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

'William Wilson' (1839) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years on the outskirts of London.
The story follows a man of a noble descent who calls himself William Wilson because, although denouncing his profligate past, he does not accept full blame for his actions, saying that 'man was never thus tempted before'.

Mr. Pumblechook is a character in 'Great Expectations', written by Charles Dickens. Dickens is justly famous for his vivid secondary character and for their names, which are often deliciously absurd, like that of Mr. Pumblechook. Mr. Pubblechook is introduced to us as a large hard-breathing middle-aged slow man. He is the uncle of gentle Joe Gargery, Pip's brother-in-law and father figure. Since Mr. Pumblechook has some social clout, he is appropriated by Pip's sister who shares Mr. Pumblechook's aggressive self-righteousness.

English is still largely the language of administration and jurisprudence in India. The language used in courts in India has seen a transition over centuries with the shift from Urdu to Persian and Farsi script during the Mughal period which còntinued in subordinate courts even during the British rule. Constitution of India provides that the official language of the union shall be Hindi in the Devanagari script.

The Edinburgh review was founded in 1802 jointly by Sydney Smith, Francis Jeffrey, Francis Horner and Henry Brougham.
'The Quarterly Review was a literary and political periodical founded in March 1809, but the well known London publishing house John Murray. The London Magazine first founded in 1732 by Issac Kimber but relaunched in 1820 under John Scott's editorship.
'The Spectator' is a weekly British Magazine on politics, culture and current affair. It was first published in July 1828, thus making it the oldest weekly magazine in the world.

Stanley Fish is said to have developed the nation of interpretive communities. Fish claims that we as individuals interpret texts because each of us is part of an interpretive community that gives as a particular way of reading a text. The idea has been very influential in reader-response criticism, though it has also been very controversial.

The term heteroglossia describes the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single 'language' which was introduced by the Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin.
Heterotopia is a concept elaborated by philosopher Michel Foucault to describe certain culture, institutional and discursive spaces.
Grand Narrative or 'Master narrative' is a term introduced by Jean Francois Lyotard, in his classic 1979 work 'The Postmodern Condition : A Report on Knowledge'.
Interpellation describes the process by which ideology, embodied in major social and political institutions, constitutes the very nature of individual subjects.

The question remains cancelled and marks awarded to all.

"You do not know how good oysters taste", in this sentence, There are two (A and D) sentences admissible-
(A) You do not know that oysters taste good as food.
(D) You do not know how the good oysters taste when they eat.

Pidgin and Creole evolve successively out of a situation where speakers of mutually unintelligible language develop a shared language for communication.
Pidgin is a simplified speech used for communication between people with different languages, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from several languages.
Creole language, vernacular language that developed in colonial European plantation settlements in the 17th and 18th centuries as a result of contact between groups that spoke mutually unintelligible languages.

Charles Grant, chairman of the court of Directors condemened the people of India as "a race of men lamentably degenerate and base; retaining but a feeble sense of moral obligation; and sunk in misery but their vices."