Assam University 2007 Post Graduate Diploma Journalism (Oriya) TDC Part-I ENGLISH (Honours) --- First - Question Paper

NTA-07/ ENGH-1 /227

2007
ENGLISH
(Honours)
First Paper
(History of English Literature)
TDC Part-I

Full Marks : 100
Pass Marks : 33

Time : three hours

The figure in the margin shows full marks for the ques.


1. ans any 1 of the subsequent questions: 16

(a) “Chaucer’s poetry reflects the dawn of Renaissance.” Do you agree? provide a reasoned ans.
(b) Critically examine the Romantic Movement in English poetry as a revolt against tradition and social authority.
(c) Discuss the salient features of Modern Poetry with special references to Yeats, Elliot and Auden.

2. ans any 1 of the subsequent questions: 16

(a) Enumerate the factors that contributed towards the development of the English drama in the sixteenth century.
(b) Write an essay on the Restoration Comedy of Manners.
(c) Write a critical note on the drama of wit and dialogue with special references to Oscar Wilde and G. B. Shaw.

3. ans any 1 of the subsequent questions: 16

(a) Trace the growth of the periodical essay in the eighteenth century with due emphasis on Addison and Steele.
(b) Give an estimate of either Carlyle or John Ruskin as the representative thinker-writer of the Victorian age in English literature.
(c) Assess critically a few of the personal essayists of the twentieth century.

4. ans any 1 of the subsequent questions: 16

(a) Comment on the growth of novels in the eighteenth century with references to Fielding and Sterne.
(b) Estimate the contributions of the women novelists of the Victorian period.
(c) Write a note on the ‘stream of consciousness’ technique in twentieth century English novel.

5. Write short notes on any 6 of the following, taking at lowest 1 from every Unit: six x six = 36

UNIT –I

(a) Anglo-Saxon Elegiac Poetry
(b) Paradise lost
(c) The Oxford Group of Poets

UNIT –II

(a) Tamburlaine the Great
(b) Anti-sentimental Comedy
(c) Absurd Drama

UNIT –III

(a) Picaresque Novel
(b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) Virginia Woolf

UNIT –IV

(a) Areopagitica
(b) Boswell’s Life of Johnson
(c) Thomas De Quincey

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Earning:   Approval pending.