Literary Criticism – English UGC NET – Solved PYQs

1. Who among the following is not a formalist critic? (UGC NET June 2011)

(1) Allen Tate
(2) Cleanth Brooks
(3) Stanley Fish
(4) William Empson

2. In Practical Criticism I.A. Richards links four kinds of meanings in most human utterances to four aspects. These are: (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention
(2) Sound, Feeling, Nuance, Intention
(3) Sense, Voice, Emotion, Intention
(4) Sense, Image, Tone, Intention

3. In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668), who opens the discussion on behalf of the ancients? (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) Lisidelus
(2) Crites
(3) Eugenius
(4) Neander

4. Identify the critic based on the following description: (UGC NET Dec 2012)

I. Wrote commentaries on Shelley, Blake and Yeats.
II. Published The Anxiety of Influence, A Map of Misreading, Poetry and Repression, The Western Canon.
III. Asserted criticism is disguised religion.
IV. Widely known contrarian American critic.

(1) Edward Said
(2) Geoffrey Chaucer
(3) Harold Bloom
(4) Sven Birkerts

5. Name the theorist who divided poets into “strong” and “weak” and popularized misreading: (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) Alan Bloom
(2) Harold Bloom
(3) Geoffrey Hartman
(4) Stanley Fish

6. In his preface to The Order of Things, Foucault mentions being influenced by a Latin American writer. (UGC NET Dec 2012)

(1) Marquez – “The Solitude of Latin America”
(2) Borges – “Chinese Encyclopaedia”
(3) Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
(4) Alejo Carpentier – “On the Marvelous in America”

7. The emergence of “World literature” is associated with: (UGC NET June 2012)

(a) Friedrich Schiller
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(c) Johann Gottfried Herder
(d) Immanuel Kant

(1) (a) & (b)
(2) (c) & (d)
(3) (b) & (c)
(4) (a) & (d)

8. One important theme in Dryden’s Essay on Dramatic Poesy is: (UGC NET June 2012)

(1) European vs non-European reality
(2) English vs non-English reality
(3) French vs English theatre
(4) French vs English poetry

9. C.K. Ogden and I.A. Richards introduced (UGC NET June 2012)

(1) Practical Criticism
(2) New Criticism
(3) Standard English Project
(4) Basic English Project

10. Samuel Johnson’s Lives of Poets was collected as: (UGC NET Dec 2013)

(1) Lives of English Poets: Critical Essays
(2) Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
(3) Notes, Biographical and Critical
(4) Lives of English Poets: Notes

11. “Nothing odd will do long…” Johnson said this about: (UGC NET Sep 2013)

(1) Tom Jones
(2) The Female Quixote
(3) Tristram Shandy
(4) Clarissa

12. Archetypal criticism practitioners include: (UGC NET Sep 2013)

I. Northrop Frye
II. Dorothy Van Ghent
III. Derek Traversi
IV. Maud Bodkin

(1) I and IV
(2) I and III
(3) II and IV
(4) I and II

13. Male writer used by Cixous as example of écriture féminine: (UGC NET Sep 2013)

(1) D.H. Lawrence
(2) Joseph Conrad
(3) James Joyce
(4) E.M. Forster

14. Laura Mulvey uses which concept? (UGC NET Sep 2013)

(1) Freud – sublimation
(2) Jung – unconscious
(3) Lacan – gaze
(4) Lacan – fragmented body

15. These critics rely on authority of past and consensus: (UGC NET June 2013)

(1) Neoclassical critics
(2) Romantic critics
(3) Art for art’s sake
(4) Symbolists