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GATE 2023 XH2 (English) – Question 64

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

Which of the following are considered to be typical postmodern narratives?

  1. Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
  2. John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse
  3. Thomas Pynchon’s V.
  4. Iris Murdoch’s The Bell

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Correct answer: (A) Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller; (B) John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse; (C) Thomas Pynchon’s V.

Explanation

Calvino, Barth and Pynchon write self-conscious, metafictional narratives. Murdoch's The Bell is a realist novel of moral life.