NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam. June 2023 ENGLISH (Shift-I)

Evan Harrington (1861) is a novel by George Meredith, while Scenes of Clerical Life (1857) was the work of fiction by George Eliot. The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century is a historical novel by William Make peace Thackeray; "The Professor, a Tale" was the first novel by Charlotte Bronte.
Hence, option (a) will be correct answer.

Light in August (1932) is a novel (Southern Gothic) by William Faulkner, while Absalom, Absalom! a novel by the same writer was published in 1936 and the last one Sanctuary (1931) is a novel about the rape and abduction of an upper-class college girl, it was written by Faulkner.
Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

Matthew Arnold wrote about Charlotte Bronte that her mind contained "nothing but hunger, rebellion and rage".
Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

Lions and Shadows is a work by Christopher Isherwood; while The Still Center was written by Stephen Spender who comes under the category of Auden Group; Translation of Agamemnon was the work of Louis MacNeice and the last one The Sea and the Mirror was written by W. H. Auden.
Hence, option (a) will be correct answer.

St. Patrick's Day is a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. He was an Irish playwright of the 18th century, while The Duenna is also a play by Sheridan. Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

The correct sequence of the given texts authored by Raymond Williams will be: Culture and Society (1958)
The Long Revolution (1961)
Marxism and Literature (1977)
Writing in Society (1983)
The Politics of Modernism (1989)
Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

The Movement poets rejected not only the Romantic tradition but also reacted against the experimentation of the modernist poets. This term was coined by J.D. Scott in 1954. The Movement poets were Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D.J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn and Robert Conquest.
Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

The correct chronological sequence of the given texts will be: An Apologie for Poetry (1595) by Philip Sidney.
The Advancement of Learning (1605) by Francis Bacon. The Uses of the Spectator (1711) by Joseph Addison. My Relations is by Charles Lamb How it Strikes a Contemporary (1923) by Virginia Woolf. Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

Ethnography is a research method central to knowing the world from the standpoint of its social relations. It is used to study the diversity of human cultures in their particular cultural settings. Hence, option (d) will be correct answer.

To Whom She Will: A Novel was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, published in 1955. A Bend in the Ganges (1964) is a novel by Manohar Malgonkar, Shadow from Ladakh (1966) is a novel by Bhahani Bhattacharya; while Two Virgins (1973) by Kamala Markandaya and The Painter of Signs (1976) by RK Narayan.
Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.