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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, 6th Edition, 2004)

Suggested Readings : • A.S. Hornby : A Guide to Patterns & Usage (OUP, 1954) • CIEFL : Material on Morphology & Phonology from the Distance Education

Department • L.G.Alexander: Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students (O. Longman, London, 1975) • Krishna Mohan & Meenakshi Rama: Effective English Communication (Tata

McGraw Hill, 2001. • MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th Edition, 2004. • Quirk and Greenbaum: A University Grammar of English (O. Longman, 1979)

• Art of Literary Research by Richard D. Altick and John J. Fenstermaker. • The Scholar Adventurers by Richard D. Altick (The Free Press, New York, 1966)

M.A. Chaucer to the Elizabethans


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 (Books 1 & 2)

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


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


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, 6th Ed.)

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

Suggested Readings • A.S. Hornby : A Guide to Patterns & Usage (OUP,1954) • CIEFL : Material on Morphology & Phonology from the Distance Education

Department. • Praveen K. Thakkar : Appreciating English Poetry (Orient Longman) 1999. • Effective English Communication, Krishna Mohan & Meenakshi Rama, Tata McGraw

Hill, 2001. • The Macmillan Guide to Writing Research Papers by W. Coyle (Macmillan, 1990)

• The Prentice-Hall Guide to Research Writing by D. Memering (Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1989)

M.A.

Shakespeare 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


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 Life of Dryden

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 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.) 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 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 (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 Jude, the Obscure

Unit 5 (13 Hrs.)

Walter Pater From ‘Appreciations’: Essays on Style and Postscript

J.S. Mill On Liberty

Suggested Readings • Part 1 & 2 of Volume VI of New Pelican Guide to English Literature ed. Boris Ford • The Victorians & After : B. Dobree • The Victorian Temper : F.H. Buckley • Literature of the Victorian Era : H. Walker • The Victorian Age in Literature : G.K. Chesterton

• Appreciations: With an Essay on Style. Walter Pater (Macmillan, London, 1944)

M.A. Seminar


Course : 6 Semester : 2 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 the Project Report / Term Paper. There will be an external evaluation by a Subject-Expert and a Departmental Panel, at the end of the semester. The Division of marks will be as follows:




M.A. Criticism Theory – I


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

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

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

Unit -3 (11 Hrs.)

W. Wordsworth : Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

Unit -4 (11 Hrs.) S. T. Coleridge : Biographia Literaria (Chaps. 17 & 18)

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)


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 20th Century. • G.S. Fraser : The Modern Writer and this World. • Arthur Marwick : British Society since 1945 (1982). • The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 3rd Edition (1983).

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


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 19th Century Drama

• Christopher Innes : Contemporary Drama • Lawrence Kitghen : Mid Century Drama

M.A. Group B

Indian Writing in English – I Paper Code : ENG 326


Unit –1 (13 Hrs.)

Toru Dutt Sarojini Naidu

: :

Lakshman, Our Casuarina Tree The Lotus The Purdah Nashin, The Bird Sanctuary A Rajput Love Song

Unit -2 (13 Hrs.)

Nissim Ezekiel Kamala Das A.K.Ramanujan

: : :

Night of the Scorpion, Enterprise My Grandmother’s House, The Sunshine Cat 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


Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) Marianne Moore Imtiaz Dharker

: :

What are Years? Nevertheless 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


Unit –1 (12 Hrs.)

Language and Communication : Human and non-human communication ; verbal and non-verbal communication

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

Unit -3 (12 Hrs.)

Word Classes , Clause elements and types

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

Unit -5 (12 Hrs.)

The Complex and Compound Sentence , The Verb and its Complementation

Suggested Readings

• Quirk and Greenbaum : A University Grammar of English (O. Longman , 1973) • David Crystal : Linguistics ( Penguin)

• Geoffery Leech : English Grammar for Today

• E.Palmer : Grammar (ELBS, 1971) • A. Akmajian , R.A. Demers and R.M. Harnish : Linguistics : An Introduction to

Language and Communication , 2nd ed. ( Prentice Hall,1991)

• Richards and Rodgers : Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (CWP)

• J.F. Wallwork : Language and Linguistics (Heinemann) • S. Pinker: The Language Instinct (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994)

• J. Aichison: Linguistics (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995)

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


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



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 J.B. Priestley E.V. Lucas

: : :

Selected Snobberies, Non Violence On Doing Nothing, Student Mobs 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 Arun Kolatkar

: From Exile, From Homecoming the boatride

Unit -4 (11 Hrs.)

Keki N. Daruwalla N. Ezekiel

: :

Pestilence in 19th Century Calcutta, from Ruminations Goodbye Party … Poem of the Separation

Unit -5 (14 Hrs.)

Margaret Atwood Les Murray J. Wright

: : :

Journey to the Interior Wilderness 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


Unit –1 (12 Hrs.) G. Karnad : Tughlaq

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


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.) Teaching Methods : Grammar and Translation Method, Situational and Bilingual Methods

Unit -5 (12 Hrs.)

Communicative Language Teaching

Suggested Readings

• Richards and Rodgers : Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (CWP) • J.F. Wallwork : Language and Linguistics ( Heinemann)

• Christophersen : Second Language Teaching ( Pelican) • Allen and Pit Corder : The Edinburgh Course in Applied Linguistics , Vol-II

• Jacobs and Rosenbaum : English Transformational Grammar ( Blaisdill Publishing Co.)

• Leech and Svartik : A Communicative Grammar of English ( ELBS)

• Quirk and Greenbaum : A University Grammar of English ( Longman , 1973) • David Crystal : Linguistics ( Penguin)

• Geoffery Leech : English Grammar for Today • E.Palmer : Grammar (ELBS, 1971)

• A. Akmajian , R.A. Demers and R.M. Harnish : Linguistics : An Introduction to Language and Communication , 2nd ed. ( Prentice Hall,1991)

• An Introduction to Discourse Analysis by Malcolm Coulthard (London, 1996)

• Communicative Language Teaching by Littlewood, CUP, 1981.

M.A. Dissertation


Course – 06 Semester – 04 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 :


• 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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