LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY (PAPER VI)

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1 ORIENTATIONS FOR THEDIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION Jain Vishva Bharati Institute, Ladnun M.A. (ENGLISH) LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY (PAPER VI) ASSIGNMENT OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS Note : Questions 1 to 15 carry 1 mark each. Answer any 10 questions. 1. Who wrote the famous poetry Impersonal Theory? (a) T.S Eliot (b) William Blake (c) Karl Marx 2. Which famous French writer invented Gyp? (a) Vincenzo Carducci (b) Henri Lavedan (c) Nicolas Malebranche 3. In which year William Wordsworth wrote his Preface to Lyrical Ballads? (a) 1817 (b) 1816 (c) Who wrote the famous poem Kubla Khan? (a) S.T. Cloridge (b) John Keats (c) Willam Wordsworth 5. In which year the famous poet P.B. Shelley died? (a) 1832 (b) 1852 (c) In which year the Principles of Literary Criticism was published? (a) 1934 (b) 1924 (c) Who wrote the famous eassy named Criticism Inc? (a) John Crowe Ransom (b) John Keats (c) Allen Tare 8. Who wrote the famous poem An Introduction? (a) Virgina Woolf (b) Kamala Das (c) Frank Swinnerton 9. Who wrote the famous The Second Sex? (a) John Keats (b) William Blake (c) Simone De Beavoir 10. Who wrote the famous poem The Canonization? (a) John Donne (b) John Keats (c) P.B. Sheley 11. In which year English became the subject of study in England? (a) 1829 (b) 1834 (c) Who wrote the famous essay The Deconstructive Angel? (a) Paul de Man (b) M.H. Abrams (c) Walter Benn 13. In which year the famous writer Frank Raymond Leavis was born? (a) 1855 (b) 1895 (c) 1874 (10 Marks)

2 2/ ASSIGNMENT 14. In which year the famous Glorious Revolution was published? (a) 1649 (b) 1688 (c) Who wrote the famous essay From Work to Text? (a) Barthes (b) Geoffrey Thurley (c) William Wordsworth Note : Question 1 to 5 carry 6 marks each. SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (30 Marks) 1. Do you believe that theory helps us understanding the literature better? What is the ideological implicating of philosophers have so far interpreted the world. The point, however is to change it? 2. Comment on Richard s Theory of State. Comment on Wimsatt as a theoretical spokesman of New Critics. On what ground does he defend them? 3. Write a note on Marxist critique of ideology. What kind of relation between literature and power is put forward by Stephen Greenblatt? 4. Explain the concept of a structure and discuss the notion of a stable center. Use An Introduction to discuss the problems faced by feminist theories. 5. Examine how Waiting For Godot questions the meaninglessness of life. Write a critical commentary on Eliot s essay, The Metaphysical Poets. LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS Note : Question 1 to 3 carry 20 marks each. (60 Marks) 1. Explain the rise of new historicism. Also explain its cultural critique. How does the question of ideology affect our reading of Arnold s or Eliot s criticism? 2. Briefly sum up Freud s ideas about the interpretation of dreams. Marxism pin points the role of human beings in shaping their society. How does this idea influence the approach of a literary writer in 20th century? 3. From what you have read so far, criticism or theory as you would have it has always exicted. What do you think is the reason behind the whole debate of metacriticism? How has subjectivity been affected by developments in literary theory in the last three to four decades?

3 M.A. (ENGLISH) AMERICAN LITERATURE (PAPER VII) ASSIGNMENT OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS Note : Questions 1 to 15 carry 1 mark each. Answer any 10 questions. 1. Who are the first settlers from Europe in the American continent? (a) French (b) Englishmen (c) Anglo Indians (10 Marks) 2. Who wrote the famous book The Scarlet Letter? (a) Nathaniel Hawthorne (b) Issac Newton (c) John Calvin 3. In which year the famous writer Mark Twain get married? (a) 1670 (b) 1870 (c) Who is known to be the greatest poet of colonial America? (a) Anne Bradstreet (b) Edward Taylor (c) Walt Whitman 5. Who wrote the famous poem Song of Myself? (a) Walt William (b) Issac Newton (c) T.S. Eliot 6. In which year Robert Frost wrote his famous poem Mountain Interval? (a) 1916 (b) 1946 (c) In which year the famous writer Wallace Stevens bags the Bollingen Prize? (a) 1930 (b) 1917 (c) Which writer wrote the famous story Our Times? (a) Hemingway (b) Ezra Pound (c) William Faulkner 9. Who wrote the famous play The Hairy Ape? (a) Eugene Glandstone O Neill (b) Edward Taylor (c) Robert Taylor 10. Who wrote the famous novel Sula in the year 1973? (a) Walt William (b) Toni Morison (c) Edward Taylor 11. When Roger William arrived in Boston to be minister? (a) 1631 (b) 1820 (c) How many parts does famous novel Huckleberry Finn have? (a) Three (b) Five (c) Two

4 2/ ASSIGNMENTT 13. In which year the famous novel Leaves of Grass was published? (a) 1870 (b) 1820 (c) In which famous poem William Carlos William revealed about Jersey? (a) Sour Grapes (b) White Mule (c) The Town of the Paterson 15. From which famous city the American dramatist Arthur Miller gain his early studies? (a) Jersey (b) Washington (c) New York City SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS Note : Questions 1 to 5 carry 6 marks each. (30 Marks) 1. Write a brief note on Transcendentalism. What does the wall represent to Frost in Mending Wall? 2. Why did Emily Dickinson live such a secluded life? Bring out the difference between the language used by King and the duke. 3. Discuss the use of the excerpts from the primer in The Bluest Eye. Can you relate these attitudes to The Bluest Eye? 4. Compare and contrast Hemingway and Faulkner as short story writers. Attempt a character sketch of Huck and Jim. 5. What form does Pound choose in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley? Write a note on mistress Hibbins the Witch-lady. LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS Note : Questions 1 to 3 carry 20 marks each. (60 Marks) 1. Describe and discuss the material circumstances, which made the American Enlightenment possible. Emily Dickinson s poetry is that of a rebel. Discuss with reference to Discuss briefly the growth and development of American Drama in the 20th century. What form does Pound choose in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley? 3. Discuss Arthur Miller s Death of Salesman as a tragedy of American values. Dramatic convergence, rather than divergence in O Neill and Miller is significant. Discuss.

5 ORIENTATIONS FOR THE STUDY OF POETRY AND THE MEDIEVAL POET CHAUCER 1 M.A. (ENGLISH) INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE (PAPER VIII) ASSIGNMENT OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS Note : Questions 1 to 15 carry 1 mark each. Answer any 10 questions. 1. Who is the author of From Heaven Lake. (a) Amitav Ghosh (b) Mahatma Gandhi (c) Vikram Seth 2. Who wrote Hind Swaraj? (a) Vikram Seth (b) Jawahar Lal Nehru (c) Mahatma Gandhi 3. In which year Kanthapura was first published? (a) 1928 (b) 1938 (c) In which year the famous novel, Cry the Peacock was written? (a) 1963 (b) 1969 (c) 1975 (10 Marks) 5. In which year Anita Desai won the Sahitya Akademi Award? (a) 1978 (b) 1975 (c) In which year Salman Rushdie bags the Booker Prize for his famous novel, Midnight s Children? (a) 1975 (b) 1981 (c) Who wrote the famous novel, The Satanic Verses? (a) Salman Rushdie (b) Vikram Seth (c) Anita Desai 8. When was Astrologer s day first published? (a) 1974 (b) 1947 (c) In which year the famous writer Toru Dutt was born? (a) 1856 (b) 1840 (c) Who wrote a famous Novel, An Introduction? (a) Vikram Seth (b) Kamala Das (c) Salman Rushdie 11. In which year the famous book The Hindu View of Life is written? (a) 1936 (b) 1926 (c) Who was the first women novelist in Indian English Literature? (a) Raja Lakshmi Debi (b) Mahadevi Verma (c) Toru Dutt 13. Who wrote the famous novel Clear Light of Day? (a) Anita Desai (b) Mahadevi Verma (c) Vikram Seth

6 2/ ASSIGNMENT 14. Who is the first Indian Playwrighter? (a) Krishan Mohan Bannerji (b) Pratap Sharma (c) C.V. Desai 15. Which famous playwriter is the brother of Sarojini Naidu? (a) Bharati Sarabhai (b) T.P. Kailasan (c) Harindranath Chattopadhyay SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS Note : Questions 1 to 5 carry 6 marks each. (30 Marks) 1. Briefly explain the Gandhi s views on untouchability. Raja is a pivotal character in the happenings of Clear Light of Day. Discuss. 2. Why does Desai consider Clear Light of Day as her most auto-biographical novel? Music plays an important role in Clear Light of Day. Comment. 3. What is the significance of Saleem s adoption of Parvati-the-witch s son? Bring out the different qualities of the astrologer in An Astrologer s Day. 4. What is the theme of the poem The Harp of India? Do you agree that Gajar Halwa offers a scathing comment on our social inequalities? 5. Write short note on the post-independence Indian English Drama. What do you learn about Koki s grandmother in An Island of Trees? Note : Questions 1 to 3 carry 20 marks each. LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS (60 Marks) 1. Explain in detail about the women novelists and their contribution to Indian English Fiction. What did the pre-independence Indian English playwrights write about? Is there a discernible pattern in the writing? 2. Discuss the impact of Gandhi s personality and his thought on the theme of Kanthapura. Give the critical appreciation of Love Poem for a Wife, and write a short note on the love-hate relationship portrayed in the poem. 3. What are the picturesque narration in poem Sita? And explain the Sita s banishment figures in the Uttararamcharitmanas. Critically comment on the roles of Mira-Masi, Bakul and Dr. Biswas.

7 ORIENTATIONS FOR THE STUDY OF POETRY AND THE MEDIEVAL POET CHAUCER / 1 M.A. (ENGLISH) NEW LITERATURE IN ENGLISH (PAPER IX) ASSIGNMENT OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS Note : Questions 1 to 15 carry 1 mark each. Answer any 10 questions. 1. The Braithwaite s Wings of a Dove talks about which society? (a) Australian Society (b) Jamacian Society (c) Dutch Society 2. When did Kenya get independence? (a) 1975 (b) 1963 (c) What is a Creole? (a) Latin Language (b) European Language (c) Spanish Language 4. When was East Africa Protectorate claimed? (a) 1895 (b) 1874 (c) When was the Imperial British East African company founded? (a) 1888 (b) 1874 (c) Who is the narrator in the Ice-Candy-Man? (a) Gira (b) Lenny (c) Sharbat Khan 7. In which year Khuswant Singh wrote the famous Train to Pakistan? (a) 1954 (b) 1956 (c) In which year Salman Rushdie wrote Midnight s Children? (a) 1975 (b) 1987 (c) 1980 (10 Marks) 9. In which year the terrotories under the British rule became together as The West Indian Federation? (a) 1972 (b) 1982 (c) In which year the first Callypso competition was held? (a) 1917 (b) 1914 (c) Who wrote the New English Literature: Cultural Nationalism in a Changing World? (a) G.V. Davis (b) Bruce King (c) M.T. Bindella 12. In which year the National Policy of Education came? (a) 1971 (b) 1975 (c) Which famous book labelled as the most revolting book ever written in Canada? (a) Beautiful Losers (b) Life in the Clearings (c) Canadian Crusoes

8 2/ ASSIGNMENT 14. Which novel was supposed to be the First English Novel in Africa? (a) A Grain of Wheat (b) The Palm Wine Drinkard (c) Taste of Death 15. It was in 1830 s that unskilled labourers from India started migrating to work in plantations in: (a) Mauritius (b) The Caribbean Islands (c) Fiji SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS Note: Question 1 to 5 carry 6 marks each. 1. Write a note on the decades of the critics in the Caribbean Literature. Write a brief note on the Parsi identity forming. (30 Marks) 2. Briefly describe the role of Methophor in literature. Language is a marker of identity. Comment on the use of notion language as constitutive of the process of indigenous Caribbean identity. 3. Explain some essential issues of A Dance of the Forests. Write a brief note on Soyinka s life and work during the sixties. 4. Why The Stone Angel is termed as A Novel of Awakening? Write a brief note on Parsis problem of alienation. 5. Why Laurence does not believe in parochial writing? Write a brief note on the Zoroastrian ethics. LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS Note: Question 1 to 3 carry 20 marks each. (60 Marks) 1. Write a few words on the non-verbal techniques employed by Soyinka in A Dance of the Forests. Write a brief note on the language employed by Soyinka in A Dance of the Forests. 2. Explain in detail that The decade of 1950 is the decade of the West Indian Novel. Why do recent developments in African fiction show a trend towards writing a more radical political novel? 3. Write a detailed note on Canadian Native Writing. What is the Margaret Launches contribution to Candian Novel? What are the four major historical moments that have helped to create a hybrid Caribbean culture?

9 ORIENTATIONS FOR THE STUDY OF POETRY AND THE MEDIEVAL POET CHAUCER / 1 M.A. (ENGLISH) ENGLISH STUDIES IN INDIA (PAPER X) ASSIGNMENT OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS Note : Questions 1 to 15 carry 1 mark each. Answer any 10 questions. (10 Marks) 1. Which phase brought out the inefficiency of a foreign language? (a) Third Phase ( ) (b) Fourth Phase ( ) (c) First Phase ( ) 2. Who wrote the famous book A Defence of Hindu Theism? (a) Swami Vivekanand (b) Raja Rammohan Roy (c) Sarojni Naidu 3. Which writer wrote the famous poem Vision of the Past? (a) Michael Madhusudan Dutt (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Bharatchandra Roy 4. Who is the main character in the famous novel Rajmohan s Wife? (a) Rajmohan (b) Matangani (c) Kanak 5. Who said that English is today studied because of its commercial and so called political values? (a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Jawaharlal Nehru 6. Who wrote the famous essay English in the Literate Society? (a) Gayatri Chakravorty (b) Gauri Vishwanathan (c) Rajeshwari Sunder Rajan 7. Which writer wrote the famous essay The Rise of English? (a) Terry Eagleton (b) F.R. Leavis (c) Bergonzi 8. Who wrote the famous novel In the American Grain? (a) William Carlos (b) J. Hillis Miller (c) Widdowson 9. In which year term Dalit appears the very first time? (a) 1958 (b) 1930 (c) Who wrote the famous essay Decolonizing the Indian Mind? (a) E.M. Forster (b) Namvar Singh (c) Edward Taylor 11. Which year was the official date of the introduction of teaching of English at all levels? (a) 1910 (b) 1835 (c) Which year known as the Mutiny Year for the East India Company? (a) 1820 (b) 1857 (c) In which city of India Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was born? (a) Hugli (b) Kanthapura (c) Calcutta

10 2/ ASSIGNMENT 14. Who is known as The offspring of the provincial petty-bourgeoisie? (a) F.R. Leavis (b) Widdowson (c) Conard 15. In which year ientalism was first published? (a) 1995 (b) 1983 (c) 1978 Note : Questions 1 to 5 carry 6 marks each. SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS 1. Discuss the various stages of TELI. Write a critical note on Tagore s role as a writer in the early 20th century in Indian context. (30 Marks) 2. Give a life sketch of Toru Dutt. Discuss the various aspects pertaining to debate over the English language in India after Independence. 3. Critically evaluate the role and functions of the English teacher in India. Give a brief account of Toru Dutt s literary output in English. 4. Write in brief the factors that have led to canon-formation. What are the new developments on the educational scene and how there was the rise of new social forces? 5. What do you think is the relationship between literature and social forces? What were Bankim s views on the reformist movements of his time? Note : Questions 1 to 3 carry 20 marks each. LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS (60 Marks) 1. What role does the choice of language play in the writing of a novel, particularly when one of the available languages enjoys social power? What should be our approach towards English in the post-independence context? Explain. 2. Dalit literature is a revolutionary movement that looks at social transformation. Examine this statement. What is the relation between English literature and Englishness? 3. Why does Ahmad consider it impossible to construct Third World Literature as a theoretical category? What are the Ahmad s arguments aging the Third World s Theory? Discuss the objectives of English studies in India before and after independence.