Dr.

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University, Ranchi

University Department of English
Curriculum
M.A. English under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)
(2018)

Duration of the course: Two academic years

Number of Semesters: 4 Number of papers: 16
Examination: At the end of each semester
Total number of credits: 78

M. A. Part I
Semester I

1 FC Literary Movements and History of English Literature ( 4 credit)

1 Core (C01) Literature in English (1550-1660)- Poetry, Drama, and Prose (5 credit)
2 Core (C02) Literature in English (1660-1798)-Poetry and Drama ( 5 credit)
3 Core (C03) Literature in English (1660-1798): Prose- Fiction and Non-fiction ( 5 credit)

Semester II

01 EC (EC01) Literature in English (1798-1914): Poetry and Fiction ( 4 credit)

4 Core (C04) Literature in English (1914-2000): Poetry and Drama ( 5 credit)
5 Core (C 05 ) Literature in English (1914-2000)- Modern Fiction ( 5 credit)
6 Core (C06 ) American Literature ( 5 credit)

M.A. Part II
Semester III

7 Core (C 07 ) Classical Criticism and Theory ( 5 credit)

8 Core (C08) Indian Literature in English ( 5 credit)
9 Core (C09 ) Contemporary Literary Theory ( 5 credit)
02 EC DSE 1 European Literature in Translation ( 5 credit)
or
DSE 2 Indian Literature in Translation ( 5 credit)

Semester IV
10 Core (C11) New Literature in English ( 5 credit)
11 Core (C12) Literature and Gender ( 5 credit)
03 EC DSE 1 Literary Criticism and Theory ( 5 credit)
Or
DSE 2 Linguistics and Teaching Language ( 5 credit)
Compulsory Course: PROJECT/ Dissertation ( 5 credit)
Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University, Ranchi, University Department of English
Curriculum M.A. English under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)(2018)

NOTE: ALL THE PRESCRIBED TEXTS ARE FOR DETAILED STUDY

No student in the M.A. programme will be allowed to take the Semester –End examination unless he/she
has attended 75% of the lectures/ tutorials given and has taken the required number of in-semester tests
(which will include in-class tests, seminars and other assignments). The in-semester tests shall form part
of the continuous evaluation of the student, the marks secured in which will be reflected in the final
results.

M.A. Part I
Semester I

1 FC: Literary Movements and History of English Literature 4 credits/ 5

hours a week

Unit – I Medieval England

Medieval Society and Literature

Unit – II The Renaissance to The Neoclassical Age

Renaissance Humanism, Reformation, Restoration, British Enlightenment,
Neoclassicism, Scientific Rationalism, Augustanism

Unit –III The Romantic Age to The Victorian Age

Romanticism, The Industrial Revolution, Darwinism, Victorianism and Contemporary
Society, Religion, Status of Women

Unit –IV The Modern Age

The Twentieth Century and the Context of Modernism, Existentialism, Bloomsbury,
Symbolism, Imagism, Surrealism, Formalism

Unit –V The Postmodern Period

The Context of Postmodernism, The New Theatre, Cultural turn in Literary Studies,
Popular Culture, Globalisation

Distribution of Marks:
Internal Assessment: 30
Full Marks 70 Time 3 hrs.
1. Eight questions will be set on the given topics 14x5=70
out of which any five will have to be answered.

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Curriculum M.A. English under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)(2018)

There will be at least one question from each

Unit.

Suggested Reading:
Sanders,Andrew The Short Oxford History of English Literature 2nd ed. OUP
Daiches,David A Critical History of English Literature , New Delhi Allied
Publishers Ltd.
Choudhary, Bibhash English Social and Cultural History, New Delhi 2007
Prentice Hall of India
Bowra, C M The Romantic Imagination, OUP

1 Core Course (C1) Literature in English (1550-1660)- Poetry, Drama,

and Prose 5 credits/ 5 hours a week

Unit I: Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene (Book I)
Or
John Milton: Paradise Lost , Book II

Unit II : Drama
William Shakespeare: Hamlet
Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus

Unit II
Renaissance and Reformation, Humanism, Influence of Seneca and Machiavelli
on English Drama

Distribution of Marks:
Internal Assessment:30
Full Marks 70 Time 3 hrs.
1. There will be questions with alternatives on 15x4=60
each of the prescribed texts in Unit I and Unit
II. All questions will have to be answered.
2. Two essay type questions will be set on Unit III 10x1=10
out of which any one will have to be answered.
Suggested Reading:

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Curriculum M.A. English under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)(2018)

Ford, Boris, (Ed.) The Age of Chaucer in The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Penguin
Rivers, Isabel, Classical and Christian Ideas in Early Renaissance Poetry Penguin Books,
1979.
Coghill, Neville, The Poet Chaucer
Lawlor, John, Chaucer
Alford, John (ed.) A Companion to Piers the Plowman, Berkley, 1988
Schmidt, A.V.C., The Clerkly Maker: Langland’s Poetic Art, Cambridge, 1987
Potter, R. The English Morality Play, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975
Vinaver, Eugene, Malory (Oxford)
Lambert, mark, Malory: Style and Vision in the Morte Darthus (new Haven, 1975)
Parry, G. The Seventeenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Contexts, Longman, 1989
E.M. Tillyard: Milton
W.H. Hudson: Milton’s Life and Poetry
K. Muir: John Milton
Blamires, Harry, Milton’s Creation: A Guide through ‘Paradise Lost’, London, 1971
Lisa, Jardine, Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse, Cambridge, 1974
Babb, Lawrence, Sanity in Bedlam: A Study of Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, East
Lansing, 1959
R.G. Moulton: Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist
A. Nicoll: Studies in Shakespeare
Baker and Harrison: A Companion to Shakespeare Studies
A.C. Bradley: Shakespearean Tragedy
Boris Ford: The Age of Shakespeare
F.L. Lucas: Tragedy
Lever, J.W., The Tragedy of State: A Study in Jacobean Drama, London, 1971
Stern, J.B., Marlowe: A Critical Study, Cambridge, 1964
Pearson, Jacqueline, Tragedy and Tragicomedy in the Plays of John Webster, Manchester,
1980

2 Core Course (C2) Literature in English (1660-1798)-Poetry and Drama

5 credits/ 5 hours a week

Unit I: Poetry
John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel
Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock , Canto II

Unit II: Drama

Richard Brinsley Sheridan : The Rivals

Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer

Distribution of Marks:
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Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University, Ranchi, University Department of English
Curriculum M.A. English under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)(2018)

Internal Assessment: 30
Full Marks 70 Time 3 hrs.
1. There will be questions, with alternatives, on 15x4=60
each of the prescribed texts. All questions will
have to be answered.
2. Two passages out of four given from the 5x2=10
prescribed texts will have to be explained with
reference to the context.

Suggested Reading:
W.G. Knight: The Poetry of Pope, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1995
M.V. Doren, The Poetry of John Dryden
I. Jack, Augustan Satire
B. Schilling, . (Ed.), Dryden: A Collection of Critical Essays
David Hopkins, John Dryden, Cambridge, 1986
Pat Rogers, (ed.) The Eighteenth Century, New York, 1978

3 Core Course (C3) Literature in English (1660-1798)-Prose- Fiction

andNon-fiction 5 credits/ 5 hours a week

John Bunyan : The Pilgrim’s Progress

Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
Samuel Johnson: Lives of Poets (Milton, Pope and Cowley)

Distribution of Marks:
Internal Assessment: 30
Full Marks 70 Time 3 hrs.
1. There will be three questions, with alternatives, 20x3=60
on the prescribed texts. All questions will have
to be answered.
2. Three questions on the literary scene of the age 10x1=10
will be set out of which any one will have to be
answered.

Suggested Reading:
Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel
Peter Earle, The World of Defoe, London, 1976
Pat Rogers (Ed.) Daniel Defoe: The Critical Heritage, London, 1972
A. Dobson, Fielding

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Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University, Ranchi, University Department of English
Curriculum M.A. English under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)(2018)

Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Harmondsworth,
1957
Nicholas Hudson, Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-century Thought, Oxford, 1988
Hugh Honour, Neo-Classicism, Harmondsworth, 1968

Semester II

1 Elective Course ( EC5): Literature in English (1798-1914)-Poetry and

Fiction 4 credits/ 5 hours a week
Unit I:
William Wordsworth: The Prelude (Books I and II)
S.T. Coleridge: Christabel Part I
John Keats: Lamia
Alfred Lord Tennyson: In Memoriam Cantos I-X
Robert Browning : The Grammarian's Funeral/ , The Last Ride Together
Porphyria's Lover
Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach
Unit II:
Charles Dickens : Hard Times
Jane Austen: Emma
Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure
Distribution of Marks:
Internal Assessment: 30
Full Marks 70 Time 3 hrs.
1. There will be two questions from Unit I and two from 15x4=60
Unit II, with alternatives. All questions will have to be
answered.
2. Three passages from the prescribed poems in Unit I 5x2=10
will be set out of which any two will have to be
explained with reference to the context.
Suggested Reading:
C.M. Bowra, The Romantic Imagination, OUP
Cynthia Chase (ed.) Romanticism, London, 1993
John Beer, Coleridge’s Poetic Intelligence, London, 1977
Ian Jack, Keats and the Mirror of Art, Oxford, 1971
A.D. Culler, The Poetry of Tennyson Yale University Press
Christopher Ricks, Christopher, Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart, London, 1972, revised edn.
1989

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Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University, Ranchi, University Department of English
Curriculum M.A. English under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)(2018)

P.J. Keating, Robert Browning: A Reader’s Guide

Suggested Reading:
Edward Chitham :A Life of Emily Bronte
Mary Lascelles: Jane Austen and Her Art
Elizabeth Jenkins: Jane Austen
A.H. Wright: Jane Austen’s Novels
B.C. Southam, (ed.) Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage, London, 1967
Lord David Cecil: Hardy the Novelist
Evelyn Hardy: Thomas Hardy: A Critical Biography
R.A. Scott-James: Thomas Hardy
D.H. Lawrence: A Study of Thomas Hardy
J.W. Beach: The Technique of Thomas Hardy

4 Core Course (C4): Literature in English (1914-2000) Poetry and Drama 5

credits/ 5 hours a week

Unit I:
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
W.B. Yeats: Easter 1916, The Second Coming
Siegfried Sassoon: Prelude: The Troops
W.H. Auden: The Unknown Citizen
Stephen Spender: I think continually of those who were truly great
Phillip Larkin: Church Going, Whitsun Wedding

Unit II:
G.B. Shaw: Pygmalion
T.S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral
Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot

Distribution of Marks:
Internal Assessment: 30
Full Marks 70 Time 3 hrs.
1. There will be two questions from each Unit. All 15x4=60
questions will have an alternative. All
questions will have to be answered.
2. Four passages from Unit I will be given out of 5x2=10
which any two will have to be explained with
reference to the context.
Suggested Reading:

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Curriculum M.A. English under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)(2018)

Palgrave’s The Golden Treasury: Rupa &Co. 2001

Michael Bell, Michael (ed.) The Context of Modern Literature 1900-1930, London, 1980
Norman A. Jeffares, W.B. Yeats: Man and Poet, London, 1962
S.C. Smith, T.S. Eliot’s Poetry and Plays, London, 1974
Eric Bentley: Bernard Shaw
G.K. Chesterton: George Bernard Shaw
A.C. Ward: Bernard Shaw
C.E.M. Joad: Shaw
Nicholas Greene, Synge: A Critical Study of the Plays, London, 1975
Harold Bloom, (ed.) :Samuel Beckett, New York, 1985

5Core Course (C5): Modern English Fiction (1914-2000) 5 credits/ 5 hours

a week

D H Lawrence Sons and Lovers

Henry James Portrait of A Lady
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
Vladimir Nobokov : Lolita

Suggested Reading-
Randal Stevenson, Modernist Fiction
C.B. Cox & A.E. Dyson, The Twentieth Century Mind
David Daiches, The Novel and the Modern World
P. Clements, et. al., Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, London, 1983
Richard Ellman, James Joyce, Oxford, 1959
Percy Lubbock: The Craft of Fiction
Leon Edel: The Psychological Novel

Distribution of Marks:
Internal Assessment: 30
Full Marks 70 Time 3 hrs.
1. Four questions with alternatives will be set. All 15x4=70
questions will have to be answered.
2. Three questions on the literary scene of the age 10x1=10
will be set out of which any one will have to be
answered.

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Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University, Ranchi, University Department of English
Curriculum M.A. English under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)(2018)

6 Core Course (C6): American Literature 5 credits/ 5 hours a week

Unit I: Fiction

William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet letter

Unit II: Poetry and Drama

Poems Prescribed:

Emily Dickinson: Poem number 49, 67, 216, 249

Walt Whitman: Ethiopia Saluting the Colours, Reconciliation
Robert Frost: Mending Wall, The Road Not Taken, Desert Places
Wallace Stevens: Of Modern Poetry, Not Ideas about the Thing But the
Thing Itself
Sylvia Plath: Lady Lazarus, Ariel, Edge.

Drama:
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman

Distribution of Marks:
Internal Assessment: 30
Full Marks 70 Time 3 hrs.
1. Five questions with alternatives will be set. All 14x5=70
questions will have to be answered. There will
be two questions from Unit I and three from
Unit II.

Suggested Reading:

William J. Fisher, (ed), American Literature of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology,

Eurasia Publishing House, New Delhi, 1996
Leonard moss, Arthur Miller, New York, Twayne
Malcolm Bradbury, The Modern American Novel, OUP
John Basset, ed. William Faulkner..The Critical Heritage, Routledge and Kegan Paul,
London

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Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University, Ranchi, University Department of English
Curriculum M.A. English under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)(2018)

Semester III

7 Core Course (C7 ): Classical Criticism and Theory 5 credits/ 5 hours

a week

Plato: The Republic, Book X, tr. Benjamin Jowett (New York: Random
House, 1957
Aristotle: Poetics
Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry
Longinus: On the Sublime
Horace: Ars Poetica

Distribution of Marks:
Internal Assessment: 30
Full Marks 70 Time 3 hrs.
1. Five questions with alternatives will be set. All 14x5=70
questions will have to be answered.

Suggested Reading:
House Humphry: Aristotle’s Poetics
Lucas D.W. Aristotle’s Poetics
Wellek Rene: A History of Literary Criticsm I & II

8 Core Course (C 8):Indian Literature in English 5 credits/ 5 hours a

week

Unit I Poetry
Anthology Prescribed:
Indian Poetry in English. Ed. Makrand Paranjape, Macmillan
Poems prescribed:
Derozio : Ada, My Country! In thy Days of Glory Past, To the Pupils of the Hindu College
Toru Dutt: Lakshman, Sita
Sri Aurobindo: From Savitri, Book Eight, Canto Three, Death in the Forest.
Nissim Ezekiel: A Time to Change, Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher

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Curriculum M.A. English under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)(2018)

K.N. Daruwalla: Routine, The King Speaks to the Scribe

Agha Shahid Ali: Postcard from Kashmir, A Dream of Glass bangles

Unit II Novel and Drama

Novels:
Arun Joshi : The Foreigner
Ruth P. Jhabvala : Heat and Dust
Drama:
Ravindra Nath Tagore: The Post Office

Distribution of Marks:
Internal Assessment: 30
Full Marks 70 Time 3 hrs.
1. There will be two questions from Unit I and 15x4=60
one each from Units II and III. All questions
will have an alternative each. All questions will
have to be answered.
2. Four passages will be set from Unit I out of 5x2=10
which any two will have to be explained with
reference to the context.
Suggested Reading:
K.R.S. Iyengar, Indian Writing in English
Meenakshi Mukherjee, The Twice-Born Fiction
Bruce King, Modern Indian Poetry In English, Macmillan
Walsh, William, Indian Literature in English, London: Longman
Ravi Nandan Sinha, The Poetry of Keki N. Daruwalla, Delhi, BR PC (India) Ltd. New Delhi
Ravi Nandan Sinha , Essays on Indian Literature in English, Book Enclave, Jaipur
K.D. Verma, The Indian Imagination (Essays on Indian Literature in English), Macmillan

9 Core Course (C 9): Contemporary Literary Theory 5 credits/ 5 hours

a week
Unit I:
Essays :
Michel Foucault: What is an Author?
Simon de Beauvoir.: The Woman in Love
Jean - Paul Sartre: What is Writing ?
Unit II:

Psychoanalytic Criticism, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, Reader- Response theory
Feminism

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Curriculum M.A. English under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)(2018)

Text prescribed: Modern Criticism and Theory. Ed. David Lodge, Delhi: Pearson
Education (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. 2003, pp 307-330)
Beginning Theory: An introduction to Literary and Cultural theory 3rd
Ed Peter Barry. New Delhi Viva Books

Distribution of Marks:
Internal Assessment: 30
End Semester 70 Time 3 hrs.

1. Five questions with alternatives will be set. All 14x5=70

questions will have to be answered.
Suggested Reading:

K.M. Newton (ed.): Twentieth Century Literary Theory: A Reader

(Macmillan)
Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh: Modern Literary Theory: a Reader (Edward
Arnold)
John Simons (ed.): Contemporary Critical Theorists From Lacan to
Said
Terry Eagleton: Literary Theory: An Introduction

02 Elective Course

A Student will have to choose either DSE 1 or DSE 2

DSE 1 : European Literature in Translation 5 credits/ 5 hours a week

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

Leo Tolostoy : Short Story : The Godson
Chekhov: Short Stories prescribed: The Cook’s Wedding, The Runaway, The Old
House, The Dependents.
Ivan Turgenev: Fathers and Sons
Franz Kafka: The Trial

Suggested Reading:
Sinclair, Adam, Sophocles the Playwright, Toronto, 1957
Kirkwood, Gordon M. A Study of Sophoclean Drama, Ithaca, 1958
Malcolm, Janet, Reading Chekhov, a Critical Journey, Granta Publications, 2004

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Curriculum M.A. English under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)(2018)

Murray, Nicholas. Kafka. New Haven: Yale, 2004.

Peter France, ed. The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation, OUP, 2000
Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Russian Literature (HBJ, San Diego: 1981).
Distribution of Marks:
Internal Assessment: 30
Full Marks 70 Time 3 hrs.
1. Five questions with alternatives will be set. All 14x5=70
questions will have to be answered.

DSE 2: Indian Literature in Translation 5 credits/ 5 hours a week

Dharmveer Bharti Chander & Sudha . (Penguin India ,2015.)

Vijay Tendulkar: Sakharam Binder (in Vijay Tendulkar. Five Plays.
Oxford University Press, 1992)
Gurdial Singh: A Handful of Sand (tr. Ravi Nandan Sinha, National
Book Trust India)
U.R. Anantamurthy: Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man trns. A. K.
Ramanujan (New Delhi Oxford University Press)

Distribution of Marks:
Internal Assessment: 30
Full Marks 70 Time 3 hrs.
1. Five questions with alternatives will be set. All 14x5=70
questions will have to be answered.

Semester IV

10 Core Course (C10)- New Literature in English 5 credits/ 5 hours a

week

Unit I- Fiction
Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart
V. S. Naipaul : A House for Mr Biswas

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Curriculum M.A. English under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)(2018)

Unit-II – Poem
A.D. Hope: Australia, Standardization, The Death of a Bird
Judith Wright: Woman to Man, The Harp and the King
Richard Ntiru: The Shapes of Fear
Wole Soyinka: Dedication
Derek Walcott: Ruins of a Great House, A Far Cry from Africa
Edwin Thumboo: The Exile
Yasmine Gooneratne: On an Asian Poet Fallen Among American Translators

Text prescribed: An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry, ed. C.D. Narasimhaiah,

Macmillan, 1990.
Suggested Reading:
Fawzia Mustafa, V.S. Naipaul, CUP, Cambridge
William Walsh, Commonwealth Literature, OUP
James Macauley, A Map of Australian Verse, Melbourne: OUP, 1975
James Louis (ed.), The Islands in Between: Essays on West Indian Literature, London:
Oxford University Press
Bruce King, An Introduction to Nigerian Literature. London: Evans

Distribution of Marks:
Internal Assessment: 30
Full Marks 70 Time 3 hrs.
1. There will be three questions from Unit I and 14x5=70
four from Unit II out of which any five will
have to be answered.

11 Core Course (C11): Literature and Gender 5 credits/ 5 hours a week

Henrik Ibsen: The Doll’s House

Rabindranath Tagore: The Wife’s Letter, tr. Supriya, Chaudhuri, in Ravindranath
Tagore: Selected short stories, edited Sukanta Chaudhuri (New
Delhi: Oxford 2000), pp. 205-18
Simone de Beauvior : The Second Sex , Chapter Vol.1, Chapters 1 -3;
Vol I Part 2 Chapters 1-5
Imtiaz Dharker: Honour Killing, Stitched, Hangings Garden, They’ll say
She must be from another country, Canvas- In I speak for the
Devil (Penguin India, 2003)

Distribution of Marks:

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Curriculum M.A. English under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)(2018)

Internal Assessment: 30
Full Marks 70 Time 3 hrs.
1. Five questions with alternatives will be set. All 14x5=70
questions will have to be answered.

Suggested Reading:

Freidan Betty: The Feminine Mystique

Maggie Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Susan Griffin: Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside her
Judith Butler: Subject of Sex/Gender/Desire, in Gender Trouble:
Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (London: Routledge,
1990), pp.1 to 34

03 Elective Courses EC 03

A Student will have to choose either DSE 1 or DSE 2

DSE 1: Literary Criticism and Theory 5 credits/ 5 hours week

Unit I:
Reader Response Theory
Roland Barthes : The Death of the Author

Structuralism
Jacobson: Linguistics and Poetics

Unit II

Poststructuralism/Deconstruction
Jacques Derrida : Structure, Sign and Play in the discourse of Human Sciences (Writing
and Difference)

Unit III:

Psychoanalysis
Lionel Trilling: Freud and Literature

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Marxist Criticism
George Lukacs: The Ideology of Modernism

Unit IV:

Postcolonial Theory and Criticism

Edward Said : Crisis [in Orientalism]

Books Recommended
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, ed.Leitch, Vinct. B., Norton & Co. New
York, London.
David Daiches: Critical Approaches to Literature, Orient Longman, 1991.
Barry, Peter. Biginning Theory (Manchester 1995)
Habib, MAR Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Blackwell 2008)
Connor, Steven. Postmodernism (Cambridge Companion Series 2004)
Norris, Christopher. Decosntruction: Theory and Practice (Routledge 1982)
Ryan, Michael. Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction.( Blackwell 1999)
Nikam,M.J.,Colonial and post Colonial Identity in R.K.Narayan’s Novels,
Dattason,Sadar , Nagpur.

MS Nagarajan ,English Literary Criticism and Theory , Orient blackswan pvt. Ltd.
Gary Day ,Literary Criticism: A New History , Orientblackswan pvt. Ltd. 4

Distribution of Marks:
Internal Assessment: 30
Full Marks 70 Time 3 hrs.
1. Eight questions will be set on the given topics 14x5=70
out of which any five will have to be answered.

DSE2: Linguistics and Teaching Language

1. (a) Key properties of Language

(b) Language varieties
2. (a) Major concerns of Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics
(b) Historical approach, Descriptive approach
3. Major concepts in Linguistics:
(a) Syntagmatic and Paradigmetic axes
(b) Differential Calculous

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(c) Constituent Structure

(d) Transformations and Deep Structure
4. Stylistics, its methods and limitations.
5. Phonology (a) Speech mechanism and the Organs of Speech
(b) Consonants, Vowels, Diphthongs
(c) Phoneme
(d) Stress, Intonation
6. Morphology : Morphemes: Words and Affixes

7. English Language Teaching :

(a) Direct Method
(b) Audiolingual Method
(c) Communicative Language Teaching
(d) Error Analysis
(e) Teaching skills of Language: listening, speaking, reading, writing.
(f) Testing

Books Recommended
A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students, T. Balasubramanian, Macmillan India
Limited, Delhi.
Linguistics Today, Keith Brown, Fontana, The Chaucer Press, Bungay, Suffolk.
Principles of Phonetics, John Laver, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Language and Mind, Noam Chomsky,
An Handbook on Linguistics, Suresh kumar.
Introducing Sociolinguistics, Miriam Meyerhoff.

Distribution of Marks:
Internal Assessment: 30
Full Marks 70 Time 3 hrs.
1. Eight questions will be set on the given topics 14x5=70
out of which any five will have to be answered.

Compulsory Course :
16 Project / Dissertation
Full Marks 100: 60 for Written work + 40 for Viva-Voce

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