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

Sentimental comedy was prevalent in the 18th. century, denoting plays in which middle-class protagonists triumphantly overcome a series of moral trials. Such comedy aimed at producing tears rather than laughter. The best example of sentimental comedy is The Conscious Lovers (1722) by Richard Steele which deals with the trials and tribulations of its penniless heroine Indiana. Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (1773) and R.B. Sheridan's The Rivals are written in this genre. Thus, option (d) will be correct answer.

This particular statement by Somerset Maugham is a comment on Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. It focuses on the life of Fanny Price and her experience living at Mansfield Park, where she has been sent due to the financial problems of her family. The themes of the novel are the development and collapse of social relationships, slavery and morality Hence, option (d) will be correct answer.

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by R.L. Stevenson. It was published in 1883. It was originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys, telling a story of buccaneers and buried gold. The plot of the novel is set in the mid - 18th century when an old sailor who identifies himself as the captain.
Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

Among the given options, English, August: An Indian Story is a novel by Indian author Upamanyu Chatterjee, while Sea of Poppies (2008) is a novel by Amitav Ghosh which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. Flood of Fire and Gun Island are written by Amitav Ghosh.
Hence, option (D) will be correct answer.

Soloman Northup was an American abolitionist and the author of Twelve Years a Slave which is a kind of slave-narrative; The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb is among the most remarkable slave narratives. The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, based on slave-narrative; while Songs of Enchantment is based on quests and struggle for equanimity.
Hence, option (d) will be correct answer.

'Demythologizing' is a term associated with the works of Rudolph Bultmann. He claimed that the biblical three-storeyed universe, belief in angels etc was incredible in the modern world and that the Gospel message could be freed from these stumbling blocks. Though he insisted that he was interpreting rather than eliminating myth, his slogan came to be attacked to various reductionist interpretations of Christianity. Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

Sara Ahmed has written on affective economies. In this theory, emotions circulate between bodies, signs and objects, mediating the relationship between the psychic (individuals), the material (bodies and objects) and the social (communities) and binding subjects together.
Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

Yale Critic is a shorthand way of referring to a moment in the 1970s, when the work of Jacques Derrida was taken up and experimented with by four prominent literary critics in the department of English at Yale: Paul de Man, J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartmann and Harold Bloom; while Roland Barthes is a French literary theorist known for Structuralism. Hence, option (D) will be correct answer.

Among the given options, Ernest Laclau can be considered as the Post-Marxist critic, while Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher. Theodor W. Adorno was a German philosopher, sociologist and composer; while Walter Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. Hence, option (a) will be correct answer.

Jonathan Bate's The Song of the Earth was published in 2000. It is based on our growing alienation from Nature. He traces the distinctions among nature, culture and environment and shows how their appearance was in the literature of the eighteenth century.
Thus, option (c) will be correct answer.