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KRISHNA UNIVERSITY Course Structure and Syllabus for M.A. English Course (2012-13)

(R 2012) Approved in BOS dated 28-06-2012

1 Title of the Course M.A. English 2 Duration of the course 2 years (four semesters) 3 Eligibility criteria for

admission B.A./B.Sc./B.Com./B.B.M/ B.C.A./ B.A.(O.L.) in Telugu / B.A. (O.L.) Sanskrit with general English, Degree in Hotel Management,(B.A. with special English in the group subjects)

4 Intake 30 seats 5 Objectives of the

course 1. This course is designed to cover all the periods of English

literature. 2. It enables the student to understand literary techniques and

mode of comprehending a text. 3. This course also emphasizes the study of the English

language, phonological, linguistic, and pedagogical. 4. It takes note of the current needs of the students and aims at

the development of their communication skills. 6 Course Requirement The course shall include Theory papers, Seminars,

Assignments, Tests and Practicals/Viva. 7 Course structure and

Scheme of Examination

The course will be conducted on credit system and evaluation will be on the seven point grading system.

8 Credit System In this system credits will be allotted to each paper. Each theory paper will be given credits on the basis of number of teaching hours shown against each paper in the following table. One hour of teaching of theory paper in a week will be given one credit. Each practical will be given credits on the basis of number of practical hours shown against each practical in the following table. Two hours of practicals in a week will be given one credit.

9 Gradation System The course will be evaluated and the students will be graded on the ten point scale with seven letter grades i.e., O, A, B,C,D,E,F.

10 Number of working days

In each semester at least ninety working days (15 weeks of six working days) must be dedicated to theory classes, practical classes and seminars.

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First year (1st and 2nd semesters)

First Semester

Paper code Title Internal marks

External marks

Grand total

Number of Hours per

week

No. of Credits

ENG 101 History of English Language 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 102 Poetry- I 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 103 Drama-I 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 104 Prose and Fiction- I 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 105 Use of English - I 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 106 Viva / Lab 0 50 50 6 3

Total in 1st Semester 36 28

Second Semester


External marks

Grand total

Number of Hours per

week

No. of Credits

ENG 201 Phonetics & Linguistics 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 202 Poetry- II 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 203 Drama-II 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 204 Prose and Fiction- II 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 205 Use of English-II 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 206 Viva /Lab 0 50 50 6 3

Total in 2nd Semester 36 28

Second year (3rd and 4th semesters)

Third Semester

Paper code Title Internal

marks External marks

Grand total

Number of Hours per week

No. of Credits

ENG 301 Literary Theory & Criticism –I 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 302 New Literatures in English - I 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 303 Indian Writing in English 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 304 American Literature – I 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 305 English Language Teaching - I 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 306 Viva/Lab 0 50 50 6 3

Total in 3rd Semester 36 28

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Fourth Semester


External marks

Grand total

Number of Hours per

week

No. of Credits

ENG 401 Literary Theory & Criticism –II 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 402 New Literatures in English - II 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 403 Indian Literature in Translation 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 404 American Literature – II 30 70 100 6 5 ENG 405 English Language Teaching - II 50 50 100 6 5 ENG 406 Viva/Lab 0 50 50 6 3

Total in 4th Semester 36 28

Total Credits of the Course

S. No. Title Total Credits

1 First Semester 28 2 Second Semester 28 3 Third Semester 28 4 Fourth Semester 28 Total Credits of the Course 112

PROCEDURE TO EVALUATE INTERNAL ASSESSMENT THEORY

Internal Tests 20Marks Seminars / Group Discussions 5 Marks Attendance 5 Marks Total 30 Marks

MODEL QUESTION PAPERS

The model question papers are enclosed as Annexure-I GRADATION SYSTEM:

The method of grade point system is as follows.

Performance in a paper (Conversion of marks to grade points and letter grade)

S.No. Range of Marks Grade Points

Letter Grade

1 >85% 10.0 O

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2 75%-85% 9.0 A 3 67%-74% 8.0 B 4 58%-66% 7.0 C 5 50%-57% 6.0 D 6 40%-49% 5.0 E 7 <40% 0.0 F

Overall Performance (Conversion of CGPA to grade and classification of final result)

S. No. Range of CGPA Grade Classification of final result

1 8.00 to 10.00 O First Class with Distinction

2 6.50 to < 8.00 A First Class

3 5.50 to < 6.50 B Second Class

4 5.00 to < 5.50 C Pass

5 < 5.00 D Re-appear PASSING STANDARDS FOR M.A (ENGLISH) Course: M.A.( English)

S. No Name of the Course Total Marks

Paper Minimum required

External Internal

External Total (External + Internal)

1 Theory(T) 70% 30% 40% 40% 2 Viva/Lab 100% 0% 50% 50%

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DETAILED

SYLLABUS

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Paper code: ENG 101

HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGAUGE

Details of the syllabus

Unit 1 1. Indo-European family of languages: languages constantly changing –

dialectal differentiation – Grimm’s law – the Indo-European family

2. Old English : The periods in the history of English – the dialects of old

English – some characteristics of old English – the noun – grammatical

gender – the adjective – personal pronoun – the verb –old English

literature

Unit 2 1. The Norman Conquest: The origin of Normandy – The year 1066 –

The Norman settlement – attitude toward English – The diffusion of

French and English

2. The reestablishment of English: changing conditions after 1200 – The

Loss of Normandy – English and French in the thirteenth century – the

Hundred years’ war – the rise of middle class – general adoption of

English in the fourteenth century

Unit 3 1. Middle English: the noun – the adjective – the pronoun – the verb –

loss of grammatical gender – middle English syntax – French influence

on the vocabulary – loss of native words – Latin borrowings – the rise of

standard English

2. The renaissance – changing conditions in the modern period – the

problem of orthography – from old to middle English – from middle

English to modern – the great vowel shift – the noun – the adjective – the

pronoun and the verb

Unit 4 1. The Appeal to authority: the problem of refining the language – an

English academy – the beginnings of prescriptive grammar – attempts to

reform the vocabulary – development of progressive verb forms – the

progressive passive

2. The nineteenth century and after: influences affecting the language –

language as a mirror of progress – changes of meaning – slang – the

standard speech – English dialects – English worldwide - spelling

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reforms

Unit 5 The English Language in America: The settlement of America –

uniformity of American English – early changes of vocabulary – Noah

Webster’s influence on American English – the American dialects –

American English and World English

Reference books Author Title Publisher 1. Albert C. Baugh,

Thomas Cable

A History of the English Language 6th Ed

Routledge

2. Richard Hogg & David Denison

A History of the English Language

CUP

3. Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language

CUP

4. Wood, F T. An outline history of the English language

Macmillan

5. Momma, Haruko & Matto, Michael (ed)

A companion to the history of the English language

Wiley-blackwell

6. Wrenn The English language. AITBS

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Paper Code – ENG 102 Poetry- I


Unit 1 Literary history / movements /history of ideas /genres/Intensive study of the Asterisk marked texts.

Unit 2 Chaucer : Prologue to The Canterbury Tales – Knight’s Portrait, The Squire’s Portrait, Wife of Bath’s Portrait, Nun’s Portrait

John Donne : The Sun Rising, The Ecstasy The Apparition, The Anniversary

Unit 3 * John Milton : Paradise Lost, Book IX

Unit 4 Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock * John Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn, To the Nightingale, To Autumn, To Melancholy

Unit 5 William Wordsworth : Tintern Abbey, Ode on Intimations of Immortality, London,

Robert Browning: The Last Ride Together, My Last Duchess, Abt Vogler Tennyson : Ulysses, Lotus Eaters Mathew Arnold : Scholar Gypsy, Dover Beach

Text books Author Title Publisher 1 John Milton Paradise Lost, Book I Macmillan 2 Chaucer Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Macmillan 3 John Keats

Odes Macmillan

4 JohnDonne

“ The Sun Rising”, “ The Ecstasy” “ The Apparition”, “ The Anniversary”

Macmillan

5 Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock Macmillan 6 William wordsworth The Prelude Book – I, Macmillan 7 Robert Browning “ The Last Ride Together”, “ My

Last Duchess”, “ Abt Vogler:, “ Macmillan

8 Mathew Arnold Scholar Gypsy, Dover Beach Macmillan

Reference books Author Title Publisher 1. Thomas Humprey

Ward The English Poets(Vol:I to IV) Macmillan

2. A. Alvarez The Shaping Spirit Oxford University Press 3. Pratt and Arnold The English Poets: Chaucer to

Donne Macmillan

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Paper Code – ENG 103 Drama-I



Unit 2 * Christopher Marlowe : Doctor Faustus Thomas Kyd : The Spanish Tragedy

Unit 3 Ben Jonson : Every Man in His Humour William Congreve : The Way of the World

Unit 4 *William Shakespeare :Hamlet William Shakespeare :Twelfth Night

Unit 5 William Shakespeare :The Tempest

Text books Author Title Publisher 1 Christopher

Marlowe Doctor Faustus Macmillan

2 Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedy Oxford University Press 3 Ben Jonson

Every Man in His Humour Oxford University Press

4 William Congreve The Way of the World Oxford University Press 5 John Synge

The Playboy of the Western World Oxford University Press

6 Harold Pinter The Birthday Party Oxford University Press 7 T.S.Eliot The Cocktail Party Oxford University Press

Reference books Author Title Publisher 1 W.W.Greg Doctor Faustus Oxford University Press 2 P.Edwards The Spanish Tragedy Oxford University Press 3 M. Scott The Birthday Party Oxford University Press 4 D.Kirkpatrick Contemporary Dramatists Penguin

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Paper Code – ENG 104 Prose and Fiction- I



Unit 2 * Francis Bacon : Select Essays: ( Of Truth, Of Marriage & Single Life, Of Adversity, Of Studies).

* Charles Lamb : Essays of Elia: (Dream Children, The praise of Chimney sweepers, Dissertation upon a Roast Pig)

Unit 3 Jonathan Swift : The Battle of the Books

Unit 4 Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

Unit 5 Emile Bronte : Wuthering Heights

Text books Author Title Publisher 1 Frances Bacon Essays Oxford University Press 2 Charles Lamb Essays of Elia Oxford University Press 3 Jonathan Swift The Battle of the Books Oxford University Press 4 Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Oxford University Press 5 Charles Dickens David Copperfield Oxford University Press 6 Emile Bronte Wuthering Heights Oxford University Press

Reference books Author Title Publisher 1

Arnold Kettle An Introduction to the English Novel Vols-2

Hutchinson&co.ltd

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Pelican Guide to Literature Vols 1to9

Pelican

3 Hugh Walker

The English Essay and Essayists Kessinger Publishing

4 Allen Walter

The English Novel E.P.Dutton and co., Inc.,

5 Cecil David Lord Early Victorian Novels Bobbs –Merill 6 Dorothy Van Ghent The English Novel Form and

Function Holt, Rinehart and Winston

7 E.M. Forster Aspects of the Novel Penguin 8 Edwin Muir The Structure of the Novel Harbinger Book

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Paper Code – ENG 105

USE OF ENGLISH - I

Unit 1 Parts of Speech - Sentence Elements – Pro-forms – Question and

Negation- degree of comparison

Unit 2 Regular verbs and inflectional rules – irregular verbs – auxiliaries – tense

and aspect – modal verbs-concord

Unit 3 The simple sentence – The complex sentence – subordinators and

superordination

Unit 4 Word-formation – prefixes, suffixes, conversion, compounding – idioms

and phrases – denotative and connotative meaning - collocations

Unit 5 Common Errors

Text Books Author Title Publisher 1. Quirk and

Greenbaum A University Grammar of English Pearson Education

2. Leech and Svartvik A Communicative Grammar of English

Pearson

3. Michael Swan Practical English Usage – Michael Swan

OUP

4. George Yule Advanced Oxford Practice Grammar OUP

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Paper Code – ENG 201 PHONETICS AND LINGUISTICS

Details of the syllabus Unit 1 The organs of speech – classification of speech sounds - The syllable

Unit 2 Consonant clusters – word-accent – Accent and rhythm in connected speech – Intonation

Unit 3 Phonetic transcription- One out of Two passages ( a prose passage and a dialogue)

Unit 4 Introduction to Linguistics : Human language and Animal communication – Definition and scope of linguistics – Branches of linguistics and Applied linguistics – Traditional approaches to Language study

Unit 5 Modern linguistics – Language varieties: dialect, idiolect, register and style – Notions of correctness and acceptability

Text books Author Title Publisher 1 T. Balasubramaniam A Text book of English Phonetics

for Indian Students Macmillan

2. Daniel Jones English Pronouncing Dictionary15thED

3. Davis Crystal Linguistics Penguin 4 Ruth Gairns &

Stuart Redman Advanced Oxford Word Skills OUP

Reference books:

Title Author

publisher

1 Malmberg.B

Phonetics Dover Publications

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S.K. Verma

Modern Linguistics: An Introduction

CULT

3 Chomsky and Halle The sound pattern of English

Harper and Row

4 Bright.J.A and McGregor

Teaching English as a second language

ELBS and Longman

5 Verma,S.K & Krishnaswamy

Modern Linguistics OUP

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Poetry – II Details of the syllabus


Unit 2 *W.B.Yeats : The Second Coming, A Prayer For My Daughter Sailing To Byzantium Among School Children

Unit 3 * T.S. Eliot : The Waste Land

Unit 4 Dylan Thomas : “ Fern Hill” “ Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” Philip Larkin : “ Whitsun Weddings” , “Next, Please”,

“Church Going” Unit 5 Ted Hughes : “The Jaguar”, “Thrushes”, “Out”, “Wodwo”.

Seamus Heaney : “Death of a Naturalist”, “Digging”, “Peninsula”, “Punishment”.

Text books Author Title Publisher 1 W.B.Yeats The Second Coming,

A Prayer For My Daughter Sailing To Byzantium Among School Children

Oxford University Press

2 T.S. Eliot The Waste Land Faber and Faber 3 Dylan Thomas

Philip Larkin

“ Fern Hill”, “ Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”, “ Whitsun Weddings”, “ Church Going”


4 Ted Hughes

“The Jaguar”, “Thrushes”, “Out”, “Wodwo”.


5 Seamus Heaney “ Death of a Naturalist”, “ Digging”, “Peninsula”, “Punishment”.


Reference books Author Title Publisher 1 A. Alvarez The Shaping Spirit Oxford University Press 2 A.Thwaite Twentieth Century English Poetry Oxford University Press 3 B. Morrison Seamus Heaney: Oxford University Press 4 Helen Williams T.S.Eliot – The waste land Oxford University Press

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Paper Code – ENG 203 DRAMA-II



Unit 2 Gold Smith : She Stoops to Conquer *Oscar Wilde : Importance of Being Earnest

Unit 3 *Bernard Shaw : Pygmalion

Unit 4 John Synge : The Playboy of the Western World Harold Pinter : The Birthday Party

Unit 5 T.S. Eliot : The Cocktail Party

Text books Author Title Publisher 1 Gold Smith

Oscar Wilde She Stoops to Conquer Importance of Being Earnest

Macmillan

2 Bernard Shaw : Pygmalion

Bernard Shaw : Pygmalion

Macmillan

3 John Synge Harold Pinter

: The Playboy of the Western World : The Birthday Party

Macmillan

4 T.S. Eliot : The Cocktail Party Macmillan

Reference books Author Title Publisher 1 M. Scott

The Birthday Party


2 D.Kirkpatrick

Contemporary Dramatists

Penguin

3 Shubha Tiwari, Maneesha Tiwari

The Plays of T.S. Eliot Atlantic

4 Bill Naismith Harold Pinter: "The Caretaker", "Birthday Party", "The Homecoming"

Faber & Faber

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Prose and Fiction- II



Unit 2 * Virginia Woolf : Professions for Women * Bernard Shaw : Freedom

Unit 3 Somerset Maugham: The Happy Man, Princess September Doris lessing : Pleasure, To Room 19

Unit 4 Thomas Hardy : Tess of D’Urbervilles Joseph Conrad : Heart of Darkness

Unit 5 D.H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers George Orwell : Animal Farm

Text books Author Title Publisher Virginia Woolf Professions for Women Oxford University Press Thomas Hardy Tess of D’Urbervilles Oxford University Press Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness Oxford University Press D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers Oxford University Press Orwell Animal Farm Mahaveer


A Reader’s guide to the contemporary English Novel


2 Ford Boris(ed) Pelican Guide to English Literature Vol-7

Pelican

3 Bernard Blackstone Virginia Woolf Hogarth Press 4 Humphreys.R

The Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel 1954


5 J.W.Beach The Twentieth Century Novel Oxford University Press 6 David Daiches The Novel and The Modern World Oxford University Press

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Paper Code – ENG 205 USE OF ENGLISH-II

Details of the syllabus Unit 1 Concepts: referring to objects, substances and materials – concrete and

abstract – amount or quantity – definite and indefinite meaning – relations between ideas expressed by nouns – restrictive and non-restrictive meaning – time, tense and aspect

Unit 2 Concepts: Time-when, duration, frequency – place, direction and distance – manner, means and instrument – cause, reason and purpose – condition and contrast – degree – role, standard and point of view – comparison – addition, exception and restriction, subject matter: about and on

Unit 3 Information, reality and belief: statements, questions and responses – omission of information – reported statements and questions – denial and affirmation – agreement and disagreement – fact, hypothesis and neutrality – degrees of likelihood – attitudes to truth

Unit 4 Mood, emotion and attitude: emotive emphasis in speech – describing emotions – volition – permission and obligation – influencing people – friendly communications – vocatives

Unit 5 Meanings in connected discourse: linking signals – linking clauses and sentences – general purpose links – cross-reference and omission – presenting and focusing information – order and emphasis.

Reference books

Author Title Publisher 1. Leech, Geoffrey &

Svartvik A communicative grammar of English.

India: Pearson

2. Swan, Michael. Basic English Usage. Oxford: OUP

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Paper Code – ENG 301 Literary Theory and Criticism –I


Unit 1 Sydney : An Apology for Poetry Dryden : An Essay on Dramatic Poesy

Unit 2 Dr. Johnson : Preface to Shakespeare Wordsworth : Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Unit 3 Coleridge : Biographia Literaria (Chapters XIV, XV, and part of XVIII) Matthew Arnold : The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

Unit 4 T.S. Eliot : Tradition and the Individual Talent I.A. Richards : Four kinds of Meaning

Unit 5 Cleanth Brooks : Irony as a Principle of Structure Northrop Frye : Archetypes of literature

Text books Author Title Publisher 1 Sydney

Dryden Apology for Poetry An Essay on Dramatic Poesy

O.U.P

2 Dr. Johnson Wordsworth

Preface to Shakespeare Preface to Lyrical Ballads

O.U.P

3 Coleridge Matthew Arnold

Biographia Literaria The Function of Criticism

O.U.P

4 T.S.Eliot I.A.Richards

Tradition and Individual Talent Four kinds of Meaning

O.U.P Macmillan

5 Cleanth Brooks

Irony as a Principle of Structure O.U.P

6 M. Hirivanna The Main Aspects of Indian Aesthetics

Manohar,1997

Reference books Author Title Publisher

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Enwright & Chickera English Critical Texts O.U.P

2 I.A.Richards Poetries and Sciences O.U.P 3 V.S.Seturaman &

S. Rama Swami(ed) The English Critical Tradition Vol I & II

Macmillan

4 M S Nagarajan English Literary Criticism And Theory

Orient Blackswan

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New Literatures in English - I



Unit 2 Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart

Unit 3 Ngugi Wa Thiang’o : A Grain of Wheat Whole Soyinka : The Lion and the Jewel

Unit 4 V. S. Naipaul : A House for Mr. Biswas

Unit 5 Buchi Emecheta : The Joys of motherhood Coetzee : Disgrace

Text Books Author Title Publisher 1. Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart Arnold Heinemann 2. Ngugi A Grain of Wheat Penguin 3. Whole Soyinka The Lion and the Jewel Penguin 4. V. S. Naipaul A House for Mr. Biswas Penguin 5. Coetzee Disgrace Penguin Reference books Author Title Publisher 1. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth

Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin

The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

Routledge

2. John McLeod Beginning Post-Colonialism Viva Books 3. Bill Ashcroft Postcolonial Studies: Key

Concepts Prentice Hall

4. Pramod.k.Nayar Postcolonial Literature: An Introduction

Pearson

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Paper Code – ENG 303 Indian Writing in English



Unit 2 * Sri Aurobindo : Renaissance In India * Rabindranath Tagore : The Post Office

Unit 3 Toru Dutt : Our Casuarina Tree A.K.Ramanujan : Small Scale Reflections on a Great House, Obituary Nissim Ezekiel : Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher, Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S Kamala Das : An Introduction, My Grandmother’s House Raja Rao : Kanthapura Girish Karnad : Hayavadana

Unit 4 R.K.Narayan : The Grandmother’s Tale Mulk Raj Anand : Untouchable Salman Rushdie : Midnight’s Children

Unit 5 Shashi Deshpande : That long silence Amitav Ghosh :The Shadow Lines

Reference Books: Author Title Publisher 1. Sri Aurobindo Renaissance In India

Aurobindo Ashram Publication

2. Rabindranath Tagore

The Post Office O.U.P

3. Toru Dutt Our Casuarina Tree O.U.P./Internet 4. A.K.Ramanujan,

R.Parthasarathy, Nizzim Ezekiel, Kamala Das

Twentieth Century Indian Poets edited by R. Parthasarathy

O.U.P.

5. Raja Rao Kanthapura O.U.P. 6. Girish Karnad Hayavadana O.U.P. 7. R.K.Narayan The Grandmother’s Tale Indian Thought

publications 8.

Mulk Raj Anand Untouchable Penguin Books

9. Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children Penguin

10. Shashi Deshpande

That long silence Penguin

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11.

Amitav Ghosh The Shadow Lines Penguin Books

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K.Srinivasa Iyengar

Indian Writing in English Sterling

13. M.K.Naik Aspects of Indian writing in English

Macmillan

14.

Meenakshi Mukharjee

Twice born fiction Pencraft International

15. Arvind Mehrotra A concise History of Indian Literature in English

Macmillan

16 Bruce King

Modern Indian Poetry in English

OUP

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Paper Code – ENG 304 AMERICAN LITERATURE – I

Details of the syllabus Unit 1 Literary history / movements /history of ideas /genres/Intensive study of

the Asterisk marked texts. Unit 2 * Walt Whitman : “Song of Myself”

Selections from 1 to 5,17, 52. Emily Dickinson : 303, 328, 341, 511, 640, 712.

Unit 3 * R.W. Emerson : “The American Scholar”, “Self-Reliance”

Unit 4 Henry David Thoreau : Walden (8 chapters only) Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Scarlet letter

Unit 5 Mark Twain : Huckleberry Finn

Text books Author Title Publisher 1 Walt Whitman Song of Myself Cambridge University

Press 2 Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poetry of Emily Dickinson


3 R.W. Emerson

Prose selections of Emerson Cambridge University Press

4 Henry David Thoreau

Walden Macmillan

5 Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet letter

Bantam

6 Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn Oxford University Press Reference books Author Title Publisher 1 Borris Ford The Pelican guide to English

Literature Vol-9 Pelican

2

Robert E. Spiller Literary History of the United States of America

Mac Millan

3 Emory Elliott (ed) Colombia Literary History of the United States

Columbia University Press

4 J Cunliffe A History of the United States Macmillan

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English Language Teaching - I Details of the syllabus

Unit 1 1. Fundamentals of language teaching – objectives, methods, materials and evaluation- Difference between first language and second language

Unit 2 Theories of language learning- behaviorism and cognitivism

Unit 3 Second language learning models – acculturation, monitor and variable competence models - contrastive analysis, error analysis and interlanguage

Unit 4 Introduction English language teaching: Structural approach, communicative language teaching and testing.

Unit 5 Grammar translation method, bi-lingual method, direct method and audio-lingual method.

Text Books Author Title Publisher 1. H.H.Stern Fundamental concepts in Language

Teaching O.U.P

2. Richards, Jack C. &Theodore S. Rodgers

Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

Cambridge University Press

3. Geetha Nagaraj English Language Teaching: Approaches, Methods, Techniques

Orient Longman

Reference books Author Title Publisher 1. Penny UR, A Course in Language Teaching 1996, New Delhi, Oxford

University Press 2. Keith Johnson Language Teaching and skill

Learning 1966, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

3. Brumfit, C.J.K. Johnson (1994)

The Communicative Approach to Language Teaching

New Delhi, Oxford: Oxford University Press

4. Nunan, D. 1988 The Learner-Centred Curriculum New Delhi: Cambridge University Press

5. Saraswathi, V, 2004 English Language Teaching, Principles and Practice

Chennai: Orient Longman

6. Tickoo M.L. 2003 Teaching and Learning English Orient Longman. 7. Stem, H.H. 1983 Fundamental Concepts of Language

Teaching Oxford University Press

8. J Carrol & P. Hall Make Your Own Language Tests: A Practical Guide to Writing Language Performance Tests.

Pergamon Institute of English

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Paper Code - ENG 401 Literary Theory and Criticism –II


Unit 1 Frantz Fanon : The Wretched Of The Earth ( Chapter 3) Edward Said : Orientalism (Introduction)

Unit 2 Gerard Gennette : Structuralism and Literary Criticism Jacques Derrida : Sign, Structure, and Play in the Discourse of the Human

Sciences Unit 3 Elaine Showalter : Towards a Feminist Poetics.

M.M.Bakhtin : Introduction To Dialogic Imagination Unit 4 Bharatamuni :On Natya and Rasa :Aesthetics of Dramatic Experience from

G.N.Devy’s book Arjun Dangle : Dalit Literature : Past, Present, & Future

Unit 5 Vandana Shiva :Women in Nature(Ch.3) The frankenpheme in Popular Culture: Fiction, Drama, Film & Television

Text books Author Title Publisher 1 David Lodge.Ed.

Frantz Fanon Edward Said

20th Century Literary Criticism:A Reader The Wretched Of The Earth Orientalism

-Pearson -Grove Press -Penguin

2 Lodge, David. Ed. Modern Criticism and Theory -Longman 3rd ed

3 Mary Jacobus.Ed. M.M.Bakhtin

Women's Writing and Writing About Women Introduction To Dialogic Imagination

-Croom Helm -University of Texas Press

4 G.N.Devy.Ed. Arjun Dangle

Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation Dalit Literature : Past, Present, & Future

-Orient Blackswan -Orient Blackswan

5 Vandana Shiva Wilfred L. Guerin

Staying Alive: Women, Ecology & Development A Hand Book of Critical Approaches to Literature

South End Press -OUP


Peter Barry Beginning theory Viva Books

2 Tim Woods Beginning Post Modernism Viva Books 3 K.M.Newton

Twentieth Century Literary Theory (1988)

Macmillan

4 K.M.Newton Theory Into Practice (1992) Macmillan

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5 Wilfred L. Guerin A Handbook of Critical Approaches

to Literature (2005) OUP

6 Arjun Dangle Poisoned Bread (1994) Orient Blackswan 7 Raman Selden,

Peter Widdowson, & Peter Brooker

A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

Pearson

8 Pramod Nayar Literary Theory Today Asia Book Club 9. Heather Eaton Introducing Ecofeminist Theologies T&T Clark

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Paper Code – ENG 402 New Literatures in English-II

Details of the syllabus Unit 1 A.D. Hope : Australia, Standardization

Douglas Stewart : Ned Kelly Unit 2 Patrick White : The Tree of Man

Unit 3 Margaret Atwood :This is a Photograph of me, Marrying the Hangman Margaret Laurence : The Stone Angel

Unit 4 Nadine Gordimer : July’s People

Unit 5 Han Suyin : A Many Splendoured Thing Athol Fugard : The Blood Knot

Text Books Author Title Publisher 1. A.D. Hope Australia Internet 2. Douglas Stewart Ned Kelly Angus & Robertson 3. Margaret Atwood This is a Photograph of me,

Marrying the Hangman Internet

4. Patrick White Voss Penguin 5. Margaret Laurence The Stone Angel University of Chicago press 6. Nadine Gordimer July’s people Penguin 7. Han Suyin A Many Splendoured thing Little Brown & Co 7. Athol Fugard The Blood Knot Arnold Heinemann

Reference books Author Title Publisher 1. Elleke Boehmer Colonial and Postcolonial

literature:Migrant Metaphors OUP

2. Neil Lazarus The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies

CUP

3. Pramod Nayar Postcolonial Literature: An Introduction

Pearson

4. Bill Ashcroft& Ed.

The Postcolonial Studies Reader Routledge

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Paper Code – ENG 403 Indian Literature in Translation


Unit 1 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee: Anandamath Premchand: Godan

Unit 2 Kodavatiganti Kutumba Rao : Chaduvu(Sundaram Learns) T.Sivasankara Pillai: Chemmen

Unit 3 Vijay Tendulkar : Silence! The Court is in Session Mahaswetha Devi : Hazar Churasir Ma(play)

Unit 4 Ranganayakamma : Money Volga:Ayoni

Unit 5 U.R.Anantha Murthy : Samskara Bama: Sangati

Text books Author Title Publisher Chaterjee Anandamath OUP Premchand Godan OUP K.Kutumba rao Chaduvu Sahitya Akademi Ranganayakamma

Volga Ayoni and the Other Stories edited by Alladi Uma & Sridhar

Oup

Tendulkar Silence! The court is in session OUP Mahaswetha Devi Hazar Churasir Ma Parabaas T.S.Pillai Chemeen Heinman Bama Sangati OUP U.R.Anantha

Murthy Samskara OUP


K.Srinivasa Iyengar Indian Writing in English Sterling

2

Meenakshi Mukharjee

Twice Born Fiction Pencraft

3 Bruce King

Modern Indian Poetry in English OUP

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Paper Code – ENG 404 American Literature – II


Unit 1 One question on critical comments on passages from the two texts for detailed study, marked with an asterisk.

Unit 2 * Wallace Stevens : Sunday morning, Of Modern Poetry Robert Frost :After Apple Picking, Road Not Taken, Birches

Unit 3 * Eugene O’ Neill :The Hairy Ape Sylvia Plath :Tulips, Daddy, Lady Lazarus

Unit 4 Edward Albee : Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Ernest Hemingway : The Old Man and the Sea

Unit 5 Ralph Ellison : The Invisible Man Toni Morrison : Sula

Text books Author Title Publisher Wallace Stevens Poetry of Wallace Stevens Oxford University Press Robert Frost Poetry of Robert Frost Oxford University Press Eugene O’ Neil The Hairy Ape Oxford University Press Sylvia Plath Poetry of Sylvia Plath Oxford University Press Edward Albee Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wollf? Macmillan Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea Oxford University Press Toni Morrison Sula Vintage Ralph Ellison The Invisible Man Oxford University Press

Reference books Author Title Publisher 1 Borris Ford The pelican guide to English

Literature Vol-9 Pelican

2

Robert E. Spiller Literary History of the United States of America

Macmillan

3 Emory Elliott (ed)

Colombia Literary History of the United States

Columbia Univ Press

4 J Cunliffe A History of the United States Macmillan

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Paper Code – ENG 405 English Language Teaching-II


Unit 1 Humanistic approaches – the silent way, TPR, community language learning and suggestopedia

Unit 2 Curriculum and syllabus – predetermined syllabus and emergent syllabus

Unit 3 Teaching language elements – grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation

Unit 4 Teaching language skills – listening, speaking, reading and writing

Unit 5 Teaching practice – techniques of micro teaching – team teaching Testing and evaluation

Text Books Author Title Publisher 1. H.H.Stern Fundamental concepts in Language

Teaching O.U.P

2. Richards, Jack C. &Theodore S. Rodgers

Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

Cambridge University Press

3. Geetha Nagaraj English Language Teaching: Approaches, Methods, Techniques

Orient Longman

Reference books Author Title Publisher 1. Penny UR, A Course in Language Teaching 1996, New Delhi, Oxford

University Press 2. Keith Johnson Language Teaching and skill

Learning 1966, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

3. Brumfit, C.J.K. Johnson (1994)

The Communicative Approach to Language Teaching

New Delhi, Oxford: Oxford University Press

4. Heaton, J B Writing English language tests Longman 5. Saraswathi, V, 2004 English Language Teaching,

Principles and Practice Chennai: Orient Longman

6. Tickoo M.L. 2003 Teaching and Learning English Orient Longman. 7. Stem, H.H. 1983 Fundamental Concepts of Language

Teaching Oxford University Press

8. J Carrol & P. Hall Make Your Own Language Tests: A Practical Guide to Writing Language Performance Tests.

Pergamon Institute of English

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Paper Code – ENG 106 English Language Laboratory Practical

Vocabulary building Lab exercises using printed Book & CD (Ruth Gairns & Stuart Redman-Advanced Oxford Word Skills-OUP-2009-pp.01 to 105) and enhancing Public Speaking and presentation skills through practice: 1. Expanding your Vocabulary 2. The Body 3. You and other People 4. Leisure and Lifestyle 5. A Changing World 6. Institutions Text Books: Author Title Publisher 3. Ruth Gairns &


4. George Yule Advanced Oxford Practice Grammar OUP 5. Marion Gruss English for Presentations OUP (The lab component may be divided into two sessions- language lab, using the multimedia lab for listening and reading skills, Communication Lab, using the lab with PA system or a classroom for writing and speaking skills)


English Language Laboratory Practical Vocabulary building Lab exercises using printed Book & CD(Ruth Gairns & Stuart Redman-Advanced Oxford Word Skills-OUP-2009-pp.108 to 207) and enhancing Public Speaking and presentation skills through practice: 1. News and current affairs 2. Work and finance 3. Concepts 4. Spoken English 5. Written English 6. Aspects of Language Books: Author Title Publisher 1. Ruth Gairns &


2. George Yule Advanced Oxford Practice Grammar OUP 3. Marion Gruss English for Presentations OUP (The lab component may be divided into two sessions- language lab, using the multimedia lab for listening and reading skills, Communication Lab, using the lab with PA system or a classroom for writing and speaking skills)

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Paper Code – ENG 306 English Language Laboratory Practical

English for Academic Purposes: 1.Writing skills for academic purposes: - Writing: summaries, essays, reports, term papers. - Introduction to research, planning and editing skills. - Writing abstract and Paper for academic courses/conference. - Note-taking. 2. Reading skills for academic purposes: - Skimming, scanning and speed reading. - Interpretation of graphs, diagrams and charts. - Reading for main points and for specific information. - Understanding purpose and intent. 3. Presentation skills: - Introduction to oral & PPT presentation skills. - Oral paper presentation in seminar/conference. Books & Software: Author Title Publisher 1. Edward de Chazal,

Sam McCarter, Louis Rogers, Julie Moore

Oxford EAP :A course in English for Academic Purposes with CD

OUP

2. Martin Hewings and Craig Thaine

Cambridge Academic English An integrated skills course for EAP Student’s Book Advanced with CD

CUP

3. Marion Gruss English for Presentations with CD OUP

(The lab component may be divided into two sessions- language lab, using the multimedia lab for listening and reading skills, Communication Lab, using the lab with PA system or a classroom for writing and speaking skills)

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Paper Code – Eng 406 English Language Laboratory Practical

English for the Media: 1. Newspaper in the classroom- Writing headlines-Analysing newspaper articles Interview skills-translation-Planning and writing a newspaper article 2. Radio-Understanding the language of radio presenters- Understanding the production process-Planning a news list-Giving post-production feedback 3. Magazines- Composing magazine covers-Planning the contents of a magazine- Writing a true life stories-Stylistic devices-freelance writing. 4. Visual Media-Television & Film-Editing a TV documentary-The language of television Production- writing a screenplay -Writing a film review. 5. Digital Media- Technical writing -website design-online writing for social network sites-Planning and writing a blog -Creating a podcast.

Books & Software: Author Title Publisher 1. Nick Ceramella and

Elizabeth Lee Cambridge English for the Media with CD

CUP

2. James Glen Stovall Writing for the Mass Media Pearson 3. Anthony Friedmann

Writing for Visual Media-3rd Ed Focal Press

(The lab component may be divided into two sessions- language lab, using the multimedia lab for listening and reading skills, Communication Lab, using the lab with PA system or a classroom for writing and speaking skills)

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M.A ENGLISH MODEL QUESTION PAPERS

(R 2012)

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KRISHNA UNIVERSITY R2012

M. A. English

Semester-I

ENG 101-HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Duration: 3 hours Max.Marks:70

Answer Five Questions Choosing One Question From Each Unit. All Questions Carry Equal Marks. (5X14=70)

UNIT - I 1. (A) Explain some important characteristics of Old English.

(Or) (B) Write in detail about the Indo-European family of languages.

UNIT - II 2. (A) Explain in detail the effects of the Norman Conquest.

(Or) (B) What is the relation between the rise of middleclass and the re-establishment of

English?

UNIT - III 3. (A)Write an essay on the French influence on the vocabulary of Middle English.

(Or) (B) Explain the phrase ‘the great vowel shift’.

UNIT - IV 4. (A) What were the attempts made by the grammarians to reform the vocabulary of the

then English?

(Or) (B) Write an essay on English dialects.

UNIT - V 5. (A) Write about Webster’s contribution to the American English.

(Or) (B) Write in detail about American dialects.

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M. A. English

Semester-I

ENG 102 - Poetry - I

Duration: 3 hours Max.Marks:70 Answer Five Questions Choosing One Question from Each Unit.All Questions Carry Equal Marks. Question I is Compulsory. (5X14=70)

UNIT - I

1. Annotate any four of the following: (a) No more of talk where God or Angel Guest……. Rural repast, permitting him the while…….. Venial discourse unblam'd (b) Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: (c) Of my Celestial Patroness, who deignes……… Easie my unpremeditated Verse: (d) Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep? (e) O Earth, how like to Heav'n, if not preferr'd More justly, Seat worthier of Gods, as built (f) Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells. (g) Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemning, And of thir vain contest appeer'd no end. (h) She dwells with Beauty—Beauty that must die; And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips

UNIT - II 2. (a) Critically comment on Chaucer’s art of characterization in the prologue to the

Canterbury tales.

(Or) (b) Examine the Metaphysical Conceits in Donne’s Poetry.

UNIT - III 3. (a) Comment on the epic similes of Milton’s Paradise Lost Book-IX.

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(Or) (b) Explain Milton's final invocation in Paradise Lost Book-IX.

UNIT - IV 4. (a) Consider Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock as a social satire.

(Or) (b) Keat’s Ode on a Grecian Urn is based on a series of paradoxes and opposites.

Comment.

UNIT - V 5. (a) How does Wordsworth in Tintern Abbey describe the gift of nature bestowed on

him?

(Or) (b) Write a critical appreciation of Tennyson’s Ulysses.

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KRISHNA UNIVERSITY R2012 M. A. English

Semester-I ENG 103 – English Drama - I

Duration: 3 hours Max.Marks:70 Answer Five Questions Choosing One Question from Each Unit.All Questions Carry Equal Marks. Question 1 is Compulsory. (5X14=70)

UNIT - I

1. Annotate any four of the following:

(a) If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why, then, belike we must sin, and so consequently die: (b) Hell has no limits. Nor is circumsth And where hell is, there must we ever be; (c) To give me whatsoever I shall ask, To tell me whatsoever I demand, To slay mine enemies, and aid my friends, (d) If thou wilt not have mercy on my soul, Yet for Christ's sake, whose blood hath ransom'd me, Impose some end to my incessant pain; (e) To be, or not to be: that is the question: (f) He took me by the wrist and held me hard;

Then goes he to the length of all his arm; And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face As he would draw it

(g) Let's follow, Gertrude: How much I had to do to calm his rage! Now fear I this will give it start again; Therefore let's follow.

(h) I'll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion! If thou hast any sound, or use of voice, Speak to me:

UNIT - II 2. (a) Critically comment on the blend of both renaissance and reformation elements in Dr.

Faustus.

(Or) (b) Trace the Senecan elements in Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy.

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UNIT - III 3. (a) Comment on the significance of the prologue of Every Man in His Humour.

(Or) (b) Discuss The Way of the World as a comedy of manners.

UNIT - IV 4. (a) Consider the theme of honour as it relates to the characters and actions of Hamlet,

Laertes and Fortinbras.

(Or) (b) Discuss the theme of self- love in Twelfth Night.

UNIT - V 5. (a) Write a detailed note on the supernatural element in The Tempest.

(Or ) (b) Analyse Prospero’s relationship with Caliban and Ariel in The Tempest.

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Semester-I ENG 104 – Prose and Fiction - I

Duration: 3 hours Max.Marks:70 Answer Five Questions Choosing One Question from Each Unit.All Questions Carry Equal Marks. Question I is Compulsory. (5X14=70)

UNIT - I

1. Critically comment on any four of the following passages:

A) Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

B) There is no man doth a wrong, for the wrong's sake; but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or

honor, or the like. Therefore why should I be angry with a man, for loving himself better than me?

C) The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue.

D) Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; E) Here the children fell a crying, and asked if their little mourning which they had on Was not for uncle John, and they looked up, and prayed me not to go on about their uncle. F) I have a kindly yearning towards these dim specks -- poor blots -- innocent blacknesses. G) O it was a pleasure to see the sable younkers lick in the unctuous meat, with his more unctuous sayings -- how he would fit the tit bits to the puny mouths. H) See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth, wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility!

UNIT - II

2. (a) "Bacon’s essys are deeper and more discriminating than any earlier, or almost any later, work in the English language”.Elucidate.

(OR) (b) How did Charles Lamb gradually perfect the essay form in The Essays of Elia? Explain with examples from the essays prescribed.

UNIT - III

3. (a) Discuss Swift’s The Battle of the Books as a mock-epic.

(OR)

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(b) How does Swift satirize the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns? UNIT - IV

4. (a) Jane Austen assigns the qualities of pride and Prejudice to Elizabeth and

Darcy.Examine.

(OR) (b) Explain the autobiographical features of David Copperfield?

UNIT - V

5. (a) Discuss the unique plot structure and dominant themes in Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.

(OR) (b) “ I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.” How does the unresolved passion eventually destroy Catherine and Heathcliff ?

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Semester-I ENG 105 – Use of English-I

Duration: 3 hours Max.Marks:70 Answer Five Questions Choosing One Question from Each Unit.All Questions Carry Equal Marks. Unit 5 is compulsory. (5X14=70)

Unit - I

1. (a) Write in detail about the elements of a sentence.

(Or) (b) What are proforms? What are their uses? Illustrate your answer.

Unit - II 2. (a) Write a note on irregular verbs.

(Or) (b) Explain concord giving suitable examples.

Unit - III 3. (a) What are different realizations of a simple sentence. Give examples.

(Or) (b)What are the features of a complex sentence? Illustrate your answer.

Unit - IV 4. (a) Write a note on word formation focusing on prefixes and suffixes.

(Or) (b) Bring out the difference between denotative and connotative meanings giving suitable

examples.

Unit - V 5. Correct the following sentences, if necessary.

a. I am waiting for you since 8 o’ clock. b. They are good at studies, isn’t it? c. I prefer coffee than tea. d. If she were, she would have accepted the prize. e. It’s me. f. A variety of post cards is available here. g. No one knows the answer.

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M. A. English

Semester-II

ENG 201-PHONETICS AND LINGUISTICS


Answer Five Questions Choosing One Question from Each Unit.All Questions Carry Equal Marks. (5X14=70)

UNIT - I 1. (a) Write in detail about the functions of the organs of speech.

Or (b)What are front vowels and back vowels? Explain using a vowel diagram.

UNIT 2 2. (a)Into how many categories are consonant clusters divided? Give five examples for each

category. Or

(b)What are the uses of rising tune? Explain by giving suitable examples.

UNIT 3 3. (a) Transcribe the following:

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow. As for work, we haven’t any of any consequence. Hardly a man takes a half-hour’s nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, “What’s the news?” as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels.

Or (b) Student: Good morning, Sir!

Teacher: Morning, morning. Why aren’t you wearing your uniform today? Student: Sir, today is my birthday, sir. Teacher: Oh!, Happy birthday. Now, where is my chocolate? Student: Sir, take this sir, this is for you. Teacher: Oh, thank you. And, by the way, God bless you. Student: Thank you, sir.

UNIT 4

4. (a) What is the difference between human language and animal communication? Or

(b) What are the different branches of linguistics?

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UNIT 5

5. (a)Write short notes on dialect and register. Or

(b) What is the difference between correctness and acceptability? Illustrate your answer. *****

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M. A. English

Semester-II

ENG 202-POETRY II


Answer Five Questions Choosing One Question from Each Unit.All Questions Carry Equal Marks. Unit 1 is compulsory. (5X14=70)

UNIT - I 1. Annotate any four of the following:

(a) Once out of nature I shall never take by bodily form from any natural thing……

(b) How but in custom and in ceremony Are innocence and beauty born?

(c) And what rough beast, its hour come round at last; Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

(d) The body is not bruised to pleasure where soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair.

(e) I had not thought death had undone so many, Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled.

(f) Under the firelight, still under the brush, her hair Spread out in fiery points.

(g) Where fish men lovage at noon: where the walls Of Magnus Martyn hold.

(h) We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison. UNIT-II

2. (a) Consider William Butler Yeats as a symbolist. Or

(b) Attempt a critical appreciation of Yeats’ poem The Second Coming. UNIT-III

3. (a) “Structure of The Waste Land is not progressive but circular.” Examine. Or

(b) “The Waste Land has become a familiar touchstone of Modern Literature”.Discuss. UNIT-IV

4. (a) Comment on the significance of the title Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.

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Or (b) Bring out the theme of Philip Larkin’s Church Going.

UNIT-V

5. (a) Comment on the animal imagery evidenced in Ted Hughes’ poems prescribed for your study.

Or (b)Attempt a critical appreciation of Seamus Heaney’s poem Punishment.

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M. A. English

Semester-II

ENG 203-DRAMA II



UNIT - I 1. Annotate any four of the following:

a. I’m sorry for that, for your sake. I don’t play accurately anyone can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep

Science for Life. b. I certainly won’t leave you so long as you are in mourning. It

would be most unfriendly. If I were in mourning you would stay with me, I suppose. I should think it very unkind if you didn’t.

c. I daresay it was foolish of me, but I fell in love with you, Ernest. d. My darling Cecily, I think there must be some slight error. Mr.

Ernest Worthing is engaged to me. e. I'm getting chilled to the bone. What can Freddy be doing all this time? Hes been

gone twenty minutes. f. This is rather a bit of luck. I'll show you how I make records. g. Well, you never fall in love with anyone under forty-five. When will you discover

that there are some rather nice-looking young women about? h. Because I wanted to smash your face. I'd like to kill you, you selfish brute.

UNIT-II

2. (a)Comment on the art of characterization in She Stoops to Conquer.

Or (b)Discuss the character of Miss Prism. What kind of person is she and what seems to be her function in the play?

UNIT-III

3. (a)Discuss the quality and function of humour in Shaw’s Pygmalion. Or

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(b)Bernard Shaw uses the stage as a vehicle for ideas. Show how this is true of Pygmalion.

UNIT-IV

4. (a)The Play Boy of the Western World may be called a wild extravaganza with a strong tinge of realism. Discuss.

Or (b)What is Pinteresque about The Birthday Party, and how do you react to it.

UNIT-V

5. (a)Bring out the chief features of poetic drama in The Cock Tail Party. Or

(b)What are the basic features of T.S.Eliot’s dramatic art employed in The Cocktail Party? Comment on its principle theme and techniques used therein.

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M. A. English

Semester-II

ENG 204: PROSE AND FICTION II



UNIT - I 1. Critically comment on any four of the following passages:

a. Writing was a reputable and harmless occupation. The family peace was not broken by the scratching of a pen. No demand was made upon the family purse.

b. And the phantom was a woman, and when I came to know her better I called her after the heroine of a famous poem, The Angel in the House.

c. My excuse, if I were to be had up in a court of law, would be that I acted in self-defence. Had I not killed her she would have killed me. She would have plucked the heart out of my writing.

d. Her imagination could work no longer. This I believe to be a very common experience with women writers--they are impeded by the extreme conventionality of the other sex.

e. For half the day we are slaves to necessities which we cannot shirk, whether we are monarchs with a thousand servants or humble labourers with no servants but their wives.

f. Nature may have tricks up her sleeve to check us, if the capitalists exploit her too greedily.

g. If you live in a civilized country your freedom is restricted by the laws of the land enforced by the police, who oblige you to do this, and not to do that, and to pay rates and taxes.

h. …the people of England in the lump don't know what freedom is—never having had any.

UNIT II 2. a) What predictions does Virginia Woolf make for women's writing in the future?

How do they look from our current vantage point? (OR) b) Discuss Bernard Shaw’s views on Freedom in the contemporary society.

UNIT III

3. a) Examine the characterization in Somerset Maugham’s short stories. (OR)

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b) How does Dorris Lessing portray women in her short stories? Elucidate. UNIT IV

4. (a) What is the role of fate in Tess of the d’Urbervilles? What does Hardy mean by “fate”? (OR)

(b) Explain Marlow’s journey from Brussels to Congo as a symbolic journey to hell full of nightmares.

UNIT V 5. (a) Discuss the autobiographical element in Lawrence’s “Sons and Lovers”.

(OR) (b) “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Compare and contrast

Napoleon and Snowball. *****

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M. A. English

Semester-II

ENG 205 - THE USE OF ENGLISH - II


Answer Five Questions Choosing One Question from Each Unit.All Questions Carry Equal Marks. (5X14=70)

UNIT I

1. (a) How do express definite and indefinite meaning? Give suitable examples. Or

(b) Write a note on the progressive aspect focusing on the exceptions.

Unit II 2. (a) What are the prepositions we use to represent the notion of time?

Or (b) Write a note on expressing contrast giving suitable examples.

Unit III

3. (a) Explain the different ways of questioning to elicit the required information. Or

(b) Explain the rules to be followed in reported speech. Unit IV

4. (a) Write a note on the phrases and clauses we use to express our emotions. Or

(b) How do we express obligation? Give examples.

Unit V 5. (a) Write an essay on linking signals.

Or (b) What are the substitutes for structures that contain a verb? *****

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M. A. English

Semester-III

ENG 301 - LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM - I


Answer Five Questions Choosing One Question from Each Unit. All Questions Carry Equal Marks. (5X14=70)

UNIT I

1. (a) How does Sidney demonstrate that poetry, not philosophy or history, best furthers the "ending of all earthly learning"?

OR (b) Elucidate Dryden’s arguments regarding French and English drama in An Essay on Dramatic Poesy?

UNIT II

2. (a) How does Dr. Johnson discuss the merits and demerits of Shakespeare as a poet of

nature. OR

(b) Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads is a manifesto of the Romantic revolution in English Literature. Explain.

UNIT III

3. (a) Explain Coleridge’s theory of “Fancy” and “Imagination”.

OR

(b) What is the relationship between the "critical power" and the "creative power" in Arnold’s The Function of Criticism at the Present time? Why can't there be a truly great period of literary creation without criticism?

UNIT IV

4. (a) "Eliot's theory of the impersonality of poetry is the greatest theory on the nature of the

process after Wordsworth's romantic conception of poetry."Comment.

OR (b) Define I.A.Richards’s Four Kinds of Meaning and discuss their importance in criticism.

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UNIT V

5. (a) Explain the term “Irony” and show how it is an important principle of poetic structure.

OR (b) What is Archetypal Criticism? How does Northrop Frye elucidate it?

OR (c) Write short notes on any four of the following:

I. Primary & secondary Imagination II. Philip Sidney’s idea of poetry

III. Dr.Jonson’s defence of Shakespeare IV. Seasonal cycles & archetypes V. Wordsworth’s definition of poetry

VI. Dryden’s four characters in Dramatic peosy.

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M. A. English

Semester-III

ENG 302 - NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH – I



UNIT I

1. (a) Postcolonial literature is deeply marked by experiences of cultural exclusion. Discuss.

Or (b)Postcolonial literature is that which critically scrutinizes the colonial relationship. Comment. UNIT-II

2. (a) In spite of our general sympathy Okonkwo is not a lovable man. Discuss. Or

(b) Examine the theme of cross cultural conflict in Things Fall Apart. UNIT-III

3. (a)Though Karanja plays a vital role in the novel, it is he who at last walks out of the novel aimlessly heading nowhere. Elaborate the reasons.

Or (b)Discuss the theme of The Lion and the Jewel.

UNIT-IV 4. (a)Discuss how the symbol of house seen from Anand’s point of view stands for the

process of decolonization in A House for Mr. Biswas. Or

(b) Examine the theme of individual’s search for identity in A House for Mr. Biswas. UNIT-V

5. (a) Discuss feminist concerns in Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood. Or

(b) Disgrace is a product of centuries of domination. Comment.

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M. A. English

Semester-III

ENG 303 - INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH Duration: 3 hours Max.Marks:70


UNIT-I

1. Critically comment on any four of the following:

A) The doctor says all the organs of his little body are at loggerheads with each other, and there isn't much hope for his life.

B) Ha! ha! the King indeed, aren't you his bosom friend, eh! You haven't met for a long while and the King is pining, I am sure.

C) Oh, flower gathering! That is why your feet seem so glad and your anklets jingle so merrily as you walk. Wish I could be out too.

D) I shall ask him to make me one of his postmen that I may wander far and wide, delivering his message from door to door.

E) Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinite is native to it.

F) An anglicised India is a thing we can no longer view as either possible or desirable, - and it could only, if pursued to the end, have made us painful copyists, clumsy followers always stumbling in the wake of European evolution and always fifty years behind it.

G) Indian society is in a still more chaotic stage; for the old forms are crumbling away under the pressure of the environment, their spirit and reality are more and more passing out of them.

H) India can best develop herself and serve humanity by being herself and following the law of her own nature.

UNIT-II

2. (a) “Sri Aurobindo is one the greatest philosopher poets of India.” Explain with reference to

his poetry. (OR)

(b) The Post Office is a poignant play on a child’s vision of life”. Explain. Unit-III

2) (a) Discuss patriotic spirit of Murthy in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura.

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(OR) (b) Elucidate the theme of incompleteness and search for identity in Karnad’s Hayavadana.

UNIT-IV

3) (a) Discuss the major themes in Anand’s Untouchable.

(OR) (b) “Midnight's Children is a loose allegory for events in India both before and, primarily, after the independence and partition of India”. Elucidate.

UNIT-V

4) (a) Discuss the Deshpande’s feminist views with examples from “That Long

Silence”.

(OR) (b) How does Ghosh capture the perspective of time and historical events in “The Shadow lines”?

(OR)

(d) Write Short notes on any four: I. Our Casuarina tree

II. The Grandmother’s Tale III. Introduction IV. Obituary V. Goodbye party to Miss Pushpa T.S

VI. Sri Aurobindo *****

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M. A. English

Semester-III

ENG 304 - AMERICAN LITERATURE



UNIT I

1. Critically comment on any four of the following

a. Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. b. I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you,

And you must not be abased to the other. c. This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,

this the common air that bathes the globe. d. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,

Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

e. In fine, the ancient precept, ”Know thyself”, and the modern precept, “Study Nature”, become at last one maxim.

f. Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. g. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to

us with a certain alienated majesty h. Thy love afar is spite at home.

UNIT II

2. a) What features of American transcendentalism are found in the sections of “Song of Myself” prescribed for your study?

(OR)

b) Discuss in detail Emily Dickinson’s self-alienation understood through her poems prescribed for your study.

UNIT III 3. a)What are the influences on the development and function of the American Scholar?

Elaborate. (OR)

b) “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string”. Discuss the advantages of being self-reliant?

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UNIT IV

4. a) Comment on Thoreau’s experimental life in Walden and its success.

(OR)

b) Discuss the themes of legalism, sin and guilt in Hawthorne’s “The scarlet letter”. UNIT V

5. a) Discuss Huckleberry Finn as a realistic novel. (OR)

b) How does Mark Twain translate his real life experiences into his fictional art? *****

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M. A. English

Semester-III

ENG 305 - ENGLISH LANGAUGE TEACHING



UNIT I

1. (a) What are the problems involved in realizing the objectives of teaching English as a

second language? (Or)

(b) What is the difference between first language and second language with respect to the stages of learning?

UNIT II 2. (a) Do you see any short comings in the behavioral approach to language teaching?

Elaborate (Or)

(b) What are your views on learner’s active participation in the teaching-learning process?

UNIT III

3. (a) Explain the Monitor Model in detail. (Or)

(b) How does knowledge of interlanguage help a language teacher in the classroom? UNIT IV

4. (a) Write an essay on structural approach to language teaching. (Or)

(b) What should be the features of a communicative syllabus? UNIT V

5. (a) Compare and contrast the Grammar Translation Method and the Direct Method. (Or)

(b) Write an essay on the positive tenets of audio-lingual method. *****

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M. A. English

Semester-IV

ENG 401 - LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM - II



UNIT I

1. (a) Write an essay on Fanon’s theory of National Consciousness?

(or) (b) What is Orientalism. Discuss Edward Said’s views on Orientalism.

UNIT-II

2. (a) What is Structuralism according to Gerard Genette?

(or) (b) How does Derrida challenge the basis of Western philosophy through his influential essay- Structure, Sign and Play.

UNIT-III 3. (a) “Towards a Feminist Poetics” is Showalter’s analysis of the past, present

and future of Feminism”. Elucidate. (or)

(b) What are the assumptions of Bakhtin’s “Dialogic Imagination”?

UNIT-IV 4. (a) Discuss Bharata Muni and his contribution to Indian Aesthetics?

(or) (b) How does Arjun Dangle envisage the future of Dalit Literature?

UNIT-V

5) (a) What are the assumptions of Ecocriticism? Explicate with reference to Vandana Shiva’s essay.

(or) (b) Discuss Frankenstein’s reception in 20th century media and films.

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M. A. English

Semester-IV

ENG 402 - NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH - II



UNIT I

1. (a) Trace the reasons for agony in the poem Australia.

Or (b) “Ned Kelly is an iconic figure in Australian history, folklore and art”. Discuss. UNIT-II

2. (a) Describe the lives of Stan Parker and Amy in White’s The Tree of man. Or

(b)Explain the significance of the title The Tree of Man. UNIT-III

3. (a) Discuss the feminist concerns in Atwood’s Poetry. Or

(b) Discuss whether The Stone Angel is an extremely appropriate title for Margaret Laurence's novel. UNIT-IV

4. (a) Depict the lives of Smales family in the novel July’s People. Or

(b) Discuss the relationship between July and Bam Smales in the novel July’s People.

UNIT-V 5. (a) “Han Suyin captures the tension that still exists in Hong Kong between the caucasians

living there and the Chinese”. Explain. Or

(b) Elaborate on the grim specifics of apartheid in the play The Blood Knot.

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M. A. English

Semester-IV

ENG 403 - INDIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION



UNIT I

1. (a) “Anandamath became synonymous with the struggle for Indian independence from the British Empire and was banned by the British”.Elucidate.

(or)

(b) How does Premchand use literature for arousing public awareness about national and social issues with reference to Godan?

UNIT II 2. (a) “Ko Ku believed that literature which criticizes and enriches human life and

ultimately reforms the human thought of its time is the only relevant form of literature”. Elucidate with reference to his text.

(or) (b) Discuss Pillai’s Chemmeen as a novel which expresses the aspirations, struggle and grief in the lives of the fisherman of Kerala.

UNIT III 3. (a) Compare and contrast the trial between humanists and anti-humanists in Tendulkar’s

play. (or)

(b) How does Mahasweta Devi portray the mother’s emotional upheaval in Hazaar Churasir Ma?

UNIT IV 4. (a) Discuss “Money” as a social commentary on the dowry system in India.

(or) (b) Elaborate recent trends in Telugu short stories with particular reference to Volga’s Ayoni.

UNIT V 5. (a) “Samskara serves as an allegory and is a contemporary reworking of ancient Hindu

themes and myths”. Explain. (or)

(b) Discuss Bama’s Sangati as a significant regional voice of resistance against patriarchy and casteism.

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M. A. English

Semester-IV

ENG 404 - AMERICAN LITERATURE - II



UNIT I

1. Annotate any four of the following:

a). She dreams a little, and she feels the dark Encroachment of that old catastrophe, b). Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams? c). Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. d). Shut up, yuh lousy boob! Where d'yuh get dat tripe? Home? Home, hell! I'll make a home for yuh! I'll knock yuh dead. Home! T'hell wit home! Where d'yuh get dat tripe? Dis is home, see? e). We ain't. We wasn't born this rotten way. All men is born free and ekal. That's in the bleedin' Bible, maties. But what d'they care for the Bible— them lazy, bloated swine what travels first cabin? Them's the ones. They dragged us down 'til we're on'y wage slaves in the bowels of a bloody ship, sweatin', burnin' up, eatin' coal dust! f). Then the theatre was changed To something else. Its past was a souvenir. g). It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place. It has to face the men of the time and to meet The women of the time. h). Me 'n' you, huh?--bot' members of this club! We'll put up one last star bout dat'll knock 'em offen deir seats! Dey'll have to make de cages stronger after we're trou!

UNIT II

2.(a) Elucidate Wallace Stevens’ concerns regarding religion, literature and life with reference to his poetry? (or)

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(b) Discuss Frost’s philosophy of life as portrayed in his poetry.

UNIT III 3. (a) Discuss ‘The Hairy Ape’ as O’ Neill’s criticism of the contemporary society.

(or) (b) Do you agree with the statement that Sylvia Plath’s poetry is essentially violent? Give examples from the poems prescribed for your study.

UNIT IV

4. (a) The play, “Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf “, is an attack on marriage as an institution. Discuss in detail.

(or) (b) Discuss the epic struggle of Santiago for the greatest catch of his life in“The Old Man and the Sea”.

UNIT V

5. (a) How does the division between how the narrator perceives himself and how others perceive him relate to the motifs of blindness and invisibility? Consider the role of racial stereotypes in “The Invisible Man”.

(or) (b) “Sula addresses the confusing mysteries of human emotions and relationships, ultimately concluding that social conventions are inadequate as a foundation for living one’s life”. Elucidate.

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M. A. English

Semester-IV

ENG 405 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING - II



UNIT I

1. (a) Write an essay on the basic characteristics of humanistic approach.

(or) (b)Explain the way a language class is conducted in Community Language Learning.

UNIT II 2. (a) Explain in detail the difference between ‘syllabus’ and ‘curriculum’.

Or (b) What are the characteristics of an emergent syllabus?

UNIT III

3. (a) What are the different ways of teaching grammar? Or

(b) Should vocabulary be always taught in context? Elaborate. UNIT IV

4. (a) What are the sub skills involved in listening and reading? Or

(b) Write an essay on ‘integration of skills’. UNIT V

5. (a) What are advantages and disadvantages of team teaching? Or

(b) What are the different types available to assess a learner’s knowledge of language elements and use of language skills?

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