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MEG – 05 Literary Criticism & Theory
Assignment
Academic Year: 2024 – 2025
Course Code: MEG – 05
Course Title: Literary Criticism & Theory
Assignment Code: MEG – 05 / 2024 – 2025
Maximum Marks: 100
Note: This assignment is based on Blocks 1 to 8.
Answer all questions.
- 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 x 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: New Literatures in English
Course Code: MEG-08
Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/July 2024 and January 2025
Maximum Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any three of the following questions. Answer each question in approximately 500 words.
- The changing dimensions of the history of a country always leave an impact on its literature. Do you agree? Base your answer on the course that Australian literary studies has taken.
- Write a detailed note on the role that literature and the language in which it is written, has played in Kenya and Nigeria.
- A Grain of Wheat is based on the Kenyan National movement. Keeping this statement in mind, attempt a critical analysis of the novel.
- What are some of the major issues that have been explored in A Dance of the Forests? Give a detailed answer.
- Why do you think that Bapsi Sidhwa employed a girl-child as the narrator of the novel Ice-Candy Man? Give a reasoned answer.
- Why did Ms. Biswas want a house? Base your answer keeping the diasporic sensibility in mind.
- Attempt a critical analysis of Walcott’s poem “Crusoe’s Journal,” keeping the aspect of postcolonialism in mind.
- Write a detailed note on Brathwaite’s Rastafarianism, as seen in his poetry.
- What are the major themes that can be traced in The Solid Mandala? Give a detailed answer.
- Attempt a detailed character analysis of Hagar Shipley as it emerges in the novel, The Stone Angel.
MEG AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE MEG-09
Academic Year: 2024/2025
Maximum Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any three of the following questions. Answer each question in approximately 500 words.
- Critically examine the major themes of nineteenth century Australian poetry.
Marks: 20 - “The ideas of the Australian nation and a sense of masculinity connected with the bush, are subverted very skilfully in Baynton’s stories.” Discuss this statement with reference to the treatment of the bush in Barbara Baynton’s story “The Chosen Vessel.”
Marks: 20 - “Voss’s journey is a quest for determining the nature of individual identity in a strange land.” Do you agree with this statement on Patrick White’s novel Voss?
Marks: 20 - Explain how Kevin Gilbert’s poem ‘Mister Man’ engages with the theme of Aboriginal ownership of the Australian land.
Marks: 20 - Explain the significance of the title The Removalists.
Marks: 20
Course Title: A Survey Course in 20th Century Canadian Literature
Course Code: MEG-12
Assignment Code: MEG-12/TMA/2024-2025
Maximum Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any three of the following questions. Answer each question in approximately 500 words. Each question carries 10 marks.
- What are some major concerns that dominate 20th century Canadian Literature? Discuss it critically. (10 marks)
- Canadian Professional Theatre gave the Canadians an identity of their own. Do you agree with it? Discuss. (10 marks)
- “The landscape of Canada evokes terror in the literary mindscape.” Do you agree? Give a reasoned answer. (10 marks)
- Comment on the central spirit of Canadian poetry. (10 marks)
- What are the major themes running in the novel Surfacing? (10 marks)
- Discuss the portrayal of ordinary people and their essential humanity in The Tin Flute. (10 marks)
- Trace the character sketch of Kip in The English Patient. (10 marks)
- Rita is a victim of social injustice. Justify this statement with reference to the play The Ecstasy of Rita Joe. (10 marks)
- Describe the Indian immigrant’s experience in Canada found in “Swimming Lessons” and “The Door I Shut Behind Me”. (10 marks)
- Assess the contribution of Robert Kroetsch towards post-modern criticism in Canada. (10 marks)
THE AUSTRALIAN NOVEL (MEG 19)
Programme: MEG/2024/2025
Course Code: MEG 19
Max. Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any three of the following questions. Answer each question in approximately 500 words. Each question carries 20 marks.
- Explain with suitable examples, how nineteenth-century women novelists of Australia created a space for themselves within the patriarchal culture and society of their times.
- Critically examine the significance of Joseph Furphy’s novel Such is Life in the history of the Australian novel.
- Explain the significance of the title The Tree of Man.
- Consider Schindler’s Ark as a story of the triumph of humanity.
- Explain how writing becomes a political act in True History of the Kelly Gang.