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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination

December, 2005

MEG-11 : AMERICAN NOVEL

Time: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 100

1. Evaluate the social and political situation in America at the turn of the 20th century. 20

2. "Landscape defines the shapes, the theme, plot and characterisation in The Last of the Mohicans." Discuss. 20

3. Discuss the treatment of Gender in Sister Carrie. 20>

4. "The Great Gatsby is both a 'Romance' and a 'Novel'." Discuss. 20

5. "Lena Grove's story enfolds the entire action of the novel, Light in August." Discuss. 20

6. Write short notes on : 10x2:20

(i) Dialectic of sex - motif in American literature.

(ii) 'The prophet of sexual Revolution'.

7. "The catcher in the Rye is a witty story where the protagonist, Holden Caulfield has become a classic example like Huck Finn. " Discuss. 20

8. "The Floating Opera is the predicament of human life in the cross currents of mid - century America." Discuss. 20

9. Discuss Abel's identity conflict as the underlying theme of the novel House Made of Dawn. 20

10. Discuss The Color Purple as a representative text of Black Feminism and civil Rights Movement in America. 20