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Match List -1 with List-II:
List-I(Writer)
(a) Homi Bhabha
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) Roland Barthes
(d) John Fiske
List-II(Book)
I. Reading the popular
II. The Location of culture
III. Notes towards the Definition of Culture
IV. Image-Music-Text
Choose the correct answer from the option given below:
[1] (a)-I; (b)-II; (c)-IV; (d)-III [2] (a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-I [3] (a)-III; (b)-II; (c)-I; (d)-IV [4] (a)-IV; (b)-II; (c)-III; (d)-IAnswer: 2
Statement I: Language is not a reliable tool of communication, says deconstruction, but argues in favour of a theory of sign as a self-sufficient union of signifier and signified.
Statement II: Deconstruction claims that language is non-referential since it refers neither to the things in the world nor to our concepts of things but only to the play of signifiers.
[1] Both statement I and Statement II are correct. [2] Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect. [3] Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect. [4] Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct.Answer: 4
Which of these is identified by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Matter art as having been deployed in Walt Disney comic books to propagate imperialist ideology?
[1] Deification [2] Impoverishment [3] Infantilization [4] PersonificationAnswer: 3
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Derrida mentions that an aesthetic discourse always involves values and interests, independent from “a pure and neutral aesthetic realm”.
Statement II: Derrida believed that the outside influence in assessment of aesthetics always enters as and when philosophers and historians point out the element of “truth”.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below
[1] Both statement I and statement II are correct [2] Both statement I and statement II are incorrect [3] Statement I is correct, but statement II is incorrect [4] Statement I is incorrect, but statement II is correctAnswer: [1] Both statement I and statement II are correct
Q.50) Match List I with List II
List I
[A] “Bricolage” [B] “Dasein” [C] “Parapraxes” [D] “Polyphony”List II
[I] Martin Heidegger [II] Sigmund Freud [III] Levi- Strauss [IV] Mikhail BakhtinChoose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III [2] A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV [3] A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV [4] A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IVAnswer: [4] A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
Answer: [2] Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Hannah Arendt’s “defactualization” is very close to the concept of “post-truth”.
Statement II: Post-truth relies on absolute lies.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
[1] Both statement I and statement II are correct [2] Both statement I and statement II are incorrect [3] Statement I is correct, but statement II is incorrect [4] Statement I is incorrect, but statement II is correctAnswer: [3] Statement I is correct, but statement II is incorrect
J Hillis miller, one of the leading exponents of deconstruction, makes a deconstructionist reading of which of the following poems of P.B Shelley?
[1] “The triumph of life” [2] “Ode to the west wind” [3] “Revolt of Islam” [4] “The witch of atlas”Answer: [1] “The triumph of life”
Find the correct explanation of the term “Aporia”:
[1] It denotes a speaker’s or character’s deliberation on an irresolvable question [2] It is an address to something inanimate [3] It is applied to a work of art fraught with inherent tension [4] It refers to a form of denial of existenceAnswer: [1] It denotes a speaker’s or character’s deliberation on an irresolvable question
Identify the one that has not been paired correctly
[1] Criticism in wilderness- Geoffrey Hartman [2] Madness and civilization- Roland Barthes [3] Poetry and repression- Harold bloom [4] Strangers to ourselves- Julia KristevaAnswer: [2] Madness and civilization- Roland Barthes
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The poststructuralists’ genre critics suggest that the way to ‘de-essentialize’ genre is to re-cast it in terms of discourse
Statement II: But while the poststructuralist move toward dialectical exchange and ideology is both useful and necessary, conceiving of genre primarily in terms of discourse reveals certain limitations that are intrinsic to poststructuralism’s basic approach to discourse and to the relationship envisioned between discourse and subjectivity.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are false
3) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
4) Statement I is false but Statement II is true
Answer: 2) Both Statement I and Statement II are false
Which of the following concepts are associated with the writings of Jean Baudrillard?
A) Hyperreality
B) Bricolage
C) Rhizome
D) Simulacra
E) Dispositif
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and B
2) A and E
3) C and D
4) A and D
Answer: 4) A and D
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Poststructuralism is unthinkable without structuralism.
Reason (R): Poststructuralism continues structuralism’s strongly humanist perspective and it closely follows structuralism in its belief that language is not the key to our understanding of ourselves and the world.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
2) Both (A) and (R) are incorrect.
3) (A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect.
4) (A) is incorrect, but (R) is correct.
Answer: 3) (A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect.
Q.13) Match List I with List II
LIST I LIST II
A Deconstruction I Jacques Derrida
B Hegemony II Antonio Gramsci
C Habitus III Louis Althusser
D Interpellation IV Pierre Bordieu
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III
2) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
3) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
4) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
Answer: 1) A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III
The term ‘simulacra’ in postmodern discourse is about:
(A) Absence of vivid representation of reality
(B) Artificially produced reality dubbed as authentic
(C) A rejection of modernistic view of reality
(D) The gap between the perception and reality
(E) The psychological interplay at the level of subconscious
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) (C) and (E) Only
(2) (D) and (E) Only
(3) (A) and (B) Only
(4) (B) and (C) Only
Answer: (3) (A) and (B) Only
What does aptly define minor literature, according to Giles Deleuze?
(1) Deconstruction of Material Reality
(2) Deterritorialisation of language
(3) Heteroglossia
(4) Metanarrative
Answer: (2) Deterritorialisation of language
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Discourses are cultural and social practices rooted in psychic and physical reality.
Reason (R): Foucault defines discourse as the material manifestation of thought which shapes our subjectivity.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is correct but (R) is not correct.
(4) (A) is not correct but (R) is correct.
Answer: (1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
