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

The term 'The Movement' was coined by J.D. Scott in 1954. Scott was the literary edition of the spectator, was is also the author of the story collection Moonflower, Nightshade, All the House of the day and the poetry collection Mask for Mask. The term 'The Movement' was used to describe a group of writers including Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Arnold Davie, D.J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thomas and Robert Conquest. The poets in the group rejected modernism, avant-garde experimentation, romanticism and the metaphorical fireworks of poets such as Dylan Thomas. This verse was ironical, down to earth, unsentimental and rooted in a nostalgic idea of English identity. Hence, option (c) is correct.

Jacques Derrida was an Algerian French Philosopher who is most celebrated as the principal exponent of 'Deconstruction', a philosophical approach which he utilized in numerous texts.
Roland Barthes was a French essayist who is the best known for his 1957 essay collection 'Mythologies' and 1967 essay 'The Death of the Author'.
Derrida and Barthes both are most closely associated with the emergence of post structuralism.
The point of convergence between Derrida and Barthes are that they both believe in the endless play in language and literary texts, both conclude that the meaning is reliable and also the belief that the relationship between words, meanings and texts are intrinsic to meaning rather than the word itself. Hence option (a) is correct.

'The Steele Glass' is a poem by 'George Gascoigne' published in 1576. It is a stave in verse poem written in hexameter which reveals abuses and controlling personalities of both men and women in a relationship. The speaker is a third party source that speaks in both a critical and uplifting tone.
The poet uses hexameter which shows the common theme of poets from his era's fondness for avid Gascoigne explores the controlling aspects parallel to the bible, and it can be drawn that this poem was written from his own experiences in his past marriage. Hence option (c) is correct.

The correct match will be-

Hence option (d) is correct.

Out of the options given, 'Parineeta' and 'Punarnava' are not works of Rabindranath Tagore.
'Parineeta' is a Bengali language novel written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1914 which is set in Calcutta, India. The novel is a story about a poor teenage-girl, Lalita. Who is an orphan and lives with the family of her uncle Gurucharan.
'Punarnava' is a novel by Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Visarjan, Chandalika and Muktadhara are all works of Rabindranath Tagore.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

George Lamming was a Barbadian novelist, essayist and poet, who was born on 8th June 1927.
Ben Okri was a Nigerian British poet, novelist, essayist and playwright, who was born on 15th March 1959. Wilson Harris was a Guyanese writer, who was born on 24th March 1921.
Fred D' Aguiar was not an Australian, but a British poet, novelist and playwright, who was born on 2nd February 1960.
Zulfikar Ghose was not an Indian but a PakistaniAmerican novelist, poet and essayist who was born on 13th March 1935.
Hence, option (d) is correct.

Reader Response Criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader and their experience of a literary work, in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention mainly on the author or the content and form of the work. Reader-Response Criticism challenges the notion that the meaning is located within the text and refutes that the author is the originator of the meaning.
It was the reader as a source of meaning. Reader-Response Theory recognises the reader as an active agent who imparts 'near existence' to the work and completes its meaning through interpretation.
It argues that literature should be viewed as a performing art in which each reader creates their own, possibly unique, text-related performance. It stands in total opposition to the theories of formalism and New-Criticism.
Note- The correct pair of options placed in option (c) but NTA has marked all options (a), (b) & (c) as correct.

Robert Browing was an English poet and playwright of the Victorian era. He was noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue and psychological portraiture.
The poem 'Cristina' was published in Browning's collection of poems 'Dramatic Lyrics' which was first published in 1842.
The predominant emotion running through the poem is of love, as between the little and first two lines of the poem, it was easy to figure out the general plot of the poem. In the poem, the speaker was once involved with a woman named Christina, she self him and now he is dealing with a broken near.
As the first stanza progresses, Browning quickly sets the tone for the rest of the poem. The poem recreates conflict that burns in the speaker after Cristina's loss has left him term between love and scorn. Hence option (c) is correct.

The correct match will be-

Hence option (b) is correct.

The text which coins the slogan 'Vande Matram' is 'Anandmath'.
'Anandmath' is a novel by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee which was first published in 1882. the Bengali novel 'Anandmath' was set against the backdrop of the 18th century Sannyasi Rebellion. This works plot was inspired by the Indians fight for independence from the British.
Hence option (a) is correct.