Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University
Dnyangangotri, Near Gangapur Dam,
Govardhan Nashik-422222
M72: M.A.
(ENGLISH)
( दतीय स )
2023-24
HOME ASSIGNMENT BOOKLET
(YEAR 2023-2024)
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GENERALINSTURCTION:
1) Home assignment is use full for self-analysis of your preparation of the final examination and
progress.
2) Read all the questions and their marks in the home assignment carefully understand the
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4) Do not copy the points, matter from the text while writing home assignment mentions your one
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11) Every home assignment is of twenty marks and each question carries five marks.
Ranjit K. Ahire
Academic Coordinator, Evaluation Division
Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University, Nashik.
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Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University
Dnyangangotri, Near Gangapur Dam, Govardhan
Nashik - 422222.
M72 M.A. ENGLISH- SECOND YEAR-(2023-24)
HOME ASSIGNMNET
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ENG405: Literary Criticism and Theory (marks20)
1. In what ways is Feminism indebted to poststructuralist methods?
2. Explain the term ‘rasa’ and discuss the ‘rasa theory’.
3. Comment on the significance of ‘purpose’ in literature. How does modernist writing
look at the idea of purpose?
4. What is Raymond William’s contribution to the beginning of Cultural Studies in Birmingham?
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ENG406: American Literature (marks20)
1. How was the Puritan ideology subverted by Puritan literature?
2. What were the essential aspects of the Transcendentalist school of writing?
3. Examine the nature of realism in ‘Death of a salesman’, with respect to the point of
View reflected in the text.
4. Why does Toni Morrison describe the ideal of physical beauty as the most destructive idea
in the history of human thought?
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ENG407: New Literatures in English (marks20)
1. Discuss the intersection of literature and politics with reference to prose writing in
Kenya and theatre in Nigeria.
2. How does Bapsi Sidhwa present the Parsi Paradox in ‘Ice-Candy Man’?
3. Discuss the factors that have led to the evolution of a distinct Caribbean literary culture.
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4. What are the distinguishing features of Vollendungsroman? Enumerate them with special reference to
‘ ‘The Stone Angel’?
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ENG408: Contemporary Indian Literature in Translation (marks20)
1. Comment on the use of salt as a metaphor in Mahashweta Devy’s prescribed story.
2. Explain how ‘Samskara’ charts India's transition from tradition to modernity.
3. Bring out the allegorical elements in Girish Karnad’s ‘Tughlaq’.
4. ‘Bamma’s ‘Karukku’ is an important document on caste and gender apart from being a memoir’. Discuss.
ENG409: English Studies in India (marks20)
1. Discuss the role English can play towards achievement of equality and justice
in contemporary India.
2. Examine the communicability of English literary writing in India.
3. Comment on the links between imperialism and canon formation.
4. Write a short note on ‘neo-colonialism’.
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