List of top English Literature Questions on Literary Theory asked in GATE XH-C2

Which of the following critics belong to the deconstructionist school?
Ferdinand de Saussure differentiates language in terms of:
Which of the following are considered to be typical postmodern narratives?
What does a green reading of a text aim at?
Who first translated Jacques Derrida's work into English?
Whom would you associate the term 'simulacra' with?
The epilogue to William Congreve’s The Way of the World, given below, signals some warning(s). What is/are it/they?
“Other there are whose malice we’d prevent,
Such, who watch plays, with scurrilous intent
To mark out who by characters are meant.
These, with false glosses feed their own ill nature,
And turn to libel, what was meant a satire.”
Which of the following statements is the most appropriate in the context of Francoise d' Eaubonne’s concept of Eco-feminism?
Which of the following is/are true about Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s conception of `minor literature’?
Choose one or more options from below.
In contrast to traditional Historicism, New Historicism ________
Read the following:
“[…] a text is made of multiple writings, drawn from many cultures and entering into mutual relations of dialogue, parody, contestation, but there is one place where this multiplicity is focused and that place is the reader, not, as was hitherto said, the author. […] the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.”
Which theoretical school does the excerpt best represent?
The following is a passage about O. V. Vijayan’s The Legends of Khasak:
The novel is set in a remote village, in the middle of the 20th century. The narrative is replete with images of the vast ecosystem of the living and the non-living, a land potent with dreams and legends.
The analysis presented in this description is congruent with which one of the following concepts proposed by Mikhail Bakhtin?
Which of the following is NOT true of Bram Stoker’s Dracula?