LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2004
EL 4500/ENG 503 – NEW LITERATURES
Date : 02 .04.04
Duration: 9 – 12 noon
Max : 100 marks
Hours : 3 hrs
I. Answer the following in not more than 50 words each:
(10 x 2 = 20 marks)
1. Where are the braves, . . . .?
*What prompts the author to ask such a question?
2. Let me, I beseech thee, Father, die
From this fat royal life, . . . .
*Comment on the significance of this prayer.
3. You burly burly. You’re just silly to me.
*Indicate the tone of this statement.
4. Leaning together, down those gulfs they stare
Over whose darkness dance the brilliant birds
That cry in air one moment, and are gone;
*Point out the comparison and contrast in these lines.
5. The blue cranes were my nearest friends and
I mourned to see them go;
*What kind of a friendship does the poet speak of here?
6. When according to Northrope Frye does provincial culture become fully mature?
7. What according to Frye is the underlying assumption of a successful revolution?
8. What is the role of the little boy in the story of the drover’s wife?
9. Why is the narrator in The Photographer confused at the end?
10. Justify the title Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.
II. Answer any FIVE questions out of the following in about 150 words each:
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(5 x 8 = 40 marks)
What kind of characters are David and Anna in the “Surfacing”?
Discuss the poem “Winter Lakes” as a nature poem.
How effectively does P.K. Page portray race relations in Canada in her poem “First Neighbours”?
What exactly is the quality of Sprawl according to Les Murray?
What is the significance of the image of the mother and child in The Chosen Vessel?
Describe the funeral in The Union Buries its Dead. Account for the pathos.
Account for the humour in The Loaded Dog.
Summarize Frye’s ideas on culture.
III. Answer any TWO of the following questions in not more than 300 words each:
(2 x 20 = 40 marks)
19. Critically examine Tirra Lirra by the River as a postmodern novel.
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Compare and Contrast Nora Parteaus and the unnamed narrator in Surfacing as persons in quest of an
authentic existence.
20. Discuss the thematic concerns in either Summer of the Seventeenth Doll or The Ecstasy of Rita Joe.
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