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MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG-15)
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: THEORY AND PRACTICE
ASSIGNMENT 2026-27
Answer any five (5) questions. All questions carry equal marks. Course Code: MEG-15 Max. Marks: 100 20×5=100
1. In what ways does oral literature reflect the cultural fabric of a society? Discuss.
2. The process of life writing constitutes a search for self-identity. Discuss in the context of the autobiographies of Rasha Sundari Debi, Maya Angelou and Sally Morgan.
3. What do you understand by ‘interliterariness’? How does it aid in the interpretation and comparison of various literary texts?
4. Discuss Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea as a Postcolonial retelling of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.
5. Retellings keep a work of literature alive across time and space. Do you agree? Give reasons.
6. How does the shift of perspective involved in the adaptation of a literary work affect our understanding of the text? Illustrate.
7. World Literature is an inextricable part of Comparative Literature. Elaborate.
8. Elucidate the problems of translation with relevant examples from Andha Yug.
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