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SUPPLEMENTARY SEMESTER EXAMINATION – JUN 2006

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION

                                                 EL 4801/EL 4808 – LITERARY CRITICISM

 

 

 

Date & Time : 28/06/2006/9.00 – 12.00        Dept. No.                                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

Part A.

Write short notes on five of the following key terms/concepts choosing not less than two from each section:                                                              (5×8=40 marks)

Section-1.

1. Definitions of Romanticism and Classicism
2. Eliot an concept of Tradition
3. “Close Reading” in New Criticism
4. Socialist Realism.

Section-2.

1. Pragmatic theories
2. Two motivating wishes of fantasizing
3. Limitations of structural analysis
4. ‘Objectivity’ in fiction.

Part-B.

 

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

9. a) The uniqueness of Structuralist literary criticism according to Barthes

Or

1. Attempt a critique of Derrida’s Deconstruction.

 

10. a) Write an essay oh the central pattern of Tragic and comic vision in
    Literature

Or

1. Cull out the features of Richards’ Theory of Meaning.

 

PART-C

III. Attempt a practical criticism of the following poem employing the critical theories and tools at your disposal. ( 20 marks)

THE PAINTER MUNCH

The painter caught the dumb mouth,

Fixed wide, in a man out walking

Down a road. One moment past,

Pleasantly, he was musing,

With the sun shining south

Behind him. Air and hill

Were drawn together

In blue and green paste

When the painted mouth is stilled .

Afflicted by knottier

Pigment, the eye, off-guard,

Suffers and goes mad,

In rigor mortis.

Shirley Lim

 

 

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