KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR THE POSTS OF
PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES (BPS-17) 2013
ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER I
TIME ALLOWED: 03 HOURS MAX. MARKS: 100
Note: Please attempt any FIVE questions. All questions carry equal marks.
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Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads, was thought to be the canon that helped launch the Romantic Age. Do you agree?
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Keats’ Odes showcase almost all the features of romantic poetry. Discuss.
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Dickens “lives and thinks in complete accord with the middle-class opinions of his day”. Comment on this statement with reference to Dickens’ novels.
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The work of Robert Browning fully exemplifies one of the dominant tendencies of Victorian poetry. Comment.
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“Everywhere in Hardy’s novels human beings appear to us crushed by a superior force; that of nature, at first, and of an indifferent, so most often a hostile chance; then, that of the errors implied in our own desires”. Comment.
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The construction of George Eliot’s novels, the substance of her analyses, and much of her imagery, recall the scientific schooling of her thought. Discuss.
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Why is Ruskin’s work considered more robust and more broadly significant than that of his contemporaries, the Pre-Raphaelites?
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Why do Oscar Wilde’s plays stand out through their exceptional merit against the almost unrelieved mediocrity of theatrical production for a whole century?