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M.A. English I Semester 2018-2019

ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN DRAMA

COURSE NO. EOM-1006 Max. Marks: 100

Credits :04

Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts) Unit II : Kyd : The Spanish Tragedy

Webster : *The Duchess of Malfi

Unit III : Marlowe : *Dr. Faustus

Ben Jonson : The Alchemist

Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks

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SHAKESPEARE – A

COURSE NO. EOM-1002 Max. Marks : 100

Credits : 02

Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts)

Unit II : *Twelfth Night

Henry IV Part I

Unit III : *Hamlet

Measure for Measure



RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY

COURSE NO. EOM-1007 Max. Marks :100

Credits : 04

Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts) Unit II : Dryden : Mac Flecknoe Pope : *The Rape of the Lock – first 3 cantos

The remaining 02 cantos of The Rape of the Lock are for non-detailed study.

Unit III : Gray : * ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ *The Progress of Poesy Collins : To Evening Blake : Songs of Experience

*‘Introduction’, *‘Earth’s Answer’, *‘The Tyger’, *‘The Little Vagabond’, *‘The Voice of the Ancient Bard’, *‘My Pretty Rose -Tree’, *‘Ah, Sun-Flower’,*‘A Little Boy Lost’, *‘London’, * ‘The Chimney-Sweeper’ The remaining poems of Songs of Experienceare for non-detailed study



POETRY OF THE ROMANTIC AGE


Credits : 04


Unit II : Wordsworth : The Prelude (1805) Bk. I

(ed. Selincourt)

*Tintern Abbey

Lucy Poems

1. ‘She dwelt among the untrodden ways’

2. ‘Three years she grew in sun and shower’

Coleridge : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

*Kubla Khan

Unit III : Byron : Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Cantos 1-4)

* ‘When we two parted’

* ‘She walks in Beauty’

* ‘Stanzas for Music’

* ‘Sonnet on Chillon’

Shelley : The Mask of Anarchy

Adonais,

* ‘Ode to the West Wind’

Keats : Endymion, Book I

* ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’

*‘Ode to Autumn’,

* ‘Ode to a Nightingale’


M.A. English I Semester

2018-2019 POETRY OF THE VICTORIAN AGE


Credits : 02

Unit I: Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts)

Unit II : Tennyson : The following poems:

The Lotus Eaters

* The Palace of Art

The Two Voices

* ‘Ulysses’

In Memoriam

Browning : *‘Andrea delSarto’*

‘The Last Ride Together’

‘Rabbi ben Ezra’

‘Porphyria’s Lover’

Unit III : Arnold : *‘Dover Beach’

*‘To Marguerite’ (Yea, in the sea of life)

*‘Shakespeare’

* ‘The Scholar-Gipsy’

Hopkins : * ‘The Windhover’

* ‘The Starlight Night’

‘No worst, there is none’


M.A (English) I SEMESTER (Elective Paper) 2018-2019

SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE COURSE CODE: EOM 1012

Credits: 04 Max. Marks: 100 Course Objective: To discuss the literary works from a variety of South Asian cultures and the issues

raised in these selected writings. To help students come out of the Western canon and realize the strength

of their own literature.

Unit I: (1) Toba Tek Singh by Saadat Hasan Manto

Defend yourself against Me by Bapsi Sidhwa

Sultana's Dream by Roqaiya Sakhawat Husseins

Masterpiece by Yasmine Gooneratne

(2) Closed Path by Tagore

Why an Introduction, dear by Mahadevi Varma

A Prison Nightfall by Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Unit II: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Unit III: Tughlaq by Girish Karnad Suggested readings: Arvind K. Mehrotra (ed.) A Concise History of Indian Literature in English.

Ayesha Jalal and Sugata Bose, Modern South Asia: History, Culture and Political Economy.

Novels by R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Anita Desai, Haneif Quraishi, Kamila Shamsie ,

Vikram Seth and Arundhati Roy.

Rakhshanda Jalil, A Literary History of the Progressive Writers’ Movement in India.

Sheldon Pollock, (ed.) Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia.


MA English Literature (Elective Paper) 2018-2019

Subaltern Studies Course Code: EOM-1013

Credit: 04 Max. Marks: 100 Course Objective: The need to introduce a paper on Subaltern Studies in MA (Elective Courses) emerges with a desire

to deconstruct the traditional historiography which has erased histories of subordinated groups in a

sustained manner. The rationale behind this paper is to familiarize students about the basic

concepts and theories related to subaltern discourse. This MA elective paper will enhance the skills of

students to understand the issues related to socially excluded and marginalised groups and develop

strategies to deal with these issues successfully.

This Course will be divided into three Units:

Unit one will comprise of Discourses on subaltern perspective which will help in understanding Social

and political exclusion based on Caste, Tribe and Gender.

The Second Unit will deal with deconstructing historiography. It will focus on rewriting history of

marginalized class by Challenging hegemony and social structure.

The Third Unit will be application of Subaltern theories on Selected literary works.

Unit-I

Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, Few Chapters from "Notes on Italian History", and from "The Study of Philosophy." Amitav Ghosh, "The Slave of Ms. H.6", ( Subaltern Studies, vol. VII ) E. J. Hobsbawm, Primitive Rebels (Norton Publication. 1965) Susie Tharu, "Response to Julie Stephens",(Subaltern Studies , Vol.VI)

Unit-II

Ranajit Guha, “On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India", and "The Prose of Counter-Insurgency”.( Selected Subaltern Studies, ed. R. Guha and Gayatri Spivak (New York: Oxford, 1988). Patha Chatterjee, "Caste and Subaltern Consciousness", (Subaltern Studies VI) Ranajit Guha, "Chandra's Death", in Subaltern Studies V (Delhi: Oxford, 1987) Vasantha Kannabiran and K. Lalitha, "That Magic Time: Women in the Telangana People's Struggle", ( Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History, eds. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, Rutgers University Press, 1989).

Unit-III *Saadat Hasan Manto-“Toba Tek Singh”(Toba Tek Singh: The Story in Multiple Translations, FourCorners, 2008) *Mahasweta Devi-“Draupadi” and “Breastgiver”(Seagull Books,1997) *Baburao Bagul- “Mother”(Poisoned Bread: Translation from Modern Marathi Dalit Literature, Arjuna Dangale, Orient Longman , 1992)


Suggested Readings:

1. Ashis Nandy, "History's Forgotten Doubles", History and Theory (Vol. 34, No. 2, Theme Issue 34: World Historians and Their Critics (May, 1995), pp. 44-66) Published by Wiley for Wesleyan University.

2.------------------- The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of self Under Colonialism,OUP,2009.

3.Dipesh Chakarabarty: Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies, University of

Chicago Press, 2002.

4.Edward W. Said: Orientalism. Newyork, Pantheon, 1978

5.Gayatri C. Spivak, "Can the Subaltern Speak?" in Reflections on the History of an Idea. Edited by Rosalind Morris, 2010. 6.Partha Chatterjee, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse. University of

Minnesota Press,1986.

7.Ranajit Guha, Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India, Harvard University Press, 1997. 8.-------------------, A Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986-1995, University of Minnesota Press, 1997. 9.Sharma R. S., Indian Feudalism, Macmillan, 1981. 10.Uma Chakraborty, Gendering Caste Through a Feminist Lens, Popular Prakashan, 2003. 11.Vivek Chibber: Postcolonial Theory and Specter of Capital,Verso,2013.

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M. A. English (I Semester) (Elective Paper)

2018-2019 Course Title: African Literature

Course Code: EOM 1015 Credits: 04 Max. Marks: 100 The paper aims to develop an understanding of the historical and social context in which African Literature has developed. It also aims to appreciate the richness and variety of African literary product while endeavoring to understand the impact of colonialism, race, class, and ethnicity on them. This course will survey African literature from the 1940s to the present. Special attention will be given to Post Apartheid Literature wherein their important themes like violence, search for identity, sexuality, unemployment, class struggle, materialism, individualism and the like others will be discussed. UNIT I : INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN LITERATURE

UNIT II: A. FICTION

J.M. COETZEE: WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS

B. POETRY

GABRIEL OKARA : PIANO AND DRUMS

LENRIE PETERS: THE FENCE

UNIT III: A. PLAY

WOLE SOYINKA: A DANCE OF THE FORESTS

B. ESSAYS:

CHINUA ACHEBE: ‘AN IMAGE OF AFRICA: RACISM IN CONRAD’S HEART OF DARKNESS’

NGUGI WA THIONG’O: THE LANGUAGE OF AFRICAN LITERATURE

Suggested Reading: 1. Ngugi Wa Thiong’O: Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature.

2. Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African – American Literary Criticism.

3. Derek Attridge: J. M. Coetzee and the Ethic of Reading.

4. Hans M. Zell: A Reader’s guide to African Literature.

5. Cheryl B. Mwaria, Joseph McLaren: African Visions: Literary Images, Political Changes and Social

Struggle in Contemporary Africa.

6. Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart.

7. Joseph Conrad: The Heart of Darkness.


MA (English) I Semester (Elective Paper) 2018-2019

Course Title : CREATIVE WRITING Course Code : EOM 1016

Credits: 04 Max. Marks: 100 Course Objectives The course is suitable for Post Graduate Students from any discipline. The students would be introduced to different styles, forms, genres and areas of creative writing. The approach is both practical and theoretical. Its aim is to teach the fundamentals of creative writing through reading as well as writing in order to prepare the students to publish their work. UNIT I Creative Writing:An Introduction Sources of Inspiration Cultural Myths and Legends Interview with Stephen King Stephen King Speaks about How he gets Inspired on Youtube Interview with Ruskin Bond http://www.rediff.com/news/interview/ruskin-bond-if-i-cant-write-i-might-as-well-be-dead/20141222.htm Writing tips from Jeffrey Archer http://www.finndian.com/jeffrey-archer-in-chennai Assignment: Notes on the Interviews UNIT II Stories: Types of Stories Flash Fiction, Anecdote, Vignette, Feghoot, Newpaper article Elements: Character, Plot, Setting, Conflict, Dialogue, Voice Strategies : Brainstorming, drafting, writing, editing Reading Material: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Selections from A River of Stories by Alice Curry, Tales and Poems from Across the Commonwealth Assignment: Writing a story UNIT III Understanding poetry and figurative devices Free Verse, Rhyming poetry, Haiku, Tanka, Limerick Reading Material: Selections of humorous verse from Khushwant Singh's Malice Column Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda Selections from Rabindranath Tagore Selections from A River of Stories by Alice Curry, Tales and Poems from Across the Commonwealth Assignment: Writing a poem Getting Published Recommended Reading: Writing in the Flow: Keys to Enhanced Creativity : Susan Perry Poets and Writers Magazine On Writing: Stephen King The Getaway Car: Ann Patchett Open Page The Hindu, New York Times,


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MA (English) I Semester (Elective Paper) 2018-2019

Studies in Theatre Course Code: EOM 1020

Credits:04 Max Marks: 100

Unit I:

A: Theatre and Theatre Studies

a) Integrated Theatre Studies

B: Elements of Theatre

a) Performers and Actors b) Spectators and Audience c) Spaces and Places

Unit II: Theory and Method

a) Theories of Theatre b) Theatre Historiography

Unit III:

A. Performance Analysis B. Theatre and Interdisciplinarity C. Project OR Research Paper OR Field Work through:

a) Conducting interviews meetings with performers,

b) Watching live performances

c) Participating in the production of a performance texts

Sessional : 30 marks End Semester: 70 marks with following distribution: (50 marks for written exam 20 marks for Project or Research Paper or Field Work as per Unit III Section C). Recommended Readings:

Pickering, Kenneth. Key Concepts in Drama and Performance (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,

2005)

Allain, Paul and Jen Harvie. The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance. (London:

Routledge, 2006)

Schechver, Richard. Performance Theory. (London: Routledge, 2003)

Shepherd, Simon and Mick Wallis. Drama/Theatre/Performance: The New Critical Idiom.

(Routledge, 2004).

M. A. English I Semester (Elective Paper)

2018-2019 Course Title: Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching

Course Code: EOM-1022 Max. Marks : 100 Credits: 04

UNIT I:

(a) Introduction to Sociolinguistics; Speech communities

(b) Varieties of Language: Styles and register, Creole, Pidgin; Dialects.

(c) Language Death, Saving Languages

UNIT II:

(a) Language contact and Language choice: Bilingualism, Multilingualism; Borrowing; Code-

Switching, Code Mixing, World Englishes

(b) Language Attitudes.

UNIT III:

(a) Language and Culture: Relation between Language and Culture; Whorf-Sapir hypothesis

(b) Language and Gender.

(c) Ethnography of Communication; Communicative Competence.


MA (English) I Semester (Elective Paper)

2018-2019 History of English Language Teaching

EOM-1023 Credit: 04 Max. Marks: 100 Unit I:

Expansion and Proliferation of English Language

English as a Global / International language,

World Englishes/New Englishes Unit II:

Recent Trends in English Language Teaching

Post Methods Era

Alternative-Assessment / Evaluation Unit III:

English Language Teaching in India: 'Historical Overview

Missionaries and Natives Efforts

Government Policies and Provisions for ESL in India Recommended Reading: Harmer J, 1991. The Practice of English Language Teaching. Longman. Littlewood W. 1981. Communicative Language Teaching, An Introduction. Cambridge University Press. Lfttiewood W. 2008. Foreign and Second Language Learning. Cambridge University Press. Me Donough J and Shaw C. 1993. Methods and Materials in ELT. Oxford, Blackwell. Richards J and Rodgers S T. 1987, Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press. Rivers W. 2002. Teaching English as a Foreign Language (Developing Reading Skills). University of Chicago Press. . . Crystal, D. 2003. English as a Global Language. Cambridge University Press. Khan M R. 1999. Policy and Provision for ESL in India's Higher Education. iMatraj Publishing House. Pennycook A. 1994. The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language. Longman. Phillipson R. 1992. Linguistic Imperialism. Oxford University Press. Brown H. D, 1987. Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. Prentice - Hail, Inc. Richards J. C. 1990. The Language Teaching Matrix. Cambridge University Press Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks

M.A (English) I Semester (Elective Paper)

2018-2019 Gothic Studies

Course No. EOM-1024 Max. Marks:100 Credits: 04 Course Goals:

1. To become familiar with history and background of Gothic genre.

2. To make connections between past gothic and modern day manifestations of it.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:

1. Provide a general description of Goth and Gothic literature and aesthetics.

2. Discuss the theme of 'otherness' in Gothic literature.

3. Discuss post-gothic elements.

Unit I:

Historical background to Gothic literature and aesthetics - art, music, architecture

Identifying Goth in the eighteenth century:

Texts: a) The Raven' by Edgar Alien Poe

b) A Coast-Nightmare' by Christina Rossetti

c) Vathek by William Beckford

Unit II:

The 'other' in Gothic; identifying Goth in the nineteenth century

Texts: (short stories)

a) The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

b) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R. L. Stevenson

Unit III:

Goth in the modern period

Gothic post-modernism/post-gothic

a) Part 1 of the Twilight series

b) 'lama Ghost' by Satyajit Ray


M.A. English II Semester 2018-2019

ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN PROSE

COURSE NO. EOM-2006 Max. Marks : 100 Credits :02

Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts) Unit II : Sidney : An Apologie for Poesie

Bacon : Essays : Of Truth*, Of Revenge*, Of Death*, Of

Studies*, Of Adversity*

Unit III : Bunyan : The Pilgrim’s Progress

Robert Burton : The Anatomy of Melancholy (Selections)

1. *The Author’s Abstract of Melancholy (Rhymed) 2. God, a Cause of Melancholy (Member 3, Subsect 1) 3. *Sorrow, a Cause of Melancholy (Member 3, Subsect 4) 4. *Fear, a Cause of Melancholy (Member 3, Subsect 5) 5. Education, a Cause of Melancholy (Member 4, Subsect2)


M.A. English II Semester

2018-2019

SHAKESPEARE– B

COURSE NO. EOM - 2002 Max. Marks : 100

Credits : 04


Unit II : *King Lear *The Winter’s Tale Unit III : Shakespeare Criticism (i) Johnson and Coleridge Extracts from Shakespeare Criticism: A Selection, ed. D. Nichol Smith

(ii) Trends in Shakespeare Criticism- (a) Bradley and after: L. C. Knights, G. Wilson Knight, R. B. Heilman, Terry

Eagleton, Kenneth Arthur Muir, Frank Kermode [b] Recent Reception of Shakespeare in theatre and films



2018-2019

RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PROSE


Credits : 02

Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts) Unit II : Selections from The Spectator The following eight essays: Addison * ‘The Spectator’s Account of Himself’ * ‘Sir Roger at Home’ ‘Character of Will Wimble’ ‘Sir Roger at Church’ ‘Rural Manners’ Steele ‘The Coverley Household’ * ‘Sir Roger’s Ancestors’ ‘Of the Club’ Swift : *Gulliver’s Travels(Only Book I for detailed study) Unit III : Congreve : The Way of the World Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe Sheridan : The Rivals



2018-2019 PROSE AND FICTION OF THE ROMANTIC AGE

COURSE NO. EOM-2008 Max. Marks :100

Credits : 02

Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts) Unit II : Scott : The Heart of Midlothian Jane Austen : Persuasion Unit III : Hazlitt : Selections (ed. G. Sampson) The following essays : * ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’, * ‘On Going a Journey’ ‘On Reading Old Books’ Lamb : Essays of Elia * ‘Dream Children ‘ ‘Mackery End in Herfordshire’ * ‘Poor Relations’ * ‘Old China’



2018-2019

PROSE AND FICTION OF THE VICTORIAN AGE


Credits : 04

Unit I: Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts) “Style” and

‘ShortNotes’ from David Copperfield, Vanity Fair, Unto This Last.

Unit II : Dickens : David Copperfield Thackeray : Vanity Fair George .Eliot : Middlemarch Unit III : Pater : Appreciations : (only two essays) * ‘Style’, ‘Coleridge’ Ruskin : Unto this Last Oscar Wilde : The Importance of Being Earnest


MA II Semester (Elective Paper)

2018-2019 Postcolonial Performance Studies

Course Code : EOM-2012 Credits: 04 Max Marks: 100

Unit I: An Introduction to Performance Studies

d) Defining Performance and its aspects e) Postcolonial Paradigms in Performance f) Cultural Politics and Performance

Unit II: Postcolonialism and Performance Tradition:

a) Performance and Postcolonial Movements b) Performance and Protest c) Performance and Media

Unit III:

D. Postcolonialism and Performance in India a) Theatre b) Operatic Performance c) Music and Dance E. Project OR Research Paper OR Field Work through:

a) Conducting interviews meetings with performers,

b) Watching live performances

c) Participating in the production of a performance texts

Sessional : 30 marks End Sem: 70 marks with following distribution: 50 marks written test 20 marks for Project or Research Paper or Field Work in Unit III Section B Recommended Readings:

Dharwadker, Aparna. Theatres of Independence. (Oxford University Press, 2008)

Schechver, Richard. Performance Theory (London, Routledge, 2003)

(Post) Colonial Stages: Critical & Creative Views on Drama, Theatre & Performance by Helen

Gilbert (1999).

Gilbert, Helen and Joanne Tompkins. Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics. (London :

Routledge, 1996)

M.A. English II Semester (Elective Paper)

2018-2019 Course Title: Multicultural Studies

Course Code: EOM-2013 Credit: 04 Max. Marks: 100 Unit I Cultural Diversity; Diasporic Multiculturalism; Theories of Multiculturalism Unit II Rabindranath Tagore’s Gora Unit III Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks

M. A. (English) II Semester (Elective Paper)

2018-2019 Course Title: Cultural Studies

Course Code: EOM-2014 Credits: 04 Max. Marks: 100

Course Description: This course introduces students to the developments, key concerns, issues, debates and directions of the interdisciplinary field of inquiry called Cultural Studies. We will begin with the diverse understandings of ‘culture’ in all its forms and manifestations. The course then familiarises students with the works of some of the key thinkers who have shaped its contours. Finally, it explores various aspects of Cultural Studies in practice. The course aims to enable students to explore and approach a diverse range of ‘texts’ and cultural practices from an interdisciplinary point of view. Furthermore, it also seeks to acquaint students with the paradigms and analytics of cultural studies in order for them to appreciate other disciplines in a new light.

Unit-I

Understanding “Culture” Mathew Arnold, Selections from Culture and Anarchy T.S. Eliot- Selections from Notes Towards the Definition of Culture Clifford Geertz- Selections from The Interpretation of Cultures (selected portion) Raymond Williams-Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society Stuart Hall- Representation: Cultural Representation and Signifying Practices Simon During- “Introduction” to The Cultural Studies Reader

Unit-II Cultural Studies: Key Thinkers Raymond Williams- Marxism and Literature. Selections. Antonio Gramsci- “The Intellectuals” Roland Barthes- The Rustle of Language. Selections. Michel Foucault- “The Subject and Power”

- “What is Critique?” Stuart Hall- “Notes on Deconstructing the Popular”

- “Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies” Pierre Bourdieu- “How can One Be a Sports Fan?”

Unit III Cultural Studies in Practice

Richard Johnson-What is Cultural Studies Anyway? Excerpts from The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno Walter Benjamin- “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” Judith Butler- “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire” Lata Mani- “Contentious Traditions: The Debate on SATI in Colonial India” Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks

M. A. (English) II Semester 2018-2019

Course Title: Anglophone Arab Literature Course Code: EOM 2015

Credits: 04 Max. Marks: 100 Course Description:

The course engages with an increasingly important, yet greatly underexplored, corpus of creative writing in

English/in English translation by Arab writers, or by writers of Arab descent. It will explore some representative

works of Anglophone Arab literature across literary genres, with an emphasis, however, on writings from the latter

half of the 20th century down to the present. The themes and motifs animating the course include tradition and

modernity, exile, double-consciousness, hybridity, in between-ness, issues of stereotyping, ethnic representation, and

reception, elements of protest and resistance, questions of subjectivity and selfhood, to name a few. The course seeks

to open students up to newer areas of inquiry in the larger fields of Postcolonial Studies and New Literatures in

English.

UNIT ONE THE NOVEL

Primary Reading

1. The Thief and the Dogs - Naguib Mahfouz.

2. The Map of Love – Ahdaf Soueif.

Suggested Reading

1. Arab Voices in Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature, ed. Layla Al Maleh.

2. Colonialism/Postcolonialism, Ania Loomba.

3. The Post-colonial Studies Reader, eds. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin.

UNIT TWO POETRY

Primary Reading

1. Nizar Qabbani, “Granada,” “The Hasteners,” “Marginal Notes on the Book of Defeat.”

2. Adonis, “Time.”

3. Mahmud Darwish, “Identity Card,” “Fleeting Words,” “I Am from There,” and “The Earth Is Closing on Us.”

4. Selections from Rafeef Ziadah’s performance poetry available on YouTube.

Suggested Reading

1. “Tradition and the Individual Talent” and “The Metaphysical Poets,” T. S. Eliot.

2. “Modernist Poetry in Arabic,” Salma Jayyusi (from Modern Arabic Literature, ed. M. M. Badawi, Chapter 4).

3. “The Emergence of a Palestinian Consciousness,” Edward Said (from The Question of Palestine).

4. Resistance Literature, Barbara Harlow.

UNIT THREE SHORT STORY AND MEMOIR

Primary Reading

1. Selections from Modern Arabic Short Stories: A Bilingual Reader, eds. Ronak Husni and Daniel Newman;

and from Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology, ed. Salma Jayyusi.

2. “The Museum,” Leila Aboulela.

3. I Saw Ramallah, Mourid Barghouti (memoir).

Suggested Reading

1. “The Modern Arabic Short Story,” Sabry Hafez (from Modern Arabic Literature, ed. M. M. Badawi, Chapter

8).

2. Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, Mieke Bal.

Notes:

Students are required to write a ten-page review essay on any ONE of the three units. This essay will count towards

the 10-mark sessional, which forms part of the mandatory Continuous Evaluation for the course.

Course Evaluation (Maximum marks: 100)


M. A. (English) II Semester 2018-2019

Course Title: Technology in Language Teaching Course Code: EOM-2025

Credits: 04 Max. Marks : 100 UNIT I:

Emerging technologies and innovations in ELT/ELL

Audio

Video

CALL

UNIT II:

Techniques of integrating technology in ELT

Listening and Speaking

Reading & Writing

UNIT III:

Using Audio/Visual/CALL in ELT: A particular-based exploration

Using Multi-media Lab.


MA (English) II Semester (Elective Paper)

2018-2019 Multiple Intelligence and Language Pedagogy

Course Code: EOM-2027 Credit: 04 Max. Marks: 100 Objective:

1. To Identify different learning styles and apply specific learning strategies.

2. To compare the theory of multiple intelligences with traditional views on intelligence.

3. To explore the implications and applications of the theory of multiple intelligence in Language

Pedagogy.

Unit I A Glimpse of Traditional view on intelligence; Theory of Multiple Intelligence: Its Emergence & Components. Unit II Implications of Multiple Intelligence for Language Pedagogy: Differentiated Instruction, Learning Styles, Language Teaching Methods. Unit III Integrating Multiple Intelligence in Classrooms: Benefits of Using MI, Designing Tasks for Language Skills based on Types of Intelligences. Suggested Readings: Armstrong, T. (2009) Mutiple Intelligences in classroom, 3rd edition. Alexandria VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Berman, M (1998) A Multiple Intelligence Road to an ELT Classroom. Bencyfelin: Crown House. Chiristison M. A (1996) Teaching and Learning Languages Through Multiple Intelligence. TESOL Journal, 6 (1), 10-14 Gardner, H. (1993) Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligence. New York: Basic Alexendria, VA: ASCD Gardner, H. (2000) Multiple Intelligence: The Theory in Practice. (Second Edition). Alexandria VA : ASCD Tomlinson, C. (2001). How to differentiate instruction in mixed-ability classrooms. Alexandria, V.A. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Full Marks : 100 Marks Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks

M.A (English) II Semester (Elective Paper) 2018-2019

Digital Literature and Literatures in the Digital Course No.: EOM-2028

Credits: 04 Max. Marks:100 Scope- In a world where the Digital revolution has moved from bulky mainframes blocked off from

the general masses to being an omnipresent presence through smart phones in purses and pockets, it is no longer merely optional for students to be able to steer through the labyrinthine networks of paradigms that Digital Humanities encompasses. From the naivety of simply transposing expectations from the analog and electronic worlds that we really occupy, to the new often counter-intuitive flexibilities with correspondingly complex limitations of the Digital and the Virtual, there is a need for developing a critical engagement with the cultural artifacts of the Digital world. The course is a subset of the wider interface between mathematics, computer programming, data arrangement/analysis, and critical interventions in order to study the world at large that represents the concerns of the field of Digital Humanities. The course is limited in its reach by being primarily concerned in extending the tools of critical and literary analysis in our understanding of engaging with both Digital Literatures and Literatures in the Digital form. The course will not involve coding, mathematical/statistical tools etc, and is aimed at students from a Liberal Arts background with the idea of introducing them to the field, make them aware of the major digital artifacts, equip them as to the basic debates in the field through critical readings as well as philosophical concepts.

Course Objective- To familiarize students at the MA level with the idea of the Digital. To this end, the student will be made aware of a broad overview of the development of the Digital Age, with its precursors. The student will be introduced to the idea of the Digital as being more than merely a medium in being a programmable medium that can approximate certain facets of human intelligence. Students will be made to read Digital Literatures including hyper-texts, text based games, computer generated writings, role playing games etc, as well as Literatures in the Digital world including blogs, micro blogs, social media, online news, online novels etc. Further students will read critical readings that outline key concepts and ideas.

Course Outline- The Course will cover the following topics through interactive lectures- Unit I

1. A Brief History of Computers and Computing Languages 2. The idea of artificial intelligence and the Turing Test. Computer generated writings 3. From the textual to the graphic and the move towards virtual reality in 3D 4. Texts- 5. Computer Generated Novel- World Clock by Nick Montford 6. Interactive Fictions- Photopia (1998) Hitchhiker's Guide (1984)

Unit II 1. The crossing over of literature from the paper to the Digital. Archiving to Expression on Digital

Spaces. Social Media 2. 5) Multiplication of information sources and concerns of veracity. Truth and Post Truth. 3. Texts- 4. Wiki Commons, Faking News, Twittering the Revolution: Assorted Blogs & Sites Unit III 1. Playing with forms- Hyper Texts, Playable Narratives and Interactive Texts 2. Gaming Narratives and Concerns- Gender, Race, Identity, Politics 3. Texts-

4. Major blockbuster games that have significant cultural impact like Lara Croft Tomb Raider II (1997)

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (2002) Far Cry 2 (2008) etc

Optional Readings-

Unit-I: 1. Larrivee, Jules A. “A History of Computers, I.” The Mathematics Teacher, vol. 51, no. 6, 1958, pp.

469–473

2. Larrivee, Jules A. “A History of Computers, II.” The Mathematics Teacher, vol. 51, no. 7, 1958, pp.

541–544

3. Beyer, Kurt. “The Origins of Computer Programming.” Grace Hopper and the Invention of the

Information Age, MIT Press, 2009, pp. 45–72

4. Ensmenger, Nathan. “Tower of Babel.” The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers,

and the Politics of Technical Expertise, MIT Press, 2010, pp. 83–110

5. Franke, H. W. “Computers and Visual Art.” Leonardo, vol. 4, no. 4, 1971, pp. 331–338

6. “Computer Languages.” Umoja Sasa, vol. 7, no. 1, 1983, pp. 10–12

7. Cramer, Hazel, and Irmgard Taylor. “Computer Language: An Innovation in the Liberal Arts

Curriculum.” Computers and the Humanities, vol. 7, no. 6, 1973, pp. 417–418.

8. Jacquette, Dale. “Who's Afraid of the Turing Test?” Behavior and Philosophy, 20/21, 1993, pp. 63–

74

9. Shanahan, Murray. “Routes to Artificial Intelligence.” The Technological Singularity, MIT Press,

2015, pp. 1–14

Unit-II 1. Emerson, Lori. “POSTSCRIPT: The Googlization of Literature.” Reading Writing Interfaces: From

the Digital to the Bookbound, University of Minnesota Press, 2014, pp. 163–184

2. Morey, Stephen. “Metadata and Endangered Archives: Lessons from the Ahom Manuscripts

Project.” From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme, edited by Maja

Kominko, Open Book Publishers, 2015, pp. 31–66

3. Miller, Daniel, et al. “Academic Studies of Social Media.” How the World Changed Social Media, 1st

ed., vol. 1, UCL Press, London, 2016, pp. 9–24

4. Miller, Daniel, et al. “Individualism.” How the World Changed Social Media, 1st ed., vol. 1, UCL

Press, London, 2016, pp. 181–192

5. Mai, Minhtuyen, and Adam Poppe. “Social Media and Education on a Massive Scale: The Case of

MOOCs.” Education and Social Media: Toward a Digital Future, edited by Christine Greenhow et

al., MIT Press, 2016, pp. 209–216

6. Strangelove, Michael. “Post-Television Society: Diversity, Citizenship, News, and Global

Conflict.” Post-TV: Piracy, Cord-Cutting, and the Future of Television, University of Toronto Press,

2015, pp. 206–228

Unit-III 1. Van Dyke, Carolynn. “‘Bits of Information and Tender Feeling’: Gertrude Stein and Computer-

Generated Prose.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 35, no. 2, 1993, pp. 168–197.

2. Kitzmann, Andreas. “Hypertext in the Attic: The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Writing.” From

Text to Txting: New Media in the Classroom, edited by Paul Budra and Clint Burnham, Indiana

University Press, 2012, pp. 97–125,

3. Cermak-Sassenrath, Daniel. “Playful Computer Interaction.” Playful Identities: The Ludification of

Digital Media Cultures, edited by Valerie Frissen et al., Amsterdam University Press, 2015, pp. 93–

110

4. Burton, Rick, et al. “Rollerball Flashback: How Virtual Reality Replaces Violence.” Sports Business

Unplugged: Leadership Challenges from the World of Sports, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse,

New York, 2016, pp. 139–141

5. TG. “Virtual Reality: NO PAIN, NO GAME.” ASEE Prism, vol. 25, no. 1, 2015, pp. 15–15.


M. A. English II Semester (OPEN ELECTIVE)

2018-2019 Course Title: Sir Syed Ahmed Khan’s Works in Translation

Course Code: OEO-2091

Credits: 04 Max. Marks : 100 UNIT I: (a) An Introduction to different styles of Urdu Composition: Translation, Transcreation from Urdu to

English (b) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan: Brief Biography; Contribution as a reformer and writer; ideologies

and vision.

(c) Critiques of Syed Ahmed’s ideologies and vision. UNIT II: (a) Syed Ahmed Khan’s writing career; influences upon his writing; style of writing; themes. (b) Major works of Syed Ahmed Khan with a focus on his ideologies and vision. (i) Speeches of Sir Syed (ii) Letters (c) Critiques of Syed Ahmed’s writings UNIT III: Excerpts from the following for Critical Study:

(a) ‘ The Cause of the Indian Revolt’

(b) A Look at Taby’in-ul-Kalam – a comparative study of religions for the first time in India.

(c) A Look at ‘Asar-al-Sanadid’

(d) The Tehzib-ul-Akhlaq Chapter.

Course Evaluation (Maximum Marks: 100) Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks

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M.A. English III Semester 2018-2019

POETRY FROM CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE

COURSE NO. EOM 3001 Max. Marks : 100

Credits: 04

Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts) Unit II : Chaucer : *The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales The Pardoner’s Tale The Knight’s Tale Unit III : Spenser : *The Faerie Queen, Book I (Cantos I – V for detailed study)

Shakespeare : Sonnets Nos. 17, 20, 23*, 27, 30, 42, 55*, 64, 66*,86*, 116*, 125, 130*.



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MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE UPTO 1950 – A


Credits: 04

Unit I : (A) Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts) (B) Critical questions on Yeats and Auden, T.S. Eliot and Spender. Yeats : Selections from Palgrave’s The Golden Treasury (1965 edition, OUP) ‘ No Second Troy’ *‘The Second Coming’ *‘Sailing to Byzantium’ *‘Leda and the Swan’ *‘Byzantium’ T.S. Eliot : The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock *The Waste Land Auden : Selections from Modern Verse, (The World’s Classics Series) *‘Muses de Beaux Arts’ *‘The Shield of Achilles’ *Lullaby: ‘Lay your Sleeping Head My Love’ Spender : Selections from Modern Verse, (The World’s Classics Series) *‘The Landscape Near an Aerodrome’ *‘The Prisoners’ *‘The Express’ Unit II : Shaw : Man and Superman Synge : Riders to the Sea Unit III : D.H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers Conrad : Heart of Darkness James Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man



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LITERARY CRITICISM


Credits: 04

Unit I : Aristotle : Poetics (Butcher’s Translation). Dryden : ‘Essay of Dramatic Poesie’ Unit II : Wordsworth : Preface to The Lyrical Ballads (1800 Edition) Coleridge : Biographia Literaria , Chapter XIII Arnold : ‘The Function of Criticism in Modern Times’ T.S. Eliot : ‘Tradition and Individual Talent’ ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ Unit III: (A) Basic Concepts of Practical Criticism I.A. Richards : The Four Kinds of Meaning Basic Concepts of New Criticism Cleanth Brooks : The Language of Paradox (B) Practical Criticism (Unseen Poetry and/or Prose extracts)



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AMERICAN PROSE AND FICTION


Credits: 02

Unit I : Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Unit II : Henry James : The Portrait of a Lady E. Hemingway : The Sun Also Rises Unit III : Short notes (two) on the above-mentioned texts.


Note : There is a choice between EOM3011 and EOM3012.


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ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING – A (ELT)


Credits: 02 Unit I : ELT in India: Advent and Rise of English in pre-independence India, Language

policy and ELT planning in post-independence India; Global spread of English; Emergence of non-native varieties; ESL in bilingual education.

Unit II : Syllabus, Methods, Materials : Approaches to syllabus design; structural,

situational, communicative; Approaches to teaching Methodology: Grammar -translation, audio-lingual, communicative forms and functions of teaching materials; Materials for accuracy and fluency.

Unit III : Teaching of Reading : Theoretical approaches and basic concepts; Readings

strategies and types; Designing reading tasks; Assessment in Reading Comprehension; Testing Reading Comprehension.

Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks Note : There is a choice between EOM3011 and EOM3012.


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POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE – A


Credits: 02

Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts) Unit II : Judith Wright : *‘The Company of Lovers’ *‘Bullocky’ *‘Bora Ring’ A. D. Hope : *‘Australia’ *‘The Wandering Islands’ *‘The Lamp and the Jar’ Derek Walcott : ‘Leventville’ ‘The Castaway’ *‘A Far Cry from Africa’ Unit III : Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart Bharati Mukherjee : Wife


Note: There is a choice between EOM3013, EOM3014 and EOM3015.


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CONTINENTAL FICTION – A


Credits: 02 Unit I : Tolstoy : Anna Karenina Gorky : The Mother Unit II : Dostoyevsky : The Idiot Nikolai Gogol : ‘The Nose’ ‘The Overcoat’ ‘The Portrait’ ‘Novotsky Prospekt’ Unit III : Gabriel Garcia Marquez : One Hundred Years of Solitude

Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks Note: There is a choice between EOM3013, EOM3014 and EOM3015.


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CONTINENTAL DRAMA – A


Credits: 02

Unit I : Ibsen : A Doll’s House Strindberg : A Dream Play

Unit II : Sartre : No Exit Pirandello : Six Characters in Search of an Author

Unit III: (a) Kaiser : From Morn to Midnight (b) Short notes on styles and trends in Modern Drama and Character Sketches

Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks Note: There is a choice between EOM3013, EOM3014 and EOM3015.

M.A. (English) III Semester (Elective Paper) 2018-2019

Course Title: Muslim Women’s Writings Course Code: EOM-3031

Credits: 04 Course Objective :

This paper focuses on the beginnings and progress of writings by Muslim women. It also throws lite on the issues and challenges that Muslim women have faced in the past. At the same time it discusses contemporary issues faced by today’s women.

Unit I Historical Background to Muslim Women’s Writing; Issues and Challenges of women in

Muslim societies; Representation of Muslim Women in the Western World; Resistance through writing.

` Unit II Padmarag – Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

In the House of Silence: Autobiographical Essays by Arab Women Writers – Fadia Faqir (Selections) My Mother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears – Mohja Kahf Purdah 1 – Imtiaz Dharker

Unit III Broken Verses – Kamila Shamsie The Alien Home & Other Stories – Jeelani Bano Course Evaluation (Maximum Marks: 100) Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks


Course Title: Dalit Literature Course Code: EOM-3032

Credit: 04

Unit I Autobiography Om Prakash Valmiki ‘Jhoothan’ Bama ‘Karukku’ Unit II Poetry Usha Bansode ‘ Yashodhara ’ Jayant Parmar ‘ Manu ’ Unit III Essays

Sharankumar Limbale ‘Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature’ Gopal Guru “Dalit Women Talk Differently’

Suggested Reading:

Manohar, D. Murali. Ed. Critical Essays on Dalit Literature. New Delhi : Atlantic 2013.

Purushotham, K. Interrogating the Canon: Literature and Pedagogy of Dalit, New Delhi: Kalpaz

Publishers. 2015.

Course Evaluation (Maximum Marks: 100) Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks Changes are implement by Dr. Rashmi Attri in the Board 26.09.2017


Course Title: Film Studies Course Code: EOM 3033

Credits: 04 The objective of this course is to introduce the students to basic concepts in film studies. They would be required to writ reviews/long comments on films as part of their sessional and semester examinations. Viewing of some selected films (both English and Hindi) and taking notes on them will be mandatory as they will required to write theoretically – sound criticism on those films and not a mere summary of the plot Unit I: Film as an art: The nature of art Ways of looking at art Film and the other art Unit II: The Language of Film: Signs-Perception of images Denotative and connotative meaning. Film and Ideology Cinematic codes: Mise-en-scene, setting, props, costume, performance and movement,

lighting, camera and camera movement, editing, sound, narrative. Unit III: Approaches to cinema: Genre, Star and auteur The film spectator

Analysis and interpretation of selected films: Hindi and English Suggested Reading: Christian Metz (from Film Language: A semiotics of the Cinema) “ On the impression of reality in cinema” “ Some points in the semiotics of the cinema” Monaco James. How to read a film. Oxford University Press, 2009. John Burger, Ways of seeing Dudley Andrew. Concepts in Film Theory. Andre Bazin (from what is cinema) Selected Films


M.A (English) III Semester (Elective Paper) 2018-19

Climate Change and Literature EOM-3034

Course No. (New) Max. Marks:100 Credits: 04 UNIT I

Selections from Climate Change A Very Short Introduction Mark Maslin Selections from Sense of Place and Sense of Planet Ursula K.Heise Essay: http://www.academia.edu/3188021/Climate Change in Literature and Literary Criticism Recent movements that address Climate Change through Literature.

UNIT II Ecopoems "Perspective" by Kei Valmoria Bughaw "Desert Song" Richard James Alien Selections from Spiritual Ecology The Cry of the Earth A Collection of Essays ed., Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

UNIT III

Climate Fiction Novels: Oryx & Cake by Margaret Atwood The Rapture by Liz Jensen Short Stories From Loosed upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction: Ed. John Joseph Adams “The Myth of Rain” Seanan Mcguire “Time Capsule found on the Dead Planet” Margaret Atwood

Further reading: Dipesh Chakrabarty http://www.law.uvic.ca/demcon/2013%20readings/Chakrabartv%20Climate %20of%20History.pdf The Great Derangement Amitav Ghosh Eco-Aesthestics: Art, Literature and Architecture in a period of Climate Change (Radical Aesthetics Radical Art) Malcolm Miles Portent James Herbert The Road Cormac Mc Carthy Flight Behaviour Barbara Kingsolver. Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks

http://www.law.uvic.ca/demcon/2013%20readings/Chakrabartv%20Climate


Critical Writing and Literary Theory EOM-3035

Course No. (New) Max. Marks:100 Credits: 04 Course Outline: This paper introduces and trains the students in writing critical pieces through an engagement with literary theory. The paper is set to focus on the stage-wise handling of criticality with literary theoretical awareness in writing critical pieces like research paper, seminar paper, thesis statement, chapter and monograph. The paper familiarises the students with the techniques of this specialized writing genre and hones their skills so that they are equipped to emerge as critical thinkers who will be able to write technically, theoretically and philosophically sound critical pieces. Learning Objective(s):

a) To make students independently figure out their preferences in literary theory. b) To initiate students into process of creating an idea and building an argument through/with an awareness of

the literary theory. c) c) To enable students into not only critically read a text but also to write critical pieces with sound technicality

and use of jargon.

Syllabus: Unit I: An Overview of Literary Theory as an Academic Discourse with a focus on Critical Writing. Unit II: Techniques of critical writing in a framework/paradigm of literary theory

a) Identifying Keywords, Building Up on an Idea, Generating Arguments b) Topic/title, research article, paper for seminar/conference, thesis statement, chapter and

monograph. Unit III:

Preparing a draft on a chosen text within a theoretical framework/paradigm.

Learning Outcome(s): By the end of this course, students will be able:

1. To identify their interest area in literary theory. 2. To read text with an independent critical interpretation. 3. To formulate their argument and shape their critical thoughts in academic jargon. 4. To engage in writing critical discourse in the paradigms of literary theory.

Suggested Readings: Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory

Bloom, Harold. How to Read and Why

________. The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life

Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction

Groden, Michael, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman, eds. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

Selden, et al. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Theory



Indian Aesthetics Course Code: EOM-3036

Course No. (New) Max. Marks:100 Credits: 04 Course Description: The course is an attempt to introduce the students to the hitherto unexplored world of Indian Aesthetics through seminal texts like Natyasastra, Abhinavabharati and Tholkappiyam. The Indian Aesthetic theories will be introduced in a comparative context with respect to Western theories that the students already are engaged with. While delving into the Indian aesthetic traditions from theoretical aspects, it will also relate specifically to language and literature through the linguistic philosophies of Anandavardhan and Tholkappiyar. The goal would be to create a critical mental framework which will make it possible for students to engage with the foundations of Indian philosophical thought that would further open up avenues for research in Indian Aesthetic tradition. UNIT I Introduction to Indian Aesthetics

(a) History of Indian Aesthetics (b) Key concepts in Indian Aesthetics (c) Comparison of Indian and Western Aesthetic Traditions.

Required Readings: 1. Bharata. "Introduction". The Natyasastra (Manmohan Ghosh, Trans.) (3rd ed), West Bengal, WB: Miscellany

Incorporation, 1995. 2. Preface to Devy, G.N, ed. Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation. Hyderabad: Orient Longman

Private Limited, 2007. 3. Pollock, Sheldon. "Introduction-An Intellectual History of Rasa", A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 4. Gupt Bharata."Introduction ". Dramatic Concepts, Greek and Indian (1st ed); New Delhi: D.K Printworld. Ltd,

1994.

UNIT II Aesthetic Experience and its Commentators

The concept of Rasa (Sentiment) (a) Bharata’s Natyasastra (Chapters 1, 4, 5, 6) (b) Introduction to Abhinavgupta's Commentary: Abhinavabharati.

Required Readings: 1. Pollock, Sheldon."The Foundational Text and Early Theorists", A Rasa Reader:Classical Indian Aesthetics.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 2. Pollock, Sheldon., "Abhinavgupta and His School", A Rasa Reader:Classical Indian Aesthetics. New York:

Columbia University Press, 2016. 3. Devy, G.N, ed., "On Bharata Muni" Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation. Hyderabad: Orient

Longman Private Limited, 2007.

UNIT III Indian Aesthetics and Linguistic Thought (a)The Concept of Sphota Introduction to Bhartihari's Vakyapadiya (b)The Concept of Dhvani Introduction to Anandavardana’s Dhanyaloka, with reference to Abhidha, Lakshana, Vyanjana and Tatparya (c)The concept of Style, Syntax and Diction Introduction to Tolkappiyar's Tolkappiyam.

Required Readings: 1. Devy, G.N, ed., "Bhartrhari's View of Sphota" Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation.

Hyderabad: Orient Longman Private Limited, 2007. 2. Devy, G.N, ed., "Bharatrhari: On Syntax and Meaning" Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation.

Hyderabad: Orient Longman Private Limited, 2007. 3. Devy, G.N, ed., "Dhvani: Structure of Poetic Meaning" Indian Literary Criticism:Theory and Interpretation.

Hyderabad: Orient Longman Private Limited, 2007. 4. Devy, G.N, ed., "Tholkapiyar: On Diction and Syntax" Indian Literary Criticism:Theory and Interpretation.

Hyderabad: Orient Longman Private Limited, 2007.

Recommended Readings: 1. Bharata. (1995). The Natyasastra (Manmohan Ghosh, Trans.) (3rd ed), West Bengal, WB: Miscellany

Incorporation. 2. Devy, G.N, ed. Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation. Hyderabad: Orient Longman Private

Limited, 2007. 3. Mukherjee, Paul. Dave, Who is Afraid of Mimesis, Chakrabarti, Arindam, editor. The Bloomsbury Research

Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 4. Gupt Bharata. (1994). Dramatic Concepts, Greek and Indian (1st ed); New Delhi: D.K Printworld. Ltd

5. Schechner, R. (2001). Rasaethetics. The Drama Review, 45(3), 32, 27-50 Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1146911


M.A. English III Semester (Elective Paper) 2018-2019

Translation Studies Course Code: EOM-3037 Credits: 04 Objective : The objective of this program is to introduce students to the field of translation Studies. This course will include evolution and key concepts of translation and will lead on to various methods of translation. It will look at translation today and its practical application in various fields. Extensive Translation practice from English to Hindi, Urdu and from these languages to English will be done to enhance the translation skills of students. Extracts will be taken from various literary texts and newspapers. Unit I History and Theory of Translation Introduction to Translation Studies as a discipline Unit II Issues in Translation - Translatability & Untranslatability Methods and strategies of Translation Translation of Culture Unit III

A : Modern Trends in Translation: Audio Visual Translation, Publishing and Commercial Translation, Movie Dubbing and Sub Titling.

B: Translation of Creative Literature

Suggested Reading: 1. Bassnett, Susan, Translation Studies, London and New York, Routledge, 1991 2. Bell, Roger T. Translation and Translating, Theory and Practice, Longman, 1991 3. Duff, Alan, Translation, OUP, 1997 Course Evaluation (Maximum Marks: 100) Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks

M. A. English III Semester (Elective Paper) 2018-2019

Course Title: Contemporary Critical Theory Course Code: EOM-3038

Credits: 04

Unit I Critical Theory: A brief Introduction Language -‘On Truth and Lies in a non-moral sense’ by Neitzsche -Selections from ‘Course in General Linguistics’ by Saussure -Selections from ‘Linguistics & Poetics’ by Roman Jakobson - Selections from Image/Music/Text and The Rustle of Language by Roland Barthes (From Work to Text, Introduction to Structural Analysis of Narratives) -On Deconstruction by Jonathan Culler

Unit II Pedagogy -Selections from ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’ by Paulo Freire -Michel Foucault, Selections from Discipline and Punish -Bell Hooks, ‘Towards a revolutionary feminist pedagogy’ -Louis Menand, ‘Demise of a Disciplinary Authority’ -Louis Althusser, ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’ -Antonio Gramsci, ‘The Formation of the Intellectuals’

Unit III Subjectivity - ‘The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas’ by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - Performative Utterances by J.L.Austin -The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience by Lacan -‘The Subject and Power’ by Michel Foucault -‘Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire’ by Judith Butler -Sara Ahmed, Selections from ’Difference that Matters.’ Course Evaluation (Maximum Marks: 100) Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks

M.A. English IV Semester 2018-2019

POETRY FROM DONNE TO MILTON


Credits: 04

Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts) Unit II : Donne : The following poems from Helen Gardener’s anthology: The Metaphysical Poets (Penguin) *‘The Good Morrow’ *‘The Flea’ *‘The Sunne Rising’ *‘The Canonization’ *‘The Relique’ *‘This is my play’s last scene’ Andrew Marvell : *‘To His Coy Mistress’ *‘On a Drop of Dew’

‘The Garden’

George Herbert : ‘The Agonie’ *‘The Collar’ *‘Jordan’ (I)

Crashaw : ‘A Hymne of the Nativity’

Unit III: Milton : *Paradise Lost Book I and II (Book I for detailed study)


M.A. English IV Semester

2018-2019 MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE AFTER 1950 – B

COURSE NO. EOM 4002 Max. Marks: 100

Credits: 04

Unit I : (A) Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts) (B) Critical questions on Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. Philip Larkin : ‘Poetry of Departures’

‘Toads Revisited’ * ‘Mr Bleany’

* ‘Churchgoing’ Ted Hughes : *‘Hawk Roosting’ *‘Thought Fox’ ‘Hawk in the Rain’ Seamus Heaney : *‘Traditions’ ‘Punishment’ ‘The Railway Children’ Unit II Angus Wilson : Late Call Paul Scott Staying on John Fowles : The French Lieutenant’s Woman Unit III Harold Pinter : The Birthday Party Arnold Wesker : Chicken Soup with Barley Tom Stoppard : Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.



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CONTEMPORARY LITERARY THEORY


Credits: 04

Unit 1 A). Conceptual Framework of Contemporary Literary Theory: Literary Criticism and

Theory, Philosophical Background to Literary Theory (Brief Introduction to Concepts of Empiricism, Phenomenology, Linguistic Determinism)

B). Foundation of English Studies, Historical Emergence of the Concept of Literature, Impact of Theory on English Studies, English Studies in India.

Unit 2 A). Structuralism: Language & Literature as Structure; Structuralist Narratology;

implications of Structualism for the study of literature.

B). Deconstruction: Critique of logocentricism; undecidability of meaning; difference and dissemination; American deconstruction.

C). Psychoanalytic Theory: Discovery of the Unconscious: Freud; Deviations from Freudian mapping of the Unconscious: Jung and Otto Rank; Ego-centrist approach to theory and practice of psychoanalysis: the American School; Lacan and his revolt against ego-centrist psychoanalysis.

Unit 3 A). New Historicism: The culture scape of American; conditions necessitating the

deviation from historicism and dialectical materialism; the theory.

B). Cultural Materialism: The culturescape of Europe; impact of World Wars and Fascism; the theory.

C). Feminism: Relationship of theory to Feminism; critique of androcentricism, gynocriticism.


Suggested Readings :

Roger Webster, Studying Literary Theory (Second Edition, Arnold, London, 1996)

Raman Seldan, Practising Theory and Reading Literature : An Introduction(Hemel Hempstead, Harvester, 1989).

Art Berman, From the New Criticism to Deconstruction (University of Illoinois Press, Urbana and Chicago)

Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory : An Introduction (Blackwell : 1983)

Terence Howkes, Structuralism and Semiotics (Methuen : 1997)

Christopher Norris, Deconstruction : Theory and Practice (Routledge, 1991)

Maggie Humm, Feminisms : A Reader (Longman, 1992)

K. K. Ruthren, Feminist Literary Studies: An Introduction (Cambridge, 1984)

H. Aram Veeser (ed.), The New Historicism (Routledge 1989)

Jonathan Dollimore and Sinfield, Alan (eds.), Political Shakespeare : New Essays in Cultural Materialism (Manchester University Press, 1994)

Raman Selden, Peter Widdowson and Brooker, Peter, A Reader : Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory (Harvester, 1996)

Maud Ellmann (ed.) Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism (Longman, 1994)

David Lodge and Wood Nigel (eds.) Modern Criticism and Theory : A Reader (Longman, 1999).

Patricia Waugh (ed) Literary Theory and Criticism (OUP, 2006)

M. H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms.(Macmillan)


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AMERICAN POETRY AND DRAMA


Credits: 02

Unit I : (A) Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred text s) Unit II : Walt Whitman : ‘Song of Myself’ *‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’ *‘Out of the Cradle’ Emily Dickinson :Selections in American Literature (1890 to 1965) *The following poems: 67, 130, 258, 303, 341, 712, 812, 1463, (All poems for detailed study) Robert Frost : Selections in American Literature (1890 to 1965) Urasia, 1966 *‘Mending Wall’ *‘After Apple-Picking’ *‘The Road Not Taken’ *‘Birches’ *‘West-running Brook’ Carl Sandburg : ‘I am the People, the Mob’ ‘Who am I?’ ‘Chicago’ Unit III : Eugene O’Neill : The Hairy Ape Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie Edward Albee : The Zoo Story

Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks Note : There is a choice between EOM4011 and EOM4012.


A.M.U. ALIGARH.


ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING– B (ELT)


Credits: 02 Unit I : Teaching of Writing: Writing as Communication; Approaches to Writing; Flower & Hayes’

Model of Writing; Assessing Writing; Task Component; Designing Writing Tasks.

. Unit II : Teaching Oral Communication : Teaching the sounds of English; the syllable; word

stress, sentence stress, rhythm and intonation in English.

Unit III : Grammar, Communication Technology and Testing in ELT : Role of grammar in

language pedagogy; types of grammar; Application of Communicative Technology

in ELT; Place of testing in ELT curriculum; Types of tests and their objectives.


Note : There is a choice between EOM4011 and EOM4012.


POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE – B


Credits: 02

Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts) Unit II : Sarojini Naidu : ‘The Palanquin Bearers’ *‘Dirge’ (In sorrow of her bereavement) ‘Indian Weavers’ Kamala Das : *‘My Grandmother's House’ *‘The Sunshine Cat’ ‘A Hot Noon in Malabar’

Nissim Ezekiel : *‘Good Bye Party for Miss Pushpa’ *‘Night of the Scorpion’ *‘The Visitor’ ‘Enterprise’ ‘Background’ A. K. Ramanujan : ‘Conventions of Despair’ *‘Snakes’ Keki N. Daruwala : *‘The Mistress’ ‘Parsi Hell’ Prescribed Anthology: R. Parthasarthy,(ed.),Ten 20th Century Indian Poets,(OUP) Unit III: R. K. Narayan : The Financial Expert Raja Rao : The Serpent and the Rope Amitava Ghosh : The Glass Palace. Anita Desai : Where Shall We Go This Summer? Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks

Note : There is a choice between EOM4021, EOM4022 and EOM4023.


A.M.U. ALIGARH.


CONTINENTAL FICTION – B


Credits: 02 Unit I : Milan Kundera : The Unbearable Lightness of Being Thomas Mann : Buddenbrooks Unit II: Guy de Maupassant : The following short stories are prescribed:

1. ‘The Necklace’ 2. ‘A Family’ 3. ‘The Devil’ 4. ‘Simon’s Papa’ 5. ‘The False Gems’

Gustave Flaubert : Madame Bovary Unit III: Franz Kafka : The Castle Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks Note : There is a choice between EOM4021, EOM4022 and EOM4023.


A.M.U. ALIGARH.


CONTINENTAL DRAMA – B


Credits: 02

Unit I : (a) Brecht : The Caucasian Chalk Circle (b) Short notes on styles and trends in Modern Drama and Character Sketches Unit II: Chekhov : The Cherry Orchard Gorky : Lower Depths Unit III: Beckett : Waiting for Godot Ionesco : The Chairs

Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks Note : There is a choice between EOM4021, EOM4022 and EOM4023.

M.A. English IV Semester (Elective Paper) 2018-2019

Course Title: Popular Fiction Course Code: EOM 4031

Credits : 04

Unit I An Introduction to Popular Fiction

Forms of Popular Fiction: What Sells and Why; the Canonical and the Popular; Popular

Literature and Fantasy; Morality and Education in Children’s Literature; The Issue of

Race, Gender and Identity in Popular Fiction.

Unit II Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass (1871)

Unit III Margaret Mitchell Gone With The Wind (1936)

Suggested Readings:

Fiedler, Leslie. “Towards a Definition of Popular Literature”. Super Culture: American Popular Culture

and Europe, ed. C.W.E. Bigsby. Ohio: Bowling Green University Press, 1975.

Hughes, Felicity, “ Children’s Literature: Theory and Practice.” ELH, 1978.

Hunt, Peer. An Introduction to Children’s Literature. Oxford University Press: USA, 1997.

Pawling Christopher. “ Popular Fiction: Ideology or Utopia?” Popular Fiction and Social Change. ed.

Christopher Pawling London: Macmillan, 1984.

Taylor, William R. Cavalier and Yankee. The Old South and American National Character

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Full Marks: 100 Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks

M.A. ENGLISH IV SEMESTER (ELECTIVE PAPER) 2018-19

Course Title: Prison Literature Course No. EOM 4032

Credits: 04

Objective: A work of literature is a manifest labour of the author’s social and political experiences. Some

scintillating literary works were penned in prisons and these works shed a very different light on their authors

and the works.

Unit I: Review of Prison Writings: Political and personal experiences impacting literary perspectives.

Faiz: “A Prison Nightfall,” “A Prison Daybreak,” “We who were Murdered.” “The Window,”

“Africa Come Back”

Nazim Hikmat: “Some Advice to Those Who will Spend Time in Prison”, “Istambul House of

Detention”

Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak ed. Marc Falloff, University of Iowa Press.

Death Poems – Jumah al Dossari

Humiliated in Shackles – Sami al Haj

Prison Darkness – Abdul Aziz

Two Fragments – Shaikh Abdurraheem Dost

Ode to the Sea – Ibrahim Al Rubaish

Passages for Explanation will be given from Prescribed Poems

Unit II: Prison Fiction/Non-Fiction selections from: Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Stephen King: Shawshank Redemption

Unit III Freedom Movements and Prison Literature. Selections from:

Nehru: Letters From a Father to His Daughter

Antonio Gramsci: Prison Notebooks


Suggested Readings:

Papillon by Henri Charriere

The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela.

Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru, & The Discovery of India by Nehru.

Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by M.K. Gandhi.

Spain in My Heart: Songs of the Spanish Civil War by Pablo Neruda.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Bamboo Gulag: Political Imprisonment in Communist Vietnam by Nghia M. Vo

Letters from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.

Detained: A Prisoner’s Diary by Ngugi Wa Thiong’O

Great Books Written in Prison : Essays on Classic Works from Plato to Martin Luther King Jr. by J. Ward Regan. McFarland & Company, 2015.

Prison Writing in India by C.N. Srinath. Sahitya Akademi,2014.

We Are Our Own Liberators: Selected Prison Writings. by Jalil A. Muntaqim. Arissa Media Group LLC, 2010

Brandreth, Gyles. Created in captivity. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1972.

Brombert, Victor H. The romantic prison : the French tradition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978.

Davies, Ioan. Writers in prison. Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Dowd, Siobhan. This prison where I live ; the PEN anthology of imprisoned writers. London : New York, NY : Cassell, 1996.

Harlow, Barbara. Barred : women, writing, and political detention. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1992.

Sinha, Shabnam. Novelist as prisoner : the South African experience. 1st. Patna: Janaki Prakashan, 1992.

Sobanet, Andrew. Jail sentences : representing prison in twentieth-century French fiction. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

M.A. ENGLISH IV SEMESTER (ELECTIVE PAPER) 2018-2019

Course Title: Ecocritism Course No. EOM-4033

Credits: 04 Course Objective:

1. To understand the representation of nature in Literature.

2. To apply principles of Ecocriticism to a range of literary genres.

3. To interpret historical shifts in the representation of nature.

Syllabus :

Unit I

a) Concepts – Ecological system, Occidental & Oriental views of nature

b) Ecocriticism, Phases of Ecocriticism.

c) Rise of Ecofeminism.

Unit II

a) Ecological Practices in reading

b) Concepts of Eden, Arcadias, Utopias; Historical Shifts in these concepts, Wilderness

c) Practice Texts: ‘Garden’ Andrew Marvell, ‘To Autumn’ – John Keats, Excepts from

‘The Hungry Tide – T. S. Eliot

Unit III

a) Concepts of Sublime & Otherness; Man made and natural disasters.

b) Nothing at the future – Apocalypse, Dystopia & Hope.

c) Practice Texts: Excerpts From

d) ‘King Lear’, ‘Tempest’ – Shakespeare;

Nectar in a Sieve – Kamla Markandaya;

Avtar (Movie) 20th Century Fox – James Cameron.

Full Marks: 100 Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks

M.A (English) IV Semester (Elective Paper) 2018-2019

Comparative Literature

Course No. EOM-4035 Max. Marks: 100 Credits: 04

Course Description: This course is a critical introduction to the field of Comparative Literature, which mobilizes comparative insights for studying literatures and cultures across nations, languages, time-periods, genres, etc. The course aims at familiarizing students with critical scholarship on comparative literary studies with a view to developing in them comparative analytical skills necessary to appreciate and engage literary cultures across the globe, including Indian literary formations and traditions. This reading-intensive course is research-oriented and helps students discover topics and problems for their own research projects in the future. UNIT ONE COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: DISCIPLINE/INDISCIPLINE/INTERDISCIPLINE? Required Reading:

1. "Comparative Literature: Its Definition and Function." Henry Remak (from Comparative Literature: Method and Perspective, ed. Newton Stallknecht and Horst Frenz, 1971).

2. "Conjectures on World Literature," Franco Moretti. 3. "In the Name of Comparative Literature," Rey Chow (from Comparative Literature in the Age of

Multiculturalism, ed. Charles Bernheimer, 1994, Part 3 [10]).

Recommended Reading:

1. "Literature and Its Cognates," Rene Wellek. 2. Three Reports to the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) "The Levin Report, 1965" -—"The

Greene Report, 1975" -—"The Bernheimer Report, 1993" (from Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism, ed. Charles Bernheimer, Part 1 [1,2,3]).

3. "The Vicissitudes of Text" Jonathan Culler. 4. "Crossing Borders", Gayatri Spivak (from Death of a Discipline, 2003, Chapter 1).

UNIT TWO COMPARATIVE READING Required Reading:

1. "Connecting Empire to Secular Interpretation" and "Narrative and Social Space," Edward Said (from Culture and Imperialism, 1993, Chapter 1 [v] and Chapter 2 [i].

2. "Reading across Cultures," David Damrosch (from How to Read World Literature, 2009 Chapter 3).

3. Reading practice activity: Othello and Heart of Darkness in Tayyib Salih's Season of Migration to the North (1969).


1. "Disliking Books at an Early Age," Gerard Graff.

2. "Introduction" to Orientalism, Edward Said, 1978.

3. "Reading in Translation," David Damrosch (from How to Read World Literature, 2009, Chapter 4).

4. The Pleasure of the Text, Roland Barthes, 1975.

5. "Linguistics and Poetics," Roman Jakobson, 1960.

UNIT THREE COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES AND INDIAN LITERARY CULTURES Required Reading:

1. Excerpts from Selected Writings on Literature and Language, Rabindranath Tagore, 2001. 2. "Introduction" to Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia, Sheldon Pollock, 2003. 3. "Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation," A. K. Ramanujan (from

The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan, 1999). I 4. Texts for Comparative Analysis (suggestive):

Colonialism and modernity vis-a-vis Indian Literature: Senapati's Six Acres and a Third (1897-99) and Tagore's Gora (1907-09). NB Students have the freedom to choose any two texts (of any genre) from among the wide-ranging literary cultures across India and perform close readings from a comparative methodology. Students are encouraged to take up for analysis texts written in vernaculars with which they are most familiar and discuss them in class.


1. "The Historical Formation of Indian English Literature," Vinay Dharwadker in Literary Cultures in History, ed. Sheldon Pollock, 2003, Chapter 3.

2. '"Indian Literature': Notes towards the Definition of a Category," Aijaz Ahmad (from In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 1992, Chapter 7).

3. "Orientalism and the Institution of World Literatures," Amir Mufti.

4. "Comparative Literature in India," Amiya Dev (CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 2.4 (2000).

5. "Comparative Literature in Indian Languages," Anand Balwant Patil (from Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies, eds. Steven Totosy de Zepetnek and Tutun Mukherjee, 2013, Part 2).

Notes:

1. The recommended readings are intended to assist in the understanding of the units, with a view to providing students with materials which they can pursue on their own.

2. Students are expected to write a short response paper/reading notes on each course reading for peer review. These papers/notes may be posted on the course group to be created on Google every year.

3. The course will be taught as a graduate seminar, requiring students to come to class having read the reading/s for each meeting and to participate in classroom discussion. Students will also have to make at least one short presentation on any of the course readings.

General References Aldridge, Owen, ed. Comparative Literature: Matter and Method. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1964. Apter, Emily. The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature. Princeton University Press, 2005. Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Trans. Willard Trask.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953. Bassnett. Susan. Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction. Oxford. UK/Cambridge. USA: Black-well.

1993. Behdad, Ali, and Dominic Thomas. A Companion to Comparative Literature. Oxford: Blackwell, 2011. Damrosch, David. What is World Literature? Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Dev, Amiya, and Sisir Kumar Das. Eds. Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice. Shimla: HAS and

Allied, 1989. Jost, Francois. Introduction to Comparative Literature. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1974. Guillen, Claudio. The Challenge of Comparative Literature. Trans. Cola Franzen. Cambridge: Harvard

University Press, 1993. Levin, Harry. Grounds for Comparison. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.

Wellek, Rene, and Austin Warren. Theory of Literature, 3rd ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1956. Damrosch, David et al. The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature. New Jersey: Princeton

University Press, 2009. Saussy, Haun. Ed. Comparative Literature in the Age of Globalization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University

Press, 2006.

Course Evaluation (Maximum Marks : 100) Sessional Test: 30 marks End Semester : 70 marks

M. A. (English) IV Semester (Elective Paper) 2018-19

Course Title: Language and Power Course Code: EOM-4036

Credits: 04

Course Objective: The aim of this course is to provide and understanding of how language works to express power-relations and ideology in different kinds of text – both written and spoken. Unit I: Discourse, Ideology, Hegemony, Cultural capital and Resistance Unit II: Structuralism and Deconstruction Unit III: Analysis of select speeches by Macaulay, John F. Kennedy, Hitler, Martin, Luther, Karl Marx and Gandhi. Analysis of excepts from plays of Shakespeare – The Tempest and Julius Ceasar Suggested Readings:

1. Alan Bullock and Stephen Trombley. (eds.) The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (3rd

ed.) 1999.

2. Antonio Gramsci and Joseph A. Buttigieg. (ed.) Prison Notebooks, New York City: Columbia

University Press, 1992

3. Bernard S. Cohn. Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India, Princeton University

Press, 1996.

4. C. Lewis “Making sense of common sense: A framework for tracking hegemony”.

5. Fairclough, N: Language and Power, London Longman, 2001.

6. J. Storey, (ed.) Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (4th ed.). Essex, UK: Pearson

Education Limited, 2009.

7. Kress and Hogan, Language as Ideology, London Rutledge, 1979

8. Mark Haugaard. The Constitution of Power: A Theoretical Analysis of Power, Knowledge and

Structure, Manchester University Press: New York: 1997.

9. Mary M. Talbot, Karen Atkinson and Davit Atkinson, Language and Power in the Modern World,

Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

10. Noam Chomsky and Carlos Peregrine Otero. Language and Politics, Okland, Calif: AK Press,

2004.

11. R. Flower, Hodge et. al. Language and Control, London Rutledge, 1979.

12. R. G. Kelley. “An archaeology of resistance” American Quarterly, 44(2), 1992.

13. Said E. Culture and Imperialism, Random House, London, 1993.

14. Phillipson, R. ‘The linguistic imperialism of neoliberal empire’ Critical Inquiry in Language Studies,

5/1, 2008.



African – American Drama Course Code: EOM-4037

Credits: 04 The objective of this course is to introduce major works of representative African-American dramatists of contemporary era with particular focus on their techniques, ideas and cultural milieu in which the works were produced. The study of this course will familiarize the students with an overall view of the contribution of the notable African-American dramatists in the realm of English Literature. Unit I:

Introduction to African-American Drama, Black Theatre, Racism and Racial Identity in African-American Society, Oppression of Women in the Black Society, Violence, Search for Identity, Exile and Alienation, Class Struggle, Conflict between the American "white" and "black" population. Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun Unit II:

Charles Fuller: A Soldier’s Play

August Wilson: Fences

Unit III:

Adrienne Kennedy: Funny house of a Negro

Suzan-Lori Parks: In the Blood

Suggested Readings:

1. Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth, ed. Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.

2. Hatch, James V., ed. The Roots of African American Drama. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991. 3. Hay, Samuel A., Don B. Wilmeth. African American Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 4. Houston Baker, Jr. Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1964. 5. Okur, Nilgun Anadolu. Contemporary African-American Theatre: Afrocentricity in the Works of Lorry Neal,

Amiri Ear oka and Charles Fuller. UK: Routledge, 2011.



Disability Studies and Literature Course Code: EOM-4038

Credits: 04 Course No. (New) Max. Marks:100 Credits: 04 Course Description:

Being an introductory course in the fledgling discipline of Disability Studies and Literature, this course is aimed at

providing an overview of the interdisciplinary nature of Disability Studies and the literature of the disabled. It will

explicate how the disability rights movement resisted the charity based approach towards the disabled and established

the right based approach through the popular maxim “Nothing about us without us.” By elucidating how the disability

of an individual is translated to become a social pathology, the course will inquire into the various approaches

employed to critically understand the condition termed ‘Disability’. Having explored these theoretical aspects, the

course will also investigate the portrayal of the disabled in literature by employing some of the key concepts in

Disability Studies. The course will finally engage with the ethnocentric writings of the disabled to reveal how they

articulate their unheard voices of their experience with disability.

Unit I Introduction to Disability Studies

A. From charity to right based approach: a history of disability rights movement

B. Approaches in Disability Studies:

Medical, Social, Cultural, and Psychological.

C. Key concepts in Disability Studies:

Ablism, Accessibility, Aesthetic Nervousness, Barriers, Citizenship, Disabilism, Embodiment, Ethnocentrism,

Eugenics, Impairment, Inclusive Education, Intersectionality, Normalcy, Rehabilitation, Representation, Special

Education, and Stigma.

Required readings:

1. “The Disabled People’s Movement,” “The Medical Model,” and “The Social Model” Cameron, Colin, ed.

Disability Studies: A Student’s Guide. 1 edition. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2013.

2. “Disability Rights Movement: Emergence and Growth” Karna, G. N. Disability Studies in India: Retrospects

and Prospects. Gyan Publishing House, 2001.

3. “Psychology: Critical Psychological Disability Studies,” “Culture: Psycho Analytic Disability Studies”

Goodley, Dan. Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. 1 edition. Los Angeles, Calif ; London:

SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010.

4. Adams, Rachel, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin, eds. Keywords for Disability Studies. New York: New

York University Press, 2015.

Unit II Representation of the disabled in literature

A. Blindness: Is Literature Against Us? An address delivered by Kenneth Jernigan (President, National

Federation of the Blind, USA) - https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/convent/banque74.htm

B. “Literary Disability Studies and the Romantic Era: A Survey of Secondary Literature” Bradshaw,

Michael. Disabling Romanticism. Springer, 2016.

Unit III Literature by the Disabled

I. Poetry

A. Deanna Noriega (Visually Impaired): ‘See Me, Open Your Eyes and Really Look’ -

http://www.visionaware.org/blog/visually-impaired-now-what/how-poetry-helps-me-move-on-as-a-blind-

person/12

B. Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay (Autist): ‘A Simple Cup’ - http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1192/1256

http://www.visionaware.org/blog/visually-impaired-now-what/how-poetry-helps-me-move-on-as-a-blind-person/12

http://www.visionaware.org/blog/visually-impaired-now-what/how-poetry-helps-me-move-on-as-a-blind-person/12

http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1192/1256

C. Cheryl Marie Wade (Physically Impaired): ‘Cripple Lullaby’ -

http://archive.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=21&t=000222

D. Alyssa D'Amico (Epileptic-Physically Impaired): ‘Epilepsy’ - https://www.disabled-

world.com/communication/poetry/escape.php#59

E. Michele Sutphin (Physically Impaired): ‘Let Me Try, God Does’ - https://www.disabled-

world.com/communication/poetry/let-me-try.php

F. Sandra L. Brooks (Hearing Impaired): ‘Silent Hands’ - http://www.deafworldministries.com/deafpoetry.html

II. Essays A. Nancy Mairs (Multiple Sclerosis-Physically Impaired): ‘On Being a Cripple’ -

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=am95Y2VoYXZzdGFkLmNvbXxjbGFzc2VzfGd4OjRlNjM2YTI5ZjIyNDRiM2M

B. Tasha Chemel (Visually Impaired): ‘In Search of the Ordinary’ -

http://blindnessandarts.com/papers/TashaChemel2.htm

III. Life Narratives

A. Preeti Monga (Visually Impaired): The Other Senses

B. Temple Grandin (Autist): Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

Notes:

I. All the prescribed texts will be made available to the students by the course instructor well before the discussion of

each text. Alternatively, an e-reader will also be made available.

II. Students are required to write two response papers (5 marks each) as part of 10-mark Sessional evaluation. The

first one will be on unit 2 and the second one will be on any one of the sections in unit 3.

Course Evaluation (Maximum marks: 100)


Recommended Readings:

1. Adams, Rachel, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin, eds. Keywords for Disability Studies. New York: New

York University Press, 2015.

2. Bradshaw, Michael. Disabling Romanticism. Springer, 2016.

3. Cameron, Colin, ed. Disability Studies: A Student’s Guide. 1 edition. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications Ltd,

2013.

4. Davis, Lennard J., ed. The Disability Studies Reader. 4 edition. New York, NY: Routledge, 2013.

5. Goodley, Dan. Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. 1 edition. Los Angeles, Calif ; London:

SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010.

6. Karna, G. N. Disability Studies in India: Retrospects and Prospects. Gyan Publishing House, 2001.

7. Linton, Simi. “What Is Disability Studies?” PMLA 120.2 (2005): 518–522.

8. Quayson, Ato. Aesthetic Nervousness - Disability and the Crisis of Representation. New York: Columbia

University Press, 2007.

http://archive.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=21&t=000222

https://www.disabled-world.com/communication/poetry/escape.php#59

https://www.disabled-world.com/communication/poetry/escape.php#59

https://www.disabled-world.com/communication/poetry/let-me-try.php

https://www.disabled-world.com/communication/poetry/let-me-try.php



http://blindnessandarts.com/papers/TashaChemel2.htm

M. A. (English) IV Semester (Elective Paper) 2018-2019

Course Title: Politics of English Studies Course Code: EOM-4039

Credits: 04

Course Description: In this course, we will examine the disciplinary formation, practice, and ideology of English Studies with special reference to the Indian scenario. While historicizing the disciplinary formation of English in India, the course will also consider the contemporary status of the discipline in the Indian academia. The main objectives of the course shall be to familiarize students with the knowledge-power relations as well as to make them self-reflexive about their own subject-positions and disciplinary practices. Unit I English Studies: Institution and Disciplinary Formation 1. The Rise of English, Terry Eagleton (from Literary Theory: An Introduction, 1983).

2. The Great Tradition (Chapter One), F. R. Leavis, 1948.

3. Minute on Indian Education, Thomas Macaulay, 1935.

4. Introduction to Masks of Conquest, Gauri Viswanathan, 1989.

5. Translation, Colonialism and the Rise of English, Tejaswini Niranjana, (from Rethinking

English, ed. Svati Joshi, 1991).

6. The Politics of Knowledge, Edward Said, 1991.

7. Disciplinary English: Third-Worldism and Literature, Aijaz Ahmad, (from Rethinking English,

ed. Svati Joshi, 1991).

Unit II Doing/Un-doing English 1. On the Abolition of the English Department, Ngugi wa Thiong’o (from Homecoming: Essays,

1972).

2. Education and Neocolonialism, Philip Altbach, 1971.

3. A Note on Language, and the Politics of English in India, Badri Raina (from Rethinking English,

ed. Svati Joshi, 1991).

4. The Burden of English, Gayatri Spivak (from The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies in

India, ed. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, 1992).

5. Attitudinal Orientation towards Studying English Literature in India, Yasmeen Lukmani (from

The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies in India, ed. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, 1992).

6. The Alchemy of English, Braj Kachru, 1986.

Unit III Politics and the English Classrooms

1. The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education, Paulo Freire (from Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1970).

2. The Means of Correct Training, Michel Foucault (from Discipline and Punish, 1975).

3. Ideology in the Classroom: A Case Study in the Teaching of English Literature in Canadian

Universities, Arun Muhkerjee, 1986.

4. The Social Politics and the Cultural Politics of Language Classrooms, Alastair Pennycook,

2000.

5. Postcoloniality, Critical Pedagogy, and English Studies in India, K. C. Baral, 2006.

6. Student Presentations on the Politics of English Studies. (Students are required to make a

short presentation on issues, concerns, and questions addressed in the course by trying to

bring their own experiences of doing English to bear upon their reflections and meditations on

the subject).



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