MEG 05 Literary Criticism & Theory Assignment Solved Assignment 2020-21

 

MEG 05 Literary Criticism & Theory Assignment

Solved Assignment 2020-21

Max. Marks: 100

Answer all questions.



1. What do you think Aristotle meant when he said, ‘pleasure proper to tragedy’? Explain with reference to the essays in your course.

2. Write short notes on the following:

a) Rasa and Dhvani

b) Gynocriticism

c) 'The 'Other'

d) Postmodernism

e) New Historicism

3. Examine the nature of the revolution in women's education proposed by Mary Wollstonecraft?

4. Bring out the main ideas in Roland Barthes' essay 'The Death of the Author'.

5. Outline the sign theory of Language as propounded by Saussure highlighting its specific features.