“Correlative’ was first used by Eliot in his
(a) Essay on ‘King Lear’
(b) Essay on ‘Macbeth’
(c) Essay on ‘Hamlet’
(d) Essay on ‘Othello’
Question’s Answer: Essay on ‘Hamlet’
The phrase ‘dissociation of sensibility” was first used by Eliot in his
(a) Essay on ‘Hamlet’
(b) Tradition and Individual Talent
(c) Frontiers of Criticism
(d) Metaphysical Poets
Question’s Answer: Metaphysical Poets
Lawrence’s Twilight in Italy and Sea and Sardinia are marked by
(a) A true picture
(b) A vivaciousness and descriptive brilliance of a Tolstoy, Dickensand George Eliot
(c) Truthful travel sketches.
(d) Powerful language
Question’s Answer: A vivaciousness and descriptive brilliance of a Tolstoy, Dickensand George Eliot
Which travel sketch is considered Lawrence’s best?
(a) Twilight in Italy
(b) Sea and Sardinia
(c) Etruscan Places
(d) Morning in Mexico
Question’s Answer: Morning in Mexico
“There is literary criticism in his travel sketches and philosophy in his criticism.” This is true in the case of
which modern British writer?
(a) James Joyce
(b) D.H. Lawrence
(c) Kingsley Amis
(d) George Eliot
Question’s Answer: D.H. Lawrence
The phrase ‘Objec
According to Lawrence the basis of human sensuality was
(a) Thoracic ganglion
(b) Solar Plexus
(c) Cardiac plexus
(d) The Lumbar ganglion
Question’s Answer: Solar Plexus
Which following phrases has been coined by T.S. Eliot?
(a) Objective correlative
(b) Suspension of disbelief
(c) Art for Art’s sake
(d) Touchstone method
Question’s Answer: Objective correlative
Which following phrases has not been coined by T.S. Eliot?
(a) Dissociation of sensibility
(b) Unified sensibility
(c) Art for art’s sake
(d) Objective correlative
Question’s Answer: Art for art’s sake
Which statements may be true about Eliot’s criticism?
(a) Unification of sensibility means a fusion of thought and feeling
(b) Dissociation of sensibility is a characteristic of good poetry
(c) Eliot was a romanticist in literature, not classicist.
(d) Unification of sensibility is a characteristic of bad poetry
Question’s Answer: Unification of sensibility means a fusion of thought and feeling
The term ‘new criticism’ was first used by Which critics?
(a) George Watson
(b) John Crowe Ransom
(c) T.S. Eliot
(d) Joel E. Spingarn
Question’s Answer: Joel E. Spingarn
Who is the author of The Sacred Wood?
(a) F.R. Leavis
(b) James Wood
(c) LA. Richards
(d) T.S. Eliot
Question’s Answer: T.S. Eliot
In his major criticism Lawrence makes a distinction between
(a) Knowledge and instinct
(b) Intuition and the mind, instinct of the body and intellect of the mind
(c) Education and ignorance
(d) Sensitive mind and intellectual awareness
Question’s Answer: Intuition and the mind, instinct of the body and intellect of the mind
Leavis’ New Bearings in English Poetry provides us with his critical opinions on
(a) Post-Shakespearean poetry
(b) Modern poetry
(c) Drama
(d) novel
Question’s Answer: Modern poetry
Which novelists has not been mentioned in Leavis’ The Great Tradition?
(a) Jane Austen
(b) Joseph Conrad
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) George Eliot
Question’s Answer: Thomas Hardy
Which critical works. has been authored by F.R. Leavis?
(a) The Great Tradition
(b) The Principles of Literary Criticism
(c) The Sacred Wood
(d) Poetics
Question’s Answer: The Great Tradition
Leavis’ The Great Tradition provides us with his critical opinions on
(a) Modern poetry
(b) Post-Shakespearean poetry
(c) Novel
(d) Drama
Question’s Answer: Novel
Leavis’ Revaluation provides us with his critical opinions on
(a) Modern poetry
(b) Post-Shakespearean poetry
(c) Drama
(d) Novel
Question’s Answer: Novel
In which category can you keep the criticism of F.R. Leavis?
(a) Biographical Criticism
(b) Historical Criticism
(c) Ontological Criticism
(d) Comparative Criticism
Question’s Answer: Ontological Criticism
Which statements is true about the critical opinions of F.R.Leavis?
(a) Literature matters vitally to civilization
(b) Literature of the past is more valuable than the literature of the present
(c) Leavis judges a work of art on the basis of rules and theories which he has framed
(d) Literature has nothing to do with the tastes and habits it fosters and its effect on the quality of living
Question’s Answer: Literature matters vitally to civilization
F.R. Leavis was born in:
(a) 14 July
(b) 14 July 1896
(c) 14 July 1897
(d) 14 July 1898
Question’s Answer: 14 July
Which critical works has not been authored by F.R. Leavis?
(a) Revaluation
(b) The Great Tradition
(c) New Bearings in
(d) The Meaning of Meaning
Question’s Answer: The Meaning of Meaning
Who is the author of the book Coleridge on Imagination?
(a) Games Wood
(b) F.R. Leavis
(c) L.K. Ogden
(d) L.A. Richards
Question’s Answer: L.A. Richards
The full name of LA. Richards is
(a) Insle Anderson Richards
(b) Iris August Richards
(c) Iris Anderson Richards
(d) Ivor Armstrong Richards
Question’s Answer: Ivor Armstrong Richards
Richards. The Meaning of Meaning was written in collaboration with whom?
(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) William Empson
(c) R.P. Blackmur
(d) C.K. Ogden
Question’s Answer: C.K. Ogden
Who is author of the book The Principles of Literary criticism?
(a) LA. Richards
(b) William Empson
(c) T.S. Eliot
(d) Cleanth Brooks
Question’s Answer: LA. Richards
Which has not been written by L.A. Richards?
(a) The Principles of Literary Criticism
(b) The Practical Criticism
(c) The Metaphysical Poets
(d) The Philosophy of Rhetoric
Question’s Answer: The Metaphysical Poets
Which books was proudly written by L.A. Richards in collaboration with C.K. Ogden and James Wood?
(a) The Meaning of Meaning
(b) The Foundation of Aesthetics
(c) Coleridge on Imagination
(d) The Principles of Literary Criticism
Question’s Answer: The Foundation of Aesthetics
According to L.A. Richards, there are two uses of language. What are they?
(a) Referential or scientific and emotive
(b) Communicative and suggestive
(c) Emotional and emotive
(d) Referential and suggestive
Question’s Answer: Referential or scientific and emotive
“A poet In Our Time (Novel) is a semi-barbarian in a civilized community.” This line may be associated with Which critics?
(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) Thomas Love Peacock
(c) F.R. Leavis
(d) LA. Richards
Question’s Answer: LA. Richards
Who is known as the father of deconstruction?
(a) Jacques Derrida
(b) F.R. Leavis
(c) LA. Richards
(d) T.S. Eliot
Question’s Answer: Jacques Derrida
What does Richards mean by the term ‘synaesthesis”?
(a) A harmony between words and music
(b) A harmony between sound and rhythm
(c) A harmony and equilibrium of our impulses
(d) A harmony between body, and soul
Question’s Answer: A harmony and equilibrium of our impulses
Of the following critics who is considered to be the most celebrated by the philosophers of the 20th century?
(a) F.R. Leavis
(b) L.A. Richards
(c) T.S. Eliot
(d) Jacques Derrida
Question’s Answer: Jacques Derrida
Which theory was applied to the whole gamut of arts and social sciences, including linguistics, anthropology, political science, even architecture?
(a) Theory of Imagination
(b) Theory of Dramatic Pleasure
(c) Theory of Deconstruction
(d) Theory of Poetry
Question’s Answer: Theory of Poetry
Jacques Derrida was an Algerian born intellectual.
(a) British
(b) American
(c) French
(d) Swiss
Question’s Answer: French
Which books has not been written by Derrida?
(a) Of Grammatology
(b) Ulysses Gramophone: Here Say Yes in Joyce
(c) Discoveries
(d) The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond
Question’s Answer: Discoveries