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Literary Aesthetics Question Paper

Literary Aesthetics

Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Literature

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2010

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2010/2011
FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF
BACHELOR OF ARTS AND BACHELOR OF EDUCATION
ALT 400: LITERARY AESTHETICS
DATE: WEDNESDAY 1ST DECEMBER 2010
TIME: 2.00 P.M ? 4.00 P.M

INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any THREE (3) questions.

Do not use the same material twice.
SECTION A
1.
Illustrate the place of aesthetics in literary study.
2.
A man of The people? demonstrates African aesthetics
3.
In chaos where lies aesthetics? Discuss this query in relation to The Last Villains of Molo
4.
A Grain of Wheat is a prophetic novel. Discuss the aesthetic nature of this statement in light of contemporary events in Kenyan history
5.
Relate the concept of Betrayal to aesthetic study in Betrayal in the city.

SECTION B
6.
An event in a text is the shifting of a person across the borders of a semantic field . An event is that which did occur, though it could also not have occurred? Lotman. Discuss this view with respect to texts with plots and without plot.
7.
Referring to Bessie Head?s ? The Collector of Treasures,? What is the symbolic significance of ? Prison? in relation to the cultural construction of sexuality?
8.
Comment on the narrative strategies Alex La Guma employs in his texts ? Blankets? and ? A walk in the Night?.
9.
Assess the salient techniques Violent Kokunda employs in ? Kefa Kaziana? to appeal to our aesthetic values.
10.
In literary aesthetics, the study of ? affect? creates an awareness of the deep structures of reading and receiving literary works.? Discuss
11.
Comment on the satirical features of Gogol?s The Nose.

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