DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2018.
LITERARY CRITICISM
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
PART A — x 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
1. Write the views of Sidney on the sub-divisions of Poetry.
2. Write a note on characterisation in a tragedy.
3. Discuss the Touchstone method of Mathew Arnold.
4. Explain objective correlative of T.S. Eliot.
5. What is Carl Jung's theory of the Shadow?
6. Comment on inductive and deductive methods used by
Frye in "The Archetypes of Literature".
7. Comment on Derrida's Concept of writing.
8. What did Elaine Show Walter contribute to the evolution
of feminism?
PART B — x 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. Describe Wordsworth's theory of poetry as explained in
the Preface to Lyrical Ballads.
10. Examine Aristotle's views on arts.
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11. Write the relationship between Freud and Literature as
shown by Lionell Trilling.
12. Explain the main concept of Sri Aurobindo's
The word and the spirit.
13. Write the views of Roland Baithes on "Criticism as
Language".
14. Comment on the main idea presented in Harold Bloom's
"The Breathing of Form".
15. Write an essay on the post colonial and the ecological
views of literature.