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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2007
EL 2805 – LITERARY THEORY
Date & Time : 21-04-07/1:00-4:00 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
PART – A
Attempt a brief explication of FIVE of the following terms choosing not less than two from each Section:
( 5 x 8 = 40 )
SECTION – 1
- Russian Formalist distinction between ‘poetic’ and ‘practical’ language.
- Paradox as the language of poetry.
- The Rupture of Structure.
- Text and Co-texts in New Historicism.
SECTION – 2
- Bring out the features of New Criticism.
- Write a paragraph on Marxist Criticism based on the features of classical Marxist Philosophy.
- Bring out the relationship between Myth and Archetype.
- Write briefly on the features Psycho-analytic criticism.
PART – B
Answer the following questions in about 300 words each: (2 x 20 = 40 )
- a) Discuss Viktor Shlovsky and the Russian Formalists as proponents of a formalist approach to literature.
(Or)
- b) How does Brooks demonstrate the methodology of “Close Reading” in his essay on Paradox and
the language of poetry?
10.a) The Reading Process by Wolfgang Iser analyses the various types of readers – Discuss.
(Or)
- Summarise Freud’s concept of Psycho-analysis in Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming.
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PART – C
Analyse the following poem from any literary theoretical framework of your choice: (20 Marks)
EXILE
My air is striped
My shade is barred
(As it was before
only here the bars
Do not bend with the wind).
My breath is short
My Claws are blunt
(with long pacing on stone ground)
All day I smell
Zebra…. gazelle
But I am full of easy meat.
I have no appetite
Only at dusk
When the monkeys mock
From stone trees
(And the scent they no longer fear)
Come down to the mudless hole to drink –
Only at dusk I dare to dream
Eyes half-closed, bending the bars
And plotting my return.
—Alan Duff
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