Arjun Singh Centre for Distance and 0pen Learning

Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110025

Assignment (2015-16)

M.A. ENGLISH (Previous)

British Poetry (MEG-01)

Attempt any three questions in about 3000 words. All questions carry equal
marks. (Maximum Marks: 30)

1. Describe the age of Chaucer highlighting the main features of his poetry
along with the ones of his contemporaries.

2. Critically discuss the movements and processes that characterized

English literature during ‘renaissance’

3. Highlight the main features of neo-classical poetry giving examples from

the text.

4. Give a critique on any two of the following poems: (1500 words each)

I. The Canonization
II. Kubla Khan
III. The Wasteland
IV. Sailing to Byzantium
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Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110025

Assignment (2015-16)

M.A. ENGLISH (Previous)

British Drama (MEG-02)

Attempt any three questions in about 3000 words. All questions carry equal
marks. (Maximum Marks: 30)

1. Discuss Christopher Marlowe’s play, ‘The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus’

as the most representative drama of the Renaissance period.

2. Critically examine Ben Jonson’s ‘The Alchemist’ in the light of the humor
that it represented

3. Highlight the role of Tempters in T.S.Eliot’s play ‘The Murder in the

Cathedral’

4. Write short notes on any two of the following: (1500 words each)

i. Dark Comedy
ii. Modern Drama
iii. Post 50’s British Drama
iv. Existentialism and Literature of the Twentieth Century
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Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110025

Assignment (2015-16)

M.A. ENGLISH (Previous)

British Novel (MEG-03)

Attempt any three questions in about 3000 words. All questions carry equal
marks. (Maximum Marks: 30)

1. Discuss the narrative structure of Wuthering Heights.

2. Critically analyze the significance of the title in the novel, ‘Great

Expectations’

3. How does Fielding portray the relationship between city and country in
Tom Jones?

4. Write short notes on any two of the following: (1500 words each)

I. Stream of Consciousness
II. Role of Social Class in Pride and Prejudice
III. Interpret Kurt’s dying words “The horror! The horror!”
IV. Comic Epic in Prose
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Assignment (2015-16)

M.A. ENGLISH (Previous)

Aspects of Language (MEG-04)

Attempt any three questions in about 3000 words. All questions carry equal
marks. (Maximum Marks: 30)

1. Write the main features of the language theory propounded by Sapir-

Whorf.

2. Compare and contrast between West and American schools of

structuralism with reference to language.

3. Critically examine the sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics perspectives of

language learning.

4. Write short notes on any two of the following: (1500 words each)

I. Multilingualism as a resource to language learning

II. Language learning and language acquisition
III. Free and Bound Morphemes
IV. Difficulties faced by non-native speakers in producing English sounds
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Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110025

Assignment (2015-16)

M.A. ENGLISH (Previous)

Literary Criticism (MEG-05)

Attempt any three questions in about 3000 words. All questions carry equal
marks. (Maximum Marks: 30)

1. Comment on the influence of German critical thoughts on Coleridge.

2. Critically discuss the influence of post-structuralism on Feminism.

3. Highlight the Aristotelian’s views on Tragedy

4. Write short notes on any two of the following: (1500 words each)
I. Objective correlative
II. Influence of T.S. Eliot on New Critics
III. Freud’s views on unconsciousness
IV. Discuss how a particular ideology influences a writer’ literary work
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Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110025

Assignment (2015-16)

M.A. ENGLISH (Final)

American Literature (MEG-06)

Attempt any three questions in about 3000 words. All questions carry equal
marks. (Maximum Marks: 30)

1. Highlight the Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’ as a poem of Democracy.

2. Discuss the lyrical quality of Robert Frost’s poem with special reference to
the poems in your course.

3. Comment on the narrative techniques and language of Huckleberry Finn.

4. Write short notes on any two of the following: (1500 words each)

i. How Scarlet Letter, an American Epic is a deviation from the historic

use of elevated hero to the identity of the common man
ii. The Elements of American transcendentalism on the prose of Ralph
Waldo Emerson
iii. Emergence of Preritamism as the hegemonic American Ideology
iv. American Drama
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Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110025

Assignment (2015-16)

M.A. ENGLISH (Final)

Indian English Literature (MEG-07)

Attempt any three questions in about 3000 words. All questions carry equal
marks. (Maximum Marks: 30)

1. Critically examine how Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable is an upper caste’s

benevolence towards the downtrodden.

2. Highlight the main features of the style of Raja Rao in Kanthapura.

3. Discuss the writings of Swami Vivekanda with reference to the genre of

non-fictional prose.
4. Write short notes on any two of the following: (1500 words each)
i. Critical appreciation of Daruwalla’s poem, ‘My Grandmother’s
House’.
ii. Overview of Sarojni Naidu’s poetry
iii. Challenges faced by the Indian English Dramatists.
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Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110025

Assignment (2015-16)

M.A. ENGLISH (Final)

New Literature in English (MEG-08)

Attempt any three questions in about 3000 words. All questions carry equal
marks. (Maximum Marks: 30)

1. Comment on the tendencies and trends that embody English Canadian

writings.

2. Highlight the theme of Ngugi’s work as reflected through his writing in ‘A

Grain of Wheat’.

3. Critically analyze the term ‘New Literature in English’ as a possible advance

on ‘Commonwealth Literature.’

4. Write short notes on any two of the following: (1500 words each)
i. ‘The Steve Angel’ as a novel of awakening
ii. The African Presence in Caribbean Literature’ with reference to
Wascett’s and Brathwaithe’s works.
iii. Evidence of post coloniality in Scyinka’s ‘A Dance of Forests’.
iv. Theme of Partition in Sidhma’s ‘Ice Candy Man’.
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Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110025

Assignment (2015-16)

M.A. ENGLISH (Final)

English Studies in India (MEG-10)

Attempt any three questions in about 3000 words. All questions carry equal
marks. (Maximum Marks: 30)

1. Bankim’s stories reinforce the idea about the universality of suffering. Discuss this with
reference to the texts prescribed in your course.

2. Do you agree that the writing of Raja Ram Mohan Roy greatly influenced the aspiring
Indian writers in the 19th century? Discuss.

3. Elucidate the ways in which English can be usually 'nativised'.

4. Write short notes on any two of the following: (1500 words each)
I. Non native Varieties of English
II. The issues and problems in evolving a feminist canon of Indian English writing?
III. Elaborate on the Dalit theory as propounded by Limbale and Valmiki.
IV. Tagore’s contribution to English Studies in the early 20th Century.
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Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110025

Assignment (2015-16)

M.A. ENGLISH (Final)

Contemporary Indian Literature in English Translation (MEG-14)

Attempt any three questions in about 3000 words. All questions carry equal
marks. (Maximum Marks: 30)
1. Critically discuss Anatha Murthy’s ‘Samakara.’

2. Do you agree that Tamas represents a gruesome side of politics and the compassionate
side of humanity that survives any carnage? Critically evaluate.

3. Highlight the main features of Karkku as an autobiography of a Dalit girl.

4. Write short notes on any two of the following: (1500 words each)
i. Compare and contrast Manto and Ismat’s writings
ii. Character sketch of Praneshachaya
iii. Girish Karnad as a playwright
iv. Non –fictional Prose