Methodology of Literature MCQs : This section focuses on the "Methodology of Literature". These Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) should be practiced to improve the Methodology of Literature skills required for various interviews (campus interview, walk-in interview, company interview), placement, entrance exam and other competitive examinations.
Question 1
The study of signs is called_
A. linguistics
B. semiotics
C. scientology
D. stylistics
Question 2
Who coined the word netspeak to denote the language used in internetcommunication?
A. roland bartthes
B. michel foucault
C. david crystal
D. david lodge
Question 3
Who is the author of A House for Mr. Biswas?
A. shiv naipaul
B. kushwant singh
C. dom moraes
D. vs naipaul
Question 4
Who wrote Things fall Apart?
A. chinua achebe
B. wole soyinka
C. ismuth chugthai
D. yeats
Question 5
Train to Pakistan is a famous novel by Kushwant Singh based on
A. partition
B. untouchables
C. prostitution
D. famine
Question 6
Who wrote Summer in Calcutta ?
A. kamla das
B. mahasweta devi
C. mihir sen
D. satyajit ray
Question 7
Which of the following is not a novel by Chinua Achebe?
A. no longer at ease
B. arrow of god
C. a man of people
D. shame
Question 8
Achebe belongs to_
A. nigeria
B. sudan
C. south africa
D. ethiopia
Question 9
The poem which lends the title of Things fall Apart by Achebe is
A. easter 1916
B. byzantium
C. second coming
D. daffodils
Question 10
An Area of Darkness by VS Naipaul is a
A. travelogue
B. novel
C. shortstory
D. drama
Question 11
is a novel by Patrick White, the Australian novelist.
A. snake
B. voss
C. cosmos
D. raj quartet
Question 12
The Stone Angel is a novel written by Margaret Lawrence, a native Neepawa in
A. africa
B. england
C. australia
D. u s a
Question 13
The Guide is a novel written by
A. rk narayan
B. kr narayanan
C. anita desai
D. kirandesai
Question 14
Mukta Dhara is a play by
A. tagore
B. r k narayanan
C. anita desai
D. manjula padmanaban
Question 15
The term “Gitanjali” of the poem of the same name by Tagore means
A. god songs
B. good songs
C. verses
D. song offerings
Question 16
Who wrote the introduction to Gitanjali?
A. wb yeats
B. tagore
C. eliot
D. louis fischer
Question 17
Douglas Steward who wrote many verse plays like Kelly, Shipwreck, The GoldenLover and Fischer’s Ghost originally belonged to
A. australia
B. new zealand
C. trinidad
D. china
Question 18
Who wrote the book The Western Canon?
A. harold bloom
B. david lodge
C. william wordsworth
D. f r leavis
Question 19
Literary Theory: An Introduction is a book written by
A. harold bloom
B. terry eagleton
C. f.r.leavis
D. northrop frye
Question 20
Who wrote the book The Common Pursuit?
A. harold bloom
B. terry eagleton
C. f.r leavis
D. coleridge
Question 21
“Of the standard of Taste” is an essay by
A. david hume
B. harold bloom
C. david lodge
D. plato
Question 22
The term canon originaly meanin g a measuring rod, is of
A. hebrew
B. arab
C. chinese
D. greek
Question 23
The famous book on culture wars in USA, Illiberal Education : The politics of Sex andRace on Campus is written by
A. dinesh d’souza
B. amartya sen
C. arundhadi roy
D. noam chomsky
Question 24
Macaulay’s “Minutes on Indian Education” dates back to
A. 1835
B. 1935
C. 1845
D. 1925
Question 25
What does the acronym DWEM stands for ?
A. dear white european males
B. dead white english man
C. dead white european male
D. dear white english man
Question 26
Who made a distinction between implied reader and actual reader?
A. wolf gang iser
B. kamla das
C. mahasweta devi
D. terry eagleton
Question 27
Who translated Rubaiyat of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam into English?
A. homer
B. edward fitzgerald
C. harold bloom
D. terry eagleton
Question 28
Who wrote the book Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992)?
A. henry louis gates
B. harold bloom
C. dinesh d’souza
D. milton
Question 29
Who spoke about the concept of value in literature?
A. t s eliot
B. coleridge
C. frank kermode
D. wordsworth
Question 30
The word for copying another person’s ideas, words, or work and using as if they areyours is called
A. plagiarism
B. theft
C. robbery
D. copyright
Question 31
“Piers Plowman” is a poem by
A. cervantes,
B. wycliffe
C. william langland
D. tyndale
Question 32
means intended to give instruction, is applied to a work with aneducational value
A. didacticism
B. structure
C. textual criticism
D. sensualism
Question 33
Aestheticism means intended for_
A. learning
B. pleasure
C. teaching
D. spirituality
Question 34
My story is a fictional autobiography of
A. kamala das
B. a k ramanujam
C. indira nooyi
D. nissim ezikial
Question 35
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is of
A. nirad chaudhri
B. kamaladas
C. kushwant singh
D. dom moraes
Question 36
Who wrote the famous essay “What is an Author?” 1969?
A. roland bartthes
B. michel foucault
C. david crystal
D. david lodge
Question 37
Which of the following is a novel by Mulk Raj Anand?
A. a fine balance
B. untouchables
C. bye bye black bird
D. maneater of malgudi
Question 38
Who wrote Poetics?
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. longinus
D. horace
Question 39
What does the idea of “catharsis” by Aristotle mean?
A. emotion
B. fear
C. pity
D. purgation of pity and fear
Question 40
In which century did Shakespeare live?
A. eighteenth
B. nineteenth
C. twentieth
D. sixteenth
Question 41
Who wrote the essay “From work to Text”?
A. roman jakobson
B. roland barthes
C. todorov
D. david cristal
Question 42
The comparison between two different things by using like or as as in “O my love’slike a red red rose” is called a
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. epic simile
D. conceit
Question 43
The comparison between two different things by not using like or as as in “O mylove’s a red red rose” is called a_
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. epic simile
D. conceit
Question 44
Who used the word social construction for the first time in the book The SocialConstruction of Reality ?
A. david crystal
B. peter berger& tomas luckman
C. tomas luckman
D. eagleton
Question 45
A brand of criticism that argues that writing in English continues colonialism is called
A. neocolonialism
B. nativism
C. regionalism
D. practicalism
Question 46
Whose book is Imaginary Home lands?
A. salman rushdie
B. naipaul
C. vikram seth
D. bilkram chandra
Question 47
Who is considered as the father of sociology?
A. bipin chandra
B. romila thapar
C. emile durkheim
D. d d kosambi
Question 48
A book of synonyms is called
A. dictionary
B. reverse dictionary
C. thesaurus
D. oxymoron
Question 49
Who is the only writer who has won the Booker of Booker prize?
A. rushdie
B. hanif kureishi
C. arundhadi roy
D. david lodge
Question 50
Slavoj Zizek is a native of
A. iran
B. america
C. slovenia
D. italy
Question 51
O f the following
A. in defence of lost causes
B. the fragile absolute
C. the ticklish subject
D. the cultural turn
Question 52
What is the subtitle of The Fragile Absolute by Slavoj Zizek?.
A. why is the christian legacy worth fighting for?
B. is the christian legacy worth fighting for?
C. christian legacy
D. none of these
Question 53
Zizek’s favourite philosopher who influences his works most is
A. jacques lacan
B. lyotard
C. foucault
D. habermas
Question 54
Who is called “the French Freud”?
A. c j yung
B. jacques lacan.
C. lyotard
D. foucault
Question 55
Jacques lacan’s formulation of the concept of psycho‐sexual development has thefollowing three stages of symbolic, imagination and the
A. object
B. subject
C. self
D. mirror stage
Question 56
“The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious” is a celebrated essay by
A. jacques lacan
B. bakhtin
C. derrida
D. foucault
Question 57
Ferdinand de Saussure who played an important part in the development ofstructuralism is a _ linguist.
A. german
B. italian
C. british
D. swiss
Question 58
Course in General linguistics published in 1975 is written by
A. barthes
B. derrida
C. saussure
D. lacan
Question 59
The figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole as in“ten hands” for “ten workers” is called
A. simile
B. metaphor
C. personification
D. synecdoche
Question 60
“Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human sciences” is an essay by
A. saussure
B. lacan
C. jacques derrida
D. julia kristeva
Question 61
Which of the following books is not of Jacques Derrida?
A. of grammatology
B. dissemination
C. writing and dif erence
D. waste land
Question 62
Who coined the new word “difference” to mean “to differ” and “to defer” at the sametime?
A. lacan
B. derrida
C. barthes
D. tudor
Question 63
Who is the proponent of affective stylistics?
A. harold bloom
B. derrida
C. lacan
D. stanley fish
Question 64
Who says that all “reading is …….misreading”?
A. harold bloom
B. foucault
C. m h abrams
D. todorov
Question 65
Which critical school has its ideal the establishment of an authentic text?
A. new criticism
B. aesthetic criticism
C. textual criticism
D. structuralism
Question 66
wrote the text Principles of Textual Criticism .
A. james thorpe
B. vladimir propp
C. eliot
D. eagleton
Question 67
Who wrote the famous essay “The Death of the Author”?
A. roland barthes
B. lacan
C. foucault
D. derrida
Question 68
Whose book is The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis?
A. jacques lacan
B. siigmund freud
C. earnest jones
D. jung
Question 69
“The Philosophy of Composition” is by
A. keats
B. edgar allan poe
C. coleridge
D. tennison
Question 70
Which critic made a revaluation of Metaphysical poets and praised them for blendingstates of mind and feeling
A. t s eliot
B. f r leavis
C. samuel jonson
D. shelley
Question 71
wrote After the New Criticism(1980)
A. f r leavis
B. samuel jonson
C. frank lentricchia
D. shelley
Question 72
wrote Defence of poetry
A. shelley
B. keats
C. longinus
D. shakespeare
Question 73
The title of the book The Well Wrought Urn (1947) by Cleanth Brooks is taken fromthe poem by John Donne.
A. the flee
B. valediction
C. the canonization
D. the anniversary
Question 74
The term is suggestive of carefully worked out images that wereelaborated over a number of lines.
A. well wrought
B. simile
C. humour
D. zeitgeist
Question 75
According to Freud all human behavior is motivated by or Sexual energy.
A. libido
B. thanatos
C. eros
D. oedipus complex
Question 76
Oedipus Complex is a hypothesis developed by
A. adler
B. freud
C. jung
D. piaget
Question 77
Ernest Jones Hamlet and Oedipus originally published in 1910in the first fullscale study of major work
A. formalist
B. psychoanalytic
C. structuralist
D. textual
Question 78
Hamlet is a
A. tragedy
B. comedy
C. farce
D. novel
Question 79
Which critic spoke about four kinds of meaning?
A. ia richards
B. t.s.eliot
C. f rleavis
D. coleridge freud
Question 80
Who defined a good work as one which successfully communicates a valuableexperience?
A. coleridge
B. t.s.eliot
C. f.r.leavis
D. ia richards
Question 81
Gusto is a concept of the Romantic critic
A. hazlitt
B. coleridge
C. wordsworth
D. f.r.leavis
Question 82
“Horizon of expectation “ is a term used in the reception theory of
A. hans robert gauss
B. george gardener
C. robert c holub
D. j p stern
Question 83
Ecriture the French word is used for
A. speaking
B. reading
C. writing
D. note making
Question 84
Writing Degree Zero is a book written by
A. geoffrey hartman
B. roland barthes
C. derrida
D. barthes
Question 85
“Writerly books” and “Readerly books” are a distinction made by
A. samuel johnson
B. umberto eco
C. derrida
D. roland barthes
Question 86
The book The New Criticism 1941 is written by
A. john crowe ranson
B. ia richards
C. t.s.eliot
D. milton
Question 87
Which group of critics relied on “explication” or “close reading”?
A. structuralist
B. new critics
C. romantics
D. neo classical critics
Question 88
Who wrote the book Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)?
A. ts eliot
B. william empson
C. fr leavis
D. ia richards
Question 89
According to Allan Tate the meaning of good poetry is its _
A. tension
B. irony
C. paradox
D. extension
Question 90
Rene Wellek, American critic and Austin warren coauthored the book_ in1949
A. principles of literary criticism
B. theory of literature
C. language of fiction
D. on the sublime
Question 91
Who used the phrase “the heresy of paraphrase”?
A. cleanth brooks
B. austin warren
C. rene wellek
D. william empson
Question 92
Who wrote the works Practical criticism (1929) and Principles of Literacy Criticism (1924)
A. ia richards
B. austin warren
C. rene wellek
D. william empson
Question 93
Which important writer other than George Eliot and Henry James according to FRLeavis formed The Great Tradition in English novel?
A. d h lawrence
B. emilebronte
C. joseph conrad
D. golding
Question 94
Multiple meaning and plurisignation are alternative terms for the word
A. ambiguity
B. paradox
C. simile
D. metaphor
Question 95
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) by Albert Camus is an important work on
A. expressionism
B. impressionism
C. ambiguity
D. existentialism
Question 96
Who criticizes William Empson’s theory of ambiguity in “William Empson,Contemporary criticism and poetic diction”?
A. ezra pound
B. elder olson
C. allan tate
D. r s crane
Question 97
The idea of “depth psychology” an important antecedent of archetypal criticism is of
A. freud
B. adler
C. cg jung
D. piaget
Question 98
Allan Tate’s “Tension in poetry” appears in the book
A. one the limits of poetry
B. tensions in poetry
C. the limits of poetry
D. poetry
Question 99
denotes recurrent narrative designs, patterns of action, charactertypes, themes and images which are identifiable in literature, myths, dreams and even social rituals.
A. image
B. motif
C. archetype
D. mythology
Question 100
The slogan of the cultural movement launched by clack students in Paris in 1932 is
A. negritude
B. black art movement
C. black aesthetics
D. black movement
Question 101
Who wrote Second Sex, an important work of feminism?
A. simon de bouveur
B. sartre
C. toril moi
D. spivak
Question 102
Who was the person who led the Chavadar lake satyagraha on 25 December 1927?
A. dr ambedkar
B. gandhi
C. nehru
D. subash chandra bose
Question 103
As a revolt against caste oppression Dr Ambedkar got converted toOctober 1956.
A. buddhism
B. jainism
C. islam
D. christianity
Question 104
Why I am not a Hindu is a work by_
A. kanjah illaiah
B. b r ambedkar
C. spivak
D. bama
Question 105
WEB Du Bois’s idea that black people could never see oneself through their eyes butonly through the eyes of the white is called
A. white myth
B. multiple consciousnesses
C. double consciousness
D. false consciousness
Question 106
WEB Du Bois argued that the view that blacks were biologically inferior is notscientific in his book
A. the souls of the black folk
B. black skin white masks
C. the wretched of the earth
D. good earth
Question 107
Dirk Hoerder brilliant argues the European Renaissance understood as exclusivelyEuropean phenomena was in fact a mixture of cultural contributions in his book
A. cultures in contact
B. black skin white masks
C. the wretched of the earth
D. culture and anarchy
Question 108
Who coined the word Gynocriticism?
A. shakespeare
B. elaine showalter
C. virginia wolf
D. toril moi
Question 109
The suffragette movement is connected with _
A. marxism
B. ecocriticism
C. feminism
D. orientalism
Question 110
Which is Mary Wollstonecraft’s work on feminism
A. mad woman in the attic
B. a vindication of the rights of woman (1792
C. the subjection of women (1869
D. on the rights of women
Question 111
Who wrote the essay “The Black Arts Movement” of 1968?
A. larry neal
B. mal com
C. hl gates
D. gayle
Question 112
_represents a number of Afro‐Americans whose work shaped the socialand political turbulence of the 1960s
A. black arts movement
B. dalit movement
C. romantic movement
D. renaissance
Question 113
Who founded the Black Arts Repertory Theater/School in 1965 at Harlem?
A. martin luther king
B. imamu amiri baraka
C. le roi jones
D. wole soyinka
Question 114
Imamu Amiri Baraka was born as
A. le roi jones
B. wole soyinka
C. mary anne evans
D. martin luther
Question 115
Baraka’s play, Dutchman is often considered an exemplary product of the_
A. black arts movement
B. feminism
C. new criticism
D. ecoaesthetics
Question 116
“I have a Dream” is a famous speech by
A. malcom x
B. martin luther king
C. nehru
D. abdul kalam
Question 117
Id, egoand Super ego are the bi partition of the human psyche made by
A. freud
B. adler
C. althusser
D. s ramachandran
Question 118
Which feminist critic spoke about the need of a room for a woman to become awriter?
A. simon de boeuver
B. virginia wolf
C. toril moi
D. alice walker
Question 119
Donna Harraway’s notion of the “creature of the post – gender world” is called
A. cyborg
B. bisexual
C. hetero sexual
D. tansgender
Question 120
The term the French writer Halen Cixious used for feminine writing which is typicallyfeminine in style, language, tome and feeling is called
A. ecriture feminine
B. exciter feminine
C. feminist
D. feminism
Question 121
Who coined the term subaltern?
A. antonio gramsci
B. althusser
C. antonia negri
D. gayathri spivak
Question 122
Which of the following is a not a novel by Toni Morrison the 1993 Afro‐Americannobel prize winner?
A. the bluest eye
B. sula
C. song of solomon
D. a suitable boy
Question 123
Who classified the feminist authors into three main types : Femine phase 1840 – 1880, Feminist phase 1890 ‐ 1920s and the female phase.
A. elaine showalter
B. susan gubar
C. sandra gilbert
D. virginia wolf
Question 124
Sudras in Ancient India is a book written by .
A. bipin chandra
B. rs sharma
C. n ram
D. kosambi
Question 125
“Who was Sudras?”, book authored by DR BR Ambedakar was dedicated to .
A. ev ramaswami naikar
B. jyothi rao phule
C. bipin chandra
D. nehru
Question 126
Who was the leader of Dravida Munneta Kazhakam?
A. ev ramaswami naikar
B. george fernandes
C. vk krisna menon
D. chandrik kumaratunge
Question 127
Who edited the first volume of Subaltern Studies?
A. tt sree kumar
B. ranajith guhe
C. ijas ahammed
D. gayathri spivak
Question 128
Who authored the book In Theory?
A. tt sree kumar
B. ranajith gune
C. ijas ahamed
D. gayathri spivak
Question 129
Towards Dalit Aesthetics is a book by
A. bama
B. saram kumar limbalai
C. omprakash valmiki
D. ismath chugthai
Question 130
Myth literature and African world is a book by
A. nelson mandela
B. wole soyinka
C. naipaul
D. rushdie
Question 131
A female homo sexual is called a
A. bisexual
B. transgender
C. lesbian
D. queer
Question 132
Who is the author of Coming Out?
A. henry miller
B. jidith butler
C. jeffrey week
D. sinfield
Question 133
Who wrote the book Orientalism?
A. edward said
B. gayatri chakravorty spivak
C. franz fanon
D. gandhi
Question 134
is a person, especially a man who enjoys dressing as a member of theopposite sex.
A. transsexual
B. transvestite
C. hermaphrodite
D. bisexual
Question 135
is a person who feels comfortable living as a member of the opposite sex.
A. queer
B. gay
C. transsexual
D. hetro sexual
Question 136
Interventions is an international journal of
A. post colonial studies
B. new historicism
C. new criticism
D. post modernism
Question 137
The books Culture and Society (1958) and theUses of Literacy (1958) whichinaugurated movement are written by Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart respectively.
A. cultural studies
B. post colonial studies
C. new historicism
D. deconstruction
Question 138
In which year Richard Hoggart established the Burmingham Centre of ContemporaryCultural Studies?
A. 1946
B. 1956
C. 1967
D. 1964
Question 139
Mythologies a precursor of modern cultural studies is written by
A. roland barthes
B. homi j bhabha
C. w b yeats
D. northrop frye
Question 140
Who used the term “cultural materialism” for the first time?
A. raymond williams
B. jonathan dollimore
C. alan sinfield
D. karl marx
Question 141
Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield the British cultural materialists jointly wrotethe book Political Shakespeare(1985). Its subtitle is_
A. new essays in cultural materialism
B. essays in cultural materialism
C. cultural materialism : a reader
D. none of these
Question 142
Clifford Geertz, the new historicist used the term for the close analysisor “reading” of a particular social production or event to recover its meanings.
A. descriptions
B. thick descriptions
C. analysis
D. none of these
Question 143
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels jointly published Communist Manifesto in
A. 1992
B. 1990
C. 1993
D. 1991
Question 144
Which work begins with the statement “The History of all hitherto existing society isthe history of class struggles”.
A. german ideology
B. das capital
C. proletarians
D. communist manifesto
Question 145
Who described new historicism as “a reciprocal concern with the historicity of textsand textuality of history?
A. louis montrose
B. stephen green blatt
C. catherine galager
D. none of these
Question 146
is the term used by new historicists to suggest verbal formations whichare the “Ideological products” or “cultural constructs” of a specific area.
A. representations
B. mythologies
C. products
D. ideology
Question 147
The book The New Historicism, a collection of essays by new historicists, LouisMontrose, Stephen Green Blatt and others is edited by_
A. h aram veeser
B. louis montrose
C. stephen green blatt
D. catherine galager
Question 148
Who used the term “ecocriticism” for the first time in 1978?
A. william rueckert
B. raymond williams
C. leo marx
D. donald worster
Question 149
An early ecocritical work The country and the City (1973) is written by
A. raymond williams
B. william rueckert
C. leo marx
D. donald worster
Question 150
The book Romantic Ecology (1991) is written by the British critic
A. rachel carlson
B. joseph meeker
C. raymond williams
D. jonathan bate
Question 151
Who wrote the book Silent Spring (1962) on toxic effects of residue of chemicals?
A. rachel carson
B. william rueckert
C. raymond williams
D. leo marx
Question 152
is a term used for placing human beings at the centre of everything andits opposite is ecocentrism.
A. anthropocentrism
B. phonocentricism
C. logocentricism
D. technocentricsm
Question 153
Who coined the term “Literary ecology” in 1972?
A. william ruckert
B. rachel carlson
C. joseph meeker
D. raymond williams
Question 154
Who wrote the essay “nature” which argued that all human actions are irrationalbecause they try to change or alter the course of nature?
A. js mill
B. rachel carlson
C. joseph meeker
D. wordsworth
Question 155
Who wrote The Population Bomb (1972) one of the most popular environmentalistbooks ever written?
A. rachel carlson
B. paul ehrlich
C. joseph meeker
D. jonathan bate
Question 156
argue that patriarchal societies’ values and beliefs have resulted in theoppression of both women and nature.
A. ecofeminists
B. feminists
C. ecologists
D. economists
Question 157
Vandana Shiva’s book_ an important ecofeminist book saw ancient Indiaas possessing a more environment friendly culture.
A. mother earth
B. moby dick
C. staying alive
D. made from this earth
Question 158
The main charge of cultural Materialists against New Historicists is that theirreadings are
A. non political
B. historical
C. economical
D. political
Question 159
A term that regularly occurs in New Historicists books is_
A. hybridity
B. dialogism
C. intertextuality
D. circulation
Question 160
is an alternative term for Cultural Materialism
A. new historicism
B. deconstruction
C. structuralism
D. cultural poetics
Question 161
Of the following which is not a feature of post modernist writing
A. pastiche
B. parody
C. eclectic approach
D. symbolism
Question 162
Who wrote The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1984) which is ananalysis of various aspects of post modernism?
A. jean–francois lyotard
B. saussure
C. barthes
D. terry eagleton.
Question 163
Who put forward the proposition that all literary texts have gaps or lacunae, which isan important concept in reader‐response theory?
A. wolfgang iser
B. saussure
C. lacan
D. freud
Question 164
Who made a distinction between ‘open’ and ‘closed texts?
A. gayathri spivak
B. derrida
C. lacan
D. umberto eco
Question 165
In post colonialism the condition of being the subject of cross‐breeding iscalled_
A. marginality
B. colonialism
C. hybridity
D. modernism
Question 166
Who made a controversy by famously saying that the Gulf war did not take place
A. barthes
B. jean baudrillard
C. lyotard
D. saddam hussein
Question 167
Simulation and simulacra are whose notions?
A. jean budrillard’s
B. lyotard’s
C. barthe’s
D. babha’s
Question 168
The term “Social realism” is connected with
A. structuralism
B. marxist criticism
C. modernism
D. post structuralism
Question 169
Hungarian Marxist Critic Georg Lukacs developed a theory known asseeing literary works as reflections of a kind of system that was gradually unfolding
A. realism
B. expressionism
C. reflection
D. dadaism
Question 170
Which Marxist playwright is connected with the epic theatre?
A. bertolt brecht
B. theodor adorno
C. george lukas
D. engels
Question 171
Who of the following figures is not associated with Frankfurt School of Marxistaesthetics founded in 1923?
A. theodor adorno
B. max horkheimer
C. herbert marcuse
D. bertolt brecht
Question 172
Whose definition is “Art is the negative knowledge of the actual world”?
A. theodore adorno
B. marcuse
C. horkheimer
D. herbert marcuse
Question 173
Who wrote the essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Porduction”?
A. walter benjamin
B. bertolt brecht
C. theodor adorno
D. edward said
Question 174
Which Marxist critic developed the theory of homologies?
A. lucien goldman
B. adorno
C. lukacs
D. walter benjamin
Question 175
The first English Marxist Critic of note was who wrote Illusion and Reality is
A. brecht
B. gramsci
C. christopher caudwell
D. althusser
Question 176
Cyberpunk is a subspecies of
A. science fiction
B. novel
C. drama
D. poetry
Question 177
Fiction dealing with fiction is called
A. metafiction
B. metadrama
C. metanarative
D. metacriticism
Question 178
Grand narrative/metanarrative is a concept of_
A. lyotard
B. barthes
C. baudrillard
D. paul de man
Question 179
Who is the author of History of Sexuality?
A. derrida
B. foucault
C. henry miller
D. dh lawrence
Question 180
The term oriental and occidental mean and _respectively.
A. european and western
B. european and eastern
C. eastern and western
D. western and eastern
Question 181
Who wrote the book The Wretched of the Earth?
A. chinua achebe
B. wole soyinka
C. franz fanon
D. edward said
Question 182
The subtitle of the book The Empire Writes Back by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths andHellen Tiffin is ?
A. theory and practice
B. theory in post colonial literatures
C. theory and practice in post colonial literatures
D. practice in post colonial literatures
Question 183
Who wrote the essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
A. gayatri chakravorty spivak
B. chinua achebe
C. wole soyinka
D. edward said
Question 184
Who wrote the book The Location of Culture?
A. gayatri chakravorty spivak
B. chinua achebe
C. raymond williams
D. homi j bhabha