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GATE 2022 XH2 (English) – Question 29

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Who amongst the following popularised the term ‘objective correlative’, which is often used in formalist criticism?

  1. Virginia Woolf
  2. C. S. Lewis
  3. Matthew Arnold
  4. T. S. Eliot

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Correct answer: (D) T. S. Eliot

Explanation

T. S. Eliot used “objective correlative” in his essay on Hamlet (1919) for a set of objects or events that stands for an emotion.