1. Which critic discusses "decentered form"

Terry Eagleton Raymond Williams


Pierre Macheray F.R. Leavis


2. Who is of the view the period, as a mode of classification corresponds, in the historical disciplines, to the concept in philosophy and to the class in natural science

Rene Wellek R.M. Meyer


Benedetto Croce H.P.H. Teesing


3. "Generation is the spearhead of a period" who says this

H.P.H. Teesing Van Tieghem


H.H. Remak Ulrich Weisstein


4. The term, "Thematics" was coined by

S.S. Prawer Harry Levin


Raymond Trousson Elisabeth Frenzel


5. Eugene Nida's approach to the translation process focuses on

the emitter the receptor


the intermediary the source text


6. Thinai is

Classification of landscape in Sangam literature


Classification of nayikas in Tamil literature


Classification of landscape in Sanskrit literature


Classification of nayikas in Sanskrit literature



7. The dominant political theorist of the 17th century who inspired many literary figures was

Blaise Pascal Rene Descartes


Thomas Hobbes John Milton


8. Who is the first literary critic who said, "Art is twice removed from reality"

Plato Sophocles


Euripides Longinus


9. According to Van Tieghem, a survey of European sentimental comedy would be an instance of

Comparative literature World literature


General literature National literature


10. The trend/movement, according to Ulrich Weisstein, common to literature and architecture, is

Expressionism Neo-classicism


Romanticism Baroque


11. Who proposed that poets must be banished from the ideal republic

Plato in his Republic Aristotle in his Poetics


Thomas More in his Utopia Philip Sidney in his Arcadia.


12. Paul Hazard almost omits thematology from comparative literature, as it does not involve

study of other arts literary history


history of ideas literary influences


13. Who, among the following, considered genre classification a waste of time

Eliseo Vivas Van Tieghen


Benedetto Croce Jeremias Gotthelf


14. According to postmodernism, emancipation from linguistically induced exploitation can only be gained through an awareness of the power of

Statistics Feelings


Facts Language


15. Who among the following coined the neologism "negritude"

Frantz Fanon Aime Cesaire


Leopold Sedor Senghor Leon gontram Damas


16. George Lukacs has three major critical concepts. What are those

Ambiguity, Serenity, Complexity Totality, Typicality, World Historical


Clarity, Conciseness, Precision Uniqueness, Method, Lucidity


17. Novels into Film, an analysis of the film version of several famous novels, is written by

Vishal Bhardwaj Satyajit Ray


George Bluestone ManiRatnam


18. Identify the author of the book Medieval Latin and the Rise of the European Love-Lyric

Kurt Wais Johannes Husle


Peter Drouke Hypolytte Taine


19. In Telugu literature the kavitraya (the three great poets) are

Bhupala, Tikanna, Yerrapragada Nannaya, Tikanna, Yerrapragada


Pedanna, Ketana, Nannaya Marana, Pedanna, Bhupala


20. Reuben Browser analysed a number of English translations of to illustrate the different degrees of adaptation.

Sophocle's Oedipus Rex Aeschylus Agamemnon


Goethe's Faust Plato's Republic


21. Which of the following texts is open to an analysis from the perspective of political theory

Henry IV I The Way of the World


The Birthday Party Major Barbara


22. provides the materials or the basic part of materials for the plot of a work.

Style Source


Analogy Translation



23. The Alwars and Nayanmars belong to the Bhakti Movement.

Kannada Tamil


Telugu Hindi


24. The archetypes of and 'animus' were mentioned by

Malarme Klein Carl G. Jung


Jessie Weston Sigmund Freud


25. Eugene O'Neil reworks on the Orestian trilogy of Aeschylus in the play,

Mourning Becomes Electra The Hairy Ape


Desire Under the Elms Beyond the Horizon


26. Identify the author of the statement, "These prose translations form Rabindranath Tagore have stirred my blood as nothing has for years. I have carried the manuscript with me for days reading them in railway trains, on top of omnibuses …"

C.K. Ogden T.S. Eliot


Edward Fitzgerald W.B. Yeats


27. The principle topic of discussion in the third international congress of literary history held in Lyons in 1939 was

Problem of literary types


Study of Thematology


Literary relationship between West and East.


Problem of literary translation


28. The origin of the legend of the chalk circle is

Japan Germany


Russia China


29. What is the meaning of the term 'Anagnorisis' as used by Aristotle in his theory of tragedy

the hero's ignorance about his tragic flaw


the hero's recognition of his tragic flaw


the hero's recognition of his adversity


the hero's realization of his tragic end


30. A study of Turgenev, Hawthorne Thackeray and Maupassant may well be called a study in

Comparative Literature World Literature


General Literature National Literature


31. The temple in South India dedicated to Drowpati, the heroine of Mahabharata, are instances of the combination of

folklore and society folklore and religion


literature and society architecture and music


32. An inherited text is a

historical work text that has inheritance as theme


translation work text that influences the later works


33. Who among the following has invoked the categories of prophane and metaphane in relation to the interaction between India and the West

G.N. Devy Sisir Kumar Das


Nirmal Verma Amiya Dev


34. Distinction was made between the syntagmatic relations of a word and its associative relations by

Chomsky Saussure


Schleiermacher Timothy Webb


35. Who places uniqueness as a historical category

Teesing Croce


Benno Von Wiese Emil Ermatinger


36. Who among the following makes recognition of and care for the other the central theme of his philosophy

Bakhtin Lacan


Levinas Baudrillard



37. Wellek and Warrea's Theory of Literature does not contain a chapter on

Literary history Literary Genres


Thematology Literature and other Arts


38. Holinshed's chronicles Plutarch's Biographics of the Greeks and Romans would constitute bonafide

Affinities Influences


Sources Discoveries


39. The comment, "Poetry is that which is lost in translation" was made by

P.B. Shelley Bernard Shaw


T.S. Eliot Robert Frost


40. Hayden White is associated with

Deconstruction New Historicism


Post Modernism Structuralism


41. In 1971 the first International Congress of comparative literature to be held in Asia met in

Delhi Formosa


Sri Lanka Tokyo


42. In which of these novels does music play an important role

Doctor Faustus The Magic Mountain


Scarlet and Black The Glassbead Game


43. Who is the editor of The Novel in India Its Birth and Development

T.W. Clark Stuart Blackburn


Nicholas Dirks David Washbrook


44. What does the term episteme signify

Archive Knowledge


Theology Scholarship


45. What is the general inspiration of the ideas of critics like Mand Baudkin, Northrop Frye and Wilson Knight

Freudian Psychology Jungian Psychoanalysis


Lacanian Psychoanalysis Existential psychology


46. The earliest literature in Kannada was composed by the

Jains Veerashaivas


Vaishnavas Nayakas


47. Before the Christian era, the Hebrew Old Testament was translated into

Greek Latin


Persian Arabic


48. In classical antiquity was one of the first writers to stress the segregation of literary genres

Piso Irene Behrens


Irvin Ehrenprers Cicero


49. The Tamil writer who has written a modern version of Mahabharata under the title Paandavapuran is

Bama Krithika


Ravikumar S. Ramakrishnan


50. In the case of studies there can be no question of influence in proper sence, but only affinities.

Source Imitation


Parallel Correspondence