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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination

June, 2005

MEG-5 : LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY

Time: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 100

1. Write short notes on any four of the following (approx. 250 words each): (4x5=20)
(a) What does literary criticism basically involve ?
(b) Structuralism
(c) Shruti
(d) Myth in Greek literature
(e) A Defence of Poetry (Shelley's)
(f) Objective Correlative

Artswer any four

2. Attempt a comparative study of Plato's and Aristotle's views on 'Imitation'. (20)

3. Explain Coleridge's idea of a good poet. Who, among his contemporaries fits the bill best ? (20)

4. What T.S. Eliot's definition of culture ? Does he give any guidelines for the practice of criticism ?

5. Discuss the role and function of ideology in literature. (20)

6. Enumerate some of the basic tenets of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. (20)

7. What do you understand try the term "telos" ? How is deconstruction at variance with this idea ? Discuss. (20)

8. What is cultural studies ? Discuss Raymond William's contribution to cultural studies. (20)