M.A Literature in English Previous year question papers

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Here I am giving you question paper for MA English entrance examination of Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi in a PDF file with it .

1. Write your critical response to the following poem by Emily Dickinson, addressing
its title, form and content
A Route of Evanescence
A Route of Evanescence,
With a revolving Wheel-
A Resonance of Emerald
A Rush of Cochineal-
And every Blossom on the Bush
Adjusts its tumbled Head-
The Mail from Tunis-probably,
An easy Morning's Ride-
2. Critically enumerate the relevance of classical Indian texts such as the Natyashastra to
the study of contemporary Indian literature and culture.
Or
How relevant is the study of classical Indian theories, like the Rasa theory, to the
understanding of contemporary Indian literature and culture? Answer with reference to
any literary text of your choice.

3. Take up a realist novel from the 19th century and a modernist one from the early 20th
century. Discuss these two texts in terms of their different approaches to the relationship
between reality and fiction.

4. Choose a literary text or any other cultural product-films, advertisements, fashion, or a
sports programme-and offer a semiotic analysis of it.
Or
How relevant is 'culture studies' to the understanding and critique of the contemporary
cultural world? Do you think 'culture studies', as it is practised today in our academic
context, can indeed offer us possibilities of a radical rethinking of 'culture'? Discuss the
basic premises of today's 'culture studies' in the history of its institutional foundations
and show what form of 'culture studies' can be relevant to our contemporary Indian
context.

5. What does the term 'Romantic' mean? Is it more justifiable to speak of 'Romanticisms' in
the plural? Choose two poets or more who are normally referred to as 'Romantic' and show
how justified it is to use the term 'Romantic' for them.
Or
How useful is it to pursue inter-textual study of literary texts? Choose more than one text
of your choice and offer an inter-textual study of these texts.

JNU MA English Paper

Can you provide me the previous year M.A Literature in English question paper of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) for preparation of the exam?

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The previous year M.A Literature in English question paper of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is as follows:


1. (a) "A lovyere and a lusty bachelor,
With lokkes crulle as they were leyd in presse.
Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse.
Of his stature he was of evene lengthe,"

OR

(b) "A povre wydwe somdeel stape in age,
Was whilom dwellyng in a narwe cotage,
Biside a grove, stondynge in a dale.
This wydwe, of which I telle yow my tale,"


2. (a) "My love is now awake out of her dreame(s),

And her fayre eyes like stars that dimmed were
With darksome cloud, now shew theyr goodly beams
Move bright then Hesperus his head doth rere."

OR

(b) "At length they all to mery London came,
To mery London, my most kyndly nurse,
That to me gave, this lifes first native sourse
Though from another place I take my name,"


M.A Literature in English Question Paper IGNOU