Dr. B. R. AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY, SRIKAKULAM General ... English Syllabus.pdf · ii) First Class –CGPA 6.5 or more but less than 8.0 iii) Second Class –CGPA 5.5 or more but less

Dr. B. R. AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY, SRIKAKULAM

General Regulations relating to

POST GRAUDATE AND PROFESSIONAL COURSES

Syllabus under Credit Based Semester System

( with effect from 2009-2010)

1. Candidates seeking admission for the Masters/Professional Degree Courses shall be required to have passed the qualifying examination prescribed for the course of any University recognized

by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Srikakulam as equivalent there to

2. The course and scope shall be as defined in the Scheme of Instruction and syllabus prescribed.

3. The course consists of 2/4/6 semesters, @ two semesters/year, unless otherwise specified.

4. The candidates shall be required to take an examination at the end of each semester of the study as

detailed in the Scheme of Examination. Each semester theory paper carries a maximum of 100

marks, of which 85 marks shall be for semester-end theory examination of the paper of three

hours duration and 15 marks shall be for internal assessment

4. (a) Internal Assessment for 15 Marks: Two mid-term exams, one conventional (descriptive) and

the second – ‘on-line’ with multiple choice questions for each theory paper shall be conducted.

The average of these two mid-term exams shall be taken as marks obtained for the paper under

internal assessment. If any candidate appears for only one mid-term exam, the average mark,

dividing by two shall be awarded. If any candidate fails to appear for both the mid term exams of

a paper, only marks obtained in the theory paper shall be taken into consideration for declaring

the result. Each mid-term exam shall be conducted only once.

4. (b) Candidates shall be declared to have passed each theory paper if he/she obtains not less than E

Grade ie., an aggregate of 40 % of the total marks inclusive of semester-end and internal

assessment marks in each paper.

5. A candidate appearing for the whole examination shall be declared to have passed the

examination if he/she obtains a Semester Grade Point (SGP) of 5.0 and a CGPA of 5.0 to be

declared to have passed the Course.

6. Not withstanding anything contained in the regulations, in the case of Project

Report/Dissertation/ Practical/Field Work/Viva-voce etc., candidates shall obtain not less than D

grade, i.e., 50% of marks to be declared to have passed the examination.

7. ATTENDANCE: Candidates shall put in attendance of not less than 75% of attendance, out of the total number of working periods in each semester. Only such candidates shall be allowed to

appear for the semester-end examination.

7. (a) A candidate with attendance between 74.99% and 66.66% shall be allowed to appear for the semester-end examination and continue the next semester only on medical and other valid

grounds, after paying the required condonation fee.

7. (b) In case of candidates who continuously absent for 10 days without prior permission on valid grounds, his/her name shall automatically be removed from the rolls.

7 (c) If a candidate represents the University at games, sports or other officially organized extra-curricular activities, it will be deemed that he/she has attended the college on the days/periods

8 Candidates who put in a minimum of 50% attendance shall also be permitted to continue for the next semester. However, such candidates have to re-study the semester course only after

completion of the course period for which they are admitted. The candidate shall have to meet

the course fees and other expenditure.

9 Candidates who have completed a semester course and have fulfilled the necessary attendance requirement shall be permitted to continue the next semester course irrespective of whether they

have appeared or not at the semester-end examination, at their own cost.

Such candidates may be permitted to appear for the particular semester-end examination only in

the following academic year; they should reregister/ reapply for the Semester examination.

The above procedure shall be followed for all the semesters

10. Candidates who appear and pass the examination in all the papers of each and every semester at

first appearance only are eligible for the award of Medals/Prizes/Rank Certificates

11. BETTERMENT: Candidates declared to have passed the whole examination may reappear for

the same examination to improve their SGPA, with the existing regulations without further

attendance, paying examination and other fees. Such reappearance shall be permitted only with

in 3 consecutive years from the date of first passing the final examination. Candidates who wish

to appear thereafter should take the whole examination under the regulations then in vogue.

12. The semester-end examination shall be based on the question paper set by an external paper-

setter and there shall be double valuation for post-Graduate courses. The concerned Department

has to submit a panel of paper-setters and examiners approved by the BOS and the Vice-

chancellor nominates the paper-setters and examiners from the panel.

13. In order to be eligible to be appointed as an internal examiner for the semester-end examination,

a teacher shall have to put in at least three years of service. Relaxation of service can be

exempted by the Vice-Chancellor in specific cases.

14. If the disparity between the marks awarded in the semester-end examination by internal and

external examiners is 25% or less, the average marks shall be taken as the mark obtained in the

paper. If the disparity happens to be more, the paper shall be referred to another examiner for

third valuation. In cases of third valuation, of the marks obtained either in the first or second

valuation marks, whichever is nearest to the third valuation marks are added for arriving at the

average marks.

15. Candidates can seek revaluation of the scripts of the theory papers by paying the prescribed fee

as per the rules and regulations in vogue.

16. The Project Report/Dissertation/ Practical/Field Work/Viva-voce etc shall have double valuation

by internal and external examiners.

17. A Committee comprising of the HOD, one internal teacher by nomination on rotation and one

external member, shall conduct viva-voce examination. The department has to submit the panel,

and the Vice-chancellor nominates viva-voce Committee.

18. Grades and Grade Point Details (with effect from 2009-10 admitted batches)

S. No Range of Marks Grade

Grade Points

1. > 85 % O 10.0 2. 75 % – 84 % A 9.0 3. 67 % - 74 % B 8.0 4. 58 % - 66 % C 7.0 5. 50 % - 57 % D 6.0 6. 40 % - 49 % E 5.0 7. < 39 % F (Fail) 0.0 8. Incomplete:

(Shall be upgraded from E to O Grade on subsequent appearance of the same semester.

The corresponding Grade Points will be

awarded)

I

19. Calculation of SGPA (Semester Grade Point Average) & CGPA (Cumulative Grade Point Average):

For example, if a student gets the grades in one semester A,A,B,B,B,D in six subjects having credits

2(S1), 4(S2), 4(S3), 4(S4), 4(S5), 2(S6), respectively. The SGPA is calculated as follows:

{ 9(A)x2(S1)+9(A)x4(S2)+8(B)x4(S3)+8(B)x4(S4)+8(B)x4(S5)+6(D)x2(S6)} 162

SGPA = ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = ------ = 8.10

{2(S1) +4(S2) +4(S3) +4(S4) +4(S5) +2(S6)} 20

i. A student securing ‘F’ grade thereby securing 0.0 grade points has to appear and secure at least ‘E’

grade at the subsequent examination(s) in that subject.

ii. If a student gets the grades in another semester D, A, B, C, A, E, A, in seven subjects having credits 4(S1),

2(S2), 4(S3), 2(S4), 4(S5), 4(S6), 2(S7) respectively,

{6(D)x4(S1)+9(A)x2(S2)+8(B)x4(S3)+7(C)x2(S4)+9(A)x4(S5)+5(E)x4(S6)+9(A)x2(S7)} 162

SGPA = ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = ------ = 7.36

{4(S1) +2(S2) +4(S3) +2(S4) +4(S5) +4(S6) +2(S7)} 22

(9x2+9x4+8x4+8x4+6x2+6x4+9x2+8x4+7x2+9x4+5x4+9x2) 324

CGPA = ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ = -------- = 7.71

(20+22) 42

a) A candidate has to secure a minimum of 5.0 SGPA for a pass in each semester in case of all PG and

Professional Courses. Further, a candidate will be permitted to choose any paper(s) to appear for

improvement in case the candidate fails to secure the minimum prescribed SGPA/CGPA to enable the

candidate to pass at the end of any semester examination.

b) There will be no indication of pass/fail in the marks statement against each individual paper.

c) A candidate will be declared to have passed if a candidate secures 5.0 CGPA for all PG and Professional

Courses.

d) The Classification of successful candidates is based on CGPA as follows:

i) Distinction –CGPA 8.0 or more;

ii) First Class –CGPA 6.5 or more but less than 8.0

iii) Second Class –CGPA 5.5 or more but less than 6.5

iv) Pass –CGPA 5.0 or more but less than 5.5

e) Improving CGPA for betterment of class will be continued as per the rules in vogue.

f) CGPA will be calculated from II Semester onwards up to the final semester. CGPA multiplied by “10” gives

aggregate percentage of marks obtained by a candidate.

ANNEXURE – I

ELIGIBILITY

Course Qualifying Examination for Admission into

M. A. English

M. A. English B.A. (Special English)/B.A/B.Sc/ B.Com/

B.A. (OL)/B.F.A/B.A.L (with Part-I General

English for a minimum of 200 marks or more)

ANNEXURE – II

SCHEME OF INSTRUCTION

First Semester:

Course

no.

Title of the Paper Compulsory/Elective No. of periods of

Instruction per

Week

101 English Linguistics Compulsory 6 hours

102 Language Management &

Communication Skills

Compulsory 6 hours

103 British drama -I Compulsory 6 hours

104 British Poetry – I Compulsory 6 hours

105 British Prose and Fiction I Compulsory 6 hours

Second Semester:

Course

no.


Instruction per

Week

201 History and Spread of the

English Language

Compulsory 6 hours

202 Teaching of English Language

and Literature

Compulsory 6 hours

203 British Drama -II Compulsory 6 hours

204 British Poetry – II Compulsory 6 hours

205 British Prose and Fiction- II Compulsory 6 hours

Third Semester:

Course

no.


Instruction per

Week

301 Literary Criticism: Theory and

Practice - I

Compulsory 6 hours

302 American Literature - I Compulsory 6 hours

303 Indian Writing in English - I Compulsory 6 hours

304 New Literatures – (Other than

Indian)

Compulsory 6 hours

305a

305b

Specialization Papers

1. English Language

Teaching- I OR

2. Black Literature -I

Elective

6 hours

Fourth Semester:

Course

no.


Instruction per

Week

401 Literary Criticism: Theory and

Practice - II

Compulsory 6 hours

402 American Literature - II Compulsory 6 hours

403 Indian Writing in English - II Compulsory 6 hours

404 Classics in Translation Compulsory 6 hours

405a

405b

Specialization Papers

1. English Language

Teaching – II OR

2. Black Literature – II

Elective

6 hours

During all the Four Semesters Seminars on the above papers shall be conduced.

Annexure - III

Scheme of Examination as per Credit System

First Semester:

Course No. Title of the Paper

Credit Points

Max.

Marks.

Double Valuation

(Internal + External)

Internal Assessment

101 English Linguistics 4 100 8 85 1 15

102 Language Management and Communication

Skills

4 100 8 85 1 15

103 British Drama - I 4 100 8 85 1 15

104 British Poetry-I 4 100 8 85 1 15

105 British Prose and Fiction-I 4 100 8 85 1 15

Total 20 500 425 7 75

Second Semester:

Course

No.

Title of the Paper

Credit Points

Max.

Marks.

Double Valuation (Internal +

External)

Internal Assessment

201 History and Spread of the English Language 4 100 8 85 1 15

202 Teaching of English Language and Literature 4 100 8 85 1 15

203 British Drama - II 4 100 8 85 1 15

204 British Poetry - II 4 100 8 85 1 15

205 British Prose and Fiction-II 4 100 8 85 1 15

Total 20 500 425 7 75

Third Semester:

Course

No.

Title of the Paper

Credit Points

Max.

Marks.

Double Valuation

(Internal + External)

Internal Assessment

301 Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice - I 4 100 85 15

302 American Literature - I 4 100 85 15

303 Indian Writing in English 4 100 85 15

304 New Literatures (Other than Indian) 4 100 85 15

305a

305b

English Language Teaching-I (Elective)

OR

Black Literature-I (Elective)

4 100 85 15

Total 20 500 425 7 75

Fourth Semester:

Course

No.

Title of the Paper

Credit Points

Max.

Marks.

Double Valuation (Internal +

External)

Internal Assessment

401 Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice - II 4 100 85 15

402 American Literature - II 4 100 85 15

403 Indian Writing in English - II 4 100 85 15

404 Classics in Translation 4 100 85 15

405a

405b

English Language Teaching-II (Elective)

OR

Black Literature-II (Elective

4 100 85 15

20 500 425

7 75

# Average the marks obtained by a candidate to 100 to determine Grade point.

Total Marks and Total Credits of M.A. English

MARKS:- First, Second, Third & Fourth Semesters put together: 500+500+500+500 = 2000

CREDIT POINTS:First, Second, Third & Fourth Semesters put together:20+20+20+20 = 80

DR. B.R. AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY – SRIKAKULAM

M.A. English

Syllabus Semester – I

Course No- 101: ENGLISH LINGUISTICS

Unit - I

1. Definition and characteristics of Language

Speech and writing, form and meaning,descriptive accuracy, langue and

parole.

2. Language as a system of communication: Semiotics, or semiology.

Unit - II

3. Definition and Scope of Linguistics – Branches: Psycholinguistics,

Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics’.

Unit - III

4. English vowels and consonants: Phonetic Transcription. Classification of vowels

and consonants. Phonetic transcription should be confined to individual words

and brief passage.

Unit - IV

5. Phonology: Phone, Phoneme, allophone.

Unit - V

6. Stress, pitch and rhythm, Intonation.

a) Morphology: Inflections and Derivations.

b) Morphophonemic changes: elision, assimilation, voicing.

7. Noun phrase structure: determiners, countable and ; uncountable nouns.

8. Verb phrase structure; Lexical verbs, auxiliaries – tense, modality, aspect, voice.

9. Sentence structure: formal, functional and semantic categories (VPNP; subject,

object, complement adjunct, actor, goal instrument etc.)

10. Coordination, subordination, pronominalization.

11. ‘It – be’ constructions and ‘there-be’ constructions; Here is/are …….’and’ This is

…..’Constructions.

12. Prepositions and prepositional phrases; phrasal verbs.

13. Idioms, and modal idioms.

14. Homonymy, Synonymy, hyponymy, lexical set, antonymy, homography,

homophony

Suggested reading:

1. Peter, Roach 1997 English Phonetics and Phonology

(Cambridge: CUP)

2. Ronald, Wardhaugh 2003 Understanding English Gram


M.A. English

Syllabus

Semester – I

Course No- 102: LANGUAGE MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS.

Unit: I

1. The use of English for academic purposes and practical purposes.

2. Précis writing, paragraph development, discourse construction Business English,

correspondence, advertisements.

Unit: II

3. English for Science and Technology.

4. English for Law

Unit: III

5. English and the Media

6. Compering, public speaking

Unit: IV

7. English and the Theatrical arts

8. Note making, note taking, review writing, report writing

9. Intonation and punctuation

Unit: V

10. Grammar, Meaning and intonation

11. Editing, copy editing, referencing

12. Group discussion, interviews; body language

Suggested reading:

1. M.A. Yadugiri, & Geetha Bhaskar English for Foundation Books

2. Kamlesh Sadanand 1993 Language use in Industries (1993)

(Bahri Publications)


M.A. English


Course No- 103: BRITISH DRAMA – I

Unit - I

1. Christopher Marlowe : Doctor Faustus

Unit - II

2. William Shakespeare : Hamlet

3. William Shakespeare : Twelfth Night

Unit - III

4. Ben Jonson : Every Man in His Humour

Unit - IV

5. John Webster : The white Devil

Unit - V

6. William Congreve : The way of the world

Background study:

The Renaissance, The Elizbethan Theatre, Rise of the Drama, Humanism,

University Wits, Miracle and Morality Plays, Revenge, Tragedy, Romantic

Comedy, Satirical Coemdy, Tragi – comedy, Restoration Drama, Comedy of

Humours, Comedy of Manners.

Suggested Reading:

1. Allardyce Nicoll : A History of English Drama 3 Vol. Set

(Cambridge. 1946)

2. M.C. Brad brood : English Dramatic Form

3. G. Wilson Knight : The Golden Labyrinth

4. Snider Rose : Satire in the Comedies of Congreve,

Sheridan, Wlde and Coward.

5. John Loftis (Ed) : Restoration Drama: Modern essays in

criticism (O.U.O., New York)

6. Kauferman Ralph (Ed) : Elizabethan Drama

(O.U.O., New York)

7. Arthur Cromption – Rickett : A History of English Literature

8. Marjourie Boulton : Anatomy of Drama (Kalyani Publishers,

New Delhi)

9. Alfred Harbage : A Reader’s Guide to Shakespeare

10. Walter Raleigh : Shakespeare (Macmillan, Madras)

11. F.W. Bateson : English Comic Drama (O.U.P., Oxford, 1929)


M.A. English


Course No- 104: BRITISH POETRY-I

Unit: I

1. William Shakespeare : Sonnets (18,30,55,116,123,129,130)

Unit: II

2. John Donne : The Flea Jealousy A Valediction of My

Name in the Window

Unit: III

3. John Milton : Paradise Lost – Book IX

Unit: IV

4. Alexander Pope : Rape of the Lock

Unit: V

5. Willism Wordsworth : Tintern Abbey Ode on the Intimations of

immortality. The Solitary Reaper.

6. John Keats : Ode to a Nightingale

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode to Autumn

Background Study:

The Renaissance, Elizabethan World Picture, Sonnet, Lyric, Ode, The Long

poem, Allegory, Satire in Verse, Metaphysical Poetry, Mock-heroic. The

Transition Poets, Elegy, Epic, Romanticism, Poetic-diction, Fancy and

Imagination.

Suggested reading:

1. David Daiches : A Critical History of English Literature

(Allied Pub. Pvt. Ltd. Bombay. 1979)

2. Grierson : A History of English Poetry

3. Marjorie Boulton : Anatomy of Poetry (Kalyani Publishers,

New Delhi)

4. M.C. Brad brook : Shakespeare and Elizabethan Poetry

5. Kenneth Muir : Shakespeare’s Sonnets


M.A. English


Course No- 105: BRITISH PROSE AND FICTION- I

PROSE:

Unit – I

Francis Bacon : Essays

Charles Lamb : Essays of Elia (First series)

Unit - II

Samuel Johnson : Preface to Shakespeare

FICTION:

Unit - III

Daniel Defore : Robinson Crusoe

Unit - IV

Charles Dickens : Great Expectations

Unit - V

Virginia Woolf : Three Guineas

Background study:

Humanism, Individualism, Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth

Century, fictional Prose in Elizebethan period, Satire in Prose, Neo-classicism and

the Enlightenment, The Periodicals, The Rise of the English Novel, The Novel of

Sentiment, The gothic Novel, Stream of Consciousness.

Suggested reading:

1. Brian Vickers : Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose

(Cambridge University Press)

2. Stanley Fish : Seventeenth Century Prose: Modern Essays in

Criticism (O.U.P., London)

3. Marjorie Boulton : Anatomy of Prose (Kalyani Publishers,

New Delhi)

4. Hugh Walker : The Literature of the Victorian Era

(S. Chand and Co., New Delhi)

5. Walter Allen : The English Novel: A Short Critical History

(Penguin Books, Harmondswoth)

6. David Skelton : The English novel

7. Church : The Growth of the English Novel

8. Arnold Kettle : An Introduction to the English Novel

Vol’s. I and 2

(Hutchinson University Library, London)


M.A. English

Syllabus Semester – II

Course No- 201: HISTORY AND SPREAD OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

UNIT-I

Language family: Indo – European family of Languages

UNIT-II

Old English and Middle English.

UNIT-III

Foreign elements in English: Greek, Latin, Scandinavian, French, Indian.

UNIT-IV

Phonological, Lexical, structural and Semantic changes.

UNIT-V

World Englishes: British, American, Australian and South Asian, Standardization of

regional varieties.

Suggested reading:

A.C. Baugh & T. Cable 1993 A History of the English Language

Routledge & Kegan Paul:

London

Barbara Strang 1970 A History of English Meethuen: London


M.A. English


Course No- 202: TEACHING OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Unit: I

1. Language as communication system; encoding, code decoding; filters; message –

content.

2. English as an adult language.

3. The use of LI in the teaching of English.

4. Approaches and Methods (3)

Unit: II

5. Curriculum development: syllabus design.

6. Testing and Evaluation.

7. Language Learning Theories (4).

8. Teaching Language through literature.

Unit: III

9. Teaching of Pronunciation.

10. Teaching of Lexicogrammar.

11. Teaching of meaning and use.

12. Literature as Verbal art.

Unit: IV

13. Cohesion and Coherence.

14. Figures of speech.

15. Deviance, parallelism, foregrounding.

16. Teaching of different forms of literature

Unit: V

17. Teaching of different authors and texts.

18. Lesson plan and Classroom Interaction.

19. Error Analysis and Remedial Teaching and strategies.

20. Computer Aided Language Learning and Teaching.

21. Classroom Management and Teaching Aids.

Suggested reading:

H.H. Stern 1983 Fundamental concepts of Language

Teaching O.U.P

N. Krishna Swamy & Lalitha English: Teaching

Approaches, Methods and Techniques


M.A. English


Course No- 203: BRITISH DRAMA – II

Unit: I

1. Oscar Wilde : Importance of Being Earnest

Unit: II

2. George Bernard Shaw : The Apple Cart

Unit :III

3. T.S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral

Unit: IV

4. J.M. Eliot : The Playboy of the Western World

Unit: V

5. Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot

6. Harold Pinter : Birthday Party

Background Study:

Abbey Theatre, The Irish Dramatic Movement, Problem Play, Poetic Drama,

Theatre of the Absurd, Post-Modern Trends in Drama, Anger and After Drama.

Suggested Reading:

1. Raymond Williams : Drama from Ibsen to Breech

(Penguin Books, 1973)

2. Berney and Templeton : Contemporary British Drama 1994

3. John Russel Brown : Modern British Dramatists

(Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1968)

4. Robert Brustein : The Theatre of Revolt: An Approach to Modern

Drama (Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1965)

5. John Russell Taylor: Anger and After: Guide to the New British Drama

(Eyre Methune, London, 1977)

6. Katherine J. Worth : Revolution in Modern English

7. Fredrick Lumley : New Trends in the Twentieth Century Drama: a

Survey since Ibsen and Shaw (O.U.P. 1972)

8. Eric Bentley : The Theory of the Modern Stage: An Introduction to

Theatre and Drama (Penguin Books 1968)

9. Banmer Gascoigne : Twentieth Century Drama

(Hutchinson, London, 1967)

10. Stratford Upon Avon Series: The Contemporary English Drama.


M.A. English


Course No- 204: BRITISH POETRY – II

Unit: I

1. Robert Browning : Andhra Del Sarto Fra Lippo LIppi My Last Duchess

Unit: II

2. T.S. Eliot : The Waste Land

Unit: III

3. W.B. Yeats : Byzantium, Sailing, to Byzantium

The Second Coming An Irish Airman foresees his

death.

Unit: IV

4. Rebort Graves : Recalling War, In Broken Images.

Unit: V

5. Philip Larkin : Church going, Whitsun Weddings.

6. Seamus Heaney : Digging At a Potato Digging

Background Study:

The Victorian Temper Science and Religion, Doubt and Faith, Dramatic

Monologue, Movement Poetry, Modernisms, War Poetry, Symbolism, Post – Modern

Trends in Poetry.

Suggested reading:

1. Barnes : English Verse, Voice and Movement from Wyatt to Yeats

2. Anthony Thwaite : Twentieth Century English Poetry

3. Jim Hunter ed : Modern Poets Four (Faber & Faber London Rpt, 1970)

4. F.R. Levis : New Bearings in English Poetry

5. Levine : The Victorian Experience: Poets

6. Perkins : A History of Modern Poetry

7. Boris Ford : New Pelican Guide to English Literature

(Modern Age) Vol.7 Penguin Books)

8. M.L. Rosenthal : The Modern Poets: A Critical Introduction (O.U.P)


M.A. English


Course No- 205: BRITISH PROSE AND FICTION-II

PROSE:

Unit: I

1. Thomas Carlyle : Hero as Poet

2. Lytton Strachey : Eminent Victorians

Unit: II

3. Frank Kermode : Uses of Error (1991) Title Essay

FICTION

Unit: III

1. William Golding : Right Passage

Unit: IV

2. Anthony Burgess : A Clock-Work Orange

Unit: V

3. Muriel Spark : The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Background Study:

Victorian Temper, The Theory of Evolution, Urbanization, Laissez, Faire,

Realism, Naturalism, Art; Culture and Society, Social Theory and Aesthetic, Radicalism,

Non-fictional Prose, Form and Function in Novel, Sixties and Social Revolution, Post-

Modern Trends in Novel, Anger and Working- Class Fiction, Problem of National

Identity in Scottish Literature.

Suggested reading:

1. Edmund J. Smith : Postmodernism and Contemporary Fiction

2. H. Fostyer (Ed) : Postmodern Cultures

3. John Lucas : Moderns and Contemporaries

4. Borris ford : New Pelican Guide to English Literature

(Penguin Books)

5. Fredrick Jameson : Postmodernism (Duke Univ. Press,

Durban, 1991)

6. Stevick : The Theory of Novel

7. Percy Lubbock : The Craft of Fiction (B.I. Publications,

New Delhi)

8. E.M. Foster : Aspects of the Novel (Penguin Books,

Edwin Muir: Harmondsworth

9. Structure of the Novel

10. J.W. Beach : Twentieth Century Novel (Lyall Books

Depot, Ludhiana, 1965)

11. Allen Walter : Tradition and Dream: A Critical Survey of

the British and American fiction from the

Nineteen twenties to the Present (Penguin

Books, 1964)

12. Leo Alison : Realism and Power: Postmodernist British

Fiction

13. Frank Kermode : The Sense of an Ending: Studies in theory

of Fiction (O.U.P. London 1969)

14. Stratford upon Avon Series : The Contemporary English Novel (Arnold

Heinemann, London 1979)

15. Paul West : The Modern Novel (Hutchinson & Co.,

London)


M.A. English

Syllabus Semester – III

Course No- 301: LITERARY CRITICISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE – 1

Unit: I

1. Aristotle : Poetics

Unit: II

2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Biographia Literaria (Chapter xiv)

Unit: III

3. Mathew Arnold : The Study of Poetry

Unit: IV

4. T.S. Eliot : Tradition and Individual Talent

Unit: V

5. I.A. Richards : The four Kinds of Meaning

6. Elaine Showalter : Towards a Feminist Poetics

Suggested reading:

1. David Daiches : Critical

Approaches to Literature (Orient

Longman, Delhi Rpt. 1977)

2. Cleanth Brooks and William K. Wimsatt: Literary Criticism: A Short History

(Oxford and IBH Pub Rpt. 1974)


M.A. English


Course No- 302: AMERICAN LITERATURE – I

Unit: I

1. Walt Whitman : When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

Out of the Cradle Endlessly rocking.

2. Emily Dickinson : Because I Could Not Stop for Death I Heard a

Fly Buzz when I Died if Your were coming in

the fall A Narrow fellow in the Grass I Drank a

Liquour Never Brewed the Soul Select Her

Own Society

Unit: II

3. Nathaniel Hawthorne : Scarlet Letter

Unit: III

4. Eugene O’Neill : The Hairy Ape

Unit: IV

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson : The American Scholar

Unit: V

6. Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry finn

Background Study:

Puritanism, transcendentalism, romanticism, the Rise of American Novel,

American Realism and Naturalism, Expressionism, The American Dream, Regionalism.

Suggested Reading:

1. S. Bradley : The American Tradition in Literature 2 vols

(W.W. Norton and Co, New York, 1962)

2. Horton, Rod. W. & Edwards : Background of American Literary thought.

Herbert (Prentice-Hall, New York 1967)

3. Rebort E. Spiller : The Cycle of American Literature (The Free

Press, New York, 1967)

4. P.c. Kar and Ramakrishna : The American Classics Revisited (American

Studies, Research)

5. Leo Marx : The Machine in the Garden (Oxford University

Press, New York, 1967)

6. Alan Dower : Fifty Years of American Drama

(Regonery, Chicago, 1951)

7. Marshall Walkar : The Literature of United States of American

(Macmillan Education Ltd. 1988)

8. William J. Fisher : American Literature of the Nineteenth

Century; An Anthology (Eurasia Publishing

House Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi, 1970)

9. Dr. Egbert S. Oliver : American Literature: 1990-1965 (Eurasis Pub.

House Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi, 1970)


M.A. English


Course No- 303: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH – I

Unit – I

1. Tour Dutt : Dhruva

Ekalavya

Jogadhya Uma

Unit - II

2. Rabindranath Tagore : Sadhana

Unit - III

3. Sri Aurobindo : Persesu the Deliverer

Unit - IV

4. R.K. Narayan : Man Eater of Malgudi

Unit - V

5. Mulk Raj Anand : Untouchable

6. Manjula Padmanadham : Harvest

Background study:

Colonialism, Rise of Nationalism, The Use of English for Political Awakening

and Cultural Unification, The Influence of Indian Mythology, Culture and Tradition, The

Rise of Prose-fiction, Indian Philosophy, Indian Drama, Social Consciousness in Indian

Drama in English, Dalit Consciousness, Rise of Indian Drama in English, Indian Women

Dramatists. Suggested Reading:

1.Ramaswamy and Sethuraman : The English Critical Tradition: Vol-And

2, Macmillan, India, 1977

2. K.A. Scott James : The Making of Literature (Allied Pub.

Pvt. Ltd, Bombay, Rpt. 1983)

3. George Watson : The Literary Critics (Penguin Books,

England R.E.D. 1973)

4. David Lodge : Twentieth Century Criticism and

Theory, A Reader

(Longman, London, 1972)

Suggested Reading:

1. K.R. Srinivasa Iyyengay : Indian Writing in English

(Sterling Pub. Pvt Ltd, 4th

edition, New Delhi)

2. M.K. Naik : A History of Indian English

Literature(SahityaAcademy,1989)

3. Meenakshi Mukherjee : Twice-Born fiction (Amold ------

Heinemann, New---- Delhi, 1971)

4. V.K. Gokak : English in India: Its Present and

Future(Asia Pub House, Bombay)

5. C.D. Narasimhaiah : The Swan and the Eagle (Indian

Instt. Of Advanced Study,

Simala, 1989)

6. David Mccutchion : Indian Writing in English:

Critical Essays, Writers

Workshop, Calcutta, 1971

7. Vasant A. Sahana & Saros Cowasjee : Modern Indian Fiction (Vivkas

Pub. House Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi)


M.A. English


Course No- 304: NEW LITERATURES (OTHER THAN INDIAN)

UNIT-I

1. A.D. Hope : Australia

The Death of the Bird

Trophy

House of God

UNIT- II

2. P.K. Page : Adolescence

First Neighbors

3. Margaret Laurence : Stone Angel

UNIT- III

4.Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart

UNIT-IV

5. V.S. Naipaul : Mimic Men

UNIT-V

6. Patrick White : Voss

Background Study:

Colonial Encounters, Post-colonial Discourse, Nationalism, Ethnicity, Nativism,

Race and Gender, Hybridity, Historical Background of West Indian Writing in English,

Africa’s Symbolic Importance, Use of Idioms and Proverbs in African Exile, The White

Australians, The Aboriginals, Australian Literary Imagination, Multi Ethnic Response of

Australian Experience, The Political and Social Background of Canadian Literature,

Immigration, The Montreal Movement, Canadian Feminism.

Suggested Reading:

1. Molly Mahood : Colonial Encounter: A Reading of Six Novels

(Rex Collins, London, 1977)

2. Bill asheroft et.al (eds) : The Empire Writers Back (Routledge, London,

1989)

3. William Walsh : A Manifold Voice (Chatto and Windus; London,1970)

4. Bruce King : Literature of the World in English

5. C.D. Narasimhaiah : Awakend Conscience (1978)

6. David Cook : African Literature of Australia

7. Geoffrey Dutton : The Literature of Australia

8. Margaret Atwood : Survial: A Thematic Guide to Australian Literature

9. Ngugi Wa Thiongo : Homecoming: Essays on African And Caribbean

Literature, Culture and Politics (Heinemann, London,

1972)


M.A. English


Course 305a -Elective: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING – I

Unit: I

1. Varieties of English: Dialects; Idiolects; Registers; Slang.

Unit: II

2. History of Language Teaching Methods.

Unit:III

3. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. Oral approach and situational

Language Teaching. Audio-Lingual Methods; Communicative Language

Teaching’ total Physical Response; the silent way. Community Language

Learning. The Natural Approach; Suggestopedia.

Unit: IV

4. Language Teaching Skills/Language Learning Theories. Language and cognition;

Behaviourist; rationalist; Mentalist. Language as skill/Bridge and remedial

Courses.

Unit: V

5. Problems and Principles; Reading; Writing; Listening; Speaking; E.S.P. & Study

Skills.

6. Teaching Practice: Lesson Plans to teach prose, poetry, Supplementary reader and

composition

Texts:

1. Penny UR. : A course in Language Teaching

2. Keith Johnson : Language Teaching and skills learning

3. H.B. Allen (ed.) : Teaching English as a Second Language

Suggested Reading:

1. N.S. Prabhu : Language Pedagogy

2. M. Celce Murcia&

L. Mointesh (eds.) : Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language

3. V.V. Yardi : Teaching English in India Today

4. V.K. Gokak : Teaching English in India


M.A. English


Course No- 305b-Elective : BLACK LITERATURE – I

Unit: I

1. Gabriel Okara : Once Upon a Time Spirit of the Wind The Mystic

Drum Were I to Choose

Unit: II

2. Derek Walcott : Ruins of a Great House

Unit: III

3. Alice Walker : The Color Purple

Unit: IV

4. Buchi Emecheta : The joys of Motherhood

Unit: V

5. Amiri Baraka : The Dutchman

6. J.P. Clark : The Example of Shakespeare

Suggested Reading:

1. E.R. Braithwaite : Rights of Passage

2. O.R. Dathorne : Caribbean Narrative (Heinemann

Educational, London, 1966)

3. O.R. Dathorne : African Literature in the Twentieth Century

(Heinermann, London, 1974)

4. Ezekiel Mphahalele : African Writing Today (Penguin Books,

Harmondsworth, 1967)

5. Peter Nazareth : An African View of Literature (North

Western Univ Press, Illinois, 1974)

6. Lewis Nkosi : Taske and Masks: Style and Themes in

African Literature Longman, London, 1966)

7. Daniel Hoffman : Harvard Guide to Contemporary American

Writing (Oxford Univ. Press, Delhi, 1979)


M.A. English

Syllabus Semester – IV

Course No- 401: LITERARY CRITICISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE – II

Unit: I

1. V. Sethuraman, C.T. India Sriraman : Practical Criticism (Analysis of a

Passage: Prose of Poem)

Unit: II

2. V. Sethuraman : Selections from Dhvanyaloks of

Ananda Varadhana from Indian

Aesthetics

3. V. Sethuraman : Selections from Natyasatra by

Bharata from Indian Aesthetics

Unit: III

4. Edmund Wilson : Marxism and Literature

Unit: IV

5. Lionel Trailling : Freud and Literature

Unit: V

6. Mikhair Bakhtin : From Discourse in the Novel

Suggested Reading:

1. V. Sethuraman : Indian Aesthetics:

An Introduction

(Mcmillan, 1992)

2. Wilbur Scott : Five Approaches to Literary Criticism

3. V. Sethuraman : Contemporary Criticism: An Anthology

4. K. Krishna Murthy : Studies in Indian Esthetics and Criticism (D.V.K.

Murthy, Mysore, 1979)

5. V.N. Raghavan : An Introduction to Indian Poetics (Macmillan,

Madras, 1970)

6. S.K. De : History of Sanskrit Poetics

(Firma K.L., Mukhopadhyaya, Calcutta, 1960)

7. G. Douglas Atkins : Contemporary Literary Theory Laura Morron

(University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1989)

8. Ramaswamy and

Sethuraman : The English Critical Tradition: Vols. 1 & 2

(Macmillan, India, 1977))


M.A. English


Course No- 402: AMERICAN LITERATURE – II

Unit: I

1. Rebort Frost : Birches

Home Burial

West Running Brook

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy evening

2. Langston Hughes : Harlem

The Weary Blues

Unit: II

3. Arthur Miller : Death of a Salesman

Unit: III

4. Ernest Hemingway : The Old Man and the Sea

Unit: IV

5. Bernard Malamud : The Assistant

Unit: V

6. Toni Morrison : Sula

Background:

Multiculturalism, Modern American Poetry, The Twenties, Jewish Literature,

Black Literature, Feminism in Literature.

Suggested Reading:

1. Vernol L. Parrington : Main Currents in American Thought: 3 Vols.

(Harcourt Brace & Govanovich: New York,

1955)

2. Daniel Hoffman : Harvard Guide to Contemporary American

Writing (O.U.P., Delhi, 1979)

3. Rechard. W. Lewis : The American Adam (University of Chicago

Press: Chicago, 1955)

4. Bradley, S. et. al. : The American Tradition in Literature 2 vols

5. Wilbur Cash : The Mind of the South

6. Joseph Wood, Krutch : American Drama Since 1918

(Random House, New York, 1939)

7. Richard Ellmann : The New Oxford Book of American Verse

(O.U.P., New York, 1976)

8. Norman Forster : American Poetry and Prose (3 Vols)

(Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1970)


M.A. English


Course No- 403: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH – II

Unit: I

1. R. Parthasarathy (Ed) : Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets

Vilas Sarang (Ed) : Indian Poetry in English since 1950

A) Kamala Das : The Freaks Ghanshyam Introducation

B) A.K. Ramanujan : Striders Chicago Zen

Small Reflections on a Great House

C) Jayanta Mahapatra : The Voice Looking Glass Indian Summer

Unit: II

2. Vikram Seth : Heaven’s Lake

3. Girish Karnad : The Fire and the Rain

Unit: III

4. Dr. Radhakrishnan : Kalki

Unit: IV

5. Ambedkar : Buddha and his Dhamma

Unit: V

6. Shashi Deshpande : Small Remedies

Background:

Counter-Discourses, Post-Colonialism, Decolonisation, Prose-Aesthetics, Non-

fictional Prose, Novels of East-West Encounter, Present Day Trends, Nationalism,

Orientalism

Suggested Reading:

1. M.K. Naik : Aspects of Indian Writing in English

(Macmillan, Madras, 1979)

2. Meenakshi Mukherjee : Considerations (Allied Publishers, Bombay, 1977)

3. Siva Rama Krishna : Indian Poetry in English: A Critical Assessment V.A.

Shahane

4. M.K. Naid and

S. Mokashi Punekar : Perspectives on Indian Drama in English (O.U.P.,

Madras 1977)

5. M.K. Naik : Perspectives on Indian Fiction in English

(Abhinav Publishers Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi 1985)

6. K.R. Srinivasa Lyenger : Indian Writing in English

(Sterling pub. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 4th ed. 1984)

7. T.W. Clark : The Novel in India: Its Birth and Development

(George Alen & Unwin: London 1970)

8. M.K. Naik : Dimentions of Indian English Literature

(Sterling Pub. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi 1985)


M.A. English


Course No- 404: CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION

UNIT-I

1. Alighieri Dante : Divine Comedy (Inferno: canto 1)

2. Henrik Ibsen : A Doll”s House

UNIT -II

3. Sudraka : Mricchakatika

UNIT-III

4. Doestoevsky : Crime and Punishment

UNIT-IV

5. Albert Camus : the Outsider

UNIT-V

6. Herman Hesse : Siddhartha

Background:

The Major Literary Cultural Movements, Symbolism, Cubism, Aemeism,

Surrealism, Modernism, Expressionism, Futilism, Existentialism, New Philosophical

Trends.

Suggested reading:

1. C.M. Bowra : Heroic Poetry

(St. Martin’s Press, New York 1969)

2. W.P. Ker : Epic and romance

(Dover Publications London)

3. Frank W. Chandler : Modern Continental Playwrights

(Harper & Row New York, 1969)

4. John Gassner : Masters of Drama

(Dover Publications, New York, 1954)

5. Darectt H. Clark : A Study of Modern Drama

(Century Books-Bindery, Philadelphia, 1982)

6. Martin Seymour-Smith : Guide to Modern World Literature

(Wolfe Pub. Ltd., London, 1973)

7. Maynard Mack-et, AL. (eds) : The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces

(2 Vols)

8. J.M. Cohen : A History of Western Literature

(Penguin Books Harmondsworth, 1956)

9. Boris Ford : The New Pelican Guide to English Literature

(Modern Age)

10. Martin Turnell : The Novel in France (Hamish Hamilton,

London, 1950)


M.A. English


Course 405a -Elective: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING – II

Unit: I

1. Presentation and Explanation

2. Course designing/Preparation of Syllabus:

Structural Approach: Situational, National – Functional and Communicative.

Unit: II

3. Types of Language Tests and their execution

Unit: III

4. Classroom Management:

Teaching Large classes; Team Teaching; Peer Group Interaction; Learner

Strategies and Study Skills.

Teaching Language Skills, Teaching Literature at the Undergraduate Level

Unit: IV

5. Teaching Practice: The Function of Practice, Characteristics of a Good

Practice Activity, Practice Techniques, Sequence and Progression in Practice

Unit: V

6. Lesson Plan: Teaching Aids, Audio-Visual Aids, Black Board, Flash Cards.

Texts:

1. R. Quirk and H. Widdowson: English in The World: Teaching and Learning

The Language and Literatures (Cambridge University Press, 1985).

2. Olshtquin F. Dubins: Course Design: Developing Programs and Materials for

Language Learning

3. J. Caroll and P.Hall: Mark Your Own Language Tests: A Practical Guide

To writing Language Performance tests

4. T. Balasubramanian: Introduction to English Phonetics

5. Spoken English for India (Orient Longman, Madras, 1972).

Suggested Reading:

1. K. Johnson: communication Syllabus, Design and Methodology (Programan,

Oxford, 1980).

2. C.J. Brumfit and Johnson (eds.): communicative Methodology in Language

Teaching (Cambridge University Press, 1984).

3. C.J. Brumfit and R. Carter: :Language and Literature Teaching: form Practice to

Principle

4. W. Littlewood: Foreign and Second Language Learning (Cambridge University

Press, 1984).

5. T. Hutchinson and A. Waters: E.S.P. – A Learning Centered Approach to English

in India: Issues and Problems.


M.A. English


Course 405b -Elective: BLACK LITERATURE – II

Unit: I

1. Lorraine Hansberry : A Raisin in the Sun

Unit: II

2. Paule Marshall : Brown Girl Brown Stones

Unit: III

3. Bessie Head : A question of Power

(Heinemann, 1974)

4. George Lamming : Pleasures of Exile

Unit: IV

5. Cyprian Ekwensi : Jaguanana

(Heinemann, 1975)

Unit: V

6. Ralph Ellison : Invisible Man

(New American Library, 1952)

SUGGESTED READING:

1. Claude Mckay : Harlem Negro Metropolis

(Dutton, New York, 1940)

2. J.C. De Graft Johnson : African Glory: The Story of Vanished Negro

Civilization (Watts, London, 1954)

3. Ngugi Wa Thiongo : Homecoming: Essay on African and Caribbean

Literature, Culture and Politics

(Heinemann, London, 1972)

4. William Walsh : A Manifold voice

(Chatto & Windus, London, 1970)

5. C.D. Narasimhaiah : Awakened Consciousness: Studies in

Commonwealth Literature

6. Charles Barson : The Novel

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