Reader-Response Criticism - (Previous Year Questions UGC NET English)

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Reader-Response Criticism – (Previous Year Questions NET | GATE)

1. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).

Assertion (A):

The act of reading a text is both determinate and indeterminate.

Reason (R):

Since our reading includes both a sense of the unity of the narrative held in place at the end and the different wishes and guesses made along the way.

In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct:

(A)Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the true explanation of (A).
(B)Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the true explanation of (A).
(C)(A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D)(A) is false, but (R) is true.

2. The ‘Reader-Response Theory’ implies that:

(A)there is no one correct meaning of the text
(B)the readers of an age construct the meaning
(C)beliefs determine meaning
(D)a style is the hallmark of the text

3. The term ‘horizon of expectations’ is associated with:

(A)Wolfgang Iser
(B)Stanley Fish
(C)Harold Bloom
(D)H.R. Jauss

4. In “Anxiety of Influence” which of the following definitions is given by Harold Bloom to explain the term, ‘clinamen’?

(A)Poetic hyperbole
(B)Poetic misprision
(C)Poetic sublime
(D)Poetic supplement

5. Name the theorist who divided poets into “strong” and “weak” and popularized the practice of misreading:

(A)Alan Bloom
(B)Harold Bloom
(C)Geoffrey Hartman
(D)Stanley Fish

6. Who among the following is not a reader-response critic?

(A)Maud Bodkin
(B)Hans-Robert Jauss
(C)Stanley Fish
(D)Wolfgang Iser

7. What is an “implied reader”?

(A)The ideal audience envisioned by the author and to whom the work of literature is supposedly addressed.
(B)A reader who embodies all those predispositions necessary for a literary work to exercise its effect.
(C)The ideal reader of a work of literature which is approximated over time by successive responses of generations of actual readers.
(D)The ideal “average” reader who can approach a work of literature with no preconceived ideas about the author’s life, the time of composition, etc.

8. Identify the two names from the following who are associated with Hermeneutics:

(a) Edmund Husserl

(b) E. D. Hirsch

(d) Stephen Greenblatt

Choose the correct option:

(A)(a) and (c)
(B)(a) and (b)
(C)(b) and (c)
(D)(b) and (d)

9. Who among the following theorists particularly emphasized the social and historical dimensions of a text’s reception?

(A)Wolfgang Iser
(B)Stanley Fish
(C)Hans Robert Jauss
(D)Pierre Bourdieu

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Nalini

12 October 2022 at 10:26 am

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