MEG 06 American Literature JUNE 2019

MEG 06: American Literature

JUNE 2019 Question Paper

1. Write short notes on any two of the following :

(a) The Harlem Renaissance

(b)  John Dickinson's "Letters from a farmerin Permsylyania."

 (c) Imagery in Emily Dickinson's poetry

(d) JohnAdam's "A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law." Choose any fourquestions.

2. Do you agree with the view that Pearl saves Hester from the temptation of the Devil ?

3. Discusshow the comic and the critical combine in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.

4. What were the native Indian responses to American Romanticism in the mid-nineteenth century.

5. What is ironic about the speaker's statements  concerning his neighbour's opinion of wall-building in "Mending wall" ?

6. Examine Poe's definition of the short story and its influence on the subsequent American short story writers.

7. Critically comment on expressionism in The Hairy Ape.

8. Write an essay on claudia as the narrator in The Bluest Eye.

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