NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam June 2024 ENGLISH

Weep not Child (1964) by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
#A Grain of Wheat (1967) by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
# The Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
These three books are not authored by Chinua Achebe and rest of all are written by Chinua Achebe.

In the poem Dover Beach Matthew Arnold speaks about :
# The sea which is calm literally and metaphorically.
# The sea of faith which was once at its fullest.
# The premonition experienced by Sophocles long ago.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

"These English songs gravel one to death", this statement is attributed to Robert Burns. Robert Burns expressed his disdain for certain English songs, feeling they lacked the death and emotion he valued in poetry and music. Hence, option (b) is correct.

The first English tragedy Gorboduc was written by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton.
The Tragedie of Gorboduc, also title Ferrex and Porrex, is one of the first English tragedies. It was first performed in 1561 and published in 1565. The play is notable for several reasons. The theme includes the consequences of political decisions, the nature of power and familial conflict.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

The correct sequence of literary movements:
# Russian Formalism.
#Phenomenological Criticism
#Feminist Criticism
# Deconstruction
# Cultural Studies.
Hence, option (a) is correct.

Khushwant Singh is the author of Mano Majra. Train to Pakistan was originally titled Mano Majra, but the author later changed the title because he felt that Train to Pakistan was more appropriate. The novel is set in the fictional village of Mano Majra during the Partition of India in 1947. The story centers on the lives of Sikh and Muslim inhabitants. Characters include Juggut Singh, a local Sikh and Iqbal, a newly arrived intellectual.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was not aа modernist writer while James Joyce (1882-1941) and D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) are modernist writers. Literary modernism has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and expression, adhering to Ezra Pound's maxim to make it new. Hence, option (c) is correct.

John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger (1956)
# Represented real confusions among real people of the 1950's.
# Is more important as a cultural phenomenon than as work literature
# Is about a provincial graduate of humble social background.
It focuses on the life and marital struggles of an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working-class origin, Jimmy Porter and his equally competent yet impassive upper middle class wife Alison.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) was a white South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1991 and Booker Prize in 1974. She is recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has been of very great benefit to humanity.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

Emily Bronte is not a Feminist critic. Bronte was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel Wuthering Heights (1847), now considered a classic of English Literature.
Hence, option (c) is correct.