Major English I Paper (Eng. 311)
Exam. 2066
Time: 3 hrs. Full Marks : 100
Attempt ALL the questions.
Section "A"
- Explain any three from Critical Theory Today.
- New Criticism: The text, itself, literary Language and Organic Unity.
- Psychoanalysis as the theory of unconscious and desire.
- Reader response theory.
- Deconstruction.
2. Read Great Gatsby from the perspective of Literary Theory. Answer any TWO:
- Discuss Nick Carraway's role from structuralist perspective.
- Analyse the life of Jordan Baker, and Daisy from psychoanalytical theory.
- Gap and fissures in the life of Gatsby, (deconstructive reading)
3.Interpret the following text using one of given literary theories: Feminism, structuralism, reader response theory, Marxism.
A Slumber did My Spirit Seal
(W. Wordsworth)
A slumber did my spirit seal
I had no human ears
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 a round in earth's diurnal course,
with rocks, and stones, and trees.
Section "B"
4. Discuss in detail the rhetorical strategies used by N. Machiavelli in essay "The Qualities of the Prince." He is noted primarily for us three types of rhetorical strategies.
Or
Whitehead concentrated in some places on religion and science al and in some other places on their distinction. On this basis, desce notable strategies of Whitehead in "Religion and Science."
5. Reading has to be a life long process and essentially reading is its reward. How does this essay argue these points? (V. Woolf: How Should One Read A Book)
OR
Discuss what you think Aristotle meant by the following term imitation, unity, plot, discovery, suffering, pity and fear, specta hamartia, catharsis.
6. Machiavelli is cynical about human nature. Is cynicism typical necessary, in the politician? Explain using examples from his and/or the contemporary world of politics
OR
How is Georg Lukacs's view of facts in "Fictio" or the purpose Historical Statements' different from our common, everyday view facts?
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