Choice of language in the writing of a novel

MEG - 10 ENGLISH STUDIES IN INDIA

ASSIGNMENT 2016 - 2017

(Based on Blocks 1 – 8)

Q2:- What role does the choice of language play in the writing of a novel, particularly when one of the available languages enjoys social power?

The language has penetrated deeply in the society, which has, in its turn, resulted in several varieties of English in India. The development of those new varieties is connected with historical and social factors. The new English’s have all their own contexts of function and usage, and they have also, in their turn, affected the native varieties of English

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Emergence of English Writing by Indians

MEG - 10 ENGLISH STUDIES IN INDIA

ASSIGNMENT 2016 - 2017

(Based on Blocks 1 – 8)

Q1:-Discuss some of the circumstances that led to the emergence of English Writing by Indians?

Indian writing in English has a relatively short but highly charged history. In 1793, Sake Dean Mahomed wrote perhaps the first book by an Indian in English, called The Travels of Dean Mahomed. However, most early Indian writing in English was non-fictional work, such as biographies and political essays. This began to change in the late 1800s, when famous Indian authors who wrote mostly in their mother tongue, began to try their hand at writing in English. In the early 1900s, Rabindranath Tagore began translating his works from Bengali to English

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The title, theme of redemption and the imagery present in the novel The Stone Angel

NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

10. Discuss the major aspects like the title, theme of redemption and the imagery present in the novel The Stone Angel.

The Stone Angel is a novel that explores several ideas common to the novel of awakening: the survival of personality, the function of memory the importance of coming to terms with female sexuality, and the necessity of accepting the past in order to understand the present.  It has several thematic aspects.

Title

There is a lot in a name, in a title. Titles are important as they should in some way express the theme of the book in a rather poetic way. The Stone Angel confronts the reader with a challenge that is felt all the more because of the oxymoron quality of the phrase.

As the opening paragraph describes .......................

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The two motifs that are central to the novel The Solid Mandala.

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

9. Discuss the two motifs that are central to the novel The Solid Mandala.

Motif in a literary aspect is a subject, an idea or a phrase that is repeated and developed in a work of literature. There are two major motifs that are central to the narrative namely Androgyny and Mandala motifs and some implications they have for the interpretation of the novel.

Androgyny motif

The allusions to Tiresias and the hermaphrodite Adam are the strongest manifestation of the androgynous figure in the text. A weaker version of this motif is seen in textual representation s of transvestitism. “The union of ....................................

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The theme of Brathwaite’s poem “Angel/Engine

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

8. What is the theme of Brathwaite’s poem “Angel/Engine”? Discuss in detail.

“Angel/Engine” is from the final section of Braithwaite’s 1977 collection Mother Poem. This section is entitled “koumfort” and in it’s the possibility of spiritual renewal is imagined. Coined from the Haitian Creole word for temple, the title of this section suggests ways in which African connections are preserved.

The “womanist” experience is central to this poem in which the first section mentions a series of relationships between women: the house belongs to the subject’s aunt, she was brought up by her “godma” and has a “foolish” daughter named “christofene.”

The poverty –stricken surrounding ............................

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Aspects of Walcott’s personal life in the poem Midsummer

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

7. Midsummer explores aspects of Walcott’s personal life. Comment with examples from the poem.

Like 'Another Life', a sequence of lyrics from Walcott’s middle period of poetry, Midsummer is an exploration of aspects of the poet’s intensely personal moments of life.

In both collections, the influence of the American poet Robert Lowell’s much acclaimed Life Studies can be traced. Lowell’s work contains poetic and prose recollections of his family, his childhood and his mature experiences of marriage, imprisonment and hospitalization for mental problems. This started the trend of r what came to be called ‘’Confessional” poetry in which the revelation of the private universe with its entire attendant irrationally became acceptable. Madness, for instance.......................

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Role of irony and humour in the novel A House for Mr. Biswas

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

6. What role do irony and humour play in the novel A House for Mr. Biswas? Substantiate your answer with examples from the text of the novel.

Any discussion on the use of irony and humor in A House for M.r Biswas would start with a look at the title and what it signifies. The title of the story by Seepersad Naipaul, on which it is based, is “They Called Him Mohun”, much more informal with a touch of closeness/intimacy, conveyed in the use of the first name.

The nature of humor in the novel varies. Sometimes it borders on pathos as when describing the education system sometimes there is a black edge to it is in the passages describing the way in which Mr. Biswas and Shama get married. At times it is light hearted with just a trace of resentment at being patronized. Mr. Biswas’ resentment at being sucked into the Tulsi household found an outlet in the absurd names ..........................................

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Victimization and suppression of women in Ice-Candy Man with special reference to the major female characters

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

5. Ice-Candy Man highlights feminist concerns like victimization and suppression of women in patriarchal societies. Discuss with special reference to the major female characters present in the novel.

The prominent characters in Ice –Candy-Man are mostly women, and at the center of them is Lenny-a girl child who is also the narrator. Though the paradigm of ‘woman-as-victim’ features in almost all writings on the theme of Partition, Ice-Candy-Man stands apart from the rest in its dramatization of this paradigm. The extensive featuring of women’s shared experiences of victimization in the communal riots is here complimented by a presentation of their oppression and the strategies to overcome the oppression.

            Lenny

We instantly recognize that Lenny in Ice-Candy-Man is far cry from the girl-child whose presence is patterned on ‘submission and subordination’. Though she is located on the margins of her milieu-as physically ...............

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Theme, structure and characterization in Soyinka's play A Dance of the Forests

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

4. Attempt an analysis of Soyinka’s play A Dance of the Forests in terms of theme, structure and characterization.

Because A Dance of the Forests was written primarily for a Nigerian audience, it can be best appreciated through an understanding of Yoruba culture. A recurring figure in Soyinka’s plays is Ogun, the Yoruba god of war, fire, carving, and metal.

As Soyinka says in his essay “The Fourth Stage” (1976), “Ogun stands for a transcendental, humane but rigidly restorative justice.” By using elements of traditional Yoruba performance such as dance and music, Soyinka creates an effect of cathartic ritual. Yoruba myth and its ritual drama, however.......................

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A Grain of Wheat as a complex portrayal of history.

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

3. A Grain of Wheat is based on the Kenyan National Movement. Analyse the novel as a complex portrayal of history.

‘A Grain of Wheat’ written by Ngugi is a portrayal of traumatic phase in the history of Kenya. The so-called-Mau Mau, a phase in which sections of a highly complex society comprising of people belonging to various African tribes, white settlers and Indians acted and reacted to events of violence in a highly emotionally surcharged and often contradictory manner.

As P. Ochola- Ojero comments .....................................

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Socio-political and historical contexts tht shaped the literature of Australia

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

2. What geographical, socio-political and historical contexts have shaped the literature of Australia?

Australia, the smallest of continents, the largest of islands, fifth among the world’s nations in area, had indigenous peoples living there for thousands of years before the British claimed the land as terra nullius-empty land-following Captain James Cook’s invasion in 1788. It established a penal colony and named it New South Wales. Other colonies of the British Empire were gradually added.

For a long time the narration of the history of Australia began with Cook’s invasion and the Aboriginal people were considered mere wards of the state rather that as full citizens in their own right. It was only in 1967.........

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The impact of colonization, emancipation and the indentured system on the Caribbean identity

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

1.      Discuss the impact of colonization, emancipation and the indentured system on the Caribbean identity.

Ans:  The colonial encounter between the immigrants and the original inhabitants had a great impact on the culture, society and history of Caribbean. Any engagement with Caribbean literary production would be incomplete without an engagement with the colonial encounter and its impact.

Geographically, The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands and the surrounding coasts. The region is southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and the North American mainland, east of Central America, and north of South America.........................

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British drama in the twentieth century

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT

(Based on Blocks 1-9)

Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2016-17

Max. Marks: 100

7. Write an essay on British drama in the twentieth century.

Drama was introduced to England from Europe by the Romans, and auditoriums were constructed across the country for this purpose.

Twentieth Century British theatre is commonly believed to have started in Dublin, Ireland with the foundation of the Irish Literary Theater by William B.Yeats,  Lady Gregory, and  J.M.Synge. (Greenblatt 1843) Their purpose was to provide a specifically Celtic and Irish venue that produced works that “stage[d] the deeper emotions of Ireland.” (The Abbey's) The playwrights of the Irish Literary Theater (which later became the Abbey Theater, as it is known today) were part of the literary revival and included:  Sean O’Casey, J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn, to name a few. In England the well-made play genre was being rejected and replaced with actors and directors who were committed to bringing both reform and a serious audience to the theatre by appealing to the younger............

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The framework of a romance with unromantic elements thrown into the play Pygmalion

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT

(Based on Blocks 1-9)

Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2016-17

Max. Marks: 100

QNO 6:  Do you think that Pygmalion has the framework of a romance with unromantic elements thrown into it? Illustrate your answers with examples.

  'Pygmalion' is a play written by George Bernard Shaw. It tells the story of the transformation of a young girl's life.

Pygmalion is a wonderful play about Eliza Doolittle.  Eliza is a young educated girl working in the flower district of London, England.  On night she runs into Professor Henry Higgins, a noted professor of phonetics.  Higgins is intrigued by her broken speech and low station in life.  He believes he can tell all he needs to about a person based on his speech ............

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