DECEMBER 2020 P/ID 36510/PENK

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

PART A — (10 × 2 = 20 marks)

Write short notes on the following in about

50 words each.

1. What is the significance of the “Preface to

Shakespeare”?

2. According to Wordsworth, what are the four stages

of poetic composition?

3. What are the three ways of estimation, according

to Arnold?

4. Mention T.S. Eliot’s definition for poetry.

5. Who is Aphra Behn?

6. Explain the term “The myth is an archetype”.

7. What is Paradox?

8. What do you mean by “enunciation”?

9. Whom did influence Roland Barthes?

10. Mention any two most renowned Orientalists of

the 19th century.
 PART B — (5 × 6 = 30 marks)

Answer the following in about 250 words each

choosing either (a) or (b).

11. (a) Give a critical note on classical literary

criticism.

Or
(b) Discuss Johnson’s view regarding the “three
unities” in drama with special reference to
Shakespeare’s disregard of the unities of
time and place.

12. (a) Examine Wordsworth’s conception of poetry.

Or
(b) Comment on Arnold’s Touchstone method.

13. (a) Describe T.S. Eliot’s views on Poetic Drama.

Or
(b) Justify the title “A Room of One’s Own”.

14. (a) What does Lionel Trilling emphasize in

“Sense of the Past”?

Or
(b) Bring out Northrop Frye’s views on Myth.

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15. (a) How does Brooks defend Irony as the vital
source of poetry?

Or
(b) Discuss the aptness of the title “Ideology of
Modernism”.

PART C — (5 × 10 = 50 marks)

Answer the following in about 500 words each

choosing either (a) or (b).

16. (a) What, according to Johnson, are the merits

of Shakespeare’s plays? To what extent do
you agree with his observations in this
respect?

Or
(b) How does Arnold prove the supremacy of
poetry over other branches of knowledge in
his “The Study of poetry”?

17. (a) Write a critical appreciation of Wordsworth’s

“Preface of lyrical ballads”.

Or
(b) Discuss T.S. Eliot’s contributions to English
criticism by emphasizing his masterpiece
“Tradition and Individual Talent”.

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18. (a) Critically analyse Virginia Woolf’s views on
the creative potentials of woman writers.

Or
(b) Critically examine Northrop Frye’s “The
Archetypes of Literature”.

19. (a) Attempt a critical appreciation of Jacques

Lacan’s “Of structure as an inmixing of an
otherness prerequisite to any subject
whatever”.

Or
(b) How does Cleanth Brooks analyse the poems
of Wordsworth and Donne by using Paradox
and Irony as his tools?

20. (a) Consider George Lukacs as a social realist.

Or
(b) Justify the title “The Death of the Author”.

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