LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIFTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2011

EL 5503 – CRITICAL THEORIES

 

 

 

Date : 20-04-2011              Dept. No.                                                  Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

PART – A

 

1. Answer any five of the following in about 150 words each.

Choose at least two from each section.

(5 X 8 = 40 Marks)

SECTION – A

 

• Explain the theory of metaphoric language.
• Merits of Shakespeare’s plays according to Dr. Johnson.
• Sidney’s views on Poetic creation.
• What, according to wordsworth, is the relationship between feeling and action?

SECTION – B

 

• Present Arnold’s estimate of wordsworth.
• Describe Arnold’s idea that ‘poetry is the criticism of life’.
• S. Eliot’s theory of ‘a consciousness of the past’.
• How can escape and its impossibility be simultaneous?

PART – B

 

1. II) Answer the following in about 400 words each. (2 X 20 = 40 Marks

 

• a) Analyse Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare and isolate the major critical stand

points in them that are relevant to the analysis of a text.

 

(OR)

 

1. What, according to wordsworth, is the origin of poetry? Comment.

 

• a) Explain the salient features of matthew Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry”.

 

(OR)

 

1. b) What connection does T S Eliot draw between tradition and the individual talent?

 

 

 

 

PART – C

 

• Attempt a critical analysis of the following poem.             (20 Marks)

The Kingfisher

 

It was the rainbow gave thee birth,

And left thee all her lovely hues;

And, as her mother’s name was Tears,

So runs it in my blood to choose

For haunts lonely pools, and keep

In company with trees that weep.

Go you and, with such glorious hues,

Live with proud peacocks in green parks;

On lawns as smooth as shining glass,

Let every feather show its marks;

Get thee on boughs and clap thy wings

Before the windows of proud kings

Nay, lovely bird, thou art not vain;

Thou hast no proud, ambitious mind;

I also love a quiet place.

 

That’s green, away from all mankind;

A lonely pool, and let a tree

Sigh with her bosom over me.

 

• H. Davies.

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SIXTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

EL 6602 – CREATIVE WRITING

 

 

 

Date : 20-04-2012              Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

PART – I

 

Answer any EIGHT of the following in about 100 words each:                     (8 × 5 = 40 marks)

 

1. Define imaginative writing.
2. What is creative impulse?
3. Explain the following literary devices with examples:

1. i) Parable ii) Pathetic Fallacy.

 

1. Define the following terms:

1. i) Metaphor    ii) Paradox.

1. Compare and contrast creative writing and technical writing.
2. Briefly discuss the story structure.
3. Illustrate the use of the point of view as a technique.
4. Show the importance of dialogue in a work of fiction.
5. Setting and atmosphere are crucial elements in a narrative. Discuss.
6. Explain the meaning of the writers’ domain.
7. What are the various aspects involved in sketching the plot?

 

PART – II

 

Answer any FIVE of the following in not more than 250 words each:       (5 × 12 = 60 marks)

 

1. Attempt a character sketch of your neighbour.
2. Using the ‘memory exploration’ technique, narrate how you met your best friend.
3. Make the rhythm of your subject and a distinctive prose style prominent as you describe:

1. a) an interesting travel experience OR
2. b) a shopping experience that you enjoyed.

 

1. “The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say”. Show how creative writing is a combination of experience, observation and imagination expressed in an innovate form.

 

1. Write a creative poem/short story/essay beginning with the line: I was overjoyed….
2. In your own words, describe the creative process.
3. Examination time: Using at least 10 exchanges between two friends, describe a typical examination day at college capturing the mood of the students.
4. In light of the creative writing principles you have learnt, examine a novel of your choice and attempt to retrace the writer’s creative craft.

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIFTH SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

EL 5503 – CRITICAL THEORIES

 

 

 

Date : 08/11/2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

PART – A

 

Answer any five of the following in about 150 words each. Choose at least two from each section:                                                                         (5 × 8 = 40 marks)

SECTION – A

1. How does Sidney refute the charges against poetry?
2. What is text-based criticism?
3. Briefly explain some of the defects of Shakespeare according to Johnson.
4. What are the views expressed by Wordsworth regarding poetry?

SECTION – B

 

1. Explain the “Touchstone Method” of Matthew Arnold.
2. Write a short note on Historical Criticism.
3. Define tradition as proposed by T S Eliot.
4. Describe the major principles of the Sociological approach of criticism.

 

PART – B

 

Answer the following in about 400 words each:                       (2 × 20= 40 marks)

 

1. (a) Do you agree that Sidney presents a good defense of poetry in his essay

“Apology For Poetry”? Substantiate.

(OR)

(b) Show how Johnson’s “Preface to Shakespeare” can be considered as an

illustration of literary criticism.

 

10. (a) Bring out the interplay of tradition and talent according to T.S. Eliot.

(OR)

 

(b) Show how Critical Theory is helpful for an appreciation of literature with specific reference to the prescribed essays.

 

 

PART – C

 

11. Attempt a critical analysis of the following poem: (20 marks)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

 

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

 

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

 

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound’s the sweep

Of the easy wind and downy flake.

 

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

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