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GATE 2023 XH2 (English) – Question 61

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism · 2 marks · Multiple choice

Cleanth Brooks’s definition of ‘paradox’ in poetry foregrounds the following qualities:

  1. Wonder and irony
  2. Contradiction and qualification
  3. Piety and plurality
  4. Omniscience and death of the author

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Correct answer: (B) Contradiction and qualification

Explanation

In “The Language of Paradox” Brooks shows that poetry works by apparent contradiction that is then qualified, so contradiction and qualification are its qualities.