What is Postmodernism?
Jean Baudrillard
1. Who among the following proposed that the First Gulf War had never taken place, it was simply a hyperreal, media-generated spectacle?
1.Richard Rorty
2.Jean-Francois Lyotard
3.Jean Baudrillard
4.Umberto Eco
Answer: 3
2. (a)Jean Baudrillard tells us the postmodern societies are marked by simulacra.
(b) By simulacra he means non-representations of reality.
(c) Simulacra artificially produce a mediated world masquerading as authenticity.
(d) It was not Jean Baudrillard but his interpreters who coined the term simulacra..
Which of the above statements are true ?
- (b), (c) and (d)
(2) (a) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (b) and (c)
Answer: 2
3. Why does Jean Baudrillard adopt Disneyland as his own sign ?
(A) Disneyland is by far the most eminently noticeable cultural sign in the post modern world.
(B) Disneyland captures ‘essences’ and ‘non-essences’ of Reality more convincingly than other cultural venues.
(C) Disneyland is an artefact that so obviously announces its own activeness that it would seem to imply some counter balancing reality.
(D) Disneyland is both ‘appearance’ and ‘reality’ in the post modern visual game of handy-dandy.
Answer:C
4. Who among the following is said to have believed that the Persian Gulf War (1990-91) never happened?
A. Jacques Derrida
B. Jean Baudrillard
C. Jurgen Habermas
D. Zygmunt Bauman
Answer:a
Julia Kristeva
1. 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
D) La revolution du language poétique
E) The Madwoman in the Attic
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1)A and C
2)Band A
3)A and D
4)B and E
Answer: 3
2. According to Julia Kristeva, it is the eruption of the ………… within the …………… that provides the creative and innovative impulse of modern poetic language.
(1) individual, tradition
(2) specific, generic
(3) semiotic, symbolic
(4) particular, general
Answer: 3
3. Julia Kristeva’s ‘Intertextuality’ derives from :
(a) Saussure’s signs
(b) Chomsky’s deep structure
(c) Bakhtin’s dialogism
(d) Derrida’s difference
(A) (a) and (d)
(B) (a) and (c)
(C) (c) and (d)
(D) (a) and (b)
Answer: B
4. Julia Kristeva’s ‘intertextuality’ derives from .
a. Noam Chomsky’s deep structure
b. Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogism
c. Jacques Derrida’s deference
d. Ferdinand de Saussure’s sign
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (a) and (d)
Answer: 4
5. Which of the following clusters is associated with what Julia Kristeva terms the ‘semiotic’?
A. Authority, order and patriarchy
B. Displacement, slippage and condensation
C. Logic, reason and power
D. Repression, control and normalcy
Answer: b
Jean Francois Lyotard
1. In Jean Francois Lyotard’s works the term “language games”, sometimes also called “phrase regimens” denotes :
I. the multiplicity of communities of meaning.
II. the breakdown of communities of meaning.
III. the innumerable and incommensurable separate systems in which meanings are produced.
IV. the singular system in which meanings are dispersed and displaced.
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and IV
(2) I and III
(3) II and IV
(4) II and III
Answer: 2
Frederic Jameson
1. Frederic Jameson associated postmodern culture with __________ capitalism.
(1) market
(2) monopoly
(3) imperialist
(4) multinational
Answer: 4
2. Who among the following theorists believes that the proliferation of television images is producing a cultural condition a kin to ‘historical amnesia’?
1. Jean Baudrillard
2. Ihab Hassan
3. Frederic Jameson
4. Daniel Bell
Answer: 3
3. Which two of the following concepts are deployed in the work of Frederic Jameson?
A. Pastiche
B. Hyperreal
C. Schizophrenia
D. Habitus
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. A and B only
B. A and C only
C. B and D only
D. C and D only
Answer: B