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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination

December, 2005

MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 100

1. Explain with reference to context any four of the following passages in about 150 words each : 4x5:20

(i) Which human eye may never more behold;

And let the guerdon of my labour be

My fallen country ! One kind wish from thee !

(ii) This is the soul of man. Body and brain

Hungry for earth our heavenly flight detain.

(iii) ... I arn Indian, very brown, born in

Malabar,I speak three languages, write in

Two, dream in one.

(iv) Now she looks for the swing

in cities with fifteen suburbs

and tries to be innocent

about it.

(v) Mornings of heated middens

smoke under the sun.

(vi) Karam singh marching in the same rank as I

Curses under his breath,

"l have children older than them,

these kids whose pubes have hardly sprouted !''

(vii) My tongue is in Engrish chains,

I return, after a generation, to you.

2- Discuss Coomaraswamy's views on Indian Art. 20

OR

Compare and contrast Vikram Seth and Amitav Ghosh as writers of travelogue.

3. Discuss Bakha's centrality in Anand's Untouchable. 20

OR

Discuss the narrative style of Raja Rao's Kanthapura.

4. Discuss the women charactersin Desai's Clear Light of Day.

OR

Discuss irony and humour in R.K. Narayan's short stories with special reference to those you have studied.

5- Discuss the epoch - making features of Rushdie's Midnight's Children.

OR

Discuss the use of theatrical effects in Dattani's Tara.