www.efluniversity.ac.in PhD English Literature Entrance Test The English And Foreign Languages University : Model Question Paper

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Document Described : The English And Foreign Languages University
Entrance Tests 2008
PhD (English Literature)
Time: 3 hours Max.Marks: 150

Instructions
1.Write all answers on the answer book provided.
2.Return the question paper along with the answer book at the end of the test.
3.There are three Sections in this paper (A, B and C). Answer ONE question from each Section.
4.All questions carry equal marks.

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Section A

I Answer either (a) or (b) below, i.e. either ONE long essay from question (a) or TWO short essays from question (b).

(a) Write an essay (1000-2000 words) on any ONE of the following topics:

1.Dissent and Interdisciplinarity in the Humanities

2.Censorship and Self-Expression in Art

3.National Literature

4.Culture and the ‘Masses’

5.Literature and Social Location
OR
(b) Write short essays (500-600 words each) on any TWO of the following topics:

1.Multiculturalism and the Politics of the Secular

2.Postcolonial Shakespeares

3.Representing ‘Tribal’ India

4.The Diasporic Subject in Contemporary Indian Cinema

5.Caste, Gender and Cultural Criticism in India

6.Intertextuality and Contemporary Practices of Reading

7.Women in Romantic Poetry

8.Magic Realism and the Third World Subject