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M.Phil English ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY - DISTANCE EDUCATION M.Phil. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2010. AMERICAN LITERATURE Question paper

ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY - DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.Phil. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2010.
AMERICAN LITERATURE

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
Answer any FIVE of the following questions.
All questions carry equal marks.

1. Establish Frost as a poet of Nature with reference to the prescribed poems.

2. Explain the black consciousness in Langston Hughes' poem.

3. Describe the theme of love in Poe's poems.

4. Enumerate Henry James' views on novel as art form in The Art of Fiction.

5. Consider Death of a Salesman as a social tragedy.

6. Comment on expressionistic technique used in The Emperor Jones.

7. Explicate the sense of alienation in Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet.

8. Discuss the theme of suffering in The Old Man and the Sea.

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