Thursday, May 31, 2012

Nobel Laureates


2013
Alice Ann Munro (Canada)
2012
Mo Yan (China)
2011
Tomas Tranströmer
2010
Mario Vargas Llosa
2009
Herta Müller
2008
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
2007
Doris Lessing
2006
Orhan Pamuk
2005
Harold Pinter
2004
Elfriede Jelinek
2003
John M. Coetzee
2002
Imre Kertész
2001
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
2000
Gao Xingjian
1999
Günter Grass
1998
José Saramago
1997
Dario Fo
1996
Wislawa Szymborska
1995
Seamus Heaney
1994
Kenzaburo Oe
1993
Toni Morrison
1992
Derek Walcott
1991
Nadine Gordimer
1990
Octavio Paz
1989
Camilo José Cela
1988
Naguib Mahfouz
1987
Joseph Brodsky
1986
Wole Soyinka
1985
Claude Simon
1984
Jaroslav Seifert
1983
William Golding
1982
Gabriel García Márquez
1981
Elias Canetti
1980
Czeslaw Milosz
1979
Odysseus Elytis
1978
Isaac Bashevis Singer
1977
Vicente Aleixandre
1976
Saul Bellow
1975
Eugenio Montale
1974
Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
1973
Patrick White
1972
Heinrich Böll
1971
Pablo Neruda
1970
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
1969
Samuel Beckett
1968
Yasunari Kawabata
1967
Miguel Angel Asturias
1966
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs
1965
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
1964
Jean-Paul Sartre
1963
Giorgos Seferis
1962
John Steinbeck
1961
Ivo Andric
1960
Saint-John Perse
1959
Salvatore Quasimodo
1958
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
1957
Albert Camus
1956
Juan Ramón Jiménez
1955
Halldór Kiljan Laxness
1954
Ernest Miller Hemingway
1953
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1952
François Mauriac
1951
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
1950
Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
1949
William Faulkner
1948
Thomas Stearns Eliot
1947
André Paul Guillaume Gide
1946
Hermann Hesse
1945
Gabriela Mistral
1944
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
1943
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1942
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1941
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1940
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1939
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1938
Pearl Buck
1937
Roger Martin du Gard
1936
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
1935
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1934
Luigi Pirandello
1933
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
1932
John Galsworthy
1931
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1930
Sinclair Lewis
1929
Thomas Mann
1928
Sigrid Undset
1927
Henri Bergson
1926
Grazia Deledda
1925
George Bernard Shaw
1924
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
1923
William Butler Yeats
1922
Jacinto Benavente
1921
Anatole France
1920
Knut Pedersen Hamsun
1919
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
1918
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1917
Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
1916
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
1915
Romain Rolland
1914
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1913
Rabindranath Tagore
1912
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
1911
Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
1910
Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
1909
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
1908
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
1907
Rudyard Kipling
1906
Giosuè Carducci
1905
Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904
Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
1903
Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson
1902
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
1901
Sully Prudhomme

Chronological order of Shakespearean plays


Chronological order of Shakespearean works

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Taming of the Shrew

Henry VI, Part II

Henry VI, Part III

Henry VI, Part I (perhaps with Thomas Nashe)

Titus Andronicus (perhaps with George Peele)

Richard III

Venus and Adonis (poem)

The Rape of Lucrece (poem)

The Comedy of Errors

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Edward III (authorship uncertain)

Richard II

Romeo and Juliet

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

King John

The Merchant of Venice

Henry IV, Part I

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Henry IV, Part II

Much Ado About Nothing

Henry V

Julius Caesar

As You Like It

Hamlet

Twelfth Night

'The Phoenix and the Turtle' (poem)

Troilus and Cressida

The Sonnets (poems)

A Lover’s Complaint (poem)

Sir Thomas More 


Measure for Measure

Othello

All’s Well That Ends Well

Timon of Athens 


King Lear

Macbeth 


Antony and Cleopatra

Pericles (with George Wilkins)

Coriolanus

The Winter’s Tale

Cymbeline

The Tempest

Henry VIII (by Shakespeare and John Fletcher; known in its own time as All is True)

Cardenio (by Shakespeare and Fletcher; lost)

The Two Noble Kinsmen (by Shakespeare and Fletcher)


Tuesday, May 29, 2012

UGC NET solved questions 1995 part II


1.       Which famous poem contains the line, “Hieronimo is mad again”?
1)      Lapis Lazuli
2)      The Waste Land
3)      Dover Beach
4)      The Wreck of the Deutschland
2.       Defamiliarisation as a function of Art was stressed by
1)      Russian formalists
2)      The New critics
3)      The Psycho-analytical critics
4)      The Marxist critics
3.       ‘If music be the food of love, play on’ This line occurs in Shakespeare’s
1)      Hamlet
2)      Twelfth Night
3)      King Lear
4)      As You Like It
4.       Who is the author of The Uses of Literacy
1)      Richard Hoggart
2)      Raymond Williams
3)      F.R Leavis
4)      Terry Eagleton
5.       “Alone ,alone, all all alone
Alone on a wide, wide sea” – These lines occur in a poem by
1)      Robert Burns
2)      S.T Coleridge
3)      John Keats
4)      William Wordsworth
6.       ‘Full fathom five thy father lies’ illustrates
1)      Rhyme
2)      Assonance
3)      Internal rhyme
4)      Alliteration
From Shakespeare’s Tempest, Ariel  sings this to Ferdinand about his father Alonso, King of Naples.
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.
7.       The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog was written by
1)      C.P Snow
2)      James Joyce
3)      Dylan Thomas
4)      Angus Wilson
8.       Who wrote the poem Troilus and Criseyde ?
1)      Shakespeare
2)      Chaucer
3)      Spenser
4)      Marlow
9.       Milton’s Paradise Lost was published in
1)      1628
2)      1667
3)      1600
4)      1687
Milton’s Paradise Lost, which is often regarded as the greatest literary work in English, was originally published in ten books in the year 1667 by Samuel Simmons.
10.   About whom did David Garrick comment that he spoke like poor poll but wrote like an angel?
1)      Sir John Reynolds
2)      Dr. Samuel Johnson
3)      Oliver Goldsmith
4)      Richard Steele
11.   Richardson’s novel Pamela is
1)      An epistolary novel
2)      A picaresque novel
3)      A Gothic novel
4)      A Satirical novel
12.   Which of the following is a pastoral elegy?
1)      Areopagitica
2)      Lycidas
3)      Absalem and Achitophel
4)      Rasselas
13.   Who among the following was a Pre-Raphaelite poet?
1)      Tennyson
2)      Ruskin
3)      Browning
4)      Rossetti
14.   The Authorized version of the Bible appeared in
1)      1611
2)      1628
3)      1603
4)      1617
15.   Which among the following is an Anglo Saxon Epic?
1)      Faerie Queen
2)      The Aeneid
3)      The Divine Comedy
4)      Beowulf
16.   The Printing Press was first introduced into England by
1)       Bacon
2)      Caxton
3)      Thomas Moore
4)      Sidney
17.   Chaucer’s Pilgrims first met in a place called
1)      The Tabard
2)      The Gray’s Inn
3)      The Russell Square
4)      The Manor House
The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, commonly known as Gray's Inn, is one of the four Inns of Court (professional associations for barristers and judges) in London. To be called to the Bar and practise as a barrister in England and Wales, an individual must belong to one of these Inns.
Russell Square is a large garden square in Bloomsbury, London.
A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes.
18.   Some of Shakespeare’s sonnets were addressed to
1)      The Queene
2)      Marlow
3)      Dark Lady
4)      Nobody in particular
19.   The famous letter to Lord Chesterfield which sounded the death knell of literary patronage, was written by
1)      Edmund Burke
2)      Samuel Johnson
3)      Jeremy Collier
4)      Jonathan Swift
20.   Peripeteia is seen in tragedy when there is a reversal of fortune as
1)      When a rich man becomes poor
2)      When the protagonist undergoes a conversion of heart
3)      When the protagonist takes a course of action and it brings about the opposite of the expected result
4)      When the protagonist sees his mistake
21.   A Tale of a Tub was written by
1)      Swift
2)      Fielding
3)      Johnson
4)      Pope
22.   A woman playwright who was popular in the Restoration Age was
1)      Virginia woolf
2)      Katherine Mansfield
3)      Aphra Behn
4)      George Eliot
23.   The Principles of Literary Criticism was published in
1)      1924
2)      1936
3)      1950
4)      1914
24.   A modern play which employs the classical convention of the Chorus is
1)      St. Joan
2)      Murder in the Cathedral
3)      Becket
4)      Lady Windermere’s Fan
25.   The central function of criticism, according to Arnold is
1)      Description of the work
2)      To interpret the work
3)      To help the poet / writer to write competently

4)      To promote discrimination in the reader and civilized standards