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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which critic is most closely associated with the development of New Historicism?
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Explanation:
• Stephen Greenblatt is widely associated with the emergence and consolidation of New Historicism.
• His studies of Renaissance literature connect literary texts with power, social practices and forms of identity.
• Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield are especially associated with British cultural materialism.
• Raymond Williams provided an important intellectual foundation for cultural materialism.
• His studies of Renaissance literature connect literary texts with power, social practices and forms of identity.
• Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield are especially associated with British cultural materialism.
• Raymond Williams provided an important intellectual foundation for cultural materialism.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
What does Greenblatt's concept of self-fashioning primarily describe?
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Explanation:
• Self-fashioning describes the production of identity through historically available codes and social institutions.
• The self is shaped in relation to authority, difference and cultural expectations.
• Greenblatt does not treat identity as a completely autonomous private creation.
• The concept is central to Renaissance Self-Fashioning.
• The self is shaped in relation to authority, difference and cultural expectations.
• Greenblatt does not treat identity as a completely autonomous private creation.
• The concept is central to Renaissance Self-Fashioning.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which work by Stephen Greenblatt is most directly associated with the concept of self-fashioning?
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Explanation:
• Renaissance Self-Fashioning examines the construction of identity in sixteenth-century England.
• Greenblatt studies how literary figures fashion themselves within religious, political and social pressures.
• Shakespearean Negotiations develops the idea of circulating social energy.
• Political Shakespeare was edited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield.
• Greenblatt studies how literary figures fashion themselves within religious, political and social pressures.
• Shakespearean Negotiations develops the idea of circulating social energy.
• Political Shakespeare was edited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
In Greenblatt's work, the circulation of social energy refers to:
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Explanation:
• The circulation of social energy describes the movement of symbolic force among literary texts, rituals, institutions and everyday practices.
• Literature participates in exchanges with broader social life rather than existing in isolation.
• The concept does not reduce circulation to money or authorial intention.
• It emphasizes negotiation, appropriation and transformation.
• Literature participates in exchanges with broader social life rather than existing in isolation.
• The concept does not reduce circulation to money or authorial intention.
• It emphasizes negotiation, appropriation and transformation.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which statement best summarizes the New Historicist relation between text and context?
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Explanation:
• New Historicism treats literary texts and historical contexts as mutually constitutive.
• Texts participate in the production of historical meanings while also being shaped by social discourses.
• The approach rejects both textual isolation and crude one-way determinism.
• Context is understood as a network of competing representations and practices.
• Texts participate in the production of historical meanings while also being shaped by social discourses.
• The approach rejects both textual isolation and crude one-way determinism.
• Context is understood as a network of competing representations and practices.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which theorist most strongly influenced New Historicist accounts of discourse and power?
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Explanation:
• Michel Foucault's analyses of discourse, power and subject formation strongly influenced New Historicism.
• New Historicists study how texts participate in historically specific regimes of knowledge and authority.
• Frye, Brooks and Jakobson belong to different critical traditions.
• Foucauldian influence is especially visible in analyses of institutions, surveillance and normalization.
• New Historicists study how texts participate in historically specific regimes of knowledge and authority.
• Frye, Brooks and Jakobson belong to different critical traditions.
• Foucauldian influence is especially visible in analyses of institutions, surveillance and normalization.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
What does New Historicism generally reject about traditional historical criticism?
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Explanation:
• New Historicism rejects the view that history is a transparent background against which literature can be placed.
• Historical knowledge is itself mediated through texts, archives and discourses.
• The approach often expands the archive by studying legal records, travel accounts, sermons and rituals.
• It does not reject archival evidence or political institutions.
• Historical knowledge is itself mediated through texts, archives and discourses.
• The approach often expands the archive by studying legal records, travel accounts, sermons and rituals.
• It does not reject archival evidence or political institutions.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which pair is most closely associated with British cultural materialism?
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Explanation:
• Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield are major figures in British cultural materialism.
• Their work connects Renaissance literature with ideology, dissidence and material institutions.
• Greenblatt and Montrose are associated more directly with New Historicism.
• Raymond Williams provided key theoretical foundations but is not the paired answer requested here.
• Their work connects Renaissance literature with ideology, dissidence and material institutions.
• Greenblatt and Montrose are associated more directly with New Historicism.
• Raymond Williams provided key theoretical foundations but is not the paired answer requested here.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which book edited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield became a landmark of cultural materialist Shakespeare criticism?
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Explanation:
• Political Shakespeare is a landmark collection in cultural materialist criticism.
• It studies Shakespeare in relation to ideology, institutions, conflict and political appropriation.
• Renaissance Self-Fashioning is by Greenblatt.
• The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Location of Culture are by Foucault and Bhabha respectively.
• It studies Shakespeare in relation to ideology, institutions, conflict and political appropriation.
• Renaissance Self-Fashioning is by Greenblatt.
• The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Location of Culture are by Foucault and Bhabha respectively.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Cultural materialism is most directly indebted to which broader view of culture?
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Explanation:
• Cultural materialism draws strongly on Raymond Williams's view of culture as a material social process.
• Cultural production is connected with institutions, class relations, technologies and lived practices.
• Literature is therefore neither timeless nor detached from social organization.
• This framework supports analyses of ideology, resistance and historical change.
• Cultural production is connected with institutions, class relations, technologies and lived practices.
• Literature is therefore neither timeless nor detached from social organization.
• This framework supports analyses of ideology, resistance and historical change.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which statement best distinguishes cultural materialism from a purely formalist approach?
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Explanation:
• Cultural materialism connects textual form with institutions, ideology and material conditions.
• It does not ignore form; rather, it asks how form participates in social and political processes.
• Texts are not reduced to economic documents alone.
• Interpretation remains central but is historically and materially situated.
• It does not ignore form; rather, it asks how form participates in social and political processes.
• Texts are not reduced to economic documents alone.
• Interpretation remains central but is historically and materially situated.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
In cultural materialist criticism, ideology is best understood as:
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Explanation:
• Cultural materialism treats ideology as embodied in institutions, practices and representations.
• It shapes what appears natural, legitimate and thinkable within a society.
• Literary texts may reproduce, negotiate or contest ideological formations.
• Ideology is therefore broader than private belief or explicit doctrine.
• It shapes what appears natural, legitimate and thinkable within a society.
• Literary texts may reproduce, negotiate or contest ideological formations.
• Ideology is therefore broader than private belief or explicit doctrine.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Consider the following statements.
Statement I: New Historicism often studies literary and non-literary texts together.
Statement II: It assumes that historical documents provide unmediated access to the past.
Statement I: New Historicism often studies literary and non-literary texts together.
Statement II: It assumes that historical documents provide unmediated access to the past.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because New Historicism places plays, poems and fiction alongside legal records, travel narratives, sermons and other documents.
• Statement II is incorrect because historical documents are themselves textual and discursive constructions.
• The archive does not provide transparent access to a complete past.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because historical documents are themselves textual and discursive constructions.
• The archive does not provide transparent access to a complete past.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Assertion: Greenblatt's self-fashioning does not describe unlimited individual freedom.
Reason: Renaissance identities were produced within social rules, institutions and relations of authority.
Reason: Renaissance identities were produced within social rules, institutions and relations of authority.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because self-fashioning takes place under historical constraints.
• The Reason is correct because institutions and social codes provide the terms through which identity is produced.
• Individuals may negotiate these terms, but they do not create themselves outside power.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because institutions and social codes provide the terms through which identity is produced.
• Individuals may negotiate these terms, but they do not create themselves outside power.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Self-fashioning
2. Circulation of social energy
3. Cultural materialism
4. Foucauldian discourse
List II
I. Historically regulated production of knowledge and subjects
II. Construction of identity through cultural codes
III. Movement of symbolic force among texts and social practices
IV. Material analysis of culture, ideology and institutions
List I
1. Self-fashioning
2. Circulation of social energy
3. Cultural materialism
4. Foucauldian discourse
List II
I. Historically regulated production of knowledge and subjects
II. Construction of identity through cultural codes
III. Movement of symbolic force among texts and social practices
IV. Material analysis of culture, ideology and institutions
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Explanation:
• Self-fashioning matches II because it concerns the construction of identity through cultural codes.
• Circulation of social energy matches III because it describes movement among texts, institutions and social practices.
• Cultural materialism matches IV because it analyses culture materially through ideology and institutions.
• Foucauldian discourse matches I because discourse regulates knowledge and subject positions.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-II, 2-III, 3-IV, 4-I.
• Circulation of social energy matches III because it describes movement among texts, institutions and social practices.
• Cultural materialism matches IV because it analyses culture materially through ideology and institutions.
• Foucauldian discourse matches I because discourse regulates knowledge and subject positions.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-II, 2-III, 3-IV, 4-I.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Which of the following is incorrectly matched?
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Explanation:
• The death of the author is associated with Roland Barthes, not Alan Sinfield.
• Greenblatt is correctly linked with self-fashioning.
• Foucault is correctly linked with discourse and power.
• Dollimore and Sinfield are both major figures in cultural materialism.
• Greenblatt is correctly linked with self-fashioning.
• Foucault is correctly linked with discourse and power.
• Dollimore and Sinfield are both major figures in cultural materialism.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which of the following statements are correct?
1. New Historicism treats history as textually mediated.
2. Cultural materialism often emphasizes ideology and political struggle.
3. Both approaches necessarily treat power as completely centralized and uncontested.
4. Both may analyse literature alongside institutions and social practices.
1. New Historicism treats history as textually mediated.
2. Cultural materialism often emphasizes ideology and political struggle.
3. Both approaches necessarily treat power as completely centralized and uncontested.
4. Both may analyse literature alongside institutions and social practices.
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Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because New Historicism treats access to the past as mediated through texts and discourses.
• Statement 2 is correct because cultural materialism emphasizes ideology, conflict and material institutions.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because both approaches may examine negotiation, contradiction and resistance within power relations.
• Statement 4 is correct because literature is studied within broader cultural practices.
• Therefore, statements 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because cultural materialism emphasizes ideology, conflict and material institutions.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because both approaches may examine negotiation, contradiction and resistance within power relations.
• Statement 4 is correct because literature is studied within broader cultural practices.
• Therefore, statements 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
A critic reads a Renaissance play alongside court records, sermons and colonial travel accounts to study how authority was represented. Which method is most clearly being used?
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Explanation:
• New Historicism frequently juxtaposes literary works with non-literary documents from the same historical formation.
• The method reveals shared vocabularies, conflicts and structures of authority.
• It avoids treating the play as isolated from institutions and social practices.
• The emphasis is broader than biography or archetypal pattern.
• The method reveals shared vocabularies, conflicts and structures of authority.
• It avoids treating the play as isolated from institutions and social practices.
• The emphasis is broader than biography or archetypal pattern.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
A critic asks how a modern theatre production changes Shakespeare's politics by casting, staging and institutional sponsorship. Which approach is most directly relevant?
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Explanation:
• Cultural materialism studies the continuing production and appropriation of texts within institutions.
• Casting, staging and sponsorship shape the political meanings available in performance.
• Shakespeare is therefore treated as a site of present cultural struggle as well as a historical author.
• The approach goes beyond textual editing or formal analysis alone.
• Casting, staging and sponsorship shape the political meanings available in performance.
• Shakespeare is therefore treated as a site of present cultural struggle as well as a historical author.
• The approach goes beyond textual editing or formal analysis alone.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which statement best explains the New Historicist interest in anecdotes?
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Explanation:
• New Historicist essays often begin with striking historical anecdotes.
• Such anecdotes can reveal tensions, rituals and discursive patterns that illuminate literary texts.
• They do not provide transparent or complete access to the past.
• Their value lies in creating a historically suggestive point of entry into larger relations of power.
• Such anecdotes can reveal tensions, rituals and discursive patterns that illuminate literary texts.
• They do not provide transparent or complete access to the past.
• Their value lies in creating a historically suggestive point of entry into larger relations of power.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which comparison between New Historicism and cultural materialism is most accurate?
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Explanation:
• Both approaches study literary texts within historical networks of discourse, institutions and power.
• Cultural materialism often makes its political commitments and interest in class, ideology and dissidence more explicit.
• New Historicism is frequently associated with circulation, negotiation and the productivity of power.
• The distinction is a difference of emphasis rather than an absolute opposition.
• Cultural materialism often makes its political commitments and interest in class, ideology and dissidence more explicit.
• New Historicism is frequently associated with circulation, negotiation and the productivity of power.
• The distinction is a difference of emphasis rather than an absolute opposition.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Assertion: Cultural materialists frequently examine the contemporary appropriation of canonical works.
Reason: The meanings of canonical texts are reproduced and contested through present institutions and performances.
Reason: The meanings of canonical texts are reproduced and contested through present institutions and performances.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because cultural materialism studies how canonical texts function in contemporary culture.
• The Reason is correct because schools, theatres, publishers and media continually reproduce and reshape their meanings.
• Present uses may reinforce or challenge dominant ideology.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because schools, theatres, publishers and media continually reproduce and reshape their meanings.
• Present uses may reinforce or challenge dominant ideology.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which sequence gives the correct chronological order of the following publications?
1. Discipline and Punish
2. Renaissance Self-Fashioning
3. Political Shakespeare
4. Shakespearean Negotiations
1. Discipline and Punish
2. Renaissance Self-Fashioning
3. Political Shakespeare
4. Shakespearean Negotiations
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Explanation:
• Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault was published in French in 1975.
• Renaissance Self-Fashioning by Stephen Greenblatt appeared in 1980.
• Political Shakespeare, edited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield, appeared in 1985.
• Shakespearean Negotiations by Greenblatt appeared in 1988.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
• Renaissance Self-Fashioning by Stephen Greenblatt appeared in 1980.
• Political Shakespeare, edited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield, appeared in 1985.
• Shakespearean Negotiations by Greenblatt appeared in 1988.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
A history textbook presents imperial expansion as orderly progress while excluding resistance and violence. Which critical concern is most directly involved?
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Explanation:
• Historical representation selects, arranges and interprets events rather than neutrally reproducing them.
• The textbook's narrative of progress may conceal violence and marginalize resistant voices.
• New Historicist and cultural materialist approaches examine how such accounts serve power.
• History is therefore analysed as discursively and ideologically constructed.
• The textbook's narrative of progress may conceal violence and marginalize resistant voices.
• New Historicist and cultural materialist approaches examine how such accounts serve power.
• History is therefore analysed as discursively and ideologically constructed.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which statement best summarizes the shared contribution of New Historicism and cultural materialism?
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Explanation:
• Both approaches place literary works within networks of discourse, institutions and material practices.
• They examine how texts participate in the production, negotiation and contestation of power.
• Historical meaning is treated as mediated and contested rather than completely stable.
• Literature is therefore an active element of social history, not merely a passive reflection.
• They examine how texts participate in the production, negotiation and contestation of power.
• Historical meaning is treated as mediated and contested rather than completely stable.
• Literature is therefore an active element of social history, not merely a passive reflection.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Stephen Greenblatt సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. The construction of identity through social codes, institutions and relations of power సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Renaissance Self-Fashioning సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. The movement of meanings, practices and affects among texts, institutions and social life సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Text and context are mutually constitutive rather than completely separate సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. Michel Foucault సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. The idea of history as a neutral and fully recoverable background సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. Political Shakespeare సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Culture as an active material process embedded in social relations సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. It relates form and meaning to institutions, ideology and material history సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. A material and representational process that organizes social meanings and power సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. 1-II, 2-III, 3-IV, 4-I సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. Alan Sinfield — death of the author సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: B. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: B.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: A. New Historicist juxtaposition of literary and non-literary texts సమాధానం: A.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: B. Cultural materialism సమాధానం: B.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: C. Anecdotes can reveal local tensions and connect literary texts with wider discursive practices సమాధానం: C.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: D. Both relate literature to history and power, but cultural materialism often foregrounds ideology, class and political commitment more explicitly సమాధానం: D.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. 1, 2, 3, 4 సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: A. Historical representation as an ideological construction సమాధానం: A.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: B. They study literary texts as active participants in historical struggles over power, ideology and representation సమాధానం: B.