FORMALISM AND NEW CRIITICISM

Some of the following terms are integral to New Criticism:

A) Tension B) Mirror Stage C) Irony D) Polyphony E) Paradox

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

• 1) B, C, and D

• 2) A, B, and C

• 3) A, C, and E

• 4) B, D, and E

Which of the following is true in the context of New Criticism?

1. To It follows the tradition of Historical Criticism.

2. The main law of New Criticism is that it should be subjective analysis.

3. 3.The distinctive procedure for a New Critic is explication.

4. 4.The distinction between literary genres does play an essential role in New Criticism.

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New Criticism considers text as a :

• (A) Cultural construct

• (B) Historical construct

• (C) Linguistic construct

• (D) Autotelic

The title, The New Criticism, published in 1941, was written by

• (A) Cleanth Brooks

• (B) John Crowe Ransom

• (C) Robert Penn Warren

• (D) Allan Tate

In New Criticism, the key term ‘tension’ is associated with:

• (1) Cleanth Brooks

• (2) John Crow Ransom

• (3) Austin Warren

• (4) Allen Tate

The discussion of Fabula/Syuzhet occurs in :

• (A) New criticism

• (B) Deconstruction

• (C) Structuralism

• (D) Formalism

The term ‘Practical Criticism’ is coined by

• (A) William Empson

• (B) W. K. Wimsatt, Jr.

• (C) I.A. Richards

• (D) F. R. Leavis

Victor Shklovsky’s name is associated with

• (A) Post-modernism

• (B) New Historicism

• (C) Reader Response Theory

• (D) Russian Formalism

In Practical Criticism I.A. Richards links four kinds of meanings in most human utterances to four aspects. These are

• (A) Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention

• (B) Sound, Feeling, Nuance, Intention

• (C) Sense, Voice, Emotion, Intention

• (D) Sense, Image, Tone, Intention

Basic English, a simpli ed and fundamental framework of English, was formulated by

I. I.A. Richards II. Alastair Fowler III. William Empson IV. C.K. Ogden

The right combination according to the code is :

• (1) I and II

• (2) II and III

• (3) I and IV

• (4) I and III