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

Philip Sidney's 'The Arcadia' was influenced by 'The Spanish Romance of Montemayor'. It is a prose romance. It exists in two versions: the first, completed by 1581, it is known as the Old Arcadia; the second version, now known as the New Arcadia.
Another 'Arcadia' is a series of verse eclogues connected by prose narrative, published in 1504 by Sannazar, occupied with the loves, laments and other doings of various shepherds in Arcadia, while Arcadia is a district in the central Peloponnese, through which Virgil's 'Ecologues' became the traditional location of the idealized world of pastoral.
Hence, option (a) will be correct answer.

This particular statement was given by Coleridge, examining Wordsworth's theory of poetic diction. The most remarkable part of 'Biographia Literaria' lies in Coleridge's Criticism of Wordsworth's theory of poetry and poetic diction. While critically analyzing Wordsworth's theory Coleridge has offered his own views on the choice of rustic, themes and characters as well as the language of poetry.
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In the given options, Alfred Austin and Robert Bridges are the person who got poet laureateship. Alfred Austin was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 after the death of Tennyson, while Robert Bridges, an English poet was poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930.
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"Contrapuntal Reading" is associated with Edward Said. It is used in interpreting colonial texts, considering the perspectives of both the colonizer and the colonized. This approach is not only helpful but also necessary in making important connections in a novel. This term is mentioned in his classic book, 'Culture and Imperialism'. According to Said some of the most important works of the western literary canon rested upon a submerged and unacknowledged foundation of colonialism. Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill got Nobel Prize in 1953 for his literary achievement, while T.S. Eliot in 1948, got Nobel Prize for literature. W.H. Auden who was recommended for a Nobel Prize, but he did not win this award, while Madam Curie got Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 and in 1911 for chemistry. She is the only woman to win the award in two different fields but she could not get Nobel Prize for Literature.
Hence, option (c) & (d) will be correct answer.

Bhartrhari's theory of "Sphota" entails a kind of mental perception which is described as a moment of recognition, an instantaneous flash, whereby the hearer is made conscious, though hearing sounds, of the latent meaning unit already present in his consciousness.
"Dhvani" and "Shabda Brahman" are associated with Bhartrhari's theory of "Sphota". The word Dhvani is used for both-the suggestive word and the suggestive meaning. The poetic language can never be possible without Dhvani, while "Shabda Brahman" means transcendental sound or sound vibration.
Hence, option (b) will be correct answer.

Roman Jakobson indentified "metonymy" and "metaphor" as two fundamental structures of language. In his essay Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances' Jakobson proposes that language has a bipolar structure, oscillating between the poles of metaphor and metonymy. He further says that poetry is metaphoric and it focuses on signs while prose is metonymic.
Hence, option (d) will be correct answer.

Roland Barthes argues that every narrative is interwoven with multiple codes. The Hermeneutic Code (HER) refers to any element in a story that is not explained and, therefore, exists as an enigma for the reader.
The proairetic code refers to the other major structuring principle that builds interest or suspense on the part of a reader or viewer.
The semantic code points to any element in a text that suggests a particular, often additional meaning by the way of connotation.
The symbolic code is "deeper" structural principle that organizes semantic meanings.
Thus, option (d) will be correct answer.

Chandra Talpade Mohanty a postcolonial and transnational feminist approved the statement given by Karl Marx on peasant consciousness. Chandra Talpade Mohanty is well-known for "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses. Hence, option (d) will be correct answer.

'Lyrical Ballads', with a few other poems, by Wordsworth and Coleridge is a collection of poems. The first edition appeared in 1798, the second with new poems and a preface (known as the 1800 edition) January 1801 and a third in 1802. The book is a landmark of English Romanticism and is often seen as the beginning of a new literary epoch. 'Lyrical Ballads' is not very particular about the form and structure of a poem. Thus, option (d) will be correct answer.