UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam, December-2019 ENGLISH (SOLVED PAPER-II)

Option (a) is correctly matched the types of writing with their descriptions-

The character 'Ariel' appears in 'The Tempest', 'Paradise Lost' and 'The Rape of the Lock' whether in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' Ariel is not listed. In 'The Tempest' Ariel helps Prospero reconcile with his enemies regain his throne and marry off his daughter. In John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Ariel is one of the fallen angels who accompany Satan. In Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' he is the comic protectors of the heroin Belinda.

Aristotle's 'Critical Position' - "The best artistic texts will be both complex and unified: Every part of the work will be essential to it and will be linked to every other part" is true.

William Dunbar was a Scottish maker poet active in the late fifteenth and the early sixteenth century. He was closely associated with the court of King James IV. In his poem 'Lament for the Makers' there is reference of Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Robert Henryson.
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He has done petuously devour
The noble Chaucer, of makaris flour,
The Monk of Bery and Gower, all there
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In Dumfermelyne he has done roune
with Maister Robert Henrisoun;
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From Euripides's work Milton took the epigraph to his Areopagitica. Milton begins his arguement by praising parliament's history of defending liberty. Areopagitica protests against and calls for the repeal of the Licensing order of 1643, which required all books to be reviewed by the official censor before being published.

Decadent movement was the view that art is totally opposed to nature in the sense both of biological nature and of the standard or natural norms of morality and sexual behaviour.
In England the ideas, moods and behaviour of the Decadence were manifested beginning in the 1860, in the poems of A.C. Swinburne and in 1890 by writers such as Oscar Wild, Arthur Symons, Ernest Dowson. Arthur Symons referred Decadence as an interesting disease and an over subtilizing refinement upon refinement.

The 'Canterbury Tales' is a collection of 24 stories, that was published in 1400. The framing device for the collection of stories is a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury, Kent. The 30 pilgrimage who undertake the journey gather at the Tabard Inn in South work, across the Thomas from London. In the Prioress's Tale describes how a widow's devout young son is abducted by Jew.

Recuperate the females writers ignored by the canon and mostly rejected the essentialising of male and female statements are applicable to feminist criticism.

Avram Noam Chomsky was an American theoretical linguist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistic". The order of the publication of books Noam Chomsky is as following- Syntactic Structures (1957), Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965), Problems of Knowledge and Freedom (1971) and Knowledge of Language (1986).

Frederic Jameson is an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. Frederic Jameson believes that the proliferation of television images is producing a cultural condition akin to "historical amnesia".