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M.A. Modern English Usage & Grammar (Code : ENG 121)
Course : 1 Semester : I Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4 Objectives : • To familiarize students with grammatical structures and their applications. • To develop the ability to comprehend, analyse and appreciate a literary text. • To familiarize the students not only with the communication strategies but also with the Research
Methodology while planning a Dissertation.
Unit 1 (12 Hrs.) Clause Types (from A University Grammar of English)
Unit 2 (12 Hrs.)
Co-ordination & Subordination (Only Finite Clauses)
Unit 3 (12 Hrs.) Different Concepts & Notions (viz. request, order, question, condition, purpose, suggestion, wishes, hope, intention, obligation, contrast, concession, permission) (from A.S. Hornby)
Unit 4 (12 Hrs.) Literary Appreciation (Prose)
Unit 5 (12 Hrs.)
Research Methodology : Selecting a Topic, Compiling a Working Bibliography (from MLA Handbook, 6th Edition, 2004)
Suggested Readings : • A.S. Hornby : A Guide to Patterns & Usage • CIEFL : Material on Morphology & Phonology from the Distance Education
Department • L.G.Alexander • Krishna Mohan & Meenakshi Rama: Effective English Communication (Tata
McGraw Hill, 2001. • M. Boulton • MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th Edition, 2004. • Quirk and Greenbaum: A University Grammar of English (Longman, 1979)
M.A.
Chaucer to the Elizabethans (Code : ENG 122)
Course : 2 Semester : I Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4 Objectives : • To acquaint the students with – (i) The representative authors and their individual traits (ii) Poetic devices, strategies and applications.
Unit 1 (13 Hrs.) G. Chaucer Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Unit 2 (13 Hrs.) Edmund Spenser : Epithalamion
Unit 3 (10 Hrs.) P. Sidney : He seeks Inspiration… The Sleepless Lover With how sad… My True Love
(from The Penguin Book of Poetry ed. G.B.Harrison, 1950)
Unit 4 (10 Hrs.)
C. Marlowe Dr. Faustus
Unit 5 (14 Hrs.) F. Bacon : Of Truth, Of Death, Of Unity in Religion, Of Revenge, Of Adversity, Of Parents, Of Simulation & Dissimulation, Of Single & Married Life, Of Envy, Of Love.
Suggested Readings • Part 1 & 2 Volumes, I, II & III of Boris Ford (ed.) New Pelican Guide to English
Literature. • The Canterbury Tales : A Selection • The English Critic : From Chaucer to Auden Shakespeare’s Sonnets Critical Essay –
Schiffer James • Doctor Faustus : Marlowe - Jump, John. D.
M.A. Metaphysicals to Milton (Code : ENG 123)
Course : 3 Semester : I Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4 Objectives : • To acquaint the students with – (i) The representative authors and their individual traits (ii) Poetic devices, strategies and applications.
Unit 1 (13 Hrs.) J. Donne The Sunne Rising The Cannonization The Extasie A Valediction – Of Weeping A Valediction - Forbidding Mourning The Flea, The Relic, Batter My Heart
Unit 2 (12 Hrs.) G. Herbert Prayer, The Collar, Redemption, Love, Vertue H. Vaughan The Retreat, They are all gone into the World
of Light
Unit 3 (8 Hrs.) A. Marvell The Garden, The Definition of Love Robert Herrick The Night Piece, To Julia Delight in Disorder
Unit 4 (16 Hrs.) J. Milton Paradise Lost (Books 1 &2)
Unit 5 (11 Hrs.)
Ben Jonson The Alchemist
Suggested Readings • Part 1 & 2 Volumes, I, II & III of Boris Ford (ed.) New Pelican Guide to English
Literature. • The Metaphysical Poets : (ed.) Helen Gardner Rupa & Co., New Delhi • From Donne to Marvell : Boris Ford • Donne : Songs & Sonnets (Smith A.J.) • The Metaphysical Poets : (ed.) Helton Gardener Rupa & Co., New Delhi
M.A. Pre-Romantics & Romantics - I (Code : ENG 124)
Course : 4 Semester : I Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4 Objectives : • To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary
movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits.
Unit 1 (12 Hrs.) William Collins Ode to Simplicity Ode to Evening W. Cowper The Castaway Lines Written During a Period of Insanity
Unit 2 (12 Hrs.) Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard The Progress of Poesy
Unit 3 (12 Hrs.) William Wordsworth The Prelude, Book 1
Unit 4 (12 Hrs.) S.T. Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Kubla Khan
Unit 5 (12 Hrs.)
Jane Austen Mansfield Park
Suggested Readings • Parts 1 & 2 of Volume V of The New Pelican Guide to English Literature ed. Boris
Ford • The Romantic Imagination : C.M. Bowra • Romantic Imagination : Graham Hough • John Wiltshire : JA – Introductions & Interventions
M.A. Victorian Literature-I (Code : ENG 125)
Course : 5 Semester : I Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4 Objective : • To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary
movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits
Unit 1 (12 Hrs.) Robert Browning A Grammarian’s Funeral Porphyria’s Lover Andrea Del Sarto
Unit 2 (12 Hrs.) Alfred Tennyson The Lotos Eaters Ulysses The Lady of Shallot
Unit 3 (12 Hrs.) G.M. Hopkins Spring & Fall Pied Beauty Carrion Comfort, The Windhover, Felix Randall, God’s Grandeur
Unit 4 (12 Hrs.) Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Unit 5 (12 Hrs.)
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Suggested Readings • Re-Interpretation of Victorian Literature by J.E. Baker • The Victorians & After : B. Dobree • The Victorian Temper : F.H. Buckley • Literature of the Victorian Era : H. Walker • The Victorian Age in Literature : G.K. Chesterton
M.A. Project (Code : ENG 126)
Course : 6 Semester : I Credits : 2 Contact Hrs. 2
Objectives: The main goal is to introduce students to research. In keeping with this goal, the main aims and
objectives are:
• Providing an introduction to research methodology • Orienting them to techniques of documentation.
The student will be required to prepare and submit a Project Report / Term Paper. There will be an internal evaluation by a Departmental Panel, at the end of the semester. The Division of marks will be as follows:
• Internal Evaluation (Continuous Assessment) – 30 Marks, on the basis of : o Regularity o Data Collection o Contact with the Supervisor o Originality of the work
• Seminar & Viva-Voce – 70 (50+20) Marks o There will be two Departmental Examiners, one of whom will be the
Supervisor
M.A. Phonetics & Language (Code : ENG 221)
Course : 1 Semester : II Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4 Objectives : • To enable the students to achieve a scientific sense through linguistics in order to complement the
aesthetic sense from their study of literature. • To develop the ability to comprehend and analyze a literary text. • To familiarize the students with writing skills and Research Methodologies while writing a
dissertation.
Unit 1 (11 Hrs.) Advanced Comprehension
Unit 2 (13 Hrs.)
Aspects of Pronunciation: Phonemic Symbols & Transcription of Words. Aspects of Pronunciation: Word Stress & Intonation.
Unit 3 (12 Hrs.) Theme Writing
Unit 4 (11 Hrs.)
Research Methodology : Outlining, Writing Drafts (from MLA Handbook, 6th Ed.)
Unit 5 (13 Hrs.) Literary Appreciation (Poetry)
Suggested Readings • A.S. Hornby : A Guide to Patterns & Usage • CIEFL : Material on Morphology & Phonology from the Distance Education
Department. • Praveen K. Thakkar : Appreciating English Poetry (Orient Longman) 1999. • Effective English Communication Krishn Mohan & Meenakshi Rama, Tata McGraw
Hill, 2001. • M.Boulton
M.A. Shakespeare (Code : ENG 222)
Course : 2 Semester : 2 Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4 Objectives : • To introduce the learners to the dramatic and theatrical conventions of Shakespeare. • To enable them to analyse plot, characters, themes and stagecraft of the plays.
Unit 1 (13 Hrs.) King Lear
Unit 2 (12 Hrs.) As You Like it
Unit 3 (12 Hrs.)
The Tempest
Unit 4 (12 Hrs.) Sonnets (To a Friend) 29, 30, 73, 94, 106, 123.
Unit 5 (11 Hrs.)
Sonnets (To the Dark Lady) 127, 130, 132,135, 141, 151.
Suggested Readings • A.C. Bradley : The Shakespearean Tragedy • Who’s Who in Shakespeare’s • Introduction to Shakespeare Tragedy - Hudson • Samuel Johnson : Preface to Shakespeare • A Handbook to the Works of Shakespeare - Luci, Morton • Critics on Shakespeare - Andrews
M.A. Dryden to Samuel Johnson (Code : ENG 223)
Course : 3 Semester : II Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4 Objectives : • To familiarize the students with
a) The representative writers and their individual traits b) Poetic devices, strategies and applications. c) Interpretation and analysis of the text.
Unit 1 (14 Hrs.) J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel Part I
Unit 2 (12 Hrs.) J. Swift The Battle of the Books
Unit 3 (12 Hrs.) A. Pope The Rape of the Lock
Unit 4 (10 Hrs.) S. Johnson Life of Milton Life of Dryden
Unit 5 (12 Hrs.) R. Sheridan The Rivals
Suggested Readings • Chapters 1 & 2 the relevant volume of Boris Ford (Ed.) Pelican Guide to English
Literature • Alexander Pope : Stephen • The English Critic : From Chaucer to Auden • John Dryden : A Critical Study – Joseph. T.
M.A. Pre-Romantics & Romantics - II (Code : ENG 224)
Course : 4 Semester : II Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4 Objectives : • To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary
movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits.
Unit 1 (12 Hrs.) J. Keats Ode to a Nightingale Ode to Autumn Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to Melancholy Ode on Indolence
Unit 2 (13 Hrs.) P.B. Shelley Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, The Cloud, Mutability, When the Lamp is Shattered.
Unit 3 (13 Hrs.) Charles Lamb The following Essays from Essays of Elia (ed.
Hailward & Hill Macmillan) Oxford in the Vacation, Imperfect Sympathies,
Dream Children, All Fools’ Day Mackery End, In Hertfordshire
Unit 4 (10 Hrs.) William Hazlitt The following Essays from Table Talk (ed. C.M.
Macken) On Familiar Style, On Going a Journey,
Common Sense, Why Distant Objects Please
Unit 5 (12 Hrs.) M. Shelley Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus : OUP
Students’ Edition, 1818
Suggested Readings • Timothy Morton : Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – A Routledge Literary Source Book • The Pelican Guide to English Literature ed. Boris Ford • The Starlit Dome : G.W. Knight • Romantic Imagination : Graham Hough
M.A. Victorian Literature-II (Code : ENG 225)
Course : 5 Semester : II Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4 Objective : • To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary
movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits
Unit 1 (10 Hrs.) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (i) Sonnet No. XL1-Thank All Who Have Loved
Me (ii) Sonnet No. XIV-If You Must Love Me…..
from Sonnets from Portuguese (iii) Sonnet No. XLIII- How do I love thee ? (iv) A Curse for Nation
Unit 2 (12 Hrs.) Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy, The Buried Life, Philomela
Unit 3 (13 Hrs.) Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
Unit 4 (12 Hrs.) Thomas Hardy Jude, the Obscure
Unit 5 (13 Hrs.)
Walter Pater Appreciations (Essays on Postscript and Style) ( Macmillan series)
J.S. Mill On Liberty
Suggested Readings • Part 1 & 2 of Volume VI of New Pelican Guide to English Literature ed. Boris Ford • The Victorians & After : B. Dobree • The Victorian Temper : F.H. Buckley • Literature of the Victorian Era : H. Walker • The Victorian Age in Literature : G.K. Chesterton
M.A. Project (Code : ENG 226)
Course : 6 Semester : 2 Credits : 2 Contact Hrs. 2 Objective :
The main goal is to introduce students to research. In keeping with this goal, the main aims and objectives are: • Providing an introduction to research methodology • Orienting them to techniques of documentation.
The student will be required to present and submit the Project Report / Term Paper, submitted in Semester 1, duly incorporating faculty - feedback and suggestions for improvement. There will be an external evaluation by a subject - expert. The Division of marks will be as follows :
• Internal Evaluation (Continuous Assessment) – 30 Marks, on the basis of : o Regularity o Data Collection o Contact with the Supervisor o Originality of the work
• External Evaluation (Seminar & Viva-Voce) – 70 (50+20) Marks o There will be a board of three Examiners, including the Supervisor
M.A. Criticism Theory – I
Paper Code : ENG 321
Course – 01 Semester – III Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04
Unit –1 (15 Hrs.) Aristotle : Poetics (Penguin)
Unit -2 (11 Hrs.) S. Johnson : Preface to Shakespeare
Unit -3 (11 Hrs.)
W. Wordsworth : Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Unit -4 (11 Hrs.) S. T. Coleridge : Biographia Literaria (Chaps. 17 & 18)
Unit -5 (12 Hrs.)
T. S Eliot : Tradition and Individual Talent
Suggested Readings:
• Enright and Chickera : English Critical Texts (OUP) • Wilfred L. Guerin et al : A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature (OUP,
1999) • Bijoy Kumar Das : Twentieth Century Literary Criticism • Literary Criticism : A Reading – B. Das
M.A. Twentieth Century Literature - I (Poetry & Drama)
Paper Code : ENG 322
Course - 02 Semester – III Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04
Unit –1 (12 Hrs.)
W. B . Yeats : Easter 1916, A Bronze Head, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming, Lapis Lazuli.
Unit -2 (10 Hrs.)
W.H.Auden : Sir, No Man’s Enemy, In Memory of W. B. Yeats, September 1 , 1939 , O for doors to be open…
Unit -3 (13 Hrs.)
T.S.Eliot : The Wasteland
Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) G.B.Shaw : Major Barbara
Unit -5 (13 Hrs.)
J. Osborne : Look Back in Anger
Suggested Readings:
• H.V. Routh : Towards the 20th Century. • G.S. Fraser : The Modern Writer and this World. • Arthur Marwick : British Society since 1945 (1982). • The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 3rd Edition (1983).
M.A. Group A
American Literature – I (Prose and Poetry) Paper Code ENG 323
Course – 03 Semester – III Credits - 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04
Unit –1 (10 Hrs.)
R.W. Emerson : The American Scholar
Unit -2 (12 Hrs.) W. Whitman : (i) Preface to the First Edition of Leaves of
Grass (ii) Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (iii) from Song of Myself ( Sections 1, 6 and 11)
Unit -3 (12 Hrs.)
Emily Dickinson : I Felt a Funeral, A Bird Came Down the Walk, I Heard a Fly Buzz, A Light Exists in the Spring, Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant
Unit -4 (14 Hrs.)
Robert Frost : Mending Wall, After Apple-Picking, Birches, The Road Not taken
Wallace Stevens : Of Modern Poetry, Sunday Morning, Anecdote of the Jar
Unit -5 (12 Hrs.)
Sylvia Plath : Aerial Black Rook in Rainy Weather Lady Lazarus The Colossus
Suggested Readings • John Jacob : History of America Literature • J.D. Hary : Oxford Companion to American Literature (OUP, 1983).
• American Renaissance : Art & Expression in the Age of Emerson & Whitman (OUP, 1943)
• C.D. Narasimhaiah (ed.) : Asian Response to American Literature (Vikas Publications)
M.A. Group A
Post-Colonial Literature – I Paper Code : ENG 324
Course – 03 Semester – III Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04
Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) Raja Rao : Kanthapura
Unit -2 (12 Hrs.) Salman Rushdie : Shalimar the Clown
Unit -3 (12 Hrs.)
Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart (Allied)
Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) Amitav Ghosh : The Shadow Lines
Unit -5 (12 Hrs.)
Wole Soyinka : Death and the King’s Horsemen
Suggested Readings
• Amitav Ghosh : The Shadow Lines (OUP Student Edition) • Wole Soyinka : Death and the King’s Horsemen ( Methuen)
• Francis Hutchings : The Illustration of Permanence : British Imperialism in India ( Princeton University , 1967)
• C.L. Innes and L.B. Reinmann (eds.) Critical Perspectives on Chinua Achebe ( London , 1979)
• Gandhi : Homerule
• Edaward Said : Orientalism
• Frantz Fanon : The Wretched of the Earth • Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
M.A. Group A
Modern Drama - I (1900-1960) Paper Code : ENG 325
Course – 03 Semester – III Credits - 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04
Unit –1 (10 Hrs.) G. B. Shaw : Pygmalion
Unit -2 (13 Hrs.) T. S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral
Unit -3 (13Hrs.)
Arnold Wesker : I’m Talking About Jerusalem
Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot
Unit -5 (12 Hrs.)
T. Rattigan : The Deep Blue Sea
Suggested Readings
• Martin Esslin : Theatre of the Absurd • Martin Meisel : Shaw and 19th Century Drama
• Christopher Innes : Contemporary Drama • Lawrence Kitghen : Mid Century Drama
M.A. Group B
Indian Writing in English – I Paper Code : ENG 326
Course – 04 Semester – III Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04
Unit –1 (13 Hrs.)
Toru Dutt Sarojini Naidu
: :
Lakshman, Our Casuarina Tree The Lotus The Purdah Nashin, The Bird Sanctuary A Rajput Love Song
Unit -2 (13 Hrs.)
Nissim Ezekiel Kamala Das A.K.Ramanujan
: : :
Night of the Scorpion, Enterprise My Grandmother’s House, The Sunshine Cat Love Poem for a Wife 1 Obituary
Unit -3 (10 Hrs.)
Shashi Deshpande : That Long Silence
Unit -4 (11 Hrs.) Vijay Tendulkar : Silence! The Court is in Session
Unit -5 (13 Hrs.)
U.R. Ananthamurthy : Samskara
Suggested Readings
• U.R.Ananthamurthy: Samskara (Translated by A. K. Ramanujan, OUP)
• K.R.S. Iyengar : Indian Writing in English (Sterling, 1984) • M.K. Naik : Dimensions of Indian English Literature (Sterling, 1965)
• The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry - V.K. Gokak. • Susie Tharu & K. Lalitha : Women Writing in India (600 BC to the Present)
• Indian English Poetry – O.Longman
M.A. Group B
Women’s Writing - I Paper Code : ENG 327
Course – 04 Semester – III Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04
Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) Marianne Moore Imtiaz Dharker
: :
What are Years? Nevertheless Choice Purdah Prayer
Unit -2 (12 Hrs.)
Elizabeth B. Browning : Aurora Leigh Book-II
Unit -3 (13 Hrs.) Alice Munro : The Office
Boys and Girls Dance of the Happy Shades
Margaret Atwood : Surfacing
Unit -4 (11 Hrs.) Charlotte Keatley : My Mother Said I Never Should
Unit -5 (12 Hrs.)
Mahashweta Devi : Mother of 1084 (in translation)
Suggested Readings
• Alice Munro : Dance of the Happy Shades (Penguin)
• M. Atwood : Survival • Elaine Showalter : A Literature of Their Own
• Elaine Showalter (ed.) the News Feminist Criticism • J.S. Mill : Subjection of Women
• Julilet Mitchell : Psychoanalysis and Feminism • Mahashweta Devi: Mother of 1084 (Translated and Introduced by Samik
Bandyopadhyay. Reprint. Calcutta, Seagull Books, 2001)
M.A. Group B
Applied Linguistics and Grammar - I Paper Code : ENG 328
Course – 04 Semester – III Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04
Unit –1 (12 Hrs.)
Language and Communication : Human and non-human communication ; verbal and non-verbal communication
Unit -2 (12 Hrs.) Language Change and Variation : Language families ; language change ; language, mind and society
Unit -3 (12 Hrs.)
Word Classes , Clause elements and types
Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) Noun Phrase , Verb Phrase, Adjectival Phrases, Prepositional Phrases & Adverbial Phrases
Unit -5 (12 Hrs.)
The Complex and Compound Sentence , The Verb and its Complementation
Suggested Readings
• Quirk and Greenbaum : A University Grammar of English (O. Longman , 1973) • David Crystal : Linguistics ( Penguin)
• Geoffery Leech : English Grammar for Today
• E.Palmer : Grammar (ELBS, 1971) • A. Akmajian , R.A. Demers and R.M. Harnish : Linguistics : An Introduction to
Language and Communication , 2nd ed. ( Prentice Hall,1991)
• Richards and Rodgers : Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (CWP)
• J.F. Wallwork : Language and Linguistics (Heinemann) • S. Pinker: The Language Instinct (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994)
• J. Aichison: Linguistics (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995)
M.A. Contemporary British Literature
Paper Code : ENG 329 Course – 05 Semester – III Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04
Unit –1 (12 Hrs.)
Ted Hughes
: Apprehensions, St. Botolph’s, Full Moon and Little Frieda
Seamus Heaney : Whatever you say , say nothing Punishment Casualty
Unit -2 (12 Hrs.)
Philip Larkin : The Whitsun Wedding Maiden Name I Remember, I Remember
Thom Gunn : On the Move , Autumn Chapter
Unit -3 (11 Hrs.)
J. Fowles : The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Unit -4 (15 Hrs.) Harold Pinter : The Homecoming
Unit -5 (10 Hrs.)
Muriel Spark : The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Suggested Readings
• Arthur Marwick : British Society since 1945 (1982)
• Ronald Harman : Harold Pinter (1968) • Andrew Motion : Philip Larkins
• Boris Ford (Ed.) : New Pelican Guide to English Literature • Martin Esslin : Theatre of the Absurd.
M.A. Seminar
Paper Code : ENG 330
Course – 06 Semester – 03 Credits – 02 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 02 Objectives: The main goal is to prepare students for research. In keeping with this goal, the main aims and
objectives are:
• Inculcating an interdisciplinary / comparative approach to research • Updating knowledge in pertinent areas of research.
The students will undertake a project chosen by them in consultation with their
supervisors. The Paper will be presented in a Seminar and a draft copy of it will
be submitted before the Semester End Examination. The Division of marks will be as follows :
• Internal Evaluation (Continuous Assessment ) – 30 Marks, on the basis of : o Regularity o Data Collection o Contact with the Supervisor o Originality of the work
• Seminar & Viva-Voce – 70 (50+20) Marks o There will be a Subject-Expert and two Departmental Examiners, one of
whom will be the Supervisor
M.A. Criticism Theory – II
Paper Code : ENG 421 Course - 01 Semester – IV Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04
Unit –1 (11 Hrs.)
Stephen Matterson : The New Criticism (pp. 166-176)
Unit -2 (10 Hrs.) Ce’line Surprenant : Freud and psychoanalysis
Unit -3 (12 Hrs.)
Susana Onega : Structuralism and narrative poetics (pp. 259-272, 277-278; excluding pp. 273- half of p. 277)
Unit -4 (12 Hrs.)
Fiona Tolan : Feminisms (pp. 319-332)
Unit -5 (15 Hrs.) Chris Snipp-Walmsley : Postmodernism (pp. 405-414)
Suggested Readings:
• Literary Theory and Criticism by Patricia Waugh (OUP, 2006)
• Enright and Chickera : English Critical Texts (OUP) • Raman Selden and Peter Widdowson: A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary
Theory, 1993. � V.S. Seturaman (ed.): Contemporary Criticism (Macmillan) • Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin(eds.): The Empire Writes Back. • Wilfred L. Guerin et al : A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature (OUP, 1999) • Bijoy Kumar Das : Twentieth Century Literary Criticism • Literary Criticism : A Reading – B. Das
M.A. Twentieth Century Literature – II (Prose & Fiction)
Paper Code : ENG 422 Course - 02 Semester – IV Credits - 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04
Unit –1 (10 Hrs.) Aldous Huxley J.B. Priestley E.V. Lucas
: : :
Selected Snobberies, Non Violence On Doing Nothing, Student Mobs A Funeral, Bores
Unit -2 (13 Hrs.)
Virginia Woolf : Mrs. Dalloway
Unit -3 (12 Hrs.) James Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Men
Unit -4 (13 Hrs.)
D.H. Lawrence : The Rainbow
Unit -5 (12 Hrs.) Joseph Conrad : Heart of Darkness
Suggested Readings:
• Boris Ford (ed.) : New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. VII. • Richard Ellonan : James Joyce, 1982 • Makolm Bradbury : The Modern British Novel (1993) • Kaushik and Bhatia (DU): Essays, Short Stories and One-Act Plays (OUP, 1975)
M.A. Group A
American Literature – II (Fiction and Drama) Paper Code : ENG 423
Course – 03 Semester – IV Credits - 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04
Unit –1 (12 Hrs.)
A. Miller : Death of a Salesman
Unit -2 (14 Hrs.) T. Williams : A Streetcar Named Desire
Unit -3 (11 Hrs.)
N. Hawthorne : Rappaccini’s Daughter Young Goodman Brown
Unit -4 (12 Hrs.)
Ernest Hemingway : A Farewell to Arms
Unit -5 (11 Hrs.) Alice Walker : The Color Purple
Suggested Readings
• Eric Bentley : In Search of Theatre (Knop, 1953). • Harold Bloom : Eugene O’Neill (Chelsea, 1987). • Boris Ford (ed.) : The New Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol.9). • Sujit Mukharjee et.al. : Indian Essays in American Literature (Bombay Popular).
M.A. Group A
Post-Colonial Literature – II
Paper Code : ENG 424 Course – 03 Semester – IV Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04
Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) Ashis Nandy : The Intimate Enemy
Unit -2 (11 Hrs.) Meena Alexander : Blood Line,
Looking Glass, Everything Strikes Loose, South of the Nilgiris
Unit -3 (12 Hrs.)
R. Parthasarathy Arun Kolatkar
: From Exile, From Homecoming the boatride
Unit -4 (11 Hrs.)
Keki N. Daruwalla N. Ezekiel
: :
Pestilence in 19th Century Calcutta, from Ruminations Goodbye Party … Poem of the Separation
Unit -5 (14 Hrs.)
Margaret Atwood Les Murray J. Wright
: : :
Journey to the Interior Wilderness Woman to Man, The Harp and the King, Nigger’s Leap
Suggested Readings
• An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry ( Macmillan) • R. Parthasarathy : Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets in English (OUP)
• Meena Alexander : River and Bridge • Neil Roberts (ed.) : A Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry ( Blackwell, 2001)
M.A. Group A
Modern Drama - II (1960-1990) Paper Code : ENG 425
Course – 03 Semester – IV Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04
Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) H. Pinter : The Birthday Party
Unit -2 (12 Hrs.) E. Bond : Lear
Unit -3 (12 Hrs.)
T. Stoppard : Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) C. Churchill : Top Girls
Unit -5 (12 Hrs.)
G. Karnad : Nagamandalam
Suggested Readings
• Martin Esslin : Theatre of the Absurd
• K.R.S. Iyengar: Indian Writing in English (Sterling, 1984) • Christopher Innes : Contemporary Drama
• Lawrence Kitchen : Mid Century Drama
M.A. Group B
Indian Writing in English - II Paper Code : ENG 426
Course – 04 Semester – IV Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04
Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) G. Karnad : Tughlaq
Unit -2 (12 Hrs.) Mahesh Dattani : Tara
Unit -3 (11 Hrs.)
Khushwant Singh : A Train to Pakistan
Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee : Rajamohan’s Wife
Unit -5 (13 Hrs.)
R.N.Tagore : Gitanjali (full text of unabridged version)
Suggested Readings
• Meenakshi Mukherjee : The Twice Born Fiction
• The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry, V.K. Gokak • K.R.S. Iyengar : Indian Writing in English (Sterling, 1984).
• Rabindra Nath Tagore: Gitanjali : Song Offerings (Full Circle Publishing: Delhi, 2002)
M.A. Group B
Women’s Writing - II Paper Code : ENG 427
Course – 04 Semester – IV Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04
Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) Simone de Beavouir : ‘Introduction and Section-I’ of ‘The Second
Sex’
Unit -2 (12 Hrs.) Virginia Woolf : A Room of One’s Own
Unit -3 (12 Hrs.)
Jean Rhys : Wide Sargasso Sea
Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) Bama : Sangati : Events (in translation) N. Gordimer : Something Out There
Unit -5 (12 Hrs.)
Maya Angelou : I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings
Suggested Readings
• H.M. Parshilay (ed. And trans.) : The Second Sex (Alfred A. Knopf, 1953)
• Modern Australian Poetry (Penguin)
• Alice Munro : Dance of the Happy Shades (Penguin)
• M. Atwood : Survival • Elaine Showalter : A Literature of Their Own
• Elaine Showalter (ed.) the News Feminist Criticism • J.S. Mill : Subjection of Women
• Julilet Mitchell : Psychoanalysis and Feminism • Bama: Sangati : Events (Translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom, New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 2005)
M.A. Group B
Applied Linguistics and Grammar - II Paper Code : ENG 428
Course – 04 Semester – IV Credits - 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04
Unit –1 (12 Hrs.)
Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics
Unit -2 (12 Hrs.) Co-ordination of Clauses and Phrases
Unit -3 (12 Hrs.)
Focus , Theme and emphasis
Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) Teaching Methods : Grammar and Translation Method, Situational and Bilingual Methods
Unit -5 (12 Hrs.)
Communicative Language Teaching
Suggested Readings
• Richards and Rodgers : Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (CWP) • J.F. Wallwork : Language and Linguistics ( Heinemann)
• Christophersen : Second Language Teaching ( Pelican) • Allen and Pit Corder : The Edinburgh Course in Applied Linguistics , Vol-II
• Jacobs and Rosenbaum : English Transformational Grammar ( Blaisdill Publishing Co.)
• Leech and Svartik : A Communicative Grammar of English ( ELBS)
• Quirk and Greenbaum : A University Grammar of English ( Longman , 1973) • David Crystal : Linguistics ( Penguin)
• Geoffery Leech : English Grammar for Today • E.Palmer : Grammar (ELBS, 1971)
• A. Akmajian , R.A. Demers and R.M. Harnish : Linguistics : An Introduction to Language and Communication , 2nd ed. ( Prentice Hall,1991)
• An Introduction to Discourse Analysis by Malcolm Coulthard (London, 1996)
• Communicative Language Teaching by Littlewood, CUP, 1981.
M.A. Dissertation
Paper Code : ENG 429
Course – 06 Semester – 04 Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04 Objectives: The main goal is to prepare students for research. In keeping with this goal, the main aims and
objectives are:
• Inculcating and interdisciplinary / comparative approach to research • Updating knowledge in pertinent areas of research.
The students will develop the Paper, chosen by them in Semester III, and submit
a Dissertation. The Dissertation will incorporate faculty-feedback and
suggestions for improvement given in the previous semester, and will be
presented in a Seminar. A draft copy of it will be submitted before the Semester
End Examination.
The Division of marks will be as follows :
• Internal Evaluation (Continuous Assessment) – 30 Marks, on the basis of : o Regularity o Data Collection o Contact with the Supervisor o Originality of the work
• External Evaluation (Seminar & Viva-Voce) – 70 (50+20) Marks o There will be a board of three Examiners, including the Supervisor and a
Subject-Expert.