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Posted By: Chithra Member Level: Gold Posted Date: 25 May 2008
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2005 Mahatma Gandhi University B.A English Paper V-LITERARY THEORY AND APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE Question paper
B A DEGREE EXAMINATION, MARCH 2005
Faculty of Language and Literature in English
Part III -Group VIII (a)-English Language and Literature -Main
Paper V-LITERARY THEORY AND APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE
(Regular /Failed)
Time : Three Hours Maximum :80marks
I. Explain any four of the following in about 50 words each :-
1. Rasika.
2. Pratiba.
3. Vibhava.
4. Vakrokti.
5. Aucitya.
6. Sthayibhava.
(4*2=8)
II. Answer any eight of the following in about 50 words:-
1. Marxist criticism.
2. Reader-response criticism.
3. Semiotics and semiology.
4. Phenomenology.
5. Metaphor and Metonymy.
6. The implied reader.
7. Deconstruction.
8. Defamiliarization.
9. Gynocritics.
10. The Narrator and the Naratee
11. Myth.
12. Readerly and writerly texts.
(8*2=16)
III. Answer any four of the following in 50 words each:-
1. Nemesis.
2. A mock epic poem.
3. The sonnet form.
4. The three unities.
5. Blank verse.
6. Hamartia.
( 4*2=8)
IV. Answer any one of the following in about 200 words:-
1. Explain the different varieties of Vakrata according to Kuntala
2. Briefly explain the theory of Dhvani
(1*8=8)
V. Answer any one of the following in about 200 words
1. Write an essay on Russian Formalism or Feminist Criticism.
2. Attempt an evaluation of structuralist or post-structuralist theories.
(1*8=8)
VI. Write a critical appreciation of the following poem commenting on its Prosody, theme and stylistic features:-
BARS
If you want
A cage, my dear
You do not have
To travel far.
If you want to feel
Hemmed in, you’ll be hemmed in.
Look for scars.
Even for scars
You’ll be full of scars .
Even light can turn
In to a cage.
The cage.
The cage of light
has seven bars.
-Keki N. Dharuwalla.
(1*8=8)
VII. Write a critical appreciation of the following passage commenting on its theme and stylistic features.
It seems plausible that stress could contribute to development of cancer. Some people who statistical risk of the disease is low develop aggressive, untreatable tumours. And a few people whose risks are quite high –heavy smokers, for example –live in to their 90s and die in their sleep. Could the factor that the scales against the first group be an unhealthy response to stress?
The idea is not new. Galen Greek physician in the second century AD, observed that perpetually sad women were particularly sad women were particularly prone to cancer. Some then, many doctors have noted that a disprotionate number of cancer patients have histories of having shouldered emotional burdens.
But is the connection a matter of conventional wisdom (which is often wrong) or scientific fact ?In animals, at least, the links re real. Studies involving animals-mostly rats-have slowly built case for the link between stress and the progression of cancerous tumours. In one such study, rats exposed to tumour –promoting substances developed cancer at a much faster rate when subjected to the stress of random electrical shocks than rats that were spared the shock or given the means to control it.
(1*8=8)
VIII Write a critical appreciation of the following poem commenting on its theme and stylistic features:-
TO BE CHILD
Pieces of silk and happiness,
Biscuits of butter and tears,
Cakes that go dancing
And fly to the moon
Hidden born dreams
Corn with ears.
Smiles made of wickedness and chocolate
Laughter that rings through the air
This is the kingdom of children,
Oh how I wish I were there,
Faces all sticky with naughtiness,
Finely spun thread that is hair,
This is the kingdom of children,
Oh how I wish I were there,
-Nisha Miller.
(1*8=8)
VIII. Write a critical appreciation of the following commenting on its theme and stylistic features:-
What my mother found wanting in my father I could never discover. To all appearance there was no more devoted and loyal husband to be met with anywhere husband who made no demands on his wife, on the contrary was ready to answer any and every demand from her. In actual fact, he seriously weakened his splendid constitution and went very near ruining his worldly career for her sake, Yet she was always complaining of his conduct towards her. She seemed to be like the person who did not know what he wanted and was not happy because he did not have it. Occasionally she told us that when were grown up she would tell us why she was not happy and then we would understand. The obvious conviction and sincerity with which she said this made me feel very sad, and I wondered what the hidden tragedy of her life could be.
(1*8=8)
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