Distribution of Courses and Credit for M.A. English

1st Semester

Code Title CreditMA(ENG) 401 Poetry from Chaucer to Pope 4MA(ENG) 402 Drama from Shakespeare to Sheridan 4MA(ENG) 403 Non- fictional Prose 4MA(ENG) 404 ELT and Phonetics of English 4

Total Credit 162nd Semester

Code Title CreditMA(ENG) 405 Literary Theory and Criticism - 1 4MA(ENG) 406 Romantic and Victorian Poetry 4MA(ENG) 407 Fiction from Richardson to Hardy 4MA(ENG) 408 ELT Theory and Practice 4

Total Credit 163rd Semester

Code Title CreditMA(ENG) 501 Literary Theory and Criticism – II 4MA(ENG) 502 Twentieth Century Poetry 4MA(ENG) 503 Twentieth Century Drama and

Fiction4

MA(ENG) 504 Indian Writing in English 4Total Credit 16

4th Semester

Code Title CreditCore PapersMA(ENG) 505MA(ENG) 506

Postcolonial LiteratureLiterature in Ecology

44

Elective PapersMA(ENG) 507MA(ENG) 508MA(ENG) 509MA(ENG) 510MA(ENG) 511

(Any two):Gender and LiteratureAmerican LiteratureCommunication and MediaIndian Literature in TranslationWorld Literature in Translation

44

Total Credit 16Total : 64 credits

12 classes = 1 credit48 classes = 4 credits

MA Programme in EnglishCOURSE STRUCTURE

Semester I

MA(ENG) 401: Poetry from Chaucer to PopeMA(ENG) 402: Drama from Shakespeare to SheridanMA(ENG) 403: Non-Fictional ProseMA(ENG) 404: ELT and Phonetics of English

Semester II

MA(ENG) 405: Literary Theory and Criticism -1MA(ENG) 406: Romantic and Victorian PoetryMA(ENG) 407: Fiction from Richardson to HardyMA(ENG) 408: ELT: Theory and Practice

Semester III

MA(ENG) 501: Literary Theory and Criticism -11MA(ENG) 502: Twentieth Century PoetryMA(ENG) 503: Twentieth Century Drama and FictionMA(ENG) 504: Indian Writing in English

Semester IV

Core Papers:MA(ENG) 505: Postcolonial LiteratureMA(ENG) 506: Literature on Ecology

Elective Papers (Any two):MA(ENG) 507: Gender and LiteratureMA(ENG) 508: American LiteratureMA(ENG) 509: Communication and MediaMA(ENG) 510: Indian Literature in TranslationMA(ENG) 511: World Literature in Translation

Plan of Examination:

Each course shall carry 100 marks: semester end examination: 75 marks (time:3 hrs)Internal assessment: 25 marks

A. Semester End Examination: There shall be 5 questions (12x5) with internal choice.There shall also be a question on explanation of two passages/extracts (7.5x2) withinternal choice from the notified texts.

B. Internal assessment: there shall be two class tests of 15 marks each. The test in whicha student performs better shall be taken into account.

There shall be an assignment/seminar of 10 marks.

Semester I

MA(ENG) 401: Poetry from Chaucer to Pope

Objectives:

1. To give the students first-hand knowledge of the major poets from Chaucer to Pope.2. To acquaint them with the development of English poetry along with intellectual and

social background.

Required Reading

UNIT AGeoffrey Chaucer: Prologue to the Canterbury TalesEdmund Spenser: The Fairie Queene, Canto 1

UNIT BThomas Wyatt: Farewell Love, They Flee from MeHenry Howard Earl of Surrey: My Friend, The Things That Do Attain, The Soote SeasonWilliam Shakespeare: Sonnets 18, 116, 131, 154

UNIT CJohn Donne: The Sun Rising, Exatasie, A Valediction Forbidding MourningAndrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress, The GardenGeorge Herbert: The Pulley, Virtue

UNIT DJohn Milton: Paradise Lost, Book 1

UNIT EJohn Dryden: Mac FlecknoeAlexander Pope: Dunciad, Book IV

Note: Explanations shall be from units B C and D.

Suggested Reading :

A.E Barker, ed., Milton: Modern essays in Criticism. Oxford, 1965A.J.A Waldock, Paradise Lost and its Critics. Cambridge, 1961Casebook series: Chaucer; The Canterbury Tales, ed., J.J Anderson, macmillan, LondonCasebook series: Milton: Paradise Lost, ed., A.E. Dyson & Julian Lovelock. Macmillan, LondonCasebook series: Pope: The Rape of the Lock, ed., John Dixon Hunt. Macmillan, LondonCasebook series: Spenser: The Fairie Queene, ed., Peter Bayley. Macmillan, LondonCasebook series: The metaphysical Poets, ed., Gerard Hammond. Macmillan, LondonChaucer’s Poetry: An Anthology for the Modern Reader, ed., E.T. Donaldson. NY, 1958D.Brooks Davies, Spenser’s Fairie Queene: A critical Commentary on Books I & II. Manchester, 1977Dryden, A Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth Century views Series, ed., Bernard N. Shilling.Prentice Hall, New DelhiE. Miner, Dryden’s Poetry. Bloomington, 1969E.C. Wagenknect, ed., Chaucer: Modern Essays in Criticism, 1959

Eliot, T.S., “The Metaphysical Poets”, in Selected Essays, London, 1932Gardner, Helen, ed., The Metaphysical Poets, Penguin Books, 1984H. Vendler, The Poetry of George Herbert, Cambridge, Mass., 1975H.C. White, The Metaphysical Poetry, NY, 1936J. & H.K. Kingsley, eds., Dryden: The Critical Heritage, London, 1971J.B. Leishman, The Monarch of Wit, London, 1962J.V. Guerinot, ed., Pope: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood Cliff, 1972John Donne: A Collection of Critical Essays, Twentieth Century views Series, ed., Helen Gardner,Prentice Hall, New DelhiJohn Milton, Paradise Lost ed., M.Y. Hughes, NY, 1935M. Bowden, A Reader’s Guide to Geoffrey Chaucer, NY, 1964P. Dixon, The World of Pope’s Satires, London, 1968Readings in Literary Criticism: Critics on Chaucer, ed., Sheila Sullivan, George Allen and UnwinLtd., LondonReadings in Literary Criticism: Critics on Dryden, ed., David G. Longee, George Allen and UnwinLtd., LondonReadings in Literary Criticism: Critics on Pope, ed., Judith O’Neill, George Allen and Unwin Ltd.,LondonSpenser, The Fairie Queene, ed., A.C. Hamilto, London 1977Spenser: A Collection of Critical essays, Twentieth Century views Series, ed., Harry Berger, PrenticeHall, New DelhiThe Cambridge Chaucer Companion, ed., Piero Boitani & Jill Mann, CUP, CambridgeThe Cambridge Companion to Milton, ed., Stuart Curran, CUP, Cambridge

MA(ENG) 402: Drama from Shakespeare to Sheridan

Objectives

1. To give the students first-hand knowledge of the major English dramatist fromShakespeare to Goldsmith.

2. To acquaint them with the development of English drama along with intellectual and socialbackground.

Required Reading

UNIT AChristopher Marlowe: Doctor FaustusThomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy

UNIT BWilliam Shakespeare: Hamlet

UNIT CWilliam Shakespeare: The TempestBen Jonson: The Alchemist

UNIT DJohn Webster: The Duchess of MalfiWilliam Congreve: The Way of the World

UNIT ERichard Sheridan: The RivalsWilliam Wycherly: The Country Wife

Note: Explanations shall be from Unit B & C

Suggested Reading:

Ben Jonson, The AlchemistBen Jonson: A Collection of Critical Essays, Twentieth Century Views Series, ed., Jonas A. Barish,Prentice Hall, New DelhiCasebook Series: Jonson: Everyman in His Humour and The Alchemist, ed., R.V. Holdsworth,Macmillan, LondonCasebook Series: Marlowe: Doctor Faustus, ed., John Jump, Macmillan, LondonCasebook Series: Webster: The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, ed., R.V. Holdsworth,Macmillan, LondonD.B. Murray, Thomas Kyd, NY, 1970D.D. Moor, Webster and His Critics, Baton Rouge, La., 1966D.M. Holmes, The Art of Thomas Middleton, Oxford, 1970Doctor Faustus, ed., J.D. Jump, London, 1962Everymen and Medieval Miracle Plays, ed., A.C. Crawley, 1956F.T. Bowers, Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, Princeton, NJ, 1959G.K & S.K. Hunter, eds., John Webster: A Critical Anthology, Penguin, 1969J.M. Maclure, ed., Marlowe: The Critical Heritage, London, 1979John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, ed., J.R. Brown, London, 1964Kinghorn, A.M., Medieval Drama, London, 1968Marlowe: A Collection of Critical Essays, Twentieth Century Views Series, ed., Clifford Leech,Prentice Hall, New DelhiP. Brockbank, Marlowe: Doctor Faustus, London, 1963Readings in Literary Criticism: Critics on Marlowe, ed., Judith O’Neill, George Allen and UnwinLtd., LondonSticca, S., ed., The Medieval Drama, NY, 1972T.S. Eliot, ‘Ben Jonson’ in Selected Essays, London, 1932The Duchess of Malfi, ed., J.R. Brown, London, 1964The Spanish Tragedy, ed., P. Edwards, London, 1959

MA(ENG) 403: Non-Fictional Prose

Objectives

1. To give the students first-hand knowledge of the major English Prose writers from Baconto Hazlitt.

2. To acquaint them with the development of English Prose along with intellectual and socialbackground.

Required reading

UNIT AFrancis Bacon: Of studies; Of Ambition; Of Friendship; Of Superstition

UNIT B

John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress

UNIT CAddison & Steele: The Spectator about Himself, Sir Roger at Church, Will Wimble, TheGentleman, The Spectator’s Club

UNIT DCharles Lamb: Dream Children, Chimney Sweepers, A Dissertation upon a Roast Pig, OxfordDays

UNIT EWilliam Hazlitt: My Acquaintance with Poets (Coleridge, Mr. Wordsworth, On Shakespeare andMilton)

Suggested Reading

B.W. Vickers, Francis Bacon, London, 1978C. Dawson & J. Pfordsheimer, eds., Arnold: Prose writings: The Critical Heritage, London, 1979Case Book series: Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress, ed., Roger Sharrock, Macmillan, LondonD.Kay, Short fiction in The Spectator, Alabama 1975D. Watt, ed., Aldous Huxley: The Critical Heritage, 1975F. V. Randel, The World of Elia: Charles Lamb’s Essayistic Romanticism, London 1975Francis Bacon, Selected Works, ed., A. Johnston, London 1965G. L. Babarnett, Charles lamb: The Evolution of Elia, Bloomington, Ind., 1964H. Talon, John Bunyan: The Man and His Works, London 1951J. Atkins, Aldous Huxley: A Literary Study, 1956John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, ed., J. B. Wharen, Oxford, 1960K. R. Wallace, Francis Bacon on the Nature of Man, London 1967L. Trilling, Matthew Arnold, NY 1963L. A. Elioseff, The Cultural Milieu of Addison’s Literary Criticism, Austin, 1963R. Sharrock, John Bunyan, London, 1968Readings in Literary Criticism: Critics on Matthew Arnold, ed., Jacqueline Latham, George Allen &Unwin Ltd. London

MA(ENG) 404: ELT and Phonetics of English

Objectives

1. To acquaint students with the basic concepts of language teaching and help them acquirethe skills and knowledge of teaching English.

2. To enable students to acquire competency in the pronunciation of English.

Required reading

UNIT AEnglish in the global context; ELT in India in historical perspective

UNIT BPrinciples and practice of ELT: Language acquisition, Language learning theories

UNIT CLanguage Skills

UNIT DPhonetics of English:The Air-Stream Mechanism and the Organs of SpeechThe Sounds of English

UNIT EWord Accent: Accent of Rhythm and Connected SpeechIntonationPractice in Phonetic TranscriptionPractice Language Laboratory

Suggested Reading:

Agnihotry, R.K. & Khanna, eds., English Language Teaching in India, New Delhi, Sage, 1995Fotos, S. & Brown, C. eds.,New Perspectives on CALL for Second and Foreign Language Classroom,Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004Howatt, A.P.R. A History of English Language Teaching, Oxford, OUP, 1994Hutchinson, T. & Waters, A. English for Specific Purposes, Cambridge, CUP, 1987Nunan, D. Syllabus Design, Oxford, OUP, 1994Stern, H.H. Fundamental Concepts of Language Teaching, Oxford, OUP, 1983

Semester II

MA(ENG) 405: Literary Theory and Criticism -1

Objectives

1. To acquaint the students with important critics from Aristotle to some modern critics.2. To encourage the students to undertake further readings in critical movements and

critical theory.

Required Reading

UNIT AAristotle: PoeticsLonginus: On the Sublime

UNIT BJohn Dryden: An Essay on Dramatic PoesieS.T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria (Chapter XIV)

UNIT CSamuel Johnson: Preface to ShakespeareMatthew Arnold: The Function of Criticism

UNIT DT.S. Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent

F.R. Leavis: Revaluation (Chapter VI)

UNIT EWilliam Empson: The Seven Type of AmbiguityI.A. Richards: From Principles of Criticism : a. Psychological Theory of Value

b. Theory of Poetry – Naturec. Theory of Communication etc.

Suggested Reading:

D.H. Rawlinson, The Practice of Criticism, Cambridge, 1968D.J. Enright & Ernst DE Chickera, English Critical Texts, OUP, 1986D.K. Chopra, ed. Literary Criticism: An Anthology, Loyal Book Depot, Meerut, 1974T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood,London, Methuen, 1920F.R. Leavis, Coleridge in Criticism, Scrutiny, Vol. IX, No. 1, June 1940G. Tillotson, Criticism and the 19th Century, London, 1951

Humphry House, ed., Aristotle’s Poetics, London, 1956I.A. Richards, Coleridge on Imagination, London, 1934J.W.H. Atkins, English Literary Criticism: 17th & 18th Centuries, London, 1951Northrop Frye, The Anatomy of Criticism, Princeton, 1957Sean Lucy, T.S. Eliot and the Idea of Tradition, London, 1960T.R. Henn, Longinus and English Criticism, Cambridge, 1934Vivas, Eliseo, The Objective Correlative of T.S. Eliot, The American Bookman, 1(Winter), 1944W, Hamilton, Aristotle’s Art of Poetry, Fyfe, Oxford, 1940W.J. Bate, Preface to Criticism, Doubbleday, 1960William Walsh, Coleridge: The Work and the Relevance, London, 1967MA(ENG) 406: Romantic and Victorian Poetry

Objectives:

1. To give the students first-hand knowledge of the major poets from Blake to Rossetti.2. To acquaint them with the development of English poetry along with intellectual and

social background.

Required Reading

UNIT ARobert Burns: Duncan Grey, Mary Morrison, Song - A Farewell to ElizaWilliam Blake: London, The Echoing Green, The Lamb, The Chimney Sweeper

UNIT BWilliam Wordsworth: The Prelude (Book I)S.T. Coleridge: Kubla Khan, Christabel

UNIT CJohn Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode on MelancholyP.B. Shelley: To a Skylark, Ode to the West Wind, The Cloud

UNIT DAlfred Tennyson: Tithonus, Ulysses, The Lotus EatersRobert Browning: Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea del Sarto

UNIT EMatthew Arnold: The Scholar GypsyChristina Rossetti: A Birthday, An Apple Gathering, Song

Suggested Reading:C. Dawson, ed., Arnold: The Poetry: The Critical Heritage, London, 1973.C. Woodring, Wordsworth, Cambridge, Mass., 1968.C.B. Tinker & H.F. Lowry, The Poetry of Matthew Arnold: A Commentary, N.Y., 1940.C.R. Woodring, Poetics in the Poetry of Coleridge, Madison, Wis., 1961.Casebook Series: William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience, ed., Margaret Bottral,Macmillan, LondonCasebook Series: Browning: Men and Women and Other Poems, ed., J.R. Watson, Macmillan,London.Casebook Series: Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner and Other Poems, ed., Alun R. Jones & WilliamTydeman, Macmillan, London.Casebook Series: John Keats: Odes, ed., G.S. Fraser, Macmillan, London.Casebook Series: Wordsworth: The Prelude, ed., W.J. Harvey & Richard Gravil, Macmillan,London.D. Smalley & B. Litzinger, Browning: The Critical Heritage, London, 1970.D.G. Gillham, Blake’s Contrary States: The Songs of Innocence & of Experience as DramaticPoems, Cambridge, 1966.David Green, The Winged Word, macmillan.G.E. Bentley, ed., William Blake: The Critical Heritage, London, 1975.H. Bloom & A. Munich, eds., Robert Browning: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood Cliffs,N.J., 1979.H. Tennyson, ed., Studies in Tennyson, London, 1981.J.C. Maxwell, ed., The Prelude, Penguin Books, 1971.J.D. Jump, ed., Tennyson: The Critical Heritage, London, 1968.J.M. Murry, Studies in Keats, London, 1955.K. Coburn, ed., Coleridge: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1967.Ostrike, ed., The Complete Poems of William Blake, Penguin Books, 1977.P.D. Sheats, The Making of Wordsworth’s Poems, Cambridge, Mass., 1973.Preface Books: A Preface to Keats, ed., Cedric Watts, Longman, N.Y.Preface Books: A preface to Wordsworth, ed., John Purkins, Longman, N.Y.Readings in Literary Criticism: Critics on Blake, ed., Judith O’Neill, George Allen & Unwin Ltd,London.Readings in Literary Criticism: Critics on Keats, ed., Judith O’Neill, George Allen & Uwin Ltd,London.S.M. Sperry, Keats the Poet, Princeton, N.J., 1973.V. Sachithanandan, ed., Six English Poets, Macmillan.

MA(ENG) 407: Fiction from Richardson to Hardy

Objectives:

1. To give the students first-hand knowledge of the major fictional texts.2. To acquaint them with the development of English English along with intellectual and

social background.

Required Reading

UNIT ASamuel Richardson: PamelaDaniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

UNIT BHenry Fielding: Tom JonesWalter Scott: Ivanhoe

UNIT CJane Austen: Pride and PrejudiceEmily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

UNIT DGeorge Eliot: MiddlemarchCharles Dickens: Great Expectations

UNIT EWilliam Thackeray: Vanity FairThomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge

Suggested Reading:

Allott, M., Charlotte Bronte: The Critical Heritage, London, 1974.B. Hardy, The Novels of George Eliot, London, 1959.B. Harrison, Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones: The Novelist as Moral Philosopher, London, 1975.B.C. Southam, ed., Critical Essays on Jane Austen, London, 1969.Casebook Series: Henry Fielding: Tom Jones, ed., Neil Compton, Macmilla, London.Casebook Series: Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey & Persuasion, ed., B.C. Southam, Macmillan,London.Casebook Series: George Eliot: Midlemarch, ed., Patrick Swinden, Macmillan, London.Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, ed., E. Kelley, N.Y. 1973.Fielding: A Collection of Critical Essays, Twentieth Century Views Series, ed., Ronald Paulson,Prentice Hall, New Delhi.Gordon. S. Haight, ed., A Century of George Eliot Criticism, Boston, mass., 1965.Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Penguin, 1966J. Mcmaster, Thackeray: The Major Novels, Menchester, 1971Leavis, F.R. & Leavis, Q.D. Dickens The Novelist, London, 1970P. Collins, ed., Dickens: The Critical Heritage, London, 1971P. Earle, The World of Defoe, London, 1976.P. Rogers, ed., Defoe: The Critical Heritage, London, 1972Preface Books: A Preface to Dickens, ed., Allan Grant, Longman, NYPreface Books: A Preface to Jane Austen, ed., Christopher, G. Longman, NYR. Liddell, The Novels of Jane Austen, London, 1963R.K. Miller, Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones and the Romantic Tradition, Victoria, 1976.William Barker, ed., Readings in Literary Criticism: Critics on George Eliot, George Allen & UnwinLtd, London.

MA(ENG) 408: ELT: Theory and Practice

Objectives:

1. To acquaint the students with the basic concepts of and latest trends in language teachingand to help them acquire the skills and knowledge of teaching English.

Required Reading

UNIT ALanguage Teaching: Different approaches; methods, techniques, procedures

UNIT BSyllabus Designing and Material Production

UNIT CTeaching of Literature

UNIT DComputer in Language TeachingEvaluation, Testing

UNIT EPeer Teaching (Practical)

Suggested Reading:

Nunan, D. Syllabus Design, Oxford, OUP, 1994Nunan, D. Task-based Language Teaching, Cambridge, CUP, 2004Richards, J. C. & Rogers, Approaches and MethodsStern, H.H. Fundamental Concepts of Language Teaching, Oxford, OUP, 1983Tudor, Ian, The Dynamics of the Language Classroom, Cambridge, CUP, 2001

Semester III

MA(ENG) 501: Literary Theory and Criticism- II

Objectives

1. To give the students first-hand knowledge of the major critics and their works.2. To acquaint them with the critical trends and application of theory to literary texts.

Required Reading

UNIT ASigmund Freud: Creative Writers and Day-dreaming (From Art and Literature)Carl Jung: On the Concept of the Archetype: The Mother Archetype

UNIT BNorthrope Frye: Myth, Fiction and DisplacementRaymond Williams: Romantic Artist

UNIT CLuis Althussar: Ideology and State Apparatus

Stephen Greenblatt: Resonance and Wonder

UNIT DMikhail Bekhtin: Radelais and His WorldRoland Barthes: The Death of the Author

UNIT EJacques Derrida: The Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human SciencesJudith Butler: Desire

Suggested Reading:

Aston, N.M., ed., Trends in the twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Prestige, New Delhi, 1998.Barthes, R. Mythologies, London, Jonathan Cape, 1972.Beaver, Harold, American Critical Essays: Twentieth Century, London, O.U.P., 1961.Benjamin , Art, From New criticism to Deconstruction, Urbana University of Illinois Press, 1998.Belsey, Catherine & Moore, Jane, eds., The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics ofLiterary Criticism, London, Macmillan 9189.Beennett, Tony, Formalism and Marxism, London, Methuen, 1979.Bodkin, Maud, Archetypal Patterns in Poetry, London OUP, 1937.Cameron, Deborah, Feminism and Linguistic Theory, London, Macmillan, 1985.Cowan, Louise, The Southern Critics, Texas University of Dallas Press, 1972.Crane, R.S., Critics & Criticism: Ancient and Modern, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1952.Crane, R.S., The Language of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry, Toronto, Toronto UniversityPress.Culler, Jonathan, On Deconstruction, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983.Culler, Jonathan, Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism Linguistics and the Study of Literature,London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975.Diaches, David, Critical Approaches to Literature, Orient Longman Ltd, 1956.David, R.C., Literary Criticism & Theory: The Greek to Present, New York, Longman, 1989.De George, Richard & Fernande, ed., The Structuralists, Doubbleday, N.Y., 1972.De Man, Paul, Blindness and Insight, London, O.U.P., 1971.Derrida, Jacques, Of Grammatology, John Hopkins University Press, 1976.Derrida, Jacques, Writing and Difference, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.Dictionary of Literary Biography: Modern American Critics Since 1955, Vol. 67, Detroit, GaleResearch, 1988.Eagleton, Mary, ed., Feminist Literary Criticism, London, Longman, 1990.Eagleton, Mary, ed., Feminist Literary theory, Oxford, Blackwell, 1986.Eagleton, Terry, Marxism and Literary Criticism, London, Methuen, 1976.Empson, William, Seven Types of Ambiguity, London, Penguin, 1961.Foster, Richard, The New Romantics, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1962.Freud, Elizabeth, The Return of the Reader: Reader Response Criticism, London, Methuen.Freund, Elizabeth, The Return of the Reader Response Criticism, London, Methuen, 1987.Fry, Northrop, Anatomy of Criticism, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1957.Frye, Northrop, Anatomy of Criticism, New Jersey, Princeton Univ Press, 1957.Goldsmith, Arnold, American Literary Criticism 1905-65, American Twayne, 1979.Graff, Gerard, Literature Against Itself, Chicago, 1979.Hartman, Geoffrey, Beyond Formalism, Yale Univ. Press, new haven, 1970.Hartman, Geoffrey, ed., Deconstruction and Criticism, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979.Hassan, Ihab, The Postmodern Turn, Chicago State University, 1987.Hawkes, Terence, Structuralism & Semiotics, London, Methuen 1986.

Holland, N.N., The Dynamics of Literary Response, O.U.P., N.Y., 1968.Hutcheon. Linda, Formalism & The Freudian Aesthetics, Cambridge University Press, 1984.James, Fredric, Marxism & Form, Princeton University Press, 1971.Jane P. Tompkins, ed., Reader Response Criticism, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press,1980.Jauss, Hans Robert, Towards an Aesthetics of Reception, University of Minnesota Press, 1982.Jefferson, Ann & Robey, David, eds., Modern Literary Theory : A Comperative Introduction,London, Batsford, 1982.Lame, Michael, ed., Structuralism : A Reader, Cape, London, 1970.Lietch, Vincent, B., American Criticism from Thirties of Eighties, N.Y., Colombia University Press,1988.Lentricchia, Frank, After the New Criticism, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1980.Leon, L.T., and Marion, J. Reiss, Russian Formalist criticism, Lincoln, Univ. of Nebraska Press,1965.Lodge, David, ed., 20th Century Criticism, London, Longman, 1972.Lodge, David, ed., Modern Criticism and Theory : A Reader, London, Longman, 1988.Lodge, David, ed., Modern Criticism and Theory : A Reader, London, Longman, 1989.Norris, C., Deconstruction: Theory and Practice, London, Methuen, 1982.Pike, Christopher, ed., The Futurists, the Formalists and the Marxist Critique, London, Ink Links,1979.Robert, David, ed., Structuralism: An Introduction, O.U.P., London, 1973.Scott, Wilber, Five Approaches of Literary Criticism, London, Macmillan, 1962.Selden, Raman, A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory, Brighton, Harvester Press,1985.Seturaman, V.S., Contemporary Criticism: An Anthology, Madras, Macmillan, 1989.Weedon Chris, Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory, Blackwell, Cambridge, 1995.Welleck, Rene, “The Main Trends in Twentieth Century,” Yale Review LII (Oct.), 102-8.Welleck, Rene, ed., A History of Modern Criticism, 6 vols, New Haven, Conne., 1955-86.Wright, Elizabeth, Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice, London, Methuen, 1984.Yong, Robert, Untying the Text: A Post Structuralist Reader, Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.

MA(ENG) 502: Twentieth Century Poetry

Objectives

1. To give the students first-hand knowledge of the major poets of the 20th Century.2. To acquaint them with the development of modern English poetry along with intellectual

and social background.

Required Reading

UNIT AGerard Manley Hopkins: Pied Beauty, The Windhover, Spring and FallW. B. Yeats: Easter 1916, A Prayer for My Daughter, A Dialogue of Self and Soul, Leda and the Swan

UNIT BT. S. Eliot: The Waste Land

UNIT CWilfred Owen: Futility, Strange MeetingW. H. Auden: Musee des Beaux Arts, Spain 1937

Louis MacNeice: Sunday Morning, Bagpipe Music

UNIT DDylan Thomas: The Bread I Break, Fern Hill, The Hunchback in the ParkPhilip Larkin: Church Going, Ambulances, Maiden Name

UNIT ETed Hughes: Wind, A Dream of Horses, RelicSeamus Heaney: Churning Day, Digging, Personal Helicon

Note: Explanations shall be from units B and C

Suggested Reading:

Bob Blair. Ed., Poems of Wilfred Owen. 1920.Bloom Herold, Yeats; London. OUP. 1970Byrd. T.L., Jr. The Early Poetry of W.B. 1978.Ferris Paul. Dylan Thomas. A Biography. New York. Paragon House. 1989.Grant Michael, ed. T.S. Eliot. The Critical Heritage 1982.Hecht, Anthony. The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W.H. Auden. Cambridge. CUPMendelson, Edward. Ed., W.H. Auden Collected Poems New York: Vintage BooksRicks, Christopher. T.S. Eliot and Prejudice Faber. 1988Rodway, Allan. Preface to Auden. 1984.Pau.l Keegan, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The Collected Poems of Ted Hughes. 2003Williamson, George. A Reader’s Guide to T.S. Eliot, 2 ed 1966 rept. 1974.

MA(ENG) 503: Twentieth Century Drama and Fiction

Objectives

1. To give the students first-hand knowledge of the plays and fictional texts of the 20th

Century.2. To acquaint them with the development of modern English drama and fiction along with

intellectual and social background.

Required Reading

UNIT AG. B. Shaw: Man and SupermanJ. M. Synge: Riders to the Sea

UNIT BSamuel Beckett: Waiting for GodotHarold Pinter: Birthday Party

UNIT CJoseph Conrad: Lord JimJames Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

UNIT DD. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers

Muriel Spark: The Crime of Ms. Jean Brodie

UNIT EGraham Greene: The Power and the GloryKingsley Amis: Lucky Jim

Note: Explanations shall be from Unit A

Suggested Reading:

Allan Massie. The Novel Today: A Critical Guide to the British Novel 1970 – 1989. London:Longman 1999.Cedric Watts. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness : A Critical and Contextual Discussion. Milan. 1977Chester G. Anderson. James Joyce. Thomas and Hudson. 1986.F.R. Leavis. The Great Tradition. London: Chatto and Windus 1948. Rpt. 1963.Judy Sproxton. The Woven of Muriel Spark. London: Constable ; 1992.Malcolm Bradbury. The Modern British Novel. Penguin. 1993.Muriel Spark. Curriculum Vitae: Constable.1992.Sheldon Bolt. A Preface to James Joyce. Longman. 1981.Sheldon Brivic. The Veil of Signs. University of Illinois Press. 1999.Zdzislaw Najder. Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle. New Brunswik: Rutyers University Press 1983.

MA(ENG) 504: Indian Writing in English

Objectives

1. To give the students first-hand knowledge of the plays and fictional texts of the Indianswriting in English.

2. To acquaint them with the development of Indian writing in English along withintellectual and social background.

Required Reading

UNIT ATagore: Leave this Chanting, Poem no. XXXVI, This is My Prayer to TheeNissim Ezekiel: Enterprise, Background Casually, In India

UNIT BMahesh Dattani: TaraGirish Karnad: Hayavadana

UNIT CR. K Narayan: The English TeacherMulk Raj Anand: Untouchable

UNIT DAnita Desai: Fire on the MountainRohinton Mistry: Such a Long Journey

UNIT ENirad C. Chaudhury: The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

Note: Explanations shall be from Unit A

Suggested Reading:

Birendranath. Cultural Contours of NorthEast India. Oxford. OUP. 2012.Chetan Jain, Viswas. G and Anand Rao. Gitanjali. 2004Dhruva N. Chaudhuri. Nirad Chaudhuri: Many Shades, Many Frames. New Delhi: OUP. 2011.King, Bruce Alvin – Three Indian Poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan, Dom Moraes.Madras. Oxford: OUP. 1991.King, Bruce Alvin. Modern Indian Poetry in English. Revised Edition. New Delhi: OUP.1987, 2001.

Kain, Geoffrey. R. K. Narayan: Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Michigan StateUniversity. 1993.Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (ed.). The Oxford Indian Anthology of Twelve Modern IndianPoets. Calcutta: OUP. 1992.Morgeiy Sabin. Dissenters and Mavericks: Writings about India in English. New Delhi. OUP. 2002.Ramtake. S.S. Critical Response to R.K. Narayan. New Delhi: Sarup and Sons. 1998.

Roger Lancelyn. Later Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century English and European Novelists:Rudy and Kipling (Critical Heritage). 1997.Vasudha Dalmia and Rashim Sadana. Modern Indian Culture. Cambridge CUP. 2012

Semester IV

Core Papers:

MA(ENG) 505: Postcolonial Literature

Objectives

1. To familiarise the students with post colonial theory and literary texts.2. To acquaint them with the intellectual and social background to these texts.

Required reading

UNIT AEdward Said: From OrientalismH. Bhabha: Nation and NarrationFrantz Fanon: The Fact of Blackness

UNIT BSalman Rushdie: Midnight’s ChildrenAmitav Ghosh: Shadow Lines

UNIT CV. S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. BiswasGeorge Lemming: In the Castle of My Skin

UNIT DMicheal Ondaatje: The English PatientB. Sidhwa: Ice-candy Man

UNIT E

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall ApartNgugi wa Thiongo: Weep Not Child

Suggested Reading:

Ashcroft, William D. Key Concepts in Post – Colonial Studies. London: Routledge. 1998.Azim, Firdous: The Colonial rise of the Novel. London: Routledge 1993Balogun, F. Odun. Ngugi and African Postcolonial Narrative Performance. Quebec, Can: WorldHeritage.Bhabha Homi K. Locations of Culture: Discussing Post Colonial Culture: London. Routledge. 1996.Breckenridge, Carol and Peter Van der Veer. Eds – Orientatlism and Postcolonial Predicament:Perspectives on South Asia. Philadelphia 1994.Chambers, Lain, Lidia Curti, eds. The Post-colonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons.London: Routledge 1996.Collett, Anne, Larsjensen, and Anna Rutherford, eds. Teaching Postcolonialism Literary Cultures.Amesterdam. Neth: Rodopi 1992.

Chinua Achebe. An Image of Africa. The Chancellor Series. 1074 – 75. Amherst: University ofMassachusets Press. 1976.Das, Bijay Kumar: Critical Essays on Post Colonial Literature New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers 1999.

MA(ENG) 506: Literature on Ecology

Objectives

1. To make the students aware of the ecological connections.2. To acquaint them with some of the issues and reading of the texts in that light.

Required Reading

UNIT AMary Daly: Gyn/EcologySusan Friffin: Women and Nature: Roaring Inside HerRachel Karson: Silent Spring

UNIT BProfile of a River (From The Brahmaputra by A.K. Dutta)Ganga: The Goddess Ganges in Hindu Sacred GeographyThe Kaveri In Legend and Literature (The last two essays are from The Waterlines by AmitaBhaskar)

UNIT CMyth and Legend from The Painted Words by G.N. DevySelected Writings of Ruskin Bond and Rabindranath Tagore

UNIT DResponse to nature with special reference to the works of Thoreau and Maheswata Devi

UNIT EVarious Ecological Movements: Silent Valley, Chipko, Narmada

Suggested Reading:

Elizabeth Delougherey and George B. Handley. Postcolonial Ecologies. The Literatures of theEnvironment. Oxford. OUP. 2011.Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin. Postcolonial Ecocriticism. Literature, Animals, EnvironmentLondon. Routledge. 2010.

Laurence Coupe. The Green Studies Reader. From Romanticism to Ecocriticism. London. Routledge.2000.Timothy Clark. Literature and the Environment. Cambridge: CUP. 2011

Elective Papers (Any Two):

MA(ENG) 507: Gender and Literature

Objectives

1. To acquaint the students with theories of gender.2. To encourage them to apply the theories for analysis of some literary texts.

Required reading

UNIT AMary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of WomanVirginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own ViewKate Millet: Sexual Politics

UNIT BDoris Lessing: The Golden Note bookMargaret Atwood: The Edible Woman

UNIT CToni Morrison: BelovedBuchi Emecheta: The Slave Girl

UNIT DKamala Markandeya: Nectar in a SieveSarat Chandra Chatterjee: The Final Question

UNIT ERama Mehta: Inside the HaveliSashi Deshpande: That Long SilenceSuggested Reading:

Elaine Showalter. Sexual Anarchy. London. Bloomsbury 1991.Harris, Tradier. Fiction and Folklore. The Novels of Toni Morrison.Mckay, Nellie. Y (ed) Critical Essays on Toni MorrisonSumana, K. The Novels of Toni Morrison: A Study in Race, Gender and Class.

MA(ENG) 508: American Literature

Objectives

1. To give the students first hand knowledge of American writers and their works.2. To acquaint them with the development of American literature with necessary intellectual

and social background.

Required reading

UNIT AWalt Whitman: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard BloomedRobert Frost: After Apple Picking, Mending Wall, Fire and IceAllen Ginsberg: America, Kadish

UNIT BR.W. Emerson: The American ScholarH.D. Thoreau: From Walden (First Chapter)

UNIT CEugene O’ Neil: The Ice ComethArthur Miller: Death of a Salesman

UNIT DNathaneil Hawthorn: The Scarlet LetterMark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

UNIT EErnest Hemmingway: A Farewell to ArmsSaul Bellow: Herzog

Suggested Reading:

C.C. Walcutt, ‘The Scarlet Letter and its Modern Critics’, Nineteenth Century Fiction, 1953.Cowie Alexander, The Rise of the American Novel, American Book Co., 1948.D.A. Ringe, ‘Hawthorne’s Psychology of the Head and Heart’, Publication of the Modern LanguageAssociation, 1950.E.C. Sampson, ‘Motivation in the Scarlet letter’, American Literature, 1957.Elizabeth Ammons, ed. Harriot Beecher Stove: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Norton, W.W. & Co, 1993.Fiedler, Leslie, Love and Death in the American Novel, N.Y., Criterion, 1960.Hillway, Tyrus & Luther, eds., Moby Dick Centennial Essays, Dallas, 1953.Jones, Howard, The Theory of American Literature, Cornell, 1984.Leary, Lewis, ed., Contemporary Literary Scholarship: A Critical Review, N.Y., 1958.Levin, Harry, The Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Knopf, 1958.Loshe, Lillie, The Early American Novel, Frederick Ungar, 1958.Matthiessen, F.O., American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman,OUP, 1941.Michael T. Gilmore, ed., Twentieth Century Interpretations of Moby Dick, New Jersey, 1977.Regan, Robert, ed., Poe: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice hall, 1967Silverman, Kenneth, ed., New Essays on Poe’s Major Tales, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge,1993.Tate, Allen, ed., Sixty American Poets 1954.The Cambridge Companion, to Twain, ed. Forrest G. Robinson, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.The Cambridge Companion, to Whitman, ed. Ezra Greenspan, Cambridge Univ, Press, Cambridge.Wageuknecht, Edward, Cavalcade of the American Novel from the Birth of the Nation to the Middle of theTwentieth Century, Holt, 1952.

William J. Fisher, ed., American Literature of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology, Eurasia Pub.,House, New Delhi, 1996.Zabel, M.D., ed., Literary Opinion in America, N.Y., Harper & Brothers, 1951.

MA(ENG) 509: Communication and Media

Objectives

1. To acquaint the students with some relevant concepts in the field of communication andmedia.

2. To familiarise them with certain practical aspects of communication and media.

Required reading

UNIT AIntroduction to Communication: Development of Communication, Verbal and Non VerbalCommunication, Human Communication, Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Communication,Group and Organisational Communication

UNIT BTheories of Communication, Mass Communication, Strategic Communication

UNIT CIntroduction to Media, Communication, Advertisements, Types of Advertisements,Characteristics and Types of Aural and Visual Media (Radio, T.V)History and Development of Radio, T.V and other Visual Media

UNIT DFilm studies: Film Genre, Film Structure, Fiction, Non Fiction, Film and LiteratureNew Media (Internet and Cyber texts, Blogs etc)

UNIT EPrinting Media and Types of Print Media (Pamphlets, Journals, Periodicals, Newspapers etc)Indian Press: National and Regional or Vernacular Press

Suggested Reading:

Barker, L. Larry. Communication. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1990.Denis, McQuail. Mass Communication Theories: An Introduction. London: Sage, 1987.Fiske, John,. Introduction to Commuicatin Studies. London: Methuen, 1982.Jones, Stephen. Handbook of New Media. London: Sage, 2003.Krishna Murthy, Nadig. Indian Journalism: Origin and Growth of Indian Journalism from Asoka toNehru. Prasaranga: U of Mysore P, 1966.Metha, D.S. Mass Communication and Journalism in India. Allied: New Delhi, 1992.Monaco, James. How to Read a Film. New York, OUP, USA, 2000.

MA(ENG) 510: Indian Literature in Translation

Objectives

1. To give the students a feel of Bhasa traditions.2. To acquaint them with some literary texts in translation.

Required reading

UNIT AKalidas: Meghadutam (From The Loom of Time, Penguin)

UNIT BVijay Tendulkar: Silence! The Court is in SessionBadal Sircar: Evam Indrajit

UNIT CDharma Veer Bharti: Andha YugGirish Karnad: Nagamandala

UNIT DPremchand: GodanU. R. Ananthamurthy: Samskara

UNIT EGandhi: The Story of My Experiment with Truth

Suggested Reading:

Alok Bhalla. Andha Yug: Pharam Vir Bharati. Oxford: OUP.Chandler Daniel. Semiotics The Basics. Routledge New York. 2003.Girish Karnad . Evan Indrajit: Three Act Play. Oxford: OUP. 1975.Gupta, Prakash Chandra. Makers of Indian Literature: Prem Chand. 1998.Harish Trivedi. Premchand: A life, Amrit Rai. New Delhi: People’s Publishing House 1992K.P. Sethna. Problems of Ancient India, p-79 – 120 ch (The Time of Kalidasa) New Delhi:Aditya Prakashon. 2000.Karanth Meenakshi . Nagamandala : The Entwinning and Untwinng of Relations. 2007.Peter Gaeffke. A History of Indian Literature. Modern Indo – Arayan literature. Part I.Otto Marrassowitz Verlag. 1978.

Sastri, Gaurinath. A Concise History Of Classical Sauslen’t Literature (2 ed. 1960. Repr. Ed.)Delhi Motilal Banarsidas. 1987.Subheudu Sarkar. Two plays: Procession, Bhoma, Stale News. Seagulll. 1983.Schulz, Siegfried A. Premchand: A Western Appraisal. Indian Council for Cultural Relations.

MA(ENG) 511: World Literature in Translation

Objectives

1. To give the students a feel of World Literature.2. To acquaint them with some literary texts in translation from various national cultures.

Required reading

UNIT ADante: From Divine Comedy (Part I)

UNIT BSophocles: Oedipus RexEuripides: Media

UNIT CHonore de Balzac: EugeneFyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment

UNIT DAlbert Camus: The OutsiderFranz Kafka: The Castle

UNIT EGabriel Garcia Marquez: Chronicle of a Death ForetoldMario Vargas Llosa: Aunt Juliet and the Script Writer

Suggested Reading:

Alfred Bates (ed.) The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization Vol – I.London: Historical Publishing Company. 1906.

Balzac and Dostoyevsky Leonid Petrovich Grossman Amazon.com. 2002.Dodd, W.J. Kafka and Dostoyevsky: The Shaping Influence. Comparative Literature StudiesPennsylvania: State College 1994.

G.G. Murray’s Verse Translations: 1902 – 1906.Johanna Hanink. Parallel Lives: Civic Rhetoric in the Native Receptions of Euripides and Dante.S. Gilson. Dante and Renaissance Florence. Cambridge: 2005Ziolkowski, Theodere. The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal crisis. Princeton: New Jersey.2003.