1 History of English Literature

HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE - I ENG- 901 Semester I

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To offer students a critical and historical insight into salient literary trends and movements from Anglo-Saxon to Eighteen Century

COURSE CONTENT

UNIT I Anglo-Saxon Literature Chaucer and his time The end of the Middle Age and early Tudor Scene Spenser and his time

UNIT II

Drama from the miracle plays to Marlow Shakespeare and his time Drama from Johnson to closing of the theatres

UNIT III

1 Prose in sixteenth & seventeenth century Poetry after Spenser (Metaphysical traditions) Milton and his milieu Restoration Age (prose, poetry & drama)

UNIT IV

The Augustan Age (Defoe, Swift, Pope) Novel from Richardson to Jane Austen Eighteenth Century Prose and Miscellaneous Writings

RECOMMENDED READING

1. Bowden, M. A. Readers Guide to Geoffrey Chaucer. London: Thames and Hudson, 1965. 2. Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. New York: Ronald Press Co.,1960. 3. Hudson, W.H. An Outline History of English Literature. London: Bell, 1932. 4. Ford, Borris. A Pelican Guide to English Literature, New York: Penguin Books, 1968. 5. Hawkins-Dady. Mark. Reader s Guide to Literature in English, London: Taylor & Francis, 1996. 6. Sanders Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature (3rd edition). New Delhi: OUP, 2005.

REFERENCE BOOKS

2 1. Baugh, A.C. Ed. A Literary History of England (2nd ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967. 2. Sphere History of English Literature. London: Sphere, 1971. Rev. ed. 1986. Rpt. as Penguin History of Literature. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993.

3. Ford, Boris Ed. The new Pelican Guide to English Literature Series. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, New York, N.Y: Penguin Publications, 1982.

4. Simon, J. Education and Society in Tudor England. Cambridge: University Press,1966.

SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks. 3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.

5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all the four units of the syllabus. These questions will be essay type questions with internal choice. In other words, each unit will have one question (essay type) with internal choice.

Note: No question exclusively based on individual author/text will be set.

3 CRITICAL FOUNDATION ENG- 903 Semester I

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To equip students with literary, critical and cultural concepts with a view to nurture an informed response to an appreciation of literature.

UNIT I Introduction to Literary Genres:

Romance, Epic, Poetry, Drama, Fiction, Biography, Travelogues etc along with their sub- genres

UNIT II Critical and Cultural Idiom: Figures of Speech (imagery, metaphor, metonymy, Paradox, Irony, Pun, Satire), Allegory, Ambiguity, Archetype, Discourse, Inter-textuality, Dialectics, Subaltern, Gender & Patriarchy, Hegemony, Ideology, Deconstruction

UNIT III Literary Movements & Phenomena:

4 (Brief introduction) Neo classicism, Romanticism, Renaissance, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, Marxism, Post-modernism, Colonialism, Post-colonialism, Feminism

UNIT IV A Critical Texts: Plato s Republic, Book X Aristotle s Poetics

B Assignments: Application of critical, cultural idiom through text based assignments.

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Atkins, J.W.H. English Literary Criticism I The medieval Phase, Cambridge: CUP, 1943; II The Renaissance, London: Methuen & Co.1947; III The Seventeenth and eighteenth Centuries, London: Methuen & Co., 1951. 2. Peck, John & Martin Coyle. Literray Terms and Criticism. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 1984, III edition 2002. 3. Ramaswami, S. & V.S. Sethuraman. eds.The English Critical Tradition. Vol.1, Delhi: Macmillan, 1977, rpt. 2007 4. Rees, R.J. English Literature: An introduction for Foreign Readers. New Delhi: Macmillan India, 2004. 5. Mikula, Maja. Key Concepts in Cultural studies. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 6. Butcher, S.H. Aristotle s Theory of Poetry and Fine Art. New York: Dover Publishers, 1951. 7. Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 8. Enright, D. J. & Earnest de Chickera. English Critical Texts. Oxford: OUP, 1999 9. Plato. Tr. Benjamin Jowett. The Republic, Book X. New York: Random House, 1957. 10. Prasad, B. A Short History of Literary Criticism. New Delhi: Macmillan, 1986.

5 11. Rivkin, Julie & Michael Ryan, eds. Literary Theory: An Anthology (II ed). Malden, M.A.: Wiley-Blackwelll, 2004. 12. Waugh, P. Literary Theory and Criticism. New Delhi: OUP, 2007. 13. Wimsatt & Brooks. Literray Criticism: A Short history. London: Routledge, 1970. 14. Washburn, Phil.. The Vocabulary of Critical Thinking, OUP

SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks. 3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.

5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all the four units of the syllabus. Each question will have two parts of 10 marks each with enough internal choice, covering various components of the unit. V. In other words, each unit will have one question (essay type) with internal choice.

PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY ENG- 905 Semester I

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To help students to develop proficiency in oral communication in English. For this, it focuses on honing up their basics of speaking i.e. pronunciation, rhythm of language etc. in order to improve their oral interface both in formal and informal situation in professional, interpersonal or social surroundings.

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I Introduction: Speech Mechanism: Articulation above the larynx; Accent and dialect in English: RP/MRP; World Englishes

UNIT II Phonetics: Cardinal Vowels; English Speech Sounds: Description of Speech Sounds; Phonemes; Allophones; Phonemic Transcription of words

UNIT III Phonology: Syllable: Syllable structure, syllabic consonants, consonant clusters; Prosodic Features: Stress and Rhythm, Word Accent; Intonation: Form and functions of intonation

UNIT IV

7 Features of Connected Speech: Assimilation, Ellison, Liaison, Glottalling; Phonemic Transcription of sentences and paragraphs

RECOMMENDED READING

1. Ashby, Patricia. Speech Sounds. London: Routledge, Second edition, 2005.

2. Balasubramanian, T. A Textbook of English Phonetics. New Delhi: MacMillan, 1981 (rpt 2007).

3. Collins, Baverley & Inger M. Mes. Practical Phonetics & Phonology. Oxon: Routledge, 2003 (rpt2008)

4. Cruttenden, A. Gimson's Pronunciation of English. London: Edward Arnold. Sixth edition, 2001.

5. O'Connor, J.D. Better English Pronunciation. Cambridge University Press. Second edition, 1980.

6. Roach, P. English Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge University Press. Third edition, 2000.

7. Roach, P. J. Hartman and J. Setter (ed.), English Pronouncing Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Seventeenth edition, 2006.

8. Wells, J. C. English Intonation: an introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2006

9. Wells, John. Longman s Pronunciation Dictionary. London: Longman Pearson, 2008

SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper for each theory course shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.

3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions.

8 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.

5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all the four units of the syllabus. Each question will have two/ three parts with enough internal choice, covering various components of the unit. In other words, each unit will have one question (essay type) with internal choice.

ADVANCE WRITING SKILLS ENG-907 Semester I

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5

External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To prepare students with writing skills needed in academic and the professional world; to give them the opportunity to learn techniques, forms, and traditions of various types of writing; to make them learn from basic expository prose to more advanced forms of non-fictional prose.

COURSE CONTENT

UNIT I

Introduction to Writing:

Introduction and importance of writing skills; Types of Writing: Descriptive, Expository, Narrative, Argumentative and Analytic

UNIT II Writing & Discourse Analysis: Textual and structural analysis of various texts fictional and non fictional: Sentence styles & their applications; paragraph development: basic structure of paragraph, paragraph unity etc; Use of figurative language.

UNIT III

10 Creative & Professional Writing:

Newsletter & Magazine Writing: Writing Articles, Features and Editorials; Info- commercial Writing, Web - Content Writing; Writing Book Reviews UNIT IV

Copy Editing & Writing Assignments:

Editing & Formatting; Writing a Research Paper Exercises designed to offer students

critique of their own writing, and that of published books, articles, and essays.

RECOMMENDED READING

1. Goatly, Andrew. An Introductory Coursebook: Critical Reading and Writing. London: Routledge, 2000

2. McLoughlin, Linda. The Language of Magazines. London and New York: Routledge, 2000 (Reprint 2006).

3. Reah, Danuta.. The Language of Newspapers. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. 4. Goddard, Angela. The Language of Advertising. London and New York: Routledge, 2005.

5. Booher, Dianna. E-Writing: 21st Century Tools for Effective Communication. New Delhi: McMillan, 2007. 6. Boardman, Mark. The Language of Websites. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. 7. Mills, Sara. Discourse. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. 8. Salkie, Raphael. Text and Discourse Analysis. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. 9. Butcher, Judith. Copy Editing. Cambridge: CUP (Third Edition). 10. Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New Delhi: EWP 2000 (6th Edition). 11. Baran, Stanley J & Dennis K. Davis. Mass Communication Theory: Foundations, Ferment, and Future Thomson Press, 2007 (Indian reprint). 12. Childs, Peter. Texts: Contemporary Cultural Texts and Critical Approaches. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2006.

11 SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)

Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks. 3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.

5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all the four units of the syllabus. A question can also be divided into two parts of 10 marks each with enough internal choice, covering various components of the unit. In other words, each unit will have one question (essay type) with internal choice.

BRITISH POETRY ENG- 909 (Elective I: Group A) Semester I

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50 OBJECTIVE To expose students to various nuances of British poetry till early Romantics through an extensive study of major poets.

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I 1. Chaucer: The General Prologue to Canterbury Tales 2. Donne: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning , The Good-morrow , Love s Growth , The Sun Rising , The Canonization

UNIT II

1. Milton: Paradise Lost: Book I 2. Pope: The Rape of the Lock (Canto I, III, V)

UNIT III

1. Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey and Intimations of Immortality 2. Keats: The Eve of St. Agnes & Ode on a Grecian Urn

UNIT IV

1. Yeats: Among School Children, The Second Coming, A Prayer for My Daughter, Leda and the Swan 2. Auden: Musee des Beaux Arts , The Unknown Citizen , In Memory of W.B. Yeats, Lullaby 3. Eliot: The Wasteland

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Beardsley, Aubrey. The Rape of the Lock: An Heroicomical Poem in Five Cantos. New York: Dover Publication, 1969. 2. Bowden, M. A Readers Guide to Geoffrey Chaucer. New York: Ferrar, 1964. 3. Blamires, Harry. Milton s Creation: A Guide Through Paradise Lost. London: Matheun, 1971. 4. Cooper, Helen. The Canterbury Tales: Oxford Guide to Chaucer. USA: OUP, 1989. 5. Empson, William. Milton s God. Cambridge: CUP, 1981. 6. Frye, Northrop. T.S. Eliot: An Introduction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. 7. Jeffares, Alexander Norman. Poems of W.B. Yeats: A New Selection. London: Macmillan, 1984. 8. ----. A New Commentary on the Poems of W.B. Yeats. Standford: Stanford University Press, 1984. 9. Mendelson, Edward. W.H. Auden: Collected poems. New York: Random House, 2007. 10. Moody, A. David. The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot. Cambridge: CUP, 1994. 11. Reeves, James. A Short History of English Poetry. London: Heinemann, 1897. 12. Sanders, Wilbur. John Donne s Poetry. London: CUP, 1971. 13. Soatham, B.C. ed. Twentieth Century Poets. London: Routledge, 2007 14. Mack, Maynard. Pope: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

14 15. The Complete Works of William Wordsworth. New York: Bartleby, 1999.

SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.

15 BRITISH DRAMA ENG- 911 (Elective I: Group A) Semester I Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To familiarize students with the history of the theatre and its sub-genres through a detailed study of selected canonical British plays

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I 1. Jew of Malta/Christopher Marlow 2. King Lear /Shakespeare

UNIT II

1. The Duchess of Malfi/ Webster 2. The Way of the World /William Congreve

UNIT III 1. The Alchemist/ Ben Jonson 2. The Apple Cart/ Shaw

16 UNIT IV 1. The Birthday Party/ Pinter 2. Waiting for Godot/ Samuel Beckett

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Brown, John Russel, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre. New York: Oxford University Press,.1997. 2. Chaney, Patrick. A Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare s Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 2007. 3. Dollimore, Jonathan & Alan Sinfield., eds. The Selected Plays of John Webster. Cambridge: CUP, 1983 4. Gordon, Campbell. The Alchemist and other Plays. London: OUP, 1995. 5. Gunnar, Boklund. The Duchess of Malfi: Sources, Themes, Characters. Harvard: Harvard UP, 1962. 6. Jacobus, Lee. A The Bedford Introduction to Drama. Boston: Bedford, 1993. 7. Kenner, H. A Reader s Guide to Samuel Beckett. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. 8. Leggat, Alexander. Shakespearian Tragedies. Cambridge: CUP, 2005 9. Marlow, Christopher. Jew of Malta. New York: Dover Publications, 2003. 10. Miesel, M. Shaw and the Nineteenth Century Theater. Princeton NJ and London: Princeton University Press, 1963. 11. Rabkin, Norman. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Duchess of Malfi: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1968. 12. Raby, Peter ed. The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter. Cambridge: CUP, 2001. 13. Scott, McMillin. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy. New York: Norton, 1973. 14. Shakespeare, William. King Lear. New Delhi: Rupa, 2007. 15. Steane, J.B. Marlow: A Critical Study. Cambridge: CUP, 1970. 16. Stewert, M.J. King Lear. UK: Wine Dark press, 2005.

17 17. Wells, Stanley. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies. Cambridge: CUP, 1986.

ENGLISH PROSE ENG- 913 (Elective I: Group A) Semester I

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To develop an appreciation of English prose as an integral aspect of literature among students. UNIT I 1. Francis Bacon s Of Truth , Of Discourse , Of Friendship , Of Studies ## 2. Charles Lamb s Dream Children: A Reverie , A Bachelor s Complaint , In Praise of Chimney Sweepeers ### 3. William Hazlitt s The Indian Jugglers , On Thought and Action and On the Past and Future ### UNIT II

1. Thomas Babington Macaulay s On the Royal Society of Literature and On the Athenian Orators *#

2. Mathew Arnold s Equality **#

3. Chestorton s Conceit and Caricature , The Worship of the Wealthy *##

UNIT III 1. Huxley s Tragedy and the Whole Truth *^ 2. Virginia Woolf s A Room of One s Own

3. Salman Rushdie s Satyajit Ray , Is Nothing Sacred , In God We Trust #

UNIT I V 1. Alice Walker s In Search of our Mother s Garden * 2. Chinua Achebe s The African Writer and the English Language **

RECOMMENDED READING 1. ** Burke, Lucy, Tony Crowley and Alan Girvin, eds., The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader, London: Routledge, 2000 (rpt. 2001). 2. *Walker, Alice. In Search of our Mothers Garden. 3. #Rushdie, Salman. Iamginary Homelands. London: Granta Books, 1991. 4. **# Arnold, Matthew. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold >Release Date: June 15, 2004 [EBook #12628] 5. *## Chesterton, G. K. All Things Considered Release Date: March 7, 2004 [EBook #11505]

6. ### Lamb, Charles. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume. Release Date: November 30, 2003 [eBook #10343]

7. #### Hazlitt, William Table-Talk: Essays on Men and Manners. Release Date: November 2, 2009 [EBook #3020] 8. *# Macaulay, Thomas Babington The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 1 (of 4) Contibutions to Knight's Quarterly Magazine] Release Date: June 14, 2008 [EBook #2167]

9. ## Bacon, Francis. The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans. Release Date: November 25, 2009 [EBook #575] 11.*^ Available on Net 12. Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1989.

20 SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks. 3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.

LITERATURE & COMMUNICATION ENG-915 (Elective I: Group B) Semester I Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50 OBJECTIVE To give learners exposure to literature with a sound base in language and communication. Learners will acquire critical abilities and linguistic competence.

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I Basic concepts: Literature what and why; Origin and Evolution; Formal elements and Literary genres; Language of literature; Literature as cognitive, ideological and aesthetic medium; Production, communication and consumption of literature UNIT II Poetry and Communication: (A) Poetry and poetic tradition with special reference to Classical, Romantic and Modern poetic sensibility across cultures; the scope and significance of poetry as communicative medium (B) Detailed study of the following texts as case studies: 1. Sonnet 18 and 73/ Shakespeare 2. Daffodils / William Wordsworth 3. Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold 4. My Last Duchess / Robert Browning 5. Two Tramps in Mud / Robert Frost

22 6. Introduction / Kamala Das 7. Dil Hi To Hai / Mirza Ghalib; Bol Ke Lab Azaad Hein Tere / Faiz Ahmed Faiz UNIT III Fiction and Communication: (A) Short Stories and Novels as Communicative Media; Fiction as Social and Political Narrative (B) Detailed Study of the following texts as case studies:

1. ** Kafan / Prem Chand; * Mother / Baburao Bagul/ ## Daupadi / Mahasweta Devi 2. The Guide/R.K. Narayan UNIT IV Drama and Communication: (A) Drama as a medium of interpersonal and cultural communication (B) Detailed study of the following texts as case studies: 1. Julius Caesar /Shakespeare 2. Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf/Edward Albee RECOMMENDED READING 1. ** Available on Net 2. Dangle, Arjun. Ed. Poisoned Bread. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1992. 3. Narayan, R.K. The Guide , London: Penguin Books , 1988

4. ## Devi, Mahasweta .Breast Stories,Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1998 5. Miller, J. Hillis. On Literature: Thinking in Action, London: Routledge, 2002. 6. Thornborrow, Joanna and Shan Wareing, Patterns in Language: An Introduction to Language and Literary Style, London: Routledge, 1998. 7. Rees, R.J. English Literature: An Introduction for Foreign Readers, Delhi: Macmillan, 1973 (rpt 2004).

23 8. Carter, Ronald and Peter Stockwell, eds., The language and Literature Reader, New York: Routledge 2008. 9. Albee, Edward. Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, New York: Signet, 1983. 10. Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. London: Penguin Books; 1976. 11. Gaur, Albertine .A History of Writing. London: The British Library, 1984. 12. Widowson, Peter. Literature, London: Routledge, 1988/2007 13. Prasad, B. .A Background to the Study of English Literature, Madras: Macmillan, 65/87. SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.

3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.

24 NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION ENG-917 (Elective I: Group B) Semester I Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE

To teach students the importance of body language as a means of effective communication and to train them to use body language to (a) increase personal impact over the listeners and build rapport with others (b) read and interpret other people s non-verbal signs, and (c) help control tension and conflict in interactive/communicative situations.

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I Introduction: Concept, scope and significance of Non-Verbal Communication; Domains of Non-Verbal Communication: Body Language, Sign Language (i.e. Traffic signals etc), Cultural Conventions, Customs, Space and Time Conventions etc; Clothing and Personal Appearance

UNIT II Body Language:

25 Concept, Scope and Significance of Body Language as Communicative Tool; Facial Expressions and Eyes, Gestures, Postures, Gait and Space, Physical Environment

UNIT III Non-Verbal Communication & Inter-Personal Relationships: Improving Body Language for Effective Communication; Case Study of silent movies like Singeetam Srinivasa Rao s Pushpak UNIT IV Non Verbal Communication & Culture: Socio-Cultural Influence on non-verbal communication: Rituals, Symbols and Taboos; Socio-Geographical Space; case and field studies

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Allan, Keith and Kate Burridge. Forbidden Words. Cambridge: CUP, 2006. 2. Morris, Desmond. Peoplewatching. London: Vintage Books, 2002. 3. ------. The Pocket Guide to Man Watching. London: Grafton Books 4. ------. The Naked Ape, London: Grafton Books, 1977/89 5. Pease, Allan. Body Language: How to Read Other s Thoughts by Their Gestures. New Delhi: Sudha Publication, 2003 6. Ribbens, Geoff and Richard Thompson. Body Language. New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007. 7. Rao, Singeetam Srinivasa. Pushpak ( movie)

SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory

26 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks. 3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.

27 COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE HUE-919 (Elective I: Group B) Semester I Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To enhance students understanding of the processes of cultural and intercultural communication; to promote open and affirmative attitudes towards cultural differences, and develop skills to manage and understand intercultural encounters and cultivate intercultural relationships.

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I Conceptual Basics: Culture, Essentialist and Non Essentialist view of Culture: Intercultural Contexts: Identity, Otherization, Representation/ Discourse; Cultural Texts: Literature, Myths, Symbols and Stereotype; Models of Cultural Integration and Communication

UNIT II Identity: Identity as a Personal Project, Globalization and Identity, Discourse, Identity and Culture, Identity and Language Learning, Identity Community and the Internet; Explorations into Identity Communication: The Story of the Self, Self vis-à-vis the Other, Tackling Cultural Fundamentalism, Investigating Discourse and Power

28 UNIT III Otherization: Images of the Other, Absence and Invisibility in Otherization; Explorations into Otherization: The Located Self , Integrating the Other, Introspecting Self

UNIT IV Representation: (A) Representation in Literature and Mass Media; Personality and its Social Construction, Social Constructionism and Social Representations, Cultural Constructs; Exploring Representations

(B) The detailed study of following texts: 1. Untouchable by Mulkraj Anand 2. Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Anand, Mulkraj. Untouchable, London: Penguin India, 1940 2. Desai , Anita. Fasting, Feasting, London: Chatto and Windus, 1999. 3. Holliday, Adrian, Martin Hyde and John Kulliman. Intercultural Communication: An Advanced Resource Book. London/ New York: Routledge, 2004.

4. Childs, Peter. Texts: Contemporary Cultural Texts and Critical Approaches. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2006. 5. Burk, Lucy, Tony, Crowley and Alan Girvin, Eds. The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader. London and New York, 2000. 6. Chaudhary, Nandita. Listening to Culture: Constructing Reality from Everyday Talk. New Delhi: Sage Publication: 2004.

29 7. Leeuwen, Theo Van. Introducing Social Semiotics. London: Routledge, 2005. 8. Kress, Gunther and Theo Van Leeuwen. Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Designs. London: Routledge, 2006. 9. Stockwell, Peter. Sociolinguistics: A Resource Book for Students. London: Routledge, 2002.

30 SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks. 3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.

ORAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS LAB ENG-951 Semester I

Credit: 4 LAB: 4 hrs. External Marks: 50 Internal Marks: 50 OBJECTIVE To train students to have proficiency in oral communication COURSE CONTENT Oral Communication in Practice: Need and Significance of Effective Oral Communication; Practice of Conversation Interpersonal and Telephonic Conversation; Formal Talks; Practicing verbal and non-verbal communication (Body Language) to acquire effective Oral Communication; Exercises in Listening to Talk Shows, Speech Reviews; Practice in English Sounds and Speech using RP/ MRP; Practice in word stress and Intonation.

NOTE: Students will be tested for their oral proficiency (ear-training through dictation, recorded tracks, speaking out the sounds/speech given) through a practical test/viva conducted by an external examiner.

SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Practical

32 Practical exam for the course will be conducted by an external examiner appointed by the university. RECOMMENDED READING 1. Pridham, Francesca. The Language of Conversation. London: Routledge, 2001 (rpt 2006). 2. Hamilton, Cheryl. Communicating for Results. Wadsworth/Thompson Learning

INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY LAB

HUE-953 Semester I Credit: 4 LAB: 4hrs Internal Marks: 50 External Marks: 50 OBJECTIVE To help students practice application of computer skills and software packages. Special emphasis will be laid on Photoshop, corelDraw and other relevant software for text formatting and HTML for Web page design.

COURSE CONTENT HTML & Web Page Design: Writing HTML, Structure of HTML, Document; HTML Tags, Inserting Images, Creating Links, Tables, Forms, Frames

Working with Software Packages: Word Processor working with Text, Tables, Checking spelling and Grammar, Printing a Document, mail Merger; PowerPoint Presentation working with Different Views and Designing Presentation; Introduction to CorelDraw and Photoshop

NOTE: Students will be tested for their knowledge and application of basic computer skills and prescribed software/language through a practical test/viva conducted by an external examiner.

SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST Practical Practical exam for the course will be conducted by an external examiner appointed by the university.

34 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE - II ENG- 902 Semester II

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To offer students a critical and historical insight into salient literary trends and movements from Eighteenth Century to twentieth century.

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I French Revolution and English Literature: French Revolution, pre-romantic era, Romantic Movement: Poetry, Prose of early and middle 19th century, early 19th century novel

UNIT II Industrial Revolution and the Early Victorian Literature: Intellectualism and science, the Doctrine of Religious Beliefs, Early Victorian prose, Poetry and novel

UNIT III

Late Victorian Age: The Chartist movement, The Victorian Compromise, the Agrarian Crisis, Drama and late Victorian Novel

35 UNIT IV

Twentieth Century Literature: Economic and Social changes before World War I, Socio- political and economic scenario between the wars, Psychological novel, Poetry & other writings (post-war and post-modern)

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Cazamian and Emile Legouis.. History of English literature. London: JM Dent & Sons. Ltd., 1971. 2. Evans, Ifor. A Short History of English Literature. London: Penguin Books, 1976. 3. Ford, Boris. Ed. The Pelican Guide to English Literature Vol.1 to 7. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1983. 4. Greenblatt, S. and Giles Gunn, eds. Redrawing the Boundaries. New York: MLA, 1992. 5. Hoffman, Daniel, ed. Harvard Guide to Contemporary Writing. Mass: Harvard UP, 1979. 6. Long, William. J. English Literature: Its History and Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World. Boston: Ginn & Co., 1909. 7. Ruland, Richard and Malcolm Bradhury. From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature. New York: Penguin, 1992. 8. Trevelyan, G. M. English Social History. London: Penguin Books, 1944.

SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory

1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.

36 3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course. 5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all the four units of the syllabus. These questions will be essay type questions with internal choice. In other words, each unit will have one question (essay type) with internal choice. In other words, each unit will have one question (essay type) with internal choice.

Note: No question exclusively based on individual author/s will be set.

LITERARY CRITICISM & THEORY I ENG-904 Semester II

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To acquaint students with the works of significant critics, critical movements, theories; and to enable them to apply principles of criticism to literary texts.

COURSE CONTENT

UNIT I Wordsworth s Preface to Lyrical Ballads ( 1800)**

Samuel Taylor Coleridge s Biographia Literaria ( Ch. XIV)**

Matthew Arnold s Function of Criticism at the Present Time *** UNIT II T.S. Eliot s Tradition and the Individual Talent * Henry James The Art of Fiction *** Freud s Creative Writing and Day Dreaming * UNIT III I A Richards Four Kinds of Meaning *

William Empson s The Seven Types of Ambiguity ***

Cleanth Brooks Irony as a Principle of Structure ***

UNIT IV Northrop Frye s The Archetypes of literature * George Lukacs The Ideology of Modernism * Wayne C. Booth s Objectivity in Fiction *

Note: Different signs such as *, # etc. indicate source of the essays, i.e. books enlisted in the RECOMMENDED READING

RECOMMENDED READING

1. Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. New York: Ronald Press Co.,1960.

2. . .Critical Approaches to Literature. Hyderabad: Macmillan, 1956.

3. Empson, William. The Seven Types of Ambuiguity. London: Chatto and Windus, 1949.

4. Johnson, Leslie. The Culture Critics: From Matthew Arnold to Raymond Williams. London: Routledge, 1979.

5. *Lodge, David. Twentieth Century Criticism. London: Longman, 1972.

6. Morton, Stephen. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. London: Routledge, 1972. Indian rpt.2007.

7. **Ramaswami, S. & V.S. Sethuraman. The English Critical Tradition. Vol 1. Delhi: Macmillan, 2007.

8. *** ... The English Critical Tradition. Vol 2. Delhi: Macmillan, 2007.

9. Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today: A User Friendly Guide. New York: garland, 1999.

10. Wimsatt, W.K. & Cleanth Brooks. Literary Criticism: A Short History. London: Routledge, 1970.

11. Wellek, Rene. A History of Modern Criticism. New Heaven: Yale University Press,1955.

39 SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.

40 ENGLISH NOVEL ENG-906 Semester II

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50 OBJECTIVE To familiarise students with major English novels to inculcate in them an appreciation of the texts and contexts of English novel. COURSE CONTENT UNIT I 1. Joseph Andrews/Henry Fielding 2. Hard Times/ Charles Dickens UNIT II 1. Pride and Prejudice/ Jane Austen 2. Jude the Obscure/ Thomas Hardy UNIT III 1. The Rainbow/ D.H. Lawrence 2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man/James Joyce UNIT IV 1. The Heart of the Matter/ Graham Greene 2. Prime of Miss Jean Brodie/ Muriel Spark RECOMMENDED READING 1. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. London: Random House, 2008.

41 2. Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Height. London: Random House, 2008. 3. Dickens, Charles. Hard Times. New Delhi: Rupa & Co., 2007 4. Fielding, Henry. Joseph Andrews. London, Penguin, 1977. 5. Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. New York: Penguin Books, 1971. 6. Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure/. London: Penguin Classics, 1895. 7. Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: Barnes and Nobel classics, 2004. 8. Lawrence, D.H. The Rainbow. Digireads.com Publishing, 2008. 9. Sage, Lorna. The Cambridge Guide to Women s Writing in English. Cambridge: CUP, 1999. 10. Spark, Muriel. Prime of Ms Jean Brodie. London: Macmillan, 1961. 11. Taylor, Harriet. The Enfranchisement of Women in John Taylor Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill, Essays on Sex Inequality. ed. Alice Rossi . Chicago: Chicago UP, 1970. 12. Wilson, Keith, Ed. Companion to Thomas Hardy. Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks. 3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice.

42 TRANSLATION ENG-908 Semester II

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE

To expose students to translation, its dynamics and its role as a communicative tool across cultures and languages.

COURSE CONTENT

UNIT I

Initiation:

Understanding the Concept: Types of Translation; Problems of Translation: Loss and Gain, translating poetry, prose and drama; History of Translation Theory: A Brief Historical and Theoretical Overview from Early theories to the Present.

UNIT II

Perspectives: Detailed study of the following essays:

1. Translation as New Writing by Sujit Mukherjee (From: Mukherjee Sujit, Translation as Discovery. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1981(rpt. 2006): 77-85.

2. Translation and Comparative Literature by Abhai Maurya (From: Gargesh Ravinder and Krishan Kumar Goswami, eds. Translation and Interpreting: Reader and Workbook. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2007: 65-86.

3. The Politics of Post-Colonial Translation by Harish Trivedi (From: Singh, Avadhesh K, ed. Translation: Its Theory and Practice. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1996: 46-55.

UNIT III

Case Studies: Analysis of the following woks in original and their translation across languages and genres:

1. Shakespeare s Othello and its *textual translations and **cinematic rendering in Hindi and English

Raghav, Rangey. Trans. Othello

Burge, Stuart, / Parker, Oliver. Director. Othello ( Movie)

Bhardwaj, Vishal. Director. Omkara (Movie)

2. Krishna Sobti s Mitro Marjani and its ##translations in English:

Rajendra Yadav, Trans. Damn, You Mitro.

Rajan, Gita and Raji Narsimhan. Trans. To Hell with You Mitro.

3. *# Kabir s selected poems and their English translations:

Kabir s Poems Panni Me Meen Payasi , Naahin Dharmi Naahin Adharmi , Maya Maha Thagini Hum Jani , Jhini Jhini Bini Chadariya from Kabir by Acharya Hazari Prasad Diwedi

Translations of these poems by Tagore, G.N. Das, Linda Hess & Sukhdev Singh, Vinay Dharvadkar, Rajinder Singh Verma

UNIT IV Activity: Translation of various literary and non literary texts - stories, prose pieces, novellas, plays, poems from Hindi to English and English to Hindi; Assignments and discussion sessions regarding specific problems of translation.

RECOMMENDED READING

44 1. Basnett, Susan. Translation Studies. London/New York: 1980 (Indian rpt 2005). 2. Bassnett, Susan and Harish Trivedi. Post-Colonial Translation: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, 2005 3. Bhardwaj, Vishal. Director. Omkara, a movie based on Othello 4. **Burge, Stuart, / Parker, Oliver. Director. Othello a Movie 5. *# Diwedi, Acharya Hazari Prasad. Kabir. New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakasan. 6. Gargesh Ravinder and Krishan Kumar Goswami, eds. Translation and Interpreting: Reader and Workbook. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2007. 7. Hatim, Basil and Ian Mason. The Translator as Communicator. London/New York: 1997. 8. Mukherjee, Sujit. Translation as Discovery. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, , 2006. 9. Munday, Jeremy. Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications. London: Routledge, 2001 (rpt 2006). 10. * Raghav, Rangey. Trans. Othello. Delhi: Rajpal, 2007. 11. Rahman, Anisur, ed. Translation: Poetics and Practice. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2002. 12. Rajan, Gita and Raji Narsimhan. Trans. To Hell with You Mitro. Delhi: Katha, 2007. 13. Yadav, Rajendra. Trans. Damn, You Mitro. Kolkata: The Little Magazine 14. Robbin, Douglass. Becoming a Translator. London/New York: Routledge,1997. 15. Shakespeare, William. Othello. Delhi: Pearson Longman, 2009 16. Sobti, Krishna. Mitro Marjani. Delhi: Rajkamal Paperbacks, 1984, 2009. 17. Venuti, Lawrence, ed. The Translation Reader. London/ New York: Routledge, 2000.

SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.

3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions.

45 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical/practical inputs of the course.

46 INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION ENG- 910 ( Elective-II, Group A) Semester II

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50 OBJECTIVE To introduce students to Indian literature through translation so as to enrich them with great Indian literary heritage.

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I Poetry: 1. Poems no 4, 6, 10, 28, 29,64,76/ Tukaram * 2. Gitanjali/ Rabindranath Tagore UNIT II Drama: 1. Kalidas s Abhijnansakuntalam**/ William Jones 2. Tuglaq/ Girish Karnad UNIT III Novel: 1. Praja/ Gopinath Mohanty 2. Chemmeen/ Thakazhi S. Pillai UNIT IV Short Fiction:

1. Saadat Hasan Manto s ## Toba Tek Singh , Open it , and # Sketches ( Division , Pathanistan , Proper Use , The Benefit of Ignorance , Jelly ) 2. Prem Chand s The Chess Players , The Thakur s Well , The Shroud , Deliverance , The Price of Milk , Miss Padma

Note: Different signs such as *, # etc. indicate source of the essays, i.e. books enlisted in the RECOMMENDED READING

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Chand, Prem. Premchand: Oxford Omnibus. Trans. David Rubin. Delhi: OUP, 2004. 2. **Jones, William. The works of Sir William Jones. Delhi: Agam Prakashan, 1979. 3. Karnad, Girish . Three Modern Induian Plays. Delhi: OUP, 1989. 4. ## Manto, Sadat Hasan. A Wet Afternoon. Trans. Khalid Hasan. Islamabad: Alhamra, 2001. 5. #...... Black Margins. Trans.Muhammad Umar . New Delhi: Katha, 2003 6. Mohanty, Gopinath. Paraja. Trans. Bikram K. Das. Delhi: OUP, 1987. 7. Pillai, Thakazhi S. Chemmeen. Trans. Narayana Menon. Mumbai: Jaico Publishing, 2004. 8. Tagore, Rabindranath. Gitanjali. London: Macmillan, 1965. 9. Tukaram. Tukaram. Poems. Trans. Prabhakar Machwe. Calcutta: United Writers, 1977.

48 various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students of various inputs of the course.

49 NON-FICTIONAL NARRATIVES ENG-912 (Elective-II, Group- A) Semester II Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50 OBJECTIVE To introduce students to non-fictional narratives as an integral aspect of literary studies; to study these narratives for their literary, cultural and aesthetic value.

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I Biographies/Autobiographies: 1. The Diary of Anne Frank/ Anne Frank 2. Kaifi & I/ Shaukat Kaifi

UNIT II Travel Writings: 1. River of Beauty / Amrit Lal Vegad s Narmada 2. Kumbh Mela */ Mark Tully 3. The City of Widows */ William Dalrymple

UNIT III Historical and Cultural Writing: 1. Hind Swaraj / M K Gandhi s (*What is Swaraj, Civilisation, What is True Civilisation, Education) 2. The Riot ** / Sudhir Kakkar 3. The Argumentative Indian ***/ Amartya Sen

UNIT IV Miscellaneous: 1. Knowing and Seeing [chapter 2]^^^/ Fritjof Capra

2. Road Food on the Highway , The Indigenous Pot ##/ Chitrita Banerji

3. Confronting Empire *#/ Arundhati Roy

Note: Different signs such as *, # etc. indicate source of the essays, i.e. books enlisted in the RECOMMENDED READING

RECOMMENDED READING 1. ##Banerji, Chitrita. Eating India. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2008 2. ^^^Capra, Fritjof. The Tao of physics. London: Flamingo, 1991. 3. ^^ Gopal, Sarvepalli. ed. Anatomy of a Confrontation. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1990. 4. Halder, Baby , tr. Urvashi Butalia. A Life Less Ordinary. New Delhi; Penguin Books, 2006 5. Kaifi, Shaukat. tr. Nasreen Rahman. Kaifi & I New Delhi: Zubaan, 2010. 6. **Kakkar, Sudhir. The Colours of Violence. New Delhi: Viking, 1995. 7. *Moraes, Dom, ed. The Penguin Book of Indian Journeys. New Delhi; Penguin Books, 2001 8. *# Roy, Arundhati. Confronting Empire War Talk. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 2003.

51 9. ***Sen, Amartya. The Argumentative Indian, London: Allen Lane/Penguin, 2005 10. Vegad, Amrit Lal. Narmada: River of Beauty. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2008 SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper for each theory course shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.

3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be set in a way so as to cover all the four units of the syllabus. It will have four parts with enough internal choice. These will be in the form of short notes/ objective questions/ explanation of basic concepts. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of the students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.

52 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS ENG- 914 (Elective-II, Group- A) Semester II

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To introduce students to the tools essential for a systematic study of language. COURSE CONTENT UNIT I Language: Language & communication; properties of human language; language varieties: standard and non-standard language, dialect, register, slang, pidgin, Creole; varieties of English; language change

UNIT II Structuralism: Ferdinand de Saussure; synchronic and diachronic approaches; langue and parole; sign, signifier, signified and semiology; syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations

UNIT III Grammar and Morphology: Functions and categories: traditional grammar, structural grammar ( some basic structures, IC analysis) TG grammar( structural ambiguity); functional grammar ( connection and coherence); Morpheme; word, word classes, inflection, derivation, compounding, English Morphology

UNIT IV Syntax and Semantics: Categories and constituents, predicates and argument structure, thematic roles, case; phrase structure; lexical meaning relations; implicature, entailment and presupposition; maxims of conversation, speech act

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Akmajian, A. , R.A. Demers and R.M. Harnish. Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication. 2 edn. Cambridge, mass: MIT Press, 1984; Indian edn, Prentice hall, 1991. ( ch 3 & 4 for unit III and ch 5 & 6 for unit Iv).

2. Chierchia, Gennaro and Sally Mcconnell Ginet. Meaning and Grammar: An Introduction to Semantics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2000. ( ch 1 The Empirical domain of Semantics for unit IV)

3. Chomsky, Noam. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1965. ( ch 1 Methodological Preliminaries for unit IV)

4. De Saussure, Ferdinand. Course in General Linguistics. New York: Mcgraw Hill, 1966. ( Introduction- ch3, Part I- ch 1&2, Part II Synchronic Linguistics, Part III Diachronic Linguistics for unit II)

5. Fromkin, Victoria , ed. Linguistics: An Introduction to Linguistic Theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000. ( Ch 2, 11 &12 for unit III and ch 4&5 for unit IV)

6. Fromkin, V and R. Rodman. An Introduction to Language. 2 edn New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. ( ch 3,6 & 7 for unit III and ch 4&5 for unit IV)

7. Haugh, A.C. & Cable T. A History of English Language. 5th ed London: Routledge, 2000.

8. Hudson, R.A. Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: CUP (rpt), 1986

9. Jacobs, R.A. & P.S. Rosenbaum. English Transformational Grammar. Delhi: Doaba Publications, 2000.

54 10. Mesthrie, Rajend and Rakesh M Bhatt. World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistic Varieties. Cambridge: CUP, 2008. ( Ch.1 Spread of English for unit I)

11. Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994. ( Ch1 An Instinct to Acquire an Art , ch 2 Chatterboxes , ch3 Mentalese for unit I)

12. Quirk, R. and S. Greenbaum. A University Grammar of English. London: Longman and ELBS, 1982.

55 SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)

Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper for each theory course shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks. 3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course. 5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all the four units of the syllabus. Each question will have two/ three parts with enough internal choice, covering various components of the unit. In other words, each unit will have one question (essay type) with internal choice.

56 INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION & PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

ENG-916 (Elective-II, Group- B) Semester II

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50 OBJECTIVE To offer learner a relevant and systematic approach for developing self understanding and promoting socially sensitive personal growth through commensurate communication skills and personality

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I Interpersonal Effectiveness: Means of Contact, Dealing with Others (Techniques on how to talk, listen, criticize, compliment, thank and converse effectively), Perception of Self and Others, Barriers in communication, Relationship Management, Conflict Resolution, Ethical and Moral Responsibilities UNIT II Personality Enhancement: Self Esteem, Self-Improvement, Positive Attitudes, Communication Channels, Self and Time Management, Standards of Conduct, Negotiating Diversity, Social and Personal Ethics UNIT III Communication in Groups:

Understanding Groups, Group Dynamics and Types, Group Formation, Key Factors in Groups, Communicating in Groups, Intra Group Relationships, Problem Solving and Conflict Management, Leadership, Small Group Communication: Presentations on social & critical topics, small activities like role play, case study etc

UNIT IV Literature and Media as Case Studies in Interpersonal Communication & Personality Development: A detailed study and analysis of the following texts*:

1. My Experiments with Truth/ M.K. Gandhi 2. #Selected Tales from Panchtantra / Vishnu Sharma # The Ungrateful Man , The Result of Education (Book I The Loss of Friends), The Bharunda Birds , Self-Defeating Forethought ( Book-II The Winning of Friends) 3. Chak-De India - A movie

* A text each from Literature, Personality Development and movies/ visual may be chosen by the teacher concerned after due approval from the competent authority.

RECOMMENDED READING

1. Amin, Shimit. Director. Hindi Movie Chak De India

2. Dimbleby, Richard and Graeme Burton. More than Words: An Introduction to Communication. London and New York: Routledge, 2001 (rpt, third edition).

3. Gandhi, M.K. An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Ahmedabad: Navjivan publishing House, 1927.

4. # Ryder, Arthur W. Trans. Panchantantra Delhi: Jaico Publishing House, 1949, rpt.1998.

5. Wallace, Harold R. and L. Ann Masters. Personal Development for Life and Work. Singapore: Thompson, 2006.

58 SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.

3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.

59 LANGUAGE CHANGE & CONTEMPORARY LANGUAGE USE ENG-918 (Elective-II, Group- B) Semester II Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To make students appreciate and analyze many changes wrought in English language over a passage of time and its use. All languages change with time. They adapt to, adopt and absorb the pressures and fashions of the time. These changes manifest in the form of new jargon, vocabulary, register etc and are rooted in socio-historical dynamics of the times, i.e., cross-cultural interactions. The change in language brings about a corresponding change in the communicative behaviour.

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I Social Change and its Effect on Language/Communication: Analysis of the cause and consequences of cultural, technological, attitudinal, socio- psychological changes on language and communication; Attitudes to Language: From English to Englishes

UNIT II Mass Media and Language: Language of Bollywood, Newspapers, Tabloids, and Gen X ; Language Politics and Language Ethics.

UNIT III Globalization, ICT and Language:

Language of/ in the Electronic Media SMSs, E-mails, Web Communication, Chats, TV Shows etc.; Neologism

UNIT IV (A) Field Assignments and Presentations: Survey and collection of data samples of language Use from various sections of the Society; Report and Presentation

(B) Study and Analysis of Language Use: Samples from Various Literary and Non- literary Texts; Profession Specific Registers and Jargons; Socio-Psychological Attitudes to Language

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Beard, Adrian. Language Change. London: Routledge, 2004. 2. Cameron, Deborah. Verbal Hygiene. London: Routledge, 1995. 3. Croft, William. Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Approach. Harlow: Longman, 2000. 4. Graddol, David, Dick Leith and Joan Swan. English: History, Diversity and Change London: Routledge, 1996. 5. Macaulay, Ronald. The Social Art: Language and its Usage. New York: OUP, 1994. 6. Nambisan, Vijay. Language as an Ethic. New Delhi: Penguin, 2003. 7. Rai, Alok, Hindi Nationalism. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2000. 8. Smith, Jeremy. A Historical Study of English. London: Routledge, 1996.

61 various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.

62 ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING ENG-920 (Elective-II, Group- B) Semester II Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To equip students with the domains and intricacies of English language teaching. COURSE CONTENT UNIT I Principles of English language Teaching; Introductory Approach to Second Language Learning; Methods of Teaching English: Direct Method, Bilingual Method, Translation method UNIT II Linguistic Devices: Meter, Rhythm, Schemes and tropes, Neologism, Tautology, Synthesis, Symmetric and Asymmetric, Contrastive, Euphemism UNIT III The Oral Approach and Situational Language teaching; the structural Approach; Communicative language teaching Teaching of prose, poetry and fiction; Language of Literature: Figurative Language ; Teaching Communication Skills in English; UNIT IV

63 Practice of teaching in real classrooms; Analysis and review of self and others teaching skills.

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Allen, H.B. ed. Teaching English as a Second Language. NY: Mcgraw-Hill, 1972. 2. Brumfit, C.J. Communicative Methodology in Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP, 1984. 3. Brumfit, C.J. and Carter R. (eds). Language and Literature Teaching. London: Routledge, 1986. 4. Collie, J. & S. Slater.. Literature in the Classroom: A Resource Book of Ideas and Activities. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 1987. 5. Doff, Adrian. Teach English 2 Sets. Cambridge: CUP, 1988. 6. Harmer, J. The Practice of ELT. London: Longman, 1983. 7. Celce-Murcia, M. & L. Mcintosh, eds. Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. Rowley, Mass: Newbury, 1979. 8. Lazar, Gillian. Literature and Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP, 1997. 9. Mackey, W.F. Language Teaching Analysis. London: Longmans 1965. 10. Prabhu, N.S. Second Language pedagogy. Oxford: OUP, 1987. 11. Quirk, R. & H. Widdowson, eds. English in the world: Teaching and Learning the Language and Literatures. Cambridge: CUP, 1985. 12. Richards and Rogers. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP, 2001. 13. Smith, L. ed. English for Cross Cultural Communication. London: Macmillan, 1981. 14. Widdowson, H. Stylistics and Teaching of Literature. London: Longman, 1975. 15. Yardi, V.V. Teaching English in India.Today. Aurngabad: Parimal Prakashan, 1977.

64 SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.

3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.

65 ORAL PRESENTATION SKILLS LAB ENG-952 Semester II

Credits: 4 LAB: 4hrs. External Marks: 50 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE

To train students to learn how to make effective oral presentation skills at personal and professional forum.

COURSE CONTENT

Oral Presentation: Seminar, Presentation using Visuals and graphics, Power Point Presentation, Group Discussion; Meetings: Meeting Etiquettes, Press-conference; Mock Interviews and Mock situations NOTE: Students will be tested for their presentation skills through a practical test/ viva conducted by an external examiner. SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Practical

Practical exam for the course will be conducted by an external examiner appointed by the university.

66 INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ENG-921 Semester III Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50 OBJECTIVE To introduce students to the issues and concerns in the area of Indian writing in English; to teach them to debate and engage with variety of texts and to examine the various nuances of Indian Writing in English.

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I Essays: 1. Preamble & The Literary Landscape from Twice Born Fiction/.Meenakshi Mukherji *# 2. Introduction to Women Writing in India. Vol. II / Susie Tharu and K Lalitha** 3. Indian Literature: Notes Towards the Definition of a Category / Aijaz Ahmad* UNIT II Poetry: 1. Nissim Ezekiel: Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher ; Very Very Indian Poem in English . ## 2. A.K.Ramanujan: Small-scale Reflections on a Great House ; Love Poem for Wife I ; At Zero ; The Difference (From Collected Poems OUP) 3. Arun Kolatkar: An Old Bicycle Tyre; Meera (Kala Ghoda Poems OUP) 4. Imtiaz Dharkar: Pardah I ; Pardah II ; The Word ; The Mask ; Image ( From Pardah and Other Poems)

UNIT III Fiction: 1. Kanthapura/ Raja Rao 2. The God of Small Things/Arundhati Roy UNIT IV Drama: 1. Meera/ Gurcharan Das 2. The Final Solution /Mahesh Dattani

Note: Different signs such as *, # etc. indicate source of the essays, i.e. books enlisted in the RECOMMENDED READING

RECOMMENDED READING 1. *Ahmad, Aijaz . In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, New Delhi: OUP, 1992. 2. Das, Gurcharan. Three English Plays. New Delhi: OUP, 2001. 3. Dallmayr, Fred and G.N. Devy, Between Tradition and Modernity: India s Search for Identity, New Delhi: Sage, 1998. 4. Dattani, Mahesh . Final Solutions and Other Plays, Madras: Manas, 1994. 5. Dharkar, Imtiaz .Purdah and Other Poems, Delhi: OUP, 1989/90. 6. Gandhi, M.K. Hind Swaraj, (* What is Swaraj, Civilisation, What is True Civilisation, Education) New Delhi: Foundation books, 1997 7. Kolatkar, Arun. Kala Ghoda Poems, Mumbai: Pras Prakashan, 2004. 8. Mehrotra, Arvind Krishan, ed., An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English, New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001/06. 9. *#Mukherji, Meenakshi . The Twice Born Fiction. London: Heinemann: 1971. 10. Padmanabhan, Manjula. Harvest, New Delhi: Kali, 1997. 11. Rao, Raj . Kanthapura, Madras: OUP, 1974/89 12. Ramanjun, A.K. Collected Poems, Delhi: OUP, 1995. 13. Roy, Arundhati . The God of Small Things, New Delhi: India Ink, 1997

68 14. ## Available on Net 15. **Tharu, Susie & K.Lalitha, eds.Women Writing in India, 2 Vols. Delhi: OUP, 1991 SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.

AMERICAN LITERATURE ENG-923 Semester III

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To expose students to the polyphonic voices those constitute American literary imagination; to study the characteristic features of Modern American Literature, its Prose, Poetry, Drama and Fiction.

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I Poetry: 1. Song of Myself ( No. 1,5,10,16,24)/ Walt Whitman 2. Mending Walls, Design, The Road Not Taken and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening / Robert Frost 3. The Snowman, Sunday Morning / Wallace Stevens 4. Supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg UNIT II Drama: 1. Death of a Salesman/ Arthur Miller 2. Desire Under the Elms/ Eugene O Neil

70 UNIT III American Novel: 1. The Scarlet Letter/ Nathaniel Hawthorne 2. Old Man and the Sea/ Ernest Hemingway 3. Of Mice and Men/ John Steinbeck UNIT IV Black American Novel:

1. Invisible Man/ Ralph Ellison 2. Sula/ Toni Morrison

RECOMMENDED READING

1. Frost, Robert. Poems. New York: Washington Square Press, 1946/69 2. *Available on net 3. Gascoigne, Bamber..Twentieth Century Drama, London: Huthinson University Library, 1962/74. 4. Hemingway, Ernest. Old Man and the Sea New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1952 5. .The Essential Hemingway, Frogmore: Triad/Panther, 1947. 6. Knippling, Alpana Sharma. New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. 7. Miller, Arthur .Collected Plays, Bombay: Allied Publishers, 1957/73 8. Morrison, Toni . Sula, Badford: Triad, 1973/80 9. O Neil, Eugene Desire Under the Elms & Great God Brown, Great Britain: Jonathon Cape, 1925

71 10. Peck, David R. American Ethnic Literatures: Native American, African American, Chicano/ Latino, and Asian American Writers and Their Backgrounds. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1992.

11. Peck, John & Martin Coyle, Literary Terms and Criitcism, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 12. Phil. Washburn. The Vocabulary of Critical Thinking USA: OUP, 2009. 13. Steinbeck, John .Of Mice and Men, New York: The Modern Library, 1938/65. 14. Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mother s Garden, New York: Harvest/HBJ Book 1983

SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks. 3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no.1 will be in the form of short notes/objective type questions/explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. 5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all the four units of the syllabus. These questions will be essay type questions with internal choice. In other words, each unit will have one question (essay type) with internal choice.

MODERN WORLD LITERATURE ENG-925 Semester III

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50 OBJECTIVE To give students an exposure to a wide range of literatures with a sound base in language and culture. Learners will acquire critical abilities, linguistic competence and communicative insights.

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I Poetry: 1. Pablo Neruda: Poem Twenty (from Twenty Poems of Love and A Song of Despair) 2. Aga Sahid Ali: The Country Without a Post Office , (from The Country Without a Post Office); Summers of Translation (from Rooms are Never Finished); Beyond English and In Arabic (from Call Me Ishmael Tonight) 3. Chris Wallace Crabb: In the Scent of Eucalyptus; We Live in Time so Little Time UNIT II Fiction: 1. Hundred Years of Solitude/Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. July s People/Nadine Gordimer UNIT III Drama: 1. Accidental Death of an Anarchist/ Dario Fo

2. Six Characters in Search of an Author /Luigi Pirandello UNIT IV Essays and Criticism: 1. # Introduction: Literature Among the Signs of Our Times /Aijaz Ahmed 2. Introduction to Orientalism/ Edward Said 3. The Imam and the Indian (from The Imam and the Indian)/ Amitav Ghosh Note: Different signs such as # etc. indicate source of the essays, i.e. books enlisted in the RECOMMENDED READING

RECOMMENDED READING 1. #Ahmad, Aijaz. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. London: Verso, 1992. 2. Antor, Heinz, and Kevin L. Cope, eds. Intercultural Encounters: Studies in English Literatures. Heidelberg, Ger.: Carl Winter U, 1999. 3. Ashcroft, William D., Gareth Griffith, and Helen Tiffin, eds. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. London: Routledge, 1989. 4. Brians, Paul. Modern South Asian Literature in English (Literature as Windows to World Cultures) Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003. 5. Eisner, Mark. ed. The Essential Neruda, intro by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (City Lights), 2004 6. Fo, Dario. Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Turin: Einaudi, 1970 . 7. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solititude. Trans from Spanish Gregory Rabassa, New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1996 8. Ghosh, Amitav .The Imam and the Indian. New Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publishers,2002. 9. Gordimer, Nadine. July s People. London: Penguin, 1981/82 10. Peck, David R. American Ethnic Literatures: Native American, African American, Chicano/Latino, and Asian American Writers and Their Backgrounds. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1992. 11. Pelayo, Ruben. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Critical Companion. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001. 12. Pirandello, Luigi Six Characters in Search of an Author, London: Nick Hern Books, 2003 13. Said, Edward W. Orientalism, New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1978/2001.

74 14. Sahid Ali, Aga . Rooms are Never Finished, New York : Norton, 2002. 15. ., Call Me Ishmael Tonight, New York : Norton, 2002. 16. The Golden Apples of the Sun: Twentieth Century Australian Poetry, Melbourne: M.U.P., 1980 17. Recreating Ourselves : African Women and Critical Transformations. Trenton: Africa World P, 1994. SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.

LITERATURE & CINEMA ENG-927 (Elective-III) Semester III Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50 OBJECTIVE To ground students within the context, scope and significance of cinema as a communicative tool/text through a study of Indian and World cinema

COURSE CONTENT

UNIT I Contexts: Scope and Significance of Film Studies: Literature and Films; Films as Communicative Text; Language of Films; Concept/ Story; Screenplay; Dialogue; Shot Division; Lighting; Camera Angle; Panning/ Zoom; Editing: Flashback and Flash-forward; Fade-in and Fade out; Sound; Recording; Theme and Background Music; Lyrics.

UNIT II World Cinema and Literature: 1. Grapes of Wrath /John Ford; Grapes of Wrath/ John Steinbeck 2. All Quite on the Western Front/ Lewis Milestone; All Quite on the Western Front/Eric Maria Remarque 3. Shakespeare s Macbeth and its cinematic rendering in Hindi and English

Gold, Jack. Director. Macbeth (a BBC Movie )

Kurosava, Akira. Director. Throne of Blood ( Movie)

Bhardwaj, Vishal. Director. Macqbool ( Movie)

76 4. Color Purple/ Speilberg; The Color Purple/ Alice Walker UNIT III Indian Cinema and Literature: 1. Devdas/ Vimal Roy, Leela Bhansali, Anurag Kashyap; Devdas/ Sharat Chandra Chatterrjee 2. Teesari Kasam/ Bimal Roy; Teesri Kasam urf Mare Gaye Gulfam / Phanishwarnath Renu 3. Guide/ Dev Anand; Guide/ R. K. Narayan 4. Namesake/Mira Nair; Namesake/ Jhumpa Lahri UNIT IV Activities: 1. Film Appreciation and Reviews 2. Script/Dialogue Writing 3. Visit to Film Studios

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Dudrah, Rajinder Kumar .Bollywood: Sociology Goes to the Movies, New Delhi: Sage, 2006/2007. 2. Evans, Jessica and Stuart Hall, eds, Visual Culture: A Reader, London: Sage, 2001 3. Frank Eugene Beaver, A Dictionary of Film Terms: The Aesthetic Companion to Film Art, New York: Peter Lang, 2006 4. James Monaco, How to Read a Film: Motives, Media, Multimedia, New York: OUP, 2000/2007 (Indian Edition) 5. Jarek Kupsc, The History of Cinema For Beginners, Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2003/2006 6. Jyotika Virdi, The Cinematic Imagination: Indian Popular Films as Social History, New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004/7. 7. Kaur, Raminder and Ajay J. Sinha, eds., Bollywood: Popular Indian Cinema through a Transnational Lens, New Delhi: Sage, 2005 8. Ray, Satyajit .Our Films Their Films, Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1976.

77 9. Vaidyanathan, T.G. Hours iin the Dark: Essays on Cinema, New Delhi: OUP, 1996/1999.

LITERATURE AND PSYCHOLOGY

ENG-929 (Elective-III) Semester III Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50 OBJECTIVE To problematise relationship between literature and psychology and to read literature as domain of psychological insights.

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I 1 Psychology and Literature */. C.G. Jung 2. Femininity, Narrative and Psychoanalysis **/ Juliet Mitchell UNIT II Poetry and Psychology: 1. #*Sylvia Plath s Ariel , Lady Lazarous , Novmber Graveyard , The Stones , Tulips , Daddy , Mirror 2. #*Emily Dickinson s Heart we will forget him , Hope is the thing with feathers There has been death in the opposite house , I died for beauty, but was scarce , Because I couldn t stop for death , I am no body! Who are you

UNIT III Fiction and Psychology: 1. Mrs Dalloway / Virginia Woolf 2. Cry the Peacock/Anita Desai

UNIT IV

79 Drama: 1. Hamlet/ Shakespeare 2. The House of Bernarda Elba/ Federico Garcia Lorca Note: Different signs such as *, ** etc. indicate the source of the texts enlisted in the

RECOMMENDED READING

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Desai, Anita. Cry the Peacock. New Delhi: Orient paperbacks, 1980. 2. Federico Garcia Lorca, Three Tragedies, Harmondsworth: penguin Books, 1982 (rpt). 3. Fireman, Gary D., Ted E. Mcvay Jr., et. al. Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology,and the Brain New York: OUP, 2003. 4. Knapp, Bettina L. A Jungian Approach to Literature. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1984.

1. *Lodge, David. 20th Century Literary Criticism. Essex: Longman, 1972. 2. **Lodge, David and Nigel Wood,eds. Modern Criticism and Theory. Indian rpt. Delhi: Pearson, 2003 3. Shakespeare, William. Hamlet, Harmondsworth/ Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1957/80 4. #* Available on Net 5. Woolf, Virginia.. Mrs Dalloway, London: Hogarth Press, 1925

SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)

Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.

80 3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.

5. There shall be four more questions (questions no.2 to 5), one from each unit of the syllabus. These questions will be essay type questions with internal choice. In other words, each unit will have one question (essay type) with internal choice

81 LITERATURE & PHILOSOPHY ENG-931 (Electives-III) Semester III Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To sensitize the students about the basics of philosophy and the philosophical dynamics of communication; to expose them to the inter-relationship between philosophy and literature/life.

COURSE CONTENT

UNIT I (A) Understanding Philosophy: Methods for Doing Philosophy: Exposit, Analyse, Synthesise Describe, Speculate, Prescribe, Criticise; Truth, Knowledge, Logic. (B) Literature and philosophy: Existentialism, Determinism, Modernism, Post- modernism

UNIT II Philosophy and Everyday Life: 1. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance/ Robert M. Pirsig 2. The Prophet/Khalil Gibran

UNIT III Philosophy in Popular Fiction: 1. Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead

82 2. Jostein Gaarder, Trans., Paulette Moller: Sophies s World

UNIT IV Philosophy in Literature: 1. Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus 2. Raja Rao: The Serpent and the Rope

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus in The Kingdom and Selected Essays, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

2. Gaarder, Jostein. Sophies s World. Trans. Paulette Moller H. London: Macmillan Paperback, 2007.

3. Gibran, Khalil. The Prophet. Calcutta: Rupa & Co., 1992. 4. Raja Rao, The Serpent and the Rope, New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1960/68. 5. Rand, Ayn .The Fountainhead, New York: Signet, 1971 6. Richard E Creel, Thinking Philosophically: An Introduction to Critical Reflection and Rational Dialogue, London: Blackwell, 2001.

7. R.N. Kiran, Philosophies of Communication and Media Ethics: Theory, Concept and Empirical Issues, New Delhi: BR Publishing Corporation, 2000.

8. Pirsig, Robert M.. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Enquiry into Vlaues. USA: 1974. William Morrow and Company,

SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.

83 3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.

DALIT WRITING IN INDIA ENG-933 (Elective-IV) Semester III

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To introduce students to the literature of Dalits in India so as to bring them and their sensibility to the mainstream.

UNIT I

Literary Perspecvtives:

1. Sharankumar Limbale s Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit literature 2. Kancha Ilaiah s Why I am not a Hindu ( Excerpts) Excerpts: Childhood Formations , Dalitisation not Hiduisation , Contemporary Hinduism UNIT II Biographies: 1. Changiya Rukh/ Balbir Madhopuri 2. Akramashi/ Limbale

UNIT III Fiction:

85 1. Kurukku/ Bama s 2. Jhoothan/ Om Prakash Valmiki

UNIT IV Potery: 1. Namdeo Dhasal s Man You should Explode , Kamatipura , Hunger ** 2. Hira bansode s Yashodhara , Bosom Friend , Slave , O Graet Man * 3. Jyoti lanjewal s Caves , Mother , The nameless One *

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Anand, Mulk Raj. & Eleanor Zelliot, eds. An Anthology of Dalit Literature. Delhi: Gyan Publications, 1992. 2. Bama. Trans. Lakshmi Holmstrom. Sangati. New Delhi: OUP, 2005 3. Balmiki, OmPraksh. Jhoothan. Delhi: Radhakrishna Prakashan, 1997 4. Dangle, Arjun. ed. Poisioned Bread. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1992. 5. Dhasal, Namdeo . Namdeo Dhasal: Poet of the Underworld. Ed & Trans. Dalip Chitre. Chennai: Navayana, 2007. 6. Iliah, Kanacha. Why I am not a Hindu. Calcutta: Samya, 1996, 2 ed 2005. 7. Limbale, Sharankumar., Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit literature. Trans. Alok Mukherjee. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2004 8. ..Akramashi (The Outcaste). Trans. Santosh Bhoomkar. New Delhi: OUP, 2003. 9. Madhopuri, Balbir. Changiya Rukh. Trans, Tripti Jain. New Delhi: OUP, 2010.

SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.

86 3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.

87 LANGUAGE & DISCOURSE ENG-935 (Elective-IV) Semester III

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To sensitize students about theory and discourse specific vocabulary and communicative dynamics of language with specific focus on the discursive domains of gender, culture and politics.

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I Initiation: (A) Language in Theory: Language Relativity and Determinism; Language and Society; Performative Language; Locating Intention; Creativity in Language; Reception of Meaning.

(B) Language and Discourses:

Gender, Politics, Literature and Journalism, Science and Technology, Bureaucracy and Rituals & Myths; Ethics of Language

UNIT II Language and Gender: 1. Language and Gender / Cora Kaplan*

2. The Semantic Derogation of Woman / Muriel R Sultz** 3. The Sexual (Re)production of Meaning: A Discourse Based Theory / Sally McConnell-Ginet* 4. Extracts from Language and Woman s Place / Robin Lakoff* 5. Introduction to the A-Z of Non-sexist Language / Margaret Doyle*

UNIT III Language, Culture and Politics: 1. The Discourse on Language / Michel Foucault** 2. The African Writer and the English Language / Chinua Achebe** 3. The Language of African Literature / Ngugi wa Thiang o** 4. The Alchemy of English / Braj B. Kachru** 5. Rewriting English / Gauri Viswanathan**** UNIT IV Case Studies/Fieldwork: Students would be required to prepare and submit a project/assignment based on the fieldwork in their chosen/allotted area related to language and discourse.

Note: Different signs such as *, # etc. indicate source of the essays, i.e. books enlisted in the RECOMMENDED READING

RECOMMENDED READING

1. *Deborah Cameron, ed., The Feminist Critique of Language: A Reader, London: Routledge, 1998 2. **Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley and Alan Girvin, eds., The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader, London: Routledge, 2000 (rpt. 2001). 3. ***Paul Cobley, ed. Communication Theories: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, Vol. III, London: Routledge, 2006 4. ## Tariq Rahman, Language and Politics in Pakistan, Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2007 5. Darren G. Lilleker, Key Concepts in Political Communication, London: Sage, 2006

89 6. Frantz Fanon, The Fanon Reader, Ed, Azzedine Haddour, London: Pluto Press, 2006. 7. Adrian Leftwich, ed., What is Politics: The Activity and its Study, Cambridge: Polty/ Delhi: Atlantic, 2004/2005. 8. ****Viswanathan, Gauri. Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India, OUP: Delhi, 1998. SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks. 3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.

90 POPULAR FICTION

ENG-937 (Elective-IV) Semester III Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE

To foreground the importance of popular culture through literature in students.

UNIT I

Science Fiction: 1. Around the World in Eighty Days/ Jules Verne 2. The Naked Sun/ Isaac Asimov UNIT II Detective and War Fiction: 1. The Spy Who Came in from the cold / John Le Carre 2. Battle Cry/Leonee Urice UNIT III Romantic Fiction:

91 1. Gone with the Wind/ Margaret Mitchell 2. The Thorn Birds/ Colleen McCullough UNIT IV Humour: 1. Right Ho, Jeeves/ P.G. Wodehouse 2. Inscrutable Americans/ Anurag Mathur

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Asimov, Isaac. The Naked Sun. New York: Doubleday, 1957. 2. Bennet, Tony. Popular Fiction. London: Routledge, 1990. 3. Carey, J. The Intellectuals and the Masses. London: Faber, 1992. 4. Carre, John Le. The Spy Who Came in from the cold . London: Penguin Books, 2010. 5. Fiske, J. ed. Understanding Popular Culture. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989. 6. MacCabe, C. ed. High Theory/ Low Culture. Manchester: ManchesterUP, 1986. 7. Mathur, Anurag . Inscrutable Americans. Delhi: Rupa & Co. , 1996 8. McCullough, Colleen.The Thorn Birds. Australia: Harper Collins, 1977. 9. Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind,ew York: New Macmillan, 1936 10. Uris, Leon .Battle Cry New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1953 11. Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days, Trans. George M. Towle London: Puffin Books, 1990./ Penguin Books: 1873.873. 12. Wodehouse, P.G. Right Ho, Jeeves London: Arrow Books, 1934.

SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)

Theory

92 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.

93 SEMINAR ENG-955 Semester III

Credit: 2 LAB: 2hrs. Internal Marks: 50 OBJECTIVE To train students to have confidence in public speaking in conferences, seminars etc.

COURSE CONTENT Topics of students interests from texts, theories prescribed in their syllabi of the present semester or/and issues from other relevant areas.

NOTE: Students will be trained and tested for their thesis building and its oral presentation through discussion, handling question-answer sessions in seminars, conferences etc. A group of ten students get 2 hours per week for this seminar practice. Two faculty members will be assigned to each group for regular weekly meeting. Towards the end of the semester, all the faculty members together including chairperson will assess and evaluate the final seminar presented by students.

Seminar will be of 50 marks. It will be evaluated internally only. There will be no end term practical exam for this.

94 LITERARY CRITICISM & THEORY -II ENG-922 Semester IV

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50 OBJECTIVE To make students understand the inter-connections of literature and critical theories; to sensitize them to varieties of ways in which texts can be studied and to enable them to apply various approaches to the critical analysis of texts; to inculcate in them a spirit of critical enquiry and develop their analytical, critical and creative faculty

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I

1. Marxism and Lterature / Edmond Wilson***

2. Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory / Raymond Williams*

3. The Politics of Theory: Ideological Positions in the Postmodernism Debate / Fredric Jameson ##

4. Capitalism, Modernism, Postmodernism / Terry Eagleton ##

UNIT II

1. Nature of the Linguistic Sign / Saussure*

2. The Death of the Author / Roland Barthes##

3. Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Huamn Sciences / Jacques

Derrida ##

4. From the Work Ethic to the Aesthetic of Consumption / Zygmunt Bauman#

UNIT III 1. Crisis (In Orientalism)Edward Said ##

2. Can the Subaltern Speak? / Gayatri Spivak *#

3. Some Principles of Eco-Criticism/William Howarth ### 4. Reading Ourselves: Towards a Feminist Theory of Reading / Patrocinio P.

Schweickart ## UNIT IV (A) Application of various critical approaches from Marxism to Post-Colonialism on literary texts prescribed in the syllabus. (B) Assignments/seminars.

Note: Different signs such as *, # etc. indicate the source of the texts enlisted in the RECOMMENDED READING

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Abraham, Taisha. Introducing Postcolonial Theories: Issues and Debates, Delhi: Macmillan, 2007 2. Ahrens, Rudiger, and Laurenz Volkmann, eds. Why Literature Matters: Theories and Functions of Literature. Heidelberg, Ger.: Winter, 1996. 3. Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory, Manchester: M Univ Press, 2007.

4. # Beilharz, Peter. ed, The Bauman Reader, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 2001

5. *Davis, Robert Con and Ronald Schleifer, ed., Contemporary Literary Criticism: Literary and Cultural Studies, New York: Longman, 1989 .

6. ###Glotfelty, Cherryll & Harold Fromm. The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmark in Literary Ecology. Georgia: UGeorgia P, 1999. 7. Guerin, Wilfred L et al, A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Oxford: OUP, 1992 (fourth Edition 1999)

8. ***Lodge, David, ed. 20th Century Literary Criticism. London: Longman, 1989.

96 9. ##- Lodge, David and Nigel Wood, eds, Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, Delhi: Pearson Education, 2003.

10. ** Ramaswami, S and V. S. Seturaman, ed, The English Critical Tradition: An Anthology of English Literary Criticism Vol. II, Delhi: Macmillan, 1978/2007. 11. Selden, Raman. A Reader s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory, Harvester Wheatsheaf: 1985/1989. 12. Seturaman, V.S. ed, Contemporary Criticism: An Anthology, Chennai: Macmillan, 1989 13. *# Available on Net 14. Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today: A User Friendly Guide, New York: Routledge, 2006 15. Wheeler, Kathleen. Explaining Deconstruction, Chennai: MacMillan India, 1997

SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.

3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.

97 LITERATURE AND GENDER ENG-924 Semester IV Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To understand problematics of gender as an important aspect of literary sensitivity and sensibility.

UNIT I 1. Simone de Beauvoir s Introduction to The Second Sex* 2. Kate Millet s Theory of Sexual Politics * 3. Bell Hooks s Black Woman: Shaping Feminist Theory * 4. Judith Butler s Subjects of Sex/ Gender/ Desire *

UNIT II

1. Orlando/ Virginia Woolf 2. Surfacing/ Margaret Atwood

UNIT III 1. My Story/ Kamala Das 2. Ambai s Black Horse Square , Gifts , Unpublished Manuscript

UNIT IV 1. The Picture of Dorian Gray/Oscar Wilde 2. The Wife s Letter ** and Woman ***/ Rabindranath Tagore

Note: Different signs such as *, # etc. indicate source of the essays, i.e. books enlisted in the RECOMMENDED READING

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Ambai. A Purple Sea. Trans. Lakshmi Holmstrom. Chennai: Manas,(East West Books), 1992. 2. Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. New York: Anchor Books Doubleday, 1998. 3. * Cudd, Ann E. & Robin Anderson. Feminist Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. 4. Das, Kamala . My Story. New Delhi: Sterling, 1988. 5. Geetha, V. Gender. Kolkota: Stree, 2002. 6. Glover, David & Cora Kaplan. Genders. London: Routledge, 2000. 7. ** Tagore, Rabindranath. Selected Short Stories. Trans. Supriya Choudhuri. ed. Sukanta Chaudhuri. New Delhi: Oxford, 2000. 8. *** . The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, ed. Shishir Kr Das. Vol. 2. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1996. 9. Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Collector s Library, 2003 10. Woolf, Virginia. Orlando. U.K.: Hogarth Press, 1928.

SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST) Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours.

99 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks. 3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students of various inputs of the course.

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INDIAN LITERARY CRITICISM & THEORY ENG- 926 (Elective - V)

Semester IV

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To inculcate among students an awareness and appreciation of Indian literary critical traditions and its major texts.

UNIT I 1. Bharatamuni s On Natya and Rasa: Aesthetics of Dramatic Experience from Natyashashtra 2. Anandavardhana s Dhvani: Structure of Poetic Meaning from Dhvanyalok 3. Kuntaka s Language of Poetry and Metaphor from Vakrokti-jivita UNIT II 1. Amir Khusrau s Multilingual Literary Culture from Nuh Siphir 2. Al-Badaoni: Excerpts from the Tawarikh 3. Mirza Asadullah Kahna Ghalib s Excerpts from Letters (Potery as Freedom) UNIT III 1. Rabindranath Tagore s What is Art? 2. Sri Aurobindo s The Sources of Poetry 3. Sri Aurobindo s The Essence of Poetry UNIT IV

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1. Balkrishna Sitaram Mardhekar s Poetry and Aesthetic Poetry 2. Krishna Rayan s What is Literariness? 3. Bhalchandra Nemade s The Marathi Novel

Note: All essays from G.N. Devy s Indian Literary Criticism RECOMMENDED READING

1. Devy, G.N. Indian Literary Criticism . Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2002.

2. Krishnamurthy, K. ed and tr. Dhvanyalok of Anandavardhana. Delhi: Motilal Banarasidas, 1974.

3. Perry, John Oliver. Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation University of Oklahoma: World Literature Today, April 1, 2003.

4. Unni, Prof. N.P. Nadyasastra. Vols. I, II, III, IV. Delhi: Nag Publishers, 1998. SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)

Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks. 3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students of various inputs of the course.

5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all the four units of the syllabus.. These questions will be essay type questions with internal choice. In other words, each unit will have one question (essay type) with internal choice

102 MODERN EUROPEAN LITERATURE ENG-928 (Elective - V) Semester IV

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50 OBJECTIVE To acquaint students with the different genres of European writing; to discuss the literary/ critical trends that have characterized European writing.

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I Essays: 1. Division of Labour and Social Consciousness; Money and World Culture / Karl Marx (Marx and Engels, On Literature and Arts:130-39) 2. The Dialogic Idea as Novelistic Image / M. M. Bakhtin 3. What is Literature / Jean Paul Sartre 4. Dialogue on the Art of the Novel / Milan Kundera

UNIT II Short Fiction: 1. Artistry , Husband , Revenge , The Fugitive / Anton Chekhov 2. Metamorphosis/ Kafka UNIT III Drama:

103 1. A Doll s House/ Ibsen 2. Mother Courage/ Bertolt Brecht UNIT IV Novel: 1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich/ Aleksander I Solzhenitsyn 2. The Stranger/ Camus

RECOMMENDED READING 1. Bakhtin, M.M. The Bakhtin Reader, ed. Pam Morris, London: Edward Arnold, 1994. 2. Brecht, Bertolt . Mother Courage and Her Children in Bertolt Brecht: Plays, Volume II, translated by Eric Bentley, New York: Methuen, 1955. 3. Camus, Albert. The Strange. London: Penguin Classics, 1943. 4. Chekov, Anton .Collected Works. Vol.I &II, Moscow: Raduga, 1988 5. Frank, Anne. Trans. Massotty, Susan, The Diary of a Young Girl, New York: Doubleday, 1995. 6. Ibsen, Henrik. The Doll s House, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1889. 7. Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, trans. Donna Freed. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1996. 8. Kundera, MilanThe Art of the Novel, trans. Linda Asher, London: Faber and Faber, 1990. 9. Marx and Engels, On Literature and Art, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976 10. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Trans. Thomas P. Whitney, New York: Harper & Row, 1956. 11. Washburn, Phil. The Vocabulary of Critical Thinking, New York: OUP, 2009.

104 SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)

Theory 1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks. 3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions. 4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students of various inputs of the course.

105 SOUTH ASIAN AND DIASPORIC FICTION ENG- 930 (Elective - V) Semester IV

Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50

OBJECTIVE To sensitize students to converging cultural and literary inheritance of south asian countries through study of their fiction.

COURSE CONTENT UNIT I 1. Basti/ Intizar Husain 2. The Reluctant Fundamentalist/ Mohsin Hamid

UNIT II 1. The Kite Runner/ Khaled Hosseini 2. Reef/ Romesh Gunesekera

UNIT III 1. Brick Lane/ Monica Ali 2. Like a Diamond in the Sky/ Shazia Omar

106 UNIT IV 1. Midnight s Children/ Salman Rushdie 2. Namesake/ Jhumpa Lahri

RECOMMENDED READING

1. Ali, Monica Brick Lane. New York: Scribner, 2003.

2. Brians, Paul. Modern South Asian Literature in English (Literature as Windows to World Cultures) Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003.

3. Gunesekera, Romesh. Reef. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1994.

4. Hamid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2007.

5. Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. London: Bloomsbury, 2004.

6. Husain, Intizar. trans. Frances W. Pritchett. Basti. New Delhi: HarperCollins, 1995.

7. Lahri, Jhumpa. Namesake. New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2007.

8. Omar, Shazia. Like a Diamond in the Sky. New Delhi: Zubaan, 2009.

9. Rushdie, Salman. Midnight s Children. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.

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108 DISSERTATION ENG-954 Semester IV

Credit: 10 External Marks: 150 Internal Marks: 50

Student will be required to write a dissertation/ thesis or undertake a project involving fieldwork on a topic in the field of literature, language or communication Studies or any other related field. The topic would be decided in III Semester in consultation with the supervisor/ internal examiner. Students would have to submit the Dissertation/ Thesis at the end of the IV semester (before the commencement of end semester exam).

The Dissertation/ Thesis will carry 150 marks. Dissertation/ thesis report will be evaluated both by internal and external examiners as specified in the ordinance.

The viva based on it will carry 50 marks.

For Dissertation work the teaching hours will be 1 hour per student per week.

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