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UGC-NET PYQs
1. Roland Barthes’ Image, Music, Text was published in
2. 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?
B) Mythologies
C) The Pleasure of the Text
D) Some Versions of Pastoral
E) What is an Author?
3. 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.
4. 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.
Statement II: Walter Benjamin, in his “The Storyteller,” observes that every real story has something useful in it.
5. 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”.
[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”.
6. 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
[B] Of Grammatology
[C] Culture and Society
[D] Blindness and Insight
[E] The Location of Culture
7. 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”
[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”
8. According to Roland Barthes, which of the following “codes” are common to all narratives?
[A] Synthetic code
[B] Proairetic code
[C] Semic code
[D] Hermeneutic code
[E] Symbolic code
[B] Proairetic code
[C] Semic code
[D] Hermeneutic code
[E] Symbolic code
9. Who among the following is NOT a Yale critic?
10. Match List I with List II
List I List II
A) Writing Degree Zero I. 1957B) Mythologies II. 1953
C) The Empire of Signs III. 1973
D) The Pleasure of the Text IV. 1970
11. Who enunciated the idea of myth as depoliticized speech in bourgeois society?
12. 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
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
13. 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
(B) Actions
(C) Grammar
(D) Narration
(E) Coherence
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