Write a detailed note on the different stages of Canadian history from the First settlers to the present age? The land’s moods, seasons and weathers are the chronometers by which Canadian measure their lives....
Cooking at the map of Canada, one finds colourful and dramatic patterns of lakes and forests, mountains and prairies – which may make one believe that Canada has a discourse of nature. More so,...
Comment on the cyclical structure of House Made of Dawn. Write a note on the Indian cultures before the European contact. What are the major themes in the Indian literatures’? Briefly discuss them Discuss...
QUESTION – Comment on some of the influences on Alice Walker’s life. QUESTION – What are the significant characteristics of African-American culture’? QUESTION – Trace the milestoncs in the history of Black American fiction....
Examine the centrality of John Barth in the American novel since the Second World War. Discuss the broad differences between the Post First World War American novel and the Post Second World War American...
Discuss Salinger ‘s personality and his work. Give a brief summary of the plot of The Catcher In The Rye. Critically analyse the plot of the novel. What are the special features of the...
QUESTION- Analyse Miller ‘s Paris days and their contribution to his development as a writer. QUESTION- Write a short note on the dialectic of sex-motif in American literature. QUESTION- Write an essay (about 400...
“Lena Grove’s story enfolds the entire action of the novel, Light in August. Discuss. Write a note on the character of Joe Christmas. Do you find any religious meaning in Light in August? Explain....
Examine the literary context of Scott Fitzgerald with reference to his contemporary compatriots. What do you understand by the terms ‘The Jazz Age’ and ‘The Lost Generation’? What were the major political and social...
Do you consider the immigrant, working class background of Dreiser of crucial significance to the development of Dreiser as an artist? Give your reasons. What were the major changes that happened in American society...
Study the literary background of Washington Irving, E.A.Poe and James Fennimore Cooper. Discuss the qualities of the American character of the 19th century. What are the moral, religious ideas defining the American mind of...
Irony becomes the chief literary mode for the experimental writer whose immediate target is not so much the absurd universe but the absurdity of the literary forms and conveentions. Tracing the growth of literature...
The “color purple” is mentioned to show that Celie is queen over herself. Quilting literally means stitching together pieces of cloth. The concept of the quilt gained significance in American academia with the resurgence...
ANSWER – The Catcher in the Rye opens in a sanatorium, where Holden is recuperating from a mental breakdown. Holden, all of sixteen years, begins by describing his expulsion from Pencey Prep, a select...
Perhaps, the green light may be connected with the idea of the well known ‘The American Dream’, the same dream that Willy Loman of Arthur Miller in The Death of a Salesman and many...
These qualities of the nineteenth century American life, in its complex impact of tradition and environment, moral, religious, philosophical and expansionist purposes are sufficiently reflected in the American novel form, in the writings of...
1. What were the different oral traditions that formed the beginnings of Australian Literature? Illustrate with examples. 2. What were the main themes of nineteenth century Australian poetry? Substantiate from the poems you have read. 3....
Who would you credit you credit for the establishment of short fiction as a genre? What were some of the types of short fiction produced in Australia? Which of these types appeal to you?...
Did Australian poetry begin as a freak? Or was it an offshoot of the historical and social events taking place in Australia during the nineteenth century? When did the colonization of Australia begin? What...
The literature of the country has flowered and it is possible to trace its development through the convict legacy of the bush ballads and the early attempt to copy European modes and follow their...
