BDP
Assignment
December-2017 & June-2018
Elective Course
ENGLISH
(New Syllabus)
7th Paper
Postmodern Periods: EEG-7
1. Answer any two of the following questions:
20 × 2 = 40
a) Write an essay on the modern English novel with reference to any two novelists of your choice.
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b) Assess the contribution of T. S. Eliot to modern English poetry.
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c) Write an essay on the Angry Theatre of the 1950s in Britain with special reference to Look Back in Anger.
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d) Write a critical essay on the growth and development of Shaw’s Theatre of Ideas.
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2.
Answer any three of the following questions: 10 × 3 = 30
a) Write a critical note on the impact of World War I on English poetry.
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b) Assess the development of the English short story in the 20th Century.
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c) How did The Postmodern Condition help define postmodernism as we know it today? Elaborate.
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d) Would you consider Sons and Lovers a working class novel? Answer with close reference to the text.
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e) Comment on Somerset Maugham’s narrative style with reference to “The Lotus Eater”.
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f) Comment on the handling of gender roles by Shaw in Pygmalion.
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3. Answer any four of the following: 6 × 4 = 24
a)
Comment on the role of Cliff in Look Back in Anger.
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b)
What, according to Shaw, is the importance of freedom in modern society?
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c)
How does the short story “The Lagoon” end?
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d)
Comment on the title of the poem “Digging”.
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e)
Identify and annotate:
A
dust whom England bore, shaped,
made
aware,
Gave,
once, her flowers to love, her ways to
room
;
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f)
Identify and annotate:
Things
fall apart, the centre cannot hold ;
Mere
anarchy is loosed upon the world.
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g)
How do postmodern writers use black humour and irony in their works?
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h)
Assess the impact of Marxism on English literature.
