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IGNOU BEGC-134 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
Section A
Write short notes in about 200 words each:
1. (i) Narrative Modes
(ii) Novel of the Diaspora
(iii) Origins of the Novel
(iv) Literary Trends in 18th and 19th Century England
Section B
Answer the following in about 600 words each:
1. Critically comment on the nineteenth century which may be helpful in understanding The Awakening by Kate Chopin.
2. Give a detailed comment on the style used by Chinua Achebe in Things
3. Analyse critically the socio- political structure in Paraja, giving suitable examples from the text.
4. Attempt a detailed note on Africa’s first contact with the outside world in the context of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
IGNOU BEGC-134 (July 2023 – January 2024) Assignment Questions
Section A
1. Write short notes in about 100 words each:
(i) Style
(ii) Colonising the African Mind
(iv) Third World Novels
(iv) Edna Pontellier
Section B
Answer the following in about 350 words each:
1. Examine The Awakening using symbolism as a mode of enquiry.
2. Discuss Paraja as a text that deals with the economic plight of tribals.
3. What do you think does a literary text loose in the process of literary translation with reference to Paraja.
4. Criticially ananlyse the consequences of the white man’s arrival in Umuofia, in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.