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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION ENGLISH LITERATURE
SECOND SEMESTER APRIL 2017
16PEL2MC03 LITERARY THEORY AND APPLICATION
Date: 24-04-2017 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 01:00-04:00
PART-A
I.Write short notes on any FIVE of the following terms choosing not less than TWO from each section:
(5x8=40marks)
Section-1
1. Stability in Reading
2. Meta-narratives
3. Cultural Materialism
4. Knowledge Era
Section-2
5. Logocentrism
6. Textuality of History
7. Hyper reality
8. Code without a Message
PART-B
II. Answer any TWO of the following questions in about 300 words each: (2x20=40marks)
9.a) Examine the major differences between Poststructuralism and New Historicism..
Or
9.b)Discuss how Deconstruction helps us to read texts in a radically different manner?
10.a) Compare and contrast New Historicism with Cultural Materialism.
Or
10.b) Elaborate on the characteristics of "interpretive communities".
PART-C
III. Analyze the poem given below using any School of Literary Theory: (20marks)
AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH
I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan's poor,
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No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS