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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination

December, 2005

MEG-5 : LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY

Time: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 100

1. Write short notes of about 250 words each on any four of the following : 4x5:20

(a) Plot, according to Aristotle

(b) F.R. Leavis's view of tradition

(c) Ideology and Literature

(d) Woman as Reader and Writer

(e) 'Aucitya'

(f) Freud's psychoanalysis

2.Wiite a critical note on Aristotle's theory of mimesis. 20

3.Explain and elaborate the debate between Wordsworth and Coleridge on poetry and poetic language. 20

4. What, in your view, are the basic premises of New Criticism ? 20

5. Explain the concept of 'structure' and discuss the notion of a stable centre. 20

6. Discuss literature as a part of cultural superstructure. 20

7 . Discuss Virginia Woolf's views on women's place in literary history. 20

8."Postcolonialism is a reading strategy." Comment. 20

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