Here I am giving you question paper for MA English entrance examination of Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi in a PDF file with it .

1. Write your critical response to the following poem by Emily Dickinson, addressing
its title, form and content
A Route of Evanescence
A Route of Evanescence,
With a revolving Wheel-
A Resonance of Emerald
A Rush of Cochineal-
And every Blossom on the Bush
Adjusts its tumbled Head-
The Mail from Tunis-probably,
An easy Morning's Ride-
2. Critically enumerate the relevance of classical Indian texts such as the Natyashastra to
the study of contemporary Indian literature and culture.
Or
How relevant is the study of classical Indian theories, like the Rasa theory, to the
understanding of contemporary Indian literature and culture? Answer with reference to
any literary text of your choice.

3. Take up a realist novel from the 19th century and a modernist one from the early 20th
century. Discuss these two texts in terms of their different approaches to the relationship
between reality and fiction.

4. Choose a literary text or any other cultural product-films, advertisements, fashion, or a
sports programme-and offer a semiotic analysis of it.
Or
How relevant is 'culture studies' to the understanding and critique of the contemporary
cultural world? Do you think 'culture studies', as it is practised today in our academic
context, can indeed offer us possibilities of a radical rethinking of 'culture'? Discuss the
basic premises of today's 'culture studies' in the history of its institutional foundations
and show what form of 'culture studies' can be relevant to our contemporary Indian
context.

5. What does the term 'Romantic' mean? Is it more justifiable to speak of 'Romanticisms' in
the plural? Choose two poets or more who are normally referred to as 'Romantic' and show
how justified it is to use the term 'Romantic' for them.
Or
How useful is it to pursue inter-textual study of literary texts? Choose more than one text
of your choice and offer an inter-textual study of these texts.

6. How important, in today's world of globalization, are concepts like 'nation' and
'nationalism' to understand literary texts? Write an essay supporting your argument.
Or
What does the term 'Post-Structuralism' mean? Take a theorist/thinker/writer whom you
like and discuss the basic problematic of any of his works in the light of what you
understand of the term 'Post-Structuralism'.