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Gender and Literature is an examination of selected literary texts and cultural conditions from the standpoint of gender theory. It will draw on established scholarship on gender studies and take the student through the various configurations and reconfiguration that determine gendered classifications such as masculinity and femininity. (https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/)

M.A. (PREVIOUS) ENGLISH
SECOND SEMESTER
COURSE-VI : LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: 1550-1660 (Part-II)
Max. Marks: 80
Time: 3 Hours
Note: (To be printed in the question paper)
1. Besides Question No. 1, which is compulsory, a candidate shall choose one question from each of the four units, attempting five questions in all.
2. Each of the 5 questions carries 16 marks.
Note for Paper-Setters:
The paper-setter will set 9 questions in all.
Question No. 1 shall consist of four short answer type questions evenly spread over the whole syllabus. Each of the answers should be of about 100-150 words. There will be no internal choice in this question.
Two questions will be set from each unit.

Unit-I: Shakespeare
: Hamlet

Unit-II: John Donne: The following poems from The Metaphysical Poets ed. Helen
(Penguin) are prescribed:
"The Flea",
"The Good Morrow", "Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star",
"The Sun Rising", "The Canonization", "A Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning", "The Extasie", "Batter My Heart:Three Person' d God",
“Loves Growth”, “Since she whome I lovd, hath payd her last debt”.

Unit-III: John Webster
The Duchess of Malfi

Unit-IV: Francis Bacon:
"Of Unity in Religion", “Of Simulation and Dissimulation”, "Of Friendship", "Of Ambition",
"Of Great Place", “Of Studies",
"Of Truth", “Of Nature in Men”, “Of Love”, “Of Parents and
Children”