UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam. December 2021/June 2022 ENGLISH (Shift-II)

Marge Piercy's novel 'Woman on the Edge of Time' (1976) is based on Shulamith Firestone's 'The Dialectic of Sex' (1970).
'Woman on the Edge of Time' is the moving story of Connie Ramos, a 37 year old Mexican-American, unfairly incarcerated in a mental hospital, whose survival instinct is greatly tested. The novel is considered as a classic of utopian speculative science fiction as well as a feminist classic.
Hence, option (a) is correct.

'The Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is written in quatrains of ten syllable lines. 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is a poem by 'Thomas Gray', which was published in 1751. It is a meditative poem written in iambic pentameter quatrains and is one of the best known elegies as it mourns the death not of great or famous people but of common men. The speaker of this poem sees a country churchyard at sunset, which impels him to meditate on the nature of human mortality.
The poem is written in four-line stanzas, or quatrains. Each quatrain follows the rhyme scheme 'abab'. The meter of each line is iambic pentameter, meaning five iambs (an iamb is a two-syllable foot where an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable) per line.
Hence, option (a) is correct.

Jacques Lacan was a French Psychoanalyst, whose teachings and writing explore the significance of Freud's discovery of the unconscious both within the theory and practice of analysis itself as well as in connection with a wide range of other disciplines. Out of the options given, real, symbolic and imaginary are related exclusively with Lacan.
In Lacan's opinion, the human psyche is patterned according to three orders: 'imaginary order', 'symbolic order' and the 'real order' the Imaginary is derived from perceptual and fantasied mental process, and the symbolic is derived from culture and through language.
Note- The correct combination will be- option (A), (C) and (E) which is not given. Hence, both option (c) and (d) are correct.

The statement' I was indignant, I demanded an explanation nothing happened. In burst apart was given by 'Frantz Fanon'. Frantz Fanon was French psychiatrist, who is best known for the classic analysis of colonialism and decolonization, 'The wreched of the Earth' (1961), which was written by 'Editions Maspero' Fanon perceived colonialism as a form of domination whose necessary goal for success was the reordering of the world of indigenous people. Hence, option (d) is correct.

The statements that are true in the context of Henry Fielding's 'Tom Jones' (1749) are-
• Tom Jones is comic and moralistic.
• Tom is caught poaching in neighbour's game preserve.
• 'The History of Tom Jones' is the full title of Tom Jones. 'Tom Jones' is considered as one of the first prose works describable as a novel and the novel is divided into 18 smaller books.
The main theme of the novel is the contrast between Tom Jones' good nature, flawed but eventually corrected by his love for virtuous Sophia Western, and his half-brother Blifil's hypocrisy.
Hence, option (b) is correct.

The correct match will be-

Hence option (b) is correct.

'The Barrytown Triology' is an Irish comedydrama by Roddy Doyle which was later adapted as a film in 1996. The triology consists of novels-
'The Commitments' (1987), 'The Snapper' (1990), 'The Van' (1991), 'The Guts' (2013) and 'Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha' (a spin off-1993) along with 2 short stories 'Two Pints' (2012) and 'Two More Pints (2014)'
'The Chronicles of Narnia' is a series of high fantasy novels by British author C.S. Lewis. These 7 novels are- 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' (1950), 'Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia' (1951), 'The Voyage of the Dawn Trader' (1952), 'The Magician's Nephew' (1955), & 'The Last Battle' (1956) 'Artemis Fowl' is an Irish young adult fantasy novel series by an Irish author Eoin Colfer. The novels in the series are - 'Artemis Fowl' (2001), 'The Arctic Incident' (2002), 'The Eternity Code' (2003), 'The Opal Deception' (2005), 'The Lost Colony' (2006), 'The Time Paradox' (2008), 'The Atlantis Complex' (2010), 'The Last Guardian' (2012).
"The Confessions of an Irish Rebel" is a book by Irish writer 'Brendan Behan' and "Dracula" is a novel by 'Bram Stoker' who is also an Irish writer. Hence, option (a) is correct.

(Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits') 'Satire of the Three Estates' is a satirical morality play in Middle Scots written by Scottish poet David Lyndsay. The play is both political and Religious. The complete play was first performed outside in the playing field at Cupar, Fife in June 1552 during the midsummer holiday, where the action took place under the castle Hill. The full text was first printed in 1602. The Satire is an attack on the three Estates represented in the Parliament of Scotlandthe Clergy, lords and burgh representatives, symbolised by the characters Spiritualitie, Temporalitie, and merchant. The Clergy come in for the strongest criticism. The work portrays the social tensions present at this pivotal moment in Scottish history. Hence, option (a) is correct.

Both given statements are true as Roland Barthes believes that the author is the epitome and culmination of capitalist ideology. Roland Barthes was a French essayist, who argued that seemingly innocent objects and images carry a literal denotative meaning and a non-literal-connotative meaning. Along with this, 'The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness' is a book by Walter Benjamin in which he observes that every real story has something useful in it. The book is a beautiful collection of short stories. His stories revel in the erode tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the importance of games and delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling and fortune-telling, and explode the themes that defined Benjamin.
Hence option (a) is correct.

Gerard Genette was a French critic who argued for the autonomous nature of the literary text according to Genette, a narrator can be of any typeHomodiegetic, Heterodiegetic, Intradiegetic, Extradiegetic and Autodiegctic. The Heterodiegetic narrator is one who does not participate in the story. The Extradiegetic narrator is above the story. When characters in the story narrated by him or her, then She/he becomes a homodiegetic intradiegetic narrator. When a character narrates her/his own tale they may be described as autodiegetic narrators.
There is no such thing as Interdiegetic narrator.
Note- The correct combination of options should be (A), (B), (C) and (D) but as there is no such option, all three options (a), (b), (c) are considered correct.