NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam. December 2022 ENGLISH (Shift-I)

Of Heroes and Hero-Worship and The French Revolution are written by Thomas Carlyle, while Of Human Bondage (1915) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The Hour and the Man is a historical romance, written by Harriet Martineau and the last one Hudibras is a satirical poem, written in a mockheroic style by Samuel Butler.
Thus option (a) will be correct answer.

Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art and La Revolution du Language Poetique are written by Julia Kristeva, a Bulgarian - French Philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and feminist. The Madwoman in the Attic is a feminist work by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Thus, option (c) will be correct answer.

The theories of New Historicism is indebted to Marxism and Reader-Response theory. Marxism is a social, economic and political philosophy that analyses the impact of ruling class on the laborers, leading to uneven distribution of wealth and privileges in the society.
Reader-Response Theory is based on the assumption that a literary work takes place in the mutual relationship between the reader and the text. Hence, option (a) is the correct answer.

Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a combination of low life and high tech (Technology)". It uses postmodernist techniques and Posthumanist themes. Events in this novel usually take place within the virtual reality.
Much of cyberpunk is rooted in the New Wave science fiction movement of the 1960s and 1970s, when writers like Philip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock, Rozer Zelazny, John Bruner, J.G. Ballard etc. examined the impact of drug culture, technology and the sexual revolution while avoiding the Utopian tendencies of earlier science fiction.
Hence, option (c) is the correct answer.

Mario Vargas Llosa - The Feast of Goat (2000)
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez - The Autumn of the Patriarch (1875)
• Salman Rushdie - The Enchantress of Florence (2008)
• E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime (1975)
• A. S. Byatt - Possession (1990)
Hence, option (d) is the correct answer.

Between the Assassinations, Last Man in Tower and The White Tiger are the books written by Aravind Adiga.
Aravind Adiga (23 October, 1974) is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Adiga's second book, Between the Assassinations, was released in India in 2008 and in the US and UK in mid 2009. His third book, Last Man in Tower, was published in UK in 2011. while, The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha and The House of Blue Mangoes written by David Davidar. Hence, option (b) is the correct answer.

J. M. Coetzee - South Africa
Margaret Atwood - Canada
Philip Roth - Americа
Orhan Pamuk - Turkey
Graham Swift - Britain
Hence, option (b) is the correct answer.

R.K. Narayan. was an Indian writer and novelist known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. His The Guide is an open ended novel. He wrote a short story titled The Martyr's Corner.
Hence, option (b) is the correct answer.

J.C. Ransom - Criticism, Inc.
William Empson - Seven Types of Ambiguity.
C. Brookes and R.P. Warren - Understanding Poetry.
Cleanth Brooks - In Search of the New Criticism.
Murray Krieger - The New Apologists for Poetry.
Hence, option (a) is the correct answer.

The term "Poetic Justice" was coined by the English literary critic Thomas Rymer in the 17th century, when it was believed that a work of literature should uphold moral principles and instruct the reader in correct moral behaviour. He wined the term to imply the distribution of earthly rewards and punishments in proportion to the virtue or vice of the various characters and for the literary work governed by decorum and morality.
Hence, option (a) is the correct answer.