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1. Elaine Show alter is associated with

Feminism


Cultural materialism


Structuralism


Reception



2. Which Marxist text among those listed below engages with formalism

Lenin and Philosophy by Althusser


The Novel and the People by Fox.


Art and Social Life by Plekhanov


Literature and Revolution by Trotsky



3. The journal of the Comparative Literature Association of India is called

Literary and Cultural Studies


Comparative Literature


Literature and Literary Studies


Sahitya



4. The chief exponent of Dhvani theory is

Kuntaka


Bharata


Abhinava Gupta


Anandavardhana



5. The periodical Indian Literature is currently edited by

K. Satchidanandan


Harish Trivedi


Yashodhara Mishra


Indranath Choudhari



6. Which of the following words is not an acceptable translation of the term

Flavour Truth


Desire Beauty



7. Bharatendu Harishchandra had translated Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's

Durgeshnandini


Sitaram


Rajani


Rajsimha



8. In his An Autobiography My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi mentions one of these texts as a distinct influence. Identify the text.

Thoreau, Walden


Ruskin, Unto This Last


Arnold, Culture and Anarchy


Carlyle, Sartor Resartus



9. "Indian Literature is one though written in different languages." This was a statement by

Jawaharlal Nehru


S. Radhakrishnan


Rabindra Nath Tagore


Sisir Kumar Das




10. The theme of the educated hero as the liberator of the oppressed peasant appears diachronically in

Russian Nihilist and Marxist traditions.


French tradition of the revolution of 1789 and the anti-Nazi resistance.


Bengali leftist writings of the Progressive and Naxalite eras.


Malayalam literature of the 1930s and 1970s.



11. In an Akam poem, the description of a buffalo treading on a lotus as he feeds on small flowers symbolises an unfaithful man who makes his lady love suffer by visiting prostitutes, is an example of

Ullurai Utanurai


Nakai Sirappu



12. In which of these novels does M.K. Gandhi not feature by his physical presence

R.K. Narayan's Waiting for the Mahatma


Mulk Raj Anand's


Untouchable

Raja Rao's Kanthapura


Sashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel



13. Sartre's The Flies borrows its theme from

Homer


Aeschylus


Sophocles


Aristophanes



14. The utopian aspirations of the epic poets of the sixteenth century have been disentangled by examining the theme of earthly paradise by

Kaiser Frye


Giamatti Levin



15. The Comparatist who introduces a distinction, between 'direct' and 'indirect' influence, by asking the question, 'did a Renaissance poet have to read Petrarch in order to write a petrarchan sonnet' is

G.E. Lessing


A. Balakian


J.T. Shaw


C. Guillen



16. Which of the following pairs do not deal with thematology

Stoff-Rohstoff


Dominant Residual


Plot Tale


Trait Type



17. The critic who defined 'analogy' or 'affinity' as "resemblances in style, structure, mood or idea between works which have no other connection" is

Wellek Aldridge


Prawar Balakian



18. In the Harry Potter series, a central theme is

Religion


Sports


Racism


Modern Science



19. Who among the following has mapped the reception of Kalidasa's Abhijñanasakuntalam in nineteenth century Europe

Michael Dodson


Ronald B. Inden


Dorothy Figueira


Richard King



20. Evam Indrajit is

A short story by Rabindranath


A play by Badal Sarkar


A play by Girish Karnad


A novel by Munshi Prem Chand



21. The critic who believes that a high translation activity takes place when a literature is in its initial stage of development is

Nida


Evan Zohar


Newmark


Steiner



22. Which genre came up in medieval India as non-fiction but has survived to encompass fiction in modern South Asia

Upanyas


Mahakavya


Namah


Nataka



23. The critic who talks about the impossibility of translation is

Dryden


Arnold


Croce


Cowper



24. Who talked about three kinds of poetry the heroic (epic and tragedy), the scommatic (satire and comedy), and the pastoral

Hobbes


Davenant


Dallas


Coleridge



25. The writer who makes a distinction between languages and meta language in connection with translation is

Catford


Nida


Steiner


Lefevère



26. Thomas More's Utopia is seen as a forerunner of the modern genre of

Fantasy


Travel narrative


Science Fiction


Mirror of Prince tract



27. Who argues that every translator should look at the translation process through the prism of culture, which refracts the source language cultural norms and it is the translator's task to convey them, preserving their meaning and their foreigners, to the target-language text

Harish Trivedi


Laurence Venuti


Andrew Robinson


Shamile Bandyopadhyay



28. Who among the following conceived of Greek tragedy as an interplay of the Apollonian/Dionysian opposition

Nietzsche


Heraclitus


Schopenhauer


Kant



29. Who among the following has translated Beowulf

Ezra Pound


Seamus Heaney


Robert Lowell


Joseph Brodsky





30. Marxist literary historiography in relation to science fiction was pioneered by

Raymond Williams


Terry Eagleton


Darko Suvin


Pierre Macherey



31. The Throne of Blood is a Japanese film version of

Macbeth


Richard the Third


Hamlet


King Lear



32. An argument about Literature's "crisis" of periodisation was made by

Wellek and Warren


Althusser


Guillen


Jameson



33. One of the novels in the list below is analogically related to the structure of Indian classical music. Identify.

The Ground Beneath Her Feet


An Equal Music


A Suitable Boy


Evening Raga



34. The genre of history writing was developed in conscious opposition to epics by

Hiuen Tsang


Aristotle


Thucydides


Plutarch



35. In which of the following American plays is the African folk music used as a motif

The Hairy Ape


A Streetcar Named Desire


The Emperor Jones


Death of a Salesman



36. Which among the following elements tends to be de-emphasized in extrinsic histories of literature

Text Author


Context Readers



37. The Last Supper is a subject of which novel

The Bourne Inheritance


The Da Vinci Code


The Trotternamah


Angels and Demons



38. Who among the following has said "all history is contemporary history"

Hegel Croce


Voltaire Bossuet



39. Francois Truffault's film Fahreinheit 451 is based on a story by

Isaac Asimov


Dorothy L Sayers


Ray Bradbury


Toni Morrison



40. Which of the following is not one of the Comparative Literature "methodology triad"

Genealogy


Historiography


Genology


Thematology






41. Which event was to result in the writing of a Canadian play

The Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre


The Komagata Maru Incident


The Bengal Famine


The Fall of the Berlin Wall



42. Who among the following thinkers holds the view that the African culture is weak compared to the Western culture

Kant Hegel


Sartre Pascal



43. Which among the following is a definitive characteristic of the French School of Comparative Literature

Stylistics


Polygenesis Studies


Mythological Studies


Influence Studies



44. The critic who has used Robelais' The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel in a significant way is

Leavis Bakhtin


Gramsci Spivak



45. Who described Comparative Literature as "a discipline which bears on facts common to several literatures, considered as such, be it in their mutual interdependence or by analogy"

Van Tieghem


Guyard


Wellek


Levin



46. The Quit India Movement is the subject matter of

Maila Anchal


Chemmeen


Jagori


Chha Mana Atha Guntha



47. Comparative Literature is defined as "the comparison of one literature with another or others, and the comparison of literature with other spheres of human experience" by

Wellek


Weisstein


Levin


Remak



48. Who are the authors of Dialectics of Enlightenment

Partha Chatterjee and Dipesh Chakravorty


Edward Said and Homi Bhaba


Theodore Adorno and Max Hoskheimer


Robert E. Park and Charles H. Cooley



49. The device of using set speeches by early historians is derived from

Homer's Iliad


Virgil's Aeneid


Dante's Divine Comedy


Plato's Republic



50. Name the novel that features South Indian life that deals with the theme of extra-marital relationship as a sin from among the following

Choma's Drum


Kaadu


Mother Came


Nectar in a Sieve