UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam. December 2020/June 2021 ENGLISH-II (Shift-I)

The Temptation of Saint Anthony and Sentimental Education are novels written by French novelist Gustave Flaubert. The novel 'The Temptation of Saint Anthony' published in 1874 as 'La Tentation de Saint Anthony'.
Flaubert called the subject of the narrative his "old infatuation." The work is notable for its imagery and its depiction of spiritual torment. The novel reflects on the life of 4th century Christian anchorite Saint Anthony, his decision became a hermit and temptation of sexuality and sensuality he undergoes. Sentimental Education, novel by Flaubert published in French in 1869 as "L' education Sentimental: histoire d' Un jeune homme". The story of the protoganist, frederic Moreall, and his beloved, Madame Arnoux, is based on Flaubert's youthful infatuation with an order married women.
"Old Goriot" or "Father Goriot" in French (Le Pere Goriot) is 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honore de Balzac.
"Therese Requine" is an 1868 novel by. French writer Emile Zola.

From the following options only (a) and (d) conform to liberal humanist thought.
■ Literature transcends the limits of the age of its origin and so is timeless. ■Identity is a unique essence unaffected by environment and society.
Liberal humanism is a philosophical and literary movement in which man and his capabilities are the control concern:
Some tenets of liberal humanism are:
■ Good literature is timeless, transcendent and speaks to what is constant in human nature.
■ Literary text contains its own meaning.
■ Human nature unchanging-continuity valued over innovation.
■ Purpose of literature to enhance life in a nonprogrammatic (non propagandistic) way.
■ Form and content fused organically in literature.
■ Individuality as essence securely possessed by each 'transcendent subject' distinct from force of society, experience and language etc.

From the given options, (a) Mythos of spring Comedy (c) Mythos of autumn: Tragedy, conform to Northrop Frye's typology of literature.
Northrop Frye's essay Archetypes Criticism: A Theory of Myths describes four radical mythoi (i.e. plot forms, or organizing structural principles), correspondent to the four seasons in the cycle of the natural world, are incorporated in the four major genres:

Mythos of spring : Comedy
Mythos of summer : Romance
Mythos of autumn: Tragedy
Mythos of winger : Satire

From the given option (a) & (c) is correct; Alec Derwent Hope (A.D. Hope) addresses to Tolstoy and Mallarme through his poetic responses in A Book of Answers (1978).
A. D. Hope, Australian poet, is best known for his elegies and satires. He was made a member of the Order of the British Empire in 1972 and a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1981.

The true statements according to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Hand book are:
■ If the title page of a book contains an imprint as well as the publisher's name, omit the imprint and use the publisher's name.
■ While giving a URL copy it from the Web browser but omit http:// or https://.
Other statements are not correct regarding eighth edition of MLA Hand book. MLA Handbook, formerly MLA Handbook for writers of Research papers, published by Modern Language Association, which is based in USA (America). It is widely used by scholars, journal publishers, and academic and commercial presses.

Circulation of Meaning and Production of Meaning are highlighted in relation to specific historical moments by Stephen Greenblatt.
Stephen Greenblatt (1943), American scholar who was credited with establishing New Historicism, an approach to literacy criticism.
New Historicism, a critical approach developed in the 1950s through the works of Michel Foucault and Stephan Greenblatt and discourse analysis are crossdisciplinary practice of critical inquiry that study literary texts and their socio-cultural functions.
Both explain the circulation and production of meaning in specific historical moments and share a microanalytic mode of interpretation. They distrust holistic and monological explanations applied by historicism and intellectual history.

'R.S. Crane' and 'Elder Olson' are belong to the Chicago School of Critics. Chicago School of Critics, group of pluralist, essentially formalist American literary critics- including Richard McKeon. Elder Olson, Ronald Salmon Crane (R.S. Crane), Bernard Weinberg and Norman Maclean- who exerted a significant influence on the development of Americar. Criticism during the second half of the 20th century. It was a form of criticism of English literature begun at the University of Chicago in the 1930, which lasted until the 1950s. It was also called Neo-Aristotalianism, due to its strong emphasis on Aristotle's concepts of plot, character and genre.

"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" contains John Donne's famous conceit bringing a parallel between lovers and the hands of a compass.
This poem was written for Donne's wife Anne in 1611 or 1612 and is divided into sets of four lines, or quatrains. The poem concludes with the well-known conceit comparing lovers to a drafting compass. Donne states that his wife is the leg that holds them steady, fixed at a point while he "roams". It is due to her stead fastness that he always finds his way back.

Thus, the correct option is (c).

The correct chronological order of the journals are -
CABD
(C)- The Review (1704-1713)
(A)- The Tatler (1709-1711)
(B)- The Examiner (1710-1711) (Jonathan Swift)
(D)- The Spectator (1711-1712)
Note: Another journal with the same title "The Examiner" (1808-86) had been published by John Hunt so, with this fact option (d) - CADB order is also correct.