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KKHSOU PGEG S4 – 01 (DSC 10) Solved Assignment 2025

KRISHNA KANTA HANDIQUI STATE OPEN UNIVERSITY
Padmanath Gohainbaruah School of Humanities
HOME ASSIGNMENT FOR MASTER OF ARTS IN ENGLISH
4th SEMESTER, 2025
(CBCS in Accordance with NEP 2020)

COURSE 1: LITERARY AND CRITICAL THEORY I
Course Code: PGEG S4 – 01 (DSC 10)

Q: Answer all the following Questions. (Each within 500 words)
1. To what extent do Structuralism and Post-Structuralism diverge in their conceptualization of “structure,” and how do these differences influence contemporary literary and cultural analysis?
2. How does Reader Response Theory, with its emphasis on the historical variability of readers’ interpretations, challenge the notion of textual stability and authorial intent?
3. How does Lévi-Strauss’s principle of binary opposition inform cultural and literary analysis, and what are its limitations when applied to complex narrative structures?
4. How do New Historicism and Cultural Materialism differ in their treatment of power, history, and textuality, and to what extent can they be seen as complementary or conflicting approaches?
5. In what ways did Victor Shklovsky’s concept of “defamiliarization” challenge conventional approaches to literary interpretation?