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Literary Aesthetics Question Paper

Literary Aesthetics

Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Literature

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2007

KENYATT A UNIVERSITY
INSTITUTE OF OPEN LEARNING
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2006/2007
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF EDUCATION AND
BACHELOR OF ARTS
AL T 400: LITERARY AESTHETICS
DATE: Monday 15th January, 2007
TIME: 4.30 p.m.-6.30 p.m.
INSTRUCTIONS
Answer THREE questions only.
1.
What is aesthetics and how is it linked to literature?
2.
Discuss Plato's example ofthe Allegory of the cave and how he argues that literature is an imitation of an Imitation.
3.
Critically analyse the definition of a Tragedy by Aristotle. Do you agree with this definition?
4.
Would you argue that Oedipus the King by Sophocles is both universal and at the same time particular? Give a detailed account ofliterature's particularity and/or universality.
5.
Give the definition of the following terms:
1.
Anagnorisis.
2.
Peripeteia.
3.
Harmatia.
4.
Tragic Hero.
5.
Catharsis.

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