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MODEL QUESTION PAPER PAPER 5 (LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY) Time: 3 hours Max. marks: 70 Min. marks: 28 Note: Answer any five of the following questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Examine the basic concepts of Indian Aesthetics. 2. Critically examine Aristotle’s theory of mimesis. How does it differ from Plato’s theory? 3. How does Shelley put forward imagination as a positive factor against the onslaught of rationality? 4. Give an estimate of the achievement of New Criticism. 5. What do “class society’ and ‘class ideas’ signify in Marxist criticism? 6. Analyze the components of Beauvoir’s thesis with reference to The Second Sex to indicate its strengths and limitations. 7. Attempt a deconstructive analysis of Waiting for Godot. 8. Write an essay on postcolonial theory with reference to Said and Spivak. MODEL QUESTION PAPER PAPER 6 (AMERICAN LITERATURE) Time: 3 hours Max. marks: 70 Min. marks: 28 Note: Answer any five of the following questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Why did Puritanism emerge as the hegemonic American ideology in the course of less than a century? 2. Examine the narrative technique and structure of The Scarlet Letter. 3. Discuss the twin themes of freedom and slavery in Huckleberry Finn. 4. What were the essential aspects of the transcendentalist school of writing? Do Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman necessarily inhabit the same literary tradition? 5. Comment on the significance of the title When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed. 6. Attempt a critical appreciation of Adrienne Rich’s Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law. 7. How does Faulkner integrate the theme of Ike’s ‘invitation’ with that of ‘colour line’ in The Bear? 8. Discuss how Death of a Salesman attempts to go beyond the boundaries of social drama to emerge as a tragedy. MODEL QUESTION PAPER PAPER 7 (INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE) Time: 3 hours Max. marks: 70 Min. marks: 28 Note: Answer any five of the following questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Compare and contrast Vikram Seth and Amitav Ghosh as writers of travelogues. 2. Write a detailed note on the picture of colonial India that emerges from the novel Untouchable. 3. How does Raja Rao convey the spirit of Indian life through a foreign medium in Kanthapura? 4. Critically comment on the structure of the novel Clear Light of Day written by Anita Desai. 5. Write an essay on the characterization and the element of suspense in R.K. Narayan’s An Astrologer’s Day. 6. What is Ramanujan trying to convey through the poems Self Portrait and River? 7. What according to Dattani are the challenges that language poses to the Indian English dramatist. 8. Discuss the major themes of Tara.
MODEL QUESTION PAPER PAPER 8 (NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH) Time: 3 hours Max. marks: 70 Min. marks: 28 Note: Answer any five of the following questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Analyze how Patrick White stands both inside and outside the Australian canon for literature. 2. Discuss Ngugi’s views on the British colonial rule in Kenya as depicted in his writings. 3. What, according to Soyinka, is the link between Yoruba religion and Yoruba tragedy? 4. Briefly discuss the ambivalence of the narrative voice in Ice-Candy Man and the purpose it serves. 5. Write a critical account of the relationship between history and language in Walcott’s poetry. 6. What is your assessment of Patrick White’s characterization with reference to The Solid Mandala? 7. Discuss the theme of self-alienation in The Stone Angel. 8. Give a brief assessment of Naipaul’s House for Mr. Biswas. MODEL QUESTION PAPER PAPER 9 (AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE) Time: 3 hours Max. marks: 70 Min. marks: 28 Note: Answer any five of the following questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Examine the significance of oral tradition in the study of Australian literature. 2. Do you find Cambridge’s poetry capable of handling and projecting anti-establishment ideas on poverty and woman’s subjugation? Illustrate. 3. Analyse the myth of the pioneer legend with reference to Arthur Hoey Davis’ Cranky Jack. 4. Discuss Moschus Moschiferus by A.D. Hope as a poem of protest. 5. How does Patrick White present the interweaving of dream and vision in his Voss? Discuss. 6. Explore the pressures exerted by gender-stereotyping in Harwood’s sonnet In the Park and show how the sonnet form is ideal for intensification of pressure. 7. Discuss the narrative technique in David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon. 8. Critically examine the major themes and techniques in The Removalists. MODEL QUESTION PAPER PAPER 10 (ENGLISH STUDIES IN INDIA) Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 70 Min. Marks: 28 Note: Answer any five of the following questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. What is the contribution of the social reform movement in India to the institutionalization of English Studies in India? 2. Critically comment on the contribution of Henry Derozio to English Studies in India. 3. What do you understand by melodrama? Do you think that Rajmohan’s Wife has melodramatic features? Give reasons for your answer. 4. Discuss the importance and role of English in modern India. 5. Critically evaluate the role and function of the English teacher in India. 6. What is the relationship between criticism and literature? 7. What are the issues and problems in the construction of a feminist canon of Indian English writing? 8. What tools does Chinua Achebe use in his analysis of Heart of Darkness?
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