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

Among the given Options, Past and Present (1843) is written by Thomas Carlyle; while Explorations is not written by John Stuart. The Subjection of Women is written by John Stuart Mill, published in 1869. It was ahead of its time in boldly championing feminism. Thoughts on parliamentary Reform is associated with John Stuart Mill, and his book On Liberty 1859 considered as the most popular work of Mill, which shows the ethical system of utilitarianism to society and state.
Thus, option (c) will be correct answer.

Statement A, B, and D are absolutely correct in the context of literary research.
• Literary research is devoted to the enlightenment of criticism; it seeks to illuminate the work of art as it really is; it tries to see the writer as she/he really was; It has connection with the proffered information.
• Acquisition of information within a specific literary work is referred to as literary research.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

The false/incorrect statement in reference to autobiographical research is B, C and D.
• Autobiographical researches are not idealized. Such kind of researchers are not embroidered through the sheer exuberance of the artistic imagination instead these kind of researches are completely based on the facts of science.
• These can be accepted on face value.
• Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

The key attributes and skills required in the context of tools and techniques for literacy research are:
• One should have an overview of the main online and printed sources relevant to the research.
• One should get to know a range of available online sources, and become able to evaluate these sources comparatively.
• One should use online and printed sources to identify and locate material archives.
• No participation in any online information network for the sake of the work being copied is never appreciated and it's not an attribute of literary research. Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

From the given Books, Freudianism: A Marxist Critique and Rabelais and His World are written by Mikhail Bakhtin.
• Freudianism : A Marxist Critique (1976) is cоauthored by Valentine Valoshinov and translated by I.R. Titunik. Rabelais and His World (1965) is a literary criticism by Bakhtin which points on a close reading of novels of 16th century French writer Francois Rabelais.
other works and their writers are:
• White Mythology (1971), Derrida; The Ideology of the! Aesthetics (1990), Terry Eagleton; Morphology of the Folktale (1928), Vladimir Propp.
None of the given option has the correct combination hence, NTA has dropped the question.

Only (D) is correctly matched.
• The Anxiety of Influence (1973) written by Harold Bloom is correctly matched.
• Writing and Difference (1967) is a work by Jacques Derrida.
• Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933) is a book of psychological essays written by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung.
• Jacques Lacan: A feminist Introduction (1990) is a book of feministic view written by Elizabeth Grosz.
None of the given options has the correct combination hence, NTA has dropped the question.

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Anti Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia fuses two theoretical paradigm they are Poststructuralism and Psychoanalysis.
Published in 1972, Anti- Oedipus is authored by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Felix Guattari.
• In volume one of Anti - Oedipus (1972), they drew on Lacanian (Jacques Lacan, French Psychoanalyst) ideas to argue that traditional psychoanalytic conceptions of the structure of personality are used to supress and control human desire and indirectly to perpetuate the capitalist system.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

Provincializing Europe : Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000), and The Climate of History in a planetary Age (2021) are the works written by Indian historian who has also made his contribution to postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, Dipesh Chakrabarthy.
• Provincializing Europe explores how post-colonial thinking impacts on the social science. It is set in the intersection between subaltern studies and postcolonial theory.
• Dipesh Chakrabarty's The Climate of History in a| Planetary Age argues that we must combine two perspectives in writing history : the global and the planetary.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990, second edition 1999) by Judith Butler and Epistemology of the Closet (1990) by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick have their roots in Foucauldian thoughts on sexuality. • Epistemology of the Closet deals with the question of what makes up human sexuality.
• Michel Foucault expresses his thought in his book The History of Sexuality, in which the author examiner the emergence of "sexuality" as a discursive object and separate sphere of life and argues that the notion that every individual has a sexuality is a relatively recent development in western societies.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First (1593), The Arraignment of Paris (1584), and The Old Wives' Tale (1595) are written by English poet, dramatist and translator George Peele.
• A Moon for the Misbegotten (1947) is written by American playwright Eugene O'Neil.
• The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth (1598) is written by Robert Greene.
• One of the intellectuals of the Elizabethan theatrical community, George Peele associated with Robert Greene and other writers known as "University wits".
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).