M.Phil. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2017
First Semester
English
LITERARY CRITICISM CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL
THEORIES
(CBCS 2017 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Answer all questions choosing either or
x 15 75)
1. Explain surrealism, semiotics and stylistics
dwelling on their exponents and practioners.
Or
Analyse how a knowledge about critical terms help
in understanding critical theories.
2. Trace the development of the formalistic approach.
Or
Explain Archetypal approach to literature citing
examples.
3. Analyse Gerard Genette as a structuralist critic.
Or
Discuss Derrida's idea of described in his
work, structure, sign and play in the Discourse of
Human sciences.
Sub. Code
7PEN1C2
AFS-0187
2
Wk 6
4. Barthes's Death of the Author'' is an attack on
traditional literary criticism which focused on
retracing the author's intentions and original
meaning in mind-Examine.
Or
How is William's new definition of hegemony typical
of Marscist criticism?
5. Analyse how Spivak examines the validity of the
Western representation of the
Or
Why in Woolf's view, did Elizabethan women not
write poetry?
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