PAPER-II
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE



Note This paper contains fifty objective type questions, each question carrying two
marks. Attempt all the questions.



1. The first work in English on the subject of Comparatism under the title Comparative Literature is by

Arnold Posnett


Wellek Johnson


2. A reaction against Wellek's approach involving his "formalism" and "cosmopolitanism" was from

Kristeva Jakobson


Babbitt Neypokoeva


3. The announcement that "The epoch of world literature is at hand, and everyone must strive to hasten its approach" was made by

Levin Arnold


Goethe McCarthy


4. The poet who stated that "poetry is the common property of all mankind" is

Shakespeare Milton


Wordsworth Goethe


5. The author of Vakroktijivita is

Kuntaka Sankuka


Bhart rhari Dharmadatta


.
6. In the theory of rasa, the primary sources are called

alambana-vibhavas


alampana-vibhavas


sthayibhavas


sañcaribhavas
7. On the basis of sound and sense, ancient Indians classified works into
tantra, sahityaand ala
kara


mantra, tantra and sahitya


mantra, 1astraand sahitya


vakroti, svabhavokti and ala
kara


8. The critic who added the Santarasa as the ninth rasa is
Panini

Abhinava Gupta


Da ndin

..


Mamma ta


.
9. According to Aristotle, Tragedy has

four parts eight parts


seven parts six parts


10. The person who translated M.K. Gandhi's autobiography into English is

Mahadev Desai


Morarji Desai


Kantilal Desai


Mahatma Gandhi


11. According to Aristotle, Comedy presents men

as they are


as worse than they are


as better than they are


as they ought to be


12. The technique "alienation effect" was employed in drama by

Luigi Pirandello


Gerard Genette


Bertolt Brecht


Eugène Ionesco


13. Match the items in List I with those in List II and choose the right code from the codes given below

List I List II

Bakha The Dark Room


Karuthamma Chemmeen


Nathu Untouchable


Savitri Tamas



Codes














14. Match the items in List I with those in List II and choose the right code from the codes given below
List I List II

Eliot Negative capability


Keats Langue and Parole


Coleridge (iii) Objective correlative


Saussure Fancy and Imagination




Codes















15. Aristotle states that tragedy arouses the emotions of pity and

sympathy sorrow


fear surprise



16. Identify the correct set of order in which the following novels were published

Joseph Andrews, Emma, Hard Times, The Return of the Native


Hard Times, Joseph Andrews, Emma, The Return of the Native


Emma, The Return of the Native, Hard Times, Joseph Andrews


Joseph Andrews, The Return of the Native, Emma, Hard Times



17. Identify the odd group from among the following

Thomas Carlyle, Charles Lamb, John Ruskin


S.T. Coleridge, J.M. Synge, Thomas Hardy


Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao


Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan, Jayanta Mahapatra



18. Identify the odd group from among the following

Pinter, Wesker, Osborne


DeQuincey, Galsworthy, Yeats


Arnold, Browning, Tennyson


Frye, Saussure, Derrida



19. The author of After Babel is

Roland Barthes


Noam Chomsky


George Steiner


Hélène Cixous



20. Name the critic who shows the correspondence between the fixed grammatical structure of the language and the literary forms.

Hillis Miller


Jonathan Culler


Alfred Arteaga


Roman Jakobson



21. The Russian formalist who holds the view that new art forms are "simply the canonization of inferior (sub­literary) genres" is

Mayakovsky


Sloklovsky


Janukrovsky


Havranek



22. The novelist who describes his/her novel as a "comic epic poem in prose" is

Henry Fielding


Jane Austen


Charles Dickens


Vikram Seth



23. The Telugu writer who won the Jnanapeeth Award is

Dasaradhi Rangacharya


Ananthakrishna Sarma


C. Narayana Reddy


M.S. Reddy


24. No or noh is a traditional form of

Mexican drama


Japanese drama


Chinese drama


Spanish drama



25. The popular Italian saying the "traduttore" is a "traditore" means

the translator is a traditionalist


the translator is a creator


the translator is a traitor


the translator is an interlocutor



26. Which of the following, according to Susan Bassnett, is true

In Comparative Literature, the true object of study is literary history, or rather universal literary history.


The comparatist is an international ambassador working in the comparative literatures of United Nations.


Comparative Literature involves the interdisciplinary study of texts across cultures and is concerned with patterns of parallels.


Comparative Literature is more than an academic discipline and presents a view of humanistic ecology.



27. Identify the author of the statement "English Literature rode to power on the back of wartime nationalism."

James Snead


Terry Eagleton


Edward Said


Homi Bhabha



28. Identify the odd group from among the following

Hardy, Dickens, Thackeray


Kafka, Camus, Beckett


Tieghem, Carré, Guyard


Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck



29. Identify the author of the statement "Comparative Literature… is the comparison of one literature with another or others, and the comparison of literature with other spheres of human expression."

Wellek


Remak


Tieghem


Guyard



30. The ancient Tamil classic anthologyAkananuruis a collection of

one hundred war poems


three hundred war poems


two hundred love poems


four hundred love poems



31. The Wooden Cow is the English translation of the Tamil original Marappasu written by

Jayakanthan


Ashokamitran


T. Janakiraman


Sundara Ramasamy



32. Match the items in List I with the ones in List II and choose the right code from the codes given below

List I List II

Thus Spake Bhama Zarathustra


Rakta(ii) Nietzsche


Karabi

Light in (iii) Rabindranath August Tagore


Karukku Faulkner




Codes
















33. Match the items in List I with the ones in List II and choose the right code from the codes given below

List I List II

Raghuvamsam Jayakanthan


Rilke Kalidasa


Flaubert (iii) Madame Bovary


Rishi Mulam Sonnets to Orpheus




Codes















34. Everything which concerns the poet's unique attitude toward the world was termed by Curtius and Goethe as

Inhalt Stoff


Thema Gestalt



35. Identify the writer who made the following statement "In the act of translation, 'the spirit killeth and the letter giveth life'."

Sir William Jones


Sir Thomas North


A.K. Ramanujan


Tejaswini Niranjana



36. Thematology has been strongly developed by German scholars because

they were the first to coin the relevant technical terms in German.


of their deep involvement in the promotion of Comparative Literature as a discipline.


they were keen on developing theories of Comparative Literature.


they nourished and sustained thematology as a continuation of folklore studies.



37. Identify the work of literature from the following in which the journey motif has been effectively used

The Iliad


The Odyssey


Beowulf


Jerusalem Delivered



38. Catamaran is an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary that is an instance of

linguistic untranslatability


phonemic untranslatability


cultural untranslatability


metric untranslatability



39. New Historicism has an intense engagement with the literature of

the Restoration period


the Renaissance Age


the Victorian period


the Age of Enlightenment



40. The practice of writing literary histories emerged in Europe first in

the sixteenth century


the seventeenth century


the eighteenth century


early nineteenth century



41. The first work of literary history in English was by

Legouis and Cazamian


W.J. Long


Thomas Warton


Samuel Johnson



42. Tolkappiyam is the ancient grammatical text in

Tamil Telugu


Malayalam Marathi



43. The term 'Kurinji' in Tamil poetics is associated with the landscape of the

forest fields


sea-side hills



44. A drama, according to Aristotle and Bharata, is an imitation of

a person a thing


a place an action



45. For imitation, Bharata uses the term

anuk rti

.


prakriti


sadharanikara na

.


abhinaya



Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow, based on your understanding of the passage (Q. No. 46 to 50)
Literary theory and criticism concerned with the novel are much inferior in both quantity and quality to theory and criticism of poetry. The cause customarily assigned for this would be the antiquity of poetry, the comparative recency of the novel. But the explanation scarcely seems adequate. The novel as an art form is, as one can say in German, a form of Dichtung; is, indeed, in its high form, the modern descendant of the epic with drama, one of the two great forms. The reasons are rather, one thinks, the widespread association of the novel with entertainment, amusement, and escape rather than serious art the confounding of the great novels, that is, with manufacturers made with a narrow aim at the market. The lingering American popular view, disseminated by pedagogues, that the reading of non-fiction was instructive and meritorious, that of fiction, harmful or at best self-indulgent, was not without implicit backing in the attitude towards the novel of representative critics like Lowell and Arnold.
46. The modern novel, according to the author, has descended from

the old German Dichtung.


the old Greek tragedy.


the classical epic and drama.


the old prose romances.



47. The American teachers held the opinion that

spending time on novel reading was a waste of time.


the reading of non-fiction should be highly encouraged.


the reading of fiction was instructive and meritorious.


the reading of fiction was for entertainment only.



48. The reason for the low quality and quantity of novel criticism was due to

the popular notion that reading of fiction was harmful.


the recent origins of the novel as an art form.


the notion that the novel was not a serious art form.


the fact that the theory and criticism of poetry was anytime superior.



49. The general attitude to the novel among the American readers was caused by

the market flooded by a large number of popular fiction.


the disapproval of the novel form by the established critics and teachers.


the notion that it was a hybrid form of epic and drama.


the idea that the novel reading was a means to escape from real life.



50. The author of the passage has the firm opinion that

the novel is not a serious art form


the criticism of the novel is inferior to that of poetry


the novel as a form of art is inferior to poetry


the novel is meant only for amusement and entertainment