Tribhuvan University
Major English Question Paper
Exam. 2069
Time: 3hrs.
Full Marks:- 100
Attempt ALL the questions.
Section "A"
1.Answer any three of the following questions:
- Define French and Multicultural Feminism, and discuss the relationship between them.
- What do you mean by ideology? How does it affect literature?
- Define Structuralism and show its relevance in literary interpretation.
- Show the difference between Psychological and Social Reader Response Theory
2.Answer any TWO questions based on your reading of The Great Gatsby
- Discuss the role played by Nick Carraway using Reader Response Theory.
- Interpret Gatsby's love to Daisy from the Marxist perspective of commodification of relationship.
- Discuss the role of Tom Buchanan from the structuralist perspective.
3. Interpret the following poem using main ideas from one of the given
theories: Feminism, Structuralism and Reader Response Theory.
[16 A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal (William Wordsworth )
A Slumber did my spirit seal
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.
No motion has she now, no force
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled around in earth's diurnal course
With rocks, and stones, and trees.
Section "B"
4.Rousseau uses different Thetorical devices like analogy, analysis. definition of terms, topic of testimony, rhetorical questions and paradox to explain, establish and justify his point. How do these devices make his writing convincing?
Or
Bacon uses method of induction, topic of definition and yoking a thesis and demonstration to make himself convincing. Explain each o them with examples from the text.
5.How does Aristotle define tragedy, and why is it a pure form of art?Discuss.("Tragedy”
Or
What does it mean to define man as the "subject" and woman as the "other"? What is de Beauvoir suggesting about the relationship of men and women to each other and to humanity in general?("Woman as Other"
6. How is Lukacs's view of factor different from our common everyday view?(Ficto or The Purpose of Historical Statements"
Or
Reading has to be a lifelong process and essentially reading is its own reward. How does the essay "How should One Read a Book strengthen this concept? Explain.
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