2023

Roll No. 2 20 36708004

M.A. English Semester II
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Drama (120351 201)
Maximum marks: 70
Time: 3 hours

(Write your Roll No. on the top immediately on receipt of this question paper)
Answer Question No. Iwhich is compulsory and any 3 from Question No. 2 to Question No. 8. Question
No. I carries 25 (5x5) marks and the other questions carry 15 marks each. Ouestion No. Iis in nine
parts,out of which, five parts must be attempted.
Note: The maximum marks printed on the question paper are applicable for regular students. These
marks will, however, be scaled up proportionately in respect of students of NCWEB at the time ofposting
of awards for compilation of results.
1. Answer any five of the following:
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
ii. Jack shall have Jill,
Naught shall go ill,
The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well."
"Madness" in Hamlet
iv. "Haste me to know it, that I wish wings as swift
As meditation or the thoughts of love
May sweep my revenge."
V There is no slander in an allowed fool,"
"Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit.
Allwith me's meet that I can fashion fit.
Vii. Montaigne's views on repentance
Volpöne as 'mountebank'
Act V and its necessity in Volpone

2. Critically comment on the protagonist(s) in A Midsummer Night 's Dream. Substantiate your answer
with references from the text.
3. Comment on the specific ways in which the tragedy of Hamlet can be read as a poliical allegor
Provide evidence from the text in support of your answer.
4. "There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and gravemakers; they hold up Adam's
profession." Comment on Shakespeare's treatment of social divisions and class anxieties in Hamlet
5. Critically examine the play King Lear in the light of the view that "There is no art to find mind's
construction in the face.
e Bdmund falls prey to and does not introduce his SOciety to its obsession with power, property, and
inheritance. Do you agree? Please give a reasoncd answer.
7. Do vou agree with the view that Volpone lacks a moral centre to offset the ubiquity of crime and
folly? Give a reasoned answer.
, 84 How does human desire and its manifestations play out in Volpone? Explicate with textual evidenes
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MA (English) Semester II
Criticism and Theory I (1203S1202)

Time: 3 hours Maximum marks: 70

(Write your Roll No. on the top immediately on receipt of this question paper)
Answer Q. No. I which is compulsory and any 3others from 2to 8. Question No. I carries 25 (5x5)
marks and the others carry 15 marks each. . No. I is in nine parts, five of which must be attempted.

Note: The maximum marks printed on the question paper are applicable for the students of the
regular college (Category A). These marks will, however, be scaled up proportionately in respect
of the students of NCWEB at the time of posting of awards for compilation of results.
1. Discuss /answer, in about 250 words each any five of the following:

The connection between Sphota and Shabdbrahaman

ii. Poetry is that word and sense together enshrined in a style revealing the artistic creativity
of the poet on the one hand and giving delight to the man of taste on the other.
Mii. The relevance of the myth of Er
iv. The three unities
I have a just cause to make a pitiful defence of poor
poetry..."
i. The concept of mimesis in Shelley's 'A Defence of Poetry'
vii. More and more mankind willdiscover that we have to turn to poetry to
interpret life for
us, to console us, to sustain us.'
Wiii. Vehicle and tenor . t Piead
Lik. The fundamental principles of Frye's archetypal method

2. How does Anandavardhana's theory of Dvani help connect the apparent and hidden
meanings in poetry? Ilustrate this concept with suitable examples.
The soul of poetry is suggestion." Doyou agree? Substantiate your answer with
appropriate
textual examples.
4. Based on your critical observations, write a comparative essay on Plato and Aristotle's
approach topoetry.
5. Aristotle's practical contribution to criticism, as opposed to his ethical defence of literature.
lies in his inductive treatment of the elements and kinds of poetry. Do you agree?
Support
your answer with evidence from the text.
6 In his essay, The Study of Poetry," Arnold presents a vision of culture and poetry as a means
to achieve a harmonious and enlightened society. How does he reconcile this vision with
social and political realities? Give a reasoned answer.

Criticallyevaluate the material factors responsible for the development of Formalism as a

dominant paradigm for literary analysis.
Withclose reference to any two theorists preseribed inthis course, critically comment on the
wayin which their work directs the evolution of the discipline of English literature
RollNo....[Link].004 2023

MA(English) Semester II
Disability Studies and Literary Representations (120351204)

Time: 3 hours Maximum marks: 70

(Write your Roll No. on the top immediately on receipt of this question paper)
Answer Q No. 1which is compulsory and any 3others from 2to 8. Question No. I carries 25 (5x5) marks and
the others carry 15 marks each. Q. No. I is in nine parts, five of which must be attempted.

Note: The maximum marks printed on the question paper are applicable for the students oftheregular college
(Category 4). These marks will,howeve, be scaled up proportionately in respect qf the students of NCWEB
at the time of posting of awards for compilation of results.
1. Discuss/answer, in about 250 words each, any five of the following:

Distinction between disability and impairment.

ii., The role of academia in collective empowerment of the disabled.
ii. "Beyond being astory of striving, this book may also be seen as testament of youth, because it seems
to have evolved into a youthful quest for truth."
iv. Role of family in raising disabled children.
V. Significance of the colour blue in Poor Miss Finch.
vi. Vinay
. Significance of Wyeth's painting in "Christina's Courage".
i . Hospital as a depersonal1sed space inPlath's "Tulips".
ÄK. The pre and post-war agency of the disabled soldier.

MichaclOliver examines the relationship between the individual and the collective in terms of political
and social nmovement. Examine this with reference to Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice.
u. "The production of their own first-person nonfictional narratives is certainly a key development in the
history of disabled people, but it is far from an uncomplicated phenomenon." Do you agree? Substantiate
your answer with reference to the two life narratives prescribed for study.
4. "I am blind. But the message I hope toconvey in this book is that the joy of living life to the full has far
outweighed the inconvenience of my physical handicap." Describe Tom Sullivan's story in the light of
this statement.

Howdoes Wilkie Collins use Lucilla's blindness as a metaphor and critique of societal limitations and
gender prejudices in Victorian society?
6 Premchand's creation of Soordas is not acoincidence, but rather apart of his creative design to challenge
some of the entrenched beliefs prevailing in society regarding persons with blindness. Discuss this in
relation to Rangbhoomi.
through non
7 Elaborate upon how in Carver's "Cathedral", the inadequacy of language is communicated
the haptic in the narrative'?
impaired character/s. How does this inadequacy emphasise the importance of
Give suitable examples from the story.
any
g A Disability text is essentially a cultural
archive. Substantiate this statement with close reference to
wo texts in the syllabus.
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MA (English) Semester II
Postcolonial Literatures and Theory (120351203)
Maximum marks: 70
Time: 3 hours

(Write your Roll No. on the top immediately on receipt ofthis question paper)
Answer Q. No. I which is compulsory and any 3others from 2to &. Question No. l carries 25 (5x5) marks
and the others carry 15 marks each. 0. No. I is in nine parts, five of which must be attempted.
Note: The maximum marks printed on the question paper are applicable for the students of the regular
college (Category A). These marks will, however, be scaled up proportionately in respect of the students
ofNCWEB at the time of posting ofawards for compilation of results.
Discuss / answer, in about 250 words each any five of the following:

"Ihave looked especially at cultural forms like the novel, which I believe were immensely
important in the formtion of imperial attitudes, references and experiences."
"The wealth of the imperialist nations is also our wealth."
The role of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa
Age of Iron as confessional literature.
The importance of the act of writing in Feeding the Ghosts
Matrilineality in"Mother Wound"
vii. "The sahibs know no caste; they just want donkeys."
viii. "The question therefore arises as to how we should do it. We do not possess Swaraj nor have we
the power to retain it. The answer is, we cannot master the art of swimming unless we struggle
in the water."
ix. The role of Chandranath Babu in The Home and the World

2. "Let us endeavor to invent a man in full, something which Europe has been incapable of achieving "
Critically analyze this statement in light of Frantz Fanon's critique of colonial violence and European
humanism in The Wretched of the Earth.

3. Age of Ironas is an allegory for the social and political imbroglio in South Africa during the
apartheid regime. Do you agree? Elucidate with examples from the text.
4. How did Apartheid thinking impact the daily lives of South Africans particularly in terms of housing,
education, employment and social interactions?

,8. Critically comment on the gendered nature of resistance in Feeding the Ghosts.
6. Discuss how family histories blend in with social histories in the narratives of the descendants of
indentured labourers. Substantiate your answer with examples from at least two prescribed
narratives from We Mark Your Memory.
" As national emblems, women are usually cast as mothers or wives, and are called upon to
literally and figuratively reproduce the nation." In the lightof this statement, critically comment
Home and the World
on the attempts at allegorisation in Rabindranath Tagore's The
but encompasses a
8 How do Gandhi's assertion that Swaraj as not limited to political freedom,creation
claim that decolonization is "the of new men
broader significance, as wellas Fanon's
man through the very process of liberation"
whereby "the thing' colonized becomes aindependence and self-rule?
challenge conventional understandings of