M.A. (Semester III) Examination, 2017
ENGLISH (PAPER VI)
CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL THEORY
Day Date: Thursday, 04-05-2017 Max. Marks: 50
Time: 02.30 PM to 04.30 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 essay there a Text in this class'? emphasizes
Multiplicity of meaning b)Determinacy of meaning
Centrality of centre d)Textual meaning
Frye gives the example of in 'Hamlet'.
Gallery scene The grave digger's scene
The heavenly scene The play within a play
Roland Barthes refers to the work of at the beginning of
his essay 'Death of the Author.
Mallarme Balzac
Shakespeare Keats
According to victor Shklovsky, Tolstory uses the technique of

Familiarization Creativity
Defamiliarization Enstrangement
According to cleanth Brooks, the poet can reach the universal
through the use of
Simile Metaphor
Climax Exaggeration
In his essay 'The structural study of Myth' Claude Levi Strauss
refers to Saussure's distinction between
Sign and signified Lang and parole
Nature and culture None from above
According to fish, believes in linguistic meaning.
Derrida Balzac
Abrams Bloom
'Archetypes' means
Primordial's Secondary
Recurring patterns Nature
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According to Roland Barthes, the grip of the author over his
book began to weaken with
Mallarme Balzac
Sarrasine Mathew Arnold
10) According to Frye, there is a similarity between the aim of
literature and that of
Religion Myth
Rituals None of the above
Q.2 Write short answer [Any five]: 10
What is International Fallacy?
What is meant by 'Anxiety of influence?
Explain the term close-reading.
Write briefly about collective unconsciousness.
What is hermeneutics?
What do you understand by 'Literariness'?
Q. 3 Write short notes any 06
Author and Authorship
New Criticism
Reader-Response Theory
Write short-notes on any two of the following: 04
Russian Formalism
Structuralism
Archetypal Criticism
Q.4 How does Northrop Frye describe the way of making criticism
scientific and systematic?
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OR
"The Death of the author' simply means that the reader takes
charge of producing meaning". Elaborate the point.
Q.5 How does Stanley Fish logically prove the multiplicity of meaning. 10