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

'The History Man' is Malcolm Bradbury's masterpiece, and one of the most influential novels of the 1970s. It is a definitive campus novel in which Bradbury brilliantly satirizes a world of academic power struggles as his anti-hero seduces his away around campus.
'Rites of Passage' (1980) by William Golding is an account of a voyage by sea to Australia.
'Dancing at Lughnasa' is 1990 play by Brian Friel. It is a memory play told from the perspective of an adult Michael. It is set in the fictional Irish village of Ballybeg, Ireland.
'Darkness Visible' is book by William Styron and 'The Norman Conquest'is a book by More Morris. Hence option (d) is correct.

Out of the given options, subjective method is not a method of data analysis. Qualitative, Quantitative and mixed are methods of data analysis.
Quantitative data analysis involves working with numerical variables including statistics percentages, calculations, measurements and other data. It typically include working with algorithms, mathematical analysis tools and software to manipulate data and uncover insights that reveal the business value. Qualitative data describes information that is typically nonnumerical. It involves working with unique identifiers, such as labels & properties and categorical variables, such as stats, percentages and measurement. Mixed research method is a method that combines and integrates qualitative and quantitative research methods in a single research study.
Hence option (d) is correct.

Phenomenology is the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first person point of view. It is further concerned with our distorted. understanding of the world. It is a form of methodological idealism which seeks to explore 'human consciousness'. It was developed by 'Edmund Husserl' who defined it as 'the science of the essence of consciousness'. 'Martin Heidegger' is one of its reading philosophers. According to him, Phenomenology is the way of access to what is to become the theme of anthology. In this method, text is considered purely as an embodiment of the authors consciousness.
The correct combination of options will be- (A), (B), (C) and (E).
Hence option (c) is correct.

T.B. Macaulay present his 'Minutes on Education' advocating English education in India on 2nd February, 1835. On this day in 1835, Lord Macaulay successfully westernised education in India, English was made the official language for the government and courts and was adopted as the official modicum of instruction. Pressing his debate to westernise India. The British politician, on February 2nd circulated 'Minute on Education' - a treatise that offered definitive reasons for why the East India Company and the British Government should spend money on the prevision of English language education, as well the promotion of European learning, especially the sciences, in India. Hence, option (b) is correct.

In the above given statements, statement I is true and II is false.
Statement (I) The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming sustaining and delighting as, as nothing else can; is a statement by Matthew Arnold in 'The Study of Poetry'. According to Arnold, more and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. To Arnold Poetry itself was the criticism of life.
Statement (II), 'No man has ever been a great poet without being, at the same time, a great critic' is false as the correct statement was said by 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge'that, 'No man was ever a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. Hence option (c) is correct.

Santiago was the protagonist of 'The Old Man and the Sea'
'The Old Man and the Sea' is a short novel by Ernest Hemingway, which was published in 1952. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1953. It is the story of an epic struggle between an old, seasoned fisherman and the greatest catch of his life. The story centers on an aging Santiago who engages in an epic battle to catch a giant marlin.
In the novel, Hemingway is making the point that being determined and never giving up indicated what kind of human being one is. This is a universal theme. Reflecting on the old man's experience is an inspiration for living one's own life and dealing with its problems. In this novella the sea as a symbol for the whole of nature.
Hence option (c) is correct.

Both the above given sentences are correct. Politically, Johnson was a conservative and A Tory is a person who holds a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved in the English culture throughout history. To Johnson's mind wisdom, not political rhetoric, was the key : in important matters, Johnson said, "a wise Tory and a wise whig, I believe, will agree".
According to statement (II), Dr. Johnson strongly believed in transcendental scepticism. Johnson's counter sceptical impulses towards conclusiveness and general assertion in argument existed in a vital, dialogic tension, often expressed as irony, with his understanding of thinking as an open ended, ongoing process where conclusions are at best partial and provisional. Hence option (a) is correct.

The term 'Hamartia' was introduced by Aristotle in the 'Poetics'.
Hamartia is a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine. It is also called tragic few and it is an inherent defect or shortcoming in the hero o fa tragedy, who is in other respects a superior being favoured by fortune.
The best example of Hamartia occurs in Sophocles 'Oedipus the king'. In this Greek drama, Oedipus unknowingly kills his own father and marries his mother.
Hence option (a) is correct.

The correct match will be-

Hence, option (c) is correct.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Colombian novelist, who was one of the best known Latin American writers in history. He won a Nobel Prize for Literature, mostly for his masterpiece of magic realism. this most political novel. 'The General in this Labyrinth', is the tragic story of General Simon Bolivar who tried to unite a continent.
Marquez's postscript to 'The General in this Labyrinth' is one of the finest examples of reading archive and using its contents. Postscript is generally a note a paragraph added below the signature in a setter or at the! end of a book, as an afterthought or to give supplementary information.
Hence option (a) is correct.