Irving Babbitt get his education
(a) Boston
(b) Washington
(c) New York
(d) Harvard
Question’s Answer: Harvard
He taught French at ____.
(a) Yale
(b) Ohio
(c) Harvard
(d) Nebraska
Question’s Answer: Harvard
The “new criticism” in America was influenced by which of the following?
(a) Coleridge
(b) T.S. Eliot and LA. Richards
(c) Irving Babbitt
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: T.S. Eliot and LA. Richards
What era does Irving Babbitt belong to?
(a) 1855-1933
(b) 1877-1999
(c) 1865-1950
(d) 1865-1933
Question’s Answer: 1865-1933
Babbitt has presented a discussion on classical theories and remote concepts of spontaneity in which of the following?
(a) The New Laokoon
(b) Democracy and Leadership
(c) Spanish Character
(d) On Being Creative
Question’s Answer: On Being Creative
Babbitt expresses his views romantic confusion in the arts in on
(a) The New Laokoon
(b) Literature and the American College
(c) Rousseau and Romanticism
(d) On Being Creative
Question’s Answer: The New Laokoon
American “new critics” adhere to which principle?
(a) Dose examination of the texts themselves
(b) A poem as an organic whole
(c) Close examination of the texts. analyzing style and Imagery
(d) Technical criticism
Question’s Answer: Close examination of the texts. analyzing style and Imagery
Brooks is connected with the southern movement which is manifested by
(a) His contribution to “Southern Review”
(b) His association with “Southern Review” and “The Kenyon Review”
(c) His editorship of “Southern Review”
Question’s Answer: His association with “Southern Review” and “The Kenyon Review”
Cleanth Brooks in An Approach to Literature presents
(a) An academic concern by using ‘new criticism’ techniques
(b) No concern
(c) Influence of southern movement
(d) A moral approach
Question’s Answer: An academic concern by using ‘new criticism’ techniques
A poem can be “experienced” as a work of art, according to “New critics” like Yvor Winters and Cleanth Brooks, by
(a) The acuteness of the individual sensibility and knowledge of the semantics
(b) The integrity and knowledge of the critic
(c) Scholarly critic with the help of scientific methodology
(d) The accurate sensibility of the critic
Question’s Answer: The acuteness of the individual sensibility and knowledge of the semantics
The function of a critic is to put the reader in possession of the work of art. Who said this?
(a) LA. Richards
(b) T.S. Elio
(c) Cleanth Brooks
(d) Yvor Winters
Question’s Answer: Cleanth Brooks
Which books of criticism are almost the source of modern criticism?
(a) Preface to Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge
(b) Biographia Literaria by Coleridge
(c) Eliot’s The Sacred Wood and Richards’ Principles of Literary Criticism
(d) An Apology for Poetry by Sidney
Question’s Answer: Eliot’s The Sacred Wood and Richards’ Principles of Literary Criticism
Brooks has mainly used his critical tools on which of the following?
(a) Prose
(b) Poetry
(c) Short stories
(d) Fiction
Question’s Answer: Poetry
The southern movement was predominantly agrarian but it addressed and included _______ .
(a) Aesthetics
(b) A moral agenda
(c) Political issues, like industrialization
(d) Aesthetics and interpretation of difficult poetry
Question’s Answer: Aesthetics and interpretation of difficult poetry
Understanding Poetry, Understanding Fiction, and Understanding Drama are works by Cleanth Brooks.
Who wrote these novels with the other authors?
(a) The book on drama was written with R.B. Heilman and the other two with R.P. Warren
(b) Robert B. Heilman
(c) Robert Penn Warren
(d) All the three books were written by Brooks, Warren and Heilman
Question’s Answer: The book on drama was written with R.B. Heilman and the other two with R.P. Warren
In his criticism, R.P. Blackmur integrated the strategies of Henry James, T.S. Eliot, LA. Richards, and George Santayana.
What came out of it?
(a) aestheticism and a moral vision of literature
(b) Destruction of a work of literature
(c) Not much different from other critics
(d) An in-depth analysis of a literary work’s style, form, diction, and structure is necessary for effective appraisal.
Question’s Answer: An in-depth analysis of a literary work’s style, form, diction, and structure is necessary for effective appraisal.
Lionel Trilling was associated with which university in America?
(a) Harvard
(b) Columbia
(c) Chicago
(d) Yale
Question’s Answer: Columbia
What did Ransom declare about Brooks’ Modern Poetry and Tradition (1939) and The Well Wrought Urn (1947)?
(a) Great works of criticism
(b) The best living interpreter of difficult verse
(c) A true American critic
(d) A great modern critic
Question’s Answer: The best living interpreter of difficult verse
Who has written The Double Agent?
(a) R.P. Warren
(b) Cleanth Brooks
(c) R.P. Blackmur
(d) Kenneth Burke
Question’s Answer: R.P. Blackmur
Who is the author of “The Expense of Greatness”?
(a) Ezra Pound
(b) R.P. Blackmur
(c) William Empson
(d) Yvor Winters
Question’s Answer: R.P. Blackmur
In his analytical procedure Blackmur is indebted to whom?
(a) Allan Tate and J.E. Ransom
(b) Cleanth Brooks and R.P. Warren
(c) L.A. Richards and William Empson
(d) Yvor Winters and John Crowe Ransom
Question’s Answer: L.A. Richards and William Empson
John Crowe Ransom was a what kind of poet?
(a) Poet
(b) Poet-critic
(c) Critic
(d) Critic of poetry
Question’s Answer: Poet-critic
Ransom was a product of which of the following?
(a) Southern movement in literature
(b) Various intellectual and political movement which were in force in the early 20th century America
(c) The Vanderbilt circle who brought out The Fugitive
(d) Agrarian movement
Question’s Answer: Various intellectual and political movement which were in force in the early 20th century America
Who is the author of Matthew Arnold (1939) and E.M. Forster (1943) with acumen?
(a) Cleanth Brooks
(b) Lionel Trilling
(c) Yvor Winters
(d) Allen Tate
Question’s Answer: Lionel Trilling
The Liberal Imagination and The Opposing Self is Trilling’s
(a) Creative writings
(c) Social writings expressing the need for moral climate
(d) Critical writings
Question’s Answer: Critical writings
Lionel Trilling was associated with literary magazine like ___ .
(a) The Literary Criterion
(b) Southern Review
(c) Transition
(d) The Kenyon Review and Partisan Review
Question’s Answer: The Kenyon Review and Partisan Review
Freud and the Crisis of our Culture and The Life and Works of Sigmund Freud depict Lionel Trilling’s concer with
(a) Psychological approach to human problems
(b) The need for understanding human sexuality
(c) Freudian impact which was dominating mid twentieth century U.S.A.
(d) Tribute to Freud’s insight
Question’s Answer: Freudian impact which was dominating mid twentieth century U.S.A.
The names of J.E. Ransom, Allen Tate and R.P. Warren are taken together in a particulate context What is this context?
(a) Mid west literature
(b) The group called New Critics
(c) Southern literature
(d) Members of the Fugitive- Agrarian group at Vanderbilt
Question’s Answer: Members of the Fugitive- Agrarian group at Vanderbilt
John Crowe Ransom was in the thick of the southern movement but later on he placed more stress on
(a) New Criticism and not on regionalism
(b) New Criticism
(c) Good literature
(d) Good critical judgement
Question’s Answer: New Criticism
In The New Criticism what was the need of the times?
(a) A balanced critic
(b) An ontological critic (based on the philosophy concerned with the nature of being)
(c) Giving importance to theM tradition
(d)
Question’s Answer: An ontological critic (based on the philosophy concerned with the nature of being)
Like his elegies Ransom in his criticism is
(a) Witty and humorous
(b) Analytical
(c) Realistic and intelligible
(d) Witty and oblique
Question’s Answer: Witty and oblique
Ransom’s God without Thunder: An Unorthodox Defense of Orthodoxy is an attack on
(a) Science for destroying the old mystery of God
(b) Moral collapse
(c) Politicalization of life
(d) Science for not bringing man the essential happiness
Question’s Answer: Science for destroying the old mystery of God
In The World’s Body Ransom asserts
(a) Science has not lived up to man’s expectations
(b) Poetry sustains more than science
(c) Failure of science to achieve the body that is in poetry
(d) Poetry is more real than the virtual reality of science
Question’s Answer: Failure of science to achieve the body that is in poetry
In The Opposing Self Trilling highlights
(a) The basic problems of life and art
(b) The fundamental issues of life and art, the problem of self
(c) The kaleidoscopic view of Man’s self
(d) The path of ‘being’ one’s self
Question’s Answer: The fundamental issues of life and art, the problem of self
Ransom in I’ll Take My Stand asserts that
(a) which belongs Vanderbilt days to early
(b) Man must protest if situation so demands He contributed in this anthology
(c) Man must protest
(d) A typical southerner’s stand
Question’s Answer: which belongs Vanderbilt days to early
In The New Criticism (1941) Ransom wrote about which of the following?
(a) The writers of southern movement
(b) Writers from the north
(c) Critics who belonged to the southern movement
(d) His contemporaries
Question’s Answer: Critics who belonged to the southern movement
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