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

The correct chronological order of the given book is: C, E, D, A and B. .
•"Black Literature and Literary Theory" (1984) by William R. Schult.
• Reconstructing Womanhood : The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman "Novelist (1907) by Hazel Carby.
•"The Signifying Monkey: A theory of Afo-American Literary Criticism" (1988) by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
•"The Location of Culture" (1994) by Homi K. Bhabha.
•"The Future of the Race" (1996) by Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West. Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

• Raymond Williams along with Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall was one of the founding figures of the school of through now known as "British Cultural Studies".
• Cultural studies also called cultural sciences, is an interdisciplinary field or scientific branch that examines the dynamics of contemporary culture and its historical foundations.
• Richard Hoggart used the term "Cultural Studies" in 1964 and founded the "Center for contemporary cultural Studies" (CCCS) at the University of Barmingham. Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

• Among the given writers, only John of Trevisa and John Mandeville are the writers of secular prose in the 14th Century.
• There were two types of prose writing in literature in 14th century and letter period religious and secular prose.
Secular Prose/Compositions and translations came into prominance in the last quarter of the 14th century.
• The most widely read secular prose work of the period is likely to have been "The Voyage and Travels of Sir John Mandeville".
• The massive efforts of John of Trevisa, who translated from Latin both Ranulf Hingden's "Polychronicon" (1385-87), a universal history, and Bartholomaeus Anglicus's "De proprietatibus rerum" (1398; "on the properties of things") an encyclopaedia is a secular work.

• In the given Assertion (A) and Reason (R), assertion is absolutely correct while the reason is not correct.
• Post structuralism is unthinkable without Structuralism.
• Structuralism was a literary movement primarily concerned with understanding how language works as a system of meaning.
• Ferdinand de Saussure, who developed the idea that language was composed of arbitrary units that were void of concept or meaning until they acquitted meaning through a language system that relied on differences between terms within their larger linguistic and social context.
• Post Structuralism evolved alongside Jaques Derrida's theory of deconstruction, which emphasized their concept of unstable, unfixed meaning as it functioned in language.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

• The correct chronological order of the given works is C, E, D, A, В.
• T.S. Eliot's "Notes towards the definition of Culture" (1949).
• Ian Watt's "The Rise of the Novel" (1957).
• Raymond Williams "Keywords" (1976)
• Edward Said's "Orientalism : Western Conceptions of the Orient" (1978).
• Fredric Jameson's "The Political Unconscious Narratives as a Socially Symbolic Act" 1981.
Hence, of the correct answer is option (a).

• The appropriate chronological order of the given works of T.S. Eliot is A, C, D, E, B.
• The Sacred Wood-1920
• The Metaphysical Poets-1921
• The Function of Criticism-1923
• The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism-1933.
• Notes Towards the Definition of Culture-1949.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

The "Novum Organum" is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon written in Latin and published in 1620. The title is a reference to Aristotle's work "Organon", which was his treaties on logic and syllogism.
• This Classic text was written in Latin and translated to English as "New Instrument of Science."
• The theme of "Novum Organum" include the search for truth, the necessity of exploring the natural world and the rejection of faulty mental reasoning. Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

• The correct chronological order accordance with the date of birth of the writers is E, A, B, D, С. (E) Moliere (1622-73) was a French actor and playwright.
• A Johann Welfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic an amateur artist, considered the greatest German literary figure of the Modern era.
(B) Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) an Irish wit poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his only novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1891), and his Cornic Masterpieces "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1892) and "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1895).
(D) Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) was an American playwright, awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature.
(C) Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was a German poet, playwright and theatrical reformer.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

Hence, the correct answer is option (a)

According to Andrew Milner in "Re-Imagining Cultural Studies", of the four important kinds of meaning that Raymond Williams attaches to the word "Culture" in his early work, three remain in play in "Keywords" are:-
• The state of intellectual development of whole society.
• The art as a whole
• The way of life of a group or people.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).