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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2018
Second Year
ENGLISH
Twentieth Century Prose and Fiction
Time 3 Hours Maximum Marks :70
Question No.1 in Unit-I is compulsory.
Answer any two questions from each Unit-II and Unit-III.
All questions carry equal marks.
UNIT I
Q1) Annotate any Four of the following:
London was like a workship. London was like a machine.
What, we ask, is this for? As a page on Cleopatra, and on her possible
origin in the dark lady of sonnets, unfolds itself?
Yet genius of a short must have existed among women as it must have
existed among the working classes.
Of all modern critics, perhaps Remy de Government had most of the
general intelligence of Aristotle.
But how would all this be affected by the sex of the novelist, I
wondered, looking at Jane Eyre and others.
For tragedy is an initiation, not of men, but of action and of life, and
life causits in action, and its and is mode of action, not a quality.
Instinct rather than reason come to my help, he was Beadle, I was a
woman.
We must simply admit that here Shakespeare tackled a problem which
proved too much for him.
UNIT II
Q2) How does T.S. Eliot prove 'that the critic and the creative artist should
frequently be the same person' in his essay "The Perfect Critic"?
Q3) How according to T.S. Eliot did Shakespeare handle the problem of Hamlet
in his play Hamlet?
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Q4) Examine the validity of the problem T.S. Eliot discussed with regard to
Hamlet.
Q5) Critically comment on A Room of One's Own as literary pamphlet.
Q6) "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write
fiction" Discuss.
UNIT III
Q7) How can you say that Lytton Strachey's "Eminent Victorians" proves to be
a guide of Victorian era?
Q8) Comment on Joseph Conrad's narrative technique in Lord Jim.
Q9) How is Stephen influenced by his Irish nationality in A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man?
Q10) Comment on the symbolic significance of the title The Moon and Six Pence.
Q11) Comment on the central theme of the novel The Masters.
Q12) Write a critical note on the plot and structure of the novel The Sand Castle.
Q13) Evaluate The Lord of the Flies as a modern fable.
Q14) Evaluate Greene's The Power and the Glory as a religion political novel.
Q15) Write short notes on any FOUR of the following:
Feminism in modern novel.
Autobiography.
aa) Political Novel.
bb) Bildungsroman.
cc) Dystopia.
dd) Symbolism on modern novels.
ee) Point of View.
ff) Impressionistic criticism.