LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2008

    EL 1805 – FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE

 

 

 

Date : 03/05/2008            Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

SECTION – A

 

Answer any FIVE of the following in about 200 words each.                      (5×8=40 marks)

 

1. Why does Eve think that her advice to her daughters will fall on deaf years?
2. Highlight aspects of female life in Summer Vacation
3. Discuss the implications of power feminism in a post feminist age
4. Comment on the speaker’s observation on female life in Man, Feminine Gender
5. Show how the portrayal of the grandmother, in the poem Five Poems for Grandmothers, contradicts the usual (male) perceptions of womanhood and femininity.
6. How does Toril Moi distinguish Feminist from female and feminine?
7. Discuss the significance of the role played by Mrs.Ramsay in To the Lighthouse.
8. How do Sandra M.Gilbert and Susan Gubar substantiate the presence of the tradition of feminist linguistic fantasy in literature? Discuss.

 

 

SECTION B

 

Answer the following in about 500 words each.                                            (3×20=60 marks)

 

9. Discuss the salient features of Marxist feminism.

Or

What, according to Adrienne Rich, are the challenges women must overcome to achieve personhood.

 

10. Discuss the theme of female bonding in Sister of My Heart.

Or

       Consider the poem Ego Tripping as a plea for women’s liberation.

11. Discuss the factors responsible for the tragedy of the woman in ’Night Mother.

                                     Or

How does Dale Spender substantiate the role of women in literary history? Discuss.

 

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