Roland Barthes Previous Year UGC-NET English

Roland Barthes’ Image, Music, Text was published in

1) 1968

2) 1977

3) 1979

4) 1969

Answer: 2) 1977

Which among the following are written by Roland Barthes:

A) Allegories of Reading

B) Mythologies

C) The Pleasure of the Text

D) Some Versions of Pastoral

E) What is an Author?

Choose the correct option given below:

1) B and C

2) A and C

3) A, C and D

4) A, C and E

Answer: 1) B and C

Given below are two statements: One is labelled as assertion A and the other is labelled as reason R.

Assertion (A): Roland Barthes describes two basic categories of text as “the readerly” and “the writerly.”

Reason (R): Language is the window through which one sees the world.

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: [2] Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)

Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Roland Barthes believes that the author is “the epitome and culmination of capitalist ideology”.

Statement II: Walter Benjamin, in his the storyteller, observes that every real story has something useful in it.

In light of the above statement, 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: [1] Both statement I and statement II are true

What are the points of convergence between Derrida and Barthes?

[A] Both believe in the endless play in language and literary texts.

[B] Both conclude that the meaning of a text is not final.

[C] Both construe that language has retrospective power.

[D] They believe that no meaning is reliable.

[E] They believe that “the relationship between words, meanings and texts are intrinsic to meaning rather than the word itself”.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A, B, D and E only

[2] A, B, C and D only

[3] B, C and D only

[4] C, D and E only

Answer: [1] A, B, D and E only

Find the chronological order of publication of the given works:

[A] Mythologies

[B] Of grammatology

[C] Culture and society

[D] Blindness and insight

[E] The location of culture

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A, B, C, D, E

[2] A. C, B, D, E

[3] D, B, C, A, E

[4] B, C, D, A, E

Answer: [2] A. C, B, D, E

Which of the following observations are true about Roland Barthes’ contributions to literary theory?

[A] He rejected the model for structural analysis of narratives

[B] He perceived “meaning” as an effect of various interconnections among linguistic codes

[C] He identified the various codes found in the process of structuration

[D] He played a significant role in the development of ‘semiology’

[E] He questioned the concept of literary criticism as an act of uncovering some hidden truth intended by the “author”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A, B and C only

[2] C, D and E only

[3] B, C, D and E only

[4] A, B, C, D and E only

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

According to Roland Barthes, which of the following “codes” are common to all narratives?

[A] Synthetic code

[B] Proairctic code

[C] Semiccode

[D] Hermencutic code

[E] Symbolic code

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A and B only

[2] B and C only

[3] A, B and C only

[4] B, C, D and E only

Answer: [4] B, C, D and E only

Who among the following is NOT a Yale critic?

1) Geoffrey Hartman.

2) Paul de Man

3) J. Hillis Miller

4) Roland Barthes

Answer: 4) Roland Barthes

Match List I with List II

List I List II

A) Writing Degree Zero I 1957

B) Mythologies II 1953

C) The Empire of Signs III 1973

D) The Pleasure of the Text IV 1970

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

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

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

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

Who enunciated the idea of myth as depoliticized speech in bourgeois society?

1) Louis Althusser

2) Michel Foucault

3) Richard Hoggart

4) Roland Barthes

Answer: 4) Roland Barthes

Which of the following does Roland Barthes contend in “From Work to Text”?

A) The work is a methodological field

B) The text must be understood as a computable object

C) The Text is plural

D) The work is never caught up in a process of filiation

E) The work is ordinarily the object of consumption

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A and C

2) B and D

3) C and E

4) B and E

Answer: 3) C and E

Roland Barthes in his “Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives” (1966) proposed three levels of narrative structure. Which among the following are the narrative structures proposed by him:

(A) Functions

(B) Actions

(C) Grammar

(D) Narration

(E) Coherence

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) (A), (E) and (C) Only

(2) (A), (B) and (D) Only

(3) (B), (C) and (E) Only

(4) (A), (C) and (D) Only

Answer: (2) (A), (B) and (D) Only