M.A-M.A English 1st Sem Paper - 1.4 : Contemporary Critical Theory(University of Pune, Pune-2013)
M.A. (Part - I) (Semester - I)
ENGLISH
Paper - 1.4 : Contemporary Critical Theory
(2008 Pattern)
[Max. Marks : 80
Time : 3 Hours]
Instructions to the candidates:
1) All questions are compulsory.
2) All questions carry equal marks.
Q1) Answer any two of the following:
Discuss the salient features of Neo-Classicism.
The stylistic keynote of Romanticism is intensity and its watchword is
‘Imagination’. Explain.
New Criticism advocated the idea that the text existed as a text on a
page, an object in itself. Explain.
Q2) Answer any two of the following:
a) Comment on the six elements of tragedy as illustrated by Aristotle.
b) How do you account for Johnson’s criticism of Milton’s ‘Lycidas’?
c) What ideas of Romanticism feature in Wordsworth’s ‘Preface to Lyrical
Ballads’?
Q3) Answer any two of the following:
‘Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from emotion’.
Discuss with reference to Eliot’s essay.
How does Eliot illustrate that poetry is an impersonal art?
Why does Richard/s argue that poets should not make scientific
statements?
P.T.O.
Q4) Answer any two of the following:
a) Why do Wimsatt and Beardsley reject biographical and social
backgrounds in the interpretation of literary works?
b) How do Wimsatt and Beardsley explain the concept of intentional fallacy?
c) Explain the importance of irony in poetry as illustrated by Brooks.
Q5) Answer any two of the following:
a)) How does Donne’s Death be not Proud’ illustrate irony as the principle
of structure?
b) Interpret the character of Othello in the light of Aristotle’s views on
character.
c) Explain Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’in the light of the views of Wimsatt
and Beardsley?
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