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ST MARY’S UNIVERSITY
TWICKENHAM, LONDON
BA/BSc Degree Examination students registered for
Level FOUR
Title: An Introduction to Critical Theory
Code: ENG4003
Semester: Resit
Date: 1st July 2019
Time: 13:30 – 15:30 PM
TIME ALLOWED: TWO HOURS
Answer any TWO questions. You may illustrate your answers with any texts
you wish, except where a particular text is specified.
1. Please offer a defence and critique of ONE of the following theories: Liberal
Humanism, Marxism and /or Feminist Theory.
2. How far does a Marxist or Feminist or Post-colonial reading of Jane Eyre allow
the reader to think critically about the character of Jane and her relationship
with Bertha Mason? (Please write about either ONE or Two of these theories in
your answer.)
3. Please offer an interpretation of ANY one text that you have read using TWO of
the following theories: structuralism; post-colonialism; new historicism and eco-
criticism.
4. Please outline the ideas behind eco-criticism: what are the key strengths and
weaknesses of this theory?
5. How far can we use the idea of post-colonialism and idea of the Orientalist
Other to understand the roles of Jane and Bertha in Jane Eyre?
6. ‘A reader needs the text alone to decide how to interpret what the author has
written the context of a text is not important.’ Compare the ideas of Marxism
and Liberal Humanism about reading and context in light of this statement.
7. How far is the idea of the literary canon or the idea of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ literature
understood by different critical theories that you have studied on this module?
END OF EXAMINATION
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ST MARY’S UNIVERSITY
TWICKENHAM, LONDON
BA/BSc Degree Examination students registered for
Level FOUR
Title: An Introduction to Critical Theory
Code: ENG4003
Semester: Resit
Date: 1st July 2019
Time: 13:30 – 15:30 PM
TIME ALLOWED: TWO HOURS
Answer any TWO questions. You may illustrate your answers with any texts
you wish, except where a particular text is specified.
1. Please offer a defence and critique of ONE of the following theories: Liberal
Humanism, Marxism and /or Feminist Theory.
2. How far does a Marxist or Feminist or Post-colonial reading of Jane Eyre allow
the reader to think critically about the character of Jane and her relationship
with Bertha Mason? (Please write about either ONE or Two of these theories in
your answer.)
3. Please offer an interpretation of ANY one text that you have read using TWO of
the following theories: structuralism; post-colonialism; new historicism and eco-
criticism.
4. Please outline the ideas behind eco-criticism: what are the key strengths and
weaknesses of this theory?
5. How far can we use the idea of post-colonialism and idea of the Orientalist
Other to understand the roles of Jane and Bertha in Jane Eyre?
6. ‘A reader needs the text alone to decide how to interpret what the author has
written the context of a text is not important.’ Compare the ideas of Marxism
and Liberal Humanism about reading and context in light of this statement.
7. How far is the idea of the literary canon or the idea of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ literature
understood by different critical theories that you have studied on this module?
END OF EXAMINATION
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