19 May 2020

Important Questions on Cultural Studies in English Literature

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 English Literature Important Questions – Cultural Studies 


1.’Jindiworobok’ is a movement related to – Australian Literature.

2. ‘Fourth World Literature’ refers to - the works of native people living in a land that has been taken over by non-Natives.

3. A text which draws attention to its artifice, to the ways in which it is structured, is called – writerly text.

4. ‘New Accents’ was launched by Methuen in – 1977.

5. Audre Lorde’s autobiography ‘Zami : A New Spelling of My Name’ started a new genre – biomythography.

6. Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel, ‘Cracking India’ is originally published as – ‘Ice Candy Man’

7. Deepa Mehta’s film, ‘Water’ is based on – Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel, ‘Water : A Novel’.

8. ‘Sita Speak’, a hard-hitting poem was written by – Bina Aggarwal.

9. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ deals with – the Biafran War.

10. Chinua Achebe’s novel ‘Things Fall Apart’ is a critique of – British colonialism.

11. Jacques Derrida’s ‘Of Grammatology’ was translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and introduced by – Judith Butler.

12. Ecofeminism is especially associated with – Canadian Literature.

13. Edward Said talks about two different types of Orientalism –Latent and Manifest.

14. Elaine Showalter’s ‘A Literature of Their Own’ contains a lengthy chapter on – Virginia Woolf.

15. The term ‘epistemology’ was introduced by – James Federick Ferrier (Scottish philosopher).

16. Girish Karnard’s play, ‘Hayavadana’ is based on – Thomas Maan’s novella, “Transposed Heads : A Legend of India’.

17. Gynocriticism focuses on women as writers. It was introduced by – Ealaine Showalter in her critical essay, ‘Towards a Famine Poetics’.

18. Hybrid terms like ‘sext’ and ‘chaosmos’ are used in – ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’ written by Helene Cixous.

19. Four kinds of meanings in ‘Practical Criticism’ are – Sense, Feeling, Tone and Intention.

20. J. M. Coetzee’s novel, ‘Foe’ is – postmodern retelling of Daniel Defoe’s novel, ‘Robinson Crusoe’.
21. Margaret Atwood described her novel, 'The Edible Woman' as - Protofeminist.

22. The theory of Arctetype in literary criticism was first employed by - Maud Bodkin.

23. Naturalism is also called - Photographic realism.

24. Ngugi wa Thiongio's first novel, 'Weep Not, Child' has been hailed as - the 'first East African Novel in English'.

25. Royal Tyler's novel, 'The Algerian Captive' is deemed as - a first American novel to deal with the Black and the White encounter.

26. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's 'The Madwoman in the Attic' draw their title from - Charlotte Bronte's novel, 'Jane Eyre'.

27. The earliest tract on feminism is  - Mary Wollstonecraft's treatise, 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'.

28. Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is one of the finest examples of - coming-of-age novel.

29. The term 'womanism' was first used by - Alice Walker in her essay, 'In Search of Our Mothers' Garden : Womanist Prose'.

30. William Empson's 'Seven Types of Ambiguity' is an analysis of - poetic ambivalence.

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