LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2012
EL 4500 - NEW LITERATURES(AUSTRALIAN AND CANADIAN)
Date : 21-04-2012
Time : 1:00 - 4:00
Dept. No.
Max. : 100 Marks
PART A
I. Answer the following questions in about 75 words each.
(5x2=10)
1. Acres of suburbs watching the telly. You bore me. Freckle silly children. You nothing much.
Why is the author bored?
2. Love whose unmerciful blade has pierced us through,
We struggle naked from our death in search of you,
Who do the ‘We’ and ‘you’ refer to?
3. And I will sing to the barren rock
Your difficult, lonely music, heart,
Like an old proud king in a parable.
Why will the poet sing to the “Barren rock”?
4. Crags that are black and wet out of the grey lake looming,
Under the sunset's flush and the pallid, faint glimmer of dawn; Explain.
5. Where are the braves, the faces like autumn fruit,
who stared at the child from the coloured frontispiece? Comment.
II. Answer any TWO of the following in about 150 words each:
(2x10=20)
6. Write a note on how AJM Smith critiques modern civilization in “Like an Old Proud King”.
7. “The novel, grappling with notions of national and gendered identity, anticipated rising concerns
about conservation and preservation and the emergence of Canadian nationalism. Discuss with
reference to Margaret Atwood’s “Surfacing”.
8. Analyse the theme in Les Murray’s poem “The Quality of Sprawl”.
III. Answer any ONE of the following questions in about 300 words.
(1x20=20)
9. Comment on the search for identity as a theme in Jessica Anderson’s “Tirra Lirra by the River”.
10. How does Margaret Atwood’s “Surfacing” capture the emptiness of modern life?
PART – B
I. Answer any Five of the following in not more than 150 – 200 words each.
(5x6=30)
11. Analyze critically the short story “The Man of Slow Feeling” by Michael Wilding.
12. Discuss Stephen Leacock’s merits as a short story writer.
13. How are relationships in modern society portrayed in Ray Lawler’s “Summer of the Seventeenth
Doll”?
14. What are some of the common concerns of Commonwealth writers?
15. Justify the title “The Chosen Vessel” in Barbara Baynton’s short story.
16. What features of science fiction are present in Michael Wilding’s “The Man of Slow Feelings”?
17. Attempt a critical evaluation of Alice Munroe’s “Providence”.
PART - C
II. Answer any TWO of the following in not more than 300 words each:
18. Comment on the title of Ray Lawler’s “Summer of the Seventeenth Doll”.
19. How does George Ryga portray the life of the aborigines in “Ecstacy of Rita Joe”?
20. Comment on the style of Henry Lawson as a writer with examples.
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(2x10=20)