Loyola College M.A. English April 2004 European Literature Question Paper PDF Download

LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 2951/LE 854 – EUROPEAN LITERATURE

 

Date       :  16.04.04                                                                                                                     Max   : 100 marks

Duration :  1 – 4 pm                                                                                                                     Hours : 3 hrs

 

  1. Answer any 5 not omitting any section.                 (8 x 5 = 40 marks)

 

 

SECTION – A

 

Explain the following quotations in detail with reference to the context.

 

  1. And while you suffer, none suffers more than I

You have your several griefs, each for himself;

But my heart bears the weight of my own and yours

And all my people’s sorrows.

  1. For I can tell you

No man possesses the secret of divination

And I have proof.

  1. If you too wish to make the climb,

A spirit worthier than I must take you;

  1. I saw the shade of the one who must have been

The coward who had made the great refusal.

 

SECTION – B

 

  1. For it is a fact of Nature that the Soul is raised by true sublimity, it gains a proud step upwards, it is filled with joy and exultation, as though itself had produced what it hears.
  2. Men are carried aside, as if under strong drink, into expressions of feeling which have nothing to do with the subject, but are personal to themselves and academic:
  3. Now these are five different sources, so to call them, of lofty style, which are the most productive;
  4. For beautiful words are, in a real and special sense, the light of thought.

 

  1. Answer any 4 not omitting any section.                  (4 x 15 = 60 marks)

 

SECTION – A

 

  1. Do you agree that Don Quixote ‘dissociates itself from its author’s intention and leads a life of its own’?
  2. Show how Dante employs symbolism in Inferno.
  3. Comment on the theme of sight and insight in Oedipus Rex.

 

SECTION – B

 

  1. “Longinus’  “on the Sublime” brings out the best of a work of art and an artist.” – Discuss.
  2. “Nora has neither understood her father’s love nor her husband’s concern’. – Elucidate
  3. How do Jung and Freud reveal the personality of an artist?

 

 

 

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