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Department
of English | Jahangirnagar University
BA
(Hons.) Part IV Examination 2013
Course
Title: Twentieth Century English Poetry
Course:
E401 | Full Marks: 35 | Time: 150 minutes
Attempt
all parts
Part A
Answer
any three of the following questions: [10x3=30]
1.
Discuss Yeats as a romantic poet in the
light of your reading of his poems.
2.
Analyze the final part of Eliot’s poem,
The Waste Land. Would you consider him as a realist or utopian?
3.
Compare and Contrast the two worlds that
are referred to in Auden’s poem “The Shield of Achilles.”
4.
Discuss Dylan Thomas’ “After the Funeral”
as an elegy.
5.
Evaluate Ted Hughes’ attitude to
violence with reference to his poems.
6.
Attempt a comparative Study between W.B.
Yeats and Seamus Heaney in terms of their treatment of Irish nationalism.
Part B
7.
Explain
any one of the following: [5x1=5]
a) “In
the nightmare of the dark
All
the dogs of Europe bark,
And
the living nations wait,
Each
sequestered in its hate.”
b) “In
the room women come and go
Talking
of Michelangelo.”
Department
of English | Jahangirnagar University
BA
(Hons.) Part IV Examination 2013
Course
Title: Twentieth Century English Novel
Course:
E402 | Full Marks: 70 | Time: 4 hours
Attempt
all parts
Part A
Answer
any three of the following questions: [20x3=60]
1. Establish
the relevance of the title of Heart of
Darkness to the theme of the
novel.
2.
Comment on the significance of the
episode of the Marabar Caves in A Passage
to India.
3.
The making of an exile determines the
structure of A Portrait of the Artist as
a Young Man. Discuss
4.
Woolf
said Mrs. Dalloway was a study of “the world seen by the sane and the insane,
side by side.” Elucidate
5.
Critically analyze Paul’s relationships
with women in Sons and Lovers.
6. Do
you think that the modern English novelists are critical of British
colonialism? Answer with reference to at least two novels you have read in this
course.
Part B
7.
Attempt
any two of the following: [5x2=10]
a) Write
a short note on the “faithless pilgrims.”
b) What
are the effects of Father Arnall’s sermons on Stephen?
c) Write
a short note on Stream of Consciousness technique.
d) Explain
with reference to the context: “Then you are an oriental.”
Department
of English | Jahangirnagar University
BA
(Hons.) Part IV Examination 2013
Course
Title: Twentieth Century English Drama
Course:
E403 | Full Marks: 70 | Time: 4 hours
Attempt
all parts
Part A
Answer
any three of the following questions: [20x3=60]
1. Comment
on the triangular relationship between Jimmy, Alison and Helen.
2. Evaluate
Waiting for Godot as an absurd drama.
3. Do
you think Christy Mohan as an anti-hero? Justify your stance.
4. Discuss
how the notion of gambling plays an important role in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
5. Compare
The Caretaker with Waiting for Godot in terms of characters
and themes.
6.
Do you think if Saint Joan had been a
man, she would still be executed? Justify your answer.
Part B
7.
Write
short notes on any of the two of the following topics: [5x2=10]
a) The
epilogue in Saint Joan
b) Existentialism
c) The
theme of isolation in The Caretaker
d) “Anger”
in Look Back in Anger
e) The
bear-squirrel play
Department
of English | Jahangirnagar University
BA
(Hons.) Part IV Examination 2013
Course
Title: Twentieth Century American Poetry & Drama
Course:
E404 | Full Marks: 70 | Time: 4 hours
Attempt
all parts
Part A
Answer
any two of the following questions: [20x2=40]
1. In
Robert Frost’s vision of life, which belief dominates human nature more—the fear
of tragic experiences of life, or the forbearance to face the “rough zones” of
life? Discuss.
2. In
modern poetry experiments with expression of modern experiences of life,
William Carlos Williams’ poems are of enormous significance. Do you agree?
3.
Longs
Day’s Journey into the Night is about O’Neill’s quest in search of the
answers to the many questions that practically seemed to have defined in entire
life. Elucidate.
4. Is Willy Loman’s last act, i.e. suicide,
repetition or the end of his pursuit of the American Dream? Justify your
answer.
5. Evaluate
Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath as Confessional Poets.
Part B
6.
Answer
any two of the following: [10x2=20]
a) Sylvia
Plath in “Daddy” attempts to recreate her identity, which suffocates her.
Discuss
b) Why
does Robert Lowell end the poem “Skunk Hour” with the image “Only skunks that
search/ in the moonlight night for a bite to eat?”
c) According
to Howl, who are the “best minds” of Allen Ginsberg’s time?
d) Explain:
“Who and Who and WHO who who Whoooo and
Whoooooooooooooooooooo!”
Part C
7. Answer any two of the following:
[5x2=10]
a) “For
Horn” in Long Day’s Journey into Night.
b) Ka’Ba
c) Moloch
d) “Dying/Is
an art, like everything else. / I do it exceptionally well.” Explain.
BA
(Hons.) Part IV Examination 2013
Course
Title: Twentieth Century American Novel and Prose
Course:
E405 | Full Marks: 35 | Time: 150 minutes
Attempt
all parts
Part A
Answer
any two of the following questions: [15x1=15]
1. What
is cubism? How As I lay Dying a cubist novel? Discuss.
2. Harry,
Tommy Wilhelm and Jay Gatsby—all are the victims of the distorted American
Dream, but the effects are different on each of these characters. Discuss.
3.
“Rape was the only form of
expression for Cholly to show that he loved his daughter.” Discuss
Part B
4.
Answer
any three of the following questions:
[5x3=15]
a) Why
does the old waiter appreciate the deaf and drunk customer in the café? How are
they similar?
b) Why
does Tommy Wilhelm burst into tears at the funeral of stranger? What does this
signify?
c) Why
does Claudia MacTeer disfigure her white dolls?
d) What
was so “great” about Jay Gatsby? Why did he throw extravagant parties on Saturday
nights?
e) Why
is Dewey Dell not bothered about her mother’s death like the rest of her
siblings?
f) Do
you find any similarities between Dr. Tamkin and Soaphead Church?
Part C
5. Answer any two of the following:
[5x2=10]
a) Jazz
Age.
b) Yoknapatawpha
c) Polly
d) Hotel
Gloriana
Department
of English | Jahangirnagar University
BA
(Hons.) Part IV Examination 2013
Course
Title: Postcolonial Literature: Australian, Canadian and Indian
Course:
E406 | Full Marks: 70 | Time: 4 hours
Attempt
all parts
Part A
Answer
any three of the following questions: [15x3=45]
1. Rushdie’s
Midnight’s Children moves beyond
critical commonplaces and works as a media technology which reconstructs a
story from the derivatives of the national unconscious. Discuss
2. “The
‘primitive setting’ in A Fringe of Leaves
is far more political than it apparently looks like.” Elucidate
3.
How does Ondaatje’s The English Patient transcend nationally
and ethnicity in its textual space?
4. “In
The Shadow Lines, the memory is shackled with thousand invisible lines.”
Discuss
5. Comment
on the title of Narayan’s novel Waiting
for the Mahatma.
6. How
do the Indian poets treat theme of alienation in the poems you have read?
Part B
7.
Answer
any three of the following: [5x3=15]
a) What
do “The Silver Spittoon” and “Perforated Sheet” signify in Midnight’s Children?
b) What
does the impotency of Mr. Roxburgh symbolize in A Fringe of Leaves?
c) Do
you think Kamala Das is confessional in her poems?
d) How
does Narayan in Waiting for the Mahatma,
present the necessity of non-violence in a form of protest?
e) Comment
on the religious conflict depicted in The
Shadow Lines.
f) Comment
on the character of Kip in The English Patient.
Part C
8. Write short notes on any two of the
following : [5x2=10]
a) Knees
and Nose
b) Charka
c) The
Atomic Bomb
d) The
Mirror
Department
of English | Jahangirnagar University
BA
(Hons.) Part IV Examination 2013
Course
Title: Introduction to Critical Theory
Course:
E407 | Full Marks: 70 | Time: 4 hours
Attempt
all parts
Part A
Answer
any two of the following questions: [15x2=30]
1. What
does Northrop Frye mean by mythoi? Discuss in detail archetypal criticism.
2. What
is ideology? Trace the evolution of Marxism’s troubling relation with the
ideologies.
3.
Discuss, with particular focus on
Millett and Showalter, Anglo-American feminism’s contribution to the
development of the Second Wave of feminism.
4. What
are the basic tenets and major schools of Psychoanalytic Criticism? Discuss the
effectiveness of using Freudian and / or Lacanian psychoanalysis in literary
texts.
5. Evaluate,
with reference to contemporary media and / or popular culture, Foucault’s ‘power/knowledge’
schema.
Part B
Attempt any one of the following:
[20x1=20]
6. Christopher
Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is acclaimed
as a Renaissance individual who transgresses human boundaries and intends to
reach the ultimate a human can. However, his treatment of and attitude to the
bourgeoisie and the proletariat betray classism. Do you think that Doctor Faustus, with its iconoclastic
spirit, fails to critique classism and corresponding power relations? If so, do
you think the ‘Pope Scene’ raises some problem?
7. Adopting
Todorov’s ‘grammar of narrative, attempt a structuralist reading of R K Narayan’s
Waiting for the Mahatma or Chinua
Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
8. Attempt
a postcolonial reading of E M Forster’s A
Passage to India.
Part C
9. Write short notes on any two of the
following: [5x2=10]
a) Defamiliarization
b) Ecriture
féminine
c) ‘Culture’
in Cultural Studies
d) Affective
fallacy and intentional fallacy
e) Postmodernity
Part D
Attempt any one of the
following: [10x1=10]
10. What does ‘red’ signify? (i) in the traffic
light, (ii) in a flag raised in a political meeting, (iii) as a literary motif,
(iv) in a rose, and (v) in a saree worn by a bride? Do you think that the
decoding of ‘red’ is context-dependent? How may then can the sign be
deconstructed?
11. Read last four stanzas of Sylvia Plath’s poem,
“Lady Lazarus” and answer the questions that follow:
Ash,
ash—
You
poke and stir,
Flesh,
bone, there is nothing there—
A
cake of soap,
A
wedding ring,
A
gold filling.
Herr
God, Herr Lucifer,
Beware
Beware.
Out
of the ash
I
rise with my red hair
And
I eat men like air.
a) Gerald
Prince differentiates ‘reader’ from ‘naratee.’ Who is the ‘narratee’ of the
poem? And, do the ‘narratee’ and ‘virtual reader’ coincide in this case?
b) Iser argues that extra-literary norms, values and experience of the ‘actual reader’ lead him/her to “concretize” the text. Do you think that this poem communicates differently with a woman and a man?
c) The German word “Herr” (used to address a man, e.g. Herr Hitler) is used to refer to God and Lucifer. Comment on the significance of the coupling of Herr, God, and Lucifer.
d) Do you think that the poem (a part of which is extracted here) is a feminist- deconstruction of Lazarus? Focus on the title as well as the images of “ash,” “red hair” and eating men “like air” in the last stanza.
12. Attempt a close reading of the poem, “The pool Players: Seven at the Golden Shovel.”
We real cool. We
Left School. We
Lurk hate. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
Department
of English | Jahangirnagar University
BA
(Hons.) Part IV Examination 2013
Course
Title: Professional Communication and Research Methodology
Course:
E408 | Full Marks: 70 | Time: 4 Hours
Attempt
all parts
Part A
Answer
Question number 5 and two others: [5+ (15x2)]
1. What
are the major types of business report? Discuss the truths that a writer has to
consider while preparing a business report.
2. Prepare
a report, addressed to friend, on a class discussion. Use made-up names to
identify the instructor and students. Try to show how ideas took shape and what
conclusions resulted from the discussion.
3. Your
boss, Mr. M. M. Chowdhury, is in charge of relationships with company-owned
restaurants in Dhaka city. He has asked you to draft a memo announcing that
Pepsi is out and Coke is in.
4. Define
job application. Prepare a sample job application for the post of a Lecturer in
English at a public university.
5. Write
brief notes on any one of the following:
a) A
well-written résumé
b) A
complaint letter
c) Book
review
Part B
Answer
question number 10 and two others: [5+ (15x2)]
6. What
are literary and second language researches? Discuss the different types of
research on applied linguistics and second language learning / teaching, or
literary studies.
7. Define
research paper. Differentiate between a research proposal, an article and a
thesis.
8. What
is material evolution? Why is material evaluation necessary for doing a
successful research? Discuss different ways of evaluating materials.
9. What
is an outline of a dissertation? Explicate when, why and how an outline is
prepared.
10.
Write how the following are documented in
either MLA or APA style in the “works cited” section of a research article:
a) An
article in an online journal.
b) A
book published in a second edition
c) A
book written by a single author and edited by editor.
d) A
book by two authors.
e) A
newspaper article written by more than three writers.
