PG/Eng/2nd Sem/20 (CBCS)

2020

ENGLISH
Paper - ENGL 201

(CB CS )

Full Marks : 40 Time : Two Hours

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

Candidates are required to give their answers
in their own words as far as practicable.

1. Answer any three of the following questions in about 350 words each :
10×3=30

(a) Consider T. S. Eliot’s ‘‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’’ as a

manifesto of modernist poetry.

Or,

(b) How does Virginia Woolf define and characterise modern fiction in
opposition to the fictions of her predecessors? Discuss with reference
to “Modern Fiction.”

(c) What, according to I. A. Richards, are the chief uses of the word “truth”
in criticism? Discuss with reference to “The Two uses of Language.”

Or,

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 (d) Discuss after F. R. Leavis the distinction between criticism and
philosophy as two separate yet connected disciplines. Answer with
reference to “Literary Criticism and Philosophy.”

(e) Critically assess Antonio Gramsci’s notion of the intellectuals as reflected

in his “The Formation of the Intellectuals”.

Or,

(f) Do you subscribe to Walter Benjamin’s view that mechanical

reproduction destroys the uniqueness and authenticity of the work of
art? Substantiate your answer with reference to his essay “The Work
of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”.

(g) What, according to Elaine Showalter, is an androcentric critical tradition?

What shift does she observe in that tradition and how? Answer with
reference to the essay “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness”.

Or,

(h) Consider “Dalit Women Talk Differently” as a Dalit Feminist text.

2. Answer any five of the following questions in about 70 words each : 2×5=10

(a) Why does T. S. Eliot mourn the lack of respect for ‘tradition’ in our
response to literature?

(b) Briefly comment on Virginia Woolf’s critical response to Ulysses by

James Joyce.

(c) In what context does I. A. Richards refer to human mind as a “system

of impulses”, and why?

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(d) What, according to F. R. Leavis, is the “premature generalization of
concepts”?

(e) How, according to Antonio Gramsci, the intellectuals can act as an

intermediary between the “complex superstructures” of society?

(f) What, according to Walter Benjamin, are some of the earliest procedures
of technically reproducing works of art?

(g) Briefly comment on the significance of the epigraph to Elaine Showalter’s

essay “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness”.

(h) What, according to Sharmila Rege, are the contributions of Jyotibha

Phule and Savitribhai Phule to the cause of Dalit feminism?

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