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SYLLABUS FOR M.A. IN ENGLISH

To he effective/rom the session 20/0-//

Number of academic years : Two

Number of Semesters in a year : Two

Number of papers in a semes ter : Five

Number of marks in a paper : 50 (Fifty)

Total num ber of papers : Twenty

-Total Marks : 1000 (one thollsand)

Papers ill the First Semester : Papers I to V

Papers ill the Second Semester : Papers VI to X

Papers in the Third Semester : Papers XI to XV

Papers in the FOllrth Semester : Papers XVI to XX

ThL' lirst two semesters constitute Part I Jnd the last two Part II w ith each part having tcn papers carrying 500 marks.

Time allotted j(x answering a paper : 03 Hours (except l'3p;r XX of Fourlh Semester)

M.A ENGLISH

FIRST SEMESTER

PAPER - 1 (POETRY) Full Marks: 50 Time: 3 Hours

t:ssuy Iype qllesliullS wilh aliel'l1l.1lives Il'ill be sel Fum each ullhe Ihree Unils. Unil-} and II will carry 15 marks each & Unit-Ill 20 marks.

Unit- I : The Prologue to Canterbury Tales-by G. Chaucer

Unit-II : W. Shakespeare's Sonnets : No 1, 15,20,65,7 1, 11 6, 127 &131 (Total 08)

Unit-III: Book Prescribed : The Metaphysical Poets- edited by Helen Gardner

Poems Prescibed:

Jolm Donne : I) The Good Morrow 2) Sunne Rising 3) Canonization 4) The Extasie 5) Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 6) The Anniversarie.

Andrew Marvell: I LTo His Coy Mistress 2) The Garden 3) Dialogue between Soul and Body 4) Definition of Love.

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FIRST SEMESTER

PAPER - II (POETRY) I •

Full Marks : 50 Time: 3 Hours

Unit - I : William Worusworth : Preluue (Book I & II)

Unit-II : John Keats : Odes (4 odes)

I) On a Grecian Urn 2) On Indolence 3) On Melanchol y 4) To Psyche

Unit- III : Mathew Arnold : Scholar Gipsy

Essay Iype qlle.l'liul1s wilh allernalives will he sel/i-om each q/lhe Ihree Units. Unil-} will cm'rr' 20 marks (lnd (/nil rr & Ifl 15 f1I(lI'ks e((ch.

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FIRST SEMESTER

PAPER - 111 (DRAMA) Full Marks: 50 Time: 3 Hours

Essay type questions with alternatives will be set from each 0/the three Units. Unit- J will carry 20 marks and Unit II &I!I 15 marks each.

Unit- I : Chr istopher Marlowe Dr Faustus

Unit-II : William Congreve The Way of the World

Unit- III : William Shakespeare : Hamlet.

M.A ENGLISH

FIRST SEMESTER

PAPER - IV (DRAMA) Full Marks : 50 Ti ll1e : ) 1·lours

Essay type questions with alternatives will be set/rom each o/the three Units. Unit- I&II will cony 15 marks each and Unit III 20 marks.

Unit- I : John Osborne : Look Back in Anger

Unit- II Eugene 0' Neill Desire Under the Elms

Unit-III Samuel Beckett Waiting For Godot.

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FIRST SEMESTER

PAPER - V (FICTION) Full Marks: 50 Time: 3 Hours

Essay type questions with alternatives will be set /ram each a/the three Units. Unit - 1&11 will cany 15 marks each and Unit III 20 marks.

Unit- I : Daniel Defoe : Moll Flanders

Ullit- II Em ile 7.ol~ : Nnnn

Unit- III Henry Fielding : Tom Jones.

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SECOND SEMESTER

PAPER - VI (FICTION) Fun Marks : 50 Time: 3 Hours

Essay type questions with alternatives will he set/i'am each a/the three Units. Unit- 1&11 will cany ]5 murks each und Unit II] 20ll/urks.

Unit- I : Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights

Unit- II : Thomas'Hardy : The Return of the Native

Unit- III : .I ames Joyce : A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.

M.A ENGLISH

SECOND SEMESTER PAPER - VII (NON-FICTIONAL PROSE)

Full Marks: 50 Time: 3 l·lours

Essay type queslions with alternatives will be set from each ofthe Ihree Units. Unil-1&11 will • carry 15 marks each and Un it III 20 marks.

Unit-I- Francis Bacon: 'Essays'

Essays Prescribed: Of Truth, Of Studies, Of Love, Of Death, Of youth and Age, ur Marriag~ and Single Lil~

Unit-Jl- Coverl ey I'apcrs- From 'The Spectator ', Edited by K,\)eigilton

Essays Prescribed: Sir Roger at Home, Sir Roger at Church, Vi sit to Westminster Abbey, Rural Manners, Death of Sir Roger

Unit-III- Charles Lamb- 'Essays ofElia'

Essays Prescribed: Dream Children: A Reverie, Modern Gallantry, Witches and other Night Fears, Mackery End in Hertfordshire, The Superannuated Man

M.A ENGLISH

SECOND SEMESTER

PAPER - VIII (NON-FICTIONAL PROSE) Full Marks: 50 Ti me : 3 Hours

Essay type questions with allernatives will be set from each ofthe three Unils. Unit-1&11 will carry 15 marks each and Unil III 20 marks.

Unit-I - Henry David Thoreau-WALDEN

•Unit-II - E.M.Forster --' Selections from E.M.Forster' - Edited by R.Krishnamurty

Essays Prescribed: What 1 Believe; The Duty of Society to the Arti st; Tolerance; ERst Rild West; The Story.

Unit-III- Bertrand Russell - "Unpopular essays"

Essays Prescribed: I. An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish, 2. The Functions of a Teacher 3.1deas that have helped Mankind, 4. Ideas that have harmed mankind 5.Eminent Men I Have known

M.A. ENGLISH

SECOND SEMESTER

PAPER-IX (Modern Poetry) Full Marks- 50 Time-3 Hours

essay type (jllestiolls will, u/terl/olives will be set ji'ol/1 each oIthe three units,' While ullit-II alld Un it-Ill will carry 15 marks each. Unil-l will carry 2 0 marks

Unit-I - T. S.Eliot- Four Quartets

Unit-ll- W.B.Yeats - The Tower, Sailing to Byzantium, Leda and the Swan , Among Schoolchildr~n, The Second Coming

Unit-III - Charles Baudelaire- Edited by Carol Clark Poems prescribed: The Albatross, The Seven Old Men, Hymn to Beauty, To the Reader

A Carcass, The Swan

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SECOND SEMESTER

PAPER-X (Twentieth century Novel & the phoneti cs of English)

Full Marks- 50 Time-3 Hours

Essay (1'1)(' qllest ion.\' with alternatives will/H! set from each o.f the three unils: W/lile ullif-I! and UI/if- III rvill Clll '/~Y 15 Ilwrks each , UniJ-/ wi1/ cany 20 marks

Unit-I - EM.Fors ter : A Passage to India

Verginia Woolf: The Waves.

Unit-II - D.H.Lawrence : Women in Love.

Earnest Hemingway: For Whom The Bell Tolls.

Unit-I1I- The Pho netics of English: The Organs of Speech; Description and Classification of the sounds of English; Consonants and Vowels; Phonetic transcription ; Stress and Intonation in English.

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MA ENGLISH THIRD SEMESTER

PAPER-XI (Critical Theory) Full Marks-50 Tirne-3 Hours

Essay type questions with alternatives wili be set from each q(the three units: While Unit-l and Unir-f/ will carry 15 marks each &, Unit-Ill wil! carry 20 marks

Unit-I - T.S.Eliot The Function of Criticism•

LA.Richards Imagination

F .R.Leavis Keats

Unit-II - Cleantll Brooks Tile Language of Paradox

Ronald Barthes Criticism as Language.

Jacques De rrida Structure, Sign and Play in the Di scourse of the I-Iuman Sciences.

Unit-III- New Criticism, Structuralism, Post Structuralism, feminism ,

MA ENGLISH THIRD SEMESTER

PAPER-XII (Critical Theory) Full Marks-50 Tirne-3 Hours

Essay type questions with al1erna/;lIes will he sCI/ rom each of the three units: While Unit-I will carry 20 marks and Un it-f/ &11.1 15 marks each.

Unit-I - Aristotle : Poetics ( Chapter I, III, V & VIII)

Indian Poetics and Aesthetics : Rasa, Dhwani, Vakrokti, Lakshana, Akhandapaksha

Horace : A rs Poe tica

Unit-II - Elaine Showalter: Feminist Critici sm in the Wilderness •

Terry Eagleton : Capitalism, Modernism and Post Modernism

Unit-III- Michael Foucault: What is an author?

Wolfgang Iser : The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach.

Books Recommended: I. Twentieth Century Criticism and Theory: David Lodge 2. Contemporary Criticism : V.S. Seturaman 3. India n Aesthetics : V.S. Seturaman 4. Ari stotle' s Theory o f Poetry and ['inc Arts: Ed- S.11.l1utcher.

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THIRD SEMESTER PAPER-XIII (Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies)

Full Marks-50 Time-3 Hours

Essay type questions with alternatives will be set from each of the three units; While Unil-I will carry 20 lIlarks and Unil-II &III J5 marks each.

Unit-I - Edward Said : Oriental ism ( Chapters I, II& III)

Harish Trivedi : Colonial Transactions

Unit-II - Leela Gandhi : Post-Colonial Theory ( Chapters I, IV, V)

Salman Rushdie : Imaginary Homelands

Unit-Ill- Roland Barthes : From Work to Text.

Homi Bhabha : Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse.

Book, Recommended: I. Modern Literal Theory : Philip Rice& Patricia Waugh

2. Literary Criticism: A Reading - S.Das & lM.Mohanty

M.A. ENGLISH

THIRD SEMESTER PAPER-XIV (Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature)

Full Marks-50 Time-3 Hours

Essay type questions with alternutives wil/ be set from each of the three units; While Unit -I will carry 20 marks and Unit-II &lII I5 marks each.

Unit-l - Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apal1

Raj a Rao : Kanthapura

Unit-II - Margaret Atwood: Surfacing

Salman Rushdie : Midnight's Children.

Unit-IIl- Anita Desai : Five On The Mountain.

Wole Soyinka : The Dance of Forests.

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M.A. ENGLISH

THIRD SEMESTER

PAPER-XV (Research Methodology) Full Marks·50 Time-3 Hours

Unit-I: Three short answer type questions are to be set. (5x3= 15 marks)

J. Mechanics of Writing 2. Framing a H ypothesis 3. Collection and classification of source material s 4. Background study S. Tools of Research.

Unit-II: Three short answer type questions are to be set. (5x3= 15 marks)

Quoting from Sources.

I . Quoting from a Text ( Word, Phrase, Sentences & Pmagraph) 2. Quoting from external sources( Journals, Newspapers, interviews. Manuscripts. Public

Documents, Non-Book material s) 3. Footnotes and Endnotes.

Unit-III: Four short answer type questions are to be set. (5x4= 20 marks)

Preparation of the Manuscript:

I. Synopsis, Chapterisation, Conclusion. 2. Appendices. 3. Copyecliting. 4. Indexing. S. Preparing Bibliography.

Books Prescribed: J. Chicago Manuel of Style- 14th Edition. 2. M.L.A. Style-6th Edition.

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M.A. ENGLISH

FOURTH SEMESTER PAPER-XVI

GROUP A- AMERlCAN LITERATURE: POETRY Full Marks-SO Time-3 Hours

Essay type questions with alternatives will be set from each ofthe three units; While Unit-! will carry 20 marks and Unit-II &lJI 15 marks each.

Unit-I: Walt Whitman : Leaves of Grass:

Poems prescribed- Song of myself, Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, When lil~cs Inst in the dooryard bloomed. Passage to India.

Unit-II: Rob~rt Frost : Mending Wall. After Apple picking, Road not taken, Stopping by the

woods on a snowy evening, Birches, Come in.

Unit-III: El11ily Dickinson : Success is counted sweetest; I never lost as much but twice; just lost,

when I was saved; Safe in their Alabastor Chamber; Because I could not stop for death.

M.A. ENGLISH

FOURTH SEMESTER PAPER-XVll

GROUP A- AMERlCAN DRAMA Fu II Marks-SO Time-3 Hours

t:ssay type ljlles/ ions with a/lerl/ulives will he selinJln each (~flhe three units: While Un if-! will carry 20 marks and Unit-II &111 15 marks each.

Unit-I: Arthur Miller : Death of a Salesman

Arthur MilicI' : The C rucible .

Unit-II: Eugene 0' Neill : The Hairy Ape

Edward Albee : The Zoo Story •

Unit-Ill: Tennesse Willi ams : Tile Glass Managerie

Tennesse Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

M.A. ENGLISH

FOURTH SEMESTER PAPER-XVIII

GROUP A- AMERICAN FICTION Full Marks-50 Tirne-3 Hours

Essay Iype questions with allernatives will be selfram each of the three 1IlIilS; While Unil-l will carry 20 ",arkl' and Unit-II & III 15 marh each.

Unit-I. Hennan Melville : Moby Dick

Mark Twain : Huckleburry Finn

Unit-II : Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls

William Faulkner : The Sounu anu the I:ury.

Unit-III: Saul Bellow : Adventures of Augie March

Alice Walker : The Color Purple

M.A. ENGLISH

FOURTH SEMESTER PAP ER-XIX

GROUP A- AMERICAN PROSE & C~RJTl CISM Full Marks-50 Time-3 Hours

Essay type questions with alternatives will be sel from each of the three units; While Un it-I will carry 20 marks and Un it-II &l!! 15 marks each.

Unit-I. R.W.Emerson : The American Scholar

Henry James- : The Art of Fiction

Unit-II: John Crowe Ransom: Poetry: A Note on Ontology

J.W.Krutch : The Tragic Fallacy

Unit-III: Lionel Trilling : A Sense of the Past

Northrop Frye : Myth, Fiction and Displacement.

lJook Recommellded: Lilerary Criticism: A Renciing- Edited by n .Dns & .1 .M.l'v1<,hnnty.

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FOURTH SEMESTER PAPER-XVI

GROUP B- Indian Writing in Engli sh: Poetry PlIll Marb-50 Tillle-3 "Iours

Essay type queslions with allernalives will be selfrom each oflhe three units; While Unil-/ will carry 20 marks and Unil-I! &1/1/5 marks each.

Unit-I: R.Parthasarath y : Rough Passage

A.K.Ramanujan : Seco nd Sight

Unit-II : Nissim Ezekiel : Liller Day Psalms

Arlin Kolatk;,,· : ,k~ i lII'j

Unit-Ill: Kamala Das : Collected Poems

Jayanta Mohapa tra : The Rain of Rites.

M.A . ENGLISH FOURTH SEMESTER

PAPER-XVII GROUP B- Indian Writing in English: Fiction

Full Marks-50 Time-3 Hours

Essay type 'luesliolls wilh allernalives will be selfi'om each of the lhree unils; I· Wh ile Unit-/ will carry 20 marks and Ullil-II &11115 marks <'({ch.

Unit-I: Mulk Raj Anand : The Village

R.K.Narayan • : The Man Eater of Malgudi.

Unit-II : Raja Rao : The Serpent and the Rope

Khuswant Singh : Train to Pakistan •

Unit-lIl : Amitav Ghosh : The Hungry Tide

Upamanyu Chatterjee: English August.

M.A. ENGLISTT FOURTH SEMESTER

PAPER-XVlll GROUP B- Indian Writing in English: Drama

Full Marks-50 Time-3 Hours

Essay Iype questions with alternatives will be set,fi'om each ofthe 'hree IIlIifS:

While Unil-1 11';11 corry 20 marks alld UI7;t-ll &11115 marks each.

Unit-T : Rabindranath Tagore : The Red Oleander(ln Translation)

Sri Aurobindo : Vasavadutta

Unit-IT : Girish Kamad : Tughlaq

Mahesh Dattana : Final Solutions

i, Unit-Ill: l3adal Sirkar : [vam lnclraj it

I Vijay Tendulkar : The Vultures(ln Translation)

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FOURTH SEMESTER PAPER-XIX

GROUP B- Indian Writing in English: Prose&Criticism Full Marks-50 ~ Time-3 Hours

Essay type questions with alternatives w;/1 be set from each oIthe three units; While Unit-I will carry 20 marks and Unit-ll &111 15 marks each.

Unit-T : I. Intellectual Background of India

2. The RCllaissi lllCC ill Illdi~1

Unit-II : S.K.Desai & G.N.Devy : Critical Thought: An Anthology

M.K.Naik : Prescribed Topics( 1,3,8,9,10,11)

Unit-III: M.Mukhe~jee : The Perishable Empire

Sri Aurobindo : Foundation oj' Indian Culture

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M.A. ENGLISH FOURTH SEMESTER

PAPER-XVI GROUP C- Linguistics & EL T

Full Marks-50 Time-3 Hours Essay type questions with alternatives will be set from each ofthe three units; While Unit-II will carry 20 IIwrks and Ul1il-J &111 15 marks each.

Unit-I: 1. Introduc ti on to Linguis ti cs 2. Linguistics as Scientific Study of Language

3. Some Character isti cs of Language 4. An Outl ine History of Language

Unit-II: 1. Phonology, phoneme, Allophone, Phonemic Analysis

2. Morphology, Morpheme, Allol11orph, Morphemic Analysis

3. T.G.Analysis, Constituent and Structural Analysis of Basic Structures of English .

• linil-l1I: t .P.S. and T.G.Grallln",r, Syntact ic Structures , Models orT.G.Grammar

2. TransfoJ'lllut ionutDerivati yes and Passi ve , Negati ve and Interrogati Yes.

M.A. ENGLISH FOURTH SEMESTER

PAPER-XVII GROUP C- Linguistics &Sociolinguistics

Full Marks-50 Time-3 Hours

Essay type questions with aliernalives will be setfrom each ofthe three units; Whil" Ullil -III IFill corry 20 //larks alld Ullil- I &11 15 marks each.

Unii-l : I . Theories of language learning, l3ehaviourism and Cogni tivism

2.Attitude and Motivation in Language Learning

~. Imll1ersion Theory 01' Langua ge l.cal'lling

Unit-II : 1. Language in Social Context, Language Variation, Dialects , Idiolect, Register, Status, Situation

2. Social Style of non-Native Languages; Diaglossia, Pidgin , Creole.

Unit-Ill: I. Semantics , Synonymy,Hyponomy,antonomy'polysemy, lncompatibility,Complementality and

Converse ness: Componential analys is

2. Ambiguity, Chunge in Meaning; Logical and Emotive factors in Meaning .

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M.A. ENGLISH FOURTH SEMESTER

P APER-XVllI GROUP C- English Language Teaching

c ull Marks-SO

Essay type queslions wilh alternatives will be setfrom each of the three lin its: Wh ih· IllI it -m lI'il1 ClTrr.\' 20 II/arks and Unit-! &[[ 15 marks eac h.

Unit-l : I. Aims and Obj ect ives of Teaching English in India.

2.Problems of teaching and learning English at the college level in Orissa.

3. Framing a Lesson plan for teaching English at the + 2 and +3 level .

Unit-II: I.First Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning.

2.Grammar: Translation Method

3. Direct Method and Struc tural Approach

4 . Multi ,ki ll: Si ltl <l1 iollo l I\ pproach nllel Bi lingli nii sill .

Unit-III:

Time-3 Hours

I . Teachillg a Prose text: Comprehension, expanding Vocabulary and Rapid Reading

2. Teaching of Poetry : Comprehension and Appreciation.

3. Teaching Writing; Guided and Free Composition.

4.Teaching Grammar; Overt and Covert Grammar Teaching

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J IOUlnl1 SI-:MESTUZ PA PER-XTX

(jRO LJ P C- Engl ish Language Teaching Fu ll Marks-50 Tilll ~ -3 Hours

Essay type questions with alternatives will be set from each of the three lInits: While Unit- Iff will carry 20 marks and Unil- I &II 15 marks each.

Unit-I: I. Principles of Course Design

2.Syllabus types- St ructu ral, Notional , Need-based, Communicative English for special purposes .

3. Evaluation of Text Book

lIn il -1l : I .S ck,\:ti llll \)r TI.: al.:liillg Il l.: III S.

2.('r:ldi ng orVoeabulary, Structures. Content and Intcrest Value.

3. Rridge Courses.

Unit-III: '1. Principles of Testing, Qualities of a Good Test

2. Validity, Reliability, Discrimination and Administration.

3. Types of Tests and Techniques of Testing.

M.A. ENGLISH FOURTH SEMESTER PAPER-XX - Seminar

Ful l Marks-50 -Students are required to write a term paper of 4000 words on any topic related to the prescribed

books or authors. The topic can be a new field of research on new authors, genres and li terary movements also. The divi sioll of'marks for thi s paper is as follows.

I'rq':l ralioll or the Thes is 15 marks

I' rC$cl\talion of the Thesis: 15 marks

Viva Voce : 20 marks.

The paper should be prepared and presented in a seminar before the final examination.

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