List of top English Literature Questions on Language and Literature asked in GATE XH-C2

Which of the following author(s) has/have won the Booker Prize twice?

“Postcolonial perspectives emerge from the colonial testimony of Third World countries and the discourses of ‘minorities’ within the geopolitical divisions of East and West, North and South. They intervene in those ideological discourses of modernity that attempt to give a hegemonic ‘normality’ to the uneven development and the differential, often disadvantaged, histories of nations, races, communities, people.” The above commentary on the postcolonial perspective has been extracted from which of the following?

“This literary mode parallels the flouting of authority and inversion of social hierarchies that, in many cultures, are permitted in a season of … . It does so by introducing a mingling of voices from diverse social levels that are free to mock and subvert authority, to flout social norms by ribaldry, and to exhibit various ways of profaning what is ordinarily regarded as sacrosanct.” The above description explains the concept of ________ .

An “implied reader” is a ________

The following words in English are clustered according to their origin. Choose the cluster/s that contain/s words drawn from languages of the Indian subcontinent.

The first institution to teach English Literature in the world is ________

The following lines capture the central trope of a well-known 18th century satirical tract.
``I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...''
Identify the tract from the options below.

Which of the following texts is a collection of stories that a group of pilgrims tell each other?

Which of these is NOT an autobiography?