MEG 12 Solved Assignment 2022-23
MEG 12 Solved Assignment 2022-23
CANADIAN LITERATURE
MEG 12 Solved Assignment 2022-23 : All assignments are in PDF format which would be send on email/WhatsApp (9958676204) just after payment.
Programme: MEG
Assignment Code: MEG 12/TMA/2022-2023
Max. Marks: 100
Attempt
all TEN questions and answer each question in approximately 500 words.
1 What
are some major concerns that dominate 20th century Canadian Literature? Give a
reasoned answer.
In the early 20th century, popular poets responding to
the interest in local colour depicted French Canadian customs and dialect (W.H.
Drummond, The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems, 1897), the Mohawk tribe
and rituals (E. Pauline Johnson, Legends of Vancouver, 1911; Flint and Feather,
1912), and the freedom and romance of the north (Robert Service, Songs of a
Sourdough, 1907). John McCrae’s account of World War I, “In Flanders Fields”
(1915), remains Canada’s best-known poem. Slowly a reaction against
sentimental, patriotic, and derivative Victorian verse set in. E.J. Pratt
created a distinctive style both in lyric poems of seabound Newfoundland life
(Newfoundland Verse, 1923) and in the epic narratives The Titanic (1935),
Brébeuf and His Brethren (1940), and Towards the Last Spike (1952), which
through their reliance on accurate detail participate in the documentary
tradition. Influenced by Pratt, Earle Birney, another innovative and
experimental poet, published the frequently anthologized tragic narrative
“David” (1942), the first of many audacious, technically varied poems exploring
the troubling nature of humanity and the cosmos. His publications include the
verse play Trial of a City and Other Verse (1952) and poetic collections such
as Rag & Bone Shop (1971) and Ghost in the Wheels (1977). Toronto’s
Canadian Forum (founded in 1920), which Birney edited from 1936 to 1940, and
Montreal’s McGill Fortnightly Review (1925–27) provided an outlet for the “new
poetry” and the emergence of Modernism. Here and in their anthology New
Provinces (1936), A.J.M. Smith, F.R. Scott, and A.M. Klein began their long
literary careers. Emphasizing concrete images, open language, and free verse,
these modernists felt that the poet’s task was to identify, name, and take
possession of the land. Klein wrote in “Portrait of the Poet as Landscape”
(1948) that the poet is “the nth Adam taking a green inventory / in a world but
scarcely uttered, naming, praising.” The bonds of a colonial frame of mind
characterized by fear of the unknown, reliance on convention, a puritan
consciousness—what Frye, in the “Conclusion” written for the first edition of
the Literary History of Canada (1965), called the “garrison mentality”—were
being broken and cast off.
Strong reaction to the Great Depression, the rise of
fascism, and World War II dominated the poems of the 1930s and ’40s. Using the
documentary mode, Dorothy Livesay condemned the exploitation of workers in Day
and Night (1944), while her lyric poems spoke frankly of sexual love (Signpost,
1932). In opposition to the cosmopolitan and metaphysical verse promoted by
Smith and the literary magazine Preview (1942–45), Irving Layton, Louis Dudek,
and Raymond Souster—through their little magazine Contact (1952–54) and their
publishing house, the Contact Press (1952–67)—urged poets to focus on realism
and the local North American context. P.K. Page, one of Canada’s most
intellectually rigorous poets, was associated with the Preview group in the
’40s when she published her first collection, As Ten as Twenty (1946), which
includes the evocative renowned poem “Stories of Snow.”
By 1900 novels of local colour were beginning to
overshadow historical romances. Lucy Maud Montgomery’s beloved children’s book
Anne of Green Gables (1908) and its sequels were set in Prince Edward Island.
Ontario towns and their “garrison mentality” provided the setting for Sara
Jeannette Duncan’s portrayal of political life in The Imperialist (1904), Ralph
Connor’s The Man from Glengarry (1901), Stephen Leacock’s satiric stories
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), and Mazo de la Roche’s best-selling
Jalna series (1927–60). Out of the Prairies emerged the novel of social
realism, which documented the small, often narrow-minded farming communities
pitted against an implacable nature. Martha Ostenso’s Wild Geese (1925), a tale
of a strong young girl in thrall to her cruel father, and Frederick Philip
Grove’s Settlers of the Marsh (1925) and Fruits of the Earth (1933), depicting
man’s struggle for mastery of himself and his land, are moving testaments to
the courage of farmers. Painter Emily Carr wrote stories about her childhood
and her visits to First Nations sites in British Columbia (Klee Wyck, 1941).
2 Write
a detailed note on the contributions of Atwood and Ondaatje to recent Canadian
poetry.
3 Write
a detailed note on the genre of the Canadian long poem.
4 Write
a detailed note on the main character of the novel Surfacing.
5
Gabrielle Roy very realistically presents the lives of the people of Quebec in
her novel The Tin Flute. Discuss it with examples from the novel.
6 In
what ways is The English Patient a modernist novel? Discuss it.
7
Attempt a critical assessment of “A Mother in India”.
8 Wo are
the main characters in The Tin Flute? Who emerges as the most arresting
character from among these?
9
‘Characterization in The Ecstasy of Rita Joe follows allegorical writing in its
accent on white and black shades of characters.’ Critically comment.
10 What
are the various types of criticism that Frye talks about in Anatomy of
Criticism?
MEG 12 Solved
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Master’s Degree Programmes (MEG) ASSIGNMENTS
Dear Learner,
You have to submit one assignment in each course, i.e.
MEG 12. All these are Tutor Marked Assignments (TMAs). Before attempting
the assignments, please read the instructions provided in the Programme Guide
carefully.
Kindly note, you have to submit these assignments to
the Coordinator of your Study Centre within the stipulated time for being
eligible to appear in the term-end examination. You must mention your Enrolment
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The marks obtained by you will be sent by the Study Centre to the Student
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Guidelines
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There are five questions in each assignment, all carry
equal marks. Attempt all the questions in not more than 500 words (each). You
will find it useful to keep the following points in mind:
Planning: Read the assignments carefully. Go
through the units on which they are based, make some points regarding each
question and then rearrange them in a logical order
Organization and Presentation: Be analytical in
your selection of the information for your answer. Give adequate attention to
the introduction and the conclusion. Make sure that your answer is logical and
coherent; has a proper flow of information.
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