BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER - ENGLISH LITERATURE | principles of literary criticism | phoenix of literature | final years

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BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER - ENGLISH LITERATURE   

  No. 5744

                                                                                                                             16 ACCEN 10

 

 

(For candidates admitted from 2016–2017 onwards)

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2021.

Part III — English — Major (FINAL YEARS)

PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM

Time : Three hours

                                                                                                                 Maximum : 75 marks

 

 

 

PART A — (10 x 2 = 20)

Answer ALL questions.

1. Define the word 'Criticism'

2. What is literary Criticism?

3. What is 'Ars Poetica'

4. Name two critics, who belong to the school of Archetypal Criticism.

5. What is moralistic approach?

6. Who is plato and what is his major literary contribution?

7. Name the Victorian Critic, who wrote 'Culture and Anarchy' and 'Essays in Criticism'

8. What is sociological approach?

9. Short note on 'Mimesis'

10. (a) An Apology for poetry, written by –––––––––

(b) 'School of Abuse' written by –––––––––

PART B — (5 x 5 = 25)

Answer all questions choosing either (a) or. (b).

11. (a) Discuss the different phases of Literary Criticism.

Or

(b) Trace the characteristics of Literary Theory.

12. (a) Short note on Aristotle's Poetics

Or

(b) Short note on Plato's Republic

13. (a) Differentiate Literary Criticism and Literary Theory.

Or

(b) Write a paragraph on mimetic theory.

14. (a) What is moralistic approach?

Or

(b) What is archetypal approach?

15. (a) Discuss the following in one or two sentences.

(i) Satire

(ii) Imagination

(iii) biography

(iv) catastrophe

(v) archetype

Or

(b) Write short note on Sociological Criticism.

PART C — (3 × 10 = 30)

Answer any THREE questions.

16. Discuss Plato and Aristotle, classical critics of ancient Greek.

17. Write a brief essay on various approaches to Literature with reference to Wilbur Scott.

18. Elaborate the Critical Contributions by Dr. Samuel Johnson, Matthew Arnold and T. S. Eliot.

19. Trace the features of Formalistic approach.

20. Critically appreciate, how literary history, share its space with literary criticism and theory.

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