COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Paper – II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All questions are compulsory.
1. Which was “Melic” poetry for the Greeks ?
(1) The monodic
(2) The elegiac
(3) The choric
(4) The Pastoral
2. Who among the following are associated with the theorization of “Polysystem” ?
I. Itamar Evan – Zohar
II. Jonathan Culler
III. Paul Van Tieghem
IV. Jose Lambert
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I & III
(2) II & III
(3) I & IV
(4) III & IV
3. The German equivalent of the term, ‘thematology’ is _____.
(1) Gestalt
(2) Stoffgeschichte
(3) Wissenschaft
(4) Geistesgeschicht
4. The Sanskrit short poem was called
(1) Campu
(2) Rupaka
(3) Muktaka
(4) Nibaddha
5. The first novel in Odia is titled
(1) Chamana Aathaguntha
(2) Bibasini
(3) Padmamali
(4) Lachhama
6. Which of the following statements is true of Baroque and Mannerism ?
(1) They are proper designations for literary period styles.
(2) They are related only to German literature.
(3) They mean to vindicate Aristotle’s theories.
(4) They are not proper definitions.
7. In _______, an author suggests for an artistic purpose another literary work, or even the style of an entire period by a combination of style and materials.
(1) adaptation
(2) stylization
(3) creative treason
(4) parody
8. The first Malayalam novel to be adapted into film was
(1) T. Shivashankar Pillai’s Coir
(2) O. Chandu Menon’s Induleka
(3) Rajasekhara Pillai’s Marthandaverma
(4) Basheer’s My Grandfather had An Elephant
9. Who is the editor of the book Poisoned Bread : Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit literature ?
(1) Vilas Sarang
(2) Arjun Dangle
(3) Kiran Nagarkar
(4) Maya Pandit
10. Which of the following is not a contribution to the newly founded cultural studies field in England ?
(1) Uses of literacy
(2) Culture and Society
(3) Notes Toward a Definition of Culture
(4) The Long Revolution
11. Who makes the statement, “the period as a mode of classification, corresponds to the concept in philosophy, and to the class in natural science” ?
(1) Rene Wellek
(2) R.M. Meyer
(3) Benedetto Croce
(4) Claudio Guillen
12. Grounds for Comparison was written by
(1) Rene Wellek
(2) H.M. Posnett
(3) Harry Levin
(4) Anna Balakian
13. Who is the author of Repossessing the World : Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women ?
(1) Margaret Atwood
(2) Helen Buss
(3) Alice Munro
(4) Susanna Moodie
14. Who among the following is not one of Sharatchandra’s heroines ?
(1) Kiranmayi
(2) Achala
(3) Charulata
(4) Abhaya
15. The author of the book, The Myth of Sisyphus is
(1) Salvador Dali
(2) Albert Camus
(3) Andre Breton
(4) Max Jacob
16. The translation of the Tamil work Thiruvachakam done by G.V. Pope appeared in the year :
(1) 1910
(2) 1900
(3) 1890
(4) 1880
17. In Teesing’s view, generation is the spearhead of a/an
(1) Era
(2) Period
(3) Epoch
(4) Movement
18. Identify the novel where music plays an important role :
(1) The Magic Fountain
(2) Dr. Faustus
(3) Jane Eyre
(4) Scarlet and Black
19. The film version of Alice Walker’s novel The Colour Purple is directed by
(1) Steven Spillberg
(2) Woody Allen
(3) Francis Ford Coppola
(4) Quentin Tarantino
20. Horst Frenz in his essay on translation refers to the translation of Bhagavad Gita done by
(1) Friedrich Gundalf
(2) Swami Prabhavanananda and Christopher Isherwood
(3) G.V. Pope
(4) George Sampson
21. Who among the following talks about “The heresy of paraphrase” ?
(1) I.A. Richards
(2) T.S. Eliot
(3) William Empson
(4) Cleanth Brooks
22. Who is the author of Languages and Literatures of India ?
(1) Shishir Kumar Das
(2) Suniti Kumar Chatterjee
(3) Indra Nath Choudhari
(4) G.N. Devy
23. Tripuraneni Ramasamy’s work _______ in 4 cantos was an attack on the ancient puranas.
(1) Sutapuranam
(2) Kooni
(3) Kuppusamy Satakam
(4) Sambukavadha
24. Race is a problematical idea in cultural studies because
(1) it divides humanity into separate blocks.
(2) it creates cycles of violence and episodes of international terror.
(3) it is associated with biological discourses of intrinsic and inevitable superiority and subordination involving power, control and domination.
(4) it obstructs the realization of world peace by exacerbating the feelings of hate or hostility.
25. Who among the following underlines the difficulty of defining comparative literature, holding the field to be “fragmented and pluralistic” ?
(1) Henry Remak
(2) Paul Van Tieghem
(3) Oscar James Campbell
(4) Steven Totosy de Zepetnek
26. Paradise Lost shows an influence of
(1) Paganism
(2) Pre-Christian theology
(3) Christianity and the Renaissance
(4) Greek nihilism
27. Apart from reflecting on specific literary features Horace’s Ars Poetica touches upon
(1) Music
(2) Painting
(3) Sculpture
(4) Architecture
28. The Kavyamimansa that follows Dhvanyaloka is a work by
(1) Jagannatha
(2) Bhoja
(3) Rajasekhara
(4) Mahimabhatta
29. Getthold Ephraim Lessing in his classical essay. “Laocoon” observes that time is the element of _____ and pace the element of the _____.
(1) poetry, drama
(2) poetry, plastic arts
(3) prose, poetry
(4) novel, visual arts
30. Trousson calls the “Hundred Years War” a _____ but “Joan of Arc a” _____.
(1) Motif, Stoff
(2) Motif, subject
(3) Theme, subject
(4) Period, characters
31. _____ provides the materials or the basic part of materials for the plot of the work.
(1) Source
(2) Imitation
(3) Analogy
(4) Mannerism
32. Which of the following theorists objected to a study of thematology as it slights continuity and thus completeness ?
(1) Max Koch and Karl Goedeke
(2) Raymond Trousson and Georges Polti
(3) Goethe and Curtius
(4) Elizabeth Frenzel and Harry Levin
33. Identify the author of the book Literary Origins of Surrealism :
(1) Alois Hofman
(2) Anna Balakian
(3) H. Root
(4) Mark Spilka
34. In the case of _____ studies there can be no question of influence in proper sense, but only affinities.
(1) Source
(2) Imitation
(3) Parallel
(4) Genre
35. Gustav Flaubert’s Salammbô is a
(1) Bildungsroman
(2) Historical novel
(3) Diary novel
(4) Picaresque novel
36. Identify the work of the poet Tenali Ramakrishna :
(1) Mahaprastham
(2) Panduranga Mahatmyanmu
(3) Kappalu
(4) Yenki Paatalu
37. Baudelaire’s translation of _____ is an instance of translation by a poet.
(1) Robert Frost
(2) Edgar Allan Poe
(3) Rita Dove
(4) Emily Dickinson
38. Identify the author of the essay, “Contemporary cultural studies : An Approach to the study of Literature and Society.”
(1) Louis Althusser
(2) Terry Eagleton
(3) T.S. Eliot
(4) Richard Hoggart
39. Which of these statements is true ?
(1) Karukku is translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom.
(2) Karukku is translated by Ambai.
(3) Karukku is translated by Bama.
(4) Karukku is translated by Gayatri Spivak.
40. Which novel of Amitava Ghosh has become a “Key text for postcolonial eco-critics” ?
(1) Shadow Lines
(2) Sea of Poppies
(3) The Hungry Tide
(4) The Calcutta Chromosome
41. Who speaks of periodization as at once “notional” and “real” ?
(1) H.H. Remak
(2) Horst Frenz
(3) Ulrich Weisstein
(4) S.S. Prawer
42. Who among the following does not exert an influence on literary works ?
(1) Translators
(2) Reviewers
(3) Travellers
(4) Printers
43. Sethumadhavan’s “Velutha Koodarangal” is a _______.
(1) Short story
(2) Essay
(3) Poem
(4) Drama
44. Which report on professional standards recommends that comparative literature departments “actively recruit faculty from non-European literature departments and from allied disciplines” ?
(1) The Saussy report
(2) The Levin report
(3) The Bernheimer report
(4) The Greene report
45. Which of the following terms, as used by Aristotle, means a reversal ?
(1) Anagnorisis
(2) Nemesis
(3) Peripeteia
(4) Hamartia
46. After Bable is a book by
(1) Eugene Nida
(2) Maria Vargas Llosa
(3) George Steiner
(4) Jose Lambert
47. That the essential difference between two genres of literature, according to Weisstein, is observed by the presence of terms that are similarly spelt or pronounced is an instance of
(1) Contamination
(2) Linguistic parallelism
(3) Voice Over
(4) Defamiliarization
48. A study of the Oedipal theme from the classical age to the present is an instance of
(1) Historical study
(2) Anachronic study
(3) Diachronic study
(4) Synchronic study
49. A study of the history of literatures of all nations regardless of their scope and aesthetic and historical significance would be called
(1) National Literature
(2) World Literature
(3) Regional Literature
(4) General Literature
50. Who among the following figures in the Lake school of poetry ?
(1) Keats
(2) Shelley
(3) Byron
(4) Wordsworth
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