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Paper detail :
Paper: MA English Literature Semester IV

Time : 2hr 30 min
Marks: 70

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Books recommended :

Kapil Kapoor : Critical Theory. R.S. Pathak : Literary Theory.

Charusheel Singh : Literary Theory, Linear Configuration. Butcher (tr) : Aristotle’s Poetics.

Scott James : The Making of Literature.

David Daiches : Critical Approaches to English Literature.

H. Adams and L. Searle (ed.): Critical Theory since 1965 (Florida State University Press).

A. H. Gilbert : Literary Criticism Plato to Dryden.

T. Eagleton : Literary Theory : An Introduction (Black well, Oxford, 1983)







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M.A. (Previous) Examination, June 2008
(New Scheme- SIM)
English- Course-I
English Literature from Chaucer to Bunyan
Time:3 Hours Max. Marks: 90

SECTION - A
1. a) Examine how Puritanism affected the English society in the 16th century?
OR
b) Show how Chaucer gives us vivid portraits of his pilgrims in The Prologue. Illustrate by using any two examples.
2. Write a critical appreciation of Spenser’s central concerns in Faerie Queene- Book I.
3. What are the chief characteristics of metaphysical poetry? Discuss with reference to at least two poems of Donne.
4. Consider George Herbert as a devotional poet.
5. Analyse in detail Andrew Marvel’s ‘The Garden’.
6. Sketch the character of Satan in Paradise Lost- Book I.
7. Examine Milton’s ‘’Lycidas’’ as a pastoral Elegy.
SECTION – B

8. ‘’The Book of Job is a great work of art not inspite of but because of its religious concern’. Discuss.
9. Do you think that Bacon’s essays are ‘dispersed meditations’. Discuss.
10. Explain how ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress shows the way to the Eternal cit
SECTION – C

11. a) Examine Dr.Faustus as a medieval morality play turned into a renaissance tragedy.
OR
b) ‘’In Dr.Faustus the underlying conflict is between the Renaissance conception of knowledge as power and the Christian notion of forbidden knowledge and damnation’’. Elucidate.
b) Comment on Auden’s critique of ‘’The Unknown Citizen’’.
12. a) Do you think that Jonson in Volpone adheres to his concept of comedy that it should ‘spot with human follies, not with crimes?
OR
b) ‘’Gold is the new centre of the Volpone universe, around which all existence now circles and from which it must draw its life’’. – Discuss.

SECTION – A
1. a) Bring out the major preoccupations of Elizebethan theatre from the texts you
have studied.
OR
b) Critically examine Chaucer’s depiction of women characters with reference
to any two characters in The prologue.
2. Attempt a critical estimate of Spencer’s The Facrie Queen (Book I).
3. Comment on the theme and form of Donne’s “A valediction forbidding
Mourning” and “Death be not proud”.
4. Write a critical note on Herbert as a religious poet with reference to the poems
you have studied.
5. Attempt a critical analysis of Andrew Marvel’s “To His Coy Mistress”.
6. “Milton’s Satan appears as a Hero; but he is no hero” Examine the statement
with reference to Milton’s Paradise Lost (Book-I).
7. Consider Milton’s “Lycidas” as a pastoral elegy.

SECTION – B
8. Consider the Book of Job as an enquiry into the nature and mystery of suffering.
9. Comment on the stylistic features and morality advocated in Bacon’s essays.
10. “Piligrims’ Progress successfully blends religious and secular ideas”. Discuss.

SECTION – C
11. a) Consider Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus as a Renaissance play.
OR
b) Comment on the dramatic function of the comic scenes in Marlowe’s
Dr. Faustus.
12. a) Attempt a critical estimate of the structure of the play Volpone.
OR
b) Comment on Ben Jonson’s treatment of greed and lust in Volpone.

SECTION – A
1. a) Gratification is the major theme of The Way of the World. Comment.
OR
b) Examine Man-Woman relationship in The Way of the World.
2. a) Discuss The School for Scandal as a social satire.
OR
b) Consider The School for Scandal as a sentimental comedy.

SECTION – B
3. a) Examine Absalom and Achitophel as a political satire.
OR
b) Write a note on the characters of Shimei and Corah in Absalom and
Achitophel.
4. a) How does Alexander Pope bring out the theme of battle of the sexes in
The Rape of the Lock ?
OR
b) Examine The Rape of the Lock as a mock-heroic poem.
5. Gray’s Elegh evokes a melancholic picture of agrarian society. Discuss.

SECTION – C
6. a) “A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller”.
Examine this statement with reference to Preface to Shakespeare.
OR
b) “Shakespeare’s plays are neither tragedies nor comedies but compositions
exhibiting the real state of sublunary nature”. Discuss.
7. a) How does Steele discuss sorrow and death in ‘Recollection’ ?
OR
b) Examine spectator papers as a commentary on social manners.

SECTION – D
8. a) The success of The Vicar of Wakefield depends on the way Goldsmith handles
his narrator. Examine.
OR
b) The Vicar of Wakefield is a parody of sentimental fiction. Discuss.
9. a) Write a note on the narrative technique in Moll Flanders.
OR
b) How does Defoe’s Moll Flanders reveal the enormous vitality of Moll ?
10. a) Examine Tom Jones is a self conscious novel.
OR
b) Consider Tom Jones as a picaresque novel.
11. a) Show how Gulliver’s Travels Book IV is an expression of savage misanthropy.
OR
b) The Houyhnhnms represent an inadequate and inhuman rationalism in
Gulliver’s Travels Book IV. Discuss.

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