MASTER'S DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG)

ASSIGNMENT FOR MASTERS DEGREE IN ENGLISH CONTEMPORARY INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION CMEG-14)
Programme: MEG Course Code: MEG-14 Dear Student. You will have one assignment for the Master's Degree in English (MEG-14), which will be a Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA) and will carry 100 marks. It will be based on blocks 1 to 9. Aims: This assignment is concerned mainly with assessing your application and your understanding of the course material. You are not required to reproduce chunks of information from the course material but to use the skills of critical appreciation that you may have acquired during the course of study. This assignment aims to teach as well as to assess your performance. Instructions: Before attempting the questions please read the following instructions carefully. 1. Read the detailed instructions about the assignments given in the Programme Guide for Elective Courses. 2. Write your Enrolment Number. Name, Full Address and Date on the top right comer of the first page of your response sheet(s). 3. Write the Course Title, Assignment Number and the Name of the Study Centre you are attached to in the centre of the first page of your response sheet (s). The top of the first page of your response sheet should look like this: Enrolment No.: Name : Address: Course Title: Assignment No.: Study Centre : Date:

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4. Use only foolscap size paper for your response and tag all the Pages carefully. 5. Write the relevant question number with each answer. 6. You should write in your own handwriting.

7. Submission: The completed assignment should be sent to the Coordinator of the Study Centre allotted to you by 31St March, 2012. (If enrolled in the July session) and 30th Sept, 2012 if enrolled for the January session. 13. Please &ad the instructions given in your Programme Guide. Now read the following guidelines carefully before answering questions.
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Planning: Read the questions carefully. Go through the units on which they are based. Make some points regarding each question and then rearrange these in a logical order. And please write the answers in your owl 1 words. Do not reproduce passages from the units. Organisation: Be a little more selective and analytic before drawing up a rough outline of your answer. In an essay-type question, give adequate attention to your introduction and conclusion. The introduction must offer your brief interpretation of the question and how your propose to develop it. The conclusion must summarise your response to the question. In the course of your answer, you may like lo make references to other texts or critics as this will add some depth to your analysis. Make sure that your answer: a) is logical and coherent; b) has clear connections between sentences and paragraphs; c) is written correctly giving adequate consideration to your expression, style and presentation; d) does not exceed the number of words indicated in your question. Presentation: Once you are satisfied with your answers, you can write down the final version for submission, writing each answer neatly and underlining the points you wish to emphasize.
You may be aware that you need to submit your assignments before you can appear for the Term End Exams. Please remember to keep a copy of your completed assignment, just in case the one you submitted is lost in transit.

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Good luck with your work!

Note: Remember tlre submission of assignment is precondition of permission o f appearing in examination. If you have riot submined the assignment in time you will not be nllowed to appear in euomination.

CONTEMPORARY INDlAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION ASSIGNMENT (Based on Blocks 1-8) Programme Code: MEG Assignment Code: MEG-14/TMA/2011-12 Maximum Marks: 100

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What are the major issues and concerns in literary translation? (450 words)

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2. Discuss asceticism and eroticism as major themes in Samskara. (450 words)

(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

Depiction of village life in Salt. Humour in Birthday. Memory in Birds. Narrative in Tiny's Grany. Tribal Philosophy in Tadpa. The title Empty Chest.
Very lonely, She as a depiction of the elderly in India in present times.

5. Write Notes on any two of the following: (250 words each) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

Humour in Headmaster, Prawn, Chanachur. Folk elements in Compromise.

6. Discuss with reference to the context any four of the following passages:

(a) Her very name calls upon God to protect but there she was moaning as naturally as a sleeper snoring. No doctor came...... (b) No, I would continue to stare at the one hundred bald pates in silence. The fixed stare of my dead machine gun. (c) No need to move, to open my eyes. My ears like twin-boats cany the weight of your words ? (d) You do not open the door. Though I have arrived at,thedestination. How can I write the alphabets of constellations on the old paper?

(e) We need everything. We shall build houses and homes - shall raise a lasting pillar of civilization. When the silvery fish is gone scattering stones in water just once try to love.
(f) It has been too long a stay here.

Now is the time to move on?

7 Discuss the theme of power and its tragic misuse in Tughlaq. (450 words) .

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8. Comment on any two of the following :

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(ii) (iii) (iv)

Karukku as an autobiography.
Manto's art of writing pen - sketch On Ismat.

Mani Mahesh as a personal memoir.

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