A. Contemporary literary criticism
B. Art and Literature
C. Theology
D. Social changes in the Victorian Age
Related Mcqs:
- In which essay did Arnold say that for good literature to flourish two powers are necessary – creative and the critical ?
A. The Function of Criticism
B. The Study of Poetry
C. Preface to Eighteen Fifty Three poems
D. Essay on Wordsworth - Who said that Arnold was a propagandist for literature rather than a critic ?
A. Carlyle
B. Ruskin
C. T. S. Eliot
D. F. R. Leavis - This approach provides a universalistic approach to literature and identifies a reason why certain literature may survive the test of time. It works well with works that are highly symbolic.What approach has this advantage ?
A. Mimetic
B. Psychological
C. Historical/Biographical
D. Mythological/Archetypal - For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century
B. modern literary criticism
C. late “nineteenth-century and early” twentieth-century satirical drama
D. the surrealist movement - Matthew Arnold;s Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of______________?
A. Arthur Hallam
B. Milton
C. Edward King
D. Hugh Clough - Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy deals with the subject of_____________?
A. Religion
B. Civilization
C. Tehology
D. Education - From where Matthew Arnold took the story for his Sohras and Rustam ?
A. Arabian Nights
B. Canterbury Tales
C. Shah Namah
D. Pilgrims Progress - For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?
A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century
B. modern literary criticism
C. late nineteenth-century and earlytwentieth- century satirical drama
D. the surrealist movement - Which of the following does NOT characterize Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” ?
A. It is a dramatic monologue.
B. Like earlier Romantic lyrics, it takes a natural setting as an occasion for philosophical reflection.
C. It has a melancholic tone.
D. It envisions Christianity as eternal. - Who accuses Arnold of “high pamphleteering ?”
A. Eliot
B. Pater
C. I. A. Richards
D. F. R. Leavis
