English Hon's (3rd year) Suggestions

Paper : Critical Theory                                                                                 

Texts

1. Poetics - Aristotle
2. An Apology  for Poetry – Sir Philip Sidney
3. Preface to Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson
4. Preface to Lyrical Ballads - William Wordsworth
5. Biographia Literaria  - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
6. The Study of Poetry – Mathew Arnold
7. Tradition and Individual Talents – T.S. Eliot

Forecast-ed  Questions

Poetics - Aristotle

1.          Compare and Contrast an Epic with Tragedy

2.         Discuss Aristotle’s concept of Tragedy 

  Preface to Shakespeare – Samuel Johnson

1.          Evaluate  Johnson as a critic of Shakespeare

2.         Write down Faults of Shakespeare according to Johnson

The Study of Poetry – Mathew Arnolds

1.          Consider Arnolds view on Chaucer

2.         Arnolds Touchstone method

Tradition and Individual Talents – T.S. Eliots

1.          What does Eliot means by tradition? How does he show its importance to the poet and the artists?

2.         Write critical note Eliot’s classicism

3.         Impersonal theory of poetry

4.         Emotion of art and impersonal

Discuss Coleridge’s view on imagination and fancy

Discuss Coleridge’s major affections to Wordswoth”s  theory of poetry

Discuss Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads as a manifesto of Romantic Movement .

Historical  significant Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Discuss Wordsworth’s languages of poetry  (poetic Diction)

What are the main objections of Sidney on contemporary English Drama

Critically examine Sidney’s view on antiquity of universality

 16^th and 17^th Centurty drama subject code 1131

1.          Comments on Soliloquies  in Macbeth

2.         Consider Dutchess as a tragic heroine

3.         Show sufferings of transfigures the dutchess into lofty character

4.         Discuss Volpone  as a satire on contemporary society

5.         What is ‘comedy of humor ’Volpone comedy of humor

6.         Volpone as a beast fable

7.         Bring out the dramatic significance

8.         Discuss the role of   Viola

19^th century literature

Texts

Robert Browning

Alfred Tennyson

Matthew Arnold

Thomas Hardy

Charles Dickens 

Charlotte Bronte

Arnold’s treatment on contemporary society

Robert Browning   ‘treatment of love

Robert Browning  is more concern human psychology

Robert Browning Theme of success and failure in his poetry

Robert Browning’s theory of life

Robert Browning Dramatic Monologue

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson’s treatment of olgend and myth

Charlotte Bronte-Anti romantic novel Jane Eyre  with a romantic

Charlotte Bronte-Autobiographical Elements Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte-Treatment of childhood in Jane Eyre

Moral per-occupation moral education

Humor and pathos – irony and humor 

Characters of Pip

How far Tess is responsible of her Tragedy of life.

Hardy’s attitude towards nature