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LIT811S - LITERARY THEORY - 2ND OPP - JULY 2024 |
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nAm I BI A u n IVE RS ITV
OF SCIEnCE AnD TECHnOLOGY
FACULTYOF COMMERCE,HUMAN SCIENCEAND EDUCATION
DEPARTMENTOF COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGES
QUALIFICATION: BACHELOR OF ENGLISH AND LINGUISTICS (HONOURS)
QUALIFICATION CODE: 08BAEN
LEVEL:8
COURSE CODE: LIT811S
COURSE NAME: LITERARY THEORY
SESSION: JULY 2024
PAPER:THEORY
DURATION: 3H00
MARKS: 75
EXAMINER($)
SECOND OPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION
DR. ALETTA MWENENI HAUTEMO
MODERATOR: DR. A. SIMATAA
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SECTION A - COMPULSORY
This section is compulsory, and it consists of ONE question.
[25 MARKS]
QUESTION 1
25 MARKS
Do you remember the fairy tale Cinderella? Read the story below and analyze it using a
feminist lens.
CINDERELLA
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl named Cinderella. She lived with her wicked
stepmother and two stepsisters. They treated Cinderella very badly. One day, they were
invited for a grand ball in the king's palace. But Cinderella's stepmother would not let her go.
Cinderella was made to sew new party gowns for her stepmother and stepsisters and curl their
hair. They then went to the ball, leaving Cinderella at home. Cinderella felt very sad and began
to cry. Suddenly, a fairy godmother appeared and said, "Don't cry, Cinderella! I will send you
to the ball!" But Cinderella was sad. She said, "I don't have a gown to wear for the ball!" The
fairy godmother waved her magic wand and changed Cinderella's old clothes into a beautiful
new gown! The fairy godmother then touched Cinderella's feet with the magic wand. And lo!
She had beautiful glass slippers! "How will I go to the grand ball?" asked Cinderella. The fairy
godmother found six mice playing near a pumpkin, in the kitchen. She touched them with her
magic wand and the mice became four shiny black horses and two coachmen and the pumpkin
turned into a golden coach. Cinderella was overjoyed and set off for the ball in the coach
drawn by the six black horses. Before leaving. the fairy godmother said, "Cinderella, this magic
will only last until midnight! You must reach home by then!"
When Cinderella entered the palace, everybody was struck by her beauty. Nobody, not even
Cinderella's stepmother or stepsisters, knew who she really was in her pretty clothes and
shoes. The handsome prince also saw her and fell in love with Cinderella. He went to her and
asked, "Do you want to dance?" And Cinderella said, "Yes!" The prince danced with her all
night and nobody recognized the beautiful dancer. Cinderella was so happy dancing with the
prince that she almost forgot what the fairy godmother had said. At the last moment, Cinderella
remembered her fairy godmother's words and she rushed to go home. "Oh! I must go!" she
cried and ran out of the palace. One of her glass slippers came off but Cinderella did not turn
back for it. She reached home just as the clock struck twelve. Her coach turned back into a
pumpkin, the horses into mice and her fine ball gown into rags. Her stepmother and stepsisters
reached home shortly after that. They were talking about the beautiful lady who had been
dancing with the prince.
The prince had fallen in love with Cinderella and wanted to find out who the beautiful girl was,
but he did not even know her name. He found the glass slipper that had come off Cinderella's
foot as she ran home. The prince said, "I will find her. The lady whose foot fits this slipper will
be the one I marry!" The next day, the prince and his servants took the glass slipper and'went
to all the houses in the kingdom. They wanted to find the lady whose feet would fit in the
slipper. All the women in the kingdom tried the slipper but it would not fit any of them.
Cinderella's stepsisters also tried on the little glass slipper. They tried to squeeze their feet
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and push hard into the slipper, but the servant was afraid the slipper would break. Cinderella's
stepmother would not let her try the slipper on, but the prince saw her and said, "Let her also
try on the slipper!" The slipper fit her perfectly. The prince recognized her from the ball. He
married Cinderella and together they lived happily ever after.
SECTION 8 ELECTIVE QUESTIONS
[50 MARKS]
This section consists of three questions. You are required to select TWO questions to
answer.
QUESTION 2
Discuss the postcolonial theory.
a. Definition
b. Assumptions
c. Strategies
25 MARKS
QUESTION 3
25 MARKS
Write an essay in which you explain the main features of ecofeminism. Illustrate your answer
with examples.
QUESTION 4
25 MARKS
What is formalism? Discuss the basic tenets of formalism and show how these tenets relate
to the poem below.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Source: eNotes Publishing, ©2012 eNotes.com, Inc
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