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M.A. Modern English Usage & Grammar Paper Code : ENG 121

Course : 1 Semester : I Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4

Objectives : • To familiarize students with grammatical structures and their applications. • To develop the ability to comprehend, analyse and appreciate a literary text. • To familiarize the students not only with the communication strategies but also with the Research Methodology while planning a Dissertation.

Unit 1 (12 Hrs.) Clause Types (from A University Grammar of English )

Unit 2 (12 Hrs.) Co-ordination & Subordination (Only Finite Clauses)

Unit 3 (12 Hrs.) Different Concepts & Notions (viz. request, order, question, condition, purpose, suggestion, wishes, hope, intention, obligation, contrast, concession, permission) (from A.S. Hornby )

Unit 4 (12 Hrs.) Literary Appreciation (Prose)

Unit 5 (12 Hrs.) Research Methodology : Selecting a Topic, Compiling a Working Bibliography (from MLA Handbook , 6 th Edition, 2004)

Suggested Readings : • A.S. Hornby : A Guide to Patterns & Usage (OUP, 1954) • CIEFL : Material on Morphology & Phonology from the Distance Education Department • L.G.Alexander: Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students (O. Longman, London, 1975) • Krishna Mohan & Meenakshi Rama: Effective English Communication (Tata McGraw Hill, 2001. • MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6 th Edition, 2004. • Quirk and Greenbaum: A University Grammar of English (O. Longman, 1979) • Art of Literary Research by Richard D. Altick and John J. Fenstermaker. • The Scholar Adventurers by Richard D. Altick (The Free Press, New York, 1966)

M.A. Chaucer to the Elizabethans Paper Code : ENG 122

Course : 2 Semester : I Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4

Objectives : • To acquaint the students with – (i) The representative authors and their individual traits (ii) Poetic devices, strategies and applications.

Unit 1 (13 Hrs.) G. Chaucer Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Unit 2 (13 Hrs.) Edmund Spenser : Epithalamion

Unit 3 (10 Hrs.) P. Sidney : He seeks Inspiration… The Sleepless Lover With how sad… My True Love (from The Penguin Book of Poetry ed . G.B.Harrison, 1950)

Unit 4 (10 Hrs.) C. Marlowe Dr. Faustus

Unit 5 (14 Hrs.) F. Bacon : Of Truth, Of Death, Of Revenge, Of Adversity, Of Parents, Of Single & Married Life, Of Envy, Of Love.

Suggested Readings • Part 1 & 2 Volumes, I, II & III of Boris Ford (ed.) New Pelican Guide to English Literature. • The Canterbury Tales : A Selection • The English Critic : From Chaucer to Auden Shakespeare’s Sonnets Critical Essay – Schiffer James • Doctor Faustus : Marlowe – Jump and John. D.

M.A. Metaphysicals to Milton Paper Code : ENG 123

Course : 3 Semester : I Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4

Objectives : • To acquaint the students with – (i) The representative authors and their individual traits (ii) Poetic devices, strategies and applications.

Unit 1 (13 Hrs.) J. Donne The Sunne Rising The Cannonization The Extasie A Valediction – Of Weeping A Valediction - Forbidding Mourning The Flea, The Relic

Unit 2 (12 Hrs.) G. Herbert Prayer, The Collar, The Pulley, Life, The Flower H. Vaughan The Retreat, They are all gone into the World of Light

Unit 3 (8 Hrs.) A. Marvell The Garden, The Definition of Love Robert Herrick The Night Piece, To Julia Delight in Disorder

Unit 4 (16 Hrs.) J. Milton Paradise Lost (Book 1)

Unit 5 (11 Hrs.) Ben Jonson The Alchemist

Suggested Readings

• Part 1 & 2 Volumes, I, II & III of Boris Ford (ed.) New Pelican Guide to English Literature. • The Metaphysical Poets : (ed.) Helen Gardner Rupa & Co., New Delhi • From Donne to Marvell : Boris Ford • Donne : Songs & Sonnets (Smith A.J.) • The Metaphysical Poets : (ed.) Helton Gardener Rupa & Co., New Delhi

M.A. Pre-Romantics & Romantics - I Paper Code : ENG 124

Course : 4 Semester : I Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4

Objectives : • To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits.

Unit 1 (12 Hrs.) William Collins Ode to Simplicity Ode to Evening W. Cowper The Castaway Lines Written During a Period of Insanity

Unit 2 (12 Hrs.) Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard The Progress of Poesy

Unit 3 (12 Hrs.) William Wordsworth The Prelude, Book 1

Unit 4 (12 Hrs.) S.T. Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Kubla Khan

Unit 5 (12 Hrs.) Jane Austen Emma

Suggested Readings • Parts 1 & 2 of Volume V of The New Pelican Guide to English Literature ed. Boris Ford • The Romantic Imagination : C.M. Bowra • Romantic Imagination : Graham Hough • John Wiltshire : JA – Introductions & Interventions M.A. Victorian Literature-I Paper Code : ENG 125

Course : 5 Semester : I Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4

Objective : • To Familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features; various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

Unit 1 (12 Hrs.) Robert Browning A Grammarian’s Funeral Porphyria’s Lover Andrea Del Sarto

Unit 2 (12 Hrs.) Alfred Tennyson The Lotos Eaters Ulysses The Lady of Shallot

Unit 3 (12 Hrs.) G.M. Hopkins Spring & Fall Pied Beauty Carrion Comfort, The Windhover, Felix Randall, God’s Grandeur

Unit 4 (12 Hrs.) Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Unit 5 (12 Hrs.) Charles Dickens Oliver Twist

Suggested Readings • Re-Interpretation of Victorian Literature by J.E. Baker • The Victorians & After : B. Dobree • The Victorian Temper : F.H. Buckley • Literature of the Victorian Era : H. Walker • The Victorian Age in Literature : G.K. Chesterton M.A. Project Papr Code : ENG 126

Course : 6 Semester : I Credits : 2 Contact Hrs. 2

Objectives: The main goal is to introduce students to research. In keeping with this goal, the main aims and objectives are: • Providing an introduction to research methodology • Orienting them to techniques of documentation.

The student will be required to prepare and submit a Project Report / Term Paper. There will be an external evaluation by a Subject-Expert and a Departmental Panel, at the end of the semester.

The Division of marks will be as follows: • Internal Evaluation (Continuous Assessment) – 30 Marks, on the basis of : o Regularity o Data Collection o Contact with the Supervisor o Originality of the work • Seminar & Viva-Voce – 70 (50+20) Marks o There will be a Subject-Expert and two Departmental Examiners, one of whom will be the Supervisor

M.A.

Phonetics & Language Paper Code : ENG 221

Course : 1 Semester : II Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4

Objectives : • To enable the students to achieve a scientific sense through linguistics in order to complement the aesthetic sense from their study of literature. • To develop the ability to comprehend and analyze a literary text. • To familiarize the students with writing skills and Research Methodologies while writing a dissertation.

Unit 1 (11 Hrs.) Advanced Comprehension

Unit 2 (13 Hrs.) Aspects of Pronunciation: Phonemic Symbols & Transcription of Words. Aspects of Pronunciation: Word Stress & Intonation.

Unit 3 (12 Hrs.) Theme Writing

Unit 4 (11 Hrs.) Research Methodology : Outlining, Writing Drafts (from MLA Handbook, 6 th Ed.)

Unit 5 (13 Hrs.) Literary Appreciation (Poetry)

Suggested Readings • A.S. Hornby : A Guide to Patterns & Usage (OUP,1954) • CIEFL : Material on Morphology & Phonology from the Distance Education Department. • Praveen K. Thakkar : Appreciating English Poetry (Orient Longman) 1999. • Effective English Communication, Krishna Mohan & Meenakshi Rama, Tata McGraw Hill, 2001. • The Macmillan Guide to Writing Research Papers by W. Coyle (Macmillan, 1990) • The Prentice-Hall Guide to Research Writing by D. Memering (Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1989) M.A. Shakespeare Paper Code : ENG 222

Course : 2 Semester : 2 Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4

Objectives : • To introduce the learners to the dramatic and theatrical conventions of Shakespeare. • To enable them to analyse plot, characters, themes and stagecraft of the plays.

Unit 1 (13 Hrs.) King Lear

Unit 2 (12 Hrs.) As You Like it

Unit 3 (12 Hrs.) The Tempest

Unit 4 (12 Hrs.) Sonnets (To a Friend) 29, 30, 73, 94, 106, 123.

Unit 5 (11 Hrs.) Sonnets (To the Dark Lady) 127, 129, 130, 132,137, 141.

Suggested Readings • A.C. Bradley : The Shakespearean Tragedy • Who’s Who in Shakespeare’s • Introduction to Shakespeare Tragedy - Hudson • Samuel Johnson : Preface to Shakespeare • A Handbook to the Works of Shakespeare - Luci, Morton • Critics on Shakespeare - Andrews M.A.

Dryden to Samuel Johnson Paper Code : ENG 223

Course : 3 Semester : II Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4

Objectives : • To familiarize the students with a) The representative writers and their individual traits b) Poetic devices, strategies and applications. c) Interpretation and analysis of the text.

Unit 1 (14 Hrs.) J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel Part I

Unit 2 (12 Hrs.) J. Swift The Battle of the Books

Unit 3 (12 Hrs.) A. Pope The Rape of the Lock

Unit 4 (10 Hrs.) S. Johnson Life of Milton

Unit 5 (12 Hrs.) R. Sheridan The Rivals

Suggested Readings • Chapters 1 & 2 the relevant volume of Boris Ford (Ed.) Pelican Guide to English Literature • Alexander Pope : Stephen • The English Critic : From Chaucer to Auden • John Dryden : A Critical Study – Joseph. T. M.A.

Pre-Romantics & Romantics - II Paper Code : ENG 224 Course : 4 Semester : II Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4

Unit 1 (12 Hrs.) J. Keats Ode to a Nightingale Ode to Autumn Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to Melancholy Ode on Indolence

Unit 2 (13 Hrs.) P.B. Shelley Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, The Cloud, Mutability, When the Lamp is Shattered.

Unit 3 (12 Hrs.) Charles Lamb The following Essays from Essays of Elia (ed. Hailward & Hill Macmillan) Oxford in the Vacation, Imperfect Sympathies, Dream Children, Mackery End, In Hertfordshire

Unit 4 (11 Hrs.) William Hazlitt The following Essays from Table Talk (ed. C.M. Macken) On Familiar Style, On Going a Journey, Common Sense, A Farewell to Essay-Writing

Unit 5 (12 Hrs.) M. Shelley Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus : (OUP Students’ Edition, 1818)

Suggested Readings • Timothy Morton : Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – A Routledge Literary Source Book • The Pelican Guide to English Literature ed. Boris Ford • The Starlit Dome : G.W. Knight • Romantic Imagination : Graham Hough M.A.

Victorian Literature-II Paper Code : ENG 225

Course : 5 Semester : II Credits : 4 Contact Hrs. 4

Unit 1 (10 Hrs.) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (i) Sonnet No. 41-Thank All Who Have Loved Me (ii) Sonnet No. 14-If You Must Love Me….. (from Sonnets from Portuguese) (iii) Sonnet No. 43- How do I love thee ? (iv) A Musical Instrument

Unit 2 (12 Hrs.) Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy (Chapter 1: Sweetness and Light & Chapter 2: Doing as One Likes), The Buried Life, Philomela

Unit 3 (13 Hrs.) Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights

Unit 4 (12 Hrs.) Thomas Hardy The Return of the Native

Unit 5 (13 Hrs.) Walter Pater From ‘Appreciations’: Essays on Style and Postscript J.S. Mill On Liberty

Suggested Readings • Part 1 & 2 of Volume VI of New Pelican Guide to English Literature ed. Boris Ford • The Victorians & After : B. Dobree • The Victorian Temper : F.H. Buckley • Literature of the Victorian Era : H. Walker • The Victorian Age in Literature : G.K. Chesterton • Appreciations: With an Essay on Style. Walter Pater (Macmillan, London, 1944) M.A.

Seminar Paper Code : ENG 226

Course : 6 Semester : 2 Credits : 2 Contact Hrs. 2

The student will be required to prepare and submit the Project Report / Term Paper. There will be an external evaluation by a Subject-Expert and a Departmental Panel, at the end of the semester.

M.A.

Criticism Theory – I Paper Code : ENG 321

Course – 01 Semester – III Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Unit –1 (15 Hrs.) Aristotle : Poetics (Penguin)

Unit -2 (11 Hrs.) S. Johnson : Preface to Shakespeare

Unit -3 (11 Hrs.) W. Wordsworth : Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

Unit -4 (11 Hrs.) M. Arnold : The Study of Poetry

Unit -5 (12 Hrs.) T. S Eliot : Tradition and Individual Talent

Suggested Readings: • Enright and Chickera : English Critical Texts (OUP) • Wilfred L. Guerin et al : A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature (OUP, 1999) • Bijoy Kumar Das : Twentieth Century Literary Criticism • Literary Criticism : A Reading – B. Das M.A.

Twentieth Century Literature - I (Poetry & Drama) Paper Code : ENG 322

Course - 02 Semester – III Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) W. B . Yeats : Easter 1916, A Bronze Head, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming, Lapis Lazuli.

Unit -2 (10 Hrs.) W.H.Auden : Sir, No Man’s Enemy, In Memory of W. B. Yeats, September 1 , 1939 , O for doors to be open…

Unit -3 (13 Hrs.) T.S.Eliot : The Wasteland

Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) G.B.Shaw : Major Barbara

Unit -5 (13 Hrs.) J. Osborne : Look Back in Anger

Suggested Readings: • H.V. Routh : Towards the 20 th Century. • G.S. Fraser : The Modern Writer and this World. • Arthur Marwick : British Society since 1945 (1982). • The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 3 rd Edition (1983). M.A.

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

Course – 03 Semester – III Credits - 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Unit –1 (10 Hrs.) R.W. Emerson : The American Scholar

Unit -2 (12 Hrs.) W. Whitman : (i) Preface to the First Edition of Leaves of Grass (ii) Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (iii) from Song of Myself ( Sections 1, 6 and 11)

Unit -3 (12 Hrs.) Emily Dickinson : I Felt a Funeral, A Bird Came Down the Walk, I Heard a Fly Buzz, A Light Exists in the Spring, Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant

Unit -4 (14 Hrs.) Robert Frost : Mending Wall, After Apple-Picking, Birches, The Road Not taken Wallace Stevens : Of Modern Poetry, Sunday Morning, Anecdote of the Jar

Unit -5 (12 Hrs.) Sylvia Plath : Aerial Black Rook in Rainy Weather Lady Lazarus The Colossus Suggested Readings • John Jacob : History of America Literature • J.D. Hary : Oxford Companion to American Literature (OUP, 1983). • American Renaissance : Art & Expression in the Age of Emerson & Whitman (OUP, 1943) • C.D. Narasimhaiah (ed.) : Asian Response to American Literature (Vikas Publications) M.A.

Group A Post-Colonial Literature – I Paper Code : ENG 324

Course – 03 Semester – III Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) Raja Rao : Kanthapura

Unit -2 (12 Hrs.) Salman Rushdie : Shalimar the Clown

Unit -3 (12 Hrs.) Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart (Allied)

Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) Amitav Ghosh : The Shadow Lines

Unit -5 (12 Hrs.) Wole Soyinka : Death and the King’s Horsemen

Suggested Readings • Amitav Ghosh : The Shadow Lines (OUP Student Edition) • Wole Soyinka : Death and the King’s Horsemen ( Methuen) • Francis Hutchings : The Illustration of Permanence : British Imperialism in India ( Princeton University , 1967) • C.L. Innes and L.B. Reinmann (eds.) Critical Perspectives on Chinua Achebe ( London , 1979) • Gandhi : Homerule • Edaward Said : Orientalism • Frantz Fanon : The Wretched of the Earth • Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children M.A.

Group A Modern Drama - I (1900-1960) Paper Code : ENG 325

Course – 03 Semester – III Credits - 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Unit –1 (10 Hrs.) G. B. Shaw : Pygmalion

Unit -2 (13 Hrs.) T. S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral

Unit -3 (13Hrs.) Arnold Wesker : I’m Talking About Jerusalem

Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot

Unit -5 (12 Hrs.) T. Rattigan : The Deep Blue Sea

Suggested Readings • Martin Esslin : Theatre of the Absurd • Martin Meisel : Shaw and 19 th Century Drama • Christopher Innes : Contemporary Drama • Lawrence Kitghen : Mid Century Drama

M.A.

Group B Indian Writing in English – I Paper Code : ENG 326

Course – 04 Semester – III Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Unit –1 (13 Hrs.) Toru Dutt : Lakshman, Our Casuarina Tree The Lotus Sarojini Naidu : The Purdah Nashin, The Bird Sanctuary A Rajput Love Song

Unit -2 (13 Hrs.) Nissim Ezekiel : Night of the Scorpion, Enterprise Kamala Das : My Grandmother’s House, The Sunshine Cat A.K.Ramanujan : Love Poem for a Wife 1 Obituary

Unit -3 (10 Hrs.) Shashi Deshpande : That Long Silence

Unit -4 (11 Hrs.) Vijay Tendulkar : Silence! The Court is in Session

Unit -5 (13 Hrs.) U.R. Ananthamurthy : Samskara

Suggested Readings • U.R.Ananthamurthy: Samskara (Translated by A. K. Ramanujan, OUP) • K.R.S. Iyengar : Indian Writing in English (Sterling, 1984) • M.K. Naik : Dimensions of Indian English Literature (Sterling, 1965) • The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry - V.K. Gokak. • Susie Tharu & K. Lalitha : Women Writing in India (600 BC to the Present) • Indian English Poetry – O.Longman M.A.

Group B Women’s Writing - I Paper Code : ENG 327

Course – 04 Semester – III Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) Marianne Moore : What are Years? Nevertheless Imtiaz Dharker : Choice Purdah Prayer

Unit -2 (12 Hrs.) Elizabeth B. Browning : Aurora Leigh Book-II

Unit -3 (13 Hrs.) Alice Munro : The Office Boys and Girls Dance of the Happy Shades Margaret Atwood : Surfacing

Unit -4 (11 Hrs.) Charlotte Keatley : My Mother Said I Never Should

Unit -5 (12 Hrs.) Mahashweta Devi : Mother of 1084 (in translation)

Suggested Readings • Alice Munro : Dance of the Happy Shades (Penguin) • M. Atwood : Survival • Elaine Showalter : A Literature of Their Own • Elaine Showalter (ed.) the News Feminist Criticism • J.S. Mill : Subjection of Women • Julilet Mitchell : Psychoanalysis and Feminism • Mahashweta Devi: Mother of 1084 (Translated and Introduced by Samik Bandyopadhyay. Reprint. Calcutta, Seagull Books, 2001) M.A.

Group B Applied Linguistics and Grammar - I Paper Code : ENG 328

Course – 04 Semester – III Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) Language and Communication : Human and non-human communication ; verbal and non-verbal communication

Unit -2 (12 Hrs.) Language Change and Variation : Language families ; language change ; language, mind and society

Unit -3 (12 Hrs.) Word Classes , Clause elements and types

Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) Noun Phrase , Verb Phrase, Adjectival Phrases, Prepositional Phrases & Adverbial Phrases

Unit -5 (12 Hrs.) The Complex and Compound Sentence , The Verb and its Complementation

Suggested Readings • Quirk and Greenbaum : A University Grammar of English (O. Longman , 1973) • David Crystal : Linguistics ( Penguin) • Geoffery Leech : English Grammar for Today • E.Palmer : Grammar (ELBS, 1971) • A. Akmajian , R.A. Demers and R.M. Harnish : Linguistics : An Introduction to Language and Communication , 2 nd ed. ( Prentice Hall,1991) • Richards and Rodgers : Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (CWP) • J.F. Wallwork : Language and Linguistics (Heinemann) • S. Pinker: The Language Instinct (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994) • J. Aichison: Linguistics (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995) M.A.

Contemporary British Literature Paper Code : ENG 329

Course – 05 Semester – III Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) Ted Hughes : Apprehensions, St. Botolph’s, Full Moon and Little Frieda Seamus Heaney : Whatever you say , say nothing Punishment Casualty

Unit -2 (12 Hrs.) Philip Larkin : The Whitsun Wedding Maiden Name I Remember, I Remember Thom Gunn : On the Move , Autumn Chapter

Unit -3 (11 Hrs.) J. Fowles : The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Unit -4 (15 Hrs.) Harold Pinter : The Homecoming

Unit -5 (10 Hrs.) Muriel Spark : The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Suggested Readings • Arthur Marwick : British Society since 1945 (1982) • Ronald Harman : Harold Pinter (1968) • Andrew Motion : Philip Larkins • Boris Ford (Ed.) : New Pelican Guide to English Literature • Martin Esslin : Theatre of the Absurd.

M.A.

Seminar Paper Code : ENG 330

Course – 06 Semester – 03 Credits – 02 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 02

Objectives:

The main goal is to prepare students for research. In keeping with this goal, the main aims and objectives are: • Inculcating an interdisciplinary / comparative approach to research • Updating knowledge in pertinent areas of research.

The students will undertake a project chosen by them in consultation with their supervisors. The Paper will be presented in a Seminar and a draft copy of it will be submitted before the Semester End Examination.

The Division of marks will be as follows : • Internal Evaluation (Continuous Assessment ) – 30 Marks, on the basis of : o Regularity o Data Collection o Contact with the Supervisor o Originality of the work • Seminar & Viva-Voce – 70 (50+20) Marks o There will be a Subject-Expert and two Departmental Examiners, one of whom will be the Supervisor

M.A.

Criticism Theory – II Paper Code : ENG 421

Course - 01 Semester – IV Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Unit –1 (11 Hrs.)

Stephen Matterson : The New Criticism (pp. 166-176)

Unit -2 (10 Hrs.) Ce’line Surprenant : Freud and psychoanalysis

Unit -3 (12 Hrs.) Susana Onega : Structuralism and narrative poetics (pp. 259-272, 277-278; excluding pp. 273- half of p. 277)

Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) Fiona Tolan : Feminisms (pp. 319-332)

Unit -5 (15 Hrs.) Chris Snipp-Walmsley : Postmodernism (pp. 405-414)

Suggested Readings: • Literary Theory and Criticism by Patricia Waugh (OUP, 2006) • Enright and Chickera : English Critical Texts (OUP) • Raman Selden and Peter Widdowson: A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory, 1993. V.S. Seturaman (ed.): Contemporary Criticism (Macmillan) • Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin(eds.): The Empire Writes Back. • Wilfred L. Guerin et al : A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature (OUP, 1999) • Bijoy Kumar Das : Twentieth Century Literary Criticism • Literary Criticism : A Reading – B. Das

M.A.

Twentieth Century Literature – II (Prose & Fiction) Paper Code : ENG 422

Course - 02 Semester – IV Credits - 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Unit –1 (10 Hrs.) Aldous Huxley : Selected Snobberies, Non Violence J.B. Priestley : On Doing Nothing, Student Mobs E.V. Lucas : A Funeral, Bores

Unit -2 (13 Hrs.) Virginia Woolf : Mrs. Dalloway

Unit -3 (12 Hrs.) James Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Men

Unit -4 (13 Hrs.) D.H. Lawrence : The Rainbow

Unit -5 (12 Hrs.) Joseph Conrad : Heart of Darkness

Suggested Readings: • Boris Ford (ed.) : New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. VII. • Richard Ellonan : James Joyce, 1982 • Makolm Bradbury : The Modern British Novel (1993) • Kaushik and Bhatia (DU): Essays, Short Stories and One-Act Plays (OUP, 1975)

M.A.

Group A American Literature – II (Fiction and Drama) Paper Code : ENG 423

Course – 03 Semester – IV Credits - 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) A. Miller : Death of a Salesman

Unit -2 (14 Hrs.) T. Williams : A Streetcar Named Desire

Unit -3 (11 Hrs.) N. Hawthorne : Rappaccini’s Daughter Young Goodman Brown

Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) Ernest Hemingway : A Farewell to Arms

Unit -5 (11 Hrs.) Alice Walker : The Color Purple

Suggested Readings • Eric Bentley : In Search of Theatre (Knop, 1953). • Harold Bloom : Eugene O’Neill (Chelsea, 1987). • Boris Ford (ed.) : The New Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol.9). • Sujit Mukharjee et.al. : Indian Essays in American Literature (Bombay Popular). M.A.

Group A Post-Colonial Literature – II Paper Code : ENG 424

Course – 03 Semester – IV Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) Ashis Nandy : The Intimate Enemy

Unit -2 (11 Hrs.) Meena Alexander : Blood Line, Looking Glass, Everything Strikes Loose, South of the Nilgiris

Unit -3 (12 Hrs.) R. Parthasarathy : From Exile, From Homecoming Arun Kolatkar the boatride

Unit -4 (11 Hrs.) Keki N. Daruwalla : Pestilence in 19 th Century Calcutta, N. Ezekiel : from Ruminations Goodbye Party … Poem of the Separation

Unit -5 (14 Hrs.) Margaret Atwood : Journey to the Interior Les Murray : Wilderness J. Wright : Woman to Man, The Harp and the King, Nigger’s Leap

Suggested Readings • An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry ( Macmillan) • R. Parthasarathy : Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets in English (OUP) • Meena Alexander : River and Bridge • Neil Roberts (ed.) : A Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry ( Blackwell, 2001) M.A.

Group A Modern Drama - II (1960-1990) Paper Code : ENG 425

Course – 03 Semester – IV Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) H. Pinter : The Birthday Party Unit -2 (12 Hrs.) E. Bond : Lear

Unit -3 (12 Hrs.) T. Stoppard : Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) C. Churchill : Top Girls

Unit -5 (12 Hrs.) G. Karnad : Nagamandalam

Suggested Readings • Martin Esslin : Theatre of the Absurd • K.R.S. Iyengar: Indian Writing in English (Sterling, 1984) • Christopher Innes : Contemporary Drama • Lawrence Kitchen : Mid Century Drama

M.A.

Group B Indian Writing in English - II Paper Code : ENG 426

Course – 04 Semester – IV Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) G. Karnad : Yayati

Unit -2 (12 Hrs.) Mahesh Dattani : Tara

Unit -3 (11 Hrs.) Khushwant Singh : A Train to Pakistan

Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee : Rajamohan’s Wife

Unit -5 (13 Hrs.) R.N.Tagore : Gitanjali (full text of unabridged version)

Suggested Readings • Meenakshi Mukherjee : The Twice Born Fiction • The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry, V.K. Gokak • K.R.S. Iyengar : Indian Writing in English (Sterling, 1984). • Rabindra Nath Tagore: Gitanjali : Song Offerings (Full Circle Publishing: Delhi, 2002) M.A.

Group B Women’s Writing - II Paper Code : ENG 427

Course – 04 Semester – IV Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) Simone de Beavouir : ‘Introduction and Section-I’ of ‘The Second Sex’

Unit -2 (12 Hrs.) Virginia Woolf : A Room of One’s Own

Unit -3 (12 Hrs.) Jean Rhys : Wide Sargasso Sea

Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) Bama : Sangati : Events (in translation) N. Gordimer : Something Out There

Unit -5 (12 Hrs.) Maya Angelou : I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings

Suggested Readings • H.M. Parshilay (ed. And trans.) : The Second Sex (Alfred A. Knopf, 1953) • Modern Australian Poetry (Penguin) • Alice Munro : Dance of the Happy Shades (Penguin) • M. Atwood : Survival • Elaine Showalter : A Literature of Their Own • Elaine Showalter (ed.) the News Feminist Criticism • J.S. Mill : Subjection of Women • Julilet Mitchell : Psychoanalysis and Feminism • Bama: Sangati : Events (Translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005)

M.A.

Group B Applied Linguistics and Grammar - II Paper Code : ENG 428

Course – 04 Semester – IV Credits - 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics

Unit -2 (12 Hrs.) Co-ordination of Clauses and Phrases

Unit -3 (12 Hrs.) Focus , Theme and emphasis

Unit -4 (12 Hrs.) Te aching Methods : Grammar and Translation Method, Situational and Bilingual Methods

Unit -5 (12 Hrs.) Communicative Language Teaching

Suggested Readings • Richards and Rodgers : Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (CWP) • J.F. Wallwork : Language and Linguistics ( Heinemann) • Christophersen : Second Language Teaching ( Pelican) • Allen and Pit Corder : The Edinburgh Course in Applied Linguistics , Vol-II • Jacobs and Rosenbaum : English Transformational Grammar ( Blaisdill Publishing Co.) • Leech and Svartik : A Communicative Grammar of English ( ELBS) • Quirk and Greenbaum : A University Grammar of English ( Longman , 1973) • David Crystal : Linguistics ( Penguin) • Geoffery Leech : English Grammar for Today • E.Palmer : Grammar (ELBS, 1971) • A. Akmajian , R.A. Demers and R.M. Harnish : Linguistics : An Introduction to Language and Communication , 2 nd ed. ( Prentice Hall,1991) • An Introduction to Discourse Analysis by Malcolm Coulthard (London, 1996) • Communicative Language Teaching by Littlewood, CUP, 1981. M.A.

Dissertation Paper Code : ENG 429

Course – 06 Semester – 04 Credits – 04 No. of Teaching hrs./week – 04

Objectives: The main goal is to prepare students for research. In keeping with this goal, the main aims and objectives are: • Inculcating and interdisciplinary / comparative approach to research • Updating knowledge in pertinent areas of research.

The students will develop the Paper, chosen by them in Semester III, and submit a Dissertation. The Dissertation will incorporate faculty-feedback and suggestions for improvement given in the previous semester, and will be presented in a Seminar. A draft copy of it will be submitted before the Semester End Examination.

The Division of marks will be as follows : • Internal Evaluation (Continuous Assessment) – 30 Marks, on the basis of : o Regularity o Data Collection o Contact with the Supervisor o Originality of the work • External Evaluation (Seminar & Viva-Voce) – 70 (50+20) Marks o There will be a board of three Examiners, including the Supervisor and a Subject-Expert.

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