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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination

December, 2005

MEG-6 : AMERICAN LITERATURE

Time: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 100

Note : Attempt five questions in all. Question number 1 is compulsary.

1. Discuss Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards as the voices of Enlightenment. 20

2. How does "The Custom House", Hawthorne's preface to The Scarlet Letter get linked up with the main text ? 20

3. "The inter-racial friendship between Huck and Jim can be interpreted only as an idealistic alliance." Comment. 20

4. Discuss the evolution of pamphlet - writing in America leading upto America's Declaration of Independence. 20

5. Write a critical appreciation of Emily Dickinson's poem "My Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gun." 20

6. In what ways do the different aspects of women's lives, represented in "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law", contribute to a feminist statement by Adrienne Rich? 20

7. Give a brief account of the development of the short story genre in America, with special reference to Hemingway and Faulkner. 20

8. "In Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller fulfilled his aspiration to produce arealistic tragedy". Discuss. 20

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