NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY
POST-GRADUATE COURSE
Assignment : June-2020
ENGLISH ( Paper-V : Literary Theory and Criticism )
POST-GRADUATE COURSE
Assignment : June-2020
ENGLISH ( Paper-V : Literary Theory and Criticism )
SECTION – A
Answer any two of the following questions : 20 × 2 = 40
1. What are Aristotle 's views about the plot of tragedy ?Click Here
2. Analyse the importance of Biographia Literaria in the history of English literary criticism.Click Here
3. What in your understanding is 'new' about New Criticism ? Discuss with reference to the works of any two major theorists.Click Here
4. Show how Deconstruction responds to binary oppositions.Click Here
SECTION – B
Answer any three of the following questions : 14 × 3 = 42
5. What, according to Aristotle, are the qualities of a tragic hero ?Click Here
6. What aspects of Neoclassical critical tendencies do you find in Dryden's An Essay of Dramatic Poetry ?Click Here
7. What, according to Wordsworth, is the ideal subject of poetry ? Critically analyse his reasons for such a preference.Click Here
8. In 'The Study of Poetry' what are Arnold's views on the age of Dryden and Pope ?Click Here
9. How does T. S. Eliot establish the links between tradition and individual talent in his essay 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' ?Click Here
10. What does New Historicism owe to Foucault ? Discuss the relationship between New Historicism and Marxism ?Click Here
SECTION – C
Answer any two of the following questions : 9 × 2 = 18
11. Write short notes on any two of the following :
i) Discourse Click Here
ii) Ideology Click Here
iii) Materialist Feminism. Click Here
12. "He (Milton) was a lion who had no skill in dandling the kid." Elucidate with reference to the context. Click Here
13. Assess the contribution of Antonio Gramsci to Marxist criticism. Click Here
14. Discuss the nature of the first wave of Feminism. Click Here
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