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FACULTY OF LANGUAGES

SYLLABUS

FOR

M.A. ENGLISH (CBCEGS)(Semester: I–II)

(FOR NEW ADMISSION)&

M.A. (HONS.) ENGLISH (CBCEGS)(Semester: III–IV)

(For those Students who admitted in Session 2014-15)

EXAMINATIONS: 2015–16

GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITYAMRITSAR

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1M.A. ENGLISH (CBCEGS) (SEMESTER SYSTEM)

SCHEME OF COURSE

NOTE:1. All departmental courses shall be of 5 credit hours.

2. About 10% of the total credits have to be earned from other departments by the

students of M.A. English (Hons.)

Any student who fails to maintain 4.5 CGPA in Semester–I and Semester–II or any

student who fails in more than 2 papers out of 10 papers in Semester–I and

Semester–II shall be considered failed and have to appear in Semester–I.

M.A. ENGLISH (CBCEGS)(Semester: I–II)

(FOR NEW ADMISSION)

SEMESTER–I:

Note: The students will be required to take up FIVE courses: THREE core and TWO fromoptionals

Code Core Courses CreditsENL401 Poetry-I (Renaissance to Romantic) 4-1-0

ENL402 Indian Writing in English 4-1-0

ENL403 Novel-I (British Novel upto 19th Century) 4-1-0

Optional Courses

ENL404 Phonetics and Spoken English 4-1-0

ENL405 Literary Criticism 4-1-0

ENL406 Greek Drama 4-1-0

ENL407 Punjabi Literature in Translation 4-1-0

ENL408 Communication Studies 4-1-0

Inter-disciplinary course for students of other departments

ENL051 Introduction to Literature in English 4-1-0


SEMESTER–II

Note: The students will be required to take up FIVE courses: THREE core and ONE fromoptionals and ONE from interdisciplinary courses being offered by other departments.

Code Core CoursesENL451 Drama–I (Shakespeare to Shaw) 4-1-0ENL452 Western Literature: An Overview 4-1-0ENL453 Modern English Grammar and Advanced Writing 4-1-0

Note: The students will take one optional courseOptional CoursesENL454 American Prose and Drama 4-1-0ENL455 Spectrum of Poetry: Recurring Themes and Motifs 4-1-0ENL456 Indian Literature in Translation 4-1-0ENL457 European Literature in Translation 4-1-0

Inter-disciplinary course for students of other departmentsENL076 Appreciation of Poetry 4-1-0

M.A. (HONS.) ENGLISH (CBCEGS)(Semester: III–IV)

(For those students who admitted in Session 2014-15)

SEMESTER–III

Note: The students will be required to take up FIVE courses: THREE core and ONE fromoptionals and ONE from interdisciplinary courses being offered by other departments.

Code Core CoursesENL501 Drama–II (Modern Drama) 4-1-0ENL502 Expanding Canon: An Overview 4-1-0ENL503 Modern Linguistic Theory and Application 4-1-0

Optional CoursesENL504 American Novel 4-1-0ENL505 American Poetry 4-1-0ENL506 Irish Literature 4-1-0ENL507 Post-colonial Literature 4-1-0ENL508 Diaspora Literature 4-1-0


SEMESTER–IV

Note: The students will be required to take up FIVE courses: FOUR core and ONE fromoptionals.

Code Core Courses

ENL551 Short Dissertation 4-1-0

ENL552 Poetry-II (Victorian and Modern) 4-1-0

ENL553 Modern Critical Theory 4-1-0

ENL554 Novel-II (Modern Novel) 4-1-0

Note: The students will take one optional course

Optional Courses

ENL555 Semiotics: Theory and Practice 4-1-0

ENL556 Psychology and Literature 4-1-0

ENL557 Stylistics and Text Analysis 4-1-0

4M.A. ENGLISH (SEMESTER–I) (CBCEGS)

ENL401: POETRY–I (RENAISSANCE TO ROMANTIC)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–IJohn Donne:

-The Extasie-The Canonization-The Sunne Rising-A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning-The Flea-Batter my heart, three personed God-At the round earths imagin'd corners

UNIT–IIJohn Milton: Paradise Lost, Book I

UNIT–IIIAlexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock

UNIT–IV

William Wordsworth:

-The World is Too Much with Us

-I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

-Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey

-Resolution and Independence

-Ode: Intimations of Immortality

-The Solitary Reaper

-London 1802

-Lucy Poems

-Michael


ENL402: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISHCredits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

Nissim Ezekiel:

-Enterprise-Philosophy-Night of the Scorpion-Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher-The Visitor-Background, Casually-Goodby Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.-The Worm-Sparrows-Occupation

UNIT–II

Kamala Dass:

-The Freaks-My Grandmother's House-A Hot Noon in Malabar-The Sunshine Cat-The Invitation-An Introduction-In Love-The Old Playhouse-The Suicide-Words

UNIT–III

Raja Rao: Kanthapura

UNIT–IV

Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things


ENL403: NOVEL–I (BRITISH NOVEL UPTO 19TH CENTURY)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews

UNIT–II

Jane Austen: Emma

UNIT–III

Charles Dickens: Hard Times

UNIT–IV

Thomas Hardy: Tess


ENL404: PHONETICS AND SPOKEN ENGLISH(OPTIONAL COURSES)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–IVarieties of English

Organs of Speech

The R.P.English, IPA alphabet

General Indian English

UNIT–II

The Sounds of English;

Articulation, description and classification of English phonemes

Allophonic Variants in R.P.English

Morphophonemic changes

Indian variants of English phonemes

UNIT–III

The Syllable and its structure

Stress and stress change in English words,

Stress rules

UNIT–IV

Features of Connected English Speech

Weak forms,

Intonation patterns of English

Functions of Intonation


ENL405: LITERARY CRITICISM(OPTIONAL COURSES)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare

UNIT–II

William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads

UNIT–III

Mathew Arnold: The Study of Poetry

UNIT–IV

T.S. Eliot: Tradition and Individual TalentThe Meta Physical Poets


ENL406: GREEK DRAMA(OPTIONAL COURSES)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

Aristotle: The Poetics

UNIT–II

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

UNIT–III

Euripedes: Electra

UNIT–IV

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex


ENL407: PUNJABI LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION(OPTIONAL COURSES)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

Peeloo: Mirza (trans. Satinder Aulakh, The Fast Horse and the Ferocious River, Patiala:Punjabi University).

UNIT–II

Nanak Singh: The Watch Maker

UNIT–III

Gulzar Sandhu: Punjabis, War and Women (trans. Marcus Franda)

UNIT–IV

Swarajbir: Dharam Guru


ENL408: COMMUNICATION STUDIES(OPTIONAL COURSES)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

Fields of CommunicationModels of CommunicationMethods of Communication Research

UNIT–IILanguage and RhetoricSemiotics and Narrative

UNIT–III

Professional CommunicationAudience Analysis and Mass Communication

UNIT–IVFilm AnalysisMass Media Analysis

Prescribed Books:

1. John Fiske: Introduction to Communication Studies; Routledge.

2. Sky Marsen: Communication Studies; Palgrave Foundations.

12M.A. ENGLISH (SEMESTER–II) (CBCEGS)

ENL451: DRAMA–I (SHAKESPEARE TO SHAW)Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

William Shakespeare: Hamlet

UNIT–II

William Shakespeare: As You Like It

UNIT–III

Henrik Ibsen: Ghosts

UNIT–IV

Bernard Shaw: Saint Joan


ENL452: WESTERN LITERATURE: AN OVERVIEW

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–IPeriodization of National Literatures

1. British2. American (USA)3. Continental (French, German, and Russion)4. Commonwealth (Canadian, Australian and from New Zealand)5. Latin American (Spanish and Portugese)

UNIT–IIMajor Literary Periods and Movements

1. Classical and Medieval2. Renaissance3. Neoclassicism and Romanticism4. Nineteenth Century5. Modernism and Postmodernism

UNIT–IIIDrama and Poetry

1. Classical Drama and Poetry2. Drama upto 19003. Modern Drama4. Poetry upto 19005. Modern Poetry

UNIT–IVProse and Fiction

1. The Essay2. Non Fictional Prose3. Rise of the Novel upto 19004. Modern Novel5. The Short Story


ENL453: MODERN ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND ADVANCED WRITING

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

Word Classes: Form & Function; Open v/s ClosedDefining Criteria for Word ClassesClasses & Functions of Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb

UNIT–II

Noun Phrase: Structure and FunctionsDeterminers and ModifiersDeterminers: Sequence and ReferenceVerb Phrase: Finite & Non-finite; Simple and ComplexFinite & Non-finite formsTense, Aspect & TimeAdjective Phrase: Head and ModifiersAdverb Phrase & Adverbial: Semantic Roles and Grammatical FunctionsPrepositional Phrase

UNIT–III

Basic Clause Elements: SVOCASemantic Roles of Clause ElementsClause Complexes: Coordination & SubordinationTypes of subordinate clauses: Finite & Non-finiteNominal and Adverbial Clauses

UNIT–IV

Cohesion in Texts: Reference, Ellipsis, Substitution, Conjunction Cohesion, Lexical Cohesion,ParallelismBasic Sentence FaultsEffective Sentences & ParagraphsThe Whole Composition: Essay


ENL454: AMERICAN PROSE AND DRAMA(OPTIONAL COURSES)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

Emerson: Self RelianceThe American Scholar

UNIT–II

Edward Albee: Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

UNIT–III

Eugene O’Neill: The Hairy Ape

UNIT–IV

Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman


ENL455: SPECTRUM OF POETRY: RECURRING THEMES AND MOTIFS(OPTIONAL COURSES)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

Innocence and Experience

William Blake: The Lamb, The Tiger

John Keats: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

G.M. Hopkins: Spring and Fall

A.E. Housman: When I was one and twenty

Robert Frost: Nothing Gold can stay, Provide, provide

Countee Cullen: Incident

Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill

J. Peter Meinke: Advice to My son

Robert Wallace: In a Spring Still Not Written Of

UNIT–II

Conformity and RebellionJohn Milton: “Is this the region” from Paradise Lost. Bk.1 (l.242-270)

Sonnet XVII “When I consider how my light is spent”

William Wordsworth: The World Is Too Much With Us.

Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses

Emily Dickinson: Much Madness Is Divinest Sense, I’m Nobody! Who Are You?

G.M. Hopkins: Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord

E.A. Robinson: Miniver Cheevy

Robert Frost: Departmental

Wallace Stevens: Sunday Morning

Langston Hughes: Harlem

W.H. Auden: The Unknown Citizen

Nikki Giovanni: Dreams


UNIT–III

Love and Hate

Chirstopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

John Donne: The Good Morrow

Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress

Robert Burns: A Red, Red Rose

John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Robert Browning: My Last Duchess

W.B. Yeats: When You are Old

Robert Frost: The Silken Tent, Fire and Ice

W.H. Auden: Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love

Philip Larkin: Talking in Bed

Sylvia Plath: Daddy

Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Love do not Ask

UNIT–IV

Suffering and Death

Shakespeare: Fear no more the heat of the Sun

John Donne: Death be not Proud

John Keats: When I have Fears I may cease to be

Emily Dickinson: Because I could not stop for Death

Robert Frost: Out, Out-

Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night

Stephen Spender: Funeral

W.H. Auden: Musee des Beaux Arts

William Carlos Williams: Tract

Shiv Kumar Batalvi: I Will Die in the Fullness of Youth.


ENL456: INDIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION(OPTIONAL COURSES)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

Galib: Ghazals (Celebrating the Best of Urdu Poetry, trans. Khushwant Singh, Penguin Viking)

- To be united with the beloved was not writ in my fate

- If I found the one I long to see, I would not cry for peace of mind

- Having willingly given away one’s heart to another why should songs of lament be sung?

- Though beyond compare is the beauty of the full moon

- It is my heart, not a thing of brick and stone, why can’t it sometimes fill with pain?

- A sigh of longing takes to be heard, if ever

UNIT–IIMahashveta Devi: Breast Stories

UNIT–IIIBhisham Sahni: Tamas

UNIT–IVGirish Karnad: Hayavadana


ENL457: EUROPEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION(OPTIONAL COURSES)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

August Strindberg: Miss Julia

UNIT–II

Sartre: The Flies

UNIT–III

Franz Kafka: The Trial

UNIT–IV

Albert Camus: The Stranger

20M.A. (HONS.) ENGLISH (SEMESTER–III) (CBCEGS)


ENL501: DRAMA–II (MODERN DRAMA)Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

T.S. Eliot: The Cocktail Party

UNIT–II

Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party

UNIT–III

Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire

UNIT–IV

Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot



ENL502: EXPANDING CANON: AN OVERVIEWCredits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

- What is Canon?

- Religious and Literary Canon

- Canon Formation

- Critique of Established Canon

UNIT–II

- Afro-Asian Writing in English- South Asian Writing in English- Post Colonial Literature- Diaspora Literature

UNIT–III

- Afro-Asian Literature in Translation- South Asian Literature in Translation- Punjabi Literature in Translation- Classical and Medieval Literature of the East

UNIT–IV

- Folklore- Culture and Popular Culture- Film Studies- Mass Media



ENL503: MODERN LINGUISTIC THEORY AND APPLICATION

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–IStructural Linguistics

Nature of Linguistic Sign: Signifier & Signified

Syntagmatic & Paradigmatic Relations

Linguistics as a Scientific Study of Language

Discovery Procedures: Minimal Pairs; Pattern Congruity; Complementary Distribution; IC

Analysis

UNIT–II

Transformational Generative Linguistics

Competence & Performance

Deep Structure & Surface Structure

Phrase Structure Rules

Basic Transformations: Negative, Question, Passive

UNIT–III

Functional Lingustics

Functions of Language: Ideational, Interpersonal, Textual

Context: Field, Tenor, Mode

Clause Structure: Transitivity, Modality, & Theme organization

UNIT–IV

Linguistics & Language Teaching

Structural Linguistics and Language Teaching

Critique of Grammar Translation Method

Direct & Audio-Lingual Method

Functional Linguistics & Language Teaching

Communicative Approaches to Language Teaching



ENL504: AMERICAN NOVEL(OPTIONAL COURSES)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

Melville: Billy Budd

UNIT–II

Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea

UNIT–III

Scott F. Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

UNIT–IV

Saul Bellow: The Victim



ENL505: AMERICAN POETRY(OPTIONAL COURSES)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

a) Walt Whitman

One’s self I SingI Hear America SingingI Hear it was charged against meWhen I heard the Learn’d AstronomerA Noiseless Patient SpiderCrossing Brooklyn Ferry

b) Langston Hughes

HarlemThe Negro Speaks of RiversThe Weary BluesDream VariationsI, too, sing America

UNIT–II

Emily Dickinson

I cannot live with youI heard a fly buzz when I diedI felt a funeral in my brainBecause I could not stop for DeathI taste a liquor never brewedMy life had stood a loaded GunWild Nights – Wild NightsSome keep the Sabbath going to churchThe soul selects her own societyTell all the Truth, but tell it slant.I like to see it lap the miles.A narrow fellow in the Grass.



UNIT–IIIWallace Stevens

Anecdote of the JarThe Emperor of Ice CreamThe Idea of order at key westSunday MorningThirteen Ways of Looking at a BlackbirdOf Modern Poetry

UNIT–IV

Robert Frost

Stopping by woods on snowy eveningThe Road Not TakenMowingAfter Apple PickingGood By and Keep coldThe Tuft of FlowersMending WallTwo Tramps in Mud TimeBirchesDesignThe Gift Outright



ENL 506: IRISH LITERATURE(OPTIONAL COURSES)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

UNIT–II

J.M. Synge: The Playboy of the Western World

UNIT–III

James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

UNIT–IV

W.B. Yeats

- September 1913

- Easter 1916

- In Memory of Major Gregory

- Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen

- The Municipal Gallery Revisited



ENL507: POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE(OPTIONAL COURSES)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

M.G. Vassanji: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

UNIT–II

Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss

UNIT–III

Jhumpa Lahiri:

- “When Pirzada came to Dine”

- "Interpreter of Maladies”

- “Mrs. Sen”

- "The Third and Final Continent”

UNIT–IV

Arundhati Roy: An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire Essay –“Come September” Edward

Said: Culture and imperialism Essay—“Chapter I”, Parts (i) and (ii).



ENL 508: DIASPORA LITERATURE(OPTIONAL COURSES)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

R. Radhakrishnan: Ethnicity in an age of Diaspora

Lisa Lowe: Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian-American

Differences

Stuart Hall: Cultural Identity and Diaspora

(From Jana Evans Braziel and Anita Mannur. (Ed) Theorising Diaspora. Blackwell, 2003.

UNIT–II

John Agard: Me No Oxford Don

Check Out me History

Half-Caste

The Windowrush Child

Remembering the Ship

Beat it out

God hear me is you talking to.

UNIT–III

Bharati Mukherjee: Desirable Daughters

UNIT–IV

Sadhu Singh Dhami: Maluka

29M.A. (HONS.) ENGLISH (SEMESTER–IV) (CBCEGS)


ENL551: SHORT DISSERTATION

Credits: 4-1-0

1. Students will be allocated equitably to all teachers with a provision that no teacher will have

less than 4 students.

2. The teacher shall provide a reading list on the proposed area of study of not less than 4

critical articles.

3. The students would be instructed to make use of those articles and write a project/dissertation

of 5000 – 7000 words (excluding bibliography and footnotes).

4. The text/s selected for critical analysis shall be from outside the prescribed M.A. syllabus.

5. The project should be written in a clear and precise language and should have well developed

arguments presented in a logical order and concluded in an appropriate manner.

6. All references whether quoted or summarized should be appropriately inscribed and

acknowledged in the text.

7. For documentary references, students should consult Joseph Gibaldi's MLA Handbook for

Writers of Research Papers (Seventh Edition).

8. Submission date for the project/dissertation shall be as per date-sheet for Paper ENL510.

9. The name of the teacher or the student shall not be indicated on the project/dissertation (for

the sake of secrecy).



ENL552: POETRY II (VICTORIAN AND MODERN)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–IROBERT BROWNING

-My Last Duchess- The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church-Andrea del Sarto- Fra Lippo, Lippi-A Grammarian's Funeral

UNIT–IIT.S. ELIOT

- The Waste Land- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

UNIT–IIIW.B.YEATS

- The Lake Isle of Innisfree- The Wild Swans at Coole- A Prayer for my Daughter- Among School Children- Leda and the Swan- The Second Coming- Sailing to Byzantium- Byzantium

UNIT–IV(a) W.H. AUDEN

- As I Walked Out One Evening- Lullaby- Musee Des Beaux Arts- September 1, 1939- In Memory of W.B. Yeats

(b) DYLAN THOMAS- After the Funeral- Fern Hill- And Death Shall Have No Dominion- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night- Especially When the October Wind



ENL553: MODERN CRITICAL THEORYCredits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

a) Northrop Frye: The Archetypes of Literature

b) Lionel Trilling: Freud and Literature

UNIT–II

a) Terry Eagleton: Form and Content

b) Edward Said: Crisis (in Orientalism)

UNIT–III

a) Roman Jakobson: Linguistics and Poetics

b) Roland Barthes: Introduction to Structural Analysis of Narratives

UNIT–IV

a) Christopher Norris: Jacques Derrida: Language against Itself

b) Toril Moi: Feminist Literary Criticism



ENL554: NOVEL-II (MODERN NOVEL)Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

UNIT–II

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway

UNIT–III

D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers

UNIT–IV

William Golding: Lord of the Flies



ENL555: SEMIOTICS: THEORY AND PRACTICE(OPTIONAL COURSES)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

V.N. Volosinov: "Verbal Interaction"

UNIT–II

Roland Barthes: "The Theory of the Text"

UNIT–III

Raja Rao: The Serpent and the Rope (First 50 pages)

UNIT–IV

Saadat Hasan Manto: "Toba Tek Singh"

Bano Qudsia: "The Soul-weary"



ENL556: PSYCHOLOGY AND LITERATURE(OPTIONAL COURSES)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

The Psychological Approach: Freud

UNIT–II

Mythological and Archetypal Approaches(Unit I and II from Guerin, Morgan et al. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature)

UNIT–III

Bernard Malamud: The Assistant

UNIT–IV

Iris Murdoch: A Severed Head



ENL557: STYLISTICS AND TEXT ANALYSIS(OPTIONAL COURSES)

Credits: 4-1-0

UNIT–I

Style and StylisticsPurpose and Method of Stylistic AnalysisVariations in Basic Clause StructureLevels of Language and Stylistics

UNIT–IIStyle as DeviationStyle as ChoiceText as Representation

UNIT–III

Text as InteractionText as Message

UNIT–IV

Register, Genre and StyleRegister and Text AnalysisGenre and Text Analysis

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