Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) 2007-2nd Year Post Graduate Diploma Journalism (Oriya) ASSIGNMENTS AND MODEL S M.AENGLISH – -2008 - Question Paper

3. elaborate the problems and issues in the construction of feminist canon of Indian English Writing?
4. How is the literary theory of decolonizing the mind put into practice? Mention the arguments used in this theory.
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PAPER 11 – AMERICAN NOVEL
Assignment No. 2
(Block five onwards)
To be submitted on or before 31-8-2008
Max. Marks: 30 Min. Marks: 12
Note: ans any 2 ques.
1. explain the transcendentalist movement in detail.
2. Critically examine the major themes in The Catcher in the Rye.
3. explain The Floating Opera as an episodic and reflective novel.
4. Comment on the cyclical structure of Momaday’s House Made of Dawn.
PAPER 12
A SURVEY COURSE IN 20TH CENTURY
(CANADIAN LITERATURE)
Assignment No. 2
(Block five onwards)
To be submitted on or before 31-8-2008
Max. Marks: 30 Min. Marks: 12
Note: ans any 2 ques.
1. Who are the main characters in the The English Patient? provide an account of their life together in the Italian Villa.
2. Do you agree that the immigrants lead a ‘Trishanku” like existence? explain with reference to the 2 stories you have studied?
3. Characterization in the Ecstasy of Rita Joe follows allegorical writing in its accent on white and black shades of characters. Comment.
4. How do both post modernization and post structuralism contribute to logics of disintegration? 9
MAULANA AZAD NATIONAL URDU UNIVERSITY
M.A. ENGLISH second YEAR
MODEL ques. PAPER
PAPER five (LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY)
Time: three hours Max. marks: 70
Min. marks: 28
Note: ans any 5 of the subsequent ques..
All ques. carry equal marks.
1. Examine the basic concepts of Indian Aesthetics.
2. Critically examine Aristotle’s theory of mimesis. How does it differ from Plato’s theory?
3. How does Shelley put forward imagination as a positive factor against the onslaught of rationality?
4. provide an estimate of the achievement of New Criticism.
5. What do “class society’ and ‘class ideas’ signify in Marxist criticism.
6. Analyse the components of Beauvoir’s thesis with reference to The 2nd Sex to indicate its strengths and limitations.
7. Attempt a deconstructive analysis of Waiting for Godot.
8. Write an essay on postcolonial theory with reference to stated and Spivak.
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MODEL ques. PAPER
PAPER six (AMERICAN LITERATURE)
Time: three hours Max. marks: 70

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