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

The correct chronological order of the periodicals is B, A, C, D.
The Tatler (1709-1711) by Richard Steele published three times in a weak (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday).
The Spectator (1711-1712) by Joseph Addison and Richard.Steele a daily publication to enliven morality with wit and to temper wit with morality.
The Rambler (1750-1752) by Samuel Johnson, only on Tuesday and Saturday to provide intellectual profit and literary delight to the readers.
The Critical Review was a British publication appearing from 1756 to1817. It was first edited by Tobias Smollett from 1756 to 1763.
Contributors included Samuel Johnson, David Hume John Hunter and Oliver Goldsmith.

In 1982, Garcia Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his numerous novels and short stories. In his acceptance speech, entitled "The Solitude of Latin America", he begins his speech by examining the globle fascination with Latin America as a place of magic and wonder. He cites authors ranging from Antonio Pigafetta, a Florentine navigator who went with Ferdinand Magellan on the first voyage around the world, to the 19th century missionaries who told tales of cities of gold, magical creatures and mythical riches.
Hence the correct answer is option (d).

Aeschylus wrote nearly nineties plays only seven have survived to the modern era. Agamemnon is the first of a trilogy, The Oresteia. The other two parts of it are The Libation-Bearers (also known as Choephori) and The Eumenides. Agamemnon depicts the assassination of the title character by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover. The Libation-Bearers continues the story with the return of Agamemnon's son, Orestes, who kills his mother and averages his father. In The Eumenides, Orestes is pursued by the Furies in punishment for his matricide.

Pindar- The greatest lyric poet of ancient Greece and the master of epinicia (lyric ode), choral aches celebrating victories achieved in the Pythian, Olympic and other games.
Menander- Athenian dramatist whom ancient critics considered the supreme poet of Greek New Comedy.
Sappho- is known for her lyric poetry. In ancient time Sappho was widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets and was given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess".
Aristophanes- was a comedy writer of ancient Athens and a poet of old Attic Comedy.

Noble Savage- is a literary stock character who embodies the concept of the indigene, outsider, wild human, who has not been corrupted by civilization. The chapter from Noble Savage focuses on the way in which characters from Disney Comics and specifically Donald Duck, reflected Disney's capitalist and imperialist ideologies in their dealing with figures from "virgin territories of U.S. including Latin America.

The correct match of play with their playwrights are-

Life of Galileo- is a play by the 20th century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht with incidental music by Hamns Eisler.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof- is a Pulitzer-Prize winning play by Tennessee Williams, an adaptation of his 1952 short story "Three Players of a Summer Game".
Temptation- is a Faustian play written by Czech playwright Vaclav Havel in 1985. The Faust legend had a significant impact on Havel before he began writing Temptation.
Miss Julie- is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg. It is set on Midsummer's Eve and the following morning. Thus, the correct option is (d)

Hayavadana- is a 1971 Indian Kannada language two-act play written by Girish Karnad. The plot is based on Kathasaritsagara and Thomas Mann's retelling of Transposed Heads. Hayavadana presents the story of two friends Devadatta and Kapila and their love interest in Padmini.
Nagamandala- is derived from a Sanskrit word 'Nagam' which means a beautiful and charming woman by Girish Karnad, based on a rural setting and centered around the life of Rani.
Yayati- by Girish Karnad's first play, was written in 1960, based on an episode in Mahabharata, where Yayati, one of the ancestors of the Pandavas, is given the curse of Pre-mature old age by his father-in-law Shukracharya, who is increased by Yayati's infidelity.
Tale Danda- by Girish Karnad, an eminent person in Kannada. The play is about the rise of the radical protest and reform movement. Hence, option (a) is correct answer.

Ngugi wa Thiongo generally associated with 'Decolonising the Mind". Decolonising the Mind- is the politics of language in African Literature, by the Kenyan Novelist and Post colonial theorist Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture history and identity. Ngugi dedicated Decolonising the Mind to all those who over the ycars have maintained the dignity of the literature, culture, philosophy carried by African languages.

Thus are the correct match of novel and their author is (C).
Don Quixote- by Miguel de Cervantes in two parts. It described realistically what befalls on an aging knight Don Quixote who, bemused by reading chivalric romances, sets out on his old horse Rocinante with his pragmatic squire, Sancho Panza, to seek adventure.
The Sorrows of Young Werther- is an epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The most of The Sorrows of Young Werther, a story about a young man's extreme response to unrequited love.
Lost Illusions- is a serial novel written by French writer Honore de Balzac between 1837 and 1843. It consists of three part starting in provincial France, thereafter moving to Paris and finally returning to the provinces. Epitaph of a Small Winner- by Machado de Assis published in 1881, the novel has a unique style of short, errotic chapters shifting in tone and style. The novel is narrated by the dead protagonist Bras cubas, who tells his own life story from beyond the grave, noting his mistakes and failed romances.

Lamb used the pseudonym Elia for writing in London Magazine periodical. London Magazine- "Elia" being pen name, Lamb used as contributor to the London Magazine. Lamb's collected essays under the title "Essays of Elia", was published in 1823.
The Edinburgh Review- is the title of four distinct intellectual and cultural magazines.
The Quarterly Review- was a literary and political periodical founded in 1809 by London publishing house John Murray.
Athenaeum- was a British literary magazine published in London, England from 1828 to 1921. Thus, the correct option is (a).