This week, the MCQ type which we shall explore would be the "by negation" type?
1) Which amongst the following critical texts does not even loosely belong to the "New Criticism" theory? a) The Well Wrought Urn b) Seven Types of Ambiguity c) Practical Criticism d)Studies in European Realism.
The right option is (d) because Lukacs' is a Marxist analysis, while Cleanth Brooks', William Empson's and I. A. Richards' books are the fulcrum of New Criticism.
2) New Historicism will not accept one of the following statements. Which one is it? a) Literature occupies a trans-historical aesthetic realm, independent of economic, social, political contexts, and hence is subject to timeless criteria of artistic principles. b) The Humanist concept of "essential" human nature as reflected by an author and his characters is a bourgeois ideological illusion. c) A literary text is embedded in its context as an interactive component within a network of institutions, beliefs and cultural power relations. d) Readers, too, are 'subjects' conditioned by their ideological contexts.
The correct choice is (a) as it negates the basic premises of New Historicism, reflected largely in the other three options.
3) Which of the following is not a "revenge tragedy" ? a) The Spanish Tragedy b) Hamlet c) Othello d) The Duchess of Malfi.
The correct option is (c). Iago's wickedness is "motiveless malignancy." The play, moreover, has none of the standard components of the genre.
Pratima Agnihotri Pune
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