Shashi Deshpande’s stories move beyond conventional feminism to foreground a
range of issues. Do you agree? Illustrate with examples.
Do you think Mahesh Dattani’s play Tara is ultimately about Tara’s tragedy or
Chandan’s journey of atonement? Critically examine.
Discuss the portrayal of women characters in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura.
See Answer →Character of Tara in Clear Light of Day
c. R. K. Narayan’s prose style
d. Salman Rushdie as a diasporic writer
Autobiographical elements in Kamala Das’ “My
See Answer →Elucidate the problems of translation with relevant examples from Andha Yug.
See Answer →World Literature is an inextricable part of Comparative Literature. Elaborate.
See Answer →How does the shift of perspective involved in the adaptation of a literary work affect
our understanding of the text? Illustrate.
Retellings keep a work of literature alive across time and space. Do you agree? Give
reasons.
Discuss Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea as a Postcolonial retelling of Charlotte
Brontë’s Jane Eyre.
What do you understand by ‘interliterariness’? How does it aid in the interpretation
and comparison of various literary texts?
The process of life writing constitutes a search for self-identity. Discuss in the context
of the autobiographies of Rasha Sundari Debi, Maya Angelou and Sally Morgan.
In what ways does oral literature reflect the cultural fabric of a society? Discuss.
See Answer → Explain how Virginia Woolf uses the stream of consciousness technique to delve into
the inner lives of her characters in the novel Mrs. Dalloway.
Explain the biblical and historical contexts of Yeats’s the poem ‘The Second Coming.’
See Answer → On the basis of your reading of texts prescribed in your course, explain how early
twentieth century British writing reflected the effects of World War 1 on the lives of
the British people.
The poetry of Stephen Spender
See Answer →The character of Septimus Warren Smith in Mrs. Dalloway
See Answer →Issues of gender in Sons and Lovers.
See Answer →“Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields,
See how these names are fêted by the waving grass
And by the streamers of white cloud
And whispers of wind in the listening sky.
The names of those who in their lives fought for life,
Who wore at their hearts the fire’s centre.”