COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Paper – II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All questions are compulsory.
1. The author of “Towards a Politics of Culture”, a theoretical statement about new Historicism, is _________
(A) Stephen Greenblatt
(B) H. Aram Veeser
(C) Stephen Grgel
(D) Michael Licona
2. Among these books which one has not been written by Ngugi Wa Thiongo ?
(A) Decolonising the Mind
(B) Homecoming
(C) Moving the center
(D) The Wretched of the Earth
3. Mughal paintings make an appearance which of the following novels ?
(A) The Tainted Throne
(B) The Empire of Silver
(C) The Last Emperor
(D) Winter on the Plain of Ghosts
4. An imaginative biography of the famous sculptor Ram Kinkar Baij was attempted by
(A) Sourindra Mukhopadhyay
(B) Samaresh Basu
(C) Buddhadev Guha
(D) Suchitra Bhattacharya
5. Mozart’s Don Giovanni has been used by
(A) Auden
(B) Pound
(C) Joyce
(D) Eliot
6. Lust for Life is a biography of
(A) Picasso
(B) Van Gogh
(C) Michel Angelo
(D) Da Vinci
7. Which of the following is a comingof- age narrative ?
(A) Death in Venice
(B) Disgrace
(C) Down Second Avenue
(D) Madam Bovary
8. The school of art form which generally influenced Ezra Pound is ________
(A) Dadaism
(B) Impressionism
(C) Vorticism
(D) Cubism
9. Nida’s approach to translation in The theory and practice of Translation is primarily _________
(A) Cultural
(B) Historical
(C) Sociolinguistic
(D) Psycholinguistic
10. Thematologically, the situation constitutes ________
(A) a link between the stoff and the rohstoff
(B) the motif and the action
(C) the motif and the theme
(D) the tale and the plot
11. The critic who asserts that “translation is our way to face the otherness of the universe” is ______
(A) Paz
(B) Bassnett
(C) Brower
(D) Barstone
12. Which of the following does NOT have partition as a theme ?
(A) Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India
(B) Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Balyakala Sakhi
(C) Qurratulain Hyder’s Aag Ka Darya
(D) Kushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan
13. The translator’s invisibility : A history of translation is edited by
(A) Jeremy Munday
(B) Basit Hatim
(C) Laurence Venuti
(D) Itamar Evan Zohar
14. The critic who makes a significant contribution to the theory of translation by his detailed treatment of semantic versus communicative translation is _________.
(A) Catford
(B) Newmark
(C) Evan Zohar
(D) Tomlinson
15. “This poet’s conscious activity focuses primarily on the form. The world liberally supplies the subject matter, while the meaning arises spontaneously out of the fullness of his soul, “This meaning of stoff was articulated by ________
(A) Curtius
(B) Coleridge
(C) Van Tieghem
(D) Goethe
16. The critic who defines translation as the replacement of the source language text material by equivalent target language material is ________
(A) Catford
(B) Croce
(C) Nida
(D) Paz
17. The motive becomes leitmotiv, based on the dynamics of _________
(A) Reiteration
(B) Distortion
(C) Coherence
(D) Similarity
18. The study of folktales was revitalized by which scholar ?
(A) Jakobson
(B) Propp
(C) Lukacs
(D) Fowler
19. Which of the following can be seen as a Machiavellian text ?
(A) Dr. Faustus
(B) Macbeth
(C) Absalom and Achitopel
(D) Samson Agonists
20. The work of Milman Parry concerned the genre of _________
(A) Novel
(B) Comedy
(C) Picaresque
(D) Epic
21. The theorist who holds that Comparative Literature studies the influence that the authors or literatures of one nation have exerted on another is ________
(A) Simon Jenne
(B) Rene Wellek
(C) Harry Levin
(D) Claudio Guillen
22. One of the first writers in classical antiquity “to stress the segregation of literary genres” was _________.
(A) Quintilian
(B) Longinus
(C) Cicero
(D) Aristotle
23. The study of literary reception points to _________.
(A) Sociology
(B) Psychology
(C) Philosophy
(D) Ethics
24. All the following texts come under the category of ‘dystopia’ EXCEPT ________
(A) Zamyatin – We
(B) Huxley – Brave New World
(C) Tolstoy – Death of Ivan Illyeh
(D) Orwell – Nineteen Eighty- Four
25. Vidyasagar’s Bhrantibilas is an early reception of a play by ________.
(A) Moliere
(B) Hugo
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Aeschylus
26. The world’s first novel was produced in _________.
(A) Japan
(B) India
(C) Portugal
(D) China
27. Which Mahabharata character has inspired maximum modern and postmodern retellings in the Indian
languages ?
(A) Gandhari
(B) Bhima
(C) Bhishma
(D) Draupadi
28. The term Weltliteratur was coined by _______
(A) Schelling
(B) Goethe
(C) Schlegel
(D) Herder
29. While developing periodisation for modern Indian literary history, the concept of pro-phane and metaphane were developed by.
(A) Ganesh Devy
(B) Amiya Dev
(C) Jasbir Jain
(D) Sisir Kumar Das
30. Who among the following argued that Indian literary historiography must have an indigenous definition of history, an indigenous critical framework and an indigenous historiographical perspective ?
(A) Sri Aurobindo
(B) Sujit Mukherjee
(C) K.M. George
(D) Rabindranath Tagore
31. Vamana is an exponent of the school of
(A) Dhvani
(B) Riti
(C) Vakrokti
(D) Aucitya
32. Historiography in the Literary Studies Series is edited by ________
(A) Ipshita Chanda
(B) Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta
(C) Sibaji Bandyopadhyay
(D) Suchorita Chattopadhyay
33. Name the concept of Tolkappiam that comes close to Aristotle’s theory of Catharsis and bridges the Gulf between the East and the West.
(A) Meippaadu
(B) Kaikilai
(C) Perunthinai
(D) Agathinai
34. The first history of Indian literature was written by ________
(A) Morris Winternitz
(B) Albrecht Weber
(C) William Jones
(D) G.U. Pope
35. Which of the following is not an aspect of Dhvani ?
(A) Lak. sana
(B) Abhidha
(C) Angika
(D) Vyanjana
36. K. semendra is an exponent of the school of ________
(A) Aucitya
(B) Alamkara
(C) Dhvani
(D) Riti
37. The concept of ‘Hyper reality’ was introduced by
(A) Lukàcs
(B) Eco
(C) Lacan
(D) Baudrillard
38. Which scholar first enunciated the concept of a “Literary History from below” ?
(A) Walter Mignolo
(B) David Damrosch
(C) Amiya Dev
(D) Dipesh Chakravorty
39. Comparative Literature : Indian Dimensions is written by ________
(A) K.M. George
(B) Amiya Dev
(C) Swapan Majumdar
(D) E.V. Ramakrishnan
40. The telugu journal Sahiti, launched by the literary group Sahiti Samiti, was similar to the journal
(A) Basumati
(B) Sanibarer Chithi
(C) Sabuj Patra
(D) Kallol
41. Hutchinson Macaulay Posnett’s Comparative Literature was published in _______
(A) 1882
(B) 1886
(C) 1892
(D) 1898
42. Which comparatist excluded folklore from comparative literature ?
(A) Wellek
(B) Balakian
(C) Baldensperger
(D) Levin
43. Kiratarjuniam, according to the sastras, is designated as
(A) Charit
(B) Mahakavya
(C) Viragatha
(D) Akhyayika
44. “Comparative Literature in India”, the landmark essay published in the Year book of Comparative and General Literature (YCGL) was written by ______
(A) Chandra Mohan
(B) Buddhadeva Bose
(C) Ganesh Devy
(D) D.W. Fokkema
45. Comparative Literature has been defined as “a branch of literary history… the study of international spiritual relations, of rapports de fait between Byron and Puskhin, Goethe and Carlyle, Walter Scott and Alfred de Vigny, and between the works, the inspirations and even the lives of writers belonging to different literatures” by _________
(A) Carré
(B) Brunetiere
(C) Balakian
(D) Remak
46. As a scholarly discipline littérature comparée matured in France in the ________ of the nineteenth century.
(A) first and second decades
(B) third and fourth decades
(C) fifth and sixth decades
(D) seventh and eight decades
47. The author of Rhetoric of English India is ________
(A) Gauri Viswanathan
(B) Rajeswari Sundar Rajan
(C) Sara Suleri
(D) Sudhir Chandra
48. The novel that served as a foundation for Hindu nationalism was ________
(A) Indulekha
(B) Cha Mana Atha Guntha
(C) Ananda Math
(D) A Passage to India
49. The novel which uses cultural contrast as a theme is ________
(A) Journey to Ithaca
(B) Fasting, Feasting
(C) Distant Drum
(D) English, August
50. The study of literature and gender in the context of the making of Indian nationalism has been attempted by
(A) Sumit Sarkar
(B) Charu Gupta
(C) Kunal Chakravarty
(D) Samita Sen
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