Reader Response Theory Previous Year UGC-NET English

Given Below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labeled as Reason (R):

Assertion (A): The implied reader shifts attention from the real reading individual to a disembodied dimension of reception, intricately interwoven into the text.

Assertion (R): The ‘Dear Reader’, invoked in the realist novels, is a fictional representation of the distant reader.

In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

[1] (A) is correct, but (R) is not correct.

[2] (A) is not correct, but (R) is correct.

[3] Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

[4] Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

Answer: 1

Who is the author of Radiant Textuality?

[1] Jerome McGann

[2] Gerald Graff

[3] James Thorpe

[4] Richard D. Altick

Answer: 1

Who among the following posits the tradition of great writers as an inescapable fact, and takes the writers as an inescapable fact, and takes the ambivalent position of considering is as both a blessing and a curve?

[1] Allen Tate

[2] F.R. Leavis

[3] Harold Bloom

[4] T.S. Eliot

Answer: 3

Which of the following are true in the context of “phenomenology”

[A] It is “a form of methodological idealism” which seeks to explore ‘human consciousness’.

[B] As a philosophical method, it was developed by Edmund Husserl.

[C] Martin Heidegger is one of its leading philosophers.

[D] Martin Heidegger’s approach is ‘essentialist’.

[E] Text is considered purely as an embodiment of the authors conciousness.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A, B, C and D only

[2] B, C and D only

[3] A, B, C and E only

[4] C, D and E only

Answer: [3] A, B, C and E only

Which of the following statements are true about reader response criticism?

[A] It challenges the nation that the meaning is located within the text.

[B] It refutes that the author is the originator of meaning.

[C] It sees the reader as a source of meaning.

[D] It treats the text as self sufficient.

[E] It appreciates the texts that are historical.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A and B only

[2] A and C only

[3] A, B and C only

[4] B, D and E only

Answer: [1] A and B only & [2] A and C only & [3] A, B and C only

Given below are two statements: one is labeled as assertion A and the other is labeled as reason R

Assertion (A): In so far as we are taught how to read, what we engage are not texts but paradigms

Reason (R): We appropriate meaning from a text according to what we need or desire.or, in other words, according to the critical assumptions of the predispositions that we bring to it.

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)

Match List I with List II:

List I

[A] The poetics of prose

[B] Problems of Dostoevsky’s poetics

[C] Surprised by sin

[D] The way women write

List II

[I] Stanley fish

[II] Tzvetan Todrov

[III] Mikhail Bakhtin

[IV] Mary Hiatt

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

[2] (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

[3] (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)

[4] (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)

Answer: [3] (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)

Who among the following theorists has written on narrative empathy?

1) Michael Ryan

2) Suzanne Keane

3) Toni Morrison

4) Sara Ahmed

Answer: 2) Suzanne Keane

Who among the following first framed a theory of general hermeneutics?

1) Wilhelm Dilthey

2) Ferdinand de Saussure

3) Friedrich Schleiermacher

4) E D Hirsch

Answer: 3) Friedrich Schleiermacher

Match List I with List II

LIST I LIST II

A) The Poetics of Prose I. Wolfgang Iser

B) Structuralist Poetics II. Tzvetan Todorov

C) The Implied Reader III. Stanley Fish

D) Is There a Text in This IV. Jonathan Culler Class?

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)

2) (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

3) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

4) (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)

Answer: 2) (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)