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AU, Alagappa University M.A English LITERARY CRITICISM – II 2015 Question Paper

AU, Alagappa University

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2015
Fourth Semester
English
LITERARY CRITICISM – II
(CBCS – 2012 onwards)
Time : 3 Hours Maximum : 75 Marks
Section A (10 x 2 = 20)
Answer the following questions in 1 or 2 sentences each:

1. What does Eliot mean by religions literature?
2. Define cultural materialism.
3. What, according to Jung, does Freud a substiture for a direct means of gratification?
4. Whose poems, according to Brooks, are based on paradox and steeped in irony?
5. What, according to Frye, are the archetypes of satire?
6. What does Genette mean by structuralist activity?
7. What are the two types of Showalter’s female model?
8. Why does Barthes call the “text” as “a tissue of quotations”?
9. What does Abrams by linguistic interpretation?
10. What is the aim of Cultural studies?

Section B (5 x 5 = 25)
Answer the following questions choosing either (a) or (b):
11. (a) How does Eliot lament over the irrationality behind the separation of our literary and religions
judment?
Or
(b) How does Williams bring together Marxist theories of language and literature?
12. (a) How does Jung view a works of art from the psychological point?
Or
(b) Analyze Brooks’s remarks on Wordsworth’s use of paradox.
13. (a) Analyze Frye’s evaluation of the different phases of myth.
Or
(b) What are Genette’s remarks on structuralist
method?
14. (a) Discuss Showalter’s classification of feminist criticism.
Or
(b) What, according to Barthes, is the function of the reader?
15. (a) How does Abrams look at the textual world of literature?
Or
(b) Discuss the origin of cultural studies.

Section C (3 x 10 = 30)
Answer any THREE of the following questions in about 800 words each:
16. Examine Eliot’s emphasis on interpretation of literature in ethical and theological perspectives.
17. How does Brooks establish that the language of paradox is the language of poetry?
18. Examine the inductive and deductive method of Northrop Frye.
19. Analyze Barthes’s emphasis on the significance of the reader.
20. How does Abrams view deconstruction in his essay “The Deconstructive Angel”?

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