LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
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SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2006
EL 2804 – EUROPEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
Date & Time : 21-04-2006/9.00-12.00 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
- Answer any 5 not omitting any section ( 8 ´ 5 = 40 )
Section A
Explain the following quotations in detail with reference to the context.
- Trust not the horse,
You people of Teucria’s land. Whatever it is,
I fear Dannans, even when bearers of gift.
- To the land of the West shalt thou come,
Where the Lydian Tiber
Flows gently by ploughlands rich for the
Men who hane tilled them
There happiness waits thee, a kingdom, a
Princess for bride.
- We Kyclopes
Care not a whistle
For your thundering Leus
Or all the gods in bliss;
- Out of the cave
The mammoth Polyphemos
Roared in answer:
Section B
- Consider ‘ Nausea’ as a philosophical novel.
- Antigone is both Creon’s victim as well as his nemesis-Do you agree?
- Aristotle’s Poetics laid the foundation for the systematic study of aesthetics. Discuss.
- Franz Kafka is a universal spokesman for frightened and perplexed twentieth century man. Comment.
- Answer any 4 not omitting any section ( 4 ´ 15 =60 )
Section A
- ‘Don Quixote is mad when possessed by his idée fixe’ of knight
errantry; but sane and kind and moderate when not’ – prove.
- Comment on the protest element in miserables advocating structural
reforms.
- Do you feel that Oedipus is a puppet of fate and cannot affect the
future that the oracle has predicted for him or is it that his ‘flow ‘sets
these events into action?
Section B
- Discuss existential philosophy exemplified by Kafka in his
‘Metamorphosis’
- Comment on Brechit’s formula of dramatic theatre and epic form.
- Discuss Gorky’s ‘Mother’as the first novel in Russian literature to depict the travails of the working class.