Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University Term End Examination January

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1 O British Poetry (MEG-01) Date O 27/01/2013 N.B. O Attempt any five of the following questions. All Questions carry equal marks. Total Marks O 70 Q.1 Write a critical note on Chaucer s use of language. Q.2 What does the term Renaissance mean? Explain some of the key factors responsible for the spread of the Renaissance in Europe. Q.3 Critically appreciate the poem The Flea. Q.4 The Nativity Ode is less about the celebration of Christ and more about the superiority of a Protestant English spirit. Analyse the poem in the light of this statement. Q.5 Write a detailed note on the classical and the romantic aspects of English poetry. Q.6 Can satire be great poetry? Discuss with reference to Mac Flecknoe. Q.7 Explain the salient features of Romanticism. Q.8 Write an essay on the diction and imagery of The Prelude.

2 O British Drama (MEG-02) Date O 29/01/2013 N.B. O Attempt any five of the following questions. All Questions carry equal marks. Total Marks O 70 Q.1 Discuss the salient features of the mature Elizabethan Tragedy. How the relationship between Hermia and Lysander, Oberon and Titania and Theseus and Hippolyta impact story? - Explain Q.2 Analyse To be, or not to be in Act-3, scene 1, for its dramatic significance in the context of the play. Discuss Jonson as a Renaissance theorist of comedy. Q.3 The Alchemist is a satire on human follies and foibles Explain. Write an essay bringing out Chisty s role as a master story-teller. Q.4 Discuss Murder in the Cathedral as a Historical play. Write a detailed on the title of the play Look Back in Anger. Q.5 Write short notes (Any Two) 1. Becket s Speech. 2. Use of blank verse in Doctor Faustus. 3. Title of the play: A Midsummer Night s dream. 4. Generic criticism.

3 O Master of Arts in English (MEG) O British Novel (MEG-03) Date O 30/01/2013 Q.1 Do you agree that Tom Jones should be primarily viewed as providing comic pleasure? Discuss. Identify the chief features of Jane Austen s treatment of love and marriages in the Pride and Prejudice. Q.2 Do you think Nelly evaluates Catherine in the right perspective? Is that the way one woman should understand another woman? Write a full length answer on the importance of the fairytale mode in Great Expectations. Q.3 What were the artistic problems facing George Eliot as she began composing Middlemarch? What factors in Conrad s life do you think may have contributed to his homo duplex status? Q.4 Write a note on how Spark conceives the plot in order to present the central concern of the novel. Indicate the personal advantages and disadvantages in Forster s insistence on the personal quality of his response to India. Q.5 Write short notes (Any two) (1) Stephen s Aesthetic Theory. (2) Presentation of Hinduism in the novel A Passage to India. (3) Brief life sketch of St. Theresa. (4) Significance of Wemmick s museum.

4 O Aspects of Language (MEG-04) Date O 31/01/2013 Q.1 What according to you, are the important functions of language? Give reasons for your answer. Write a detailed note on the history of English Language. Q.2 Write a detail note on the English consonants and their classification. Discuss the difference between Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic relationships. Q.3 Discuss the Inflectional morphology of English Noun. Define Word and discuss its types. Q.4 Define syntax and discuss various syntactic constituents. Distinguish between dialect and language. How does a dialect achieve the statue of language? Explain. Q.5 Write short notes (Any two) (1) Socio linguistics. (2) Language Planning. (3) Cognitive style. (4) Bilingualism.

5 O Literary Criticism and Theory (MEG-05) Date O 01/02/2013 Q.1 Plato s arguments against poetry Explain in detail. Discuss the contribution of inspiration in Greek poetic creation. Q.2 Explain Wordworth s contribution as a critic of culture. What is Eliot s definition of criticism? What guidelines does he give for the practice of criticism? Q.3 Discuss the contribution of either Ransom or Cleanth Brooks to literary theory and practice. Analyse the strengths and limitations of Woolf s theory with reference to class or gender. Q.4 Trace out two common features between the critical and the structuralist approaches to criticism. Discuss the limitations of deconstruction as a method of critical inquiry. Q.5 Write short notes (Any two) (1) The three Psychic zones in Freud s theory. (2) Significance of purpose in literature. (3) Rasa theory. (4) Sphota.

6 O American Literature (MEG-06) Date O 02/02/2013 Q.1 (A) The Characters in the Scarlet Letter have been developed largely through narrative technique and structure. Discuss. (B) Discuss the major concept of Death of a Salesman as Tragedy. Q.2 (A) Evaluate Faulkner as a short story writer. (B) Make a critical appreciation of Robert Frost s Mending Wall. Q.3 (A) Write a detailed note on, American prose in the period of National consolidation. (B) Discuss the central theme and Imagery in Emily Dickinson. Q.4 (A) Write down the central idea of A Clean, Well-lighted Place. (B) Write a detailed note on Narrative Techniques in The Bluest Eye. Q.5 Write short notes (Any two) (1) Sex and Love in The Bluest Eye. (2) Characterization of The Scarlet Letter. (3) Snapshots of Daughter-in-Law. (4) O Neill s use of Expression in The Hairy Ape.

7 O Master of Arts in English (MEG) O Indian English Literature (MEG-07) Date O 03/02/2013 Q.1 Make an assessment of Nehru s prose style in his Autobiography. Mulk Raj Anand s novels portray Indian Social problems realistically. Discuss with reference to the novel Untouchable. Q.2 Write a short essay on Considerations of Caste in Kanthapura. Discuss the personalities of Bim and Tara as depicted in Clear Light of Day. Q.3 Discuss the significance of the theme of History and the Individual in Midnight s Children. Write a note on atmosphere and Characterization of Engine Trouble. Q.4 Write an essay on Keki N. Daruwalla and his poetry. What according to you are the major themes of Tara? Discuss the major themes in detail. Q.5 Write short notes (Any two) (1) Roopa s role in Tara. (2) Imagery in Crossing of Rivers. (3) An Island of Trees. (4) Hindu myths in Midnight s Childrem.

8 O New Literatures in English (MEG-08) Date O 04/02/2013 Q.1 What were the origins of the use of the creole English in Caribbean poetry explain with reference to any one early twentieth century poet. The Emergency disrupted the social life of Gikonyo and Mumbai. Discuss. Q.2 Discuss the position that have been taken to account for White s paradoxical reception in Australia? Write a note on the use of irony and humour in A House for Mr. Biswas. Q.3 In what way has modern critical theory facilitated our understanding of literature from erstwhile colonized regions like the Caribbean? Discuss the theme of self-alienation in The Stone Angel. Q.4 How would you critique the term Commonwealth Literature? Carolyn Bliss s views on how White has used time as the structuring principle. Q.5 Write short notes (Any two) (1) The theme of Things Fall Apart. (2) India in Naipoul s novel A House for Mr. Biswas. (3) Dramatic tradition and technique in Soyinka s play. (4) Nature and function of literature in society.

9 O Australian Literature (MEG-09) Date O 05/02/2013 Time O to Q.1 (A) Discuss some thematic stands in Australian literature. (B) Analyse and Comment on two poems of Kendall of your choice, indicate why you prefer them. Q.2 (A) What were the prominent themes that captured the imagination of writers of short fiction in Australia? Discuss. (B) Kenneth Slessor as a poet with special reference to South Country. Q.3 (A) Would it be right to call Voss an emotionally complex novel? Discuss. (B) Analyse Mister Man to show how the poem redefines Australian identity. Q.4 (A) Write a detailed note on the Structure of the novel Remembering Babylon. (B) Write a detailed note on various aspects of violence in the play The Removalists. Q.5 Write short notes (Any two) (1) Themes of Williamson s Plays. (2) Aboriginal traditions. (3) Theme of The Bush Fire. (4) Structure of The Chosen Vessel.

10 O American Novel (MEG-11) Date O 05/02/2013 Q.1 Discuss the development of the Romanticism of the Nineteenth Century America. Discuss the themes emerging from Celie s letter. Q.2 Discuss the impact of Freud and psychoanalysis on American writers. Discuss the theme in the The Last of the Mohicans. Q.3 The Post war American novel is a phenomenon by itself. Discuss Justify the appropriateness of the title House Made of Dawn by referring to the recurring dawn image. Q.4 Analyse the chief characteristics of Black Spring. Write a detailed note on style in Black Spring. Q.5 Write short notes (Any two) (1) Tropic of Capricorn. (2) Pastorality in The Catcher in the Ray. (3) The Floating Opera as an experimental novel. (4) The plot-structure of Light in August.