M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FOURTH SEMESTER
– APRIL 2007
LO 58
EL 4801/EL 4808 - LITERARY CRITICISM
Date & Time: 21/04/2007 / 1:00 - 4:00 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
I.
PART – A
Write short notes on any FIVE of the following:
1.
Differences between Romanticism and Classicism.
2.
Meta-Language of criticism
(8 x 5 = 40 marks)
3.
Metaphysics of presence
4.
Eliot’s definition of Tradition
5.
Write a short note on the Expressive orientation.
6.
Write briefly on Richards’ concept of four kinds of Meaning.
7.
Write a paragraph on Wayne Booth’s concept of neutrality in fiction.
8.
The Quest-Myth in Literature.
PART – B
II. Write an essay on the following in about 300 words each: (20 x 2 = 40 marks)
9.
a What are the different types of Realism in Contemporary fiction according to
Raymond Williams?
(OR) b. How convincingly does Cleanth Brooks prove that paradox is the language of
poetry.
10.
a. Compare and contrast new criticism and Myth criticism.
(OR) b. Attempt an evaluation of Lionel Trilling’s essay Freud and Literature
PART – C
III. Attempt an interpretation of the following poem by employing the literary theories you have read:
(20 marks)
INDIAN WEAVERS
Weavers, Weaving at break of day,
Why do you weave a garment so gay?
Blue as the wing of a halcyon wild,
We weave the robes of a new-born child.
Weavers, weaving at fall of night,
Why do you weave a garment so bright?
Like the plumes of a peacock, purple and green,
We weave the marriage – Veils of a gueen.
Weavers, weaving solemn and still,
What do you weave in the moonlight chill?
White as a feather and white as a claud
We weave a dead man’s funeral shroud.
Sarojini Naidu
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