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

Graham Greene's "The Power and the Glory" (1940) is set in the backdrop of the religious persecution in Mexico. It was also published as the Labyrinthine ways; adopted as the film "The Fugitive (1947). It has a more directly Catholic theme: The desperate wanderings of a priest who is hunted down in rural Mexico at a time when the church is outlawed there. Despite the constant threat of death at the hands of a revolutionary government the weak and alcoholic priest attempts to fulfill his priestly duties. Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

The given passage considered to be the death-knell of the New-classical Criticism is attributed to Samuel Johnson. In the periodical "The Rambler" Johnson wrote these lines regarding neo-classical criticism.
"The Rambler" (1750-1752), in short is of fundamental importance in any estimate of Johnson's approach to literature itself though shot through with mournful humor, it was written to instruct and chasten. Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

The correct pairs of the given writers and their work are B, C and E only. Amoghvarsha is not written by Kalidas.
Uttararamcharita is a sanskrit play in seven acts in the Nataka style by Bhavabhuti.
Urubhanga is a Sanskrit play written by Bhasa in the 2nd or 3rd century CE. based on the well-known epic, the Mahabharata, by Vyasa. It focuses on the story of the character during and after his fight with "Bhim".
Rajtarangani (River of Kings) (1148) is a historical chronicle of early India written by the Kashmiri "Kathana" not by Rajashekhara.
The" Kathasaritsagara" is a famous 11 century collection of India legends, fairy tales and .... tales as retold in Sanskrit by the Shaivite Somadeva. Hence, the correct answer is (c).

Abt Vogler (1864) is authored by English poet and playwright and one of the proponents of dramatic monologues Robert Browning.
Many of Browning's dramatic monologues, including "Abt Vogler" are written in the voice of a real historical figure. Vogler was a composer and musical innovator; in this poem Browning imagines him as he ages becoming more frail, and meditating the meaning and value of his life.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

Alexander Pope a translator, poet, wit, and satirist (1688-London) wrote "An Essay on Criticism", a didactic poem in heroic couplets in 1711 when he was about 22 years old.
The first of the poem's three sections arguments that "good taste" derives from nature and that critics should imitate the ancient rules established by classical writers. In Second part pope stressed the importance of onomatopoeia in prosody and suggested that the movement of second and meter should represent the actions they carry.
The final section discusses the characteristics of a "good critic" and concludes with a short history of literary criticism and a catalogue of famous critics. Hence, the statements B, C and D are absolutely correct in the reference of Pope's "An Essay on Criticism". So, the correct answer is option (d).

Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

Post Colonial criticism frequently focuses on relationship between colonizers and colonized people in literary texts. It also analyses construction of cultural identity, particularly the concept of "hybridity".
Post Colonial Criticism encompasses rejection of the claims of universalism made in the colonial Western literature. It foregrounds the questions of cultural difference and diversity as represented in literary text. It celebrates "hybridity" and "cultural polyvalency". It resists any attempt at homogenization based on race, class and nationality. Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

Chronological order of publication of the given works is Roland Barthes "Mythologies" (1957), Raymond Williams "Culture and Society" (1958), Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology (1967), Paul de Man's "Blindness and Insight" (1971), and Homi K. Bhabha's "The Location of Culture" (1994). "Mythologies" (1957) provides readings of contemporary cultural icons and has become a standard text in the academic field of cultural studies.
"Culture and Society" (1958) explores how the notion of culture developed in great Britain from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.
In "Of Grammatology" French philosopher Jacques Derrida originates the idea of deconstruction.
De Man examines several critics in "Blindness and Insight" and discovers a gap between their statements about the nature of literature and the results of their practical criticism in their writings.
"The Location of Culture" deals with the conceptual imperative and the political consistency of a postcolonial intellectual projects.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b). A, C, B, D, E.

Derrida's statements regarding aesthetic are absolutely correct. Derrida mentions that an aesthetic discourse always involves values and interests, independent from "a pure and neutral, aesthetic realm." He believes that the outside influence in assessment of aesthetics always enters as and when philosophers and historians point out the element of "truth". Hence, the correct answer is option (a).