Exam Details
| Subject | literary criticism – ii | |
| Paper | ||
| Exam / Course | m.a. english | |
| Department | ||
| Organization | alagappa university | |
| Position | ||
| Exam Date | April, 2016 | |
| City, State | tamil nadu, karaikudi |
Question Paper
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2016
Fourth Semester
English
LITERARY CRITICISM II
(2012 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 2 20)
Answer the following questions in 1 or 2 sentences each.
1. Define cultural materialism.
2. What, according to Eliot, is the common factor between
religion and literature?
3. What, according to Jung, is the source of the poet's
creativeness?
4. What, according to Brooks, is the natural language of
poetry?
5. How many different phases of myth that Fyre mentions?
6. What, according to Genette, is translinguistics?
7. What, according to Showalter, are the two distinct
varieties of feminism?
8. Where does the unity of text lie, according to Barthes?
9. Whom does Abrams call as a deconstructive Angel?
10. What are the paradigms of culture?
Sub. Code
701401
RW-10811
2
hp-ap1
Part B 5 25)
Answer the following questions, choosing either or
11. What does Eliot say of the process of secularization?
Or
How does Williams view Marxism in interpreting
texts?
12. How does Jung distinguish between the artistic and
the visionary?
Or
What, according to Brooks, are the advantages of
paradox and irony?
13. Explain Frye's inductive method.
Or
What are Genette's remarks on the structural
character of language?
14. How does Showalter view woman as writer?
Or
What myth does Barther ask the readers to
overthrow?
15. How does Abrams view language?
Or
How does Culler trace the origin of cultural studies?
RW-10811
3
hp-ap1
Part C 10 30)
Answer any three of the following questions in about
800 words each.
16. How does Eliot bring together religion and literature?
17. Discuss Brooks's remarks on the distinctive features of
paradox.
18. How does Northrop Frye present criticism as science in
"The Archetypes of Literature"?
19. Describe Showalter's analysis of the three phases of
feminist criticism.
20. Do you agree with M.H. Abrams's opinion that
deconstruction presents an "abysmal vision of the textual
world of literature, philosophy and all other
achievements of mankind in the medium of language"?
Substantiate your answer.
Fourth Semester
English
LITERARY CRITICISM II
(2012 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 2 20)
Answer the following questions in 1 or 2 sentences each.
1. Define cultural materialism.
2. What, according to Eliot, is the common factor between
religion and literature?
3. What, according to Jung, is the source of the poet's
creativeness?
4. What, according to Brooks, is the natural language of
poetry?
5. How many different phases of myth that Fyre mentions?
6. What, according to Genette, is translinguistics?
7. What, according to Showalter, are the two distinct
varieties of feminism?
8. Where does the unity of text lie, according to Barthes?
9. Whom does Abrams call as a deconstructive Angel?
10. What are the paradigms of culture?
Sub. Code
701401
RW-10811
2
hp-ap1
Part B 5 25)
Answer the following questions, choosing either or
11. What does Eliot say of the process of secularization?
Or
How does Williams view Marxism in interpreting
texts?
12. How does Jung distinguish between the artistic and
the visionary?
Or
What, according to Brooks, are the advantages of
paradox and irony?
13. Explain Frye's inductive method.
Or
What are Genette's remarks on the structural
character of language?
14. How does Showalter view woman as writer?
Or
What myth does Barther ask the readers to
overthrow?
15. How does Abrams view language?
Or
How does Culler trace the origin of cultural studies?
RW-10811
3
hp-ap1
Part C 10 30)
Answer any three of the following questions in about
800 words each.
16. How does Eliot bring together religion and literature?
17. Discuss Brooks's remarks on the distinctive features of
paradox.
18. How does Northrop Frye present criticism as science in
"The Archetypes of Literature"?
19. Describe Showalter's analysis of the three phases of
feminist criticism.
20. Do you agree with M.H. Abrams's opinion that
deconstruction presents an "abysmal vision of the textual
world of literature, philosophy and all other
achievements of mankind in the medium of language"?
Substantiate your answer.
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