Past Paper Objective Questions of Catherine Belsey

Where does the meaning lie, in the Text, reader, writer or the structure? Explain in the light of Catherine Belsey's "Critical Practice". (2004 PU) OR Discuss Belsey's arguments in favour of structural criticism. (2004 PU) How can meaning be constructed by reproducing what is familiar? (2006 PU) Criticism is an effort "to see things as they are, without partiality, without obtrusion of personal liking of disliking." What is your opinion? (2013 PU) "The ultimate objective of Criticism is neither to accept nor to reject but to take issue & proceed." What is your opinion? (2010 PU) What relationship does Catherine Belsey establish between criticism and commonsense? Lecturer Mk Bhutta (2004 PU) Elucidate the relationship between criticism and commonsense in the light of Catherine Belsey's views. (2005 PU) Sum up the contribution of Roland Barthes and Jacque Lacan to the development of modern critical trends. (2012 PU) Discuss deconstruction method in detail. How has it changed the concept Modern Criticism? (critical practice (2005 PU) OR What do you understand of 'Deconstruction' from Belsey's Critical Practice? (2011 PU Supplementary) What are the limitations of Experience Realist critical approach to Literature? (2013 PU) What are some of the assumptions of classic Realism that New Criticism attempts to challenge? How does a classic realist text address the subject? (2007 PU) What impact does the hierarchy of discourses in a classic realist text have on the reader? (Catherine Belsey: Critical Practice) (2009 PUSupplementary) What are the three features that describe a classic realist text? (2008 PU) What do you understand by a dialectical text? Differentiate between the Dialectical and the Rhetorical text. How does each determine the role of the reader differently? (Catherine Belsey: Critical Practice) (2009 PU) How is Reader Power criticism well suited to the analysis of such texts? (2008 PU) In what ways did New Critics change the approach of criticism towards a literary text? (Catherine: Critical Practice) (2009 PU) How does ideology sharp the subject? Can the subject find his-way out of ideology? (2007 PU) 'There is no Criticism without Ideology.' How does Belsey argue this thesis in Critical Practice. (2009 PUSupplementary) Though organizes itself in terms of the categories of the symbolic order. Discuss. (Belsey) (2010 PU Supplementary) Explain the radical position of 'New Criticism' in its time and say how it fails to break free from 'Expressive Realism'. (2010 PU) What is meant by the term New Criticism? Does Belsey oppose it or support it? Discuss. (2015 PU) What does the term 'split subject' imply? How does 20th century critically deal with the phenomenon? (2012 PU Supplementary) Q. 'There is no Criticism without Ideology.' How does Belsey argue this thesis in Critical Practice. Important Topics 15. Belsey's Arguments in Favour of Structural Criticism 16. Relationship Between Criticism and Commonsense 17. Deconstruction 18. Difference Between Dialectical and the Rhetorical Text 19. There is no Criticism Without Ideology 20. Belsey's Views on 'New Criticism'

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