GATE Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions: Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism – Previous Year Questions
39 GATE previous year questions on Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism (Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions, English (XH2)) with answers and explanations, from every paper.
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q38 – Which of these is/are associated with Marxist Literary Criticism?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q46 – Which of the following is a key work in feminist literary criticism written by Virginia Woolf?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q49 – In feminist literary theory, what does patriarchy refer to?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q52 – Which one of the following describes the practice of interpreting a text based on the author’s intentions?
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q57 – “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But,…
- GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q59 – “Colonialism imposed its control of the social production of wealth through military conquest and subsequent political dictatorship. But its most…
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q36 – Who among the following thinker(s) viewed imagination as a faculty that unites what we receive through our senses with the concepts of our…
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q42 – Who among these colonial administrators is/are Orientalist(s)?
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q48 – “I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror—of an intense and hopeless despair. . . . He cried in a…
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q55 – Which of the following statement(s) is/are true of Queer Theory?
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q56 – Which of the following statement(s) is/are true regarding Elaine Showalter’s essay “A Literature of Their Own”?
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q57 – Which of the following statement(s) is/are INCORRECT regarding post-colonial feminism?
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q58 – “I have read translations of the most celebrated Arabic and Sanscrit works. I have conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their…
- GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q65 – Who among the following developed the notion of intersubjectivity on which Stanley Fish’s idea of ‘interpretive communities’ rests?
- GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q34 – The Madwoman in the Attic, the title of Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s iconic feminist examination of Victorian literature, alludes to which classic…
- GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q55 – Virginia Woolf wrote in “Professions for Women”: “You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men. You are able, though…
- GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q59 – “[…] in so far as the academic discourse of history – that is, ‘history’ as a discourse produced at the institutional site of the university – is…
- GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q62 – “Although feminist philosophers have traditionally sought to show how the body is figured as feminine, or how women have been associated with…
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q35 – Whom would you associate the term ‘simulacra’ with?
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q45 – Which of the following terms are used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his theory of imagination?
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q60 – Which of the following critics belong to the deconstructionist school?
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q61 – Cleanth Brooks’s definition of ‘paradox’ in poetry foregrounds the following qualities:
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q63 – Ferdinand de Saussure differentiates language in terms of:
- GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q64 – Which of the following are considered to be typical postmodern narratives?
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q29 – Who amongst the following popularised the term ‘objective correlative’, which is often used in formalist criticism?
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q33 – Identify the work from which the following excerpt has been taken: “In a universe that is suddenly deprived of illusions and of light, man feels a…
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q34 – What does gynocriticism recommend as an approach to literature?
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q40 – Which of the following statements is/are correct about Phenomenology?
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q42 – Which of the following is/are correct about postmodernist critics?
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q43 – The literary theory of Deconstruction argues that .
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q44 – In the context of the Reader-Response Theory, Louise M Rosenblatt in her essay “The Poem as Event”, considers that the reader should .
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q45 – Roland Barthes in his famous essay, “The Death of the Author” .
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q48 – “This literary mode parallels the flouting of authority and inversion of social hierarchies that, in many cultures, are permitted in a season of …. It…
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q49 – “Postcolonial perspectives emerge from the colonial testimony of Third World countries and the discourses of ‘minorities’ within the geopolitical…
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q55 – Which of the following thinkers does not belong to the school of Existentialism?
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q56 – Which of the following statement(s) is/are closely associated with the term Fetishism?
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q59 – As per the distinctions made by Toril Moi, regarding the terms ‘feminist’, ‘female’ and ‘feminine’, which of the following is/are correct?
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q62 – Jean Baudrillard, a post-modern thinker, has suggested that a sign refers to other signs. He has given four stages/phases to support his proposition.…
- GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q63 – Which of the following apply/applies to the term ‘parapraxis’?