UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam. December 2021/June 2022 ENGLISH (Shift-I)

"Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" (1985) is written by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. There are noticeably, many images of mirroring in the text.There are two facts in this book she wanted to convey, first: The role of literature in the production of cultural representation should not be ignored and the second is that It should not be possible to read nineteenth century British literature without remembering that imperialism. Hence, option (d) will be correct answer.

Harold Pinter (1930-2008) was a poet and playwright, born in East London. Pinter was highly influenced by Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of Absurd. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. 'Betrayal' (1978; film, 1982) is an ironic tragedy which ends in beginning and traces with a reversed chronology, the development of a love affair between a man and his best friend's wife. Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

Tractarian Movement (Oxford Movement) is a movement of thought and doctrine within the church of England, centred at Oxford, which began with the Assize Sermon on National Apostasy preached by John Keble in 1833. The movement aimed to defend the Church of England as a divine institution with an independent spiritual status, and to revive the High Church traditions of the 17th century. It criticized the tendencies of the Anglican Church to accept the authority of the state and to tolerate a range of theological positions. Keble's sermon inspired John Henry Newman, Richard Hurrell Froude, and others to launch their series 'Tracts for the Times' in 1833 (which gave the Tractarian movement its name) Hence, option (d) will be correct answer.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a writer and feminist asserted economic independence over voting rights. Her experience is recorded in her most famous short story, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' (1892). She advocated for the necessity of women's economic independence in her works 'Women and Economics' (1898), 'Concerning Children' (1900), and 'The Home: Its Work and Influence' (1903). 19th century American women were facing suppression and were not allowed to raise their voice against it. Her autobiography, 'The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman', was published posthumously in 1935. Hence, option (a) will be correct answer.

The correct sequence of the following texts will be: 'A Room of One's Own' (1929), 'Thinking About Women' (1968), 'Sexual Politics' (1970), 'The Female Imagination' and 'A World of Difference' (1990).
'A Room of One's Own' (1929) by Virginia Woolf is a classic of the feminist movement where she demands that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction".
'Sexual Politics' (1970) by Kate Millett argues that "sex has a frequently neglected political aspect".
'Thinking About Women' (1968) by Mary Ellmann, talks about the evolution of femininity.
Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

Donald Davie was an English Movement poet and critic. His poem 'The Shires' is well known for speculative, erudite and philosophical opinion manifesting a mind that (in his own phrase) moves most easily and happily among abstractions'.
'The North Ship' (1945), the poems were, by Larkin's own account, much influenced by W.B. Yeats. 'Against Romanticism' by Kingsley Amis starts with the line "a traveller who walks a temperate zone, woods devoid of beasts........
Amis was a member of 'The Movement', a group of British Poets (Thom Gunn, Philip Larkin, John Betjeman, Elizabeth Jennings, Wendy Cope). 'Hurry on Down' (1953) was the best novel written by John Wain. Thus, option (d) will be correct answer.

Jacques Lacan, a French psychoanalyst reformulated Freudian models of the unconscious and underlined the fundamental role played by language in the formation of human identity. For Lacan, humans are defined and driven principally by desire Lacan's rethinking of identity in terms of lack and instability has had a substantial impact on disciplines across the humanities and social sciences, including political science, film studies and queer theory. He was expelled from the international Psychoanalytical Association in 1959. Thus, option (b) will be correct answer.

The heroic couplet is a pair of 'ten-syllable lines that rhyme'. It is a traditional form, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry. It may be called, a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter. It was first used by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 'Legend of 'Good Women' and was perfected by John Dryden and Alexander Pope. Thus; option (b) will be correct answer.

'Saint Joan of the Stockyards' is a play written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. Consumerism is a major theme of this play. 'Death of a Salesman' (1949) is a play written by Arthur Miller. The play contains a variety of themes, such as the American dream, the anatomy. of truth and infidelity but somewhere it moves around consumerism. Hence, option (c) will be correct answer.

'Hamlet', a tragedy written by Shakespeare in 1601. It was registered as lately acted' in July 1602. Three different early versions of the play are extant: the first quarto (1603); the second quarto (1604); and the first folio (1623). 'Macbeth' by Shakespeare, probably written and first Performed at the Globe in 1606, but not Printed until the first folio (1623). Julius Caesar, a Roman tragedy by Shakespeare, probably written and performed in 1599, not printed until the first folio (1623). Its major source is Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's 'Lives'.
Othello, the Moor of Venice', a tragedy by Shakespeare was written between 1602 and 1604 and it was performed before James I at Whitehall. It was first printed in quarto in 1622, and again in a different version in the folio of 1623. The story is taken from Cinzio, which Shakespeare probably read in Italian, possibly also in French.
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