SYLLABUS FOR SEMESTER COURSE
IN M.A. ENGLISH
M.A. Course in English shall comprise 4 semesters. Each semester shall have 4 courses. In all, there
shall be 16 courses of 5 credits each. Each course shall carry 100 marks. Of these, 70 marks shall be
reserved for theory (end-Semester examination) and 30 marks for tutorials/seminars (internal
assessment). However, in course 5, titled Linguistics and English Language Teaching, only 50 marks
shall be reserved for theory (end-Semester examination), 20 marks for Practical/Viva-voce exam and 30
marks for tutorial/seminars (internal assessment). Of these courses, Course Nos. 1 to 11, 13 and 14 shall
be treated as Core Courses, Course nos. 12 and 15 as Elective Courses and Course No.16 as Allied
Elective Course open even to the students of other departments/faculties. The starred items are meant for
detailed study. The theory component of each paper shall be of three hours duration.
Pattern of Question Papers
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The pattern of question paper in respect of course nos. 1,8,11,13,14,15,16 (Indian Literature in
Translation, Women Writing and European Literature in Translation) shall be as follows:
Section A
(a) Two Long-Answer-Type Questions (500 words each) with internal choice
2x12=24
Section B
(b) Six Short-Answer-Type Questions (200 words each) out of nine questions
6x6=36
Section C
(c) Ten Objective-Type Questions to be answered in a word or sentence each
2]
10x1=10
The pattern of question paper in respect of course nos. 2,3,4,6,7,9,10,12,16 (New Literatures in
English) shall be as follows:
Section A
(a) Two Long-Answer-Type Questions (500 words each) with internal choice
2x12 =24
Section B
(b) Three passages for explanation out of 5 passages from the starred items to be answered in
200 words each 3x6 = 18
Section C
(c) Three Short-Answer-Type Questions out of 5 questions to be answered in 200 words
each -
3x6 = 18
Section D
(d)
3]
Ten Objective-Type Questions to be answered in a word or sentence each
10x1=10
The pattern of question paper in respect of Course No.5 (Linguistics and English Language
Teaching) shall be as follows:
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Section A
(a) Two Long-Answer-Type Questions (500 words each) with internal choice
2x10=20
Section B
(b) Four Short-Answer-Type Questions (200 words each) out of six questions
4x5=20
Section C
(c) Ten Objective-Type Questions to be answered in a word or sentence each
10x1=10
SEMESTER I
Course 1: Introduction to Linguistics ENG - 101
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2.
3.
4.
(a)
Key properties of Language
(b)
Language varieties
(a)
Major concerns of Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics
(b)
Historical approach, Descriptive approach
Major concepts in Linguistics:
(a)
Syntagmatic and Paradigmetic axes
(b)
Differential Calculous
(c)
Constituent Structure
(d)
Transformations and Deep Structure
Stylistics, its methods and limitations.
Course 2: Poetry I (Chaucer to Blake) ENG - 102
Chaucer
Prologue to Canterbury Tales (Modern version)
*Shakespeares Sonnets No. 18, 30, 63, 130
*Milton
Paradise Lost, Book I
*Donne
The Blossom, The Canonization, The Good Morrow
Marvell
To His Coy Mistress
*Pope
The Rape of the Lock
*Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
*Blake
The Tiger, Ah! Sun-flower
Course 3: Drama I (Marlowe to Wilde excluding Shakespeare) ENG - 103
*Webster
The Duchess of Malfi
*Marlowe
Dr. Faustus
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*Jonson
The Alchemist
Congreve
The Way of the World
*Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
Origin and Growth of the British Theatre
Course 4: Prose ENG - 104
*Bacon
Of Truth; Of Death; Of Adversity; Of Great Place; Of
Parents and Children
Addison & Steele
Of the Club; The Coverley Household; Labour and
Exercise; Sir Roger at the Theatre (Coverley Papers from
the Spectator, ed. K. Deighton, Macmillan)
*Lamb
Christ Hospital; New Years Eve; Imperfect Sympathies
*Carlyle
Hero as Man of Letters
Russell
Science and War; Science and Values (from The Impact of
Science on Society)
Huxley
Tragedy and the Whole Truth (from W.E.Williams, ed. A
Book of English Essays)
SEMESTER II
Course 5: Linguistics and English Language Teaching ENG - 201
1. Phonology
(a) Speech mechanism and the Organs of Speech
(b) Consonants, Vowels, Diphthongs
(c) Phoneme
(d) Stress, Intonation
2. Morphology
Morphemes: Words and Affixes
3. Syntax
(a) I.C. Analysis and its limits
(b) Transformations of Movement, Addition, Substitution,
Deletion
(c) Coordination and Subordination
4. English Language Teaching
(a) Direct Method
(b) Audiolingual Method
(c) Communicative Language Teaching
(d) Error Analysis
(e) Teaching skills of Language: listening, speaking,
reading, writing.
(f) Testing
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Course 6: Poetry II (Wordsworth to Arnold) ENG - 202
*Wordsworth
The Prelude, Book I
*Coleridge
Kubla Khan
*Shelley
Adonais
*Keats
Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn
*Tennyson
Ulysses, The Lotos Eaters
*Browning
Rabbi Ben Ezra, Porphyrias Lover
*Arnold
The Scholar Gypsy
Course 7: Drama II (Shakespeare) ENG - 203
Henry IV, Part I
Twelfth Night
*Hamlet
*The Tempest
Shakespeare Criticism: Dr. Johnson, Bradley, Wilson Knight, Caroline Spurgeon, Stephen Greenblatt.
Course 8: Fiction I (Defoe to Hardy) ENG - 204
Defoe
Moll Flanders
Fielding
Joseph Andrews
Austen
Emma
Dickens
Great Expectations
Eliot
Middlemarch
Hardy
Tess of the Durbervilles
SEMESTER III
Course 9: Poetry III (Hopkins to Ted Hughes) ENG - 301
*Hopkins
Pied Beauty; The Windhover; Carrion Comfort
*Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium; Byzantium; No Second Troy; Coole
Park and Ballyle
*Eliot
The Waste Land
*Auden
In Memory of W.B. Yeats; The Shield of Achilles
*Larkin
Church Going; Next, please; At Grass
*Ted Hughes
The Thought-Fox; Hawk Roosting
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Course 10: Drama III (Twentieth Century Drama) ENG - 302
*Shaw
*Yeats
*Eliot
*Beckett
*Pinter
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Man and Superman
Countess Cathleen
Murder in the Cathedral
Waiting for Godot
The Birthday Party
Course 11: Literary Criticism & Theory 1 ENG - 303
Aristotle
Bharatamuni
Anandavardhana
Dryden
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Arnold
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On the Art of Poetry
On Natya and Rasa: Aesthetics of Dramatic Experience
Dhvani: Structure of Poetic Meaning
Essay on Dramatic Poesy
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Biographia Literaria (Chs. XIII, XVII & XVIII)
The Study of Poetry (Essays in Criticism Book II)
Course 12: Indian Literature in English I ENG EL-3.1
*Tagore
*Sri Aurobindo
*Girish Karnad
Thou hast made me endless; Leave this chanting and
singing; I am like a remnant of a cloud; In one salutation to
thee (Gitanjali)
Savitri Book I Canto I (Passages for explanation to be set
from the first 64 lines)
Nag-Mandala
The following poets from Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets ed. R. Parthasarathy (OUP):
*Nissim Ezekiel
*Jayant Mahapatra
*A.K. Ramanujan
*Kamala Das
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Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher; Background, Casually;
Enterprise
Grass, Lost
A River; Love Poem for a Wife I; Obituary
My Grandmothers House; A Hot Noon in Malabar; The
Invitation
OR
American Literature I ENG EL-3.2
The following from American Literature of the Nineteenth Century (Eurasia) and American Literature
1890-1965 (Eurasia):
Emerson
The American Scholar, Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul
Poe
*The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The
Philosophy of Composition
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Whitman
*Wallace Stevens
*Emily Dickinson
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*Tennessee Williams
Edward Albee
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*When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd, Passage to
India
The Emperor of Ice-cream, Sunday Morning
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed, I Felt a Funeral in My
Brain, The Soul Selects Her Own Society, Because I Could
not Stop for Death, These Are the Days When Birds Come
A Streetcar Named Desire
Zoo Story
SEMESTER IV
Course 13: Fiction II ENG401
Conrad
Woolf
Joyce
Lawrence
Kingsley Amis
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Heart of Darkness
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Mrs. Dalloway
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Women in Love
Lucky Jim
Course 14: Literary Criticism & Theory II ENG 402
Eliot
Tradition and the Individual Talent; The Function of
Criticism; Hamlet (Selected Essays)
Richards
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Principles of Literary Criticism (Chs.IV-XV, XXI, XXXIV,
XXXV and Appendix A On Value)
Ransom
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A Note on Ontology (Twentieth Century Criticism: The
Major Statements, eds. Handy and Westbrook) The
following critics from David Lodge, ed. Modern criticism
and Theory : A Reader (London : Longman, 1988)
The following critics from David Lodge, ed. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader (London:
Longman, 1988)
Saussure
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Nature of the Linguistic Sign
Derrida
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Structure, Sign and Play in the discourse of the human
Sciences
Said
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Crisis (in Orientialism)
Showalter
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Feminist criticism in the Wilderness
Eagleton
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Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism
Course 15: Indian Literature in English II ENG EL-4.1
Mulk Raj Anand
R.K. Narayan
Raja Rao
Anita Desai
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Untouchable
The Financial Expert
The Serpent and the Rope
Voices in the City
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Salman Rushdie
Midnights Children
Amitav Ghosh
The Shadow Lines
Jawahar Lal Nehru
An Autobiography
OR
American Literature II ENG EL-4.2
Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Melville
Billy Budd
Faulkner
Light in August
Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
Saul Bellow
Humboldts Gift
Course 16: Indian Literature in Translation ENG EL-4.3
The following poets from Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry eds. Vinay Dharwadker &
Ramanujan:
Sitanshu Yashashchandra
Drought
V Indira Bhavani
Avatars
Ali Sardar Jafri
Morsel
Paresh Chandra Raut
Snake
Tagore
Homecoming; My Lord, The Baby
Shrilal Shukla
Rag Darbari
Tendulkar
Ghasiram Kotwal
Ananthamurthy
Samskara
A.K.
Translation, Theory and Practice
OR
New Literatures in English ENG EL-4.4
The following poets from An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry ed. C D Narasimhaiah, Macmillan:
*A.D. Hope
Australia; The Death of the Bird
*Atwood
Journey to the Interior
*A.K. Ramanujan
Death and the Good Citizen; Waterfalls in a Bank (The
Collected Poems of A.K. Ramanujan, OUP)
*Agha Shahid Ali
Showman; The Season of the Plains (Twelve Modern
Indian Poets ed. A.K. Mehrotra, OUP)
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Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
V.S. Naipaul
A House for Mr. Biswas
Wole Soyinka
The Road
Patrick White
Voss
Nadine Gordimer
The Burgers Daughter
OR
Women Writing ENG EL-4.5
The following poets from The Faber Book of 20th Century Womens Poetry ed. Fleur Adcock:
Margaret Atwood
Siren Song
Adrienne Rich
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
U A Fanthorpe
Not My Best Side
Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazurus
Gwendolyn Brooks
A Sunset of the City
Shashi Deshpande
That Long Silence
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Tony Morrison
Beloved
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
John Stuart Mill
The Subjection of Women
Virginia Woolf
A Room of Ones Own
OR
European Literature in Translation ENG EL-4.6
Sophocles
Oedipus the King
Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
Flaubert
Madam Bovary
Kafka
Metamorphosis
Alberto Moravia
The Woman of Rome
Brecht
Mother Courage
Baudelaire
Les Fleurs du mal (Flower of Evil)
Rilke
The Sonnets to Orpheus No. X; The First Elegy (Duino
Elegies); The Poet, Remembrance (from Collected Poems
of Rainer Maria Rilke, Modern Library, New York).
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