UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam, June-2020 ENGLISH (Shift-I)

"To His Coy Mistress" is a Cavalier poem written by Andrew Marwell. It was published posthumously in 1681. It is a non-stanzaic iambic tetrameter poem rhyming as couplets. In this poem two rivers are mentioned as Ganga and Humber, following lines makes it clear-
"Thou by the Indian Gange's side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
of Humber would complain. I would"

"Ulysses" is written as a dramatic monologue : the entire poem is spoken by a single character, who identity is revealed by his own words. The lines are in blank verse, or unrhymed iambic pentameter, which serves to impart a fluid and natural quality to Ulysses speech.
"Medusa" fist appeared in Carol Ann Duffy's 1999 collection 'The world's wife' "Medusa" is told in the first person as a dramatic monologue by a woman who is insecure and worried that her husband is cheating on her.

"The Pied Piper of Hamelin" has the theme of 'agreements, once made, should be honored'. On one level, The Pied Piper is a simple, poetic morality tale, though many have viewed the work as a commentary on death, desire and the role of the artist in society.
"Two in the Campagna" refers to an area in the countryside around Rome. In this, Browning engages with themes of love, human limits and nature.

"Epic theatre" is a theatrical movement arising in the early 20th century. Epic theatre emphasizes the audience's perspective and reaction to the piece through a variety of techniques. Bertolt Brecht's method can be summed up as a process. It begins with the construction of the Fabel, which then leads to initial blockings in the form of the Scenes Arrangements. James Saunders early plays led to him being considered one of the leading British exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd.

'Hamlet' was a university student at Wittenberg and has a "studious temperament", illustrated by the fact that he is eager to get back to school.
"II Penseroso" is "the thoughtful person" whose night if filled with meditative walking in the woods and hours of study in a "Lonely Tower".

• Jacques Derrida → Arche-writing (archi-ecriture in french)
• Donna J. Haraway → Cyborg manifesto
• Julia Kristeva → genotext
• Friedrich Schleiermacher → hermeneutic circle.

• Michael Riffaterre → Superreader
• Michel Foucault → Biopower
• Claude Levi-Strauss → Bricolage
• Mikhail Bakhtin → Chronotope

•"Ars Poetica" is a poem written by Horace C. 19 BC.
• "Of Dramatic Poesy" is a work by John Dryden in 1668.
• "Timber or Discoveries" is composed by Ben Jonson in 1641.
• "A Defence of Rhyme" is written by Samuel Daniel in 1503.

• "The Practice of Everyday Life" is a book by Michel de Certeau that examines the ways in which people individualize mass culture. It was originally published in French in 1980.
•"Understanding Popular Culture" is a book by John Fiske who was an American philosopher and historian. Fiske differentiates between mass culture. The book was published in 1989.
•"Reading the Romance" is a book by Janice Radway that analyzes The Romance novel genre using reader-response criticism, first published in 1984. "Distinction" is a 1979 book by Pierre Bourdieu, based upon the author's empirical research from 1963 until 1968.

Paul Grice - Cooperative Principle
Edward Sapir - Linguistic Relativity
Ferdinand de Saussure - Linguistic Signs
Nancy Dorian - Language Death