LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
SECOND SEMESTER – April 2009
NM 35
EL 2805 - LITERARY THEORY
Date & Time: 24/04/2009 / 1:00 - 4:00 Dept. No.
Max. : 100 Marks
PART –A
Explicate FIVE of the following concepts/terms briefly choosing not less than two from each
section:
(5x8=40 marks)
Section-1
1. Translinguistics
2. Onto-theological activity
3. Recovery of the Referent
4. Ostranenie
Section-2
5. Write a paragraph on the role of ‘Meaning’ in New Criticism.
6. Bring out the features of New Criticism.
7. Different types of Readers.
8. What according to Freud are the two kinds of ‘wishes’?
PART-B
Answer the following in about 300 words each
(2x20=40 marks)
9.a) Do you agree with the view that Derridean deconstruction is a negatively-oriented
philosophical programme? Substantiate your answer with textual evidence.
Or
b) Critique Barthes’ essay The Death of the Author as a subversion of the traditional
humanist position.
10.a) Northrop Frye’s ARCHETYPES OF LITERATURE is an extrinsic approach to
Literature. Discuss.
Or
b) Analyse the concept of psychoanalytic criticism with reference to CREATIVE
WRITERS AND DAY DREAMING.
PART-C
Using the Critical tools at your disposal explicate the following poem: (20 marks)
A LETTER
This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me--The simple News that Nature told---With tender Majesty
Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see—
For love of Her—Sweet—countrymen---Judge tenderly—of Me.
EMILY DICKINSON
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