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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 2805 – LITERARY THEORY

 

 

 

Date & Time : 21-04-07/1:00-4:00      Dept. No.                                                                        Max. 100 Marks

 

 

PART – A

Attempt a brief explication of FIVE of the following terms choosing not less than two from each Section:

( 5 x 8 = 40 )

SECTION – 1

  1. Russian Formalist distinction between ‘poetic’ and ‘practical’ language.
  2. Paradox as the language of poetry.
  3. The Rupture of Structure.
  4. Text and Co-texts in New Historicism.

 

SECTION – 2

  1. Bring out the features of New Criticism.
  2. Write a paragraph on Marxist Criticism based on the features of classical Marxist Philosophy.
  3. Bring out the relationship between Myth and Archetype.
  4. Write briefly on the features Psycho-analytic criticism.

 

PART – B

 

Answer the following questions in about 300 words each:                       (2 x 20 = 40 )

 

  1. a)  Discuss Viktor Shlovsky and the Russian Formalists as proponents of a formalist approach to      literature.

(Or)

 

  1. b) How does Brooks demonstrate the methodology of “Close Reading” in his essay on Paradox and

the  language of poetry?

 

10.a)  The Reading Process by Wolfgang Iser analyses the various types of readers – Discuss.

 

(Or)

 

  1. Summarise Freud’s concept of Psycho-analysis in Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming.

 

 

 

 

…..2/-

 

 

 

 

PART – C

 

Analyse the following poem from any literary theoretical framework  of your choice:        (20 Marks)

 

EXILE

 

My air is striped

My shade is barred

(As it was before

only here the bars

Do not bend with the wind).

 

My breath is short

My Claws are blunt

(with long pacing on stone ground)

All day I smell

Zebra…. gazelle

But I am full of easy meat.

I have no appetite

 

Only at dusk

When the monkeys mock

From stone trees

(And the scent they no longer fear)

Come down to the mudless hole to drink –

 

Only at dusk I dare to dream

Eyes half-closed, bending the bars

And plotting my return.

 

—Alan Duff

 

 

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

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FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 4801/EL 4808 – LITERARY CRITICISM

 

 

 

Date & Time: 21/04/2007 / 1:00 – 4:00  Dept. No.                                              Max. : 100 Marks

 

PART – A

  1. Write short notes on any FIVE of the following:        (8 x 5 = 40 marks)
    1. Differences between Romanticism and Classicism.
    2. Meta-Language of criticism
    3. Metaphysics of presence
    4. Eliot’s definition of Tradition
    5. Write a short note on the Expressive orientation.
    6. Write briefly on Richards’ concept of four kinds of Meaning.
    7. Write a paragraph on Wayne Booth’s concept of neutrality in fiction.
    8. The Quest-Myth in Literature.

 

PART – B

  1. Write an essay on the following in about 300 words each:      (20 x 2 = 40 marks)
  2. a What are the different types of Realism in Contemporary fiction according to Raymond Williams?

(OR)

  1. How convincingly does Cleanth Brooks prove that paradox is the language of

poetry.

 

  1. Compare and contrast new criticism and Myth criticism.

(OR)

  1. Attempt an evaluation of Lionel Trilling’s essay Freud and Literature

 

PART – C

 

III. Attempt an interpretation of the following poem by employing the literary theories you have read:

(20 marks)

 

INDIAN WEAVERS

 

Weavers, Weaving at break of day,

Why do you weave a garment so gay?

Blue as the wing of a halcyon wild,

We weave the robes of a new-born child.

 

Weavers, weaving at fall of night,

Why do you weave a garment so bright?

Like the plumes of a peacock, purple and green,

We weave the marriage – Veils of a gueen.

 

Weavers, weaving solemn and still,

What do you weave in the moonlight chill?

White as a feather and white as a claud

We weave a dead man’s funeral shroud.

Sarojini Naidu

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 1804  – LINGUISTICS

 

 

 

Date & Time: 30/04/2007 / 1:00 – 4:00      Dept. No.                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

PART – A

 

  1. Write short notes on ANY FOUR of the following in about 50 words each:           (4 x 4 = 16 marks)
    1. Traditional Grammar.
    2. Bound Morpheme.
    4. Langue and Parole.

 

  1. Transcribe the following words marking primary and secondary accents wherever necessary:

(7 x 2 = 14 marks)

 

  1. subject (as a verb)
  2. language
  3. phonological
  4. modification
  5. paradigmatic
  6. literary
  7. about

 

III.       Write an essay on ANY ONE of the following:                     (1 x 20 = 20 marks)

 

  1. Illustrate with examples the four Saussurean Dichotomies.
  2. How would you clarify and distinguish the concepts of phonology, phonetics and phonemics.

 

PART – B

IV Answer any five of the following questions in about 50 words each                                           (5 x 2  = 10 marks)

  1. What is pivot grammar?
  2. What is pragmatic study of language?
  3. Explain any one limitation of the traditional linguistics
  4. Explain synchronic study of language
  5. What is psycholinguistics?
  6. Which aspect of language does contribute to the meaning of a sentence?

 

V Answer any Two of the following in about 150 words each. (2 x 10 = 20 marks)

 

  1. Explain perceptual prominence.
  2. Give your arguments against the concept that language acquisition is innate.
  3. What is collocational theory?

 

VI Answer the following question in about 300 words.                                                                                (20 marks)

  1. What is the contribution of Chomsky to English Grammar.

(or)

What are the three questions one has to understand in analyzing language acquisition

as a psycholinguistic process?

 

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 3806 / 3801 – LINGUISTICS – II

 

 

 

Date & Time: 02/05/2007 / 9:00 – 12:00      Dept. No.                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

PART A

  1. Attempt any TWO. (2 X 10 = 20)
  2. a) Write short notes on any FIVE:
  3. A) Phoneme B) Diphthongs                        C) Weak forms
  4. D) Syllable E) Juncture                  F) Nasals

 

  1. b) Give a detailed description of the production and articulation of plosives of English.

 

  1. c) Discuss the rules governing accentual patterns in English.

 

  1. d) Transcribe the following phonemically:

Ticket Examiner              :Good morning. Father Gordon. Travelling far?

Father Gordon                :Ah good morning Mr.Prabhu .How are you?

T.E                                  :I’m very well,thank you. I always remember you as one of my                                                                     best teachers. Do you remember , Father, that you taught me

English In Loyola College, Madras, in 1952?

Father                               :Of course I do. I even remember your name. Are you still   working for the

Railways?

T.E                                   :I am. In fact I’m on duty now. Incidentally May I have your ticket, Father?

Father                               :Certainly. Wait a second and I’ll show it to you.

Oh dear. It’s not in my pocket. Let me check

again. Dear me! No luck

 

  1. Mark stress and intonation in the following: (15 marks)

Raju            :           Good morning Mr.Bharadwaj. How are you this morning?

Bharadwaj  :           Good morning. I’m very well. Thank you. I’m afraid we haven’t had the pleasure

of meeting each other before, but still you seem to know me.

Raju            :           As a candidate for the forthcoming Local Body Elections, I ought to know all the

voters in my Ward.

Bharadwaj   :           Oh, that’s it, is it? So you hope to become a Councillor

Raju             :           With your support, I am sure I will. May I appeal to             you to cast your

vote in my favour? My name is Raju and I belong to the People’s Party.

 

III. Give an appreciation of the passage and show how the structural equivalence can condition meaning.                                                                                                                                                                                                (15 marks)

The Ganges, though flowing from the foot of Vishnu and through Siva’s hair, is not an ancient

stream. Geology, looking farther than religion, knows of a time when neither the river nor the

Himalayas that nourished it existed, and an ocean flowed over the holy places of Hindustan.

The mountains rose, their debris silted up the ocean, the gods took their seats on them and contrived

the river, and the India we call immemorial came into being. But India is really far older.

In the days of the prehistoric ocean the southern       part of the peninsula already existed, and the high

places of Dravidia have been land since land began, and have seen on the one side the sinking of a

continent that joined them to Africa, and on the other the upheaval of the Himalayas from a sea.

 

PART B

IV  Write an essay on ONE of the following in about 400 words                                                (20 marks)

  1. Explain the different features of Cohesion
  2. Explain the relationship between implicature and Cooperative Principle

 

V answer any THREE of the following in about 150 words each                                    (3 x 5 = 15 marks)

  1. What is transactional function of a language?
  2. What is ordinary language philosophy?
  3. Write a short note on optionality
  4. How is force connected with sense in interpreting meaning?
  5. Explain any one maxim of Cooperative Principle.
  6. Explain with suitable examples modesty maxim.

 

VI Read the following piece of discourse and answers the questions given below           (3 x 5 =15 marks)

 

Why is there such a bad situation? Should not the Dalit students get education at all? The governing and the ruling class have created a wicked system that the Dalits or any one from the marginalised sections cannot/should not get educated at all. They do not want the Dalits to get empowered and demand their rights and get the due share in the development process. So structural difficulties like the non-accessibility to the basic needs have been created for the Dalit parents and children so that their prime and precious time is spent on doing the daily mundane and  routine work. The fathers spend most of their time in working as daily coolies earning a meager income and striving hard to make both  ends meet, while the mothers spend most of their time walking a few kilometers to fetch one pot of drinking water and to collect one bundle of firewood. Most of the Dalit houses cannot afford to have electricity thereby abandoning the children to the mercy of streetlights that do not work most of the time. Tables and chairs are grand luxuries for most of the Dalit students. The same ‘waste your time like your parents’ concept is pushed into the Dalit children also, when they should be preparing for their examination without any tension and worry.

Added to this, there are different types of school education; CBSC, ISC, Anglo Indian Board, Matriculations, State Board etc. Except the state board all the other types of education are ‘pay and get educated’. As these are not economically viable for the poor, especially the Dalits, most of the Dalit students join the state board schools and everyone knows what is the type/quality of education that is given through these type of schools. As the government supports these schools, the fee is minimum and the government supplies text books, notebooks, uniform and midday meal. Very few schools do something which gives a semblance of education.

 

  1. Identify Exophoric and Endophoric references in the passage and explain how they help in achieving cohesion.

 

  1. Explain the field, Mode and Tenor of the passage.

 

  1. What are the elements of Speech Act and explain their significance

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 1803 – INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH – 2OTH C

 

 

 

Date & Time: 28/04/2007 / 1:00 – 4:00      Dept. No.                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

PART – A

  1. Answer the following in 50 words each: ( 10 x 3 = 30 Marks )

 

  1. It is insight into the nature of reality (darsana), or

experience of reality (anubhava).

  • What is referred to here?

 

  1. You are all knowing, friends,

what sweetness is in Miss Pushpa.

  • Comment on the language used in these lines.

 

  1. You know how old women are.

They stick to you like burr.

  • What is the purpose of her sticking to you?

 

  1. You don’t step inside the old man’s head.
  • What makes you to feel so?

 

  1. I would rather roam with kalidasa n kabir

or go on a spiritual journey with dante.

  • Identify the purpose of the speaker in joining them to go to places.

 

  1. “…..both provide………

-the queenliest flower that blows”.

  • How does the flower given by Flora to Love provide both?

 

  1. “A grey baboon sits statue-like alone

Watching the sunrise while on lower boughs”

  • Explain the simile and beauty of the passage.

 

  1. “Sons who run away come back”
    • Bring out the Biblical echo in the passage and relate to the context.

 

  1. “Facing east where three rivers met”
    • Comment on the significance of the direction and junction of the rivers.

 

  1. “The swan sleeps with her young under her wings”
    • Describe the symbolism in the line.

 

 

PART – B

 

  1. Answer any EIGHT of the following in 150 words each: ( 8 x 5 = 40 Marks )

 

  1. Critically evaluate Upamanyu Chatterjee’s views on Indian Administrative System.
  2. Bring out the symbolism in Mukta Dhara.
  3. Do you agree with Sharat Chandra in his views about Indian Politics?
  4. Is Raju a flat or a round character? Justify your answer with examples.
  5. How does Train to Pakistan view Indian history during independence?
  6. Briefly picturise the status of Indian women as perceived by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy.
  7. ‘Tughlaq’ reflects the political mood of disillusionment which followed the Nehru era of idealism in India. – Substantiate.

 

  1. ‘Kanthapura’ is a narration of the sthala-purana of Raja Rao – Discuss.
  2. Bring out the irony and humour in A.K. Ramanujan’s obituary’.
  3. Bring out Babani Battacharya’s views on ‘So many   Hungers?

 

PART – C

III.  Answer any TWO in 400 words each:                                                      ( 2 x 15 = 30 )

 

  1. The poems of Toru Dutt elevate her to be a bridge between the Indian and Western cultures – substantiate.

 

  1. Spirituality being the master key of the Indian mind, Renaissance in India is only through preservation by reconstruction – Discuss.

(Or)

Record the sentiments of Bhaka, the untouchable in Mulk Raj Anand’s novel on social evil.

 

  1. How does Radhakrishnan present his views on Hinduism?
  2. Consider the variety in theme, content and style in Indian Poetry in English.

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 1805 – FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE

 

 

 

Date & Time: 02/05/2007 / 1:00 – 4:00      Dept. No.                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

 

SECTION – A

 

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

 

  • How does Dale Spender substantiate that there has been an intense misogyny among the male writers against women writers in literary history?
  • Analyse critically the views of Sandra M.Gilbert and Susan Guber over the transformation of the materna lingua into a new patrius sermo.
  • Consider Nikki Giovanni’s Ego Tripping as a plea for women’s liberation.
  • How does the story Witch highlight the various social evils committed against women? Discuss.

5 Sister of my Heart is characterized by a remarkable absence of men. How does this impact the women?

6) Examine the implications of reproduction controlling technologies.

7) Show how the myth of black macho cheats black women of their human rights.

8) What feminist themes does the short story Summer Vacation explore?

 

SECTION B

 

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

 

  • Discuss the efforts of some of the women writers towards ‘female linguistic empowerment’.

or

Elaborate on the theme of harmony in To the Lighthouse.

 

10) To what extent can cyberspace be a site for both empowerment and enslavement of women?

or

What according to Adrienne Rich are the sacrifices women must make if they are to redeem themselves?

 

11) Consider Margaret Atwood’s Five Poems for Grandmothers as a tribute to female heroism.

or

Which one of the two main characters, in ’Night Mother, do you sympathise with? Give reasons.

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

LO 44

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 2804 – EUROPEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

 

 

 

Date & Time: 19/04/2007 / 1:00 – 4:00            Dept. No.                                                          Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

  1. Explain any FIVE with reference to the context:                       5 x 3 = 15

 

  1. The immutable unwritten laws of Heaven.

They were not born today nor yesterday;

 

  1. By the law of conscience I was led

To honor thee, dear brother, and was judged

By Creon guilty of a heinous crime

 

  1. Fair queen, oppose not what the gods command

Forc’d by my fate, I leave your happy land.”

 

  1. But he seemed rather a shaggy mountain reared in solitude

 

  1. Now kyklops, wheezing, fumbled to wrench away

The great door stone and squatted in the breach

 

  1. So we moved out,

Sad in the vast offing,

Having our precious lives,

But not our friends

 

  1. Answer any FIVE in about 150 words. 5 x 5 = 25

 

  1. What dramatic purpose does the character of Ismene serve?

 

  1. Based on your reading of Don Quixote reconstruct the ceremony surrounding the knighting.
  2. Comment on the episode where Valjean repays the Bishop of Digne’s hospitality by stealing his silverware.
  3. Analyse the depiction of Dido’s passion for Aeneas.
  1. What according to Aristotle is the essence of a tragedy?
  2. How is Gregor Samsa estranged from conforming to human standards?
  3. Comment on the figures of speech used by Homer in Odyssey Book. IX.
  4. What is the main theme of the Book of Job?

III. Attempt an essay of about 250 words on any THREE of the following.                3 x 20 = 60

  1. Is Creon a tragic figure who deserves the readers’ sympathy or one who gets just what he deserves?

 

  1. Is there more to Don Quixote than being just a typical Renaissance satire of the absurd chivalric traditions of the Middle Ages?

 

  1. Do you agree with Hugo that many of the problems facing society are created by the very laws and traditions of that society?
  1. How does Kafka’s Metamorphosis explore the futility and complexity of human existence?
  2. Critically analyze the Book of Job as an exquisite dramatic poem.
  3. How does Sartre depict the superfluity of the world in his ‘Nausea’?

 

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

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FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 4813 – ELTT

 

 

 

Date & Time: 20/04/2007 / 9:00 – 12:00          Dept. No.                                                          Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

 

I Write  brief comments on the following                                          (10×2=20 Marks)

  1. Fluctuation in learner interest
  2. Skimming and scanning
  3. Inhibition
  4. Density in written discourse
  5. Lexical syllabus
  6. What is the level as a trainer would you point out an error? Why?
  7. Which one would you teach first: vocabulary or syntax? Why?
  8. Which aspect of a learner would monitor the learning process?
  9. If a learner fumbles for a word in a situation, instead of prompting that word, what would be your role as a trainer? Why?
  10. What is a trainer’s primary concern in teaching second language?

 

II Answer any SIX of the following.                                                 (6×5=30 Marks)

  1. Elicitation techniques in testing
  2. Class room interaction patterns
  3. Characteristics of motivated learners
  4. The top ten requirements of good teaching
  5. Grammar teaching involves a lot of assumptions? Explain any two assumptions.
  6. What are  the causes for variability in language learning?
  7. The problem in teaching vocabulary is: the objects have different attributes like pointing to a wall to teach  the word ‘wall’, the same wall has to be pointed out to teach the colour ‘white’. How would you circumvent this problem?
  8. What is the difference between a native and non-native speaker?

 

III Answer any TWO of the following                                              (2×15=30 Marks)

  1. Explain the general principles of Lesson preparation and the ways of evaluating its effectiveness.
  2. Give a list of commonly found writing activities How would you evaluate  some of them in a particular teaching and learning situation.
  3. Is language acquisition environmental or genetic? Take a stand and argue for it.

 

 

IV Answer the following                                                                    (2×10=20 Marks)

  1. Design a five minute activity for  Speaking
  2. Design a five minute activity for  vocabulary

 

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 2952 – ECOPOETICS

 

 

 

Date & Time: 26/04/2007 / 1:00 – 4:00      Dept. No.                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

 

 

PART A

 

I Answer any SIX of the following in not less than 150 words each.           (6 x 5 = 30)

  1. Explain Ecospirituality.
  2. Establish the connection between Ecocriticism and science.
  3. Explain the symbiotic relationship between Sakuntala, the protagonist and nature.
  4. What is the oikos of Tamil poetry according to Dr. Nirmal Selvamony?
  1. Write on the sensitive spirit of  Nature.
  1. Discuss modern man’s life style with the touch of  Nature.
  2. Do the Eco-critics really understand Wordsworth?
  1. Romantic poets have no choice  but Nature. Discuss.

 

 

PART B

 

II Answer the following questions in about 300 words each.                        (2 x 20 = 40)

 

  1. According to Ramanujam,  What are the ways by which Tamil cultural landscape

is relate do the life style according to Cangam literature?

(or)

Explain Wordsworth’s concept of Ecology in his poem The Prelude.

 

  1. Nature is never dependent on man. Elucidate.

(or)

Eco-critics are not so sensitive as the Romantic Movement Writers.  Illustrate.

 

PART C

III Applied Criticism

Scrutinise the following literary texts within the given parameters

  1. Identify the ‘oikoses’ in the text.
  2. Establish the relationship of one ‘oikos’ with the other ‘oikoses’.
  3. Compare the ‘oikos’ of one txt with the other ‘oikoses of other comparable texts.

 

Text 1                                                                                                              (15 marks)

Fair pledges of a Fruitful tree,

Why do ye fall so fast?

Your date is not so past,

But you may stay yet here awhile

To blush and gently smile,

And  go at last.

What, were you born to be

An hour or half’s delight

‘Twas pity Nature brought ye forth

Merely to show your worth,

And lose you quite.

But you are lovely leaves, where we

May read how soon things have

Their end, though ne’er so brave:

And after they have shown their pride

Like you, awhile, they glide

Into the grave.

 

Text 2                                                                                                  (15 marks)

EVEN as modern medical sciences grow by leaps and bounds and the world awaits a genetic revolution that could give humans the power to play God, traditional diets and medical systems of Asia are making a special niche for themselves – and that, too, in the Mecca of modern medicine, the US.

Ever since Mahesh Yogi decided to divest yoga of its spirituality and give the Americans a taste of his transcendental meditation, medical interest has grown to a point that a new discipline called Mind Body Medicine has emerged (Down To Earth, Vol 3, No 23), which is more jargonistically called PNI, for psychoneuroimmunology. Now even the prestigious Harvard Medical School has a Mind/Body Medical Institute. And it recently organised a conference in which 200 medicos rubbed shoulders with a variety of healers from the Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Hindu and other traditions. Yoga and spiritual healing are placebos no longer. Now, controlled scientific studies have shown that techniques like meditation can help in curing depression, anxiety, high blood pressure, cardiac pain, insomnia, diabetes, ulcers, cold, fever, asthma, arthritis and alcoholism.

And, of course, quick to latch on to prayer, meditation and relaxation techniques are the cost-conscious, new health insurance agencies, called Health Maintenance Organisations (HMOS), which try to keep medical costs down. They are readily pushing patients to these techniques. One clinical study showed that when patients supplemented their high blood pressure drugs with relaxation techniques, they were able to reduce or eliminate their use of drugs while significantly reducing their blood pressure. The HMOs saved US $1,300 per patient over the five-year course of treatment.

And now, that Vatican of medical research, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which, with its us $12 billion annual budget, funds almost all medical research in USA, has also spoken in favour of all this erstwhile mumbo-jumbo. One of its independent panels recently concluded: “Integrating behaviour and relaxation therapies with conventional medical treatment is imperative for successfully managing these conditions.” The human touch of the healer, meditation or prayer may not do much to mend broken bones or control infection but, the NIH panel said, they do seem to affect diseases that have a psychological component or those that can be helped by changes in the heart rate, blood pressure, muscle tension and so on.

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 3804 – DRAMA (BRITISH & AMERICAN) FROM 1900

 

 

 

Date & Time: 26/04/2007 / 9:00 – 12:00      Dept. No.                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

PART A

Answer the following briefly (10×2=20 marks)

 

  1. “Your hair is all right, Mama. I was only thinking how well you look.”

Why is Mary conscious of her looks? What does this statement reflect of the speaker’s thoughts on her?

  1. “I was a pious girl. I even dreamed of becoming a nun.”

Comment on this statement.

  1. “dark phrases of womanhood

of never havin been a girl

half-notes scattered

without rhythm”

Explain the lines.

  1. “Women children and lunatics can’t be Pope”

Comment on the fate of the woman pope.

  1. “Oh, god, why are we so miserable?”

Comment on the irony implied in this observation.

6.”I have no ammunition…I always

carry chocolate instead.”

Is this statement plain humour or a satire on something?

7.”If you quarrel with the family,

I never can marry you.”

What is the problem the speaker refers to ?

8.”Raina our romance is shattered.

Life is a farce.”

Why does the speaker say so ?

9.”You stuff yourself with dry toast

You contaminate womankind

Why don’t you pay the rent.”

Comment on these accusations contextually.

10.”Why did you leave the organization?

Why did you betray us?

Who is the interrogator and why does he ask such questions?

PART  B

 

Answer any four of the following in about 200 words each. ( 4X10=40 marks)

 

  1. What is Stanley’s reason for his aggression in A Streetcar Named Desire?
  2. Comment on the challenge Walter faces in A Raisin in the Sun.
  3. Examine aspects of American identity in The Death of the Salesman.

 

  1. Discuss WAITING FOR GODOT as an Absurd play?
  2. Critically examine THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST as a comedy of manners.

 

  1. Is ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD a serious philosophical play or mere farce?

PART C

Answer the following in about 400 words each         (2×20=40 marks)

 

  1. Comment on A Long Day’s Journey as a tragedy of  betrayal and despair.

Or

Write an essay on the conflict in Top Girls.

 

  1. Do you agree with the view that THE BIRTHDAY PARTY is a play about the role of the artist in

society and the fate which he meets?

Or

Discuss the PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD as a socio-cultural documentary of rural

Ireland.

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 3900 – CONTEMPORARY COMMUNICATIVE CONCERNS – II

 

 

 

Date & Time: 27/04/2007 / 9:00 – 12:00      Dept. No.                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

Answer the following in the same order. After completing one section go to the next one

 

SECTION – A ANALYTICAL REASONING    (25 marks)

 

 

 

 

SECTION –B BIOETHICS

 

Answer any TWO of the following:   25 marks

 

  1. Discuss the social and ethical implications of HIV-AIDS.
  2. Write about the role of individuals towards the problems associated with environmental pollution.
  3. What are assisted reproductive technologies? Explain the ethical aspects involved.
  4. Discuss the causes and remedy measures for biodiversity degradation.

 

 

SECTION C- BASIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.

 

  1. What is scientific temper ? Why should it be promoted ? ( 5marks)
  2. Discuss with examples the difference between discovery and invention.(5marks)
  3. Explain the classification of elementary particles and the fundamental interactions they are subject to. (5 marks )
  4. Discuss the life and contribution of any scientist to the development of humanity.

OR

Discuss the impact made by any book on science and technology read by you

recently. ( 10 marks )

 

 

SECTION 4   ENGLISH FOR SOFT SKILL TRAINERS

 

Answer any Five of the following in about 150 words each (5 x 5=25 marks)

 

  1. Explain any one dimension of negotiation.
  2. How do you maintain balance of power between two parties?
  3. Explain any one situation where your colleague will never understand you in a negotiation process.
  4. Write a short note on any one soft skill needed for a trainer.
  5. What will be the process of improvement one should undertake if the feedback is negative about your performance?
  6. What are the obstacles to achieving Relational goals?

 

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SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 2900 – CONTEMPORARY COMMUNICATIVE CONCERNS – I

 

 

 

Date & Time: 24/04/2007 / 1:00 – 4:00      Dept. No.                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

 

 

  1. Answer any FIVE of the following in a page each: 5 x 5 = 25 marks

 

  1. What are the salient features of the Constitution?
  2. Highlight the importance of the ‘Preamble’ to the Constitution
  3. How did the Supreme Court interpret the ‘Personal Liberty’ from AK Gopalan’s case to Maneka Gandhi?
  4. Do NRIs need citizenship? Give your arguments in the light of the amendment to the Citizenship Act.
  5. Explain ‘Freedom of Religion’ under the Fundamental Rights in the Constitution
  6. Examine the Union-State Relations under the Constitution.
  7. Discuss at least two amendments to the constitution (carried out in the last five years)
  8. Do we need an Upper House in the Parliament? Give reasons for its relevance.

 

  1. Answer any FIVE of the following in a page each: 5 x 5 = 25 marks

 

  1. What are the pillars of India’s Foreign Policy?
  2. Is judiciary playing a role of ‘Judicial activism’ or Judicial authoritarianism’ – Give Reasons.
  3. Explain ‘Civilian Nuclear Deal’
  4. How water disputes between the States in India are addressed?
  5. Is India a ‘Strategic Partner’ of US? Identify the areas of cooperation
  6. Write on the ‘Personal Laws’ governing women in India
  7. Highlight the achievements and plans of SAARC countries
  8. ‘Our borders are secure but people but people are insecure’ – Substantiate

 

III. 17. Discuss the features of the Union Budget for 2007 – 2008. 30 marks

(OR)

Explain the features of the Indian economy.

 

  1. Answer the following in a page each: 4 x 5 = 20 marks

 

  1. Explain the basic principles of conditioning.
  2. What are the core areas you would keep in mind in behavioural analysis?
  3. There is an organic link between language and behaviour. Discuss
  4. How do you differentiate between behavioural psychology and psychoanalysis?

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 2801 – BRITISH LITERATURE

 

 

 

Date & Time: 05.05.07 / 9:00-12:00      Dept. No.                                            Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

Part- I

 

  1. Answer the following questions in not more than 50 words each. 10×2 = 20 marks.

 

  1. All her particular worth grows to this sum –

She stains the time past, lights the time to come.

-Throw light on this observation.

  1. Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability

-Explain the implied meaning in these lines.

  1. What follows? Never rained such showers

As these without thunderbolts in the tail of them;

Whose throat must I cut?

-Bring out the significance of these lines

  1. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that does the hurt.

-Why does the author feel so?

  1. And I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.

– Comment on the realization of the son.

  1. Me miserable! Which way I fly

Infinite wrath and infinite despair.

-Comment on the use of the word ‘infinite’

7.How due! Yet all His good proved ill in me

And wrought but malice

-Explain the irony implied here.

  1. Each perturbation smoothed with outward calm

Artificer of fraud.

-How justified is the title given to Satan?

  1. But at my back I always hear

Times winged chariot hurrying near.

-Why is there such hurry?

10.Call us what you will we are made such by thy love

Call her one, me another fly.

-Describe the mood of the poet.

 

  1. Translate the following passage into modern English and comment on the

underlined and emboldened words.                            (8 marks)

 

And bisily gan for the soules preye

Of hem that yet him whrerwith to  scoleye

Of studie took he moost care and moost heede

Nought a word spake he moore than was neede

And that was said in forme and reverence

And short and qwyk and ful of hy sentence

Soweryngein moral vertu was his speeche

And gladly world he leane and gladly teche.

 

 

PART – II

 

III. Attempt any FOUR in about 200 words each choosing at least one from each section.

 

(4x 8 = 32 marks)

 

 

Section – A

  1. Discuss how parables are used as literary devise in St.Luke, Ch 15.
  2. Bring out Bacon’s views of truth.
  3. Critically analyse the arguments of Philip Sydney in favour of poetry.

 

 

 

Section – B

15.How did Chaucer portray his society through “The Canterbury Tales”?

16.Analyse Chaucer’s narrative and descriptive techniques from the point of view of

“The Canterbury Tales”

  1. What do we learn from “Prothalamion” and “Epithalamion”?

 

 

 

PART – II

  1. Answer any TWO of the following in not more than 400 words each choosing one

question from each section.                                                          (2×20=40marks)

 

Section – A

18.Critically analyse the The Duchess of Malfi as a revenge tragedy.

 

19.Discuss the mental conflict of Faustus in Doctor Faustus

 

Section – B

20.How did love and mysticism mingle in Donne’s and Marvel’s poetry?

21.Analyse the theme of Paradise Lost in the context of our problems in the 21st century.

 

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FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 4809/EL 2801 – BRITISH LITERATURE

 

 

 

Date & Time: 20/04/2007 / 1:00 – 4:00    Dept. No.                                                          Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

SECTION – A

 

Answer the following in about 30 words each.                                                             (10×2 = 20)

1.Comment on the imagery in the poem  On the Move by Thom Gunn.

  1. What is the implication of the goggles in On the Move.
  2. Comment on the title Waiting for Godot
  3. What aspect of the duchess’s personality does the poem My Last Duchess highlight?
  4. Point out two characteristics of absurd theatre in Waiting for Godot.
  5. Why does Tithonus call immortality cruel?
  6. Why does Tithonus ask Aurora to release him from immortality?
  7. How does Yeats describe the recent image of Maud Gonne?
  8. What is the answer to the question, ‘How can we know the dancer from the dance’?
  9. “My heart in hiding

Stirred for a bird,-the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!”

Explain the significance of the passage.

 

SECTION – B

 

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

 

  1. Discuss the gothic element in Wuthering Heights.
  1. Comment on the death of Tom Brangwen in The Rainbow.

13.Discuss aspects of poetic drama in Murder in the Cathedral.

  1. Highlight the thematic concerns in The Lord of the Flies
  2. Do you consider Yeats’ descriptions in Among School Children as a curse upon old age? Justify your answer.
  3. Do you think Beckett was looking forward to his martyrdom in Murder in the Cathedral? Give reasons.
  4. Discuss the social issues that Dickens raises in his novel Great Expectations.
  1. What are Professor Higgins’ comments on man-woman relationships?

Do you agree with them entirely? Attempt an assessment of the truth in his comments.

 

SECTION – C

 

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

 

  1. What are the characteristics of the theatre of the absurd?  Show how Beckett uses it to elaborate on the condition of modern man.

OR

What is the importance of the narrative voice in Lord Jim?

 

20.  How does Tennyson treat the theme of immortality in the poem Tithonus? Discuss.

OR

Attempt a critical study of the role of Chorus in Murder in the Cathedral.

 

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THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 3800 / 3805 – BRITISH LITERATURE (1670 – 1832)

 

 

 

Date & Time: 28/04/2007 / 9:00 – 12:00 Dept. No.                                         Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

PART – A

Interpret the following lines in about 50 words each:                               10 x 2 = 20

 

  1. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Elaborate on the wisdom of this line.

  1. It was a miracle of rare device,

A summary pleasure – dome with cave of icel.

  1. He raised a mortal to the skies;

She drew an angel down.

  1. His pity gave ere charity began,

Explain the manner in which this virtue was displayed.

  1. ……. These beauteous forms.

Through  a long absence, have not been to me

As is a landscape to a blind man’s eye.

  1. I reverence these young Africans

of our own growth.

Explicate the under lined words.

  1. Such is, the south sea House.

Describe the South Sea House.

  1. The greatness of Lear……… is intellectual

– Explain.

  1. The practice of stage representation

reduces everything to controversy of elocution.

– comment.

  1. Notice him in his second cradle.  Explain the underlined words.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PART – B

Answer any Five of the following questions in short paragraphs of about 150-200 words each:                                                                                                                                                             5 x 8 = 40

  1. How does Goldsmith enlist our admiration for the village parson?
  2. Show how Gray describes that every human being yearns to the remembered.
  3. Cull out two of the characteristics of the Romantic movement in Tintern Abbey.
  4. What are the limitations of scenery and dress in theatrical representation?
  5. Write a short note on Johnson’s views on Milton’s Epics.
  6. Write a paragraph on Dryden’s estimate of Chaucer.
  7. Write briefly on Swifts method of satire in Gulliver’s Travels.
  8. Cull out four features of Comedy of manners in Congreve’s The Way of The World.

 

 

PART – C

Answer to be in about 350-400 words:                                                     2 x 20 = 40

 

  1. a) Write an essay on Wordsworth’s various stages of evolution towards nature.

(or)

  1. b) Comment on the range of characters that Sheridan presents in

The School for Scandal.

  1. a) Account for the popularity of

She stoops To conquer.

(or)

  1. b) Comment on the various themes in Jane Austen’s Pride and prejudice.

 

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 2953 – BIOGRAPHY & TRAVELOGUE

 

 

 

Date & Time: 26/04/2007 / 1:00 – 4:00      Dept. No.                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

 

SECTION A

 

Attempt any four of the following in about 100 to 150 words each  (5×4=20 marks)

  1. Travelogue as a historical document
  2. The importance of personal experiences in a travelogue
  3. Travelogues as cultural documents
  4. The different types of autobiography
  5. The challenges you experienced in writing a biographical sketch
  6. The importance of interpretation in writing a biography.

 

SECTION B

 

Attempt the following in about 200 to 300 words each                       (2×10=20 marks)

 

  1. What was the highlight of your trip to Kerala? Do you agree such trips are essential to promote peace and harmony in our country?
  2. What were your experiences on meeting the person on whom you were writing a biographical sketch?  Elaborate on some of the highpoints of that meeting.

 

SECTION C

 

Attempt the following in about 300 to 400 words each                     (3×20=60 marks)

 

  1.  What techniques of biography writing does Sylvia Nazar put to use to portray John Nash as “the most remarkable mathematician of the second half of the century?”

or

Do you think Malcolm Muggeridge is objective in his assessment of Mother Theresa?

 

  1. What aspects of his personality and career does the writer highlight in his autobiography “My Experiments with Truth.”

or

“The Long Road To Freedom by Nelson Mandela is the confession of a great freedom fighter. Examine the book as an auto-biography.

 

  1. What began as a population and development study became an authentic journey of unveiling India to the reader. Comment.

or

How does Naipaul’s interpretation help to understand the complexities of contemporary India?

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 3802 / 3807 – AMERICAN LITERATURE – II

 

 

 

Date & Time: 04/05/2007 / 9:00 – 12:00      Dept. No.                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

SECTION A

Answer the following in about 50 to 75 words each (10×2=20 marks)

  1. He is the only one who knows where it’s buried.

What is the mystery discussed here?

  1. I have never seen such corn.

Identify the speaker and the symbolism in the line.

  1. When he leads his black soldiers to death

He cannot bend his back.

What is the core issue implied in the above lines?

  1. They drove me out of the forest

They took me away from the jungles

Elaborate briefly on the speakers condition.

  1. It’s a mystery to me. I was out in back there.

And the rain was coming down.

In what situation does the speaker find himself?

  1. That money belongs to mama, Walter, and its for her to decide how she wants to use it.

Why does Walter want the money?

  1. I open and close car doors all day long. I drive a man in his limousine and I say, “yes, sir; no, sir; very good, sir; shall I take the drive sir?”

Identify the speaker’s emotion. What does it say of his situation?

  1. Let be be finale of seem

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream

Explain the significance of the imagery.

  1. The Cambridge ladies live in furnished souls

Comment on the tone.

  1. What is the significance of the plant struggling for life in A Raisin In The Sun?

 

SECTION B

Answer any five of the following in about b200 words (5×8=40 marks)

  1. Discuss A Farewell To Arms as a realist novel on the themes of love and  War.
  2. Critically analyse Death of a Salesman as a critique of American values.
  3. Write a critical appreciation of Langston Hughes’s poetry as a Protest poetry.
  4. Examine the question of Identity as depicted in Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man.
  1. Show how children seem to have a more tolerant world view than adults in To Kill a Mockingbird.
  2. Comment on the relationship between mother and daughter in ‘Night Mother.
  3. Discuss some of the major thematic concerns in beat poetry
  4. Comment on Wallace Stevens views on modern poetry.

 

SECTION C

Answer the following in about 400 words (2×20=40 marks)

  1. Critically examine Buried Child from a psychoanalytic perspective.

(or)

Discuss Robert Lowell as a confessional poet in the light of the poems

you have read.

  1. Write an essay on black motherhood in either A Raisin In The Sun or Beloved

 

 

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 2803 – 20th CENTURY POETRY (BRITISH & AMERICAN)

 

 

 

Date & Time : 17.04.2007/1.00-4.00   Dept. No.                                                                        Max. 100 Marks

 

 

PART – A

I. Interpret the following in 50 words each:                                                                        10 x 2 = 20

 

  1. Stilled legendary depth:

It was as deep as England.

 

  1. Courage was mine, and I had mystery,

Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery;

 

  1.  Listen! Do you not hear

Them?  the singing?

 

  1. Listen! Can you not hear the entrance of a new theme?

 

  1. He only says, “Good fences make good neighbours”.

 

  1. And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords of life.

 

  1. I should be glad of another death.

 

  1. The panderers and liars have violated and smutted it.

yet this reaching is alive yet

for lights and keepsakes.

 

  1. The morning backons

With water praying and call of seagull and rook

 

  1. O let not Time deceive you,

You cannot conquer Time.

 

PART – B

 

II. Write your answer in 200 words each for any FIVE of the following:                           5 x 8 = 40

 

  1. Comment on the philosophy of Robert Frost in ‘Mending Wall’.
  2. What makes ‘ Strange Meeting’ eerie and strange?
  3. How does C. Day Lewis bring out the music of England in ‘You that love England’?
  4. Why does Archibald MacLeish call science a saint?  Explain.
  5. How does Auden illustrate the contradictory purposes of Time and Love?
  6. Discuss “The people, yes” as the great affirmation of faith in democracy.
  7. Critically analyse the confessional element portrayed in Sylvia Plath’s “Death & Co”.
  8. How does Dylan Thomas present the embodiment of the past and the present?

 

PART – C                                                      4 x 10 = 40

 

III Answer any FOUR of the following in 300 words each:

 

  1. Critically evaluate the theme and content of The Waste Land.
  2. Attempt an ecopoetical evaluation of ‘A Unison’, ‘Pike’ and ‘To the Snake’.
  3. Consider any six major themes of British poetry with suitable examples.
  4. How does eliot present Life and Death as being one concept in his poem ‘Journey of the Magi’?
  5. Discuss the psychological overtone in ‘Snake’ by D.H. Lawrence.
  6. Attempt a study of Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath’s poetry from the point of view of the poet’s self and frustrations of the psyche.

 

 

 

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