DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. (English)/B.A. (English) Addl. DEGREE EXAMINATION,
MAY 2016.
VICTORIAN LITERATURE
(2014 onwards)
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
PART A — 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following questions.
1. Write a note on the social condition of the Victorians.
2. Consider Arnold as a Victorian Poet with special
reference to ''Scholar Gypsy
3. Where does Eliot use Quotations and allusions in
Waste
4. Explain the Touchstone Method of Mathew Arnold.
5. Discuss Great Expectations as a fairy tale.
6. What are the devices used by Joyce to give his novel an
artistic unity?
7. Sketch the character of Eliza Doo little.
8. Give an account of the temptation of Becket on his
return.
Sub. Code
24/105
DE-3279
2
wk9
PART B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following.
9. Criticize the literary tendencies of Victorians.
10. Write an essay on Browning's optimism as revealed in
''Andrea Del Sarto''.
11. Consider Ulysses as a dramatic monologue.
12. Discuss Eliot's views on the relationship between
tradition and individual talent.
13. Enumerate the aesthetic theories of stephen Dedalus,
and comment on them.
14. Consider sons and Lovers as D.H. Lawrence's
autobiography.
15. Justify the title Riders to the sea.