Exam Details
Subject | comparative literature | |
Paper | paper 2 | |
Exam / Course | ugc net national eligibility test | |
Department | ||
Organization | university grants commission | |
Position | ||
Exam Date | June, 2009 | |
City, State | , |
Question Paper
1. The comparatist who considers Comparative Literature as a branch of 'literary history' is
Horst Frenz
Paul Van Tieghem
Jean-Marie Carre
Marius-Fransois Guyard
2. Who among the following belongs to the French school of Comparative Literature
Rene Wellek
H.H. Remak
Marius-Franco Guyard
Wrich Weisstein
3. The authors of the book 'Bibliography of Comparative Literature' are
Baldensperger Friederich
Schlegel Tieck
Wellek Warren
Stallknecht Frenz
4. The term 'General Literature' was popularized by
H.M. Posnett
Paul Van-Tieghem
David Malone
J.W. Von Goethe
5. Identify the author of the statement "Influence studies is the bread and wine of Comparative Literature".
Susan Bassnett
Eugene Eoyang
R.A. Sayce
Anna Balakian
6. 'Literary history of the United States' was written by
Robert Spiller
Harry Levin
Cleanth Brooks
Gerald Gillespie
7. In England, the idea of Comparative Literature can be traced to
Phillip Sidney
John Dryden
S.T. Coleridge
Charles Lamb
8. The statement "Generation is the spearhead of a Period" is by
Robert Spiller
W.K. Winasatt
H.P.H. Teesing
A.E.O. Lovejoy
9. Raymond Trousson takes up for analysis the
Faust theme
Ulysses theme
Dedulus theme
Prometheus theme
10. The critic who argued that Comparative Literature is a "non-subject" is
Paul Van-Tieghem
Benedetto Croce
Andre Gide
Frich Auerback
11. The book "Comparative Literature Indian Dimensions" is written by
Buddhadev Bose
Amiya Dev
Swapan Mazumdar
T.P. Meenakshisundaran
12. A conspicuous mixture of genres is evident in
The Golden Gate
Midnight's Children
Lady Coupe
Desirable Daughters
13. The Asian poetic genre which influenced European modernist poetry is
Rudali
Shairi
Vacana -Kavitha
Haiku
14. Which genre did Aristotle discuss in detail
Epic
Drama
Rhetoric
Lyric
15. The term "mythos" refers to
A Plot
A Character
A Dialogue
A Riddle
16. Inhalt, Staff, Gestalt are the threefold divisions of the literary cosmos suggested by
Raymond Trousson
Elizabeth Frenzeh
Stith Thompson
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
17. 'Archetypal Patterns in Poetry' is written by
Mand Badkin
Northrop Frye
Terry Eagleton
Leslie Fiedler
18. 'The Eternal Triangle' is a case of
A natural phenomenon
A Recurring character
A Recurring situation
A literary representation of type
19. The study of the quest theme from the ancient past to the present is
A mythological study
A stylistic study
A synchronic study
A diachronic study
20. The comparatist who is considered the pioneer of thematology in the United States is
Claudio Guilten
Harry Levin
David Herman
Jonathan Culler
21. The concept of 'Prefiguration' finds its origin in
Religion
Ancient society
Psychology
Mathematics
22. Kuchipudi is a dance form mostly practised in
Bihar
Assam
Andhra Pradesh
Kerala
23. 'Meghnadbadh Kavya' is written by
Rabindranath Tagore
Nabinchandra Sen
Bhudeb Mukherjee
Michael Madhusudan Datta
24. 'AUCITTANICARACARCA is written by
Ksemendra
Rajas'ekhara
Maammata
Sankuka
25. The Bengali Ramayana is written by
Krittivas
Kambar
Tulsidas
M. Madhusudan Datta
26. The notion of DIFFERENCE is formulated by
Jacques Lacan
Michel Foucault
Saussure
Jacques Derrida
27. The Chicago School of Critics are also called
The New Historicists
The Neo Aristotelians
The Neo-Marxists
The Neo-Hegelians
28. 'The Anxiety of Influence' is authored by
Paul de-Mann
Harold Bloom
Geoffrey Hartman
Rene Wellek
29. The book 'Interpretation of Dreams' is written by
Albert Camus
Jean Paul Satre
Sigmund Freud
Julia Kristeva
30. Both Frantz Fanon and Sartre come from
Turkey
Nigeria
Algeria
Egypt
31. Bankimchandra's novel 'DURGES 'NANDINI' was deeply influenced by
Talisman
Joseph Andrews
Pamela
Ivanhoe
32. The kind of imitation that aims at the style of a single pact, a whole movement or an entire period, is called
Stylization
Adaptation
Transcreation
Hybridization
33. Analogical study is advocated by
The American comparatists
The Russian comparatists
The French comparatists
The German comparatists
34. The term used in Tamil for the word is
Katha
Upanyas
Pudhinam
Kaadambari
35. Who among the following is a symbolist pact
John Dryden
Bandelaire
Ezra Pound
Novalis
36. How many strategies does Andre lefevere suggest for translating poetry
Three
Seven
Five
Nine
37. The English translator of the Victorian period of Omar Khayam's RUBAIYAT was
Edward Fitzgerald
Alfred Tennyson
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Browning
38. Who made the statement "Every text is unique, at the same time, it is the translation of another text
Derek Walcott
Horst Frenz
Rainer Maria Rilke
Octavio Paz
39. The statement "To translate poetry, into prose is to betray the poem" is made by
T.E. Lawrence
Ezra Pound
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Samuel Putnam
40. Who wrote the Introduction to the first edition of Rabindranath Tagore's translation of GITANJALI
William Rothenstein
Sturge Moore
W.B. Yeats
Edmund Blunden
41. Who is the author of the essay "Music Poetry"
T.S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
W.B. Yeats
W.H. Anden
42. The essay "Literature and the Arts" is written by
Mary Gaither
Leon Edel
Ulrich Weirstein
Edward D. Seber
43. The contemporary novel which uses the Mahabharata myth is
Shadowlines
English August
The Great Indian Novel
A Suitable Boy
44. Who wrote the novel 'Sangathi' (The Event)
Kutti Revathy
Bama
Sivakami
Vasanthi
45. Gayatri Chakravarti Spivak considers herself to be
A Marxist
A New Historicist
A Phenomenologist
A Marxist Feminist Deconstructionist
Like our historiography our interrelations too are well-founded being part of our multilingualism they are quite comprehensive. As a principal mode of 'intermediacy' if we take a stock of the translations from one Indian language into another, we will have an idea of the extent of these interrelations. Bankim, for instance, has been translated into a good many Indian languages and has thus exerted a primary influence on the nascent novel in them. This adds an extra dimension to our interrelations, for we have not only influenced one another but have carried western influence to one another.
46. Why does the author of the passage say that "our inter-relations are well founded"
Western impact on Indian culture
The study of Indian classical languages
Our Indian multilingual culture helps us to reserve inter-relations
Ethnicity
47. Which is the principal mode of intermediacy talked about in this passage
Translating from one Indian language to another
Translating from a Western language to an Indian language
Translating Arabic to an Indian language
Translating from Sanskrit to an Indian language
48. What do you understand from the term "Mascent Novel"
The novel as a literary form
The growth of the bildungsroman
The novel in its formative stage
Novel on the nation
49. What is the extra dimension referred to in this passage
Western influence on an Indian writer
Western influence in addition to regional influences
Indian influence on the West
Asian influence on Indian writers
50. What is the focus of the passage
The importance of translation in Comparative Literature
National Integration
Study of thematology
The role of influence in Comparative Literature
Horst Frenz
Paul Van Tieghem
Jean-Marie Carre
Marius-Fransois Guyard
2. Who among the following belongs to the French school of Comparative Literature
Rene Wellek
H.H. Remak
Marius-Franco Guyard
Wrich Weisstein
3. The authors of the book 'Bibliography of Comparative Literature' are
Baldensperger Friederich
Schlegel Tieck
Wellek Warren
Stallknecht Frenz
4. The term 'General Literature' was popularized by
H.M. Posnett
Paul Van-Tieghem
David Malone
J.W. Von Goethe
5. Identify the author of the statement "Influence studies is the bread and wine of Comparative Literature".
Susan Bassnett
Eugene Eoyang
R.A. Sayce
Anna Balakian
6. 'Literary history of the United States' was written by
Robert Spiller
Harry Levin
Cleanth Brooks
Gerald Gillespie
7. In England, the idea of Comparative Literature can be traced to
Phillip Sidney
John Dryden
S.T. Coleridge
Charles Lamb
8. The statement "Generation is the spearhead of a Period" is by
Robert Spiller
W.K. Winasatt
H.P.H. Teesing
A.E.O. Lovejoy
9. Raymond Trousson takes up for analysis the
Faust theme
Ulysses theme
Dedulus theme
Prometheus theme
10. The critic who argued that Comparative Literature is a "non-subject" is
Paul Van-Tieghem
Benedetto Croce
Andre Gide
Frich Auerback
11. The book "Comparative Literature Indian Dimensions" is written by
Buddhadev Bose
Amiya Dev
Swapan Mazumdar
T.P. Meenakshisundaran
12. A conspicuous mixture of genres is evident in
The Golden Gate
Midnight's Children
Lady Coupe
Desirable Daughters
13. The Asian poetic genre which influenced European modernist poetry is
Rudali
Shairi
Vacana -Kavitha
Haiku
14. Which genre did Aristotle discuss in detail
Epic
Drama
Rhetoric
Lyric
15. The term "mythos" refers to
A Plot
A Character
A Dialogue
A Riddle
16. Inhalt, Staff, Gestalt are the threefold divisions of the literary cosmos suggested by
Raymond Trousson
Elizabeth Frenzeh
Stith Thompson
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
17. 'Archetypal Patterns in Poetry' is written by
Mand Badkin
Northrop Frye
Terry Eagleton
Leslie Fiedler
18. 'The Eternal Triangle' is a case of
A natural phenomenon
A Recurring character
A Recurring situation
A literary representation of type
19. The study of the quest theme from the ancient past to the present is
A mythological study
A stylistic study
A synchronic study
A diachronic study
20. The comparatist who is considered the pioneer of thematology in the United States is
Claudio Guilten
Harry Levin
David Herman
Jonathan Culler
21. The concept of 'Prefiguration' finds its origin in
Religion
Ancient society
Psychology
Mathematics
22. Kuchipudi is a dance form mostly practised in
Bihar
Assam
Andhra Pradesh
Kerala
23. 'Meghnadbadh Kavya' is written by
Rabindranath Tagore
Nabinchandra Sen
Bhudeb Mukherjee
Michael Madhusudan Datta
24. 'AUCITTANICARACARCA is written by
Ksemendra
Rajas'ekhara
Maammata
Sankuka
25. The Bengali Ramayana is written by
Krittivas
Kambar
Tulsidas
M. Madhusudan Datta
26. The notion of DIFFERENCE is formulated by
Jacques Lacan
Michel Foucault
Saussure
Jacques Derrida
27. The Chicago School of Critics are also called
The New Historicists
The Neo Aristotelians
The Neo-Marxists
The Neo-Hegelians
28. 'The Anxiety of Influence' is authored by
Paul de-Mann
Harold Bloom
Geoffrey Hartman
Rene Wellek
29. The book 'Interpretation of Dreams' is written by
Albert Camus
Jean Paul Satre
Sigmund Freud
Julia Kristeva
30. Both Frantz Fanon and Sartre come from
Turkey
Nigeria
Algeria
Egypt
31. Bankimchandra's novel 'DURGES 'NANDINI' was deeply influenced by
Talisman
Joseph Andrews
Pamela
Ivanhoe
32. The kind of imitation that aims at the style of a single pact, a whole movement or an entire period, is called
Stylization
Adaptation
Transcreation
Hybridization
33. Analogical study is advocated by
The American comparatists
The Russian comparatists
The French comparatists
The German comparatists
34. The term used in Tamil for the word is
Katha
Upanyas
Pudhinam
Kaadambari
35. Who among the following is a symbolist pact
John Dryden
Bandelaire
Ezra Pound
Novalis
36. How many strategies does Andre lefevere suggest for translating poetry
Three
Seven
Five
Nine
37. The English translator of the Victorian period of Omar Khayam's RUBAIYAT was
Edward Fitzgerald
Alfred Tennyson
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Browning
38. Who made the statement "Every text is unique, at the same time, it is the translation of another text
Derek Walcott
Horst Frenz
Rainer Maria Rilke
Octavio Paz
39. The statement "To translate poetry, into prose is to betray the poem" is made by
T.E. Lawrence
Ezra Pound
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Samuel Putnam
40. Who wrote the Introduction to the first edition of Rabindranath Tagore's translation of GITANJALI
William Rothenstein
Sturge Moore
W.B. Yeats
Edmund Blunden
41. Who is the author of the essay "Music Poetry"
T.S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
W.B. Yeats
W.H. Anden
42. The essay "Literature and the Arts" is written by
Mary Gaither
Leon Edel
Ulrich Weirstein
Edward D. Seber
43. The contemporary novel which uses the Mahabharata myth is
Shadowlines
English August
The Great Indian Novel
A Suitable Boy
44. Who wrote the novel 'Sangathi' (The Event)
Kutti Revathy
Bama
Sivakami
Vasanthi
45. Gayatri Chakravarti Spivak considers herself to be
A Marxist
A New Historicist
A Phenomenologist
A Marxist Feminist Deconstructionist
Like our historiography our interrelations too are well-founded being part of our multilingualism they are quite comprehensive. As a principal mode of 'intermediacy' if we take a stock of the translations from one Indian language into another, we will have an idea of the extent of these interrelations. Bankim, for instance, has been translated into a good many Indian languages and has thus exerted a primary influence on the nascent novel in them. This adds an extra dimension to our interrelations, for we have not only influenced one another but have carried western influence to one another.
46. Why does the author of the passage say that "our inter-relations are well founded"
Western impact on Indian culture
The study of Indian classical languages
Our Indian multilingual culture helps us to reserve inter-relations
Ethnicity
47. Which is the principal mode of intermediacy talked about in this passage
Translating from one Indian language to another
Translating from a Western language to an Indian language
Translating Arabic to an Indian language
Translating from Sanskrit to an Indian language
48. What do you understand from the term "Mascent Novel"
The novel as a literary form
The growth of the bildungsroman
The novel in its formative stage
Novel on the nation
49. What is the extra dimension referred to in this passage
Western influence on an Indian writer
Western influence in addition to regional influences
Indian influence on the West
Asian influence on Indian writers
50. What is the focus of the passage
The importance of translation in Comparative Literature
National Integration
Study of thematology
The role of influence in Comparative Literature
Other Question Papers
Subjects
- adult education
- anthropology
- arab culture and islamic studies
- arabie
- archaeology
- assamese
- bengali
- bodo
- buddhist jaina gandhian and peace studies
- chinese
- commerce
- comparative literature
- comparative study of religions
- computer science and applications
- criminology
- dance
- defence and strategic studies
- dogri
- drama theatre
- economics
- education
- electronic science
- english
- environmental sciences
- folk literature
- forensic science
- french
- general paper
- geography
- german
- gujarati
- hindi
- hindustani music
- history
- home science
- human rights and duties
- indian culture
- international and area studies
- japanese
- kannada
- karnatik music
- kashmiri
- konkani
- labour welfare
- law
- library and information science
- linguistics
- maithili
- malayalam
- management
- manipuri
- marathi
- mass communication and journalism
- museology & conservation
- music
- nepali
- odia
- pali
- percussion instruments
- performing art
- persian
- philosophy
- physical education
- political science
- population studies
- prakrit
- psychology
- public administration
- punjabi
- rabindra?? sangeet
- rajasthani
- russian
- sanskrit
- santali
- social medicine & community health
- social work
- sociology
- spanish
- tamil
- telugu
- tourism administration and management
- tribal and regional languageliterature
- urdu
- visual art
- women studies