NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam June 2024 ENGLISH

The Frontiers of Criticism by T.S. Eliot is associated with New Criticism. It is lecture given by T.S. Eliot at the University of Minnesota in 1956. It was reprinted in On poetry and Poets, a collection of Eliot's critical essays, in 1957. The essay is an attempt by Eliot to define the boundaries of literary criticism to say what does, and what does not.
Hence, option (b) is correct.

Thomas Parnell (1679-1718), Edward Young (1683-1765) and Robert Blair (1699–1746), these three poets are called Graveyard Poets.
The Graveyard Poets also termed Churchyard Poets, were a number of pre-Romantic poets of 18th century characterized by their gloomy meditations of mortality, skulls and coffins. Moving beyond the elegy lamenting a single death, their purpose was rarely sensationalist. The term graveyard school refers to four poem : Thomas Grey's Elegy written in a County Churchyard, Thomas Parnell's Night-Piece on Death, Robert Blair's The Grave and Edward Young's Night-Thoughts.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

In Patrick White's Voss, the character Voss is exploring himself. It is based upon the life of the 19th century Prussian explorer and naturalist Lugwig Leichhandt.
Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1973, the only Australian to have been awarded the literary prize.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

Robert Browning's My Last Duchess is an example of Dramatic Monologue. Dramatic Monologue is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character. My Last Duchess was appeared in 1842 in Browning's Dramatic Lyrics. The poem is composed in 28 rhyming Couplets of Iambic Pentameter (Heroic Couplet).

Among the given options, Harold Pinter is not an Irish Playwright, while rest of the authors in the given options are Irish playwrights.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

The correct chronological order of their appearance in English Literary Scene. # Metaphysical Poetry (17th Century English Literary genre).
# Epistolary Novel (Popular in the mid 18th century)
# Art for Art's sake (19th century).
# Stream of Consciousness Technique (developed in 20th century).
# Epic Theatre (established in 1930 by Bertolt Brecht).
Hence, option (c) is correct.

The first published composition in English by an Indian is Accounts of the Jains. Jain literature is written in many languages, including Prakrit, Ardha Magadhi, Tamil, Sanskrit, Shauraseni Gujrati and Marathi.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

The correct match will be :
# Afro-American Literature-Zora Neale Hurston
# Caribbean literature-V.S. Naipaul
# Australian Aboriginal literature-Sally Morgan
# Dalit Literature-Basudev Sunnani
Hence, option (a) is correct.

Thomas More wrote the famous text Dignity of Man.

The correct chronological and their publication :
# Songs to Myrtilla
# Urvasie : A Pоет
# Chitrangada
# Love and Death
# Savitri
Hence, option (b) is correct.