Post Graduate Degree

Programme
M.A..(Final) English
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MAEG-05 to MAEG-11

Department of English
Submit 45 days before your Term-end examination

Session /  2015-2016
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Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University
Rawatbhata Road, Kota (Raj.)
M.A.English Programme (Final)
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Principles of Criticism
Paper MAEG-05
Max Marks: 20
Note: The Internal Assignment has been divided into three sections A, B, and C.
Write Answer as per the given instruction.
Section A
(Very Short Answer Type Questions)
Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit
your answer in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. Each
question
carries
1mark.
4x1=04
Q1 i.
Give Aristotles definition of tragedy.
Ii
What is the relationship between the past and the present in the
context of literary tradition?
iii
How, according to Eliot, can a writer achieve impersonality?
Iv
What is F.R. Leaviss idea of criticism?
Section-B
(Short Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any 2 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100
words.
Each
question
carries
4
marks.
2x4=08
2 Elucidate the term Vakrokti.
3 Who is fit to be a tragic hero according to Aristotle? Elaborate.
4 What does Coleridge say about Wordswoths views about diction?
5 What does Arnold say about Christianity in Culture and Anarchy?
Section C
(Long Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any one question. You have to delimit your each answer
maximum up to 500 words. Each question carries 08 marks.
1x8=08
6 Elaborate Kuntakas concept of Prakarana-Vakrata in detail.
7 Plot is the soul of tragedy, Aristotle says. Discuss this statement.
8 Wordsworth and Coleridge do some original thinking about the
nature and of poetic creation. Expound your views about it.

Victorian Age
Paper MAEG-06
Max Marks: 20
Note: The Internal Assignment has been divided into three sections A, B, and C.
Write Answer as per the given instruction.
Section A
(Very Short Answer Type Questions)
Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit
your answer in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. Each
question
carries
1mark.
4x1=04
1
i.
What is pathetic fallacy?
Ii
Give the names of any four of Hardys novels.
Iii
Who narrates the story of the voyage of the Hispaniola to the
Treasure Island?
Iv
Who is the author of On Translating Homer and what does
he emphasize in it?
Section-B
(Short Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any 2 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words.
Each
question
carries
4
marks.
2x4=08
2 What is dramatic monologue?
3 What are the qualities of Andrea Del Sarto?
4 Why does Romney Leigh not approve of Aurora Leighs decision
to become a poet?
5 Write a note on realistic elements in Wuthering Heights
Section C
(Long Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any one question. You have to delimit your each answer
maximum up to 500 words. Each question carries 08 marks.
1x8=08
6 Comment on the different aspects of characterization of George
Eliot.
7 Dickens novels are a reflection of life. Elaborate statement with
illustrations from text.
8 Critically analyze Silas Marner as a concrete work of transition
with a special mention of his symbolic technique.

Twentieth Century Literature

Paper MAEG-07
Max Marks: 20
Note: The Internal Assignment has been divided into three sections A, B, and C.
Write Answer as per the given instruction.
Section A
(Very Short Answer Type Questions)
Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit
your answer in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. Each
question
carries
1mark.
4x1=04
1
i) What is stream of consciousness technique ?
ii)
What are the main themes of the novel A Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man?
iii)
Sons and Lovers is a record of which contemporary life.
How?
iv)
What do you understand by in the gold mosaic with reference
to the poem Sailing to Byzantium?
Section-B
(Short Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any 2 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words.
Each
question
carries
4
marks.
2x4=08
2 Is The Play Boy of the Western World a comedy on a tragedy? Give
your opinion.
3 What is the significance of the bears and squirrels game in Look Back in
Anger.
4 Describe in brief the relationship between Vladimir and Estragon.
5 What is stream of consciousness technique? Illustrate it with reference to
Virginia Woolfs novel, Mrs. Dalloway?
Section C
(Long Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any one question. You have to delimit your each answer
maximum up to 500 words. Each question carries 08 marks.
1x8=08
6 Critically examine Stephens view about the relationship between truth
and beauty in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
7 Huxley ridicules the emerging scientific utopia in Brave New World.
Discuss.
8 Give a critical summary of The Bread I Break.
.

Indian Writings in English &in Translation

Paper MAEG-08
Max Marks: 20
Note: The Internal Assignment has been divided into three sections A, B, and
C.Write Answer as per the given instruction.
Section A
(Very Short Answer Type Questions)
Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit
your answer in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. Each
questioncarries1mark.
4x1=04
1 i.
Who narrates the story in the novel Kanthapura?
ii What kind of relationship is there between Dharma and his wife in the
novel Voices in the City?
iii. What does Mahesh Dattani try to evoke through his play Final
Solutions?
iv.
Mention the three parts of the story in the play Abhijnanashakuntalam.
Section-B
(Short Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any 2 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words.
4x4=08
Eachquestioncarries4marks.
2 Critically explore the evolution of the character Raju in the novel
The Guide by R.K.Narayan.
3 Critically examine the use of imagery in the poem Palanquin
Bearers written by Sarojini Naidu
4 Discuss the theme of social economic deprivation and the
exploitation of the village poor with reference to the novel
Godan by Premchand.
5 In what way has Mahashweta Devi documented her own time and
history in a moving narrative Mother of 1084.
Section C
(Long Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any one question. You have to delimit your each answer
maximum up to 500 words. Each question carries 08 marks.
1x8=08
6
Illustrate critically the feminine sensibility and diversity of moods in
given socio cultural situations with reference to the poem of Kamala Das.
7
Discuss Shashi Deshpandes feminism in the novel The Dark Holds
Terror.
8
Investigate and discuss the aptness of the statement Women of
Samskara are stereotypical and non autonomous characters who have
internalized and adjusted to the patriarchal moves.

Postcolonial Literature
(Optional Paper)
Paper MAEG-09
Max Marks: 20
Note: The Internal Assignment has been divided into three sections A, B, and C.
Write Answer as per the given instruction.
Section A
(Very Short Answer Type Questions)
Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit
your answer in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. Each
question
carries
1mark.
4x1=04
1
i. What does Exile refer to in the Parthasarthys poem?
ii. What message does Judith Wright convey in the poem Niggers
Leap, New England?
iii. What does Chatterjee say about Anticolonial nationalism?
iv. State the three ways in which nation is imagined by Benedict
Anderson in Imagined Communities?
Section-B
(Short Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any 2 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words.
Each
question
carries
4
marks.
2x4=08
2 Summarize Mukherjees discussion on multiple identities.
3 What are Naipauls view about Gandhi and his followers?
4 Caste is an overriding concern in the story My Four Enemies. Discuss.
5 The Diaspora in Indian Culture makes an important contribution to
Diaspora criticism. Comment.
Section C
(Long Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any one question. You have to delimit your each answer
maximum up to 500 words. Each question carries 08 marks.
1x8=08
6

Richard Ntirus success lay in his ability to examine sensitive African issues
from new perspective.Discuss.
.
7 Discuss the significance of the title of the essay Whose Imagined
Community by Partha Chatterjee.
8 Critically analyze the themes and issues raised in My Four Enemies.

American Literature
(Optional Paper)
Paper MAEG-10
Max Marks: 20
Note: The Internal Assignment has been divided into three sections A, B, and C.
Write Answer as per the given instruction.
Section A
(Very Short Answer Type Questions)
Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit
your answer in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. Each
question
carries
1mark.
4x1=04
1

i. What image of women characters does emerge in the story Vitamins.

ii.
Why is The Glass Menagerie called a memory play?
iii.
Point out any four symbols used by Robert Frost.
iv.
Briefly comment on Hucks essential humanitarian concerns.

Section-B
(Short Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any 2 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words.
Each
question
carries
4
marks.
2x4=08
2 Attempt a character sketch of Hester Prynne.
3 Examine Death of a Salesman as an artistic rendering of the failure of
4
5

American Dream.
Critically examine the issue of hybrid existence as it comes up in The Bluest
Eye.
Emily Dickinsons poetry is a unique blend of romantic and realistic streaks.
Critically examine the statement.

Section C
(Long Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any one question. You have to delimit your each answer
maximum up to 500 words. Each question carries 08 marks.
1x8=08
6 Discuss Whitmans use of leaf as a symbol of a common man in democracy.
7 Write a full-length note on the importance of self-trust as brought out in The
8

American Scholar by Emerson.

Why is Laura obsessed with her supposed inferiority? How does it influence
her chances to live in life?

Canadian Literature
(Optional Paper)
Paper MAEG-11
Max Marks: 20
Note: The Internal Assignment has been divided into three sections A, B, and C.
Write Answer as per the given instruction.
Section A
(Very Short Answer Type Questions)
Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit
your answer in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. Each
question
carries
1mark.
4x1=04
1
i.
Who is the writer of Dorcord born out of war between man and man?
ii.
Who has called Canadian poets as puppets?
iii.
Who wrote Laurentian Shield?
iv.
What is Garrison mentality?
Section-B
(Short Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any 2 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words.
Each
question
carries
4
marks.
2x4=08
2 Throw light on the husband wife relationship in The Fire Dwellers.
3 Son must Die play is written against the backdrop of Kashmir and
Indo-Pak war. Discuss.
4 The Forever Bananyan Tree is Uma Parameswarans novella.
Elucidate.
5 Discuss the central theme of Mistrys novel Such a long Journey.

Section C
(Long Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any one question. You have to delimit your each answer
maximum up to 500 words. Each question carries 08 marks.
1x8=08
6 Discuss the poetic style of F.R.Scotts poems referring to those
prescribed for you.
7
Discuss death in Come away Death by E J D Pratt.
8 Discuss critically Alice Munros Who Do You Think You Are novel.