MEG 11 AMERICAN NOVEL
Question Paper June 2017
Time : 3 hours Maximum
Marks : 100
Note : Attempt any one question from
Section A and any four questions from Section B. Attempt five questions in all.
All questions carry equal marks.
SECTION A
1. What do you understand by the term 'American Renaissance' ? Outline its major achievements.
2. What are the major thematic concerns of the post-Second World War American fiction ? Discuss with reference to any two novels prescribed in your syllabus.
SECTION B
3. Discuss the significance of the landscape in The Last of the Mohicans.
4. How does Theodore Dreiser critique American society in Sister Carrie ?
5. Explore the concept of 'The American Dream' in The Great Gatsby.
6. Is racial politics a major thematic concern in Light in August ? Discuss.
7. How does The Catcher in the Rye portray the image of the 'rebel-victim' ?
8. Discuss Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn as a bildungsroman.
9. Discuss The Color Purple as a feminist text.
10. Comment on the metaphor of the 'floating opera' in The Floating Opera.
11. Discuss Henry Miller's Black Spring as a surrealist novel.
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