LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

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SECOND SEMESTER – April 2009

EL 2805 – LITERARY THEORY

 

 

 

Date & Time: 24/04/2009 / 1:00 – 4:00  Dept. No.                                                     Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

                                                  PART –A

Explicate FIVE of the following concepts/terms briefly choosing not less than two from each section:                                                                                   (5×8=40 marks)

Section-1

1. Translinguistics
2. Onto-theological activity
3. Recovery of the Referent
4. Ostranenie

Section-2

 

5. Write a paragraph on the role of ‘Meaning’ in New Criticism.
6. Bring out the features of New Criticism.
7. Different types of Readers.
8. What according to Freud are the two kinds of ‘wishes’?

 

                                                  PART-B

Answer the following in about 300 words each                  (2×20=40 marks)

 

9.a) Do you agree with the view that Derridean deconstruction is a negatively-oriented

philosophical programme? Substantiate your answer with textual evidence.

Or

1. b) Critique Barthes’ essay The Death of the Author as a subversion of the traditional

humanist position.

10.a) Northrop Frye’s ARCHETYPES OF LITERATURE is an extrinsic approach to

Literature. Discuss.

Or

1. b) Analyse the concept of psychoanalytic criticism with reference to CREATIVE

WRITERS AND DAY DREAMING.

 

                                                 PART-C

Using the Critical tools at your disposal explicate the following poem: (20 marks)

A LETTER

This is my letter to the World

That never wrote to Me—

The simple News that Nature told—-

With tender Majesty

 

Her Message is committed

To Hands I cannot see—

For love of Her—Sweet—countrymen—-

Judge tenderly—of Me.

EMILY DICKINSON

 

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