DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2017.
LITERARY CRITICISM
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — x 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
1. Who, according to Aristotle, are unfit to be tragic heroes?
2. What are the types of poetry according to Sidney?
3. How does Eliot attack the romantic concept of poetry?
4. Write a note on Poe's idea about the plot of the poem.
5. What is the relationship between Freud and Literature
according to Lionel Trilling?
6. What are the main concepts and principles of the theory
of literary influence expounded in Harold Bloom's
writings?
7. What does Roland Barther want to convey with Criticism
as language?
8. Write a summary of Mark Schorer's 'Technique as
Discovery'.
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SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following.
9. Examine Aristotle's views on arts.
10. What does William Wordsworth argue in his 'Preface to
Lyrical Ballads'?
11. Write an essay on Arnold's survey of English poetry.
12. Discuss Eliot's views on the relationship between
tradition and individual talent.
13. What are the principles of composition which, according
to poe went into the making of this poem 'The Raven'?
14. What does Derrida say about structure, sign and play in
the Discourse of the Human Sciences?
15. Write a critical summary of Elaine Showalter's 'Towards
a Feminist Poetics'.