MEG-08
INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2017-2018 (Based on Blocks 18)
Course Code: MEG-08/ 2017-18 Max. Marks: 100
9. Do you think that The Stone Angel is an appropriate title for Laurence’s novel? Give reasons for your answer.
The Stone Angel – The Title
1. Laurence said in an interview with Michel Fabre (in 1981): “Titles are important as they should in some way express the theme of the book in a rather poetic way.”
2. “Solid and, ethereal, opaque and spiritual, The StoneAngel confronts the reader with a challenge that is left all the move because of the oxymoron quality of the phrase,” says Simone Vauthier in her essay, “Image in Stones, Images in Words.”
3. Says further Vauthier: “Announcing the new–the text to come–also resonates with the old: Thomas Wolfe’s lyrical novel, Look Homeward Angel. Hardly have we had time to puzzle about it, however when the narration blocks our flight of imagination by presenting us with a fictional referent for the title. “Above the town, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to stand ....” (p. 3)
4. (i) The Stone Angel is a marble statue “brought from Italy at great expense.”
(ii) It is erected in the cemetery in memory of the narrator – protagonist's mother.
(iii) This has its effect on the narrator's memory : “She viewed the town with sightless eyes.” (p. 3) This is characteristic as much of Hagar as of the statue.
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(For the complete answer and also the full set of answers of 1st and 2nd year MEG assignments/study notes mail me : ignousolvedassignmentz@gmail.com, you may also call or Whatsapp me to get instant reply: +919947147185)
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click here to watch ignou videos
click here to watch poetry explanation
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Downloads
Click here to download Poetry notes (meg 01)
YouTube
click here to watch ignou videos
click here to watch poetry explanation
click here to watch strategy to prepare for poetry exam
Downloads
Click here to download Poetry notes (meg 01)
Click here to download Aspects of language notes ( meg 04)
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