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M.A. (ENGLISH) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2018
Second Year
ENGLISH
Literary Criticism
Time 3 Hours Maximum Marks :70
Question No.1 is compulsory.
Answer any one question from Section making five questions in total
All questions carry equal marks.
SECTION A
Q1) Read the following passage and answer the questions below:
I appeal to the courage of the nation. How is the English nation as to
courage? I will give you my opinion. For real dangers the people of
England and Scotland from perhaps the bravest people in the world. At any
rate, there is no people in this world to whom they are prepared to
surrender the palm of bravery. But I am sorry to say there is another aspect
of the case and for imaginary dangers there are no people in the world who
in a degree anything like the English is the victim of the absurd and idle
fancies. It is notorious all over the world. The French we think, are
excitable people: but the French stand by in the amazement.
Suggest a suitable title to the above passage.
How can you say that the paragraph is a political speech?
What historical approach do you identify in the passage?
Is it an example of experimental prose? Elucidate.
What is the meaning of "Notorious"?
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SECTION B
Q2) "Aristotle's theory of plot is no longer relevant, would you agree?
Q3) How does Johnson evaluate Milton's works?
Q4) Write a note on Coleridge's assessment of Wordsworth's poetry as it is
reflected in "Biographia Literaria".
SECTION C
Q5) Write a note on the three estimates of poetry according to Arnold.
Q6) "Tradition and Individual Talent" is unofficial manifesto of Eliot's critical creed
Discuss.
Q7) Examine the Four Kinds of Meaning according to I.A. Richards.
Q8) Write an essay on objectivity and impersonality in criticism, as advocated by
T.S. Eliot in "Tradition and Individual Talent".
SECTION D
Q9) Comment on Brook's idea of "Irony as a Principle of Structure".
Q10) Discuss the role of Intentional Fallacy in literature.
Q11) What are the different types of ambiguity according to Empson?
SECTION E
Q12) Write a critical essay on Widdowson's "Stylistics".
Q13) Describe Gerard Gennete's "Structuralism" as explained in "Structuralism and
Literary Criticism".
Q14) Explain Jacques Derrida's concept of Structure, Sign and Play.
Q15) Discuss Stanley Fish's critical stand with regard to the role of a reader.
Q16) Bring out Elaine Showalter's ideas in her essay "Towards a Feminist Poetics".