LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2011
EL 4815 – ESSAY
Date : 11-04-2011 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
Answer any ONE of the following in 2500 to 3000 words: (100 marks)
- Explain how the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky have influenced your idea of language.
- Write an essay on Indian diasporic writers.
- Discuss the philosophy, science and culture of Literary Forms in your opinion.
- “ … the question ‘What is literature?’ matters because theory has highlighted the literariness of texts of all sorts.” (Jonathan Culler) Examine the development of your own idea of literature and literariness.
- Discuss the movements and trends in American Literature.
- Comment on the role of human imagination and fancy in the evolution of religion as well as literature.
- Attempt a study on the award-winning novelists in Indian Writing in English.
- “… there are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses.” (Raymond Williams) Respond to the ideas in the quote in the context of Mass Communication today.