MA English

M.A.
Modern English Usage & Grammar

Paper 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 (OUP, 1954)
• CIEFL : Material on Morphology & Phonology from the Distance Education
Department
• L.G.Alexander: Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students (O. Longman,
London, 1975)
• Krishna Mohan & Meenakshi Rama: Effective English Communication (Tata
McGraw Hill, 2001.
• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th Edition, 2004.
• Quirk and Greenbaum: A University Grammar of English (O. Longman, 1979)
• Art of Literary Research by Richard D. Altick and John J. Fenstermaker.
• The Scholar Adventurers by Richard D. Altick (The Free Press, New York, 1966)
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Chaucer to the Elizabethans
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 Revenge, Of Adversity, Of Parents,
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 and John. D.
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Metaphysicals to Milton
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
Unit 2 (12 Hrs.)

G. Herbert Prayer, The Collar, The Pulley, Life,
The Flower
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 (Book 1)
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
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 Emma
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
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Victorian Literature-I
Objective :
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 Oliver Twist
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
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Project
Papr Code : ENG 126
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 external evaluation by a Subject-Expert and 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 a Subject-Expert and two Departmental Examiners, one of
whom will be the Supervisor
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Phonetics & Language

Course : 1 Semester : II
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 (OUP,1954)
• CIEFL : Material on Morphology & Phonology from the Distance Education
Department.
• Praveen K. Thakkar : Appreciating English Poetry (Orient Longman) 1999.
• Effective English Communication, Krishna Mohan & Meenakshi Rama, Tata McGraw
Hill, 2001.
• The Macmillan Guide to Writing Research Papers by W. Coyle (Macmillan, 1990)
• The Prentice-Hall Guide to Research Writing by D. Memering (Prentice-Hall
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1989)
M.A.
Shakespeare
Course : 2 Semester : 2
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, 129, 130, 132,137, 141.
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
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Dryden to Samuel Johnson

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
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.
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Pre-Romantics & Romantics - II

Objectives :
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,
The Cloud, Mutability,
When the Lamp is Shattered.
Unit 3 (12 Hrs.)

Charles Lamb The following Essays from Essays of Elia (ed.
Hailward & Hill Macmillan)
Oxford in the Vacation,
Imperfect Sympathies,
Dream Children,
Mackery End, In Hertfordshire
Unit 4 (11 Hrs.)

William Hazlitt The following Essays from Table Talk (ed. C.M.
Macken)
On Familiar Style, On Going a Journey,
Common Sense, A Farewell to Essay-Writing
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
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Victorian Literature-II
Objective :
movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits
Unit 1 (10 Hrs.)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (i) Sonnet No. 41-Thank All Who Have Loved
Me
(ii) Sonnet No. 14-If You Must Love Me…..
(from Sonnets from Portuguese)
(iii) Sonnet No. 43- How do I love thee ?
(iv) A Musical Instrument
Unit 2 (12 Hrs.)

Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy
(Chapter 1: Sweetness and Light &
Chapter 2: Doing as One Likes),
The Buried Life,
Philomela
Unit 3 (13 Hrs.)

Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
Unit 4 (12 Hrs.)

Thomas Hardy The Return of the Native
Unit 5 (13 Hrs.)

Walter Pater From ‘Appreciations’: Essays on Style and
Postscript
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
• Appreciations: With an Essay on Style. Walter Pater (Macmillan, London, 1944)
M.A.
Seminar
Course : 6 Semester : 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 the Project Report / Term Paper.
There will be an external evaluation by a Subject-Expert and a Departmental Panel, at
the end of the semester.
The Division of marks will be as follows:

o Regularity
o Data Collection
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Criticism Theory – I
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.)

M. Arnold : The Study of Poetry
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
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Twentieth Century Literature - I (Poetry & Drama)

Course - 02 Semester – III

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).
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Group A
American Literature – I (Prose and Poetry)
Paper Code ENG 323

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

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)

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

Unit –1 (13 Hrs.)

Toru Dutt : Lakshman,
Our Casuarina Tree
The Lotus
Sarojini Naidu : The Purdah Nashin,
The Bird Sanctuary
A Rajput Love Song
Unit -2 (13 Hrs.)

Nissim Ezekiel : Night of the Scorpion,
Enterprise
Kamala Das : My Grandmother’s House,
The Sunshine Cat
A.K.Ramanujan : 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

Unit –1 (12 Hrs.)

Marianne Moore : What are Years?
Nevertheless
Imtiaz Dharker : 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

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)
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Contemporary British Literature


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.
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Seminar
Course – 06 Semester – 03
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
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Criticism Theory – II
Course - 01 Semester – IV
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
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Twentieth Century Literature – II (Prose & Fiction)

Course - 02 Semester – IV
Unit –1 (10 Hrs.)

Aldous Huxley : Selected Snobberies,
Non Violence
J.B. Priestley : On Doing Nothing,
Student Mobs
E.V. Lucas : 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)
Course – 03 Semester – IV
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
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 : From Exile,
From Homecoming
Arun Kolatkar the boatride
Unit -4 (11 Hrs.)

Keki N. Daruwalla : Pestilence in 19th Century Calcutta,
N. Ezekiel : from Ruminations
Goodbye Party …
Poem of the Separation
Unit -5 (14 Hrs.)

Margaret Atwood : Journey to the Interior
Les Murray : Wilderness
J. Wright : 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)
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
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Group B
Indian Writing in English - II
Unit –1 (12 Hrs.)

G. Karnad : Yayati
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)
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Group B
Women’s Writing - II
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
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
Course – 06 Semester – 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 :

o Regularity
o Data Collection
• 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.
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Modern English Usage & Grammar

Unit 1 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 2 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 3 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 4 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 5 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 1 (13 Hrs.)

Unit 2 (13 Hrs.)

Unit 3 (10 Hrs.)

Unit 4 (10 Hrs.)

Unit 5 (14 Hrs.)

Unit 1 (13 Hrs.)

Unit 2 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 4 (16 Hrs.)

Unit 5 (11 Hrs.)

Unit 1 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 2 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 3 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 4 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 5 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 1 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 2 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 3 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 4 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 5 (12 Hrs.)

The Division of marks will be as follows:

Phonetics & Language

Unit 1 (11 Hrs.)

Unit 2 (13 Hrs.)

Unit 3 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 4 (11 Hrs.)

Unit 5 (13 Hrs.)

Unit 1 (13 Hrs.)

Unit 2 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 3 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 4 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 5 (11 Hrs.)

Dryden to Samuel Johnson

Unit 1 (14 Hrs.)

Unit 2 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 3 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 4 (10 Hrs.)

Unit 5 (12 Hrs.)

Pre-Romantics & Romantics - II

Unit 1 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 2 (13 Hrs.)

Unit 3 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 4 (11 Hrs.)

Unit 5 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 1 (10 Hrs.)

Unit 2 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 3 (13 Hrs.)

Unit 4 (12 Hrs.)

Unit 5 (13 Hrs.)

The Division of marks will be as follows:

Course – 01 Semester – III

Unit –1 (15 Hrs.)

Unit -2 (11 Hrs.)

Unit -3 (11 Hrs.)

Unit -4 (11 Hrs.)

Unit -5 (12 Hrs.)

Twentieth Century Literature - I (Poetry & Drama)