“The Catcher in the Rye is a bildungsroman.”

MEG-11 AMERICAN NOVEL

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                          Course Code: MEG-11/ 2016-17

                          Max. Marks: 100

Q5:- “The Catcher in the Rye is a bildungsroman.” Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer.

The Catcher in the Rye is a bildungsroman, a novel about a young character’s growth into maturity. While it is appropriate to discuss the novel in such terms, Holden Caulfield is an unusual protagonist for a bildungsroman because his central goal is to resist the process of maturity itself. As his thoughts about the Museum of Natural History demonstrate, Holden fears change and is overwhelmed by complexity. He wants everything to be easily understandable and eternally fixed, like the statues of Eskimos and Indians in the museum. He is frightened because he is guilty of the sins he criticizes in others, and because he can’t understand everything around him.

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Significance of epistolary form of The Colour Purple

MEG-11 AMERICAN NOVEL

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                          Course Code: MEG-11/ 2016-17

                          Max. Marks: 100

Q4:- Discuss the significance of epistolary form of The Colour Purple.

Alice Walker has been one of the most popular and prominent figures in contemporary literature since 1970s. In her early literary career, her focus was on the spiritual survival of the black people especially the black women. In her works, though she explores the problems faced by a land and its people, she also keeps her emphasis strong on the healing power of love and the possibility of a change. She also used the term "Womanism" in her famous volume of essays "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose" derived from the word "Womanish" used for a girl asking too many questions and speaking in her own voice. In her works, Walker has always valued the bonds between women, their culture, their emotional flexibility and their strength.

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Main characteristics of the nineteenth century American novel

MEG-11 AMERICAN NOVEL

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                          Course Code: MEG-11/ 2016-17

                          Max. Marks: 100

Q3:- Discuss the main characteristics of the nineteenth century American novel.

The novel became the dominant form of Western literature in the 19th cent., which produced many works that are considered milestones in the development of the form.

The characteristics of the 19th century American novel differ based upon the period to which is being referred to.

There were three different writing movements which took place during the 19th century: The Romantic Period, The American Renaissance, and The Realist Movement (Realism).

The main characteristics of the Romantic Period (dating 1800-1860) were:

-The theme of the personal journey in regards to independence.

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The Great Gatsby as a novel of social criticism

MEG-11 AMERICAN NOVEL

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                          Course Code: MEG-11/ 2016-17

                          Max. Marks: 100

Q2:- Discuss the Great Gatsby as a novel of social criticism.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic twentieth-century story of Jay Gatsby's quest for Daisy Buchanan, examines and critiques Gatsby's particular vision of the 1920's American Dream. Written in 1925, the novel serves as a bridge between World War I and the Great Depression of the early 1930's. Although Fitzgerald was an avid participant in the stereotypical "Roaring Twenties" lifestyle of wild partying and bootleg liquor, he was also an astute critic of his time period. The Great Gatsby certainly serves more to detail society's failure to fulfill its potential than it does to glamorize Fitzgerald's "Jazz Age."

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Imagery in the novel Sister Carrie

MEG-11 AMERICAN NOVEL

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Course Code: MEG-11/ 2016-17

Max. Marks: 100

Answer all questions.

Q1:- Comment on the imagery in the novel Sister Carrie.

Sister Carrie, Dreiser's first novel, was presented to a reading public not yet ready for its stark realism and pessimistic view of life. The manuscript had already been refused by two publishers when Frank Norris, author of the powerful naturalistic novel McTeague, and also an editor for Doubleday, Page and Company, read the manuscript

 

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Dalit literature and a work by a Dalit writer.

Course Code: MEG-14

                Assignment Code: MEG-14/TMA/2016-17

              Max. Marks: 100

What is meant by Dalit literature? Pick up a work by a Dalit writer and discuss it from the perspective of haves/have nots; privileged/disadvantaged.

The history of Dalit literature can be traced back to centuries. But Dalit literature was not given its due place due to the hegemonic nature of the field of literary production in India, which is also influenced by caste nuances.

The emergence of of Dalit literature coincides with emergence of Dalits as a political category.

Current researches by scholars reveal the widespread character of Dalit writings in various parts of India. Research also shows that Dalit literature had for before acquired a distinct language through its heterogeneous character...

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The trend towards social realism in Kannada drama

Course Code: MEG-14

                Assignment Code: MEG-14/TMA/2016-17

              Max. Marks: 100

Give a brief description of the trend towards social realism in Kannada drama. Can you find equivalences in drama in other Indian languages? Give examples.

The history of modern Kannada drama can be divided, roughly, into four periods: a) Professional-popular theatre,   b) Elite Theatre of Realism,  c)  Navya or Modernist Theatre, and d) Navyottara or Post-modernist Theatre.

a)     Professional-popular Theatre:-Although Kannada poetry has a rich history of more than a millennium, drama entered Kannada literature only at the end of the 17^th century; and the first Kannada play to be staged was Singaraarya’s Mitravinda Govinda(1700), a free adaptation of Sri Harsha’s Ratnavali in Sanskrit.  However,......

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How have Indian writers and poets dealt with the horrors of partition?

Course Code: MEG-14

                Assignment Code: MEG-14/TMA/2016-17

              Max. Marks: 100

How have Indian writers and poets dealt with the horrors of partition? Illustrate

A number of novels in the Indian sub-continent have been written on the theme of the Partition of India. This unforgettable historical moment has been captured as horrifying by the novelists like Khushwant Singh in Train to Pakistan (1956), A Bend in the Ganges (1964) by Manohar Malgaonkar, Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961) , Rajan's The Dark Dancer, Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-Candy-Man, Chaman Nahal's Azadi and Bhisham Sahni's Tamas.

These novels examine the inexorable logic of Partition as an offshoot of fundamentalism and fanaticism sparked by hardening communal attitudes. These novels belong to the genre of the partition novel. These novels

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Role of translation in Indian literature

Course Code: MEG-14

Assignment Code: MEG-14/TMA/2016-17

Max. Marks: 100

What role has translation played in Indian literature? Select a text that has been translated from a regional language into English and write a review of the translation – its positive and negative points and how effective the translation is.




Translation holds a special place in the literary process as each literary genre relies certain kind of translation. Thus, for the translation of literature used literary translation, which is a special kind of translation, because it is not accurate transfer of content and reflection of the views and feelings of the author's prose or poetic nuance through the use of another language


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How did the Bhakti movement influence Indian writing?

Course Code: MEG-14

Assignment Code: MEG-14/TMA/2016-17

Max. Marks: 100

Answer any four questions:

All questions carry equal marks.

Q1:-How did the Bhakti movement influence Indian writing? Choose a Bhakti poet from your region and discuss a few of his/her poems from the point of view of their ‘Indianness’.

  The Bhakti Movement was a reform movement in Hinduism. It occupies a significant position in bringing about harmony and normal relationships between the Hindus and Muslims.

Bhakti and Sufi Movement in India

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Bhakti and Sufi Movement

The Bhakti and Sufi Movement in India played an important role in bringing harmony between the Hindus and the Muslims.

Bhakti Movement

The Bhakti Movement was a reform movement in Hinduism............

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How do both post modernism and post structuralism contribute to the ‘logics of disintegration?

MEG-05: LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY

ASSIGNMENT

QN05: How do both post modernism and post structuralism contribute to the ‘logics of disintegration?

The impact of language-based theories was felt in Western criticism, of which English criticism deliberately here because English criticism from the nineteen sixties onward did not remain confined to consideration of English or American writing. Instead, it took influences from trends in European thought and also started relating English writing to literatures of other countries.

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The sign theory of Language as propounded by Saussure highlighting its specific features

MEG-05: LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY

ASSIGNMENT

QN04: Outline the sign theory of Language as propounded by Saussure highlighting its specific features.

Ferdinand de Saussure revolutionized linguistic by declaring that the way language functions is quite arbitrary in the sense that there is no obvious correlation between a linguistic or phonetic utterance/unit and the idea or thing it tries to refer to/convey.

A linguistic sign has two components:.......................................

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Wollstonecraft’s ‘An Introduction’ as constrained by being the product of its day and age.

MEG-05: LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY

ASSIGNMENT

QN03: Examine Wollstonecraft’s ‘An Introduction’ as constrained by being the product of its day and age.

Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Her key work ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ is concerned with the status and right issues of women in the late 18^th century. It is an absolute product of its day and age.

Mary Wollstonecraft’s ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects’ is considered by many to be the manifesto .......

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Wordsworth and Coleridge-who had greater influence on modern criticism?

MEG-05: LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY

ASSIGNMENT

QN 02: Of the two-Wordsworth and Coleridge-who had greater influence on modern criticism and in what respects?

Wordsworth’s criticism is limited in scope whereas the range Coleridge as a critic was vast. In his own way he was a system builder and always thought within a larger philosophical context. He considered criticism to be an important part of literary study. Coleridge paved the way for appreciation of great poetry as is evident in his praise for Wordsworth’s poetry. He is mostly subjective but Coleridge gives ample evidence of both subjectivity and objectivity. 

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Bakhtian’s main concerns regarding language

MEG-05: LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY

ASSIGNMENT

QNO1: What were Bakhtian’s main concerns regarding language? How does he treat language?

Mikhail Bakhtin was a Russian genre critic whose theories were not just influential but also directly related to literature. His genre, of course, was the novel and he looked at the novel in, well, novel ways.

Bakhtin was concerned with language or discourse as a social activity. The Bakhtin School comprising Bakhtin, Pavel Medvedev and Valentin Voloshinov believed ‘words’ to be active,....................................

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Compare Premchand’s writing with that of Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao

MEG - 10 ENGLISH STUDIES IN INDIA

ASSIGNMENT 2016 - 2017

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Q5:-Compare Premchand’s writing with that of Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao and investment the way in which they come to terms with the problem of language and reader from their respective positions

The young writer Premchand was a contemporary of Tagore and was junior to him by two decades. The main theme of Premchand was the society specially the concern for India and national movement. Premchand’s mind was attracted by the evolution of Arya Samaj Movement in the 19th century. Premchand had the power to develop relation between social reform and politics. In his writings he has put stress on the social evils and tried to create awareness in the masses towards them. Although Prem Chand was well-versed in Urdu, English and the regional language (from the region he belonged to i.e. East Uttar Pradesh) but unlike other writers he preferred to write in Hindi

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Relationship between criticism and literature

MEG - 10 ENGLISH STUDIES IN INDIA

ASSIGNMENT 2016 - 2017

(Based on Blocks 1 – 8)

Q4:- Critically   examine the relationship between criticism and literature.

Literary theory is the arena of literature where some established theories set by different theorists are used as yardsticks to criticize different literary pieces. These set principles we study in order to judge any prose or poetry. That's what actually the relationship between the term 'theory' & 'criticism'


Contemporary literary theory and criticism encompasses a complex and changing group of disciplines. There arethree main areas of study: literary theory, the history of literature, and literary criticism in the strict sense (literaturnaia kritika). The theory ofliterature investigates the general laws of the structure and development .....................


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Link between language teaching and the study of literary texts

MEG - 10 ENGLISH STUDIES IN INDIA

ASSIGNMENT 2016 - 2017

(Based on Blocks 1 – 8)

Q3:-Bring out the link between language teaching and the study of literary texts.

The teaching of literature has recently been resurrected as a vital component of English language teaching. Over the past few decades, there has been much discussion on the value of attempting to teach any kind of literature, whether it be the classics or any imaginative work written in English, as part of an English language syllabus. For instance, in the sixties and seventies, there was a distinct reaction against the use of any literary English before the pendulum swung again in support of literature teaching. The opposition towards literature may well have been due to the impact of the approaches that were practised in the decades prior to the sixties and seventies and prevailing ideas in language teaching and methodology

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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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