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Cultural and Literary in Modernity

Which of the following are contemporary Indian artists who have begun to more critically examine India’s post-colonial situation ?

Which of the following are contemporary Indian artists who have begun to more critically examine India’s post-colonial situation ?

A. Ravinder Reddy
B. Rummana Hussain
C. Dadabhai Naoroji
D. A and B only

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How may W.B. Yeats’ poem, “The Second Coming,” be interpreted ?

How may W.B. Yeats’ poem, “The Second Coming,” be interpreted ?

A. As an interpretation of the Biblical Second Coming of Christ
B. As an attempt to support European colonialism in Africa
C. As a howl of despair concerning the current state of the world
D. Both A and C

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Which of the following is true of Charles Baudelaire’s “Bénédiction” ?

Which of the following is true of Charles Baudelaire’s “Bénédiction” ?

A. It was originally written in English.
B. It celebrates the almost divine power of the poet.
C. It suggests that poetry is demonic in nature.
D. Both A and B

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According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” which of the following is true of “tradition ?”

According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” which of the following is true of “tradition ?”

A. In English literature, we cannot refer to “the tradition” or to “a tradition;” at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of so-and-so is “traditional” or even “too traditional.”
B. Tradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon.
C. All of the above
D. A and B only

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Which of the following authors is NOT considered to be a practitioner of “Magical Realism” ?

Which of the following authors is NOT considered to be a practitioner of “Magical Realism” ?

A. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
B. Isabel Allende
C. James Joyce
D. Allejo Carpentier

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The French novelist J.K. Huysmans, in his work “Against the Grain,” is intended to convey which of the following ideas ?

The French novelist J.K. Huysmans, in his work “Against the Grain,” is intended to convey which of the following ideas ?

A. The work celebrates the young Jean and his Jesuit school education as a model for the best possible education of the young.
B. It ends with the famous line “the horror, the horror.”
C. It explores Jean’s decision to become a recluse and a social drop-out.
D. All of the above

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The literary style of Virginia Woolf’s novel “To the Lighthouse” is best described in which of the following ways ?

The literary style of Virginia Woolf’s novel “To the Lighthouse” is best described in which of the following ways ?

A. As an omniscient narrative of love and loss
B. As a third-person narrative of the Great Depression
C. As a domestic stream of consciousness narrative
D. A and B only

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In Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel,” which of the following is NOT a major concern of the work ?

In Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel,” which of the following is NOT a major concern of the work ?

A. The short work speaks of the daunting search for truth and knowledge.
B. It is obsessed with the descriptions of an endless and ultimately incomprehensible library.
C. Borges takes great pains to show how the key to understanding the library is reason.
D. The library is analogous to the universe.

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