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1. (a) In the last few decades, many departments of English or English Studies have moved
in their orientation towards Culture Studies. How are the labels 'English', 'English
Studies' and 'Culture Studies' different? What major changes in the course
curriculum, methodology of teaching and research, and cross-disciplinary skills
would the transformation of departments of English or English Studies into
departments of Culture Studies require? What are your considered arguments on the
efficacy of such a transformation?

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(b) Do you agree that the relationship between a literary theory'and a literary text has been fairly uneven wherein concepts and categories from a theory are uncritically
used to make sense of a literary text? Or, could it be contrary as well, where a literary text may pose serious questions to the Universalist claims of a literary theory? With reference to at least one non-Western literary text and any one of the following literary theories, discuss how a literary text, owing to its different contexts
of production, may as well inflect a literary theory, and not simply be dependent
upon it for its interpretation
(1) Marxism
Feminism
Postcolonialism
Psychoanalysis
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism