1 Who is of the view that "myths and legends are the ideal forms of the tragic destiny of human condition"

Frenzel

Weisstein

Goethe

Trousson

2 Who speaks of periodisation as at once 'notional' and

S S Prawer

Horst Frenz

H H Remak

Ulrich Weisstein

3 Who, among the following, defines Comparative Literature as "the quintessential 'undisciplined discipline

George Steiner

Robert Wenninger

Susan Bassnett

Gayatri Spivak

4 How many languages are there in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India

18

22

20

19

5 Which of the following novels by Jayakanthan won the Sahitya Akademi award

Sila Nerankalil Sila Manitarkal

Sundara Kandam

Kohila Enna Ceitu Vittal

Unnaipol Oruvan

6 Chronotope means

Chronological time

Time and place taken together for the purpose of analysis

Time and place

Changing time and place

7 Which of the following wrote on the concept of World Literature

Goethe, Rabindranath Tagore, Karl Marx

David Damrosch, Eugene Eoyang, Matthew Arnold

Goethe, Raja Rammohan Roy, M K Gandhi

Hafiz, Goethe, Tolstoy

8 The literary work, "The Approach to Literature" (1945) was written by

Anna Balakian

Irene Behrens

Irwin Ehrenpreis

Von Wiese

9 In the study of Literary History, Plutarch's Biography would constitute a

Source

parody

recovery

imitation

10 The term was popularized by

Austin Warren

Joel Spingarn

Northrop Frye

Alex Preminger

11 Match the work with the genre
Urubhangam Itihasa
Meghadutam Akhyayika
Dasakumaracharita Sandeshkavya
Mahabharata Nataka

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12 According to the literary historian, B Trawick, the beginning of the Italian Renaissance is in the year

1321

1341

1353

1453

13 Which dance forms use the padam as accompaniment

Odissi and Kathakali

Mohiniattam and Kuchipudi

Kathakali and Bharatnatyam

Manipuri and Kathak

14 Kabuki and Noh dramatic forms

Irish

Chinese

Japanese

Russian

15 Who is credited with inventing the trilogy and introducing a second character to the Greek stage

Euripedes

Seneca

Plautus

Aeschylus

16 The term 'thematology' was coined by

Elisabeth Frenzel

Rene Wellek

Harry Levin

Max Koch

17 Motifs relate to and themes to

events, effects

ideas, structures

situations, characters

forms, styles

18 George Polti emulated in his definition of thirty-six dramatic situations

Carlo Gozzi

Harry Levin

Richard Goering

Van Tieghem

19 'Letter to a Hindu' is written by

M.A. Jinnah

Mao Tse Tung

Leo Tolstoy

Amit Shah

20 Who, among the following, is best known for the use of the stream-of-consciousness technique

Joseph Conrad

George Eliot

Marcel Proust

Thomas Mann

21 Who, among the following, has been opposed to stoff criticism
Benedetto Croce
Baldensperger
Rene Wellek
Sibaji Bandyopadhyay

The right combination according to the code is

and

and

and

and

22 According to Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta, thematology has received fresh impetus from
The writings of Michel Riffaterre,
Bakhtin's theory of intertextuality,
The psychoanalytic and stylistic schools of criticism,
South Asian cultural studies

The correct answer according to the code is

only

and

and

only

23 Which of the following texts deals with grammar and rhetorical devices of the manipravalam

Srikrishna Karnamritam

Lilatilakam

Meghadutam

Anandhamadam

24 The smallest thematic unit, is discussed as 'cluster of images' in a book on Shakespeare by

Caroline Spurgeon

Raymond Trousseau

Harry Levin

Paul van Tieghem

25 In this Malayalam version of the Ramayana, the whole story is sung by a parrot Identify the author

M T Vasudev Menon

O V Vijayan

Thurcat Ezhuttacchan

Kumaran Asan

26 Saadat Hasan Manto's short story, "The Dog of Titwal", has recently been rewritten by Arif Ayaz Parrey and Wasim Helal in the form of

novel

short story

graphic narrative

an English translation

27 Damodar Mauzo is best known as a writer for his writings in

Hindi

Konkani

Kashmiri

Odia

28 wrote about the abduction of Samyukta by Prithviraj Chauhan

Vidyapati

Bihari

Chand Bardoi

Mulla Daud

29 Match the autobiography with the writer
My Experiments with Truth Rasosundari Devi
Ardhkathanak M K Gandhi
Amar Jiban Ismat Chugtai
Tedhi Lakeer Banarsidas

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30 An analogical study of the Tamil novel Kutravali and the Malayalam novel Chemmeen can be made, as their common theme is

Faust

adultery

quest

family reunion

31 Cultural exchanges between the major and minor streams in the Indian context have been termed and after

Sujit Mukherjee

Sunil Khilnani

G N Devy

Sudipta Kaviraj

32 Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital means

the way in which culture is marketed to increase tourism

the ways in which culture is marketed to increase the sale of nationally produced goods

the mass production of cultural icons

the idea that schools are not neutral and the scholastic success requires certain cultural understandings

33 The film, Teesri Kasam, is based on a short story called "Maare Gaye Gulfam" written by

Kalki

Kuvempu

Pudhumaipithan

Phaniswar Nath Renu

34 A key assumption of Cultural Studies is that people are part of a hierarchical structure of

culture

mediated communication

power

ideology

35 Which of the following novelists has been strongly influenced by the tradition of Western philosophy

Muriel Spark

A S Byatt

Evelyn Waugh

Iris Murdoch

36 According to Helen Gardner, in Eliot's Four Quartets, one can find analogies between the form of the poems and form

musical

mythical

cultural

architectural


37 Which of the following writers is associated with the sociology of literature

Lucien Goldmann

Frederic Nietzsche

Michel Foucault

Homi Bhabha

38 This man writes in Hindi, is a distinguished man of letters and has won the Jnanpith Award Identify from the following list

Kedarnath Singh

Chandrasekhar Kambar

D. Jayakanthan

Ramakant Rath

39 Ephraim Lessing's Laocoon which defines the limits of poetry and plastic arts finds illustrations in

The Aeneid

The Iliad

Odyssey

Oedipus Rex

40 Which of these plays does not have a trial scene

The Rope

The Merchant of Venice

Justice

A Winter's Tale

41 Literature and Science is written by

Aldous Huxley

C P Snow

Darko Suvin

Julian Drachman

42 According to Leon Edel, there is a direct influence of psychology on the movement in literature

Surrealist

Imagist

Pre-Raphaelite

Neoclassical

43 The novel Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley utilises technique in the narration

visual art

musical

poetic

structuralist

44 Which of the following poems by Shelley was subtitled "A Philosophical Poem"

"Prometheus Unbound"

"Ode to a Skylark"

"Ode to the West Wind"

Queen Mab

45 Erich Fromm and Karen Horney, originally from the discipline of psychology, formulate their theories of literature drawing upon and

sociology and anthropology

psychology and sociology

sociology and painting

painting and architecture

46 Which of the following is influenced by the Arthurian legends

T S Eliot

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Austin

Margaret Laurence

47 Match the translator with the work
Gayatri C Spivak Kanyasulkam
Jatindra K Nayak Ajoni
T Vijayakumar Breast Stories
K Sridhar and Alladi Uma Astride the Wheel

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48 The Urdu novel, Aag ka .arya has been translated into English by

Ismat Chugtai

Qurratulain Haider

Sadaat Hasan Manto

Rakshanda Jalil

49 Eugene Nida's approach to the translation process focuses on the

emitter

receptor

intermediary

translator

50 Match the authors with the languages in which they write
U R Ananthamurthy Kannada
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer Bangla
Kalyani Thakur Tamil
Sundara Ramaswamy Malayalam

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