Major english Tribhuwan university questin paper 2073

Major English

Tribhuban University

Exam. 2073

Full Marks : 100

Time: 3 hrs.

Attempt ALL The questions.

Section "A"

1. Answer any three of the following questions:

1. Discuss the concepts of the text in itself, 'intentional fallacy and 'affective fallacy' in relation to New Criticism.
2. How does Claude Levi Strauss apply Saussurean Synchronic so linguistics in order to study myths from different cultures?
3. How do Marxists interpret the relationship between the "haves" and "have- nots" as well as between the base structure and superstructure ?
4. What is the distinction between gender and sex? Support your with answer with examples.

2. Answer any TWO questions based on your reading of The Great Gatsby.

1. How does romance between Nick and Jordan reveal their fear of intimacy?
2. Discuss the relationship between Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson as the relationship between bourgeois and proletariat.
3. Interpret Gatsby's and Nick's narratives by using seck-find- and -lose pattern of romance and seek - but don't find pattern of irony respectively.

3.. Interpret the following poem using main ideas from one of the given  theories:

Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Marxism and Deconstruction

There's a certain slant of light

Emily Dickinson There's a certain slant of light,

On winter afternoon,

That oppresses, like the weight

Of cathedral tunes.

Heavenly hurt it gives us:

We can find no scar.

But internal difference

Where the meanings are

called Nona may teach it anything

Tis the seal, despair-

An imperial affliction

Sent us of the air.

at When it comes, the landscape listens.

Shadows hold their breath

de When it goes, 't is like the distance

On the look of death.

Section "B"

4. Discuss the rhetorical strategies used by Susan Langer i "Expressiveness."

Or

IS What major rhetorical devices does Jean Jacques Rousseau use in "The Origin of Civil Society"? What is the implication of each of the rhetorical devices used in the text?

5. Niccolo Machiavelli in "The Qualities of the Prince" is cynical about human nature. Is cynicism typical, or necessary, in a Politician Answer with examples from the text history or/and the contemporary world Politics.

Or

What does Lukacs mean when he remarks that "Since we all are historians by nature while we are scientists only by choice"? Answer with reference to "Fictio, "OR The Purpose of Historical Statements."

6.In "How should One Read a Book ?", Virginia Woolf advises, "Do not dictate to your author; try to become him. Be his fellow worker and accomplice." Explain.

Or

In "Comparison of Man and the Powers of Man and the Lower Animals." Charles Darwin describes a hierarchy of mental Power ranging from lower emotions to the higher from of reasoning. does such hierarchy reflect Darwin's theory of evolution? Answer with supporting reasons and suitable examples from the text.