Annamalai University 2008-2nd Year M.A English " 640 PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM " ( - IX ) ( ) 5399 - Question Paper
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13. (a) Evaluate Barthis claim that the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the author.
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(B) How far is Wordsworths Preface to the Lyrical Ballads an explication of his literary theories.
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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, 2008
(ENGLISH)
(SECOND YEAR)
( PAPER - IX )
640. PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM
(Including Lateral Entry )
December ] [ Time : 3 Hours
Maximum : 100 Marks
Answer any FIVE questions.
ALL questions carry equal marks.
SECTION - A (5 x 8 = 40)
1. (a) Neoclassicism.
(b) Impressionism.
2. (a) Lyric.
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3. |
(a) |
Renaissance. |
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(b) |
Satire. | |
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4. |
(a) |
Discourse. |
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(b) |
Sonnet. | |
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5. |
(a) |
Imagery. |
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(b) |
Stream of consciousness. | |
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6. |
(a) |
Farce. |
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(b) |
Semiotics. | |
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7. |
(a) |
Feminist criticism. |
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(b) |
Objective correlative. | |
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8. |
(a) |
Anachronism. |
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(b) |
Oxymoron. |
SECTION - B (3 x 20 = 60)
Answer any THREE of the following questions. ALL questions carry equal marks.
9. (a) What, according to Aristotle, are the features of tragedy.
(OR)
(b) How does Samuel Johnson evaluate Miltons poetry ?
10. (a) Analyse Schorers observations on the
art of writing in Technique as Discovery.
(OR)
(b) How does Trilling expand on the meaning of a literary idea ?
11. (a) How does Frye categorise archetypes of
literature ?
(OR)
(b) What does Booth mean by telling and showing ?
12. (a) Make a critical study of Blooms terms
anxiety of influence and poetic incarnation.
(OR)
(b) Discuss Derridas deconstructive criticism which shows that any text inevitably undermines its own claim to a determinate meaning.
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