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Structuralism | New Criticism – Previous Year Questions NET English
1. “How can what an Englishman believes be heresy? It is a contradiction in terms.” This means:
Possible interpretations:
1. An Englishman does not know what heresy is.
2. An Englishman has no beliefs.
3. And, therefore, there is no question of his heresy.
4. And, therefore, there cannot be any question of his acting his beliefs.
2. Understanding Poetry used to be a classic textbook that encapsulates the principles of:
3. In literary studies structuralism promotes:
4. New Criticism considers text as a:
5. William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity is:
6. Which of the following is not a critical study by William Empson?
7. Who among the following is a well-known Neo-Aristotelian critic?
8. Who among the following critics discerned in the Shelleyan Lyric the signs of adolescence?
9. Which of the following best summarises the structural approach to literature?
10. Two among the following critical journals became strongly associated with New Criticism.
(a) Partisan Review
(b) Southern Review
(c) Kenyon Review
(d) Hudson Review
The right combination according to the code is:
11. Identify the New Critic who served as the cultural attaché at the American Embassy in London from 1964 to 1966:
12. Semiotics, the general science of signs, traces its lineage to:
I. Edmund Husserl
II. Charles Sanders Peirce
III. Ferdinand de Saussure
IV. Claude Levi-Strauss
The right combination according to the code is:
13. What is practical criticism?
14. One of the most highly revered, scholarly, and passionate interpreters of English and world literatures, he was appointed the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College, London in 1967, and later as King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge in 1974, an appointment made by the Crown at the suggestion of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1991. Entitled to designate himself as “Sir,” he never did, but wrote an autobiography entitled Not Entitled in 1995. The epigraph to this book came from Coriolanus: “He was a kind of nothing, titleless.” Who among the following is this writer/critic?
15. The title, The New Criticism, published in 1941, was written by:
16. The term ‘Intentional Fallacy’ is first used by:
17. The term ‘Practical Criticism’ is coined by:
18. “Heteroglossia” refers to:
19. Match the following:
Schools/Concept of Criticism:
I. Formalism
II. New Critics
III. Psychological Theory of the Value of Literature
IV. Literary art as archetypal image
Critics:
1. John Crowe Ransom
2. The Jungians
3. Victor Shklovsky
4. I.A. Richards
I II III IV
20. Match the authors under List – I with the titles under List – II:
Titles:
1. Of Grammatology
2. The Archaeology of Knowledge
3. Structural Anthropology
4. Anatomy of Criticism
Authors:
I. Claude Levi-Strauss
II. Jacques Derrida
III. Northrop Frye
IV. Michel Foucault
I II III IV
21. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below:
List – I (Critic):
i. Cleanth Brooks
ii. William Empson
iii. Mark Schorer
iv. Maud Bodkin
List – II (Theory):
1. Ambiguity
2. Paradox
3. Archetypal patterns in poetry
4. Techniques as discovery
i ii iii iv
22. In which of the following works did Bakhtin propose his widely cited concept of the ‘Carnivalesque’?
23. In New Criticism, the key term ‘tension’ is associated with:
24. A new series called “New Accents” was launched by Methuen in 1977. The first title to be published in the series was:
25. Ferdinand de Saussure argued that meaning is generated through:
26. Which of the following New Critics put forward the idea of the ‘heresy of paraphrase’?
27. From among the following, identify the incorrect observation regarding Ferdinand de Saussure’s seminal distinction between langue and parole.
28. The error of interpreting a literary work by referring to evidence outside of itself, such as the design and purpose of the author is called:
29. In the 1940’s, a critic and a philosopher produced two influential and controversial papers called “The Intentional Fallacy” and “The Affective Fallacy”. Identify them:
(a) Cleanth Brooks
(b) Monroe C. Beardsley
(c) William K. Wimsatt Jr.
(d) R.P. Blackmur
The right combination according to the code is:
30. Semiotics originated mainly in the works of two theorists. They are:
a. Charles Sanders Peirce
b. Mikhail Bakhtin
c. Ferdinand de Saussure
d. Valentin Voloshinov
The right combination according to the code is:
31. Allen Tate once made a useful distinction between structure and texture. The distinction referred to:
32. In his Practical Criticism I.A. Richards suggests that there are several kinds of meanings and that the “total meaning” is a blend of contributory meanings which are of different types. He identified four kinds of meaning, or the total meaning of a word depends upon four factors. Choose the right combination as proposed by Richards.
33. What is the meaning of ‘langue’ in Saussurean linguistics?
34. “The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.” Which one of the following critical texts begins with the above assertion?
35. Match the works with authors:
Works:
(a) Image-Music-Text
(b) Why Marx was Right
(c) Mirror and the Lamp
(d) Culture and Society
Authors:
(i) M. H. Abrams
(ii) Raymond Williams
(iii) Roland Barthes
(iv) Terry Eagleton
36. Which one of the following is the source of the passage given below?
“I have observed with growing anxiety the career of this word culture during the past six or seven years. We may find it natural, and significant, that during a period of unparalleled destructiveness, this word should come to have an important role…”
37. What term used by Ferdinand de Saussure corresponds to Noam Chomsky’s term ‘performance’?
38. What is the order of publication of the following books of Noam Chomsky?
Books:
(a) Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
(b) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
(c) Syntactic Structures
(d) Knowledge of Language
39. Arrange the following in the chronological order of publication:
A. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
B. Course in General Linguistics
C. Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
D. How to Do Things with Words
40. Arrange the following terms in the chronological order of emergence:
A. Heresy of Paraphrase
B. Stream of Consciousness
C. Practical Criticism
D. Defamiliarization
41. Match List I and List II:
List I – Author:
A. Michel de Certeau
B. John Fiske
C. Pierre Bourdieu
D. Janice Radway
List II – Text:
I. Distinction
II. Reading the Romance
III. Understanding Popular Culture
IV. The Practice of Everyday Life
42. Who among the following linguists proposed the terms, ‘competence’ and ‘performance’?
43. Which one of the following is correct about Saussure’s analysis of language?
44. Which of these statements describe correctly the basic assumption of Structuralism?
A. Structuralism is concerned with signs and signification.
B. A structuralist theory considers only verbal conventions and codes.
C. Structuralism began in the works of Jacques Derrida that influenced the 20th-century literary criticism.
D. Structuralism challenges the long-standing belief that literature reflects a given reality.
E. All signs are arbitrary but without them we cannot comprehend reality.
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