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12-Mark Questions for PAPER EN 401C: POPULAR LITERATURE (Tripura University BA Honours in English, 4th Semester) 1. Analyze how Lewis Carroll uses nonsense and wordplay in *Through the Looking Glass* to challenge conventional logic and reality. Discuss with reference to key scenes. 2. Discuss Sukumar Ray's portrayal of absurdity and satire in *The Sons of Ramgaroor* and *Khichudi*, highlighting how they reflect Indian cultural elements in children's literature. 3. Compare the themes of identity and coming of age in *Through the Looking Glass* and Sukumar Ray's stories. How do these texts use fantasy to explore childhood psychology? 4. Examine the role of ethics and education in children's literature, using examples from Carroll and Ray. Reference Felicity Hughes' views on theory and practice in the genre. 5. How does *Through the Looking Glass* subvert traditional narrative structures? Discuss its impact on the distinction between sense and nonsense in popular child...

  The Wife of Bath’s Tale Geoffrey Chaucer  The Prologue of the Wife of Bath’s Tale   “Experience, though it would be no authority in this world, would be quite sufficient for me, to speak of the woe that is in marriage; for, gentle people, since I was twelve years old--thank God, Who lives forever--I have had five husbands at the church-door (for I have been wedded so often); and all were worthy men in their ranks. But in truth I was told not long ago that since Christ went only once to a wedding, in Cana of Galilee1, by that same example he taught me that I should be wedded only once. Lo! Hear what a sharp word Jesus, man and God, spoke on a certain occasion beside a well, in reproof of the Samaritan woman2. He said, ‘You have had five husbands; and that man who has you now is not your husband.’ Thus he said, certainly. What he meant by it I cannot say; but I ask, why the fifth man was no husband to the Samaritan woman. 22   “How many could she have in ma...