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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2017
(Second Year)
ENGLISH
Literary Criticism
Time 3 Hours Maximum Marks 70
Question No.1 is compulsory.
Answer any One question from each Section marking Five questions in total
All questions carry equal marks.
SECTION A
Q1) Read the following poem and answer the questions below:
Some men with swords may reap the field,
And plant fresh laurels where they kill:
But their strong nerves at last mist yield
They tame but one another still
Early or late
They stoop to fate,
And must give up their murmuring breath
When they, pale captives, creep to death.
What is the essence of the poem?
What significance do you find in the
words and
What happens to the warriors in course of
time?comment on the irony involved in
the expression pale captives
How is death personified in the poem?
SECTION B
Q2) Discuss Aristotle's theory of "Katharsis".
Q3) Johnson's estimate of Milton is 'Fair is foul and foul is fair'. Discuss.
Q4) Why is Coleridge acclaimed a critic? Comment with reference to 'Biographic
Literaria'?
SECTION C
Q5) Discuss the merits and limitations of Arnold as a critic.
Q6) Explain the context in which Eliot uses the term "Dissociation of sensibility" and
discuss its validity in literary criticism.
Q7) How does Eliot advocate objectivity as the essential prerequisite for genuine criticism?
Q8) Discuss Richard's theory of meaning.
SECTION D
Q9) Examine Brooks' views on importance of Irony in poetry.
Q10) What are the limitations "Intentional Fallacy"?
Q11) Justify the relevance of Empson's "The Seventh Type of Ambiguity" to the study of
literature.
SECTION E
Q12) How does Widdowson established that the stylistic approach in methodologically and
pedagogically a viable and valid text for critics.
Q13) Discuss the value of structuralism as a method of literary criticism as expounded by
Gerard Genatte.
Q14) Bring out the post structural elements in Derrida's "Structure, sign and play in the
discourse of the Human Sciences".
Q15) Explain the views of the Stanley Fish on text.
Q16) Why does Showalter call feminist criticism gynocentric criticism?