DU SOL Question Paper 2018 BA (Hons.) English - Nineteenth Century European Realism

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(Nineteenth Centull I:uropcan Realism)

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.4/l qucstions are comPulsorY.

Question I has three pans : (a), (b) and (c)'

each carrying l5 nrarks' Question 2 has

two parts, (a) and (/l), with E' and 7 marks respectively'

Questions 3 and 4 have 20 marks each.

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(a) (i) Critically examine the theme ol'lilial ingratitude in

Balzac's Old Coriot.

Or

(ii) Write a sllotl note on the privatt: boarding housu'

in ()ltl Gorittt. t5

(h) (i) Critically exarrtitre the signiticarrce of the Epilogtle

in ('ritne und Punishntanl'

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Write a short note on Svidrigaylov'
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(c) (r) Write a short notc on the endillg ol'Theresa Ruquitt'

Or

(ri ) CriticallY eranrine the theme of death in Zola's
l)
Therese Rttclt'ritt.

2. (4 (0 How does Zola underlitre the use of the experl-
with
mental method in naturalist literature ? Explain

ret'erence lo Zola's essay in your syllabus'

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(,,) Critically examine Lukacs's comparison of Balzac
with
arrcl Stendhal as critical realist writers

reference to his essaY'

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(b) Write a :;hort note on an)' otre ol'the lbllowing

Naturalism and thc l"renclr Novel.

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The Russian Novel and thc middle class.

(<r) "Turgerrev's f'u/hcr.s ttrttl Sort:; portra's a graclrral tra'_
sition of llussian society in the nineteenth century from

an agrarian f-eudalism to an industrial capitalism...
Do you

agree ? Give reasons.

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\h') "The wonren characters of the .l-ur.genev.s
novel
underline a critique of the political rhetoric
of their. nrale
counterparts." E.xamin"e thL' starerrlent with
suirabre
examples froni the tert.
n
{tt) "Eumu llovqn' is both an instrument and a
victinr..' Do
you agree ? Cive reasons.

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(b) Criticaltl, examine Flauberr,s critique of provincial
life
in h,tudume Bovarl, with specific references frorn
the
text. n
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