NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam. December 2023 ENGLISH

• Cultural Studies was first associated with the University of Birmingham's Center for Contemporary cultural studies, which was established in 1964.
• It was  included academics like Stuart Hall, Raymond Williams, and Richard Hoggart. Later, the field gained prominence in many academic institutions and has since had a significant impact on sociology, anthropology, historiography, literary criticism, philosophy, and art criticism.
• I.A.Richard is not associated with British cultural studies rather he is from the group of Cambridge Critics.
Hence, the correct answer is option(a).

Adrienne Rich was an American poet, Scholar, teacher, and critic whose many volumes of poetry traces a stylistic transformation from formal, well-crafted but imitative poetry to a more personal and powerful style.
• Toni Morrison was an American writer noted for her examination of black experience (particularly black female experience) within the Black Community. Both of them have contributed to a distinctive style.
• Being a feminist Adrienne Rich absorbs that feminism is the field where "Subjectivity and politics have to come together" in the most natural way. Hence, the correct answer is option(b).

The correct chronological sequence of the given works of Richard Hoggart is -B, C, D, E, А.
• The Uses of Literacy (1957) examines the influence of mass media in the United Kingdom.
• Higher Education: demand and Response
• A Local Habitation (1988)
• A Sort of Clowning (1990)
• An Imagined Life (1993)
Hence, the correct answer is option(d).

• Sharankumar Limbale (1956) is a Marathi Langunge author poet and literary critic. He is a popular writer of Dalit Literature genre. one of his famous works is his autobiography Akkarmashi (1984).
• His Critical work Towards as Aesthetics of Dalit Literature (2004) is the most important work on Dalit literature.
• He argues that Dalit literature is unique because this brings out the Dalit reality which is liminal in time and space, it has unique historical and ideological concerns and Dalit literature offers literary and cultural representations of marginalized and dispossessed people.
Hence, the correct answer is option(a).

• The first sentence of Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina is "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way".
• Anna Karenina was first published in book form in 1878.
• War and Peace (1868) by Leo Tolstoy
• Nineteen Eighty Four (1949) by George Orwell
• Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte
Hence, the correct answer is option(a).

• Antonio Gramsci was an early 20th century Italian Marxist philosopner and writer. Imprisoned, he wrote much of his work from the jail cell that are called (prison note books)
• His theory of intellectual and of cultural hegemony are among his two most notable ideas.
• According to Gramsci, since all persons are endowed with a mind, all are intellectuals in the most basic and banal sense.
• In Gramsci's own words, "All men are intellectual".
• He also emphasizes that every social group joining the world of production creates organically a strata of intellectuals.
• Intellectuals give homogeneity and awareness of a social group's function in all the fields.
•  The monopoly held by the ecclesiastics in the super structural domain was not exercise without a contestation.
Hence, the correct answer is option(c).

John Campbell in his book Aspects of Poetry: Being Lectures Delivered At Oxford (1882), asks the question "Did not Shakespeare hate and despise I ago and Edmund?"
• Iago and Edmund are wicked characters from Shakespeare's Othello and King Lear respectively.
Hence, the correct answer is option(d).

"Ezra Pound declared in 1920 that "there is no longer any intellectual life in England because there was anarchy due to world war I, people started living life full of misery, fear and without any creativity. He depicted these feelings and approach of people in his poem In a Station of the Metro.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

Anna Karenina (1878) is a novel by Leo Tolstoy. The novel deals with themes of betrayal faith, family, marriage, imperial Russian Society desire and the differences between rural and urban life. The story revolves around an extramarital affair between Anna and Alexi Kerillovich Vronsky. Beyond that it is about Sergei (Anna's son) and Annie (Anna's daughter) the novel does not feature a happy ending because the scandal of their relationship and the despair of abandoning her son cause Anna to commit suicide.
Hence, option (c) is correct answer.

In Absurd Theatre, the characters feature a wide variety of subject matter. These are the product of a new attitude that swept post-world war II Europe. It deals with meaningless world and the isolation of the individual. Martin Esslin has coined the term the theater of Absurd and it was changed into a movement made up of many diverse plays most of which were written between 1940 and 1960.
• Absurd Theatre Defies the self professed 'modern' motion of dignity and wisdom.
Hence, the code A, D, E are correct.
Note: NTA has considered option (c) - (d) and (e) only and option (d) - (a) and (d) only as correct answer.