Alagappa University 2008 B.A English , VICTORIAN LITERATURE - Question Paper

            

DISTANCE EDUCATION

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

VICTORIAN LITERATURE

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

SECTION A (5 8 = 40 marks)

Answer any FIVE questions given below each not exceeding 150 words.

1.         Why are Ulysses and Andhra Del Sorto called dramatic monologues?

2.         Write a note on Hopkins poetic style in The Wreck of the Deutschland.

3.         What according to Eliot is the function of a literary critic?

4.         Write a note on the plot of Great Expectations.

5.         What does Byzantium represent in yeats poem?

6.         What is the central theme of Murder in the Cathedral?

7.         What is meant by the stream of consciousness technique?

8.         Write a note on the character of Paul in Sono and Lovers.

SECTION B (4 15 = 60 marks)

Answer any FOUR essay type questions given below in
400 words each.

9.         Discuss characters as caricotures in The importance of being earnest.

10.       Write an essay on the social, religious and literary characteristics of the Victorian Age.

11.       What is the role of Destiny in Jess o the Diurbervilles?

12.       Write an essay on the poetic style adopted by Eliot in The wasteland.

13.       What are Arnolds views on poetry?

14.       Discuss the character of Eliza Doolittle in Shaws play.

15.       The scholar gypsy pays a tribute to the lost glory of the past. Explain.