What did Henry James describe as loose baggy monsters ?
A. novels
B. plays
C. the English
D. publishers
English Literature Mcqs
Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. Paul Scott’s Staying On
In what decade did the angry young mencome to prominence on the theatrical scene ?
In what decade did the angry young mencome to prominence on the theatrical scene ?
A. 1910s
B. 1930s
C. 1950s
D. 1970s
What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?
What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?
A. regional dialect and political critique
B. religious symbolism and society comedy
C. iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo
D. witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe
Which poet could be described as part of “The Movement” of the 1950s ?
Which poet could be described as part of “The Movement” of the 1950s ?
A. Thom Gunn
B. Dylan Thomas
C. Philip Larkin
D. both A and C
What characteristics of seventeenthcentury Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
What characteristics of seventeenthcentury Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
A. its intellectual complexity
B. its union of thought and passion
C. its uncompromising engagement with politics
D. A and B
In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more __________but less ___________ than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound?
In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more __________but less ___________ than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound?
A. popular; reverenced
B. brash; confident
C. radical; inventive
D. anxious; haunting
What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?
What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?
A. regional dialect and political critique
B. religious symbolism and society comedy
C. iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo
D. witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe
Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new mythical methodin place of the old narrative methodand demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about making the modern world possible for art ?
Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new mythical methodin place of the old narrative methodand demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about making the modern world possible for art ?
A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
D. James Joyce’s Ulysses
Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?
Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?
A. gluttonous feasting
B. hard drinking
C. hunting
D. all of the above