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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 4 (Option A): MODERN EUROPEAN LITERATURE
Course Code: PGEG S4 04 (DSE 4)
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. In what ways did Luigi Pirandello’s theatrical experimentations destabilize the traditional boundaries of performance, authorship, and audience perception, and how do they resonate with contemporary theatre?
2. How does Brecht’s concept of epic theatre, as demonstrated in Mother Courage and Her Children, challenge conventional theatrical catharsis and engage audiences in political and ethical reflection?
3. How does Kafka’s portrayal of Gregor Samsa in “The Metamorphosis” serve as a metaphor for alienation, identity crisis, and the dehumanizing forces of modernity?
4. How did Surrealism, as an artistic movement, challenge conventional notions of reality and representation, and what lasting impact did it have on modern literature and visual arts?
5. In what ways does Pablo Neruda’s “Ars Poetica” reimagine the act of poetic creation as a transformative experience, and how does it blur the boundary between art and lived experience?