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
Term-End Examination
December,2005
MEG-3 : BRITISH NOVEL
Itlaximum Marks , 100
MEG.3 P,T.O
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9.
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
Term-End Examination
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
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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
Term-End Examination
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 .
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208. Examine The Hairy Ape as a Eagi-cornedy.
MEG 6 4,000
MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME INENGLISH
Term-End Examination
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
Term-End Examination
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
Term-End Examination
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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