MAEG-05
December 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.
Section A 8 × 2 16
Note: Section contains 08 (eight) Very Short Answer Type Questions (one word, one sentence and definitional type). All questions in this section are compulsory. Each questions will be of 2 marks and maximum word limit for each answer will be 30 words. Maximum marks of this section will be 16 marks.
Who wrote Feminist with a difference'?
Name the criticism theory of T. S. Eliot prescribed in your syllabus.
Natyaveda is a classical mannual of what?
What is considered 'the soul' according to the theory of tragedy?
Which two poets were admired by Coleridge as sonnet writers in chapter-I?
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MAEG-05 1500 3 (P.T.O.)
MAEG-05 1500 3 (Contd.)
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In which book does Arnold appears as the censor of his
age and as a prophet?
What theory Trilling supported which was analytically
oriented study of a literary text?
(viii) Name the prescribed novel of Northrop Frye.
Section B 4 × 8 32
Note: Section will contain 8 (eight) Short Answer Type
Questions. Examinees will have to answer any 4 (Four)
questions. Each question will be of 8 (eight) marks and
maximum word limit for each answer is 200 words.
Maximum marks of this section will be 32 marks.
Explain 'Sadharanikarana' of Natyashastra.
Discuss Vakroktijivitam of Acharya Kuntaka.
Write Aristotle's view on comedy.
What is the opinion of Dr. Johnson on the unities of action,
time and place?
Write notes on Essay on Man' of Alexander Pope.
What does Arnold mean by
What are Eliot's dynamic conceptions of Tradition?
Write Leavis views on criticism and an Ideal critic.
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Section C 2 × 16 32
Note: Section will contain 4 (four) Long Answer Type
Questions and each question will have an internal choice.
Examinees will have to answer any two questions. Each
questions will be of 16 (sixteen) marks and maximum
word limit for each answer is 500 words. Maximum marks
of this section will be 32 marks.
10) Discuss views of Aristotle on 'Poetic truth'.
11) Elucidate the Archetypal criticism: Theory of Myths.
12) 'Trilling's The Liberal Imagination' blends literary criticism with
history, politics and culture'. Explain.
13) Illustrate with suitable examples from his novels M. R. Anand
as humanitarians.