DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. (English)/B.A. (English) (Addl.) DEGREE
EXAMINATION, MAY 2016.
MODERN AND POST MODERN LITERATURE
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
PART A — × 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
1. Explain Yeats' "Second Coming".
2. Describe the journey of the Magi.
3. Give an account of Nora's family.
4. What does the waiting signify for Beckett?
5. Comment on Virginia Woolf's techniques in
Mrs. Dalloway.
6. Bring out the political background of Animal Farm.
7. Write short notes on Murray Leinster's Sidewise in Time.
8. Give an example of a world famous speech and narrate it
in your own words.
Sub. Code
32/108
DE-3282
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PART B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following questions.
9. Attempt a critical appraisal of seamus Heaney's "Death of
a Naturalist".
10. How far is W.H. Auden's unknown citizen relevant in the
modern world?
11. Account for the popularity of Ibsen's A Doll's House.
12. Examine the Absurd elements in Waiting for Godot.
13. Consider George Orwell's Animal farm as an allegory.
14. How does Salman Rustidie envision India in Midnight's
Children?
15. Comment on the world famous speech that has appealed
to you very much