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Category: 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 ?
A. Ravinder Reddy
B. Rummana Hussain
C. Dadabhai Naoroji
D. A and B only
Which of the following authors is considered a major theorist of deconstruction ?
A. Raymond Williams
B. Jacques Derrida
C. Fredric Jameson
D. Both A and B
Fill in the blank. Written over the course of his life, Ezra Pound’s ….. is an examination of the human desire for knowledge and understanding in an inchoate modern landscape ?
A. “The Sun Also Rises”
B. “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”
C. “The Cantos”
D. “To the Lighthouse”
Between 1890 and 1919, which of the following was a preoccupation of Western European literature ?
A. Sexual mores
B. The importance of the irrational
C. Bourgeois sensibility
D. All of the above
What is meant by the “Haussmannization” of Paris ?
A. It was an urban modernization project that reorganized Parisian city streets so that the bourgeoisie could flaunt their new wealth.
B. It was an urban renovation project which offered social services in city slums.
C. It was a political movement intended to overthrow Napoleon III.
D. It was a religious movement intended to celebrate the values of Christianity.
What is the “Post-Modern” practice of “Deconstructionism” ?
A. An assault on the notion that there is any knowable truth
B. An assault on the sexual mores of the Victorian Age
C. A reaffirmation of Romantic notions of the sublime
D. All of the above
Which of the following is NOT one of Pablo Picasso’s periods of artistic production ?
A. Dadaist period
B. Blue period
C. Synthetic cubism
D. Rose period
Which of the following statements best describes the “Bloomsbury Group” ?
A. The “Bloomsbury Group” consists of a group of English writers, thinkers, and artists who met in the Bloomsbury district of London.
B. The group consisted of survivors of World War II.
C. The Bloomsbury group included E.M. Forster, Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes, and Virginia Woolf.
D. A and C only
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
Who wrote the collection of poems entitled “The Wind Among the Reeds ?”
A. W.B. Yeats
B. Jorge Luis Borges
C. Mario Vargas Llosa
D. Charles Baudelaire
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