1. The author of "Towards a Politics of Culture a theoretical statement about new Historicism, is

Stephen Greenblatt

H. Aram Veeser

Stephen Grgel

Michael Licona

2. Among these books which one not been written by Ngugi Thiongo

Decolonising the Mind

Homecoming

Moving the center

The Wretched of the Earth

3. Mughal paintings make an appearance which of the following novels

The Tainted Throne


The Empire of Silver


The Last Emperor


Winter on the Plain of Ghosts


4. An imaginative biography of the famous sculptor Ram Kinkar Baij was attempted by

Sourindra Mukhopadhyay


Samaresh Basu


Buddhadev Guha


Suchitra Bhattacharya


5. Mozart s Don Giovanni has been used by

Auden

Pound

Joyce

Eliot


6. Lust for Life is a biography of

Picasso


Van Gogh


Michel Angelo


Da Vinci


7. Which of the following is a coming of age narrative

Death in Venice


Disgrace


Down Second Avenue


Madam Bovary


8. The school of art form which generally influenced Ezra Pound is

Dadaism


Impressionism


Vorticism


Cubism


9. Nida s approach to translation in The theory and practice of Translation is primarily

Cultural


Historical


Sociolinguistic


Psycholinguistic


10. Thematologically the situation constitutes

a link between the stoff and the rohstoff


the motif and the action


the motif and the theme


the tale and the plot



11. The critic who asserts that "translation is our way to face the otherness of the universe" is

Paz


Bassnett


Brower


Barstone



12. Which of the following does NOT have partition as a theme

Bapsi Sidhwa s Cracking India


Vaikom Muhammad Basheer Balyakala Sakhi


Qurratulain Hyder s Aag Ka Darya


Kushwant Singh s Train to Pakistan



13. The translator's invisibility A history of translation is edited by

Jeremy Munday


Basit Hatim


Laurence Venuti


Itamar Evan Zohar



14. The critic who makes a significant contribution to the theory of translation by his detailed treatment of semantic versus communicative translation is

Catford


Newmark


Evan Zohar


Tomlinson


15. "This poet's conscious activity focuses primarily on the form. The world liberally supplies the subject matter, while the meaning arises spontaneously out of the fullness of his soul, "This meaning of stoff was articulated by

Curtius


Coleridge


Van Tieghem


Goethe


16. The critic who defines translation as the replacement of the source language text material by equivalent target language material is

Catford


Croce


Nida


Paz


17. The motive becomes leitmotiv, based on the dynamics of

Reiteration


Distortion


Coherence


Similarity


18. The study of folktales was revitalized by which scholar

Jakobson

Propp

Lukacs

Fowler


19. Which of the following can be seen as a Machiavellian text

Dr. Faustus


Macbeth


Absalom and Achitopel


Samson Agonists



20. The work of Milman Parry concerned the genre of

Novel


Comedy


Picaresque


Epic



21. The theorist who holds that Comparative Literature studies the influence that the authors or literatures of one nation have exerted on another is

Simon Jenne


Rene Wellek


Harry Levin


Claudio Guillen



22. One of the first writers in classical antiquity "to stress the segregation of literary genres" was

Quintilian


Longinus


Cicero


Aristotle



23. The study of literary reception points to

Sociology


Psychology


Philosophy


Ethics



24. All the following texts come under the category of 'dystopia' EXCEPT

Zamyatin We


Huxley Brave New World


Tolstoy Death of Ivan Illyeh


Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four


25. Vidyasagar's Bhrantibilas is an early reception of a play by

Moliere


Hugo


Shakespeare


Aeschylus


26. The world's first novel was produced in

Japan


India


Portugal


China


27. Which Mahabharata character has inspired maximum modern and post­modern retellings in the Indian languages

Gandhari


Bhima


Bhishma


Draupadi


28. The term Weltliteratur was coined by

Schelling


Goethe


Schlegel


Herder


29. While developing periodisation for modern Indian literary history, the concept of pro-phane and metaphane were developed by.

Ganesh Devy


Amiya Dev


Jasbir Jain


Sisir Kumar Das


30. Who among the following argued that Indian literary historiography must have an indigenous definition of history, an indigenous critical framework and an indigenous historiographical perspective

Sri Aurobindo


Sujit Mukherjee


K.M. George


Rabindranath Tagore



31. Vamana is an exponent of the school of

Dhvani

Riti

Vakrokti

Aucitya



32. Historiography in the Literary Studies Series is edited by

Ipshita Chanda


Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta


Sibaji Bandyopadhyay


Suchorita Chattopadhyay



33. Name the concept of Tolkappiam that comes close to Aristotle's theory of Catharsis and bridges the Gulf between the East and the West.

Meippaadu


Kaikilai


Perunthinai


Agathinai



34. The first history of Indian literature was written by

Morris Winternitz


Albrecht Weber


William Jones


G.U. Pope


35. Which of the following is not an aspect of Dhvani

Lak sana

Abhidha

Angika

Vyanjana


36. Ksemendra is an exponent of the
.
school of


Aucitya

Ala mkara

Dhvani

Riti


37. The concept of 'Hyper reality' was introduced by

Lukàcs


Eco


Lacan


Baudrillard


38. Which scholar first enunciated the concept of a "Literary History from below"

Walter Mignolo


David Damrosch


Amiya Dev


Dipesh Chakravorty


39. Comparative Literature Indian Dimensions is written by

K.M. George


Amiya Dev


Swapan Majumdar


E.V. Ramakrishnan


40. The telugu journal Sahiti, launched by the literary group Sahiti Samiti, was similar to the journal

Basumati


Sanibarer Chi thi


Sabuj Patra


Kallol


41. Hutchinson Macaulay Posnett's Comparative Literature was published in

1882

1886

1892

1898



42. Which comparatist excluded folklore from comparative literature

Wellek


Balakian


Baldensperger


Levin



43. Kiratarjuniam, according to the sastras, is designated as

Charit


Mahakavya


Viragatha


Akhyayika



44. "Comparative Literature in India", the landmark essay published in the Year book of Comparative and General Literature (YCGL) was written by

Chandra Mohan


Buddhadeva Bose


Ganesh Devy


D.W. Fokkema



45. Comparative Literature has been defined as "a branch of literary history… the study of international spiritual relations, of rapports de fait between Byron and Puskhin, Goethe and Carlyle, Walter Scott and Alfred de Vigny, and between the works, the inspirations and even the lives of writers belonging to different literatures" by

Carré


Brunetiere


Balakian


Remak


46. As a scholarly discipline littérature comparée matured in France in the of the nineteenth century.

first and second decades


third and fourth decades


fifth and sixth decades


seventh and eight decades


47. The author of Rhetoric of English India is

Gauri Viswanathan


Rajeswari Sundar Rajan


Sara Suleri


Sudhir Chandra


48. The novel that served as a foundation for Hindu nationalism was

Indulekha


Cha Mana Atha Guntha


Ananda Math


A Passage to India


49. The novel which uses cultural contrast as a theme is

Journey to Ithaca


Fasting, Feasting


Distant Drum


English, August


50. The study of literature and gender in the context of the making of Indian nationalism has been attempted by

Sumit Sarkar


Charu Gupta


Kunal Chakravarty


Samita Sen