M.A-M.A English 2nd Year Paper –V: TWENTIETH CENTURY PROSE AND FICTION (Acharya Nagarjuna University - Center for Distance Education, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh-2013)

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M.A. (Final) DEGREE EXAMINATION, DEC. - 2013
Second Year
English
Paper –V: TWENTIETH CENTURY PROSE AND FICTION

Time : 03 Hours                                                                                 Maximum Marks : 80 

Questions in Unit –I is compulsory.
Answer any TWO questions from Unit –II and TWO questions from Unit –III.
All questions carry equal marks.

UNIT– I

1) Annotate any Four of the following:
a) Coleridge was perhaps the greatest of English critics and in a sense the
last.
b) Not only all knowledge, but all feeling, is in perception.
c) The type is not uncommon, although Mr. Symons is far superior to most
of the type.
d) And it is perhaps the craving for some such donnée which draws us on
toward the present mirage of poetic drama.
e) Of all the plays it is the longest and is possibly the one on which
Shakespeare spent most pains.
f) In the character Hamlet it is the buffoonery of an emotion which can find
no outlet in action; in the dramatist it is the buffoonery of an emotion
which can find no outlet in.
g) Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt
that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
h) Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected
occupation. UNIT –II

2) How does T.S. Eliot prove ‘that the critic and the creative artist should
frequently be the same person’ in his essay ‘The perfect critic’?

3) “From the point of view of literature, the drama is only one among several
poetic forms”- Discuss.

4) How according to T.S. Eliot did Shakespeare handle the problem of Hamlet in
his play Hamlet?

5) “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”-
Discuss.

6) “Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems”-
Discuss in view of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of one’s own.


UNIT –III

7) Explain “Eminent Victorians is a ground breaking work of biography that
raised the genre to the level of high art”.

8) How does the history of colonialism affect the plot of the novel Lord Jim?

9) What role does Stephen’s catholic morality complicate his experience of
sexuality in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

10) Explain how the novel The Moon and Six Pence is written from the point of
view of the narrator.

11) Evaluate C.P. Snow’s novel The Masters as a political novel.

12) Sketch the character of Bill Mor in The Sandcastle.
13) Bring out the significance of the title The Lord of the Flies.

14) Discuss the novel’s title – where are “power” and “glory” found in the book?

15) Write short notes on any four of the following:
a) Stream of consciousness.
b) First person narration.
c) Modern Novel.
d) Whiskey Priest.
e) Irony as Technique.
f) Symbolism.
g) Setting in a novel.
h) Political novel.

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