M.A. (Semester IV) Examination, 2017
ENGLISH (PAPER VI)
CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL THEORY
Day Date: Tuesday, 16-05-2017 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 Answer the following questions in one word, phrase or one sentence
each:
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Eagleton's essay Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism is a reaction
to essay 'Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism'.
Fredric Jameson's Karl Marx's
Jacques Derrida's Roland Barthes
Showalter begins her essay by pointing out a dialogue by and
Catherine Stimpson.
Kate Millett Simone de Beauvoir
Carolyn Heilbrun Catherine Deneuve
Jacques Derrida's essay "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the
Human Sciences" is published in the year
1970 1971 1973 1983
Derrida in his essay mentions book "The Raw and the Cooked".
Heidegger's Lévi-Strauss'
Marcel Mauss' G. Genette
Simulacra and Simulation is a philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard
published in the year
1918 1980 1981 1979
In his essay "Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism" Eagleton
discusses the of Postmodernism.
Pattern Structure Plurality Aesthetics
Stephen Greenblatt examines two distinct models of the aspects of works
of art viz. and wonder.
Resonance Culture Reality Amusement
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Showalter has coined the term for the 'specialized
critical discourse' that uses women's writing as its exclusive
subject.
Genecritic Gynocritics Femicritic Womanism
Wolfgang Iser advocates a analysis".

Phenomenological
Logical Artistic Structural
10) According to Wolfgang Iser the "literary work has two poles,
which we might call the and the aesthetic".
Artistic Creative Literary Cultural
Q.2 Answer the following Questions (Any Five) 10
Describe the concept Base and Superstructure.
Define the term Erasure.
What is meant by Phonocentrism?
Explain the term Thick Description.
What according to Jean Baudrillard is Hyperreality?
Explain the term Hegemony.
Q. 3 Answer any two of the following questions briefly. 06
What is Psychoanalysis?
Explain the terms Post-structuralism.
Write a note on New Historicism.
Answer briefly any two of the following questions. 04
What is Jacques Derrida's concept of Deconstruction?
Write a note on Marxist Theory.
Emergency of Eco-Feminism in 19th Century.
Q.4 How does Jean Baudrillard distinguish between Simulacra and
Simulation?
10
OR
Showalter has tried to analyze in detail the belief that feminist
criticism is in wilderness, which means, feminist critics are not
capable enough to produce coherent speculations. Do you agree
with this?
Q.5 "Reading causes the literary work to unfold its inherently dynamic
character". Elaborate the view of Wolfgang Iser in your own words.