DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2016.
LITERARY CRITICISM
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following questions.
1. What does Aristotle address in his poetics?
2. What is the value and purpose of poetry in Sidney's
An Apology for Poetry?
3. What is T.S. Elot's concept of "tradition and individual
talent" as put forth in his essay "Tradition and Individual
Talent"?
4. What are Poe's ideas on the composition of 'The Raven'?
5. What is Carl Jung's theory of the shadow?
6. What is the relationship between Freud and literature
according to Trilling?
7. Comment on the main idea presented in Harold Bloom's
"The Breathing of Form".
8. How can technique be applied to the subject matter
according to mark schorer?
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SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. Write an essay on Aristotle's different kinds of poetry and
its essential quality.
10. Describe Wordsworth's theory of poetry as explained in
the Preface to Lyrical Ballads.
11. "We should conceive of poetry worthily and more highly
than if has been the custom to conceive of it" Mathew
Arnold. What does Arnold conceive to be the function of
poetry?
12. Explain the main concept of Sri Aurobindo's The word
and the Spirit.
13. Write an essay on Jung's psychology of the unconscious.
14. What is the definition of the idea of "play" as developed
by Jacques Derride?
15. Write an essay on the post colonial and the ecological
views of literature.