NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam June 2024 ENGLISH

"Because I could not Stop for Death-He kindly stopped for me", the given lines were composed by Emily Dickinson, first published posthumously in Poems: Series 1 in 1890. The speaker of Dickinson's poem meets personified death. The poet's persona speaks about Death and Afterlife, the peace that comes along with it without haste. She personifies Death as a young man riding along with her in a carriage.
Hence, option (b) is correct.

The correct chronological order and their publication:
# P.K. Bosu's Conrad and Leonora
# Hemachandra Joshi's Plays for the Young
# Abdul Ali's The Land of Twilight
# D.M. Borgaonkar's Image Breakers
# Balwant Gargi's The Knife
Hence, option (a) is correct.

"Truly neither philosopher nor historiographer could have entered into the gates of popular judgements, if they had not taken a great passport of poetry". The given lines were composed by Philip Sydney in his An Apology for Poetry, which was published after his death, in 1595. It was written in response to criticism of poetry from Elizabethan writers like Stephen Gosson and his pamphiet The School of Abuse.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

The correct statements about the components romantic epistemology.
# The active-Projective view of human self or mind.
# Obstruct of reason.
Romantic epistemology is a theory of knowledge that developed in the 18th century as a reaction to the static, materialist views of the Enlightenment. Hence, option (c) is correct.

The 1917-1920 in African American writing is called Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, intellectual, and artistic movement that took place from around 1918-1937. It was a period of great African American cultural development and is considered a golden age.
Hence, option (a) is correct.

French social theorist Michel Foucault coined the term Biopower to describe the political power that modern nation states use to control their population. It is form of political power that focuses on populations rather than individuals. Foucault first used the term in his lecture course at the Collage de France, and it first appeared in print in the will to knowledge, the first volume of The History of Sexuality (1976).
Hence, option (d) is correct.

# Industrialization and Absolutism, both are not connected to postmodernism. Postmodernism characterizes the use of Metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, magic realism, hybridity of styles and so on.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

The correct sequence of literary texts and their publication:
# The Taming of the Shrew (1590-1592)
#Love's Labour Lost (1594 -1595)
#The Merchant of Venice (1596-1598)
#Much Ado About Nothing (1598-1599)
# The Winter's Tale (1609-1611)
Hence, option (d) is correct.

A Defence of Hindoo Theism (1817) was written by Rage Rammohan Roy, who was a prominent social and religious reformer in India during the 18th and 19th centuries. Roy responds to critiques from Sankara Sastri regarding his views on idol-worship versus true monotheistic Hinduism.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

The correct match will be.
#A House of Mr. Biswas (1961)
# An Area of Darkness (1964)
#India: A Million Mutinies now (1990)
#A Bend in the River (1979)
Hence, option (b) is correct.