| : { 4 a 4 ‘ ENC 110 (AN EL 0 lll Semester M.A. Examination, Nov/Dec. 2015 (CBCS) (Freshers) ENGLISH Paper - 1: The Modern Age - I! Time : 3 Hours Max. Marks : 70 Instruction : Attempt all Sections. SECTION-1 |. Answer the following questions in one or two sentences : (10x1=10) 1) Who coined the term “stream of consciousness” ? 2) What does the novel Rainbowchronicle ? 3) Who is Adela Quested ? 4) Who were the “Angry Young Men" ? 5) Where do Lucky and Pozzo go? 6) Whois Alison ? 7) How does Ramsay die ? 8) Mention one of the exponents of Cultural Materialism. 9) Name the three parts of the novel, A Passage fo India. @ 40) Who are the tramps in Waiting for Godot? SECTION -f1 |. Answer one of the following (1x15=15) 4) Trace the growth of the 20" century English fiction. 2) Examine the characteristic feature of postmodernism. 3) Discuss the development of the Theatre of the Absurd. P.1.0.7 ENC 110 (NOTE RA SECTION - II] Ill, Answer one of the following : (1%15=15) 1) Comment on the man-woman relationship as depicted in The Rainbow. 2) Discuss the use of stream of consciousness technique in To the Lighthouse. 3) Bring out the significance of Aziz-Fielding relationship in A Passage to India SECTION ~IV IV. Answer one of the following (1x15=15) 1) How does the play Wailing for Godot represent tho absurdity of human condition ? 2) Consider Jimmy Porter as a rue representative of the post-war generation. + SECTION~V V. Answer one of the following : (115=15) 1) Bring out the essence of Virginia Wools essay “On Modern Fiction’: 2) What are George Lukacs' observations on Katka ? 3) Discuss Raymond Williams’ views on modernity.~ ENC 120 {1 A Ill Semester M.A. Examination, November/December 2015 (CBCS) (Freshers) ENGLISH Paper - II : Indian Writing in English - Time : 3 Hours < Max. Marks : 70 Instruction : Answer all Sections. SECTION~I 1. Answer the following questions in one or two sentences each : (1x10=10) 4) “Who are the Lantern and the Mombatti” in The God of Small Things ? 2) Whois the mirror image of the narrator in Shadow Lines ? 3) Whose socio-cultural experiences does Jahnavi Baruah portray in Next Door ? 4) Where did M.K. Gandhi write most of his memoirs ? 5) What are main thematic preoccupations of Amrita Pritam in The Revenue Stamp? 6) Which memoir reflects the writer's eco-critical concerns ? 7) What does the term subaltern refers to? 8) In which collection of essays does the essay, “The Anxiety of Indianness” appears ? 9) What is dersuntnaL culture’? 40) In which language was M.K. Gandhi's My Experiments. with Truth written ? » SECTION ~—II I. Answer one of the following : (1%15=15) 1) Discuss the impact of colonization on the Indian English novel. 2) Bring out the characteristic features of Indian writing in English. 3) Discuss the Indian autobiographies written in English. PTO.ENC 120 (A SECTION - III ML. Answer one of the following : (1x15=15) 1) Evaluate the class and caste conflict in The God of Smalll Things. 2) How does Amitav Ghosh trace the events that changed contours of independent India in his novel, The Shadow Lines ? 3) How does Jahnavi Baruah examine culture and class conflict in Next Door? SECTION~IV IV. Answer one of the following : (1x15=15) 1) Discuss My Experiments with Truth as a spiritual quest. 2) Bring out significance of the title Revenue Stamp by Amrita Pritam. 3) How does the memoir My Son's Father capture the childhood and adolescence of the writer ? SECTION-V V. Answer one of the following : (1x15=15) 1) Discuss the observations of Spivak on the concept of subaltern in her essay, Can the Subaitern Speak. 2) Examine how Indian culture and society were influenced by westernisation with reference to Meenakshi Mukharjee’s “The Anxiety of Indianness”. 3) What are the arguments of Aijaz Anamed on third world literature, nation and class in ‘Introduction’ to “In Theory”.oy ENC 130 UE Ml Semester M.A. Examination, Nov/Dec. 2015 (CBCS) (Freshers) ENGLISH Paper — iit : New Literatures in English Time : 3 Hours Max. Marks : 70 Instruction: Attempt all Sections. SECTION-1 1. Answer the following questions in one or two sentences each: (10x1=10) 1) Whois Akuebe ? 2) Which play is rooted in Yoruba tradition ? 3) Which novel reflects ecofeminist concerns ? 4) Whats the purpose of the essay ‘Conclusion to a Literary History of Canada’ ? 5) Why does the narrator in Surfacing go back to her place of birth ? 6) Who is Stan Parker? 7) Whatis the theme of the poem “Woman to Man”? 8) What does ‘Hanuman House’ symbolize in A House for Mr. Biswas ? 9) Which are the five ‘five teeming sores’ in the poem ‘Australia’ ? 10) Who does “white and faded flowers" refer to in the poem ‘Africa, My Africa’? SECTION -II fl. Answer one of the following (1x15=15) 1) Is the term ‘New Literatures in English’ a better alternative to ‘Commonwealth Literature’ 7 Explain. 2) How did colonialism influence the emergence of New Literatures ? 3) Discuss the essential features of Commonwealth Literature. PTO.enn ENC 130 SECTION =I MU. Answer one of the following (1x15=15) 1) Comment on the use of wit and satire in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel. 2) Consider Ezeulu as a tragic character. 3) What according to N' gugi wa Thiongo are the obligations of the African writers in safeguarding African culture ? 4) Critically examine David Diop's poem ‘Africa’. SECTION-IV IV. Answer one of the following : (1x15=15) 5 1) Discuss Margaret Atwood's Surfacing is a novel about a woman's spiritual quest. 2) Howis the tussle between the machine and the animal brought about in Pratt's poem, "The Dying Eagle” ? 3) Discuss Northrop Frye as a Canadian critic. 4) Whatis the image of Australia that A. D. Hope evokes in his poem “Australia” ? SECTION-V V. Answer one of the following : (1x15=15) 1) Discuss the house as a metaphor in A House for Mr. Biswas. 2) Critically examine the concept of Nativism as propounded by Wilson Harris. 3) Write a critique of the poem, “Almond Trees’. a~ ENC 140 Pp Time : 3 Hours ie ame MM Semester M.A. Examination, November/December 2015 (CBCS) (Freshers) ENGLISH Modern and Contemporary Indian English Poetry (Soft Core) Max. Marks : 70 SECTION-I ‘Answer the following questions in one or two sentences each : (10x1=10) 1) What is common to the poet, the lover and the birdwatcher ? 2) Why does Ramanujan think that anxiety is difficult to comprehend ? 3) What does rain mean to Mahapatra ? 4) Whatare the animals that appear in Jejuri poems ? 5) What stands out about the speaker in “Sweet Sixteen” ? 6) Whatis the background to the poem “For My Father, Karachi 1947"? 7) Why can't the speaker sleep in “Feverbird" ? 8) Whom does the poet mourn in “Elegy” ? 9) Which are the two languages in which Arun Kolatkar writes ? 10) Who among the poets prescribed for you has won the Pulitzer Prize ? SECTION - 11 Answer one of the following : (1x15=15) 1) Write a note on the poetic vision of Nissim Ezekiel. 2) How does A.K. Ramanujan criticise religion in “The Hindoo : The Only Risk” ? SECTION~II Answer one of the following : (1x15=15) 1) Describe the gloomy atmosphere in Jayanta Mahapatra’s poems. 2) Comment on the visual imagery in Arun Kolatkar's poems. P.T.O.ENC 140 (0H WV. SECTION-IV Answer one of the following: (1x15=15) 1) “Eunice de Souza's poems have the brevity, unexpectedness and urgency of telegrams”. Elucidate 2) What are the postcolonial characteristics of Meena Alexander's poems 7 SECTION-V ‘Answer one of the following (1x15=15) 1) How does Vikram Seth capture the complex emotional states in his poems ? 2) Explore the presence of metaphysical elements in Vijay Sheshadri's poems.