DU SOL Question Paper 2018 BA (Hons.) English - Literacy Theory

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No. I has three parts.
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Question No. 2 has 1r,!,0 pans.

Each o1' tlrese pafts rnust be ansrvered.

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(,r) llow does Crarnsci dcllne the tcrnr "intellcctual" 'l
('onrrncrrl orr lris tlistincriotr bctrvccn traclitiorral and

orgarric inlr'l lcctuals.

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Discuss thc crtntribirtion ol"'thr.ce gencrations of

ninr-tcenth-csntury. f'enrinine novelisls" in Shttrvalter's
essay. "'fhe [:ernale I radition".

(,) What is f]recht's concept of alienation 'l In what nay

docs it rc.late ro his politics ?

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l.ucc' lrigaral,. in "Whe.n the Grtods Cet 'l'ogether", presents

a critique ol' Freud and challcnges his assutnptions.
Discuss this clitiquc and plaer, it irr rclatiolr ro rhe overall

Argunlent ol' hcr ussay.

(c ) I-,rplain Lukacs' disrinction of critical realisrn tiom

socialist realisnr.

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Ciive a brief accounr of the riss ol'English literary studies

in Inclia as discussed l'ry Visu'arrarhan. i'15-l-5

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1 (a) "A psyclroanalytical reading of thc novel ............. need
not be an altemative tcl a social interpretation of'it." Holv

does Eagleton prove this ?

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"'['he porver ol' clitical discourse nlovc's on several

levels." What ditl'ercnt kinds of porver relations, in

Ea-cleton's liew. cloes critical discoulsc' engage in ? 8

(b) What is l:agleton's dc'llnition of Litcrature ?

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Brietly describe Eagleton's account of Nerv Criticisnr.T

"Theatre consists in this; in nraking live reprcsentations of

reponed or inventc'd happenings bctrveen hurnan lreings and

doing so rvith a vierv to entcrtainnrcnt." Critically'analyse Brecht's

emphasis on 'entertirinnrent' and 'pleasure' as discussed in "A

short organurn lbr tlrc T'heatre".

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llorv does Barches demonstrate the tunctioning of patriarchy
in nryths 'l Discuss rvith ret'crence to any nr/(j excerpts liom
lllvt hologics. 20

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What according to Aiiaz Ahmad. are sonre of the prcblet'ns anel

difllculties ihced by a schtrlar atternpting to u'rite a history rlf

lndian l.iterature '.)

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Postrnodern isnl according, to l.-)otard is "n(-rt tnodernisnt
af its end btrt in the nascetlf siate. and this *qtate is constant."

Cclrrrncrrt on !.yotard's vicrv uf postnrodernisnr in the light of

this statement. n

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