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POST-GRADUATE COURSE d) Consider critically Lacans theory of psycho-

Term End Examination December, 2011 analysis.
Elective Course OR
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Explain the Freudian concepts of the Id, the
Fifth Paper Ego, and the Superego.

Time : Four Hours Full Marks : 100

SECTION B
( Weightage of Marks : 80% )
2. Answer any three of the following questions :
Special credit will be given for accuracy and relevance in 12 3 = 36
the answer. Marks will be deducted for incorrect spelling,
a) Write short notes on any two :
untidy work and illegible handwriting. The weightage for
each question has been indicated in the margin. i) de Beauvoir
ii) Base and Superstructure
SECTION A
iii) The Oedipal crisis
1. Answer any two of the following questions : iv) Metalanguage.
b) Show briefly the development of feminine,
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feminist and female stages in feminism.
a) Discuss in detail the Reception Theory for c) Distinguish between language teaching and
the interpretation of literature. literature teaching in terms of English
studies at the school level.
b) What is structuralism ? Discuss the
d) State the basic assumptions of
structuralist approach to the study of deconstruction.
literature. e) Bring out the differences between
structuralism and post-structuralism.
c) Write on the Reader-Response Criticism,
f) Consider Marxism as a mode of literary
and point out its difficulties.
criticism.

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SECTION C Describe some features of your treatment of

3. Answer any four of the following questions : R. K. Narayans Rajam and Mani to
express the Indian cultural aspects to your
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students in a class.
a) The Moon by P. B. Shelley.
b) Explain Derridas concept of logocentrism.
I
And, like a dying lady lean and pale, OR

Who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil, What would you do to develop the
Out of her chamber, led by the insane theatrical competence in your students
through your classroom presentation of
And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,
Norman Mckinnels The Bishops
The moon arose up in the murky east
Candlesticks ?
A white and shapeless mass.
c) Compare in brief New Historicism with
II
Marxism.
Art thou pale for weariness
OR
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the
earth, Consider Elaine Showalter as a feminist
critic.
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth, d) Design a task to teach The Moon by
P. B. Shelley.
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy ? ( You may take help of the text quoted
under Question Number 3(a) )

The themes of love and nature are merged e) Write a note on Stylistic Analysis.
in the poem. Show to a tertiary-level class f) Write on the competence in regard to
how it is done in the poem through the use Communication and Literary Studies.
of some images, symbols and rhetorical
expressions.
OR

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