UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD
ENTRANCE EXAMINATION -JUNE 2012
M.Phii. (COMPARATIVE LITERATURE)

Time: 2 Hours Max. Marks: 75
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INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATE
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The question paper (in 5 pages) consists of two parts: Part A and Part B.

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Part A is objective type and has to be answered in the question paper itself. There is negative marking in this part. 0.33 mark will be deducted fOf

each wrong answer.
No mark will be deducted for an unanswered bit.


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Part B contains questions of a descriptive nature and has to be answered in the answer book provided by the University.

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Part A of the question paper is to be fastened to the answer book provided by the University.

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Rough work, if any, has to be done on the last page of the answer book.

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All answers, except Part B III translation, have to be written in English.



M.Phii. (COMPARATIVE LITERATURE) -JUNE 2012


Part-A (25 Marks)
Choose the most appropriate answer write the corresponding alphabet in the bracket.
1. Who was the recipient of Jnanpith Award for Hindi Literature in 2005? Prem Chand Kunwar Narayan Mahadevi Verma Maithili Sharan Gupt
2. The first novel by Mulk Raj Anand is Two Leaves and a Bud Untouchable Coolie The Sword and the Sickle
3. Ngugi wa Thiango, an African writer..is associated with Post-colonialism Post-structuralism Post-modernism Post-marxism
4. "Sumung Leela" is a performing of Meghalaya Manipur Madhya Pradesh Maharastra
5. Which of the following novels is credited with inspiring the civil war in America? The Sun also Rises Huckleberry Finn Uncle Tom's Cabin The Invisible Man
6. Anandavardhana expounded Bhava Bhakti theory. Dhvani Vakrokti
7. The Nobel Prize for Iiterature in 20 J 0 was awarded to John Coetzee Doris Lessing Orhan Pamuk Mario Vargos L10sa
8. By "genre" we mean Artistic genius Attitude ofthe speaker in the text A specific mode or kind ofliterary practice Originality of a literary text
9. Saussure advocated a Synoptic Diatopic study of language. Synchronic Diachronic
10. Who claimed that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world"? William Wordsworth P.B. Shelley John Keats William Blake
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11.
Shahnama is an epic in Persian Arabic Urdu Kashmiri

12.
A Short Story ofNearly Everything is a popular science book by Stephen King Bill Bryson Stephen Hawking Billy Brown

13.
Eugene Nida's conceptualization oftranslationis based on Free Translation Faithful Translation Equivalence None of the above

14.
Towards an Aesthetic ofDalit Literature was written by Arjun Dangle Baby Kamble Sharakumar Limbale Gangadhar Pantwane

15.
Which is the most common language in South America?

Greek
French


16.
Death ofa Discipline is by Susan Bassnett Gayatri Spivak

17.
The author ofLajja is a native of Sweden Nepal


Spanish English
Rene Wellek Sisir Kumar Das
Bangladesh Sri Lanka
18.
Weltliteratur, meaning "World Literature" is associated with Wordsworth Shakespeare Goethe Racine

19.
"Defamiliarization" is a term used by New Criticism New Historicism Structuralism Formalism

20.
The main argument in Aristotle's poetics is based on

Mimesis
Sublimation


21.
Among the following, Stanley Fish Northrope Frye

22.
Sigmund Freud is the author of


Illusion and Reality Enlightenment in the Colony
Mimicry
Sublime

is an exponent of Reader-Response criticism. Cleanth Brooks LA. Richards
The Interpretation ofDreams The History ofthe Modern Fact













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23. Who is the author of Malgudi Days?
Raja Rao Mulk Raj Anand R.K. Narayan R.K. Laxman
24. "What is an Author?" is an essay by
Roland Barthes Michel Foucault Jacques Derrida Jean-Francois Lyotard

25. The Report of the American Comparative Literature Association was submitted in
1993. Greene
Levin Bernheimer
Spivak




M.Phil. (COMPARATIVE LITERATURE) -JUNE 2012
(50 Marks)
Part-B
(7.5 x2 15 Marks)I. Write short notes on any two ofthe following.
Archetypal Criticism
Why you lovedlhated a recent film
Auto-bio-graphical narratives

Patriarchy
Analysis of a traditional game
Creative Writing

(20 Marks)
II. Write an essay on any of the following.
Future(s) of Comparative Literature in India
Critical appreciation of a recently published Indian text
Colonial Legacy
Art and Society

III. Translate the following passage into any other modern Indian language.
(Note: Mention the language) (15 Marks)

Tangen had studied with Sengai since childhood. When he was twenty he wanted to leave his teacher and visit others for comparative study, but Sengai would not permit this. Every time Tangen suggested it, Sengai would give him a rap on the head.
Finally Tangen asked an elder brother to coax permission from Sengai. This the brother did and then reported to Tangen: "It is arranged. I have fixed it for you to start on your pilgrimage at once."
Tangen went to Sengai to thank him for his permission. The master answered by giving him another rap.
When Tangen related this to the elder brother the other said: "What is the matter? Sengai has no business giving permission and then changing his mind. I will tell him so." And off he went to see the teacher.
"1 did not cancel my permission," said Sengai. "I just wished to give him one last smack over the head, for when he returns he will be enlightened and I will not be able to reprimand him again."