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Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.

Single Paper Pattern Syllabus for U.G. Classes Under Semester System

As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.

Session 2015-2016

Class: B. A.

Semester: I

Subject: Special English

Title of Subject Group: Poetry

Compulsory/ Optional: Compulsory

Max. Marks: 85 +15

Unit-1 Annotations

Unit-2 EPIC; SONNET; DEFINITIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS

William Shakespeare – From Fairest Creatures, The Little Love God, True Love, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day.

John Milton – On His Blindness, On Man’s First Disobedience (Paradise Lost, Bk- I, Lines 1 to 26)

Unit-3 METAPHYSICAL SCHOOL OF POETRY; SATIRE IN THE NEO-CLASSICAL AGE

John Donne – Sweetest Love I Do not Go, This is my Play’s Last Scene.

John Dryden – The Portrait of Shadwell

Alexander Pope – Ode to Solitude

Unit-4 THE AGE OF TRANSITION; PRECURSORS OF ROMANTICISM

Thomas Gray – Elegy Written in the Country Churchyard

William Collins – Ode to Evening

Oliver Goldsmith – Portrait of the Village School Master (Extract from The Deserted Village)

Unit-5 CHARACTERISTICS OF ROMANTIC AGE, VICTORIAN AGE, MAJOR POETS

William Blake – Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright

P. B. Shelley – To A Skylark

John Keats – To A Nightingale.

Edwin Arnold – Light of Asia (An extract from Book III)

All Questions carry equal marks Two essay type questions will be asked from each unit – II, III, IV, V. One from each unit to be attempted. Annotations six passages, at least one from each unit – II, III, IV, V will be set and any three to be attempted. A total five question should be attempted. Those who opt for Project in English will have to do a project of 50 marks in addition to theory paper.




Session 2015-2016

Class: B. A.

Semester: II


Title of Subject Group: Prose


Max. Marks: 85+15

Unit-1 Annotations

Unit-2 A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH ESSAY: MAJOR WRITERS

OF THE DIFFERENT AGES.

Francis Bacon – Of Studies. Of Expense, Of Travel, Of Great

Place.

Unit-3 Joseph Addison – Sir Roger at Church, Sir Roger at Home, The

Spectator’s Account of Himself, The Vision of Mirza.

Unit-4 CHARACTERISTICS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS.

Charles Lamb: After a Holiday, Loneliness

E. V. Lucas: Unbirthday and other presents, On Finding Things

Unit-5 KINDS OF ESSAYS – REFLECTIVE, ARGUMENTATIVE,

DESCRIPTIVE, SCIENTIFIC.

A.G. Gardiner – On the Rule of the Road, On Saying Please

H.G. Wells – The Stolen Bacillus

Note:

• All Questions carry equal marks.

• Two essay type questions will be asked from each units – II, III, IV, V. One from each unit to be attempted.

• Annotations six passages, at least one from each unit – II, III, IV, V will be set and any three to be attempted.

• A total five question should be attempted.

• Those who opt for Project in English will have to do a project of 50 marks in addition to theory paper.




Session 2015-2016

Class : B.A.

Semester: III


Title of Subject Group: Drama

Max. Marks: 85+15

Unit-I Types of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy, Historical Play, One - Act Play

Elements of Drama: Plot, Theme, Character, Dialogue, Music/ Rhythm, Spectacle Setting

Unit-II William Shakespeare : Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice

Unit-III Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer

Richard Brinsley Sheridan : The Rival

Unit-IV John Galsworthy : Loyalties

G.B. Shaw : Saint Joan

Unit-V J.M. Synge : Riders to the Sea

H.H.Munro : The Miracle Merchant




Session 2015-2016

Class: B.A.

Semester: IV


Title of Subject Group : Fiction


Max. Marks: 85+15

Unit-I Forms of Fiction: Nature of Narratives, Historical, Psychological, Short story.

Aspects of the Novel: Plot, Character, Points of View, Setting, Theme

Unit-II John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress.

Jane Austen: Emma

Unit-III Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities

Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Caster bridge

Unit-IV George Orwell: Animal Farm

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own

Unit-V Somerset Maugham: Red

Isaac Asimov: The Martian Way (Only the title story)




Session 2015-2016

Class: B.A.

Semester: V


Title of Subject Group : Contemporary Literature


Max. Marks: 85+15

Unit-I Poetry: T.S. Eliot : The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock W.B. Yeats : Lake Isle of Innisfree, Prayer for My Daughter Unit-II Poetry :Philip Larkin : At Grass, The Whitsun Weddings Sylvia Plath : Daddy, Morning Song Unit-III Drama: R.N.Tagore : Post Office Tennesse Williams: A Street Car Named Desire Unit-IV Prose: APJ Abdul Kalam : ‘ Patriotism beyond Politics and Religion’ from The Ignited Minds (Penguine Books) Amartya Sen : ‘ Tagore and His India’ from The Argumentative Indian by Armartya Sen (Penguine Books). Unit-V Short Stories: Ruskin Bond: The Kite Maker Jhumpa Lahiri: The Interpreter of Maladies (only the first story) Unit-VI The Modern Age: Changing trends in Poetry Prose and Drama .




Session 2015-2016

Class: B.A.

Semester: VI


Title of Subject Group : Indian Writing in English


Max. Marks: 85+15

Unit-I : Concept of Rasa in Indian Poetry: Definition, Kinds, Theory of Bhava. Unit-II Poetry: R.N. Tagore : The first two songs of Geetanjali Sarojini Naidu : Krishna, Indian Weavers Unit-III Prose: M.K.Gandhi : National Education J.L.Nehru : The Quest of Man, The Book of Nature from Letters from a Father to His Daughter Unit-IV Drama: Girish Karnad : Hayavadana Asif Currimbhoy : Goa Unit-V Fiction: R.K.Narayan : An Astrologer’s Day M.R.Anand : A Pair of Moustache. Unit- VI Indian Writing in English: The Colonial Phase –Major Writers and their works. The Post Colonial Phase: Major Writers and works.


Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus


Session 2015 – 2016

Class M.A Previous

Semester I

Subject English

Title of Subject Group Poetry

Paper No. I

Compulsory/ Optional Compulsory

Max. Marks 50

Note: All questions are compulsory.

The paper will be divided into three sections.

Section A: It will comprise of FIVE Objective type questions based on all units.

Section B: It will comprise of FIVE Short answer type questions. (Word limits 100- 150 words). Internal choice will be given.

Section C: It will comprise of FIVE Long answer type questions with internal choice. Question No 1 will be based on Annotations. (Word limits 200-300 words).

History of English poetry from old English period till Neo- Classical Age

# Questions in examination need not be asked

Unit-1 Annotations (Any two out of the four given passages. At least one from each unit.

Unit-2 Elements of Poetry: How to approach poetry

Figures of Speech: Imagery, Rhythm and

Epic Poetry:

John Milton: Paradise Lost Book I

Valmiki: Ramayana (Sundar Kand).

Unit-3

Narrative Poetry:

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

S.T.Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Unit-4

Renaissance Poetry:

William Shakespeare: Sonnets Nos.1, 23, 24, 26, 27, 31, 44.

John Donne: The Extasie, A Valediction Forbidden Mourning.

The Good Morrow, Love’s Alchemies, The Canonization,

The Anniversarie.

Unit-5

Satirical Poetry:

John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel.

Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock.

Books Recommended:

Emile Legouis: Chaucer

E.M.W Tillyard: Milton

Compton Rickett: History of English Literature

David Daiches: History of English Literature



As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor, M.P.

Session 2015-2016

Class M.A Previous

Semester I

Subject English

Title of Subject Group Drama

Paper No. II


Max. Marks 50






Unit-1: Annotations (Any two out of four given passages selecting at least one from each unit).

Unit-2 History and Development if English Drama

Kinds of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy, Tragi –Comedy, Historical Plays,

Non-English Drama:

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex.

Kalidas: Abhigyana Shankuntalam. (English Translation, Sahitya Academy)

Unit-3

Shakespearean Tragedy: Hamlet

King Lear

Unit-4

Other Shakespearean Plays: Twelfth Night,

The Tempest.

Unit-5

Renaissance Drama: (Non- Shakespearean)

Christopher Marlowe: Dr.Faustus.

Ben Jonson: Every Man in His Humour.

Books Recommended

A.C.Bradley: Shakespearean Tragedy.

H.B.Charlton: Shakespearean Comedy. .

Ram Vilas Sharma: Shakespearean Tragedy

Allardyce Nicoll: British Drama

Department of Higher Education, Gov. of M.P


As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor,M.P.

Session 2015-2016

Class: M.A Previous

Semester I

Subject English

Title of Subject Group Fiction

Paper No. III


Max. Marks 50




Section B : It will comprise of FIVE Short answer type questions. (Word limit 100- 150 words). Internal choice will be given.

Section C: It will comprise of FIVE Long answer type questions with internal choice. (word limit 200-300 words).

Unit-1 How to Study Novel: Plot, Character, Point of View, Setting, Dialogue,

List of Booker Prize Winners,

Development of Novel

Early Prose Narrative:

Bana Bhatt: Kadambari.

Cervantes: Don Quixote.

Unit-2

Picaresque Novel:

Henry Fielding: Tom Jones.

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe.

Unit-3

Historical Novel:

Walter Scott: Kenilworth.

Thackeray: Henry Esmond.

Unit-4

Fiction by Women:

George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss.

Emily Bronte: Jane Eyre

Unit-5

19th Century Realistic Novel:

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations.

Zola: Nana.

Books Recommended

Walter Allen: History of English Novel.

O.P. Budholia: George Eliot: Art and Vision in Her Novels

Austin Dobson: Fielding

David Daiches: Critical Approaches to Literature

Ian Watt: The Rise of the Novel.




Session 2015-2016

Class M.A Previous

Semester I

Subject English

Title of Subject Group Prose

Paper No. IV


Max. Marks 50






Unit-1: Annotation

(Any two out of four given passages selecting at least

one from each unit).

Types of Prose: Reflective, Argumentative, descriptive etc.

Unit-2

Interpreting Prose: Stylistics Features- Figures of Speech, Tone, Emotion

Biography and Autobiography:

J.L. Nehru: Autobiography (Fourth Chapter).

Kamala Das: My Story (Fourth Chapter).

Unit-3:

Political and Social Writings:

Plato: The Republic, Book II (First four chapters).

Bacon: Of Truth, Of Studies, Of Revenge, Of Love.

Unit-4

Philosophical Writings:

J. Krishnamurti: 1. Individual and Society.

2. Action and Idea.

3. What is Self?

4. What are We Seeking?

Lala Hardayal: Intellectual Culture.

Unit-5

Bertrand Russell: True Success.

William Hazlitt: 1. The Ignorance of the Learned.

2. The Indian Jugglers

Books Recommended

Benson: The Art of Essay Writing.

J.Krishnamurti: The First and the Last Freedom.




Session 2015-2016

Class M.A Previous

Semester II

Subject English

Title of Subject Group Poetry

Paper No. I


Max. Marks 50




Section B: It will comprise of FIVE Short answer type questions. (Word limits 100- 150

words). Internal choice will be given.

Section C: It will comprise of FIVE Long answer type questions with internal choice.

(Word limits 200-300 words).

UNIT-1: Annotation

Unit-2:

Pre- Romantic Poetry:

Thomas Gray: The Bard

The Progress of Poesy

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

William Blake: On Another Sorrow

From Auguries of Innocence

The Poison Tree

The Tyger.

Unit-3

Romantic Poetry:

W. Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey

Ode on Intimations of Immortality.

P. B.Shelley: Adonais

To a Skylark

John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode to Autumn,

Ode to Nightangle

Unit-4

Victorian Poetry:

Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses

The Lotos Eaters

Matthew Arnold: Thyrsis

The Scholar Gypsy.

Unit-5

Symbolist Poetry:

T.S.Eliot: The Waste Land

W.B.Yeats: The Second Coming

Byzantium

Sailing to Byzantium.

Modern Poetry:

W.H.Auden: Strange Meeting

The Shield of Achilles

Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill

A Refusal to Mourn the Death of a Child.

Books Recommended:

Desmond King: Shelley- His Thought and Work

Graham Hough: The Last Romantics

Humphrey House: Coleridge,



As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor,M.P.

Session 2015-2016

Class M.A Previous

Semester II

Subject English

Title of Subject Group Drama

Paper No. II


Max. Marks 50




Section B: It will comprise of FIVE Short answer type questions. (Word limit 100- 150



Question No.1 will be based on Annotations. (Word limits 200-300 words)

Unit-1: Annotations

Unit-2

Restoration Drama:

John Dryden: All for Love.

Congreve: The Way of the World

Unit-3

Victorian Drama:

G.B.Shaw: Man and Superman

Galsworthy: Justice

Unit-4:

Characteristics of Modern Drama

Modern Drama:

Ibsen: A Doll’s House

Brecht: Mother Courage

Unit-5

Indian Drama:

Girish Karnad: The Fire and the Rain

Mahesh Dattani: Tara

Vijay Tendulkar: Silence! The Court is in Session

Books Recommended

Frederick Lumley: Trends in 20th Century Drama.

Allardyce Nicoll: British Drama.

Raymond Williams: Drama from Ibsen to Eliot.

O.P. Budholia: Critical Essays on Indian English Literature




Session 2015-2016

Class M.A Previous

Semester II

Subject English

Title of Subject Group Fiction

Paper No. III


Max. Marks 50




Section B: It will comprise of FIVE Short answer type questions. (Word limits 100- 150



Unit-1:

19th Century Fiction,

Flaubert: Madame Bovary.

George Meredith: The Egoist.

Unit-2

Rural Novel:

Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’urbervilles.

Premchand: Godaan.

Unit-3

Psychological Novel:

Virginia Woolf: To the Light house.

D.H.Lawrence: Sons and Lovers.

Unit-4:

Naturalist Novel:

Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim.

Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea

.

Unit-5

Post Naturalist Novel:

William Golding: Lord of the Flies.

Saul Bellow: Herzog.

Books Recommended

Sisir Chattopadhyaya: The Technique of the Modern English Novel.

A.S.Collins: English Literature of the 20th Century.

Arnold Kettle: An Introduction to the English Novel.

David Daiches: The Novel and the Modern World.

Dorothy Van Ghent: The English Novel form and Function.

Ian Watt: The Rise of the Novel.

Sisir Chatterjee: Problems in Modern English Fiction.

Katherine Lever: The English and the Reader.

Wilbur L.Cross: The English Novel.

David Cecil: Early Victorian Novelists.

S.S.Narula: Galsworthy and the English Novel.




Session 2015-2016

Class M.A Previous

Semester II

Subject English

Title of Subject Group Prose

Paper No. IV


Max. Marks 50




Section B: It will comprise of FIVE Short answer type questions. (Word limit 100- 150



Question No.1 will be based on Annotations. (Word limits 200-300 words).

Unit-1: Annotations:

Unit-2

Boswell: The Life of Dr.Johnson

(From Everyman’s Edition of Boswell’s life

Dr.Johnson. London: J,M.Dent 1958 Vol. I, Introductory

Pp 5-11).

Addison: On Ghosts and Apparitions, Fans.

Unit-3

Goldsmith: The Man in Black.

Charles Lamb: New Year’s Eve,

A Bachelor’s Complaint

Against the Behavior of Married People,

Dream Children: A Reverie

Unit-4

A.G.Gardiner: On the Rule of the Road,

In Defence of Laziness.

Robert Lynd: Back to the Desk.

Forgetting

, The Pleasures of Ignorance,

I Tremble to Think.

Unit-5

Twentieth Century Prose: Major Writers and Characteristics

G.K.Chesterton: On Running after One’s Hat, Patriotism and

Sport.

Hilarry Bellock: On Books, On Preserving English.

Books Recommended

R.P.Tiwari(ed): A.G.Gardiner: Selected Essays.

Stuart Hodgson: A.G.Gardiner.

G.S.Fraser: The Modern Writer and His World.




Session 2015-2016

Class M.A

Semester III

Subject English

Title of Subject Group English Language

Paper No. II


Max. Marks 50

Unit-1 Definition, Functions, Characteristics, Development of English Language.

Unit-2 Language Varieties: Register, Style and Dialect Approaches to the study

of language: Synchronic and Diachronic, Langue and Parole,

Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic, Syntactic Analysis.

Unit-3 Definition of Phonetics & Phonology, Difference between Phonetics and

Phonology Organs of Speech.

Unit-4 Phonemes, Allophones, Phonetic Symbols for Sounds in RP

Unit-5 Basics of Transformational generic Grammar: Nature and

Characteristics.

Suggested Readings :

Sethi and Dhamija: A course in Spoken English.

Verma and Krishnaswamy: Modern Linguistics: An Introduction (O.U.P.1989)

A.C.Gimson: An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English.

R.K.Bansal and J.B.Harrison: Spoken English for India.

Geoffrey Leech: A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (Longman. London 1969)

David Crystal: Linguistics (Penguin)

Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvic: A Communicative Grammar of English.




Session 2015-2016

Class M.A

Semester III

Subject English

Title of Subject Group Critical Theory

Paper No. I


Max. Marks 50

Particulars

Unit-1 Natyashastra - Rasa Theory, Aristotle – Poetics (Butcher’s

Translations).

Unit-2 Longinus – On the Sublime, Philip Sydney – Apology for Poetry.

Unit-3 John Dryden – An essay on Dramatic Poesy; Dr. Johnson – Preface

to Shakespeare.

Unit-4 Wordsworth – Preface to the Lyrical Ballads; Coleridge – Biographia

Literaria. Ch. XIII & XIV.

Unit-5 Mathew Arnold – Essays in Criticism (Second series); T.S. Eliot –

Tradition and Individual Talent.

New Critics: A Brief Study.

Books Recommended:-

Kapil Kapoor : Critical Theory

R.S. Pathak : Literary Theory

Charusheel Singh : Literary Theory, Linear Configurations

Butcher (tr.) : Aristotle’s Poetics

Scott James : The Making of Literature

David Daiches : Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader (Long man)

H. Adams and L. Searle (ed.) : Critical theory since 1965 (Farida stale University Press)

A. H. Gilbert : Literary Criticism Plata to Drayden.

T. Eagleton : Literary Theory an Introduction (Black well Oxford, 1983)



As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of

M.P.

Session 2013-2014

Class M.A

Semester III

Subject English

Title of Subject Group English Language

Paper No. II


Max. Marks 50

Particulars

Unit-1 Definition, Functions, Characteristics, Development of English Language.

Unit-2 Language Varieties: Register, Style and Dialect Approaches to the study of language: Synchronic

and Diachronic, LANGUE AND PAROLE, PARADIGMATIC AND SYNTAGMATIC

Unit-3 Definition of Phonetics & Phonology, Difference between Phonetics and Phonology Organs of

Speech.

Unit-4 Phonemes, Allophones, Phonetic Symbols for Sounds in RP

Unit-5 Basics of Transformational generic Grammar: Nature and Characteristics.

Suggested Readings :

Verma and Krishnaswamy: Modern Linguistics: An Introduction (O.U.P.1989)

A.C.Gimson: An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English.

R.K.Bansal and J.B.Harrison: Spoken English for India.

Geoffrey Leech: A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (Longman. London 1969)

David Crystal: Linguistics (Penguin)

Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvic: A Communicative Grammar of English.




Session 2015-2016

Class M.A Semester III Subject English Literature Title of Subject Group Indian Writings in English Paper No. III(A) Compulsory/ Optional Optional Max. Marks 50

Unit-1 Annotations: Six passages selecting at least two from Unit II, III and IV will be

given and two to be attempted.

Unit-2 Sri Aurobindo : Savitri - Book I Canto I.

Tagore : Geetanjali – poems 1 to 10 (McMillan edition). 11-20 (for non-

detailed)

Unit-3 APJ Abdul Kalam – Wings of Fire

INDIAN AUTOBIOGRAPHIES IN ENGLISH : AN OVERVIEW ( SHORT

ANSWER)

Unit-4 Asif Currimbhoy : Valley of Assassins.

Badal Sircar : Evam Indrajit.

Girish Karnad : Hayavandana

Unit-5 Anita Desai : Cry, the Peacock.

Arun Joshi : The City and the River

JHUMPA LAHIRI: THE UNACCUSTOMED EARTH(SELECTED STORIES NON-

DETAILED)

Books recommended: K.R.S.Iyengar: Indian Writings in English. Meenakshi Mukherjee Twice Born Fiction. A.N.Dwivedi: Kamala Das. Thompson: Tagore. O.P.Budholia: Anita Desai: Vision and Technique in her Novels. M.K.Naik(ed): History of Indian English Literature.




Session 2015-2016

Class M.A

Semester IV

Subject English Literature

Title of Subject Group Indian Writings in English

Paper No. III (A)

Compulsory/ Optional Optional

Max. Marks 50 (40+10)

Unit-1 Annotations: Six passages selecting at least two from Unit II, III and IV will be given and two to

be attempted.

Unit-2 Indian Writings in English Post colonial Indian poetry in English (1) Sarojini naidu. All poems in V.K. Gokak ed. Golden Treasury of Indo Anglican Poetry – Sahitya Academy (4) Kamala Das: The Dance of The Enunchs

Unit-3 (1) M.R.Anand : Untouchable

(2) R.K.Narayan : The English Teacher

Unit-4 (1) Vishnu Sharma : Panchatantra (Book I)

(2) Munshi Premchand: The Shroud (Kafan)

Unit-5 (1) Amitav Ghosh : The Shadow lines

(2) Shashi Deshpande : That Long Silence

3). ARVIND ADIGA : THE WHITE TIGER

PRIZE WINING INDIAN FICTION WRITER TO THE PRESENT(OBJECTIVES)

Books recommended: K.R.S.Iyengar : Indian Writings in English.

M.K.Naik : History of Indian English Literature. M.K.Naik(ed) : Perspectives on Indian Drama in English. Meenakshi Mukherjee : Twice Born Fiction. Thompson : Tagore. O.P.Budholia : Anita Desai: Vision and Technique in her Novels.




Session 2015-2016

Class M.A Semester IV Subject English Title of Subject Group Critical Theory Paper No. I

Compulsory/ Optional Compulsory Max. Marks 50

Unit-1 Anand Vardhan : Dhwani Theory.

Ferdinand Sausure : The Nature of Linguistic Sign.

Unit-2 I. A. Richards : Two Uses of Language.

J.C. Ransom : Concept of Structure and Texture of Poetry.

Unit-3 F. R. Leavis : Literary Criticism & Philosophy.

J.Derrida : Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences.

Unit-4 Edward Said : Crisis (The Scope of Orientalism) Basic Trends in Feminist Criticism.

Unit-5 Practical Criticism – It will contain two passages : One in verse and the other in prose for

Practical Criticism following the technique as illustrated in I. A. Richard’s book on ‘Practical

Criticism’ and David Daiches’ ‘Critical Approaches’

Books recommended : Kapil Kapoor : Critical Theory. R.S. Pathak : Literary Theory.

Charusheel Singh : Literary Theory, Linear Configuration.

Butcher (tr) : Aristotle’s Poetics.

Scott James : The Making of Literature.

David Daiches : Critical Approaches to English Literature.

H. Adams and L. Searle (ed.): Critical Theory since 1965 (Florida State University Press).

A. H. Gilbert : Literary Criticism Plato to Dryden.

T. Eagleton : Literary Theory : An Introduction (Black well, Oxford, 1983).

Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P. Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus

As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P. Session 2015-2016

Class M.A Semester IV Subject English Literature Title of Subject Group English Language (Compulsory Paper) Paper No. II Compulsory Compulsory Max. Marks 50

Unit-1 Morphology

Morpheme, Allomorph, Word formation.

Unit-2 Linguistic Analysis

I. C. Analysis & Ambiguities.

Unit-3 Phonology

Sound sequences : Syllable, Word Stress, Strong and Weak forms, Stress and Intonation.

PRACTICE EXERCISE ON PHONOLOGY I LANGUAGE LAB MODULE NO:11

Unit-4 Grammar

Sentence types and their transformation relations : (a) Statement (b) Question (c) Negative (d)

Passive (e) Imperative.

PRACTICE EXERCISE ON PHONOLOGY I LANGUAGE LAB MODULE NO:11

Unit-5 Grammar

Word classes : Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjunct Phrase, Syntax Coordination,

Subordination, Relative Clauses, Adverbials, Determiners, Article Features, concord.

Books recommended :

1. Verma and Krishnaswamy: Modern Linguistics: An Introduction (O.U.P.1989)

2. A.C.Gimson: An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English.

3. R.K.Bansal and J.B.Harrison: Spoken English for India.

4. Geoffrey Leech: A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (Longman. London 1969)

5. David Crystal: Linguistics (Penguin)

6. Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvic: A Communicative Grammar of English.


Under Graduate Semester wise Syllabus

as recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.

Session 2011-12

Class

%

B.A./B.Sc./B.Com./B.H.Sc. I Year

Semester

%

II

Subject

%

English Language and Indian Culture

Paper No.

%

I

Compulsory /Optional

%

Compulsory

Max. Marks

%

85 (15 CCE, 85 Semester Exam)

Particulars

Unit-1

1. Amalkanti :

Nirendranath Chakrabarti

2. Sita :

Toru Dutt

3. Tryst with Destiny :

Jawaharlal Nehru

4. Delhi in 1857 :

Mirza Ghalib

5. Preface to the Mahabharata :

C. Rajagopalachari

6. Where the Mind is Without Fear :

Rabindranath Tagore

7. A Song of Kabir :

Translated by Tagore

8. Satyagraha :

M.K. Gandhi

9. Toasted English :

R. K. Narayan

10. The Portrait of a Lady :

Khushwant Singh

11. Discovering Babasaheb :

Ashok Mahadevan

Unit-2

Comprehension

Unit-3

Composition and Paragraph Writing (Based on expansion of an idea).

Unit-4

Basic Language Skills : Vocabulary – Synonyms, Antonyms, Word Formation, Prefixes

and Suffixes, Words likely to be confused and Misused, Words similar in Meaning or

Form, Distinction between Similar Expressions, Speech Skills

Unit-5

Basic Language Skills: Grammar and usage – The Tense Forms, Propositions,

Determiners and Countable/Uncountable Nouns, Verb, Articles, Adverbs.

Prescribed Books : English Language and Indian Culture, published by M. P. Hindi Grant Academy.



as recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the

Governor of

M.P.

Session 2012-13

Class B.A./B.Sc./B.Com./B.H.Sc.

Semester: IV

Subject : English Language and Scientific Temper

Paper : I

Compulsory/Optional: Compulsory

Max. Marks 85 (Theory Paper 85 marks, CCE 15 marks)

Particulars

Unit 1 20 marks

1. Tina Morris: Tree

2. Nissim Ezekiel: Night of the Scorpion

3. C. P. Snow: Ramanujan

4. Roger Rosenblatt: The Power of WE

5. George Orwell: What is Science?

6. C. Rajagopalachari: Three Questions

7. Desmond Morris: A short extract from

The Naked Ape

8. A. G. Gardiner: On The Rule of the Road

Unit II

Comprehension of an unseen passage

10 marks

Unit III

Letter Writing : Formal Letters, Informal letters, Applications

5 marks

Unit IV

Report Writing

5 marks

Unit V

Language Skills :

10 marks

Correction of common errors in sentence structure: usage of pronouns, subject/verb agreement,

word order, gender; compound nouns, collective nouns, possessives, articles and prepositions

(advanced)

Note :

Scheme of Marks

Unit I

a. This will include 5 objective type questions based on text and language skills. (1x5 = 5 marks)

b. This will also include short-answer questions from text. One question will be asked from each

lesson (total 8 questions) and 5 have to be attempted (3x5 = 15 marks)




Session 2013-2014

Class M.A

Semester III


Title of Subject Group Commonwealth Literature in English

Paper No. III(B)


Max. Marks 50

Particulars

Unit-1 Canadian Poetry

Margarette Atwood : (1) This is a Photograph of Me,

(2) Tricks with Mirrors.

Unit-2 Canadian Fiction

Margaratte Laurence : The Stone Angel

Unit-3 The African Novel

Doris Lessing : The Grass is Singing.

Unit-4 Carribean Novel

George Lamming : In the Castle of my Skin.

Unit-5 Australian Novel

Patrick White : A Fringe of Leaves.

Books recommended :

1. R. K. Dhawan ed. Commonwealth Literature in English.

2. All original works by the prescribed authors.




Session 2013-2014

Class M.A

Semester IV


Title of Subject Group Commonwealth Literature in English

Paper No. III(B)


Max. Marks 50

Particulars

Unit-1 Canadian Poetry

Michael Ondaatje : (1) The Cinnamon Peeler

(2) To a Sad Daughter.

Unit-2 Canadian Fiction

Magarate Atwood : Surfacing.

Unit-3 The African Novel

Nadime Gordimer : July’s People

Chinua Achebe : Arrow of God.

Unit-4 Australian and Carribean Novel

V.S.Naipaul : A House of Mr. Biswas,

Elizabeth Jolley : My Father’s Moon

Unit-5 Canadian Drama

Sharan Pollock : Walsh

Draw Heydon Taylor : Alternatives

Books recommended :

1. R. K. Dhawan ed. Commonwealth Literature in English.

2. All original works by the prescribed authors.




Session 2015-2016

Class M.A

Semester III


Title of Subject Group Special Studies

Paper No. IV(A)


Max. Marks 50

Note: (A) Choose any one of the following writers for Special Study.

(B) The chosen writers will be studied on the basis headlines given below.

1. Shakespeare

2. John Milton

3. Alexander Pope

4. William Coleridge

5. P.B.Shelley

6. Mathew Arnold

7. T.S.Eliot

8. G.B.Shaw

9. R.W.Emerson

10. Sri Aurobindo.

Headlines :

1. Biography

2. Selected Works

3. Technique: Style, Language, Plot, Characterization

4. Critical Opinions

Books Recommend :

1. O Elton, Shakespeare.

2. K.R.S Iyengar, Shakespeare’s Dramatic World

3. R. B. Sharma, Shakespearean Tragedy

4. A. C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy

5. Walter Raleigh, Shakespearean

6. Wilson Knigh, Wheel of Fire

7. Amresh Datta, Tragic vision of Shakespeare

8. C. M. Bowra, Romantic Imagination.




Session 2013-2014

Class M.A

Semester IV


Title of Subject Group Special Studies

Paper No. IV (A)


Max. Marks 50

Note: (A) Choose any one of the following writers for Special Study.

(B) The chosen writers will be studied on the basis headlines given below.

1. Charles Dickens

2. Thomas Hardy

3. D. H. Lawrence

4. J. P. Sartre

5. Dosteovesky

6. Albert Camus

7. Ernest Hemingway

8. William Golding

9. Walt Whitman

10. Margaret Atwood

11. Swami Vivekanand

Headlines :

1. Biography

2. Selected Works

3. Technique: Style, Language, Plot, Characterization

4. Critical Opinions

Books Recommend :

1. Crompton Ricket, History of English Literature.

2. David Cecil, Nineteenth Century Fiction.

3. B.S. Dhaiya, Heroes of Hemmingway.

4. E. A. Baker, History of English Fiction.




Session 2013-2014

Class M.A

Semester III


Title of Subject Group American Literature

Paper No. IV (B)


Max. Marks 50

Particulars

Unit-1 Annotations :( Six passages selecting at least two from units II, III and IV each to

be set, two to be attempted).

Unit-2 Prose

Emerson: Self Reliance, The Over Soul

Unit-3 Poetry

Walt Whitman: O Captain, My Captain ; Song of Myself; Gross; When Lilacs last

in the Dooryard Bloomed; I celebrate Myself.

Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, After Apple Picking,

Birches, The Road not taken .

Unit-4 Drama:

Eugene O’Neil : Mourning Becomes Electra.

Unit-5 Fiction : Mark Twain

Huckleberry Finn.

Books recommended :

1. History of American Lietrature Goodman.

2. Walt Whitman by D. Dhawale.

3. Cycle of American Literature by Robert Spiller.




Session 2015-2016

Class M.A

Semester IV


Title of Subject Group American Literature

Paper No. IV(B)


Max. Marks 50

Particulars

Unit-1 Annotations:(Six passages selecting at least two from Units II, III and IV each to

be set, two to be attempted).

Unit-2 Prose

Emerson: American Scholar

Thoreau : Civil Disobedience

Unit-3 Poetry

Emily Dickinson: Because I could not Wait for Death, I Taste a Liquor Never

Brewed, Light in Spring, This is my letter to the World.

Sylvia Plath : Daddy, Lady Lizarus, The Bee Meeting.

Unit-4 Drama:

Tenessee Williams : The Glass Menagerie

Edward Albee : The Zoo Story.

Unit-5 Fiction : Ernest Hemingway : The Old Man and the Sea.

Steinbeck : Of Mice and Men.

Books recommended :

1. History of American Literature by Goodman.

2. Cycle of American Literature by Robert Spiller.




Session 2015-2016

Class M.A

Semester IV


Title of Subject Group Linguistics and Stylistics

Paper No. IV(C)


Max. Marks 50

Particulars

Unit-1 Linguistics :

Competence and Performance, Morphology, IC Analysis, Amlsiguities.

Unit-2 Phonetics

Transcriptions – Phonetic phonemic, Strong and weak forms, word Accent, the

Word stress rules, intonation and rhythm in connected speech. Difference

between R.P & G.I.E.

Unit-3 Stylistics:

Foregrounding, Repetition, Collocation, Collocational clash, Inversion,

parallelism, coupling, embedding.

Unit-4 Deviance – grammatical and conceptual

Presupposition, pragmatics, Implicature.

(Stylistic Analysis of a poem, two to be set, one to be attempted)

Unit-5 Grammar

Sentence patterns, Syntax, Semantics, Surface structures & deep structures,

Negativisation, Passivisation, Interrogative, and Imperative Transformations.

Books recommended :

1. Verma and Krishnaswamy : Modern Linguistics : An Introduction.

2. A. C. Gimson : An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English.

3. R. K. Bansal : An Outline of General Phonetics.

4. Geoffrey Leech : A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry.

5. David Crystal : Linguistics.

6. Mittins : Attitude to English Usage.

7. N. Krishnaswamy : Modern English.

8. Collims Cobuild : English Grammar.

Note : In addition to the papers of theory, there will be a project of 50 marks in Semester Fourth.




Session 2015-2016

Class M.A

Semester III


Title of Subject Group Linguistics and Stylistics

Paper No. IV(C)


Max. Marks 50

Particulars

Unit-1 Definition of Linguistics, branches, characteristics of language , nature and properties of

language.

Language as a system of communication

Human language and Animal Communication, Language as a system of systems.

Unit-2 Linguistics :

Language varieties, Register & style, Language variation and Sociolinguistics, Language change.

Synchronic, Diachronic & historical linguistics, Minimal and non-minimal pairs.

Unit-3 Phonetics

Organs of speech, speech mechanism, Classification & Description of Speech Sounds,

Consonants & Vowels.

International Phonetic Alphabet, The Phoneme, The Allophones, the syllable, The Phoneme theory

& Syllable Theory.

Unit-4 Grammar

Determiners, Word Classes, Noun Phrase, Verbal group, Verb Phrase, Verb Pattterns Finite & non

finite forms, Article Features, Affix Switch.

Unit-5 Stylistics

Nature and scope; Figures of speech; Imagery.

Books recommended :

1. Verma and Krishnaswamy : Modern Linguistics : An Introduction (OUP 1989).

2. C. Gimson : An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English.

3. R. K. Bansal : An Outline of General Phonetics.

4. Geoffrey Leech : A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (Longman, London 1969)

5. David Crystal : Linguistics (Penguin)

6. Mittins : Attitude to English Usage, Oxford.

7. N. Krishnaswamy : Modern English.

8. Collims Cobuild : English Grammar.



as recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.

Session 2011-12

Class

B.A./B.Sc./B.Com./B.H.Sc. I Year

Semester

%

II

Subject

%

English Language and Indian Culture

Paper No.

I

Compulsory /Optional

Compulsory

Max. Marks

85 (15 CCE, 85 Semester Exam)

Particulars

Unit-1

1. Amalkanti :

Nirendranath Chakrabarti

2. Sita :

Toru Dutt

3. Tryst with Destiny :

Jawaharlal Nehru

4. Delhi in 1857 :

Mirza Ghalib

5. Preface to the Mahabharata :

C. Rajagopalachari

6. Where the Mind is Without Fear :

Rabindranath Tagore

7. A Song of Kabir :

Translated by Tagore

8. Satyagraha :

M.K. Gandhi

9. Toasted English :

R. K. Narayan

10. The Portrait of a Lady :

Khushwant Singh

11. Discovering Babasaheb :

Ashok Mahadevan

Unit-2

Comprehension

Unit-3

Composition and Paragraph Writing (Based on expansion of an idea).

Unit-4

Basic Language Skills : Vocabulary – Synonyms, Antonyms, Word Formation, Prefixes

and Suffixes, Words likely to be confused and Misused, Words similar in Meaning or

Form, Distinction between Similar Expressions, Speech Skills

Unit-5

Basic Language Skills: Grammar and usage – The Tense Forms, Propositions,

Determiners and Countable/Uncountable Nouns, Verb, Articles, Adverbs.

Prescribed Books : English Language and Indian Culture, published by M. P. Hindi

GrantAcademy.



as recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the

Governor of

M.P.

Session 2012-13

Class B.A./B.Sc./B.Com./B.H.Sc.

Semester: IV

Subject : English Language and Scientific Temper

Paper : I

Compulsory/Optional: Compulsory

Max. Marks 85 (Theory Paper 85 marks, CCE 15 marks)

Particulars

Unit 1 20 marks

1. Tina Morris: Tree

2. Nissim Ezekiel: Night of the Scorpion

3. C. P. Snow: Ramanujan

4. Roger Rosenblatt: The Power of WE

5. George Orwell: What is Science?

6. C. Rajagopalachari: Three Questions

7. Desmond Morris: A short extract from

The Naked Ape

8. A. G. Gardiner: On The Rule of the Road

Unit II

Comprehension of an unseen passage

10 marks

Unit III

Letter Writing : Formal Letters, Informal letters, Applications

5 marks

Unit IV

Report Writing

5 marks

Unit V

Language Skills :

10 marks

Correction of common errors in sentence structure: usage of pronouns,

subject/verbagreement,

word order,gender; compound nouns, collective nouns, possessives, articles and prepositios

(advance)

Note :

Scheme of Marks

Unit I

a. This will include 5 objective type questions based on text and language skills. (1x5 = 5

marks)

b. This will also include short-answer questions from text. One question will be asked from

each

lesson (total 8 questions) and 5 have to be attempted (3x5 = 15 marks)

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