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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)
The last date of submission is 25-09-2025

COURSE 2: LITERARY AND CRITICAL THEORY II
Course Code: PGEG S4-02 (DSC 11)
Each question carries 10 marks Total Marks: 50
[Assignments are required to be written in your own language. Copying in toto from the learning materials will carry less score. The Home Assignments are to be submitted at your Study Centre]
1. How does the Deconstructive approach disrupt traditional assumptions of textual meaning and stability, and what are its implications for literary interpretation in a post-structuralist context?
2. In what ways does Roland Barthes’ declaration of the “Death of the Author” and the “Birth of the Reader” challenge authorial intentionality and reframe the ideas of interpretation?
3. How does the concept of Logocentrism expose Western metaphysical biases, and what are its critical consequences for understanding language and meaning in literary theory?
4. How does Michel Foucault’s concept of the “author-function” problematize traditional notions of authorship, authority, and textual ownership?
5. How do Homi Bhabha’s concepts—such as hybridity, mimicry, and the Third Space—reshape debates in Postcolonial theory, and what critiques do they invite?