LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION –ENGLISH LITERATURE
LO 22
FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2007
EL 4500 - NEW LITERATURE
Date & Time: 21/04/2007 / 9:00 - 12:00
Dept. No.
I. Explain with reference to the context:( 50 words)
Max. : 100 Marks
( 6 x 4 = 24 Marks )
‘Decency is – it depends on the people
And don’t you say it doesn’t”.
“So long as a woman keeps her self – respect,
any man will marry her”.
“Well, right at that moment Roo’s knees went
Never seen anything’ like it”.
“Go back where you came from.
Is there a reason for such hostility?
“This is a grassy ghetto, and no home”.
Why is the place ‘no home’ for the residents?
“Leaning together, down those gulfs they stare”.
What does the poet wish to highlight?
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II. Answer any FIVE questions out of the following in about 150 words each:
(5 x 8 = 40 Marks)
Comment on the Narrator’s relationship with her father in Surfacing.
Discuss The Poor, Poor Country as a nature poem.
Compare and Contrast First Neighbours and Indian Reservation as Protest poetry.
What roles do Jack and Betty Cust play in Tirra Lirra by the River?
What do the names of the characters indicate in the ‘Summer of the Seventeenth Doll?’
Bring out the irony in the story ‘The Union buries its Dead’.
How does ‘The Drover’s Wife’ depict the harshness of life in the Bush? Explain.
Why are the New Literatures said to be in an exclusive Ghetto?
Substantiate with
comments from critics.
III. Answer any TWO of the following questions in not more than 300 words each:
(2 x 18 =36 Marks)
15. Discuss the life and Character of Nora either as a maladjusted individual or as a victim
of
poor choices.
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Examine the similarities between Nora and the unnamed Narrator in Surfacing in terms of
character and circumstances.
16. Critically analyse the novel Oscar and Lucindo by Peter Carey as a vivid exposition of the
past in the present.
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Compare and contrast the salient feminist features of Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen and
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler.
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