RGU Question Paper English Semester VI 2020: Literary Criticism

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BA (VI Semester) Examination

ENGLISH

Paper : BENG–610 (M)

( Literary Criticism )

Full Marks : 80

Pass Marks : 35%

Time : Three Hours

Note : 1. Answer all questions. 

 2. The questions are of equal value.

Unit—A

1. How does Shelley defend poetry and why? Analyze it critically on the basis of his essay, A Defence of Poetry. 

Or 

 Discuss the main ideas expressed in Shelley’s essay, A Defence of Poetry.

Unit—B

2. What are the different views expressed by Coleridge in his Biographia Literaria (XIV) about imagination and fancy? Discuss. 

 Or 

How does Coleridge prove himself a real romanticist? Elaborate your ideas in the light of Biographia Literaria.

Unit—C

3. “Poetry is a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for that criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.” Discuss it in the light of Arnold’s essay, The Study of Poetry. 

Or 

Give a critical estimate of Arnold’s essay, The Study of Poetry.

Unit—D

4. “The aim of criticism is the elucidation of works of art and correction of taste.” Discuss it in the light of T. S. Eliot’s essay, The Function of Criticism. 

Or 

Why and how does T. S. Eliot give importance to tradition in his essay, The Function of Criticism?

Unit—E

5. Discuss the three ways in which literature is historical in the light of the essay, The Sense of the Past by Lionel Trilling. 

Or 

Lionel Trilling outlines different limitations of new criticism in his essay, The Sense of the Past. Analyze it logically.