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Course Title: Literary Criticism & Theory (MEG – 05)
Course Code: MEG-05
Academic Year: 2024-2025
Maximum Marks: 100
Note: Answer all questions. All questions carry equal marks.
- Explain and discuss Aristotle’s view of literature as imitation. (20 marks)
- Do you think that Wordsworth establishes a new poetic theory? What are the main features of his theory? (20 marks)
- Write short notes on the following: (4×5=20 marks)
a) Rasa
b) Catharsis
c) Postmodernism
d) “Woman as other” - Show how literary criticism and theory have developed a materialistic dimension based on Marxism. (20 marks)
- Draw out the ideologies set forth by Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf as pioneer feminists. (20 marks)
Course Title: American Literature (MEG-06)
Course Code: MEG-06/2024-25
Academic Year: 2024-2025
Maximum Marks: 100
Note: Answer all questions. All questions carry equal marks.
- Discuss the minor characters in The Scarlet Letter. (20 marks)
- Discuss the significance of the river in Huckleberry Finn. (20 marks)
- Discuss the nature as presented in Whitman’s poetry. (20 marks)
- Write a critical note on the prose of the American Civil War. (20 marks)
- Critically analyse the major concerns of Hemingway in his short stories. (20 marks)
Course Title: American Novel (MEG-11)
Course Code: MEG-11/2024-25
Academic Year: 2024-25
Maximum Marks: 100
Note: Answer all questions. All questions carry equal marks.
- Discuss Sister Carrie as a city novel. (20 marks)
- Consider The Catcher in the Rye as a tragedy. (20 marks)
- Write a critical note on the style of Black Spring. (20 marks)
- Examine the use of irony in The Floating Opera, giving suitable examples from the novel. (20 marks)
- Comment on the aspect of characterization in The Last of the Mohicans. (20 marks)
Course Title: Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice (MEG-15)
Course Code: MEG-15/2024-2025
Academic Year: 2024-2025
Maximum Marks: 100
Note: Answer all questions. All questions carry equal marks.
- Write a note on cultural diversity in the contemporary world. How do cultural studies contribute to our understanding of culture? (20 marks)
- Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea is a retelling of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Discuss it as a postcolonial text. (20 marks)
- Why do some critics describe autobiography as fiction? Explain. (20 marks)
- Do you find features of magical realism in folk tales? Discuss. (20 marks)
- How is The Palm-Wine Drinkard compared with Ben Okri’s The Famished Road? (20 marks)
Course Title: American Drama (MEG-17)
Course Code: MEG-17/TMA/2024-25
Academic Year: 2024-2025
Maximum Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. All questions carry equal marks.
- Had it not been for the Puritans, the approach of the world to American Drama would have been different – discuss. (20 marks)
- Discuss the American identity and social issues that influenced American drama. (20 marks)
- Attempt a critical note on ‘Musical’ and ‘Farce’ as important forms of American Drama. (20 marks)
- Discuss William Dean Howell’s ‘Self Sacrifice’ as a Farce. (20 marks)
- Discuss A Raisin in the Sun as a Marxist play. (20 marks)
- Discuss Absurd Theatre in American literature. Give some examples from your syllabus. (20 marks)
Course Title: AMERICAN POETRY (MEG-18)
Course Code: MEG-18/TMA/2024-25
Academic Year: 2024-2025
Maximum Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. All questions carry equal marks.
- Trace the history of colonialism in America and its impact on American poetry. (20 marks)
- Write short notes on: (10 x 2 = 20 marks)
a) American Spirit and Puritan Spirit
b) American poetry today - Walt Whitman’s poem, “Song of Myself” is a social document engaging American national landscape – discuss. (20 marks)
- How does the choice of words in the poem “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed” help to illustrate the idea of ‘self’ of the poet? (20 marks)
- Critically appreciate the poems, “Home Burial” and “After apple Picking”. (20 marks)
- Discuss Joy Harjo and Leslie Marmon Silko as important Native American poets. (20 marks)