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Paper: Ph.D. Comparative Literature
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Year : 2016
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l.The term ‘comparative Literature’ was first used in English in l g4g by — (
A) Walter Pater
B) Matthew Arnold
C) John Ruskin
D) D.G. Rossetti
2. The wise and witty ‘Tenali Raman’ was the companion of which king:
A) RajendraChola
B) Krishnadevaraya
C) Mahendravarman I
D) Vikramaditya VI
3. who is the author of the book, Motif-Index of Folk Literature
A) Stith Thompson
B) L. Weinstein
C) E. M. Butler
D) Kate Hamburger
4. In Northrop Frye’s classification of genres,tragedy is related to —
A) Spring
B) Summer
C) Autumn
D) Winter
5. Aranya, Kishkinda, Sundara are parts of which book
A) Silappathikoram
B) Ramayana
C) Manimekalai
D) MaleyaMadeswaro
6. Mahabharata’s first Persian translation Razmnamah was cornmissioned by
A) Humayun
B) Jahangir
C) Akbar
D) Dara Shikoh
7. sikh Guru who developed the GurmuLti script of panjab is
A) Guru Nanak
B) Guru Angad
C) Guru Ramdas
D) Guru Arjun
8. The impact of lbsen’s plays on George Bemard shaw is an instance of
A) Reception
B) Analogy
C) Imitation
D) Influence
9. Who said, ‘A badly written book is only a blunder. A bad translation is a crime,
A) Theodore Savory
B) Susan Bassnett
C) J. C. Catford
D) Gilbert Highet
10. Who announced: “The epoch of world literature is at hand, and everyone must strive to hasten its approach”
A) Levin
B) Arnold
C) Goethe
D) Herder
11. The critic who added the Shanta rasa as the ninth rasa is -__
A) Panini
B) Abhinava Gupta
C) Dandin
D) Mammata
12. The most important exponent of ‘Aucitya’ is —
A) Ksemendra
B) Bhamaha
C) Ananda Vardhana
D) Dandin
13. According to Aristotle, Tragedy has —
A) four parts
B) seven parts
C) eight parts
D) six parts
14. The technique “alienation effect” was employed in drama by —
A) Luigi Pirandello
B) Gerard Genette
C) Bertolt Brecht
D) Eugdne Ionesco
15. Identify the author of the statement: “Comparative Literature. .. is the comparison of one Literature with another or others, and the comparison of literature with the is spheres of human expression”
A) Rene Wellek
B) Henry. H. Remak
C) Paul van Tieghem
D) Marius-Francois Guyard
16. The ancient Tamil classic anthology Aknnanuruis a collection of —
A) one hundred war poems
B) three hundred war poems
C) two hundred love poems
D) four hundred love poems
17. The wooden cow is the translation Tamil.original Marapasu written by _
A) Jayakanthan
B) Ashokamitran
C) T. Janakiraman
D) Sundara Ramasamy
18. Identify the author of the statement:”English Literature rode to power on the back of wartime nationalism.”
A) James Snead
B) Terry Eagleton
C) Edward Said
D) Homi Bhabha
19. The concept “thick descriptions” in culture studies is advocated by — (
A) Fredric Jameson
B) Aram Veeser
C) Louis Montrose
D) Clitrord Geertz
20. Whtch of the following pairs do not deal with thematology
A) Stoff–Rohstoff
B) Dominant-Residual
C) Fabula–Syuzhet
D) Trait–Type