LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 4801/LE 1021 – LITERARY CRITICISM

Date       : 03.03.04                                                                                                                       Max  : 100 marks

Duration : 1 – 4 pm                                                                                                                      Hours: 3 hrs

PART – A

1. WRITE SHORT NOTES ON ANY FIVE OF THE FOLLOWING:                                (5 x 8 = 40 mks)

1. New criticism offered different reading methods to the lover of literature.
2. Structuralism and post-structuralism.
3. Paradox as a critical tool.
4. The value of classicism according to Hulme.
5. Cull out the salient features of Expressive theory.
6. Write a short note on rhythm, recurrence, ritual in Nature.
7. Write a paragraph on the principle of meaning with specific reference to I.A.Richards.
8. How does Freud apply the model of psycho-analysis to creative writing?

PART  – B

1. WRITE AN ESSAY ON THE FOLLOWING IN ABOUT 300 WORDS EACH:                                                                          (2 x 20 = 40 mks)

9. Is criticism just another kind of language as Barthes argues? Provide textual evidence.

(or)

1. Examine the Concept and application of Realism in Contemporary fiction according to Raymond Williams.

10. a. Total objectivity is an impossibility to Wayne Booth – substantiate your argument

(or)

1. Compare and contrast M.H. Abrams’ “Objective Theory” and Frye’s “Archetypal Approach”.

III. Attempt a Practical Criticism of the following poem employing the Critical theories and tools at your disposal. (300 words)                                                             (20 mks)

To My Dear and Loving Husband

If ever two were one, then surely we.

If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;

If ever wife was happy in a man,

Compare with me, ye women, if you can.

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold

Or all the riches that the East do the hold.

My love is such that rivers cannot quench,

Nor ought but love I can no way repay,

The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.

Then while we live, in love let’s so persevere.

That when we live no more, we may live ever.

– ANNE BRADSTREET

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             LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2006

                                                         EL 4808 – LITERARY CRITICISM

Date & Time : 22-04-2006/9.00-12.00         Dept. No.                                                       Max. : 100 Marks

PART – A

1. Write short notes on FIVE of the following Key Terms/Concepts choosing not less than two from each section: (5 x 8 = 40 marks)

SECTION – 1

1. The merits of Classicism
2. Eliot’s Impersonal Theory of Art
3. Paradox as a critical tool
4. Types of Realism according to Raymond Williams

SECTION – 2

5. Expressive Theories
6. People’s fantasies and the play of children.
7. The Quest-myth in Literature
8. ‘Objectivity’ in Fiction.

PART – B

1. Answer the following questions in about 300 words each: (2 x 20 = 40 marks)
2. a) Structuralism and Literary Criticism according to Barthes.

(Or)

1. b) The Poststructuralist Critique of Structuralism.
2. a) Compare and contrast New Criticism and Myth criticism.

(Or)

1. b) How far do you agree that absolute ‘objectivity’ is possible in
   Poetry/Fiction?

PART – C

• Attempt a practical criticism of the following poem employing the critical theories and tools at your disposal. (20 marks)

CHANGE

My world has changed,

Keeps changing,

Where is that temple

I went to with my granny?

Where is the school

Where I broke records?

Time, you’ve undone me

You came so fast

I could not believe

My experience was so short-lived.

– Kirpal Singh

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 4801/EL 4808 – LITERARY CRITICISM

Date & Time: 21/04/2007 / 1:00 – 4:00  Dept. No.                                              Max. : 100 Marks

PART – A

1. Write short notes on any FIVE of the following:        (8 x 5 = 40 marks)
   1. Differences between Romanticism and Classicism.
   2. Meta-Language of criticism
   3. Metaphysics of presence
   4. Eliot’s definition of Tradition
   5. Write a short note on the Expressive orientation.
   6. Write briefly on Richards’ concept of four kinds of Meaning.
   7. Write a paragraph on Wayne Booth’s concept of neutrality in fiction.
   8. The Quest-Myth in Literature.

PART – B

1. Write an essay on the following in about 300 words each:      (20 x 2 = 40 marks)
2. a What are the different types of Realism in Contemporary fiction according to Raymond Williams?

(OR)

1. How convincingly does Cleanth Brooks prove that paradox is the language of

poetry.

10. Compare and contrast new criticism and Myth criticism.

(OR)

1. Attempt an evaluation of Lionel Trilling’s essay Freud and Literature

PART – C

III. Attempt an interpretation of the following poem by employing the literary theories you have read:

(20 marks)

INDIAN WEAVERS

Weavers, Weaving at break of day,

Why do you weave a garment so gay?

Blue as the wing of a halcyon wild,

We weave the robes of a new-born child.

Weavers, weaving at fall of night,

Why do you weave a garment so bright?

Like the plumes of a peacock, purple and green,

We weave the marriage – Veils of a gueen.

Weavers, weaving solemn and still,

What do you weave in the moonlight chill?

White as a feather and white as a claud

We weave a dead man’s funeral shroud.

Sarojini Naidu

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