UGC NET/SET IMPORTANT CRITICISM

2. Focus
Contents
Points of Reference
Strategies

3. 1.Literary Groups and
Movements
2.William Shakespeare
3.Chronological Order
4.Old English and
Middle English
5.Literature in English
outside England
6.Literary Criticism
7.Literary Theory
8.British Literature
9.Quotations
10. English in India
11. English and
Pedagogy
12.Linguistics
13.Magazines
14. Literary Analysis

4. From Classical Age till
New Criticism

5. 1. Structuralism
2. Post-structuralism and
Deconstruction
5. Postmodernism
6. Psychoanalytic Criticism
7. Feminist Criticism
8. Queer Theory
9. Marxist Criticism
10. New Historicism &/or
Cultural Materialism
11. Postcolonial Criticism
12. Stylistics
13. Narratology
14. Ecocriticism

6. Plato – Republic, Ion and Phaedrus
Aristotle - Poetics
Horace – Ars Poetica (The Art of
Poetry)
Longinus – On the Sublime
Plotinus – Enneads (Neoplatonism)
Dante – The Divine Comedy

7. Phillips Sidney – An Apologie for
Poetry
Samuel Daniel – “Defence of Rhyme”

8. John Dryden - Essay of Dramatic
Poesie (1668)
Alexander Pope - An Essay on
Criticism
Dr.Samuel Johnson – Preface to
Shakespeare

9. David Hume – Enquiries and
Treatises
Immanuel Kant – Critique of
Judgement

10. William Wordsworth – Preface to
the Lyrical Ballads
S.T.Coleridge – Biographia
Literaria
P.B. Shelley – A Defence of Poetry

11. Mathew Arnold – The Function of
Criticism, The Study of Poetry
Henry James – The Art of Fiction
Walter Pater – Style

12. • close reading
• text - centred
Practical
Criticism
• Structure
• Political belief

13. A.C.Bradley – Poetry for Poetry’s
Sake
T.S.Eliot - Traditional and
Individual Talent, The Metaphysical
Poets

14. I.A.Richards – Poetry for Poetry’s Sake
F.R.Leavis – The Great Tradition
William Empson – Seven Types of Ambiguity
Allen Tate – Ode to the Confederate Dead
Lionel Trilling - The Liberal Imagination, Beyond
Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning

15. 1. Structuralism
2. Post-structuralism and
Deconstruction
5. Postmodernism
6. Psychoanalytic Criticism
7. Feminist Criticism
8. Queer Theory
9. Marxist Criticism
10. New Historicism &/or
Cultural Materialism
11. Postcolonial Criticism
12. Stylistics
13. Narratology
14. Ecocriticism

16. Name, School & Age of the Critics
Works, Dates & Contexts
Terms and Definitions
Magazines
Quotations

17. Name – Plato
Age – 4th Century BC
School – Classical Criticism
Works & Date – Republic (387 – 347 BCE)
Hypothetical Utopian State
Terms
& Definitions – Idealist Philosophy,Mimesis
Art is an imitation of life –
“Art is twice removed from
Reality”

18. Name – Sir Phillips Sidney
Age – 16th C AD
School – Renaissance
/Elizabethan Critics
Works & Date – Apology for Poetry –
1580/81, published in
1895

19. Works & Date – Apology for Poetry –
1581
The other title - The Defence of Poesy
Context - An attack on Stephen
Gosson’s The School of
Abuse

20. Terms & Definitions -
Associating Literature with pleasure and
distinguishing literature from other forms of
writing.
He was influenced by Ovid “to teach by
delighting”,
Reiterates Horace’s remarks that “poetry is a
speaking picture”

21. Quotations
“if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both
for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him;
having all, from Dante’s Heaven to his Hell, under the authority
of his pen.”
Identify the person the author is referring to as “if he list”
a. Stephen Gosson
b. Edward I
c. the Poet
d. None of the above

22. Name – Ferdinand Sassure (1857-
1913)
Age – 1950-60
Theory – Structuralism
Works & Date – 1890 and 1910
1916
Terms
& Definitions – Language is an arbitrary
system Sign, signifier,
signified, langue, parole,
paradigmatic, syntagmatic,

26. Relation a word has
with the words that
surround it in a
sentence
“You are the apple
of my eye”
Apple is a fruit
Syntagmatic
Relation a word has
with the language
structure as a whole
Paradigmatic

27. What is the meaning of langue in
linguistics according to Sassure?
a.individual speech acts
b.language in the abstract sense
c.the dialectic between thought and
speech
d. System underlying the speech activity

28. Cours de linguistique
générale was published in:
a. 1913
b. 1916
c. 1922
d. 1897

29. The idea of arbitrariness of
language is concerned to:
a. Form and meaning
b. Number of signs
c. Grammar
d. None of the above

30. Which of the following is false?
a. Langue is a broader concept than
Parole
b. The term ‘Langue’ basically mean
‘language’
c. Parole depends on the choice of
Linguistic aspects by an individual
speaker
d. Parole is to be studied to study
language thoroughly

31. 1. Literary Groups and Movements
2. Chronological Order
3. Literary Criticism
4. Literary Theory
5. Quotations
6. Magazines
7. Literary Analysis

32. In Biographia Literaria Coleridge
differed with Wordsworth mainly in his
views on
a.Language in Poetry
b.Organic versus ornamental
vocabulary
c.The superior quality of folk poetry
d.None of the above

33. Principles of Literary criticism
was written by
a. William Empson
b. Lionel Trilling
c. I.A. Richards
d. Allen Tate

34. Objective Correlative was the
term coined by
a. Dr. Samuel Johnson
b. T.S. Eliot
c. I.A. Richards
d. Mathew Arnold

35. Chaucer is criticized for lack of
‘high seriousness’ by
a. Dr.Johnson
b. T.S. Eliot
c. Mathew Arnold
d. Ben Jonson

36. Dryden rejects unity of place
because
a. It cannot be maintained
consistently
b. It is against nature
c. Greek poets never supported that
d. It does not suit English Drama

37. Dr.Johnson defends Shakespeare’s
violation of the unities on grounds
of
a. Shakespeare is not bound by
rules
b. he reader’s ability to reconstruct
c.That life is a mixture of tragedy
and comedy
d.All of the above

39. The Tatler 1709
The Spectator – 1711
The Examiner – 1808
The Reflector – 1884

40. Material feminism studies
inequality in terms of
(A) only gender
(B) only class
(C) both class and gender
(D) only patriarchy