IA MID-TERM TESTS, SEMESTERS 1 & 3, 2012

DATES: MA (Prev) October 10, 2012 (Wednesday): 1.30-2.30 pm, Eng 0101 and Eng 0102 (50 marks) October 15, 2012 (Monday): 1.30-2.30 pm, Eng 0103 and Eng 0104 i or ii (50 marks) MA (Final) October 10, 2012 (Wednesday): 3.30-4.30 pm, Eng 0301 and Eng 0302 (50 marks) October 15, 2012 (Monday): 3.30-4.30 pm, Eng 0303 and Eng 0304 i or ii (50 marks)

TOPICS Eng 0101 English Literature from Chaucer to Milton

1. Spiritual and Erotic Love 2. Politics and Literature in the 16th and 17th Centuries.

Eng 0102

Eighteenth Century English Literature

1. Reason and Unreason 2. Early English Novels

Eng 0103

Literary Criticism 1

1. Mimesis 2. The Influence of Classical Thought on English Literary Criticism

Eng 0104(i)

17th & 18th century Drama

1. Revenge and Tragedy 2. New Ethos of the Market

Eng 0104(ii)

European comedy

1. Transgression, gender and comedy 2. The evolution of the novel and the Renaissance

Eng 0301

Nineteenth Century Novel

1. Realism in the novel 2. Racial tensions in American literature

Eng 0302

Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama

1. Comedy, tragedy or grotesque 2. Modernist poetry, meaning and language

Eng 0303

Indian Literature 1

1. The significance of kavya in the Indian classical tradition 2. The Nirgun/Sagun distinction.

Eng 0304(i) American Literature 1. Imagining America 2. Human Isolation as a Theme in American Literature

Eng 0304(ii)

Literature and the Visual Arts

1. Realism in relation to literature and art 2. Space and light as they operate in literature and art