LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2011
EL 4500 - NEW LITERATURE
Date : 07-04-2011
Time : 1:00 - 4:00
Dept. No.
Max. : 100 Marks
PART – A
I. Answer the following passages in about 75 words .
(5x2=10 marks)
1. The end product / of Guddia law is a viaduct /
for fang and claw, and a place to dwell /
like Roebourne's hell of a concrete floor /
a cell door / and John Pat.
Explain Guddia law?
2. "You try to be friendly but you're not very friendly."
Who does the “You” refer to?
3. Love whose unmerciful blade has pierced us through,
we struggle naked from our death in search of you.
What does the ‘struggle’ refer to?
4. For the tourist's
brown pennies scattered at the old church door,
the ragged papooses jump, and bite the dust.
Discuss the pathos in these lines.
5. Lonely hidden bays, moon-lit, ice-rimmed, winding,
Fringed by forests and crags, haunted by shadowy shores;
Comment on these lines.
II. Answer any TWO questions out of the following in about 150 words each:
(2x10 = 20 marks)
6. Attempt a critical analysis of Les Murray’s “The Quality of Sprawl”.
7. Discuss the themes explored by Margaret Atwood in “Surfacing”.
8. What are the issues raised by A. M. Klein in his poem “Indian Reservation:
Caughnawaga “?
III. Answer any ONE of the following questions in not more than 300 words:
(1x20=20 marks)
9. How does Margaret Atwood’s novel explore the emptiness of contemporary life?
10. Attempt an analysis of “Tirra Lirra by the River” as a post modern novel.
PART - B
I. Answer any FIVE of the following in not more than 150 – 200 words each:
(5x6=30 marks)
11. What are the problems faced by Commonwealth writers?
12. How does Ray Lawler’s “Summer of the Seventeenth Doll” critique modern Australian
society?
13. What are the major themes in Henry Lawson’s short stories prescribed for study?
14. Attempt a critical appreciation of Alice Munroe’s “Providence”.
15. Assess Stephen Leacock’s achievements as a writer.
16. What are the techniques used by George Ryga in “Ecstasy of Rita Joe”?
17. Examine the features of science fiction present in Michael Wilding’s “The Man of Slow
Feeling”.
II. Answer any Two of the following in not more than 300 words each:
(2x10=20 marks)
18. Explain any four major themes dealt with by Australian short story writers?
19. Write an essay the salient features of George Ryga in “Ecstasy of Rita Joe”?
20. How are women portrayed in “The Drover’s Wife” and “The Chosen Vessel”?
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