MAEG-05
June Examination 2016
MA (Final) English Examination
Principles of Criticism
Paper MAEG-05
Time 3 Hours Max. Marks 80
Note: The question paper is divided into three sections B and C. Write answers as per given instructions.
Section A 8 × 2 16 (Very Short Answer Questions)
Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question delimit your answers in one word, one sentence or maximum upto 30 words. Each question carries 2 marks.
Who wrote Natyashastra?
What do you mean by Kavya Prayaojana?
Name two novels of Mulk Raj Anand of social protest.
State the duration of writing of 'Imaginary Homelands'.
Name the famous work of Fanon of decolonization.
In which year does the second phase of feminist writings ends?
Who wrote "The poet as Hero: Keats in his letters."?
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Section B 4 × 8 32
(Short Answer Type Questions)
Note: Answer any four questions. Each answer should not
exceed 200 words. Each question carries 8 marks.
Discuss Aristotelian concept of tragic hero.
Discuss T.S. Eliot's theory of Impersonality of poetry.
Explain Bharata's Rasa Siddhanta.
Examine Coleridge's views on poet and poetry.
Write notes on Frantz Fanon's wretched of the earth''.
Explain the history of archetypical criticism.
Discuss the merits of Shakespeare as a playwright as stated
by Johnson.
Throw light on Northrop Frye and his Anatomy of Criticism.
Section C 2 × 16 32
(Long Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any two questions. You have to delimit your each
answer maximum upto 500 words. Each question carries
16 marks.
10) Summarise Salman Rushdie's ''Imaginary Homelands essays
and criticism'' in your own words.
11) Kuntak's Vakroktijiritam marks a milestone in the field of Indian
literarcy criticism. Elucidate.
12) Enumerate the traits of Victorian criticism through Arnold's
Culture and Anarchy.
13) Examine F.R. Leavis as a literarcy critic on the basis of your
reading of 'Revolution'.