KRISHNA KANTA HANDIQUI STATE OPEN UNIVERSITY
Padmanath Gohainbaruah School of Humanities
HOME ASSIGNMENT FOR MASTER IN ENGLISH
3rd SEMESTER, 2023
N.B. The learners will have to collect the receipt after submitting the assignment with the
signature and seal of the collector of the study centre and shall have to keep the receipt with
him/her till the declaration of result.
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Enrolment number ………………………of 3rd Semester MA in English on………………
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COURSE 1: 20TH CENTURY NOVELS
(PGEG S3 01)
Total Marks: 13
[Assignments are required to be written in your own language. Copying in toto from the
learning materials will carry less score]
A. Answer any one of the following questions. Marks 5
Q 1: Enlist the points that make modern fiction ‘modern.’
Q 2: Give an account of ‘Metafiction’ with particular reference to some actual examples.
B. Answer any one of the following questions. Marks 5
Q 1: Bring out the significance of Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children.
Q 2: In what way is To The Lighthouse a ‘modern’ novel?
C. Answer any one of the following questions. Marks 3
Q 1: Do you agree that Sons and Lovers displays Lawrence’s preoccupation with
‘consciousness’ as an important concept in Modernist novels?
Q 2: What do you mean by ‘Interior Experience’ in modern novels?
COURSE 2: MODERN DRAMA
(PGEG S3 02)
Total Marks: 13
[Assignments are required to be written in your own language. Copying in toto from the
learning materials will carry less score]
A. Answer any one of the following questions. Marks 5
Q 1: Write a note on the revival of Poetic Drama in the 20th century.
Q 2: Explain the purpose of “The Irish National Dramatic Society.”
B. Answer any one of the following questions. Marks 5
Q 1: Why does Candida finally decide to stay with Morell? Explain.
Q 2: How does Osborne reflect the concerns of the “Angry Young Generation” in the play
prescribed?
C. Answer any one of the following questions. Marks 3
Q 1: What aspects of ‘Heroism’ do you find in The Playboy of the Western World?
Q 2: Trace the major achievements in ‘English’ drama since the beginning to modern times.
COURSE 3: MODERN POETRY
(PGEG S3 03)
Total Marks: 13
[Assignments are required to be written in your own language. Copying in toto from the
learning materials will carry less score]
A. Answer any one of the following questions. Marks 5
Q 1: Write a note on the unique features of various poetic schools of the 20 th century.
Q 2: Comment on the significance of Eliot’s poem “The Wasteland” in the history of English
poetry?
B. Answer any one of the following questions. Marks 5
Q 1: How does Yeats’ use of Christian imagery reflect his age?
Q 2: How does Ted Hughes reflect on the idea of ‘violence’ in the poems prescribed?
C. Answer any one of the following questions. Marks 3
Q 1: How would you explain the term Symbolism? How did it influence the 20 th century
English poetry?
Q 2: Describe what Auden means while saying that “Poetry makes nothing happen.”
COURSE 4: INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
(PGEG S3 04)
Total Marks: 13
[Assignments are required to be written in your own language. Copying in toto from the
learning materials will carry less score]
A. Answer any one of the following questions. Marks 5
Q 1: How does an expatriate Indian writer view his/her displacement from India?
Q 2: Give your views on the social contexts of Indian English literature following Independence.
B. Answer any one of the following questions. Marks 5
Q 1: Comment on the use of traditional dramatic forms by Vijay Tendulkar in his plays?
Q 2: Explain the theme of tradition vs modernity in the novel The Vendor of Sweets.
C. Answer any one of the following questions. Marks 5
Q 1: What makes Kamala Das a ‘confessional’ poet?
Q 2: Do you agree that the ‘hungry tide’ serves as a metaphor in the Novel The Hungry Tide.
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