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

In the above given two statements, statement I is correct and statement II is incorrect.
'My Remembered Village' 1976 is a work by M.N. Srinivas and it highlights the ethnographical details of Rampura, near Mysore, but it does not pay attention to economic freedom of the masses, infact it emphasises the day-to-day social relations between members of diverse castes living in a small village community in India.
Hence option (c) is correct.

Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, playwright and short story writer. He was born in Edinburgh in 1958.
Out of all the options, 'The Acid House' 'Trainspotting' and Filth are his works. 'The Acid House' was published in 1994 and is an unsettling, shocking and very funny collection of 22 short stories. 'Trainspotting' is his first novel which was published in 1993 and was his bestselling novel. It revolves around various residents of Leith, Edinburgh, who are somewhere engaged in destructive activities that are effectively addictions like heroin.
'Filth' 1998 is his novel which deals with racism, drug abuse, sexism, alcohol abuse, among other problems faced by the Scottish working class.
'Beside The Ocean of Time' (1994) is a novel by 'George Mackay Brown' while 'Mavis Belfrage' is a novel by 'Alasdair Gray'.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

Gynocriticism is the study of women's writing. The term gynocritics was coined by Elaine Showalter in 1979 to refer to a form of feminist literary criticism that is concerned with women as writers. 'The Female Imagination', 'The Madwomen in the Attic' and 'Literary Women' are all representative texts of Gynocriticism.
Patricial Meyer Spacks 'The Female Imagination' (1975), surveys a number of female writers with the aim of identifying how a woman's creative voice differs from a man's. This non-fiction book was a nominee for the National Book Award. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's 'The Madwoman in The Attic' (1979), attempts to define a 'distinctively' female literary tradition. It presents an analysis of a trope found in 19th century literature.
Ellen Moer's 'Literary Women' (1976) is one of the pioneering works of feminist criticism that separates women from the mainstream of literary history. Hence option (d) is correct.

'Inane gaudiness' is a phrase used in connection with Neo-classicism by William Wordsworth. Wordsworth was against the gaudiness and inane phraseology of the 18th century poets which brought forward his own theory of language of poetry. According to him, the language of poetry should be the real language of men without any artificiality, and by men he meant the rustic folks and simple people. He believes that poetry should be the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation and a poet should use language, which is without ornamentation, coarseness and oddities.
Hence, option (a) is correct.

New Criticism examines the relationship between a text's ideas and its form, between what a text says and the way it say it. I.A. Richards has been called the father of New Criticism as he was one of the first to study literary interpretation as a kind of science. New Criticism draws considerably from the works of I.A. Richards and the critical essays of T.S. Eliot and some of its concepts are pre-empted by F.R. Leavis. It distinguishes between literacy and scientific usage of language. New Criticism emphasises on close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover how a work of literature functioned as a self contained, self-referential aesthetic object.
Hence, option (a) is correct.

Hence, option (d) is correct.

"Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss" is a quote by Kiran Desai in her second novel. 'The Inheritance of Loss' which was first published in 2006 and won the Booker Prize for that year. The novel deals with the conflict of culture, on the global level and on personal level it deals with the internal conflict of identity. In the novel, Desai tries to capture the pair and dilemma of an immigrant.
Hence, option (b) is correct.

Matthew Arnold refers to 'high seriousness' as a quality of a great poet and quotes John Milton to prove the same. According to Arnold, the best poetry is born of sincerity of feelings and emotions. High seriousness means the grand style which is in poetry where a serious subject is treated in a simple and intense manner. Arnold believes that though Chaucer is one of the greatest classics of English poetry, he lacks the high seriousness that is found in the works of Shakespeare and Milton.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

The concept of "eugenics" finds its illustration predominantly in the writings of 'George Bernard Shaw' and 'Eugene O' Neill'.
Eugenics literally means 'good creation' and the term was first coined by British scholar 'Sir Francis Galton' in 1883 in his book 'Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development'.
G.B. Shaw expressed an interest in eugenics, especially in preventing the deterioration of civilization.
G.B. Shaw was an Irish playwright and the recipient of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature, who promoted Eugenics and also advocated for a far-reaching eugenics program.
Eugene O' Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate, who both adopts and reconfigure ideas of heredity and eugenics in strange interlude in order to explore the influence of the past on the present and the power and limits of visibility.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

Dev Virahsawmy's 'Toufann' is an adaptation of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' The imprint of Shakespeare on Dev Virahsawmy is greater than his imprint on all other Mauritian writers, to the extent that Virahswamy's engagement extends beyond influence, borrowing, blueprinting or bardolatry.
In most writers, the use of Shakespeare is referential but in his case it is far more sophisticated.
'Toufann: A Mauritian fantasy' was published in 1999 and was originally written in 'Creole' and was later translated into English by Nisha and Michael Walling. Its original title was 'Ennfanteziant Swaak', which means 'a fantasy in three acts'.
Unlike so many adaptations of Shakespeare 'Toufann' is not only a postcolonial adaptation, it's an effort to recreate, rewrite the play in an independent atmosphere of 21st century times which gives the sense of 'transcreation' to the play.
Hence, option (d) is correct.