DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA

NEW DELHI-H0025

SYLLABUS

M.A. English

(w.e.f.2014-2015)

(Approved by the Board of Studies on 05.11.2013)

*This syllabus is meant for students pursuing M.A. as Private Students under the Annual

Mode of Examination.

The programme comprises twelve papers of 100 marks each and a Viva-voce of 100 marks.
The programme is spread over two years, as follows:

M. A. Previous

Paper I Poetry I

Paper II Fiction I

Paper III Drama I

Paper IV Criticism I

Paper V Introduction to English Linguistics & Phonetics

Paper VI Non-fiction Prose

M.A. Final

Paper VII Poetry II

Paper VIII Fiction II

Paper IX Drama II

Paper X Criticism II

Optional papers (any two of the following to be chosen by the student)

Paper XI American Literature

Paper XII Post-colonial Literature

Paper XIII English Language Teaching

All the papers comprise five units. Students are required to attempt question from all the
units. The starred texts (*) are for detailed study from which excerpts will be given for
explanations.

Paper I: Poetry-I

Unit 1

Explanations with reference to the context from the starred texts

Unit 2
Geoffrey Chaucer: "General Prologue"* to The Canterbury
Tales
The Nun's Priest's Tale

Unit 3
John Donne "Good Morrow"
"Thou hast made me, and shall Thy work decay"
"A Valediction :Forbidding Mourning"
"The Sunne Rising"
John Milton Paradise Lost, Book I

Unit4
Alexander Pope: Essay on Man *
William Blake : "Introduction"
"Earth's Answer"
"The Tyger"*
"London"
(from Songs of Experience)

Unit 5
William Wordsworth: "Ode on Intimations of Immortality"*
Prelude (185 edition), Book!
S.T. Coleridge : "Christabel"

Paper II: Fiction 1

Unit 1
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones

Unit 2
Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility

Unit 3
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities

Unit4
George Eliot Middlemarch

Unit 5
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Woodlanders

Paper III: Drama I

Unit 1
Explanations with reference to the context from the starred texts

Unit 2
Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus*

Ben Jonson: Volpone

Unit 3
Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part I
Hamlet*

Unit4
Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra
The Tempest*

Unit 5
John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi*
Thomas Middleton: The Changeling

Paper IV: Criticism I

Unit 1
Aristotle: Poetics

Unit 2
John Dryden: "Of Dramatic Poesie: An Essay"
Samuel Johnson: "Preface to Shakespeare"

Unit 3
William Wordsworth: "Preface" to the Lyrical Ballads
P.B. Shelley: "A Defence of Poetry"

Unit4
S.T. Coleridge: Chapters XII and XIV of Biographia
Literaria
William Hazlitt: "Why the Arts Are Not Progressive"
"On Shakespeare and Milton"
Unit 5
John Keats: Letter of 8 Oct., 1817 addressed to Bailey
Letter of 21 Dec., 1817 addressed to his brothers
Letter of 27 Oct., 1818 addressed to Richard Woodhouse
Matthew Arnold: "The Study of Poetry"

Paper V: Introduction to English Linguistics and Phonetics

Unit 1: Language and Linguistics

a) Language and Communication
b) The Characteristics of Language
c) Linguistics as a Scientific Study of Language
d) Some Basic Assumptions in Linguistics
e) Branches of Linguistics
f) The Status of Non-native Languages
g) Variation in the Use of Language

Unit 2: Grammatical Theories

a) Traditional Grammar
b) Structuralist Method -form classes, immediate constituents,
syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations
c) Phonology - classification of speech sounds, phoneme, Allophone, complementary
and contrastive distribution, Suprasegmental features
d) Morphology - morpheme, allomorph, root and the affix, prefix, infix, suffix, full and
empty morphemes, free and bound morphemes, inflexional and derivational
morphemes
e) Transformational Generative Grammar, Meaning of the term 'Generative',
Competence and Performance. 'Deep' and 'Surface' structure, Phrase Structure
Rules, Transformational Rules, Selectional Restrictions, Lexis and Grammar,
Language Universals.

Unit 3: Grammatical Relations in the Constituents of a Sentence

a) Types of a sentences in English
b) Constituents of a 'Kernel' sentence
c) Co-ordination and subordination-nominalisation, relativisation and adverbisation.
d) Verb-tense, aspect, mood and modality
e) Phrasal verbs in English
f) Interrogation and negation in English
g) Non-finite construction in English
h)
Unit 4: English Phonetics and Phonology
1) The Speech Mechanism: air stream mechanism, organs of speech, respiratory
system, phonatory system and articulatory system
2) The description and classification of speech sounds: vowels, consonants, phonetic
transcription and the international phonetic alphabet
Unit 5: The Phonology of English
1) Phoneme, allophone, syllable and consonant clusters in English
2) Word accent, weak forms, intonation and rhythm in connected speech: a
comparative study of G.I.E. and R.P.: the need of a model for international
communication and intelligibility

Paper VI: Non-Fiction Prose

Unit 1
Thomas More: Utopia

Unit 2
Jonathan Swift: "A Modest proposal"
M. Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Unit 3
Thomas Paine: Rights of Man: Part I

Unit4
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty

Unit 5
George Orwell: "Politics and the English Language"
Edward Said: "Crisis" from Orienta/ism
"Afterword to the 1995 Printing of Orienta/ism"

Paper VII: Poetry II

Unit 1
Explanations with reference to the context from the starred texts

Unit 2
Robert Browning: "Andrea del Sarto"*
"Porphyria' Lover"
"A Grammarian' Funeral"
"Abt Vogler"
G.M. Hopkins: "The Wreck of the Deutschland"*
"The Windhover"
"Pied Beauty"
"Thou Art Indeed Just"

Unit 3
W.B. Yeats: "Byzantium"*
"The Second Coming
"Easter 1916"
"Among School Children"
T.S. Eliot: The Waste/and*
Unit 4
W.H.Auden: "A Bride in the 30's"
"Consider This and in Our Time"
"Shield of Achilles"
"In Praise of Limestone"
Dylan Thomas: "The Force that Through the Green Fuse...n
"Do Not Go Gentle ..."
"After the Funeral"
"Light Breaks ..."

Unit 5
Ted Hughes: "Hawk Roosting"*
"November"
"Thrushes"
"Jaguar"
Seamus Heaney: "Ocean's Love to Ireland"
"The Unacknowledged Legislator's Dream"
"North"
"Exposure"

Paper VIII: Fiction II

Unit 1
D.H. Lawrence: The Rainbow
"The Fox"

Unit 2
E.M. Forster: A Passage to India
"The Celestial Omnibus"

Unit 3
James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"The Dead"

Unit 4
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
Mrs. Dalloway

Unit 5
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
 Paper IX: Drama II

Unit 1
Explanations with reference to the context from the starred texts

Unit 2
G.B. Shaw: st. Joan*
J.M. Synge: The Playboy of the Western World

Unit 3
Bertolt Brecht: Caucasian Chalk Circle
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot*

Unit4
Harold Pinter: The Homecoming
Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Oead*

Unit 5
Girish Karnad: Tughlaq*
Mahesh Dattani: Final Solutions

Paper X: Criticism II

Unit 1
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own

Unit 2
T.S. Eliot: "The Metaphysical Poets"
"Hamlet"
I.A. Richards: 'The Two Uses of Language"
"The Four Kinds of Meaning"

Unit 3
Wimsatt and Beardsley: "The International Fallacy"
"The Affective Fallacy"
Northrop Frye: "The Archetypes of Literature"

Unit 4
Roland Barthes: "From Work to Text"
Michel Foucault: "What is an Author?"

Unit 5
Susan Sontag: "Against Interpretation"
Raymond Williams: "Realism and the Contemporary Novel"
 Paper XI: American literature
Unit 1: Prose
Thomas Jefferson: 'The First Inaugural Address"
Edgar Allan Poe: "The Philosophy of Composition"
R.W. Emerson: 'The American Scholar"

Unit 2: Fiction
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Alice Walker: The Color Purple

Unit 3: Drama
Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
Edward Albee: The Zoo Story

Unit 4: Poetry I
Walt Whitman: "Song of Myself"
"Out ofthe Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
"Passage to India"
Emily Dickinson: "Papa Above'
III Can Wade Grief"
"Prayer is the Little Implement"
Robert Frost: liThe Death of the Hired Man"
"Stepping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
"Corne in"

Unit 5: Poetry II
Wallace Stevens: "Sunday Morning"
'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
"The World as Meditation"
Allen Ginsberg: IIA Supermarket in California"
"Sunflower Sutra"
"America"
Adrienne Rich: "Living in Sin"
"Lucifer in the Train'
II(Sex, as they harshly call it)"

Paper XII: Postcolonial literature

Unit 1: Theoretical Bases

Stephen Siemon: "The Scramble for Post-Colonialism" from
De-scribing Empire
Frantz Fanon: "On National Culture" from the Wretched of
the Earth
Margaret Atwood: "Survival" from Survival
Salman Rushdie: "Commonwealth Literature Does Not Exist"
from Imaginary Homelands
Unit 2 : Fiction I
Raja Rao: Kanthapura
R.K. Narayan: A Tiger from Malgudi
Amitav Ghosh: In an Antique Land

Unit 3: Fiction II
Peter Carey: True History of the Kelly Gang
Margaret Atwood: Surfacing
V.S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas

Unit 4: Poetry I
Nissim Ezekiel: "Night of the Scorpion"
"Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher"
A.K. Ramanujan: "A River"
"Love Poem for a Wife I"
Derek Walcott: "The Castaway"
"Ruins of a Great House"
A.J. M. Smith: "The Lonely Land"
"News of the Phoenix"

Unit 5: Poetry II
Michael Ondaatje: "Sweet like a Crow"
"The Cinnamon Peeler"
A.D. Hope: "Australia"
"The Double Looking Glass"
Judith Wright: "Woman to Man"
"Bockpool" from
The Shadow of Fires: Ghazols
Zulfikar Ghose: "This Landscape, These People"
"the Attack on Sialkot"

Paper XIII: Teaching of English

Objective: To equip the student to teach English at the undergraduate level

Unit 1: Problems and Principles

a) The Role of English in India
b) Objectives ofthe Teaching of English in India
c) Theories of Language Learning - cognitive, behaviourist, communicative
competence, learning vs. Acquisition, speech act theory
d) Differences between First and Second Language Learning
e) Individual Variation in Language learning Performance: language aptitude,
motivation and age.
Unit 2: Approaches to Syllabus Design
a) Structural
b) Situational
c) Functional
d) Communicative
e) Emergent (Process vs. Product)

Unit 3: Approaches to Teaching Methodology

a) Audio-lingual (structural drills)
b) Grammar Translation (rules and exercise)
c) Bilingual (use of the Mother Tongue)
d) Situational and Communicative
e) Structuring of lessons and classroom interaction: Learner - centred teaching and the
problems of teaching large classes

Unit 4: principles of Material Production

a) Teaching of vocabulary - 'productive' and 'receptive' vocabulary, foundation
vocabulary, Basic English
b) Selection - frequency, utility, universality, productivity,
teachability, structural value and regional value of a lexical item.
c) Teaching of structures - selection, gradation and repetition - drills.

Unit 5: Error Analysis, Lexicography and Evaluation

a) Attitude to error analysis, the concept of interlanguage
b) The art of lexicography and its relevance to a language teaching programme
c) Testing and evaluation