LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

EL 3809 – LITERARY HISTORY – I

 

 

Date : 02-05-2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

1. Comment on the significance of any FOUR of the following:

(4 x 5 = 20 marks)

 

1) Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree’s shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

2)  “……..as Orpheus did for his own bride……

The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.”

 

3)  In the blest Kingdoms meek of joy and love.

There entertain him all the Saints above

4)  Sometimes, when he is pleased  with the matter of his Devotion,

he pronounces Amen   three or four times to the same prayer.

 

5) Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public,

have proceeded from the Unmarried or childless men;  which both in

affection and means have married and  endowed the public.

 

6)  ‘O, father, the pig, do come and taste how nice the burnt pig eats’.

 

1. Attempt any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each: 

(5 x 8 = 40 marks)

 

7. By identifying the exact day of the wedding

(the summer solstice, June 20),  Spenser allows the reader to fit his

poetic description of the ceremony into a real, historical context- Comment

 

 

 

 

 

8. . Faustus’ gruesome end was at the hands of the

very creatures he then commanded.- Analyze

 

9. “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is an elegy in name but not

in form–     Evaluate

10. Bring out the paramount  importance given to marriage in Wilde’s

“The Importance of Being Earnest”

11. Evaluate Addison’s portrayal of the odd and uncommon aspects of

Sir Roger’s   character  in Sir Roger at church.

12. How does Bacon view marriage and single life?
13. Critically analyze Newman’s idea of professional skills.
14. Estimate Charles Lamb’s writing style in ‘A dissertation upon a Roost pig’.

 

 

• Answer any TWO of the following in about 400 words each:

(2 X 20 = 40 marks)

15. Discuss the plot and element of sentimental drama in She Stoops to Conquer.

 

 

16. Comment on the theme, symbol and motifs of John Webster’s

The Duchess of  Malfi

 

17. Tess is a victim of Fate and Chance – Discuss.

 

18. Consider ‘A Tale of Two cities’ as a historical novel.

 

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

EL 3809 – LITERARY HISTORY – I

 

 

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

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

1. Comment on the significance of any FOUR of the following:             (4 x 5 = 20 marks)

 

1. And thus invoke us; You whom reverend love

Made one another’s hermitage;

You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage;

 

2. The better angel is a man right fair

The worse spirit a woman coloured il       l.

 

3. Wake now my love, awake; for it is time

The Rosy Morne long since left Tithones bed

All ready to her silver coche to clime.

 

4. Single men, though they may be many times more

charitable, because their means are less exhaust,

yet, on the other side they are more cruel and

hard hearted because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.

 

5. Unlike to mankind’s mixed characters, a bundle of virtues and vices, inexplicably

Intertwisted, and not be unravelled without hazard, he is – good throughout.

 

6. Sometimes, when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces

“Amen” three or four times to the same prayer.

 

1. Attempt any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each:              (5 x 8 = 40 marks)

 

7. For Militon, Lycidas was more than just a pastoral elegy as he used it for his own

personal   grievances”- Explain

 

8. What efforts does the bride groom take to prove his passionate love for his bride

throughout the poem Epithalamion?

 

9. Analsye the exaggeration in all the stanzas of The Canonisation by John Donne.

 

10. Evaluate Wordsworth as the worshipper of nature from the point of his poem Tintern

           Abbey.

 

11. Critically estimate Bacon’s views on Marriage and single life.

 

12. Discuss Newman’s idea of knowledge.

 

13. Critically analyse the theme of sacrifice in ‘A Tale of Two Cities’.

 

14. Evaluate Sir Roger’s character in Sir Roger at church.

 

 

 

III. Write any TWO of the following in about 300 words each:               (2 x 20 = 40 marks)

 

15. Bring out the hero, the villain and the victim in Dr Faustus.

 

16. Justify Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest as a farce and comedy of manners.

 

17. Critically analyse the working of fate and chance in the life of Tess.

 

18. The theme of ‘Emma’ is about the heroine’s painful understanding of the truth

about herself – Discuss.

 

 

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