MEG Dec 2005

MASTEB'S DEGBEE PROGRAMME INENGLISH

Term-End Examination

December,2OO5

MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA

Tlme : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note: Ansuer question number 1 (whch iscotnpllsory.), ond ony lout from the rcmainingquestlons. AII questions cafty equal morks.

l, Criticaliy comment on any tour of ihe folloMng passageswith reference to ihe coniext in not more thaD 150 words

4x5=20(i) Vladimir : Supqse t2re rcpented ?

ExLragon Repenred what ?

Vladimir : Oh . . . (He reflecis.) We wouldn t hav€ to go

into the details.

Frtragon r Our being bom ?

{iil Thomas . They krow and do noL know. what ir is Io

They know and do not know, that action in

suflering

And sulfering is action.

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(jiil Jimmg , I am not talkir€ abo\rt Webster. siupid. He s

all right though, in his way. A sort of femaie

Emiiy Bronle. He is the onig one of yout

frimds (to Alison) who's wodh tuppence,

anyv/dy. I am surprised you got on wiih

him.

(iv) Puck : Thou speak'* anshtl

I am thai meny wanderer of the night.

I jest to Oberon, and make him smile

When I a fai and beanJed horse begt-rile.

(v) Haml€t: I/Vhai b Hecuba io him or h€ to Hecubaihat he should weep for her ? What would

h€ do Had h€ the motive and the cue {orpassion Thai I hav€

2. Discuss the signiticance o{ the Mechanicdls khe characi€rs

o{ the iorwer order) in Shakespeare's A Midsummet

Nsht s Drcon (400 words)

OR

Aoalye the sfructure of Ben Jonson's The Alchenist.(400 wordsj.

3. Analyse Shakespearc't HomteL as a Revenge play-

(400 words)

OR

Critically comment on the theme o{ Jantasy versls r€ality

in John Synge's day, The Ployboy oJ the Westeln

Wo d. (400 words)

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4. Dscuss the significance of Synge s iitle, The Playboy olthe Westem World. (400 words) 20

OR

Would tou define Dr. Faustus as a Renajssance man ?Discuss. {400 words)

5. Jimmy Poter's anger in John Osbome's Look Back inAnger intersecis gender and class. Do yolr agree ? Civereasons in support oi your answeL i400 words) 20

OR

Bring out the significance of the Chorus in T.S. Diot'sMurdet in the Cathedral. (400 words)

6. Discuss Samuel Beckeft's Woifing /or Godof as an absurdplay. (400 words) 20

OR

Do gou ag?e thal Eliza In Bernard Shaw s Pygmoliontepresents the new woman ? (400 woro;]

7. Write short notes on an9 t@o ol the fo)lou/)r€ in not morethan 200 worG each I 2x10=20

(l) t-uckj's monologue in Beckett's Wditing for Godot

(ii) Female figures in Jonson's The Alchemist

(iii) Thomas Becket's fourth lempter :D Murder in theCothedrol

(ivl Clill L€wis in Look Bock in Anset

(vJ Ros€ncrantz and Cuildelnste'n in Harnlet

MEG-2 6,000

Time : 3 hours

Note : Answer any fi.'e questions. Al) questions corrg

eqwt marKs.

l- Through the moral viewpoint in Ton Jones, Fielding aims

at corectjng distortions in human behaviour. Do you

agr€e ? Discuss. 20

2. Do you think Jane Austen priv eges 'educatjDn , ov€r

nature as formaiive of a person's chaacter in Pide and

P/ejudice ? Explain with reasons. 20

3. ls there a contradiction behveen the Cathenne that loves

Heaihclifl and the Catherine thai rnarries Edgar ? Give

reasons and discuss. 20

4. Hoi! do you respond to the Pip - Estella relationship ?

lllustrate your anslrer wjtb examples from ihe text. 20

MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME TNENGLISH


December,2005

MEG-3 : BRITISH NOVEL

Itlaximum Marks , 100

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To what extent do you think is Dorothea a conventionaLVjctorian heroine ? Explain with examples.

Whai is the civilising work o{ the Whlte community

according to "Heaft o{ Darkneas" ? Explain

How doe$ Joyce establish a distanc€ betr€en himsel{ and

Stephen ? F:plain with illusiraiions.

What does Forster say about Islam through his use of the

mosque in A Pdssage to India ? E^plain.

Miss Brodie is an unconventional woman who also

symbolises Fascigm in the novel. Do you agree ? Dscuss.

MEG,3 6,000

MASTER'S DEGREE PROQRAMME INENGLISH


Decernbet. 2OOB

ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

Moximum Morks , 100

MEG.4 :

Nor€ : Ansoer gu€slion number 1 (which is

compulsoryl, and ony three lrom the remainingquestpns,

1. Write short notes on any t,oo of the followjrg. lllusirateyour ans1{)er with examples : 25

(0 Theori€s on the origin of language

(jj) The 1957 Model of T.G. Grammar

(iii) The three periods which went into the making of

Modem English

(iv) Free and bound morphemes

2. Desfiibe and classify the English vtrluels.

3. Mention briefly the processes of word formation in English.Discuss Clipbing' as a morphological device gi\rng at l€asifive exampies

25

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4.

6 .

Whai tests would you us€ lor the id€ntif'cation of a

syntactic constituent ?

What do you understand by bilinguation ? D€scribe the

diflerenc€s b€tween code'mixing, and code_-switching withexamples from English and your native language.

What do you und€rstand by ihe ierm 'lndianizauon' ol

English ? What are ihe deuces used for this process ?

Aitempt a stylistic analysis of the follov,ing poem focusingspecilically on imagery, rhvme, alliteralion and repeiiiion.

Comment on any other leatures that you may ihink

signilicanr

The splendor falls on castle walls

And .nowv 'ummits old in story.

The long Lighl shakes across the lakes,

And th€ wild cataract leaps in glor!.

Blow. bugte, btow, set the !-!ild echoes flying,

Blow, buglei an$rrer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

O. hark, O hear I how rhrn and clear,

And thinner, clearer, farther going I

O, swe€t and far lrom clilf and scar

The horns oI Elfland laindy blowing !

Blow, let us h€ar the purple glens r€plying,

Blow, buglej answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

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O love, they die in yon rich sky,

They faint on hill or field or riverj

Our echoes roll from sotrl to soul,

And grow _for ever and for ever.

Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,

And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.

6,000

MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME INENGIISH


December,2OO5

MEG.S :

Time : 3 hours

LITERARY CRITICISM ANDTHEORY

Maximum Marks : 100

Note I Questionques' lons

no. I is compllsory. Ansuer Jioein all. All questions corry equal marks.

l. Write short not€s ol about 250 words on any lqur of thefollowing: 4xS=20

(a) Classicism

ib) Definjtion of literary criticjsm

(c) Feminism

{d) Eliot's view of tradition

(e) 'Alan1kara'

(f) Reader - response theory

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2. Why does Plato declare the role ol the poet as

subversive ? Explain.

What are Wordsworth's views on poetic diction ?

Explain Elloi's view of impersonallty How does he link lt

up with ihe poet ?

Discuss the relationship between base and superstructure in

Mardst theory.

Bring out the meaning of gynocriticism'. How does

Showalter use it in her criiicism ?

The reader writes,/rewrites the text in every act of

reading/re-reading it. Comment.

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203.

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8. "The wisdom of th€ iext is self-d€structiv€." Elaborate in

the light ol deconstruction. 20

MEG.5 5,000

MASTER'S DEGBEE PROGRAMME INENGLISH

Term-End Examlnation

Deeember, 2005

MEG-6 : AMERTCAN LITERATURE

Time: 3 hours Moximum Marks : 100

Note : Attehpt fiue questions in alt. euestion nuhber 1is compulsory.

l- Write shoft notes on any ,rro of the following

(a) Liierary Style of the Puritans

(b) The Harjem RenaissaDce

(c) Open'endedn€ss in The Scarlet Lerter

(d] John Dickinson's "Letiers from aPennsyJvania '

Write a critical note on "The Emperor of lcecream".

Discuss Pecola Breedlove as the central character ol iheaovd The Bluest E^e.

2.

3 .

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Famrer in

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4. Examine the salient {eaiur€s of a well-made p)ay and aproblem play.

Compare and contrasi Hemingway and Faulkner as short

Discuss ihe salient charactedstics of the poehy of

Emily Dickinson, jllusirating them from the poems you

E)€mine the therne and technique o{ "A Clean Well

Lighted Place".

6 .

20

208. Examine The Hairy Ape as a Eagi-cornedy.

MEG 6 4,000

MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME INENGLISH


Dec.enftet, 2OOS

MEG.7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LTTERATURE

Time : 3 hourc Mafimum Marks 100

Note : Answer all questions. Atl questions carry equal

l. Explain with relerehce to context any lont oI lhefollowjng in about 150 worcts each : 4xS=20(i) Which human eye may never more behold;

And )et the gr€rdon of my labour be,My fallen country ! One kind wish for thee !

(ii) This is the soul oI man. Body and brain

Hrmgry for earth our heavenly flight detain.

(iii) And her withered. brave voice croons its paean ofprarse,

Be the gay world kind or unkind;'' La ilaho ill o1-AI loh,

Lo ilohd il1d1.A1lc,h,

Muham n od. ar R asul. Altah"

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You see ? Jt voices my joy5, my longings, my

Hopes, and it is us€lul to me as cawing

Is to the crows or roaring to the lions

The ne\^r poets still quoted

ih€ old po€ts, but no one spoke

of the pt€gnant woman

drowned with Perhaps t\uins in her,

kiclimg at blank walls

ev€n belore birth.

Yo,rcome our in lhe sun and light a char$inar

chjldren play on the back of ihe twenty foot

(vii) I can smell violence in the air

like the lash ol coming rain -

mass baireds driJting grey across the rnoon'

2. How ate S'*nmi Vivekananda's addresses to the Parliam€nt

of Religions relevani to us todav ? (Answer in 400 450

worusr 20

on"From Heaoen loke is a good conventlonal travelogue "

Discuss. (Answer in 400 - 450 words)

(iv)

(vil

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3. Does MLrlk Raj Anand's Untouchoble provid€ a viable

solution to the emdjcation of untouchability ? Substaniiategour answer with references to the texl

{Answer ln 450 - 500 words)

OR

What ate the main features of RaJ:a Rao's narrativ€terhnique jn Kdnthopuro ? (Answer in 450 - 500 words)

4. Discuss the personaliiies of Bim and Tara as depict€dihrough theit relationship in Anita Desai's Cleor Light oJDny. (Answer in 450 - 500 riords) 20

OR

Discuss th€ theme of Arun Joshi's story, "The OnlyAmerican from Our Village". (Answ€r in 450 - 500 la/ords)

5. What is the signi{icance of ihe iheme of History and the

Individual in Rushdie s Midnight's Children ?

{Answer in 450 - 500 words) 20

OR

Discuss the importanc€ of th€ family in Dattani's Tdro.

{Arswer in 450 - 500 words)

20

MEG.7 4,000

MASTEB'S DEGBEE PROGBi{MME tNENGUSH


December, 2005

MEG-8 : NEW LITERATURES lN ENGLISH

Tlme : 3 hours Maxtmum Morks : 100

Note t Answer qll guestions. All quesiions corry equolmarks. Ansaer each question in 400 wotds.

1. Dscuss the relationship beiween liieralure and social

commilment wjtb special reletence to the texts in your

Trace the constructionliierature.

20

OR

ol dtional ideniity in Ausiralian

2. A Crcin ol Wheat is a novel about Kenya's struggle forfr€edom. Discuss. 20

OR

How is Soyinka's A Donce of the Forests a departurefrom tladitions of Western drama ?

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3. Wnte a critical not€ on Sho/thjl Adventure in Naipaul'sA House tor Mr Bisrros. 20

OR

Lenny an eight year old polio afflicted child belonsing to

a Parsi family is ihe narrator ol lce"Condg Mdn. Discussthe implicaiion5 of Sidhwa's choice of Lenny as narrator.

4, Analgze the ways in which Walcott bnngs togetherTrinidadian and Western sat're in "The Spoiler's Retr.un". 20

OR

\i/hat do you understand by Brathwaite's'video sty)e' ?

5bx19 it in the light of any three poems trom yow course.

5. Discrrss The Stone Ange! as a novel of middle-ciassaspirtions. 20

OR

The mandala motif ln The Sohd Mandalo is a reflection

on the diasporic Australian identity. Comment.

MEG-8 4,000

MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME INENGUSH


December, 2OOS

MEG-g : AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE

Titne : 3 hours Moximum Morks : 100

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3.

Nole t Ansv)er any fioe questians. All questions ca y

equal fiarks.

What r,rere the reasons behind ibe emergence ol women'spoeiry in nineteenth c€nturg Australja ?

ftiie a note on lhe stereogplcal gender differences that

have be€n depicted ihrough the characters in The Chosen

Vessel.

4. Lookins at the poems of Kenneth Slessor and R.D.Fitzgemld, would you agree that Australia as a countryshaped the sensibilities o{ its writers and poets ? 20

1. "The topography shaped the history and literature of whatcame to be knolL,n as Ausiralia." Dscuss. 20

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Do you find a religious steak in Voss ? If yes, whal sori of

relEious sentimmt does Whjte €xpress through ihe novel ?

Write an account of the $pecific socio-cultural issues that

shaped AustElia and Australian poeh, from the 1970s to

ihe preseni day.

ls Remembering Bobylon an investigalion oI the probl€m

of exrle ? Discuss.

Does humour have a role to play in The Remoualists ?

Discuss.

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