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Subject : Comparative Literature
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1. Which critic discusses “decentered form” ?
(1) Terry Eagleton
(2) Raymond Williams
(3) Pierre Macheray
(4) F.R. Leavis
2. Who is of the view the period, as a mode of classification corresponds, in the historical disciplines, to the concept in philosophy and to the class in natural science ?
(1) Rene Wellek
(2) R.M. Meyer
(3) Benedetto Croce
(4) H.P.H. Teesing
3. “Generation is the spearhead of a period” – who says this ?
(1) H.P.H. Teesing
(2) Van Tieghem
(3) H.H. Remak
(4) Ulrich Weisstein
4. The term, “Thematics” was coined by
(1) S.S. Prawer
(2) Harry Levin
(3) Raymond Trousson
(4) Elisabeth Frenzel
5. Eugene Nida’s approach to the translation process focuses on _____.
(1) the emitter
(2) the receptor
(3) the intermediary
(4) the source text
6. Thinai is _____.
(1) Classification of landscape in Sangam literature
(2) Classification of nayikas in Tamil literature
(3) Classification of landscape in Sanskrit literature
(4) Classification of nayikas in Sanskrit literature
7. The dominant political theorist of the 17th century who inspired many literary figures was
(1) Blaise Pascal
(2) Rene Descartes
(3) Thomas Hobbes
(4) John Milton
8. Who is the first literary critic who said, “Art is twice removed from reality” ?
(1) Plato
(2) Sophocles
(3) Euripides
(4) Longinus
9. According to Van Tieghem, a survey of European sentimental comedy would be an instance of
(1) Comparative literature
(2) World literature
(3) General literature
(4) National literature
10. The trend/movement, _____ according to Ulrich Weisstein, common to literature and architecture, is
(1) Expressionism
(2) Neo-classicism
(3) Romanticism
(4) Baroque
11. Who proposed that poets must be banished from the ideal republic ?
(1) Plato in his Republic
(2) Aristotle in his Poetics
(3) Thomas More in his Utopia
(4) Philip Sidney in his Arcadia.
12. Paul Hazard almost omits thematology from comparative literature, as it does not involve
(1) study of other arts
(2) literary history
(3) history of ideas
(4) literary influences
13. Who, among the following, considered genre classification a waste of time ?
(1) Eliseo Vivas
(2) Van Tieghen
(3) Benedetto Croce
(4) Jeremias Gotthelf
14. According to postmodernism, emancipation from linguistically induced exploitation can only be gained through an awareness of the power of
(1) Statistics
(2) Feelings
(3) Facts
(4) Language
15. Who among the following coined the neologism “negritude” ?
(1) Frantz Fanon
(2) Aime Cesaire
(3) Leopold Sedor Senghor
(4) Leon gontram Damas
16. George Lukacs has three major critical concepts. What are those ?
(1) Ambiguity, Serenity, Complexity
(2) Totality, Typicality, World Historical
(3) Clarity, Conciseness, Precision
(4) Uniqueness, Method, Lucidity
17. Novels into Film, an analysis of the film version of several famous novels, is written by _____.
(1) Vishal Bhardwaj
(2) Satyajit Ray
(3) George Bluestone
(4) ManiRatnam
18. Identify the author of the book Medieval Latin and the Rise of the European Love-Lyric
(1) Kurt Wais
(2) Johannes Husle
(3) Peter Drouke
(4) Hypolytte Taine
19. In Telugu literature the kavitraya (the three great poets) are _____.
(1) Bhupala, Tikanna, Yerrapragada
(2) Nannaya, Tikanna, Yerrapragada
(3) Pedanna, Ketana, Nannaya
(4) Marana, Pedanna, Bhupala
20. Reuben Browser analysed a number of English translations of _____ to illustrate the different degrees of adaptation.
(1) Sophocle’s Oedipus Rex
(2) Aeschylus Agamemnon
(3) Goethe’s Faust
(4) Plato’s Republic
21. Which of the following texts is open to an analysis from the perspective of political theory ?
(1) Henry IV I
(2) The Way of the World
(3) The Birthday Party
(4) Major Barbara
22. _____ provides the materials or the basic part of materials for the plot of a work.
(1) Style
(2) Source
(3) Analogy
(4) Translation
23. The Alwars and Nayanmars belong to the _____ Bhakti Movement.
(1) Kannada
(2) Tamil
(3) Telugu
(4) Hindi
24. The archetypes of ‘anima’ and ‘animus’ were mentioned by _____.
(1) Malarme Klein
(2) Carl G. Jung
(3) Jessie Weston
(4) Sigmund Freud
25. Eugene O’Neil reworks on the Orestian trilogy of Aeschylus in the play,
(1) Mourning Becomes Electra
(2) The Hairy Ape
(3) Desire Under the Elms
(4) Beyond the Horizon
26. Identify the author of the statement, “These prose translations form Rabindranath Tagore have stirred my blood as nothing has for years. I have carried the manuscript with me for days reading them in railway trains, on top of omnibuses …”
(1) C.K. Ogden
(2) T.S. Eliot
(3) Edward Fitzgerald
(4) W.B. Yeats
27. The principle topic of discussion in the third international congress of literary history held in Lyons in 1939 was
(1) Problem of literary types
(2) Study of Thematology
(3) Literary relationship between West and East.
(4) Problem of literary translation
28. The origin of the legend of the chalk circle is
(1) Japan
(2) Germany
(3) Russia
(4) China
29. What is the meaning of the term ‘Anagnorisis’ as used by Aristotle in his theory of tragedy ?
(1) the hero’s ignorance about his tragic flaw
(2) the hero’s recognition of his tragic flaw
(3) the hero’s recognition of his adversity
(4) the hero’s realization of his tragic end
30. A study of Turgenev, Hawthorne Thackeray and Maupassant may well be called a study in
(1) Comparative Literature
(2) World Literature
(3) General Literature
(4) National Literature