M.A. (Semester IV) (CBCS) Examination, 2017
ENGLISH (PAPER VI)
CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL THEORY
Day Date: Tuesday, 16-05-2017 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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High modernism, according to was born at stroke with
mass commodity culture.
Jameson Eagleton Althusser Lyotard
'The Postmodern Condition' is written by
De Man Terry Eagleton
Jean-Francois Lyotard John Locke
'Every signifier leads not to a definite or end signified but to
another signifier' is the view of
Jacques Derrida Lacan
Stephen Greenblatt John Hopkin
Derrida substitutes trace for
Signifier Sign Signified Meaning
'There is nothing outside the text' is the formulation of
Barthes Derrida Stanly Fish Levi-Strauss
Who was Hungarian Marxist Critic?
John Locke Paul de Man
Perry Anderson George Lukacs
is a term introduced by Jean- Francois Lyotard.
Hyperreality Grand Narrative
Erasure Dissemination
Who is the writer of 'Simulacra and Simulation?
Jean Lyotard Jean Baudrillard
Fredric Jameson De Man
'The generation by models of a real without origin or reality' is
known as
Significance Hyper reality
Act of speech Virtual reality
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10) Who is the writer of 'The Order of Things'?
Michel Foucault John Peters
Umberto Eco Daniel Boorstin
11) In the 1950 Claude Levi-Strauss first adopted technique
of language analysis to analytic myth criticism?
Thick Description Hegemony
Dissemination Mytheme
12) Clifford Geertz adopted the term, Thick Description from
Gilbert Ryle.
Historian Philosopher Linguist Critic
13) Who is the author of 'Das Kapital'?
Kate Millett George Lukacs
Louis Althusser Karl Marx
14) is the author of the Interpretation of dream?
Sigmund Freud James Frazer
Lacan Northrop Frey
Q.2 Write short answer [Any seven]: 14
Explain Base and Superstructure.
What is phonocentrism?
Explain the critical term master narrative?
Explain the meaning of mytheme.
What is the meaning of dissemination?
Explain the critical term thick description.
What does it mean by hyperreality?
Give a brief note on Hegemony?
What is discursive practice?
Q.3 Write short notes (Any 08
Explain the duties of the post- structuralist critics.
Explain Freud's main ideas about psychoanalysis.
Explain the basic of Marxism and the Marxist model of
society.
Write short-notes on any two of the following: 06
Explain Derrida's concept of writing and speech.
What are the limitations of New Historicism?
What are the basic assumptions of Feminism?
Q.4 Discuss Elaine Showalter's analysis of the belief that feminist
criticism is in wilderness.
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OR
What are the arguments presented by Derrida in favour of
multiplicity of interpretations?
Q.5 Comment on Terry Eagleton's views on the achievement of classic
modernist art, avant-garde art, socialism and capitalism.