Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU) 2007 M.Phil English BROAD AREA B : AMERICAN LITERATURE - - Question Paper

M.PHIL. ENGLISH DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2007
Paper-II & III - BROAD AREA B : AMERICAN LITERATURE

Time : 3 hours Maximum : 100 marks
ans any 5 ques.
All ques. carry equal marks

1. Consider Robert Frost as a Pastoral Poet, discuss with special reference to the Poems you have learn.

2. Examine Arthur Miller’s All my Sons as an experimental peace of work and a typical tragedy of 20th Century.

3. Write an essay on The Glass Managerie as a ‘subtle domestic drama’.

4. explain the features of romanticism manifest in the American literature of the
nineteenth century.

5. Comment on migratory issue and obduracy of affluent royalists in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.

6. explain the theme of seriousness, and emotional attitude in Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story.

7. discuss the mysterious relationship ranging from memory and experience in Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter.

8. Comment on the depiction of ‘fall’, realisation of sin and evil theme of innocence and corruption in William Faulkuer’s The Sound and the Fury

9. Love theme is Saul Bellow’s Herzog as the interplay ranging from man’s identity and his completion in others. explain.

10. Comment on the ques. of identity faced by the Negro hero of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.

Earning:   Approval pending.