MA English (Final)

Paper-6: Poetry-II: (Wordsworth to Eliot) 100 Marks

1. Reference to the Context 20 Marks

2. Romantic Poets 40 Marks

3. Victorian & Modern Poets 40 Marks

Paper-7: The Novel (Fielding to Woolf) 100 Marks

1. Reference to the Context 20 Marks

2. The Beginning to the 18th Century 40 Marks

3. The Victorians & the Moderns 40 Marks

Paper-8: Drama (Marlowe to Eliot) 100 Marks

1. Reference to the Context 20 Marks

2. Elizabethan Drama 40 Marks

3. Jacobeans to the Moderns 40 Marks

Paper-9: Criticism (Aristotle to Eliot) 100 Marks

1. Greek to the 18th Century 50 Marks

2. Romantics to the Moderns 50 Marks

Paper-10: English Language Teaching (ELT) 100 Marks

1. Linguistics and ELT, SLA, Methodology, etc. 50 Marks

2. Course Design/Evaluation & Testing 50 Marks

Paper-11: Viva-Voce Examination 100 Marks

 MA English (Final)
Paper-6: English Poetry-2 (Romantics to 20th Century)
1. The Romantic Poets (1789-1830)
a) William Wordsworth (1770-1850) The Prelude (Book-I), “Tintern Abbey”
b) S.T. Coleridge (1772-1834) “The Ancient Mariner”, “Kubla Khan”; “Dejection: An
Ode”; “Frost at Midnight”; “Christabel” (Part-I)
c) Lord Byron (1788-1824) Childe Harold (Canto-III): “Is thy face ...”; Don Juan (Canto-I,
stanzas 1-50)
d) P.B. Shelley (1792-1822) “Adonais”, “Ode to the West Wind”; “Hymn to Intellectual
Beauty”
e) John Keats (1795-1821) “Hyperion”, “The Eve of St. Agnes”; “Ode to a Nightingale”;
“Ode to Autumn”; “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “When I have fears ...” “On Reading
Chapman’s Homer”; Sonnet: “Bright star ...”
2. The Victorian Poets (1830-1901)
a) Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
“Ulysses”, “Morte D’ Arthur”; “In Memoriam (L-LVI); “Crossing the Bar”
b) Robert Browning (1812-1889) “Andrea del Sarto”, “My Last Duchess”; “Rabbi ben
Ezra”; “Prospice”; “Calibon on Setebos”
c) Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) “Sohrab and Rustum”; “The Scholar Gipsy”; “Dover
Beach”
d) Gerald Manly Hopkins (1844-1889) “The Starlight Night”; “Pied Beauty”; “Carrion
Comfort”; “The Windhover”; “No worst, there is none”
3. Modern Poets
a) W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) “Byzantium”, “Sailing to Byzantium”; “The Second Coming”;
“Dialogue of Self and Soul”; “When you are old and grey”
b) T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) The Wasteland, “Prufrock’s Love Song” Four Quartets: “East
Coker”, “Ash Wednesday”

Paper-7: The English Novel

1. The Rise of the English Novel
a) The Beginnings: An introduction
b) Fielding (1707-1754): Tom Jones
c) Jane Austin (1775-1817): Emma
2. The Victorian Period (1830-1901)
a) Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Great Expectations
 b) Emily Bronte (1818-1848): Wuthering Heights
c) Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): Tess of the D’Urbervilles
3. Modern Novel (1901 to 1970))
a) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): To the Lighthouse
b) D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930): Rainbow
c) E.M. Forster (1879-1970): Howards End

Paper-8: English Drama

1. Elizabethan Drama (1558-1603)
a) Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593): Dr. Faustus
b) William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Henry V; Hamlet; Julius Caesar; The Tempest
2. Jacobean Drama (1603-1660)
a) Ben Jonson (1572-1637): Every Man in his Humour
3. Restoration & 18th Century Drama (1660-1789)
a) R.B. Sheridan (1751-1816): The Rivals
4. Modern Drama
a) G.B. Shaw (1856-1950): Man and Superman
b) T.S. Eliot (1888-1965): Murder in the Cathedral

Paper-9: Literary Criticism (Aristotle to Modern Times)

1. The Greek Critics
a) Aristotle (394-322 BC): The Poetics
b) Longinus (?2nd Century AD): On the Sublime
2. Elizabethan to 18th Century
a) Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586): An Apology for Poetry
b) John Dryden (1631-1700): Preface to the Fables
c) Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Shakespearean Criticism
3. The Romantic Critics
a) William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Preface to Lyrical Ballads
b) S.T. Coleridge (1772-1834): Biographia Literaria: (Chapters 4, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 22) 11
4. The Victorian Critics
a) Matthew Arnold (1822-1888): Essays in Criticism: “The Study of Poetry”
b) Walter Pater (1839-1894): Appreciations: “On Style” “Wordsworth” “Coleridge”
5. Modern Critics
a) T.S. Eliot (1888-1965): Selected Essays: “Tradition & the Individual Talent”;
“The Function of Criticism”; “Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry”; “Dryden”;
“ Religion and Literature”
Paper-10: English Language Teaching (ELT)
1. Linguistics & Language Teaching
a) Theory and Practice; Approaches and trends;
b) Language Teaching & Language Learning
c) Sociolinguistic aspects of Language Teaching
d) Psycholinguistic aspects of Language Teaching
2. Language Teaching Theories
a) The Grammar-translation or traditional method
b) The Direct method and the Reading method;
c) The Audiolingual and the Audiovisual methods;
d) The Cognitive theory and Suggestopaedia
e) The Communicative approach;
3. Language Course Design
a) Course, Syllabus, Curriculum
b) Types of Syllabi Product oriented (Grammatical, Functional-notional) Process oriented
(Procedural, Task-based, Content)
c) Principles of Course Design Analytic, Synthetic, & Natural approaches Needs Analysis;
Aims, goals, and objectives d) Selection and grading Selecting and Grading content;
Selecting and grading learning tasks Selecting and grading objectives
4. Course/Syllabus Evaluation
a) Definitions of evaluation 12
b) Approaches to course evaluation Product-oriented approaches; Process-oriented
approaches Decision facilitation approaches
c) Dimensions of evaluation Formative vs. Summative; Product vs. process Quantitative vs.
qualitative
d) Evaluation procedures
5. Testing and Assessment
a) Performance-referenced testing (Direct & Indirect)
b) System-referenced testing (Direct & Indirect)
c) Norm-referenced & Criterion-referenced testing;
d) Principles of test construction: (Reliability & validity; Content validity; Construct
validity) e) Test types: Formative and Summative Tests; Aptitude Tests; Placement/Entry
tests; Diagnostic tests
Paper-11: VIVA Voce: (Oral Examination)
Each candidate shall be examined by a Board of Examiners consisting of an external
examiner and the Chairman of the Department or his nominee.