Model Paper Of Literary Criticism M.A English Part 2 GCUF

Government College University, Faisalabad
Department of English
Model Paper: MA ENGLISH Part II
Subject: English Time Allowed: 3 Hrs
Paper IV Max Marks: 100
Literary Criticism
Note: Attempt any 4 questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Aristotle’s theory of Tragedy is governed by a preoccupation with
Audience response. Discuss.
2. ‘Our tragedies and comedies not without cause cried out against observing
Rules neither of honest civility nor of skillful poetry’, says Sidney’s statement.
3. T.S.Eliot says you can not value the poet alone, you must set him, for contrast
And comparison, among the dead”. In the light of this statement explain
Eliot’s perspective in the essay, Tradition and Individual Talent.
4. Discuss Classical Tragedy with reference to Hegel and Nietszche. [Williams]
5. ‘There is no Criticism without Ideology. ‘ How does Belsey argue this thesis in
Critical Practice.
6. Raymond Davis in ‘Tragedy and Tradition’ and Belsey in Critical Practice urge
Us to revaluate existing approaches to criticism. Discuss.
7. Critically evaluate any one of the following:
a) I am not one who much or oft delight
To season my fireside with personal talk,
Of friends who live within an easy walk,
Or neighbours, daily, weekly in my sight:
And for my chance acquaintance ladies bright,
Sons, mothers, maidens withering on the stalk,
These all wear out of me, like Forms , with chalk
Painted on rich men’s floors, for one feast night.
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(From Wordsworth’s Personal Talk)
b) I say him leap and thwack you with,
Inherited expertise. I
Saw you still the pole and work your
Some to the ground. A dying art
Bridged two generations. You thought.
Now we come for formalities.
But you talk of poetry and how
Meaningful some verses become
When the young die and old men live
( Athar Tahir: Subtraction 11)