English Department

.Modernism and Postmodernism

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:Question One

As I Lay Dying, a novel by William Faulkner, exploits a variety of distinct features

typical of modernist text. Unlike the traditional trend of writing, it possesses
different themes, techniques, subject matter and characters. Illustrate with
.reference to the novel

:Question Two

T. S Eliot is innovative and experimental in nature. In “The Love Song of J.

Alfred Prufrock ,” he experiments with the form and structure of the poem, leads to
unhappiness and isolation, and using symbolism and setting to represent mood and
.meaning. Explain with reference to the poem

:Question Three

Discuss Chinua Achebe"s Things Fall Apart as a counter discourse of African

 .Representation in colonial literatures