ‘Cultural Materialism’ is associated with
(A) Stephen Greenblatt
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Richard Hoggart
Answer: B
6. Who among the following Marxist critics has reconsidered the classic problem of ‘base and superstructure” in relation to literature ?
(A) Edmund Wilson
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Lucien Goldmann
(D) Walter Benjamin
Answer: B
7. Who among the following is not a myth critic ?
(A) Robert Graves
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Francis Fergusson
(D) Northrop Frye
Answer: B
8. What, according to Raymond Williams, is the right description of the term ‘Cultural Materialism’?
1. The cultural effect that religion has in social life
2. The political effect that matter has in social lives
3. The material effect that culture has in wider social life
4. The effect of social life in cultural situations of uncertainty
Answer: 3
9. Which of these are true of Raymond Williams’ Culture and Society?
A. It critiques the idea of high culture.
B. It overlooks the idea of high culture.
C. It defines culture as a way of life.
D. It equates culture with science.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
A- A and C only
B- A and D only
C- A and B only
D- B and D only
Answer: A- A and C only
Stuart Hall
1. According to Stuart Hall, the concept of played a seminal role in Cultural Studies.
1) Interpellation
2) Dispositive
3) Hegemony
4) Society
Answer: 3
2. Stuart hall belongs to schools of cultural studies.
[1] Oxford
[2] Cambridge
[3]Brimingham
[4]American
Answer: 3
3. The idea of “new ethnicities” in post-war Britain was advanced by …………..
(1) Donald Hall
(2) Stuart hall
(3) Paul Gilroy
(4) Hanif Kureishi
Answer: 2
3. Which of the following groups of words correctly states the stages of communication as envisioned by Stuart Hall his essay ” Encoding . Decoding ?
a. Production , transference , circulation , contact , reproduction
b. Production , circulation , realisation , consumption , reproduction
c. Production , circulation , distribution , consumption , reproduction
d. Production , dissemination , transference . consumption . reproduction
Answer: C