DWARAKA DOSS GOVERDHAN DOSS VAISHNAV COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)

ARUMBAKKAM, CHENNAI – 600 106.

M.A. English

Time: 3 hours Literary Criticism and Literary Theory

QP.NO: P/6503
Sub.Code: 1965314
Max.marks: 100
SECTION A
Answer any tenof the followingquestions in about 50 words each. (10X2=20)
1. Define Catharsis.
2. What is Anagnorisis?
3. Who does Sidney call “ungrateful” and why?
4. What according to Wordsworth is relationship between science and poetry?
5. What constitutes poetic faith according to Coleridge?
6. What were the two kinds of poems to be composed in the Lyrical Ballads?
7. Explain Coleridge’s disagreement with respect to Wordsworth’s “Preface to…Ballads”?
8. What is the role of poetry envisioned by Matthew Arnold?
9. What is historical fallacy according to Arnold?
10. What is postcolonialism?
11. What is the fallacy of premature Teleology?
12. Define post structuralism.

SECTION B
Answer any five of the followingquestions in about 200 words each. (5X7=35)

13. Write a short note on Mimesis

14. What are the elements of an efficient tragic plot according to Aristotle?
15. State Sidney’s views on the poet, philosopher and the historian.
16. “Poetry is the breath and spirit of finer knowledge”.Why does Wordsworth say so?
17. Elaborate on Arnold’s touchstone method.
18. What is the role of tradition in the creation of poetry according to T.S. Eliot?
19. Explain why the birth of the reader has to be at the cost of the death of the author
according to Barthes.
 SECTION C
Write an essay on any three of the followingquestions in about 500 words each. (3X15=45)

20. Compare Wordsworth’s “The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads” with Coleridge’s
“BiographiaLiteraria” as works of literary criticism.
21. Analyse the role of the poet in the study of poetry according to Wordsworth and Eliot.
22. What is paradox? How does Cleanth Brooks establish the centrality of paradox in poetry?
23. What is ‘Orientalism’ according to Said and how does it establish a lopsided power
relationship?
24. What are Gosson’s arguments against poetry and how does Sidney answer them?