COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Paper – II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All questions are compulsory.
1. Which of the following is an example of an Anachronism ?
(A) Clocks in Julius Ceasar
(B) Flying saucers in science fiction
(C) Elves in a farry tale
(D) The Trojan horse in Iliad
2. Who defines General Literature as “The study of literature without regard to linguistic frontiers” ?
(A) S.S. Prawer
(B) Ulrich Weisstein
(C) R.A. Sayce
(D) Anna Balakian
3. Anandakumar’s Tamil translation Iyandiran won the ______.
(A) Gnanpith Award
(B) Sahitya Akademi Award
(C) Yashpal Award
(D) Vaylar Award
4. Identify the founder of the Revue de Littérateur Comparee
(A) Paul Van Tieghem
(B) Fernand Baldensperger
(C) Jean Marie Carré
(D) Marius – François Guyard.
5. What is the proper chronological sequence for the state of the discipline reports in Comparative Literature ?
I. Haun Saussy
II. Harry Levin
III. Charles Bernheimer
IV. Thomas Greene
Codes :
(A) III I II IV
(B) III IV II I
(C) II IV III I
(D) I II III IV
6. Match the authors with the languages in which they write.
7. Which among the following groups belong to American school of Comparative Literature ?
(A) H.H. Remak, Harry Levin, Arthur Kunst
(B) J. Marie-Carre, F. Baldensperger, P. Van Tieghem
(C) Viktor Shklovsky, Roman Jakobson, Boris Eichen Baum
(D) Kasper Daniel Morhof, Friedrich Bouterwek, Gottfrid Eichhorn
8. The Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies was set up in
(A) 1960
(B) 1964
(C) 1968
(D) 1970
9. Match the following :
10. Match the Bhakti poets with their professions :
11. Who among the following described literary history as ‘the Non-subject par excellence’ ?
(A) Harry Levin
(B) Leon Edel
(C) F.W. Bateson
(D) George Watson
12. With which theorist is the concept of ‘ideological state of Apparatus’ associated ?
(A) Louis Althusser
(B) Claude Levi-Strauss
C) Ferdinand de Saussure
(D) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
13. Nirmal Verma’s Antim Aranya has been translated into English as
(A) The Last Landscape
(B) The Last Wilderness
(C) The Ultimate Landscape
(D) The Ultimate Wilderness
14. An early attempt at negotiating between Marxist and Psychoanalytic literary Criticism was attempted by
(A) Bertolt Brecht
(B) Sigmund Freud
(C) Christopher Caudwell
(D) D.D. Kosambi
15. The person credited with initiating the genres of Gadya, Nagada and Sataka in Telugu literature is
(A) Palakuriki Somanatha
(B) Nannaya
(C) Buddha Reddy
(D) Tikkanna
16. Queer Theory as designated by Paullina Palmea is concerned with
(A) Narcissism
(B) Libertarian Lesbianism
(C) Instinctual Drive
(D) Scopophilia
17. Lawrence Venuti argues that translation tends to
I. be an invisible practice
II. rewrite the text in opposition to the prevailing styles of the receiving culture.
III. reinforce the linguistic or cultural differences of the foreign text.
IV. marginalize practicing translators.
Codes :
(A) I and III are correct
(B) I and II are correct
(C) I and IV are correct
(D) II and III are correct
18. Rasa is the combination of
(A) Vibhava and Anubhava
(B) Sthayibhava and Vibhava
(C) Bhava, Anubhava, Vybhicharibhava, Stayibhava
(D) Vibhava, Anubhava, Vyabhicharibhava
19. The ‘oriental form’ that influenced Ezra Pound was
(A) Kavya
(B) Ghazal
(C) Vasana Kavithai
(D) Haiku
20. Marxist-feminist approach to literature has been articulated by
(A) Shulamith Friestone
(B) Donna Haraway
(C) Kate Millett
(D) Judith Fetterley
21. Prefiguration in its original sense refers to
(A) Symbolic correspondence between motifs and mythologies
(B) Characters and events in the New Testament of the Bible.
(C) Characters and events in the Mahabharata.
(D) Similarities between types in folklore and modern poetry.
22. Which among the following are states of the discipline studies on Comparative Literature ?
I. The Bernheimer Report
II. The Brundtland Commission Report
III. The Levin Report
IV. The Club of Rome Report
Codes :
(A) II and III
(B) I and III
(C) II and IV
(D) III and IV
23. The concept of Thematology has been attacked by
(A) Jean Marie Carré
(B) Stith Thomson
(C) F. Baldensperger
(D) V. Weisstein
24. Select a pair of Novels with the common theme of adultery and its consequences.
(A) Chemmeen and Kutravali
(B) Avasthe and Godaan
(C) Sumati Satakam and Paraja
(D) Durgeshnandini and Gora
25. The codification of Sanskrit Grammar in the Vyakarana Mahabhasya was done by
(A) Abhinava Gupta
(B) Vamana
(C) Patanjali
(D) Bharata
26. A Seme is the basic unit which constructs
(A) Language
(B) Grammar
(C) A sign system
(D) A text
27. Synchronic study of literature deals with
(A) Literatures across time
(B) Literatures across space
(C) Literatures read and written at different times but in the same space.
(D) Literatures written at the same time in different places.
28. Which of the following film makers made a Cinematic version of Premchand’s ‘Kafan’ ?
(A) Satyajit Ray
(B) Mrinal Sen
(C) Ritwik Ghatak
(D) Gautam Ghosh
29. Match the following :
30. Match the region with the local performance form :
31. The Rishi sect belongs to
(A) Benaras
(B) Kashmir
(C) Kanyakumari
(D) Goa
32. Kalilah wa Demna is the Persian version of
(A) Hitopdesa
(B) Kathasaritsagar
(C) Pan– catantra
(D) Ramayana
33. Which of the following pairs of concepts deal with literary historiography ?
I. Stoff – Rohstoff
II. Prophane – Metaphane
III. Base – Superstructure
IV. Ego – Super ego
Codes :
(A) I and II
(B) I and IV
(C) II and III
(D) II and IV
34. Who is credited with making a distinction between an ‘implied reader’ and an ‘actual reader’ ?
(A) Wolfgang Iser
(B) Terry Eagleton
(C) Stanley Fish
(D) Hans Robert Jauss
35. Choose the right sequence :
(A) Jacobean, Elizabethan, Georgian, Victorian.
(B) Georgian, Jacobean, Victorian, Elizabethan.
(C) Elizabethan, Jacobean, Victorian, Georgian.
(D) Victorian, Georgian, Elizabethan, Jacobean.
36. The intermediary between Indian literature and Western Indology was
(A) W.W. Hunter
(B) William Jones
(C) George Greirson
(D) Ropea Lethbridge
37. Choose the right sequence :
(A) Ritikaal, Dwivediyug, Bhaktikaal, Premchandyug.
(B) Bhaktikaal, Ritikal, Dwivediyug, Premchandyug.
(C) Dwivediyug, Premchandyug, Ritikaal, Bhaktikaal.
(D) Premchandyug, Ritikal, Bhaktikaal, Dwivediyug.
38. Itamar Even Johar is associated with ______ theory.
(A) Reader response
(B) Deconstruction
(C) Poly system
(D) Semiotic
39. The reception of elements from one literary system into another is dependent on the structures of the receiving system as the ‘donor’ system. This case has been argued by
(A) Durisin
(B) Shklovsky
(C) Saussure
(D) Bernheimer
40. Drsya Kavya refers to
(A) Painting
(B) Drama
(C) Film
(D) Music
41. In terms of situation and meaning there are ________ Sandhis in natyavastu.
(A) 5
(B) 6
(C) 10
(D) 4
42. The theme of Faust appears in the works of the following writers :
I. Goethe
II. Mann
III. Tolstoy
IV. Joyce
The right combination according to the code is
(A) I and III are correct
(B) I and II are correct
(C) II and IV are correct
(D) III and IV are correct
43. Ramcaritmanas is written in
(A) Hindi
(B) Awadhi
(C) Dogri
(D) Dakkhni
44. Which of the following scholars do we associate with Gramsci’s idea of organic intellectuals in his institutional practice ?
(A) Richard Hoggart
(B) Tony Bennnett
(C) Stuart Hall
(D) Raymond Williams
45. Which of these novels uses rock music as part of thematic development ?
(A) Vikram Seth, An Euqual Music.
(B) Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
(C) E.M. Forster, Howard’s End.
(D) Peter Ackroyd, English Music.
46. Between 1816 and 1820 Rammohan Ray translated
(A) The Ramayana
(B) Five Upanishads
(C) The Mahabharata
(D) The Arthashastra
47. Psychoanalytic literary criticism is based on the writings of
(A) Freud and Lacan
(B) Freud and Fromm
(C) Gauss and Iser
(D) Said and Foucautt
48. The genre theorist who associated genres with organisms, moving from birth, to growth to death was
(A) Claudio Gullen
(B) Emile Brunitiere
(C) Alstair Fowler
(D) Tzvetan Todorov
49. Commentaries on Aristotle’s Poetice were written by
I. Ibn Sina
II. Ibn Khaldoun
III. Ferdawsi
IV. Ibn Rushd
The right combination according to the code is
Codes :
(A) I and IV are correct
(B) II and III are correct
(C) II and I are correct
(D) III and I are correct
50. Who said, “Expressed visually, national literature would be a study of literature within walls, comparative literature across walls general literature above walls” ?
(A) H.H. Remak
(B) Ulrich Weisstein
(C) S.S. Prawer
(D) René Wellek
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