NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam. December 2023 ENGLISH

• Raymond Williams expressed his views on culture in his work Culture is Ordinary (1958).
• According to Raymond Williams culture is ordinary and a whole way of life.
• There exists at least three layers of a culture at a given point of time in a society- dominant, residual and emergent.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

The Skylark (1835), The Badger (1820), The Gypsy Camp (1819-20), and First Love (1800) are the poems written by John Clare.
Note: To a Skylark is a poem by P.B. Shelley.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

Correct match of novels with their respective subtitles is : A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III.

• The Prison Notebooks are a series of essays written by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci between 1929 and 1935 when he was released from prison to a medical centre on ground of ill-health.
• He wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and analysis during his imprisonment.
• It deals with philosophy, culture, literature and the role of intellectuals. Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

•  Immediate predecessor of the drama proper is the Interlude.
• Interlude was in theatre, early form of English dramatic entertainment, sometimes considered to be the transition between medieval morality plays and Tudor dramas.
•  John Heywood, one of the most famous interlude writers, brought the genre perfection in his The Play of the Wether (1533) and the play called The Four P's (1544).
Hence, the correct answer is option (а).

The correct match of List -I "Terms" with List- II their propounders is: A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV.

Ronald Bathes in his Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives (1966) proposed three levels of narrative structure which are Function, Action and Narration.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

• The correct chronological order of publication of the given literary works is : A,C,B,E,D.
• Beowulf is an old English epic poem in the predation of Germanic heroic legend. It was composed in between 975 and 1025 AD.
• Summa Theological (Summa) is a work by Thomas Aquinas, composed in about 1274.
•  Divine Comedy (Divine Commedia) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, written between 1308 and 1321.
• The Canterbury Tales is a collection of twenty four stories written in middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.
• Le Morte d' Arthur (The Death of Arthur) is a 15th century middle English prose reworking by sir Thomas Malory.

Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

• The correct match of List-I (works) with List-II (Authors) is : A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II.

Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

• She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, first preformed in London in 1773.
• Initially the play was titled Mistakes of a Night and the events within the play take place in one long night.
• It is endowed with an ingenious and lively plot, has a vivacious and delightful style. It lacks the Restoration Grossness.
• The play has excellent characters.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).