M phil English papers

DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.Phil. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION,
DECEMBER 2009.
MODERN RHETORIC AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
(Upto 2006 Batch)
Time : Three hours                        Maximum : 100 marks

Answer any FIVE of the following.

All questions carry equal marks.

1.     Write an essay on modern rhetoric.

2.     How will you select a topic for literary research?

3.     Write an essay on the collection of research materials and bibliography.

4.     Write an essay on note taking (on cards).

5.     How will you maintain the readability and effectiveness, while preparing the thesis?

6.     Write an essay on documentation.

7.     What is the book recommended for methodology? What are its salient features?

8.     Write about the importance of the review of literature.

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DISTANCE EDUCATION

M.Phil.(English) DEGREE EXAMINATION,
DECEMBER 2009.
LITERARY CRITICISM
(Upto 2006 Batch)
Time : Three hours                        Maximum : 100 marks

Answer any FIVE of the following.

All questions carry equal marks.

                                                          (5 ´ 20 =100)

1.     What are four kinds of meaning, according to
I. A. Richards?

2.     Make an appraisal of frend’s criticism on creative writers with reference to the psychological approach.

3.     Critically evaluate Gerard Genette’s “structuralism and Literary Criticism” .

4.     Examine the Showalter’s “Feministic views”.

5.     Post-structuralism designates a variety of critical perspectives — Examine this view with reference to
J. Derrida.

6.     “Cleanth Brooks is a formalist critic and subscribes unswervingly to the formalist creed”. Examine this statement with reference to his essay “The Language of Paradox”.

7.     Eliot’s poet is not a maker in any conventional sense, but his mind is a fine receptacle and storing of numberless feelings, phrases, wards and images. Analyze this statement with reference to Eliot’s ‘Re Metaphysical poets’.

8.     Write short notes an any FOUR of the following :

                    (a)    Connotation

                    (b)    Denotation

                    (c)    Irony

                    (d)    Metaphor

                    (e)    Reader-Response Criticism.

                    (f)    Structuralism

                    (g)    Feminism.

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DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.Phil. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION,
DECEMBER 2009.
INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
(Upto 2006 Batch)
Time : Three hours                        Maximum : 100 marks
Answer any FIVE of the following.

(5 × 20 = 100)

1.     Write an essay on the achievement and greatness of Nissim Ezekiel with the special reference to his poems prescribed for your study.

2.     How the moral ‘‘evil destroys itself’’ is presented in the novel ‘‘The Man Eater of Malgudi’’.

3.     Discuss Tendulkar’s handling of humour, satire and irony, in the play ‘‘Silence! The Court is in Session’’.

4.     What are Dr. S. Radhakrishnan’s views on ‘‘Our Heritage’’? What does he say about Vivekananda, Ramakrishna, Gandhi and Nehru?  

5.     Summarize the ideas presented by Aurobindo in his ‘‘The Renaissance in India’’.

6.     ‘‘The greatness of the novel Train to Pakistan lies in its symbolism’’ – Discuss.

7.     Attempt an appreciation of ‘‘The Dance of Shiva’’.

8.     Kamala Das is essentially a poet of love – Illustrate this
view with reference to the poems prescribed for your study.

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DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.Phil. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION,
DECEMBER 2009.
AMERICAN LITERATURE
(Upto 2006 batch)
Time : Three hours                        Maximum : 100 marks
Answer any FIVE of the following.
All questions carry equal marks.
                                                     

                             (5 ´ 20 = 100)
1.     On what grounds would you claim that Emily Dickinson is a poet of emotional sensitivity? Analyze from the poems prescribed for your study.

2.     Critically appreciate Cummings’ poems : ‘‘Buffalo Bill’s defunct’’ and ‘‘Spring is like a perhaps hand’’.

3.     What are the reasons given by Thoreau for not paying the poll tax? Also explain how do the mass of men serve the state?

4.     How does Henry James define reality and experience and how did he make novel criticism popular?

5.     Consider ‘‘The Death of a Salesman’’ as a tragedy ending in the death of its hero.

6.     Examine ‘‘The Zoo Story’’ as an absurd play.

7.     Discuss the element of descriptive realism with reference to ‘‘Sister Carrie’’.

8.     Describe the incidents recalled by sammler in the context of the conflict between the past and the present?