DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2016.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND TRANSLATION
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.
1. Define National Literature and World Literature.
2. What is the definition and scope of the term
"Comparative Literature"?
3. Write a note on genre studies.
4. What is periodisation?
5. What is called a theory of reception in Comparative
Literature?
6. Define Epoch, period and generation.
7. Write a note on literature, music and dance.
8. Differentiate adaptation and abridgement.
Sub. Code
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DE-3478
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Wk 16
SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. Define three segments of Comparative Literature.
10. Discuss how the french, the American and the Russian
schools of comparative literature differ from one another.
11. Write an essay on different genres in world literature.
12. Analyse the difference between influence and imitation.
13. Write an essay on thermatology.
14. Analyse the Salient features in translation studies.
15. Examine the inter relationship between literature and
other disciplines.