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A good list of books you must know.
#LiteraryTerms
écriture_féminine (F ‘feminine writing’)
A concept proposed by the French feminist #Hélène_Cixous.
It denotes writing which is typically, characteristically feminine in style, language, tone and feeling, and completely different from (and opposed to) male language and discourse – though she does say in The Laugh of the Medusa (1976) that this is not to do with biological determinism; women often write in male discourse and men can write in a feminine way.
She cites the ‘source’ of écriture féminine in the mother and in the mother–child relationship before the child acquires ‘conventional’ language.
She proposes that this potential language when eventually used in writing (by men or women) subverts logic and the rational and any element which mayconstrain the free play of meaning.
On the other hand, Luce Irigaray posits a ‘woman’s language’, which is multiple, fluid, diverse and heterogeneous and which evades male phallocentric monopoly. This theory has a morphological basis associated with the structure and shape of the genital organs.
A third and related point of view is proposed by Julia_Kristeva: a ‘language’ which is pre-Oedipal and pre-linguistic and is fundamentally semiotic(associated with the chora – Greek for ‘womb’) as opposed to male controlled language which she describes as symbolic
All of these writers revaluate the significance of the maternal, viewing this as empowering rather than as oppressed. Other feminists, however, such as Christine Fauré, Catherine Clément and Monique Wittig, have challenged this emphasis on the body as biologically reductive, fetishistic and politically impotent. Monique Wittig wishes to do away with the linguistic categories of sex and gender
écriture_féminine (F ‘feminine writing’)
A concept proposed by the French feminist #Hélène_Cixous.
It denotes writing which is typically, characteristically feminine in style, language, tone and feeling, and completely different from (and opposed to) male language and discourse – though she does say in The Laugh of the Medusa (1976) that this is not to do with biological determinism; women often write in male discourse and men can write in a feminine way.
She cites the ‘source’ of écriture féminine in the mother and in the mother–child relationship before the child acquires ‘conventional’ language.
She proposes that this potential language when eventually used in writing (by men or women) subverts logic and the rational and any element which mayconstrain the free play of meaning.
On the other hand, Luce Irigaray posits a ‘woman’s language’, which is multiple, fluid, diverse and heterogeneous and which evades male phallocentric monopoly. This theory has a morphological basis associated with the structure and shape of the genital organs.
A third and related point of view is proposed by Julia_Kristeva: a ‘language’ which is pre-Oedipal and pre-linguistic and is fundamentally semiotic(associated with the chora – Greek for ‘womb’) as opposed to male controlled language which she describes as symbolic
All of these writers revaluate the significance of the maternal, viewing this as empowering rather than as oppressed. Other feminists, however, such as Christine Fauré, Catherine Clément and Monique Wittig, have challenged this emphasis on the body as biologically reductive, fetishistic and politically impotent. Monique Wittig wishes to do away with the linguistic categories of sex and gender
Four Levels of Meaning
The origins of the four levels of meaning are not certain, but an awareness of them is manifest in the Middle Ages. It was Dante who explained most clearly (in the Epistle to his patron Can Grande della Scala) what they consisted of. He was introducing the matter of the Divina Commedia and he distinguished:
(a) the literal or historical meaning;
(b) the moral meaning;
(c) the allegorical meaning;
(d) the anagogical meaning.
Such criteria applied to, for instance, Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945), might suggest the following:
(a) the story is about the revolt of the animals against their human overlords, and the outcome of that revolt;
(b) ‘power tends to corrupt’;
(c) Major = Lenin; Napoleon = Stalin; Snowball = Trotsky; Jones = corrupt capitalist landowners – and so forth;
(d) human (and animal) nature
does not change.
The origins of the four levels of meaning are not certain, but an awareness of them is manifest in the Middle Ages. It was Dante who explained most clearly (in the Epistle to his patron Can Grande della Scala) what they consisted of. He was introducing the matter of the Divina Commedia and he distinguished:
(a) the literal or historical meaning;
(b) the moral meaning;
(c) the allegorical meaning;
(d) the anagogical meaning.
Such criteria applied to, for instance, Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945), might suggest the following:
(a) the story is about the revolt of the animals against their human overlords, and the outcome of that revolt;
(b) ‘power tends to corrupt’;
(c) Major = Lenin; Napoleon = Stalin; Snowball = Trotsky; Jones = corrupt capitalist landowners – and so forth;
(d) human (and animal) nature
does not change.
#Quiz
1. What does ‘conceit’ refer to in concern to metaphysical poetry?
a) Far-fetched similes and metaphors
b) Showing off of learning
c) Sincerity to one theme
d) Use of same similes and metaphors at multiple points in a poem
2. One of Donne's 'Meditations' inspired the title of a famous novel set during the Spanish Civil War, written by which 20th century author?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) Jack London
c) Herman Melville
d) William Somerset Maugham
3. Who claimed, “Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging”?
a) Ben Jonson
b) S. Eliot
c) Samuel Johnson
d) John Dryden
4. Who said about Donne, “He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love”?
a) John Dryden
b) Ben Jonson
c) S. Eliot
d) Samuel Johnson
5. What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572?
a) The Massacre at Paris
b) The Massacre at Berlin
c) The Massacre at Rome
d) The Massacre at Copenhagen
6. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" come from?
a) King Lear
b)As You Like It
c)The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII
d)The Life and Death of King John
1. What does ‘conceit’ refer to in concern to metaphysical poetry?
a) Far-fetched similes and metaphors
b) Showing off of learning
c) Sincerity to one theme
d) Use of same similes and metaphors at multiple points in a poem
2. One of Donne's 'Meditations' inspired the title of a famous novel set during the Spanish Civil War, written by which 20th century author?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) Jack London
c) Herman Melville
d) William Somerset Maugham
3. Who claimed, “Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging”?
a) Ben Jonson
b) S. Eliot
c) Samuel Johnson
d) John Dryden
4. Who said about Donne, “He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love”?
a) John Dryden
b) Ben Jonson
c) S. Eliot
d) Samuel Johnson
5. What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572?
a) The Massacre at Paris
b) The Massacre at Berlin
c) The Massacre at Rome
d) The Massacre at Copenhagen
6. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" come from?
a) King Lear
b)As You Like It
c)The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII
d)The Life and Death of King John
NTA UGC NET - English
#Quiz 1. What does ‘conceit’ refer to in concern to metaphysical poetry? a) Far-fetched similes and metaphors b) Showing off of learning c) Sincerity to one theme d) Use of same similes and metaphors at multiple points in a poem 2. One of Donne's 'Meditations'…
Answers
1. a
2. a [ For Whom the Bell Tolls - It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia.]
3. a
4. a [although the term metaphysical poets was coined by Samuel Johnson]
5. a
6. a
1. a
2. a [ For Whom the Bell Tolls - It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia.]
3. a
4. a [although the term metaphysical poets was coined by Samuel Johnson]
5. a
6. a
The English Patient
Author Michael Ondaatje
Country Canada
Language English
Genre Historiographic metafiction
Publication date
September 1992
The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The four main characters are: an unrecognisably burned man — the eponymous patient, presumed to be English; his Canadian Army nurse, a Sikh British Army sapper, and a Canadian thief. The story occurs during the North African Campaign and centres on the incremental revelations of the patient's actions prior to his injuries, and the emotional effects of these revelations on the other characters. The book won the 1992 Booker Prize, the 2018 Golden Man Booker,
Author Michael Ondaatje
Country Canada
Language English
Genre Historiographic metafiction
Publication date
September 1992
The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The four main characters are: an unrecognisably burned man — the eponymous patient, presumed to be English; his Canadian Army nurse, a Sikh British Army sapper, and a Canadian thief. The story occurs during the North African Campaign and centres on the incremental revelations of the patient's actions prior to his injuries, and the emotional effects of these revelations on the other characters. The book won the 1992 Booker Prize, the 2018 Golden Man Booker,
#Quiz
1. What is a funny poem of five lines called?
a. Quartet
👉b. Limerick
c. Sextet
d. Palindrome
2. The use of "whale-road"for sea and "life-house"for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry?
a) symbolism
b) simile
c) metonymy
👉d) kenning
e) appositive expression
3. About whom did T. S. Eliot write “A thought to him was an experience” :
(A) Herbert
(B) Marvell
👉(C) Donne
(D) Crashaw
4. Who edited The Tatler :
(A) Steele and John Locke
(B) Addison and Dryden
(C) Addison and Blackmore
👉(D) Addison and Steele
5. Which of Alexander Pope’s poems begins with the line “Shut, shut the door, good
John, fatigued I said” :
👉(A) “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”
(B) “Dunciad”
(C) “Epistles”
(D) “Rape of the Lock”
6. The statement “One has to convey in a language that is not one’s own the spirit that is
one’s own” appears in :
(A) Ice-Candy Man
(B) The Guide
(C) Nagamandala
👉(D) Kanthapura
7. Which of the following women writers did not receive the Noble Prize :
(A) Toni Morrison
(B) Nadine Gordiner
👉(C) Buchi Emcheta
(D) Doris Lessing
8. Which of the following is not an Australian author :
👉(A) Margaret Laurence
(B) David Malauf
(C) Mudooroo Narogin
(D) Peter Carey
9. The quotation “a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite
I AM” appears in :
(A) Lyrical Ballads
👉(B) Biographia Literaria
(C) “In Defense of Poetry”
(D) Letters of Keats
10. Which of the following prose-writers do not belong to the Romantic Period :
(A) Peacock
(B) De Quincey
(C) Hazlitt
👉(D) Gibbon
1. What is a funny poem of five lines called?
a. Quartet
👉b. Limerick
c. Sextet
d. Palindrome
2. The use of "whale-road"for sea and "life-house"for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry?
a) symbolism
b) simile
c) metonymy
👉d) kenning
e) appositive expression
3. About whom did T. S. Eliot write “A thought to him was an experience” :
(A) Herbert
(B) Marvell
👉(C) Donne
(D) Crashaw
4. Who edited The Tatler :
(A) Steele and John Locke
(B) Addison and Dryden
(C) Addison and Blackmore
👉(D) Addison and Steele
5. Which of Alexander Pope’s poems begins with the line “Shut, shut the door, good
John, fatigued I said” :
👉(A) “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”
(B) “Dunciad”
(C) “Epistles”
(D) “Rape of the Lock”
6. The statement “One has to convey in a language that is not one’s own the spirit that is
one’s own” appears in :
(A) Ice-Candy Man
(B) The Guide
(C) Nagamandala
👉(D) Kanthapura
7. Which of the following women writers did not receive the Noble Prize :
(A) Toni Morrison
(B) Nadine Gordiner
👉(C) Buchi Emcheta
(D) Doris Lessing
8. Which of the following is not an Australian author :
👉(A) Margaret Laurence
(B) David Malauf
(C) Mudooroo Narogin
(D) Peter Carey
9. The quotation “a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite
I AM” appears in :
(A) Lyrical Ballads
👉(B) Biographia Literaria
(C) “In Defense of Poetry”
(D) Letters of Keats
10. Which of the following prose-writers do not belong to the Romantic Period :
(A) Peacock
(B) De Quincey
(C) Hazlitt
👉(D) Gibbon
As NET is going to be online, I thought of making an online quiz for you. Will be sharing more full length mocktest in the future. Meanwhile go through this interactive quiz and other posts that I've writtten. Some blog posts are incomplete and I'm still working on it, please bear with me on that.
NTA UGC NET - English pinned «https://englishnetjrf.blogspot.com/2018/10/interactive-quiz-1.html»
Best Quotes by Bacon
“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
The Essays
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...”
“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”
“Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.”
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”
“Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.”
“There are two ways of spreading light..to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
“The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.”
“Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends”
“If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted”
“God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.”
“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.”
“Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.”
“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
The Essays
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...”
“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”
“Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.”
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”
“Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.”
“There are two ways of spreading light..to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
“The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.”
“Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends”
“If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted”
“God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.”
“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.”
“Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.”
“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
NTA UGC NET - English pinned «https://englishnetjrf.blogspot.com/2018/10/mock-quiz-2.html»
#Quiz
🔰Heidegger's major work *Being and Time* addresses itself to nothing less than the question of Being itself - more particularly, to that mode of being which is specifically human was published in.......
A)1927
B)1937
C)1930
D)2933
🔰modern philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer was a ............
A)Russian
B)Canadian
C)German
D)American
🔰True' history for .............. is an inward, 'authentic' or 'existential' history - a mastering of dread and nothingness, a resoluteness towards death.
A)Heidegger
B)Hussrel
C)Eliot
D)Georg Gadamer
🔰The word 'hermeneutics' was originally confined to the interpretation of sacred scripture; but during the nineteenth century it broadened its scope to encompass the problem of textual interpretation as a whole.
A)True
B)False
🔰The word *hermeneutics* Which means.........
A)Art of exploration
B)Art of interpretation
C)Science
D)only c
E)b&c
🔰Heidegger's two most famous predecessors as 'hermeneuticists' were the ................thinkers *Schleiermacher and Dilthey*; his most celebrated successor is the modern German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer. With Gadamer's central study Truth and Method (1960),
A)German
B)American
C)English
D)None
🔰The fact that I may produce Macbeth in a way which makes it relevant to nuclear warfare does not alter the fact that this is not what Macbeth, from Shakespeare's own viewpoint, 'means'. Significances vary throughout history, whereas meanings remain constant;
*Find out true and false*
A)authors put in meanings, whereas readers assign significances.
B)authors put in significance, whereas readers assign meaning
🔰........... reception theory, in fact, is based on a liberal humanist ideology:
A)Iser's
B)Hans-Georg Gadamer ‘s
C)Heidegger ‘s
D)None of the above
🔰A more detailed historical study ofliterary reception is Jean-Paul Sartre's *What is Literature* was written around.........
A)1947
B)1948
C)1949
D)1950
🔰Stanley Fish* is quite happy to accept reception theory, he was a critic of
A)England
B)America
C)German
D) Canadian
🔰Heidegger's major work *Being and Time* addresses itself to nothing less than the question of Being itself - more particularly, to that mode of being which is specifically human was published in.......
A)1927
B)1937
C)1930
D)2933
🔰modern philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer was a ............
A)Russian
B)Canadian
C)German
D)American
🔰True' history for .............. is an inward, 'authentic' or 'existential' history - a mastering of dread and nothingness, a resoluteness towards death.
A)Heidegger
B)Hussrel
C)Eliot
D)Georg Gadamer
🔰The word 'hermeneutics' was originally confined to the interpretation of sacred scripture; but during the nineteenth century it broadened its scope to encompass the problem of textual interpretation as a whole.
A)True
B)False
🔰The word *hermeneutics* Which means.........
A)Art of exploration
B)Art of interpretation
C)Science
D)only c
E)b&c
🔰Heidegger's two most famous predecessors as 'hermeneuticists' were the ................thinkers *Schleiermacher and Dilthey*; his most celebrated successor is the modern German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer. With Gadamer's central study Truth and Method (1960),
A)German
B)American
C)English
D)None
🔰The fact that I may produce Macbeth in a way which makes it relevant to nuclear warfare does not alter the fact that this is not what Macbeth, from Shakespeare's own viewpoint, 'means'. Significances vary throughout history, whereas meanings remain constant;
*Find out true and false*
A)authors put in meanings, whereas readers assign significances.
B)authors put in significance, whereas readers assign meaning
🔰........... reception theory, in fact, is based on a liberal humanist ideology:
A)Iser's
B)Hans-Georg Gadamer ‘s
C)Heidegger ‘s
D)None of the above
🔰A more detailed historical study ofliterary reception is Jean-Paul Sartre's *What is Literature* was written around.........
A)1947
B)1948
C)1949
D)1950
🔰Stanley Fish* is quite happy to accept reception theory, he was a critic of
A)England
B)America
C)German
D) Canadian