2017

English

Subject code: 241115

Introduction to Literary Criticism

Time: 4 hours                                                                                                              Marks-80

Part – A

1.   Answer any ten questions:                                                                                     1´10 = 10

a) What are the organic societies?

b) What does Arnold mean by “Poetry is a criticism of life”?

c) Whom does Arnold regard as the ideal poets?

d) What is dissociation of sensibility?

e) Why does T.S Eliot praise the metaphysical poets?

f) What is the connection between “Culture and Imperialism” and “Orientalism”?

g) What is ‘Orientalism’ by Edward Said about?

h) Why do the colonisers deserve the right of ruling the colonised?

i) Who according to Said, are the children of decolonization and why?

j) What is the theme of “The Rise of English”?

k) What is the meaning of the word ‘neoclassical’?

l) What is creative imagination?

Part – B

Answer any five questions:                                                                                          4 ´ 5 = 20

2. What is touchstone method?

3. What are the different estimates enunciated by Arnold?

4. How did Eliot assess Johnson as a critic of the metaphysical poets?

5. Write a short note on ‘Metaphysical Poetry’.

6. What, according to Edward Said, are the two-fold implications of culture?

7. Why does Edward Said call his Culture and Imperialism an exile’s book?

8. What is Eagleton’s attitude to romanticism?

9. Why does Edward Said admire Joseph Conrad?

Part – C

Answer any five questions:                                                                                        10 ´ 5 = 50

10. “Poetry is the criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty”. Discuss.

11. Why does TS. Eliot praise Donne’s ability to unify the intellectual thoughts and sensation of feeling?

12. What is the influence of post-colonialism on Edward Said?

13. Discuss, after Eagleton, how the ‘Rise of English’ is connected with the growth and consolidation of Imperialism.

14. Discuss Mathew Arnold’s views on characteristics of good poetry.

15. What similarity does Eliot discover between the modern poets and the metaphysicals?

16. What made Said write his book Culture and Imperialism?

17. Discuss the prose style of Terry Eagleton with reference to “The Rise of English”.