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

Working bibliography is a listing of possible sources that you might use for gathering information and writing your research paper. The two references 'MLA International Bibliography' and 'Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature' are useful to a literary researcher.

'Look Back in Anger' and 'Dejavu' plays were written by John Osborne. 'Look Back in Anger' is a realist play published in 1956. It focuses on the life and marital struggles of an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working class origin Jimmy Porter and his equally competent yet impassive upper middle class wife Alison. 'Dejavu' is a stage play by John Osborne. It was his final work for the theatre, the failure of which on the stage made him decide to give up play writing.

The 'Encoding/decoding' model of communication was first developed by cultural studies scholar Stuart Hall in 1975. titled - Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse. Hall's essay offers a theoretical approach of production, circulation, distribution, consumption and reproduction of media messages.

'Lucky' is unique in a play where most of the characters talk incessantly. Lucky is often compared to Vladimir as being the intellectual.
Sand is the content of the suitcases that Lucky carries in the second act of 'Waiting for Godot'. Lucky suffers at the hand of Pozzo willingly and without hesitation. 'Waiting for Godot', published by Samuel Backet in 1949, is a work of Absurdism that explores themes of Existentialist philosophy.

Inductive method- An inductive approach to teaching language starts with examples and asks learners to find rules.
Deductive reasoning work from the "general" to the 'specific'. This is also called a 'top-down' approach. In a conclusion, when we use deduction we reason from general principles to specific cases, as in applying a mathematical theorem to a particular problem.
Inductive method differs from deductive method in drawing its conclusion from - particular instances.

My Experiments with Truth or Autobiography is the autobiographical work of Mohandas Karam Chandra Gandhi covering his life from early childhood through to 1921. It was written in weekly installments and published in his journal Navjivan from 1925 to 1929.
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is the autobiography of Nirad C. Chaudhuri (an Indian writer). The book relates his mental and intellectual development. It is written in 1951.
Prison and Chocolate Cake is written in 1954 by Nayantara Sahgal, the niece of Jawaharlal Nehru and cousin of the late Indira Gandhi. Sahgal is known to have insisted, 'being Nehru's niece or Madame Pandit's daughter.
My Story (1976 in English) is an autobiographical book by Indian author and poet Kamala Das (also known as Kamala Surayya or Madhavikutty. The book, with 50 chapters, narrates thatshe had to face racist discrimination, through the brutal and indecent relationship with her husband.

A writerly text makes the reader a producer and A writerly text tends to be self-conscious shall apply to Roland Barthes's notion of a writerly text.
The writerly text- By contrast, writerly text reveal those element that the readerly attempts to conceal. The reader now in a position of control, takes an active role in the construction of meaning.

'Pistol' a word of uncertain origin, sometimes said to be from German Pistole, from Czech pis'tala "firearm". Word 'Robot' is a relative new comer to the English language. It was the brain child of a brilliant Czech playwright novelist and journalist Karel Capek. Hence option (a) is correct.

'Volpone' is a comedy play by English play writer Ben Jonson first produced in 1605-1606. 'The Tempest' is a dramatic romance by William Shakespeare first performed in 1611. 'All For Love' is a 1677 heroic drama by John Dryden. 'The School for Scandal' is written by R.B. Sheriden, first performed in London, 1777.

'Chrysalis : A magazine of women's culture' was a feminist publication produced from 1977 to 1980. The self published magazine was founded by Kristen Grimstad and Sussan Rennie. 'Signs: Journal of women in culture and society' is a peer reviewed feminist academic journal. It was established in 1975 by Jean W. Sacks.