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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination

June, 2005

MEG-6 : AMERICAN LITERATURE

Time: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 100

1. "With the Puritan migration from Europe to America there was an emergence of a 'new' American culture and literature." Apply this to the nineteenth century American writing. (20)

2. In The Scorlet Letter, Hawthorne has presented the intolerance and cruelty of the Puritans in early American history. Comment. (20)

3. Discuss how the comic and critical combine in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. (20)

4. Write a critical note on the prose of the American Civil War. (20)

5. Attempt a citical appreciation of Emily Dickinson's ''Because I Could Not Stop For Death." (20)

6. In O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, we notice a disharmony between man's primitive pride and his individualism, Do You agree ? Give a reasoned answer. (20)

7. Examine the similarities and dissimilarities between Hemingway and Faulkner with relerence to their stories - "A Clenn, Well-Lighted Place" and "The Bear". (20)

8. "Colour consciousnessis a constant presence in TonyMorrison's Tie Bluest Eye." Discuss. (20)