M.A. (Semester III) (CBCS) Examination, 2017
ENGLISH (PAPER VI)
CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL THEORY
Day Date: Thursday, 04-05-2017 Max. Marks: 70
Time: 02.30 PM to 05.00 PM
N.B. All questions are compulsory.
Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q.1 Complete the following sentences by choosing the correct
alternative.
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The term 'Institutional network' is coined by
Stanley Fish b)Cleanth Brooks
Victor Shklovsky d)Claude Levi Strauss
According to Northrop Frye forms the central hypothesis
for criticism.
Induction Deduction
Quest Myth Art
Roland Barthes refers to the work of at the beginning of
his essay the Death of the Autherl.
Balzac Mallarme
Shakespeare Sidney
In his essay 'Art as a Technique', victor shklovsky talks about
the technique of
Class reading Hermeneutics
Motif Defamiliarization
According to cleanth Brooks, modern poetic technique is a
rediscovery of
Metaphor Metalanguage
Simile Author
The essay 'The structural study of Myth' is written by
Roland Barthes Claude Levi strauss
Stanley Fish Cleanth Brooks
The Archetypal criticism and Genre Theory was put forth by
Wards worth Keats
Northrop Frye Victor Shklovsky
is called the father of Russian Formalism.
Frye Poppe
Derrida Roman Jacobson
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The term 'Collective Unconsciousness' was coined by
Northrop Frye Sigmund Freud
Jung W.K. Wimsatt
10) 'Anxiety of influence' refers to the author's anxiety to
Overcome the influence of the part authors
Be influenced by part authors
Write correctly Write perfectly
11) Fish, Bloom and are called apostles of indeterminacy.
Roland Barthes Marx
Derrida Cleanth Brookes
12) Northrop Frye refers to the inductive and method.
Psychological Sociological
Political Deductive
13) Claude Levi- Strauss mentions Saussure's distinction between
in his essay. 'The Structure Study of Myth'.
Langue and Parole Synchronic and diachronic
Competence and performance Language and culture
14) is considered as the Father of structuralism.
Derrida Claude Levi Strauss
Bloom Hirsch
Q.2 Write short answer [Any seven]: 14
What do you mean by Intentional fallacy?
Explain Defamiliarization.
What is 'Anxiety of influence'?
What does it mean by 'Affective fallacy'?
Explain the term 'Close Reading'?
What is 'Collective unconsciousness'?
Explain the term 'Hermeneutics'.
Differentiate between Fabula and Sjuzet
What is Motif?
Q. 3 Write short notes any 08
Structuralism
Reader-response theory
Archetypal criticism
Write short-notes on any two of the following: 06
Formalism
New Criticism
Author and Authorship
Q.4 How does Stanley Fish prove that the instability of meaning
will not be a problem in communication?
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OR
Explain the importance of irony as a principle of structure as
discussed by cleanth Brooks.
Q.5 Discuss and evaluate Northrop Frye's plan of making criticism
scientific and systematic with the help of Archetypal criticism.