Practice English Speaking&Listening with: UGC-NET/JRF English, Important Questions 2, Practice Tests, 2018, ENGLISH LITERATURE
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questions which may be asked in your
forthcoming UGC net or grf exam English
literature see have done a lot of such
videos before also so do go and watch so
that you get a lot of questions to
practice I have solved the question
papers of previous near-net exam also I
have made videos on literary theories I
have made videos on different
literature's like American African
Canadian I have also done critical
appreciation of many many poems
I have made some animated videos so it
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as you can so that you can be successful
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verse number one modernism is
characterized by a self-conscious break
with traditional styles of poetry and
worse modernist experimented with
literary form and expression a drink to
the maxim to make it new whose magazine
is make it new
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Ezra Pound questionable truth it is set
in Jefferson Mississippi the novel
centers on the cumson family former
servant aristocrats was struggling to
deal with the dissolution of their
family and its reputation over the
course of the 30 years or so
related in the novel the family falls
into financial ruin loses its religious
faith and the respect of the town of
Jefferson and many of them died
tragically it is a novel written by the
American author it employs a number of
narrative styles including stream of
consciousness it was published in 1929
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the sound and the fury written by
William Faulkner question number three
born in Port smoked he left school to
work in a factory when his father was
taken into a debtors prison despite his
lack of formal education he edited a
weekly journal for 20 years
wrote 15 novels 5 novelist hundreds of
short stories and nonfiction articles
lectured and performed readings
extensively was an enthusiastic letter
writer and campaigned vigorously for
children's rights education and other
social reforms named the author
he's none other than Charles Dickens
questionable fourth the modern theater
is the epic theater the principal a
variety of montage montage means editing
and reforming and all proposed bypassing
the great struggle for supremacy between
words music and production living in
Munich during the Weimar Republic he had
his first successes with theater plays
whose themes were often influenced by
his Marxist thought he was main
proponent of the gener named epic
theater which he preferred to call the
electical theater during the Nazi period
and world war ii he lived in exile first
in scandinavia and then in the United
States named the author
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but Talde brushed course number v music
and poetry is his delight therefore I'll
have Italian masked by night sweet
speeches comedies and pleasing shows and
in the day when he shall walk abroad
like Sylvan names my pages shall be glad
my men like satires grazing on the lawns
shall with their goat feet dance and
enter K named the play and the
playwright of these lights
yes Marloes edward ii customer six it
was a modernist movement initially in
poetry and painting originating in
Germany at the beginning of the 20th
century it's typical trait is to present
the world solely from a subjective
perspective distorting it radically for
emotional effect in order to evoke moods
or ideas the artists sought to express
the meaning of emotional experience
rather than physical reality it was
developed as an avant-garde style before
the First World War
it remained popular during the Weimar
Republic particularly in Berlin which
movement is it this is Expressionism
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important precursors of Expressionism
were the German philosopher Friedrich
Nietzsche especially his philosophically
novel thus Spoke Zarathustra I don't
know about the German pronunciation of
course so you can just read words here
question number 7 this is the 1908 novel
by English writer Ian Foster about a
young woman in the restrained culture of
Edwardian era England set in Italy and
England the story is both a romance and
a critique of English society at the
beginning of the 20th century Merchant
Ivory produced an award-winning film
adaptation in 1985 mainland ala I've
even seen this movie
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a room video view during my school days
I think or college days had even seen
his other movies heat and dust based on
the book written by Ruth Parvati Ivana
question number 8 she was a prominent
New Zealand modernist short story writer
who was born and brought up in colonial
New Zealand and wrote under the pen name
at 19 she left New Zealand and settled
in the United Kingdom where she became a
friend of writers such as D H Lawrence
and Virginia Woolf in 1917 she was
diagnosed with extra pulmonary pubic
losses which led to her death at age 34
a cup of tea a 1922 short story first
published in the story teller in May
1922 named the writer Katherine
Mansfield I think you all must have read
the short story a cup of tea in your
bachelors I think question one night he
was a Chilean poet diplomat and
politician he became known as a poet
when he was just 13 years of age and
wrote in a variety of styles including
surrealist forms historical epics
overtly political manifestos a prose
autobiography and passionate love poems
such as the ones in his collection 20
love Williams and a song of despair 1924
he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1971
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Pablo Neruda an early example of
linguistic ambiguity and in determinacy
Conrad's tale of the corrupt imperialism
that upholds civilized culture is
constructed through a nested layered
narrative and features some of the most
cryptic language ever written example it
was the stillness of an implicit force
brooding over an inscrutable intention
things becomes increasingly surreal as
Marlow approaches the mysterious curves
if you think Marlow Marlon Brando's the
horror the horror is chilling wait until
you reach the one-two punch of Conrad's
conclusion in this heart of darkness
Joseph Conrad's very famous heart of
darkness
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