The correct answer is both statement I and statement II are true.
Statement I correctly attributes the belief to Roland Barthes that the author is seen as a product of capitalist ideology in his essay "The Death of the Author."
Statement II accurately represents Walter Benjamin's observation about storytelling in his essay "The Storyteller," where he discusses the value of real stories and their capacity to convey wisdom or useful insights.
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Match List-I with List-II:
List-I | List-II |
A. Thick description | I. Jacques Derrida |
B. Transcendental signified | II. I. A. Richards |
C. Vehicle, Tenor | III. Bertolt Brecht |
D. Alienation Effect | IV. Clifford Geertz |
Arrange the following works of Feminism in chronological order:
A. The Female Imagination
B. The Madwoman in the Attic
C. A Literature of their Own
D. Women's Oppression Today: Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis
E. Revolution in Poetic Language
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
In his book Principles of Literary Criticism, I.A. Richards writes that meanings are of four kinds, all of which are important for the readers to understand the poem. Identify which of the following is not the meaning identified by him.
“The spirit of malevolence survives the practical exertion of it. We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone. We give up the external demonstration, the brute violence, but cannot part with the essence or principle of hostility.”
The writer tries to explore human sentiment (malevolence) in the above lines. Select the aspect that is reflected here.
“Here are no Jeremy Bentham Panopticons, none of Mr. Owen's impassable Parallelograms (Rob Roy would have spurred and poured a thousand curses on them), no long calculations of self-interest -- the will takes its instant way to its object, as the mountain-torrent flings itself over the precipice…”
Select the aspect that can be noted here:
Identify the stage that falls between the imaginary and symbolic stages according to Jacques Lacan:
Which writer applied the term 'cultural poetics' to his own critical contribution to make literature and arts as part of social practice?
Match the books with the writers:
(a) The Madwoman in the Attic | (i) Frantz Fanon |
(b) The Wretched of the Earth | (ii) Stephen Greenblatt |
(c) Shakespearean Negotiations | (iii) Stanley Fish |
(d) Is There a Text in This Class? | Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar |
Identify the two names from the following who are associated with Hermeneutics:
(a) Edmund Husserl
(b) E. D. Hirsch
(c) Martin Heidegger
(d) Stephen Greenblatt
Choose the correct option:
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