(IGNOU) MEG-06 Important Questions with Answers English Medium-IGNOU MEG-06 is a Master’s Degree in English course elective entitled American Literature. It is a 3-credit course that covers the major periods and movements in American literature from the colonial era to the present. The course is divided into nine blocks, each of which focuses on a particular topic or author.
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- Block 1: Contexts of American Literature
- Block 2: American Fiction-I
- Block 3: American Fiction-II
- Block 4: American Prose
- Block 5: American Poetry-I
- Block 6: American Poetry-II
- Block 7: American Short Story
- Block 8: American Drama
Q1.Why did Puritanism emerge as the hegemonic American ideology in the course of less than a century?
(IGNOU) MEG-06 Important Questions with Answers English Medium- The historian Francis Jennings has rightly written about the Puritan migration into America that the “so-called settlement of America was a resettlement, a reoccupation of a land made waste by the diseases and demoralisation introduced by the newcomers.” The obliteration of the Old cultures of the New World by the new entrants from the Old World only partially explains however the emergence of Puritanism as the hegemonic American ideology.
The Puritans were extremely self-conscious emigres who made a fetish of recording their experiences in the New World even as they were undergoing the experiences. John Winthorp was certainly not the only Puritan to write a journal noting in detail the day-to-day episodes of his adventures on alien shores. The ability to write, indeed, was supposed to be the mark of the civilisation of the European traveller. Correspondingly, (from the European point of view) the unlettered aboriginals, the Indians, and slaves, the Afrlcans brought in as chattel labour a little later, were either written down in or written out of the Puritan narratives. Contexts of American Consider, for instance, the following account of a Puritan raid on a Pequot village, Literature extracted fiom William Bradford’s OfPlymouth Plantation (written 1630-46; published, 1857): Those that scaped the fire were slaine with the sword; some hewed to peeces, others rune throu’ with their rapiers, so as they were quickly dispatchte, and very few escaped. MEG-06 Important Questions with Answers
It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fyer, and the streams of blood quenching the same, and homble was the stincke and sente thereof, but the victory seemed a sweete sacrifice, and they gave the prayers thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them, thus to inclose their enemise in their hands, and give them so speedy a victory over so proud and insulting an enemie. It is clear that Bradford applauds the slaying of the Indians despite his protestations about the sordidness of the event. The Puritan theologian Cotton Mather is much more candid than Governor Bradford in his approval of the genocide. MEG-06 Important Questions with Answers English Medium
(IGNOU) MEG-06 Important Questions with Answers English Medium- “It was supposed that no less than 600 Pequot souls were brought down to hell that day.” Bradford’s narrative is no ordinary piece of writing. Meant to be a memoir of his own American odyssey, this tract by the most illustrious of administrators of the colony of Plymouth transforms itself soon into cultural propaganda fiom contemporary New England. Two motifs flow with each other through the text. The first motif is that America was utterly savage, in the state the Puritans encountered it. It was virtually uninhabitable and by extension uninhabited. T
Q2. Describe and discuss the material circumstances which made the American Enlightenment possible.
Q3. In what ways were the early Quakers in America similar to, yet different from, the early Puritans in America?
Q4. Write a brief note on Transcendentalism.
Q5. How does Hester defend a mother’s rights in the scene at the Governor’s House? Do you really agree with her?
Q6. What is your own response to the novel? Do you like it? Why?
Q7. How does Tom try to imme himself on Huck?
Q8. In what way does Huck’s language reflect his character?
Q9. What were the most important themes of American Indian literary expression during the period under review in this Unit?
Q10. What were the most important themes of Black American literary expression during the period under review in this Unit?
Q11. Comment on the multicultural character of American prose written at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Q12. How is nature pictured in Whitman’s poetry? Do you think he could be described as the Wordsworth of American poetry?
Q13. What does swinging on birches teach the poet about life?
Q14. What does the wall represent to Frost in “Mending Wall”?
Q15. In what ways did William Carlos Williams agree as a poet with his contemporaries like Pound and Eliot and in what ways did he differ?