1. Which was "Melic" poetry for the Greeks

The monodic

The elegiac

The choric

The Pastoral

2. Who among the following are associated with the theorization of "Polysystem"

I. Itamar Evan Zohar

II. Jonathan Culler

III. Paul Van Tieghem

IV. Jose Lambert

The right combination according to the code is

I III

II III

I IV

III IV

3. The German equivalent of the term, 'thematology' is

Gestalt

Stoffgeschichte

Wissenschaft

Geistesgeschicht

4. The Sanskrit short poem was called

Campu

Rupaka

Muktaka

Nibaddha

5. The first novel in Odia is titled

Chamana Aathaguntha

Bibasini

Padmamali

Lachhama

6. Which of the following statements is true of Baroque and Mannerism

They are proper designations for literary period styles.

They are related only to German literature.

They mean to vindicate Aristotle's theories.

They are not proper definitions.

7. In an author suggests for an artistic purpose another literary work, or even the style of an entire period by a combination of style and materials.

adaptation

stylization

creative treason

parody

8. The first Malayalam novel to be adapted into film was

T. Shivashankar Pillai's Coir

O. Chandu Menon's Induleka

Rajasekhara Pillai's Marthandaverma

Basheer's My Grandfather had An Elephant

9. Who is the editor of the book Poisoned Bread Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit literature

Vilas Sarang

Arjun Dangle

Kiran Nagarkar

Maya Pandit

10. Which of the following is not a contribution to the newly founded cultural studies field in England

Uses of literacy

Culture and Society

Notes Toward a Definition of Culture

The Long Revolution

11. Who makes the statement, "the period as a mode of classification, corresponds to the concept in philosophy, and to the class in natural science"

Rene Wellek

R.M. Meyer

Benedetto Croce

Claudio Guillen

12. Grounds for Comparison was written by

Rene Wellek

H.M. Posnett

Harry Levin

Anna Balakian

13. Who is the author of Repossessing the World Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women

Margaret Atwood

Helen Buss

Alice Munro

Susanna Moodie


14. Who among the following is not one of Sharatchandra's heroines

Kiranmayi

Achala

Charulata

Abhaya

15. The author of the book, The Myth of Sisyphus is

Salvador Dali

Albert Camus

Andre Breton

Max Jacob

16. The translation of the Tamil work Thiruvachakam done by G.V. Pope appeared in the year

1910

1900

1890

1880

17. In Teesing's view, generation is the spearhead of a/an

Era

Period

Epoch

Movement

18. Identify the novel where music plays an important role

The Magic Fountain

Dr. Faustus

Jane Eyre

Scarlet and Black

19. The film version of Alice Walker's novel The Colour Purple is directed by

Steven Spillberg

Woody Allen

Francis Ford Coppola

Quentin Tarantino

20. Horst Frenz in his essay on translation refers to the translation of Bhagavad Gita done by

Friedrich Gundalf

Swami Prabhavanananda and Christopher Isherwood

G.V. Pope

George Sampson

21. Who among the following talks about "The heresy of paraphrase"

I.A. Richards

T.S. Eliot

William Empson

Cleanth Brooks

22. Who is the author of Languages and Literatures of India

Shishir Kumar Das

Suniti Kumar Chatterjee

Indra Nath Choudhari

G.N. Devy

23. Tripuraneni Ramasamy's work in 4 cantos was an attack on the ancient puranas.

Sutapuranam

Kooni

Kuppusamy Satakam

Sambukavadha

24. Race is a problematical idea in cultural studies because

it divides humanity into separate blocks.

it creates cycles of violence and episodes of international terror.

it is associated with biological discourses of intrinsic and inevitable superiority and subordination involving power, control and domination.

it obstructs the realization of world peace by exacerbating the feelings of hate or hostility.

25. Who among the following underlines the difficulty of defining comparative literature, holding the field to be "fragmented and pluralistic"

Henry Remak

Paul Van Tieghem

Oscar James Campbell

Steven Totosy de Zepetnek

26. Paradise Lost shows an influence of

Paganism

Pre-Christian theology

Christianity and the Renaissance

Greek nihilism

27. Apart from reflecting on specific literary features Horace's Ars Poetica touches upon

Music

Painting

Sculpture

Architecture

28. The Kavyamimansa that follows Dhvanyaloka is a work by

Jagannatha

Bhoja

Rajasekhara

Mahimabhatta

29. Getthold Ephraim Lessing in his classical essay. "Laocoon" observes that time is the element of and space the element of the

poetry, drama

poetry, plastic arts

prose, poetry

novel, visual arts

30. Trousson calls the "Hundred Years War" a but "Joan of Arc a"

Motif, Stoff

Motif, subject

Theme, subject

Period, characters

31. provides the materials or the basic part of materials for the plot of the work.

Source

Imitation

Analogy

Mannerism

32. Which of the following theorists objected to a study of thematology as it slights continuity and thus completeness

Max Koch and Karl Goedeke

Raymond Trousson and Georges Polti

Goethe and Curtius

Elizabeth Frenzel and Harry Levin

33. Identify the author of the book Literary Origins of Surrealism

Alois Hofman

Anna Balakian

H. Root

Mark Spilka

34. In the case of studies there can be no question of influence in proper sense, but only affinities.

Source

Imitation

Parallel

Genre

35. Gustav Flaubert's Salammbô is a

Bildungsroman

Historical novel

Diary novel

Picaresque novel

36. Identify the work of the poet Tenali Ramakrishna

Mahaprastham

Panduranga Mahatmyanmu

Kappalu

Yenki Paatalu

37. Baudelaire's translation of is an instance of translation by a poet.

Robert Frost

Edgar Allan Poe

Rita Dove

Emily Dickinson

38. Identify the author of the essay, "Contemporary cultural studies An Approach to the study of Literature and Society."

Louis Althusser

Terry Eagleton

T.S. Eliot

Richard Hoggart

39. Which of these statements is true

Karukku is translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom.

Karukku is translated by Ambai.

Karukku is translated by Bama.

Karukku is translated by Gayatri Spivak.

40. Which novel of Amitava Ghosh has become a "Key text for postcolonial eco-critics"

Shadow Lines

Sea of Poppies

The Hungry Tide

The Calcutta Chromosome

41. Who speaks of periodization as at once "notional" and "real"

H.H. Remak

Horst Frenz

Ulrich Weisstein

S.S. Prawer

42. Who among the following does not exert an influence on literary works

Translators

Reviewers

Travellers

Printers

43. Sethumadhavan's "Velutha Koodarangal" is a

Short story

Essay

Poem

Drama

44. Which report on professional standards recommends that comparative literature departments "actively recruit faculty from non-European literature departments and from allied disciplines"

The Saussy report

The Levin report

The Bernheimer report

The Greene report

45. Which of the following terms, as used by Aristotle, means a reversal

Anagnorisis

Nemesis

Peripeteia

Hamartia

46. After Bable is a book by

Eugene Nida

Maria Vargas Llosa

George Steiner

Jose Lambert

47. That the essential difference between two genres of literature, according to Weisstein, is observed by the presence of terms that are similarly spelt or pronounced is an instance of

Contamination

Linguistic parallelism

Voice Over

Defamiliarization

48. A study of the Oedipal theme from the classical age to the present is an instance of

Historical study

Anachronic study

Diachronic study

Synchronic study

49. A study of the history of literatures of all nations regardless of their scope and aesthetic and historical significance would be called

National Literature

World Literature

Regional Literature

General Literature

50. Who among the following figures in the Lake school of poetry

Keats

Shelley

Byron

Wordsworth