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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2017
Second Year
ENGLISH
Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction
Time 3 Hours Maximum Marks 70
Question No.1 in Unit- I is compulsory.
Answer any Two questions from each Unit II and Unit III
All questions carry equal marks.
UNIT I
Q1) Annotate any four of the following:
The question is not whether Mr. Symons' impressions are "True" or "false." So far
as you can isolate the "impression," the pure feeling, it is, of course, neither true nor
false.
As for Keats and Shelley, they were too young to be judged, and they were trying
one form after another.
aa) The kind of criticism that Goethe and Coleridge produced, in writing of Hamlet, is
the most misleading kind possible.
bb) But when I began to consider the subject in this last way, which seemed the most
interesting, I soon saw that it had one fatal drawback.
cc) The book has not, perhaps, a permanent value for the one reader, but it has led to
results of permanent importance for him.
dd) And it is perhaps the craving for some such donnée which draws us on toward the
present mirage of poetic drama.
ee) Nor did I at first understand that the gesticulations of a curious-looking object, in a
cut-away coat and evening shirt, were aimed at me. His face expressed horror and
indignation.
ff) It is she--shady and amorous as she was--who makes it not quite fantastic for me to
say to you to-night: Earn five hundred a year by your wits.
UNIT II
Q2) How does Eliot argue that criticism and creativeity are the two sides of the same coin,
inseparably connected?
Q3) Discuss Eliot's reflections on the possibility of poetic drama emerging in our times.
Q4) Comment critically on "Hamlet and His Problems".
Q5) Critically comment on A Room of One's Own as literary pamphlet.
Q6) Discuss Virginia Woolf's techniques as a novelist.
UNIT III
Q7) Discuss Lytton Strachey's prose style in Eminent Victorians.
Q8) Examine Joseph Conrad's craftsmanship as a novelist in Lord Jim.
Q9) Discuss A Portrait of the artist as a Young Man as a novel of 'adolescent awakening'.
Q10) Write an essay on the plot and structure of The Moon and the Six Pence.
Q11) Critically examine the art of characterization in Snow's The Masters.
Q12) Comment on the central theme of the novel in The Sand Castle.
Q13) Examine the pessimism of William Golding in The Lord of the Flies.
Q14) Explain the importance of dreams in the novel The Power and the Glory.
Q15) Write short notes on any four of the following:
Objective correlative.
Tradition of female writing.
Point of view.
Existentialism.
Political Novel.
Autobiography.
Dystopia.
Story and plot.