Alagappa University 2008 B.A English , MODERN AND POST MODERN LITERATURE - Question Paper

            

DISTANCE EDUCATION

B.A. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2008.

MODERN AND POST MODERN LITERATURE

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

SECTION A (5 8 = 40 marks)

Answer any FIVE of the following questions.

1.         What message Yeats gives to women in A prayer for my daughter?

2.         Illustrate how myth gives meaning to the modern predicament with reference to The Second Coming.

3.         Discuss the theme of Journey of the Magai.

4.         Give the description of the Unknown citizen.

5.         Critically analyse the Death of a naturalist.

6.         Give a character study of Nora Torvald.

7.         What is the theme of Waiting for Godot?

8.         Delineate the character of Mrs. Dalloway.

 

 

SECTION B (4 15 = 60 marks)

Answer any FOUR of the following questions.

9.         Describe the theatre of Absurd.

10.       Write an essay on the stream of consciousness with reference to Mrs. Dollaway.

11.       Bring out the element of satire in Animal Farm.

12.       Bring out the element of magic realism in Midnights children.

13.       Critically analyse Sideways in Time.

14.       How a public speech becomes a success?

15.       What are the salient features of a public speech? Explain with an example.