M.A. (Semester III) (CBCS) Examination Mar/Apr-2018
English (Paper VI)
CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL THEORY
Time: 2½ Hours
Max. Marks: 70
Instructions: All questions are compulsory. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q.1
Choose the right answer from the alternatives given below.
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Who wrote An Anatomy of Criticism?
Northrop Frye
Jacques Derrida
Cleanth Brooks
Victor Shklovsky
Who is the author of Structural Poetics?
Roland Barthes
Victor Shklovsky
Stanley Fish
Jonathan Culler
Who are the founding fathers of Archetypal Criticism?
Stanley Fish W. K. Wimsatt
M. C. Beardsley Jacques Derrida
Sir James Frazer Carl Gustav Jung
Roland Barthes and Cleanth Brooks
„Structuralism is a mode of analysis of cultural artefacts that originate in the method of contemporary linguistics‟ is the definition given by
Roland Barthes
Jacques Derrida
Cleanth Brooks
Stanley Fish
„Original pattern or model which serves as the basis for writers of future‟ is known as
anatomy
archetypes
religion
deconstruction
is as a principle of structure in poetry.
Irony
Metaphor
Slimily
Image
Induction is based method of studying literature.
an analytical
an observation
an experimental
none of them
According to „Criticism is a science‟.
Northrop Frye
Victor Shklovsky
Stanley Fish
Myth and Religion
What do the become for a critic?
meaning
object
subject
discourse
10) The technique of art is to make objects
familiar
unfamiliar
clear
acquainted
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11) Fallacy means
judgment
value
an error
correction
12) Art as Technique is written by
Victor Shklovsky
M. C. Beardsley
Claude Levi-Strauss
T. S. Eliot
13) Collective unconscious is a term central to the psychology of
Carl Jung
M. C. Beardsley
Stanley Fish
Roland Barthes
14) The Verbal Icon deals with
Intentional Fallacy
Literariness
Close Reading
Defamiliarization
Q.2
Write answer the following. (Any seven)
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What is International Fallacy?
Explain the meaning of Fabula and Sjuzet.
What is Hermeneutic code?
What is Motif?
What is Close Reading?
What is the meaning of Literariness?
Explain the critical term Collective Unconscious.
What does it mean by Anxiety of influence?
Give a brief note on „Defamiliarization‟.
Q.3

Answer any two of the following.
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Explain general method of structural criticism.
Explain the term Author.
What is the principle of organic relationship?

Answer any two of the following.
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Give a brief note on Inductive movement towards the archetype.
What are the two types of reader-response criticism?
What do you mean by Russian Formalism?
Q.4
Explain how Brooks extends the meaning of irony to establish it as the principle of structure of poetry.
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OR
Discuss Northrop design of making literary criticism scientific and systematic with the help of Archetypal Criticism.
Q.5
Answer the following.
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"The multiplicity of the text is focused, not on the author, but on the reader" Discuss this in the light of The Death of Author.