DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. (English) B.A. (English) (Addl. Degree) DEGREE
EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2017.
VICTORIAN LITERATURE
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
PART A — x 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following questions.
1. Write a note on the social condition of the Victorians.
2. Critically analyse the poem "The Wreck of Deutschland".
3. How are Oxford and its surroundings described in
Arnold's "The Scholar Gipsay".?
4. Discuss Arnold's Touchstone Method.
5. "Sons and Lovers is an autobiography of D.H. Lawrence"
Discuss.
6. Discuss the use of "Motifs" in A Portrait of the Artist.
7. Write the circumstances leading to the death of
Miss. Havisham.
8. How is Jack's note on "Ernest" discovered by Algemon?
Sub. Code
24 105
DE-2379
2
SP 5
PART B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following.
9. Criticise the religious tendencies of Victorian Age.
10. Write the critical appreciation of the poem "Sailing to
Buzantium".
11. Consider "Ulysses" as a dramatic monologue.
12. Criticize T.S. Eliot's "Tradition and Individual Talent".
13. Discuss Hardy's art of characterization.
14. Discuss whether Pygmalion deserves to be labelled a
romance.
15. Give a general estimate of T.S. Eliot as a writer of Poetic
Drama.