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Indira Gandhi National Tribal university, Amarkantak (MP)Proposed Syllabus of MA (English)

(w.e.f. July, 2014)Semester Paper Title of the Paper MMI I Poetry 100

II Prose 100III Drama 100IV Novel 100

II V Poetry 100VI Literary Criticism 100VII Indian Writings in English 100VIII Dissertation 100

III

IX History of English Literature 100X Contemporary Theories of Criticism 100XI American Literature 100XII *Optional Paper 100

IV

XIII Linguistics and Phonetics 100XIV Contemporary World Literature 100XV *Optional Paper 100XVI Dissertation 100

*Optional Papers:1. Group A: Tribal literature

Paper-I: M.A. III Semester MM: 100Paper-II: M.A.IV Semester MM: 100

2. Group B: Dalit LiteraturePaper-I: M.A. III Semester MM: 100Paper-II: M.A.IV Semester MM: 100

3. Group C: Gender Studies:Paper-I: M.A. III Semester MM: 100Paper-II: M.A.IV Semester MM: 100

4. Group D: Indian Literature in English TranslationPaper-I: M.A. III Semester MM: 100Paper-II: M.A.IV Semester MM: 100

NB: For Optional Papers (XII & XV) out of Four Groups i.e. A, B, C, D only one group to be opted. Each group hastwo papers which will be taught in III Semester: Paper-XII & IV Semester: Paper-XV.Scheme of examination and the allotment of marks in each paper (except ‘Dissertation’) shall be as under:

1. Semester:a. Objective Type Questions: 10x1= 10 (10 out of 15 Questions)

(At least02 Questions from each unit)b. Short Answer Questions: 5x5=25 (5 out of 8 Questions)

(At least 01 Question from each unit)c. Long Answer Questions: 3x15=45 (3 out of 5Questions)

(At least 01 Question from each unit to be set and 03 to be attempted)Total=80 Marks

2. Internal Assessment: +20 MarksTotal=100 Marks

Dr. Vipin Kumar Singh Dr. Abhilasha Dr. Deepa M BoruahMember Member Member

Board of Studies Board of Studies Board of Studies

Prof. RK Singh Prof. Ranjan Kumar SinhaExternal Member External MemberBoard of Studies Board of Studies

Prof. Krishna SinghChairperson

Board of Studies

Class: MA I SemesterSubject: English LiteraturePaper: ITitle of the Paper: Poetry

Note: Scheme of examination and the allotment of marks in the paper shall be as under:1. Semester:

a. Objective Type Questions: 10x1= 10 (10 out of 15 Questions)(At least 02 Questions from each unit)

b. Short Answer Questions: 5x5=25 (5 out of 8 Questions)(At least 01 Question from each unit)

c. Long Answer Questions: 3x15=45 (3 out of 5 Questions)(At least 01 Question from each unit to be set and 03 to be attempted)

Total=80 Marks2. Internal Assessment: +20 Marks

Total=100 Marks

Unit-1: Geoffrey Chaucer: ‘Prologue to Canterbury Tales’Edmund Spenser: ‘The Faerie Queene’ Book I

Unit-2: William Shakespeare: *‘Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day’*‘Since Brass Nor Stone’

John Donne: *‘Good Morrow’, *‘Death Be Not Proud’, *‘Go and Catch a Falling Star’,*‘Canonization ’

Unit-3: John Milton: *‘Paradise Lost’ Book IJohn Bunyan: ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’

Unit-4: Alexander Pope: *‘Rape of the Lock’John Dryden: ‘Absalom and Achitophel’

Unit-5: William Blake: *‘Tyger’Thomas Gray: ‘Progress of Poesy’

NB: Starred poems are for detailed study from which questions for explanations will be set.

Reference Books:

Hamer, Erid. The Metres of English Poetry. London: Methuen & Co Ltd., 1962.Ricks, Christopher. (Ed) The Oxford Book of English Verse. O.U.P., 1999.Fowler, Alastair. (Ed) The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse. O.U.P., 2004.Noel, Tod, & Hamilton, Ian. (Eds) The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English. O.U.P.,

2007.Dinah, Birch. (Ed) Oxford Companion to English Literature. O.U.P., 2001.Gill, Richard. Mastering English Literature. London: Macmillan Education Ltd, 1985.

Class: MA I SemesterSubject: English LiteraturePaper: IITitle of the Paper: Prose

Note: Scheme of examination and the allotment of marks in the paper shall be as under:1. Semester:a. Objective Type Questions: 10x1= 10 (10 out of 15 Questions)

(At least 02 Questions from each unit)b. Short Answer Questions: 5x5=25 (5 out of 8 Questions)

(At least 01 Question from each unit)c. Long Answer Questions: 3x15=45 (3 out of 5 Questions)



Unit-1: Francis Bacon: *‘Of Studies’, *‘Of Regiment of Health’, *‘Of Expense’, *‘Of Friendship’Joseph Addison: ‘Sir Roger at Home’

Unit-2: Charles Lamb: *‘A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People’, *‘PoorRelations’

William Hazlitt: ‘On Going a Journey’Unit-3: R.L. Stevenson: * ‘An Apology for Idlers’

Thomas De Quincey: ‘On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth’Unit-4: G.K. Chesterton: *‘A Defence of Nonsense’

Robert Lynd: ‘The Pleasures of Ignorance’Unit-5: Aldous Huxley: *‘Pleasures’

E.M. Forster: ‘On Shooting an Elephant’

NB: Starred essays are for detailed study from which questions for explanations will be set.

Reference Books:

Walker, Hugh. The English Essay and Essayists. New Delhi: S. Chand & Co, 1982.Scholes, Robert & Klaus, Carl H. Elements of the Essay. 1969.Gross, John. (Ed) The Oxford Book of Essay. 1991.Bryan, W.F. & Crane, R.S. (Eds) The English Familiar Essay. 1961.Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow. (Ed) Forms of

English Prose: Anthology of English Essays, Short Stories & One Act Plays. Delhi: O.U.P.,1988.

Jaico Publishing House. The World’s Greatest Short Stories. Jaico Second Impression, 1994.Deighton, K. (Ed) Addison: Coverley Papers from Spectator. Madras: Macmillan India Ltd,

1991.Hill & Hillward. (Ed) Lamb: Essays of Elia. Macmillan India Ltd, 1979.

Class: MA I SemesterSubject: English LiteraturePaper: IIITitle of the Paper: Drama

Note: Scheme of examination and the allotment of marks in the paper shall be as under:1. Semester:a. Objective Type Questions: 10x1= 10 (10 out of 15 Questions)(At least 02 Questions from each unit)b. Short Answer Questions: 5x5=25 (5 out of 8 Questions)(At least 01 Question from each unit)c. Long Answer Questions: 3x15=45 (3 out of 5 Questions)(At least 01 Question from each unit to be set and 03 to be attempted)


Total=100 Marks

Unit-1: Sophocles: *‘Oedipus the Rex’ (Translated by E.F. Watling)Christopher Marlowe: ‘Dr. Faustus’

Unit-2: Shakespeare: *‘Hamlet’John Dryden: ‘All for Love’

Unit-3: G.B. Shaw: *‘St. Joan’T.S.Eliot: ‘Murder in the Cathedral’

Unit-4: John Osborne: *‘Look Back in Anger’Unit-5: Samuel Beckett: ‘Waiting for Godot’

NB: Starred plays are for detailed study from which questions for explanations will be set.

Reference Books:

Sophocles: The Theban Plays. (Translated by E.F. Watling), Penguin Classics, 1956.Pickering, Kenneth. Studying Modern Drama. (Second Edition) New York: Palgrave/ Macmillan,

2003.Nicoll, Allardyce. Theatre and Dramatic Theory. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1962.Kushwaha, M.S. (Ed.) Dramatic Theory and Practice: Indian and Western (Creative New

Literature’s Series-37) Delhi: Creative Books, 2000.Granville-Barker, H. Study of Drama. London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1931.Ellis-Fermor, Una. The Frontiers of Drama. (Second Edition) New Fetter Lane: Meuthen & Co.

Ltd. 1964.Turner, Victor. Dramas, Fields and Metaphors. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974.Evans, Ifor. A Short History of English Drama. New Delhi/Ludhiana: Kalyani, 1979.Hudson, W. H. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. New Delhi: Kalyani Publishers, 1988.Prasad, B. A Background Study of English Literature.(Revised Edition) Macmillan India

Ltd.,2006.Gill, Richard. Mastering English Literature. Macmillan India Ltd., 1985.Bradley, A.C. Shakespearean Tragedy. New Delhi: Atlantic Publisers, 2005.Whitfield, George. An Introduction to Drama. Oxford: Oxford University Press, n.d.

Class: MA I SemesterSubject: English LiteraturePaper: IVTitle of the Paper: Novel

Note: Scheme of examination and the allotment of marks in the paper shall be as under:1. Semester:a.Objective Type Questions: 10x1= 10 (10 out of 15 Questions)

(At least 02 Questions from each unit)b.Short Answer Questions: 5x5=25 (5 out of 8 Questions)

(At least 01 Question from each unit)c.Long Answer Questions: 3x15=45 (3 out of 5 Questions)



Unit-1: Jane Austen: ‘Emma’Unit-2: Thomas Hardy: ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’Unit-3: Charles Dickens: ‘Great Expectations’Unit-4: D.H. Lawrence: ‘Sons and Lovers’Unit-5: Virginia Woolf: ‘To the Lighthouse’

Ernest Hemingway: ‘The Old Man and the Sea’

Reference Books:

Allen , Walter. History of English Novel. Penguin, 1980.Forster, E.M. Aspects of The Novel. London: Penguin,1949.Brooks & Warren. Understanding Fiction. Prentice Hall, 1959.Kermode, Frank. Sense of an Ending. O.U.P., 1967.Lubbock, Percy. The Craft of Fiction. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.Walt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel. Penguin, 1957.Edel, Leon. The Psychological Novel:1900-1950. Ludhiana: Kalyani, 1997.Brandbury, Malcom. The Novel Today. Glasgow: F.C. Paperback, 1978/1982.Matz, Jesse. The Modern Novel: A Short Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.Rees, R.J. Introduction to English Literature. London: Macmillan, 1966/1968.Hudson, W.H. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. Ludhiana: Kalyani,

Class: MA II SemesterSubject: English LiteraturePaper: VTitle of the Paper: Poetry



b.Short Answer Questions: 5x5=25 (5 out of 8 Questions)(At least 01 Question from each unit)



Total=100 Marks

Unit-1: William Wordsworth: *‘Tintern Abbey’, *‘Solitary Reaper’, *‘To a Skylark’G.G. Byron: *‘She Walks in Beauty’P.B. Shelley: *‘Ode to the West Wind’, ‘To a Skylark’Keats: *‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘Ode to Autumn’,

Unit-2: Alfred Tennyson: *‘Ulysses’, *‘Break, Break, Break’, *‘Crossing the Bar’Robert Browning: *‘Porphyria’s Lover’, ‘The Last Ride Together’, ‘My Last

Dutchess’,’Prospice’Matthew Arnold: *‘Dover Beach’, ‘Shakespeare’

Unit-3: G.M. Hopkins: *‘Pied Beauty’, ‘Thou Art Indeed Just Lord’W.B. Yeats: *‘The Second Coming’, *‘Sailing to Byzantium’

Unit-4: T.S. Eliot: ‘The Waste Land’W.H. Auden: *‘In Memory of W.B. Yeats’, *‘September 1939’

Unit-5: Wilfred Owen:* ‘Greater Love’Philip Larkin: *‘The Church Going’, ‘Want’

Ted Hudges: *‘The Thought Box’, ‘Hawk Roosting’

NB: Starred poems are for detailed study from which questions for explanations will be set.

Reference Books:

Hamer, Erid. The Metres of English Poetry. London: Methuen & Co Ltd., 1962.Ricks, Christopher. (Ed) The Oxford Book of English Verse. O.U.P., 1999.Fowler, Alastair. (Ed) The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse. O.U.P., 2004.Noel, Tod, & Hamilton, Ian. (Eds) The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English. O.U.P.,

2007.Dinah, Birch. (Ed) Oxford Companion to English Literature. O.U.P., 2001.Gill, Richard. Mastering English Literature. London: Macmillan Education Ltd, 1985.Walker, Hugh. Literature of Victorian Era. Delhi: S Chand & co, 1978.

Class: MA II SemesterSubject: English LiteraturePaper: VITitle of the Paper: Literary Criticism






Total=100 Marks

Unit-1: Aristotle: ‘Poetics’ (Translated by S.C. Butcher)Longinus: ‘On the Sublime’ (Translated by R.R. Roberts)

Unit-2: Philip Sydney: ‘An apology for Poetry’John Dryden: ‘An Essay on Dramatic Poesy’

Unit-3: Samuel Johnson: ‘Preface to Shakespeare’S.T. Coleridge: ‘Biographia Literaria’ Chapter-XIV, XVII & XVIII

William Wordsworth: ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’ (Second Edition-1800)Unit-4: P.B. Shelley: ‘A Defence of Poetry’

Matthew Arnold: ‘The Study of Poetry’Unit-5: T.S. Eliot: ‘Tradition and Individual Talent’, ‘The Metaphysical Poets’, ‘Hamlet and his

Problems’I.A. Richards: ‘Two Uses of Language’F.R. Leavis: ‘Keats’

Reference Books:

Wellek, Rene and Austin, Warren. Theory of Literature. Penguin, 1985.-------. Discriminations: Further Concepts of Criticism. Yale: the University Press, 1983.Daiches, David. Critical Approaches to Literature. (2nd Edition), London/New York: Longman,

1985.Scott-James, R.A. The Making of Literature. London: Secker and Warburg, 1956.Seturaman, V.S. (Ed) Contemporary Criticism: An Anthology. Macmillan India Ltd., 1989.Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory. Chennai: Viva Books, 2007.Bertens, Hans. Literary Theory: The Basics. London and New York: Routledge, 2001Bressler, Charles E. Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. 3rd Ed.

Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, OUP, 2000.Dobie, Ann B. Theory into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism. Thomson, 2002.Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota,1983.Klages, Mary. Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed. Chennai: Viva Books, 2008.Selden, Raman and Peter Widdowson. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. 3rd

Ed. Lexington: University of Kentucky, 1993.

Goodman, W.R. Quintessence of Literary Essays. Delhi: Doaba House, 1982.Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Banglore: Prism Books Pvt. Ltd.,Hamer, Erid. The Metres of English Poetry. London: Methuen& Co Ltd., 1962.Richards, I.A. Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgement. New Delhi:U.B.S., 2002.---------. The Principles of Literary Criticism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1983.Seturaman, V.S., Indira, C.T. & Siraman T. Practical Criticism. Madras: Macmillan, 1995.Rawilson, D. H. The Practice of Criticism. Cambridge, 1968.Worsfold, B. Judgement in Literature. London: J.M. Dent & sons Ltd., 1957.---------. Principles of Criticism. New York/London: Kennikat Press, 1977.

Class: MA II SemesterSubject: English LiteraturePaper: VIITitle of the Paper: Indian Writings in English






Total=100 Marks

Unit-1: Poetry:Rabindra Nath Tagore: ‘Gitanjali’Kamla Das: *‘An Introduction’, *‘The Old Playhouse’Nissim Ezekiel: *‘Woman and Child’, *‘Goodbye Party to Miss Puspa’A.K. Ramanujan: *‘Still Another View of Grace’Jayanta Mahapatra: *‘Hunger’

Unit-2: Prose:Mahatma Gandhi: *‘Hind Swaraj’(Navjeevan Publication, Ahmedabad)Sri Aurobindo: *‘Future Poetry’ (Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry)Rabindra Nath Tagore: *‘What is Art? (Macmillan)

Unit-3: Plays:Vijay Tendukler: ‘Ghashiram Kotwal’Badal Sircar: ‘Evam Indrajit’

Unit-4: Fiction:Mulk Raj Anand: ‘Coolie’Raja Rao: ‘Kanthapura’

Unit-5: Short Stories:Mulk Raj Anand: ‘The Barber’s Trade Union’R.K. Narayan: ‘The Axe’

NB: Starred writings are for detailed study from which questions for explanations will beset.

Reference Books:

K.R.S. Iyengar. Indian Writing in English. Revised and Updated Edition. New Delhi: Sterling,1995

Naik, M.K. A History of Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, (Reprint) 2009.---. Studies in Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Sterling, 1977.

---. “Cinderella Still: Recent Indian English Drama” Littcrit, 51&52 Vol. 27, No. 1&2, June- Dec.2001. 44-60.

---. and S.Mokashi-Punekar. (Eds.) Perspectives on Indian Drama in English. Madras: OUP,1977.

----- and Shyamala A. Narayan. Indian English Literature 1980-2000: A Critical Survey. NewDelhi: Pencraft International, 2001.

Peeradina, Saleem. (Ed) Contemporary Indian Poetry in English. Macmillan, 1987.Naikar, Basavaraj. Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Atlantic PublishersSahay, B.N. (Ed) New Horizons: A Verse Anthology. Orient Longman, 1986.Anantha Murthy, U.R. “A Note on Karnad’s Hayavadana”, Literary Criterion 12: 2-3:37-43.Gill, L.S. Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana: A Critical Study. New Delhi: Asia Book Club, 2005.George, K.M. (Ed.) Modern Indian Literature: An Anthology. Vol.III Plays and Prose. New Delhi:

Sahitya Akademi, 1995Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature. Vol. 1-6., New Delhi: Sahitya Academy,

Class: MA II SemesterSubject: English LiteraturePaper: VIIITitle of the Paper: Dissertation

The students of the II Semester will be distributed among the teachers of the Department. Theteachers who become the supervisors will provide different topics to individual students of theirinterest and guide them in the entire process and finally assess the dissertation at the end of thesemester. The Viva-Voce will be conducted by an external examiner. The minimum length of thedissertation will be of 50 pages.

Division of Marks:

Dissertation: 50 MarksInternal Assessment: 20 MarksViva Voce: 30 Marks

Total: 100 Marks

Reference Books:1. Adam, Sir John. Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques. New Delhi: New

Age International, 2004.2. Allison, B. The Students’ Guide to Preparing Dissertations and Theses. London:

Kogan Page, 1997.Print.3. Altick, RD & Fenstermaker, John J. The Art of Literary Research. (4th Edition) New

York: Norton, 1993. Print.4. Barker, Nancy and Nancy Hulig. A Research Guide for Under Graduate Students:

English and American Literature. New York: MLA of America, 2000.5. Bateson, FW. The Scholar Critic: An Introduction to Literary Research. London:

Routledge, 1972.6. Chindhade, S & A Thorat. An Introduction to Research. Mumbai: CUP, 2009.7. Eliot, Simon & WR Owens. A Handbook to Literary Research. (4th Edition), London:

Routledge & Open University, 1998.8. Griffin, Gabriele. Research Methods for English Studies (Ed). Jaipur: Rawat

Publications, 2007.9. Harner, James L. Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference

Sources in English Literary Studies. New York: MLA of America, 2002.10. Miller, RH. Handbook of Literary Research. Methuen, 1995.11. Mishra, DS. A Grammar of Literary Research. New Delhi: Harman Publishing

House, 1989.12. Perry, F. Research in Applied Linguistics. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 1998. 18.13. Quadri, Syed Mohd. Haseebuddin. The Craft of Language and Literary Research.

New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors,14. Rahim, Abdul F. Thesis Writing: A Manual for Researcher. New Delhi: New Age

International, 2005.15. Rengachari, S & Rengachari, Sulochana. Research Methodology for English

Literature. Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot, 1995.16. Sandros, Chaney. An Introduction to Research in English. New York: Macmillan,

1958.17. Sinha, MP. Research Methods in English. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2004.

Class: MA III SemesterSubject: English LiteraturePaper: IXTitle of the Paper: History of English Literature

Note: Scheme of examination and the allotment of marks in the paper shall be as under:1.Semester:





Total=100 Marks

Unit-1: Elizabethan AgeUnit-2: Neo-Classical AgeUnit-3: Romantic AgeUnit-4: Victorian AgeUnit-5: Modern and Post-Modern Age

Reference Books:

Rickett, AC. History of English Literature. New Delhi: U.B.S., 1998.Evans, Ifor. A Short History of English Literature. Penguin, 1996.Legouis & Cazamion. History of English Literature. Macmillan India Ltd, 1983.Sampson, George. Concise Cambridge History of English Literature. C.U.P., 1976.

Class: MA III SemesterSubject: English LiteraturePaper: XTitle of the Paper: Contemporary Theories of Criticism






Total=100 Marks

Unit-1: FormalismNew Criticism

Unit-2: FeminismMarxism

Unit-3: StructuralismPost Structuralism

Unit-4: Reader Response TheoryNew Historicism

Unit-5: Postcolonial StudiesEco-Criticism

Reference Books:

Wellek, Rene and Austin, Warren. Theory of Literature. Penguin, 1985.-------. Discriminations: Further Concepts of Criticism. Yale: the University Press, 1983.Daiches, David. Critical Approaches to Literature. (2nd Edition), London/New York: Longman,

1985.Scott-James, R.A. The Making of Literature. London: Secker and Warburg, 1956.Seturaman, V.S. (Ed) Contemporary Criticism: An Anthology. Macmillan India Ltd., 1989.Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory. Chennai: Viva Books, 2007.Bertens, Hans. Literary Theory: The Basics. London and New York: Routledge, 2001Bressler, Charles E. Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. 3rd Ed.

Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, OUP, 2000.Dobie, Ann B. Theory into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism. Thomson, 2002.

Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota,1983.Klages, Mary. Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed. Chennai: Viva Books, 2008.Selden, Raman and Peter Widdowson. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. 3rd

Ed. Lexington: University of Kentucky, 1993.Goodman, W.R. Quintessence of Literary Essays. Delhi: Doaba House, 1982.Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Banglore: Prism Books Pvt. Ltd.,Hamer, Erid. The Metres of English Poetry. London: Methuen& Co Ltd., 1962.Richards, I.A. Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgement. New Delhi:U.B.S., 2002.---------. The Principles of Literary Criticism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1983.Seturaman, V.S., Indira, C.T. & Siraman T. Practical Criticism. Madras: Macmillan, 1995.Rawilson, D. H. The Practice of Criticism. Cambridge, 1968.Worsfold, B. Judgement in Literature. London: J.M. Dent & sons Ltd., 1957.---------. Principles of Criticism. New York/London: Kennikat Press, 1977.Nayar, Pramod K. Literary Theory Today. New Delhi: Prestige, 2002

Class: MA III SemesterSubject: English LiteraturePaper: XITitle of the Paper: American Literature






Unit-1: Poetry:Walt Whitman: *‘O Captain! My Captain’, *‘Song of Myself’, *‘When the Lilacs Last in

the Dooryard Bloomed’Robert Frost: *‘Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening’, *‘After Apple Picking’,

*‘Mending Wall’, *‘The Road Not Taken’Langston Hughes: *‘Mother to Son’, *‘The Weary Blues’

Unit-2: Prose:R.W. Emerson: *Self-RelianceH.D. Thoreau: *Civil Disobedience

Unit-3: Fiction:Mark Twain: ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’Toni Morrison: ‘Sula’

Unit-4: Drama:Eugene O’ Neil: ‘Mourning Becomes Electra’

Unit-5: Short Story/Essay:Booker T Washington: *‘My Struggle for Education’O’ Henry: *‘After Twenty Years’

NB: Starred writings are for detailed study from which questions for explanations will beset.

Reference Books:

Spiller, R.E. (Ed) A Literary History of the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1948.The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York: W.W. Norton Co, 1945.

Class: MA IV SemesterSubject: English LiteraturePaper: XIIITitle of the Paper: Linguistics and Phonetics






Total=100 Marks

Unit 1: Conceptual foundationEvolution of Man and Language, Human and non Human communication,Characterization of Language, Language, mind and society;

Unit 2: Language StructureSassure’s concept of Linguistic sign, Langue and Parole; Syntagmatic and Paradigmaticrelations, Synchronic and Diachronic studies; Chomsky – Competence and Performance;

Unit 3: Levels of Linguistic structure 1Basic concepts in Phonetics and Phonology –concept of speech sound and speechproduction, Vowels & Consonants, Phoneme; Phones and Allophones;

Unit 4: Levels of Linguistics structure 2Basic concepts in Morphology – Morpheme, Inflectional and Derivational Morphology,Grammatical categories; person, number, gender, case, tense, aspect, mood; wordformation process

Unit 5: Levels of linguistics structure 3Basic concepts in syntax – Universal Grammar, Innateness Hypothesis, Principles andParameters, Chomsky and Generative Syntax, Sentence structure; Semantics – senserelation- synonymy, antonymy, polysemy

Reference Books:

Bauer, L. 2007. The linguistics student’s handbook. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Fasold, R. & J. Connor-Linton. 2006. An introduction to language and linguistics. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press.Radford, A. Atkinson, M. Britian, D. Clashen, H and Spencer, A. 2002. Linguistics; An

Introduction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Class: MA IV SemesterSubject: English LiteraturePaper: XIVTitle of the Paper: Contemporary World Literature






Unit-I: Poetry:A.D. Hope (Australia): ‘The Death of a Bird’, ‘Standardization’, ‘Moschus Moschiferus’Gabriel Okara (Africa): ‘Once Upon a Time’, ‘Were I to Choose’, ‘The Mystic Drum’

Unit-II: Poetry:Derek Walcott (West Indies): ‘The Floc’, ‘The Ruins of a Great House’, ‘A Sea Chantey’,

‘A Far Cry from Africa’, ‘Crusoe’s Island’Unit-III: Prose:

V.S. Naipaul: ‘India: The Wounded CivilizationUnit-IV: Novel:

Margaret Laurence: ‘A Jest of God’Bapsi Sidwa: ‘Ice-Candy Man’

Unit-V: Drama:Wole Soyinka: ‘The Road’ (Collected Plays of Wole Soyinka)NGugi Wa Thiong’O: ‘The Trial of Dedan Kimathi’ (Worldview, Delhi)

Reference Books:Dhavan, R.K. (Ed) Commonwealth Literature. Vol.1-4, New Delhi: Creative Books.Naikar, Basavaraj. Perspective on Commonwealth Literature. Jaipur: Book Enclave, 2003.

Class: MA IV SemesterSubject: English LiteraturePaper: XVITitle of the Paper: Dissertation

The students of the IV Semester will be distributed among the teachers of the Department. Theteachers who become the supervisors will provide different topics to individual students of theirinterest and guide them in the entire process and finally assess the dissertation at the end of thesemester. The Viva-Voce will be conducted by an external examiner. The minimum length of thedissertation will be of 50 pages.

Division of Marks:

Dissertation: 50 MarksInternal Assessment: 20 MarksViva Voce: 30 Marks

Total: 100 Marks

Reference Books:

1. Adam, Sir John. Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques. New Delhi: NewAge International, 2004.

2. Allison, B. The Students’ Guide to Preparing Dissertations and Theses. London:Kogan Page, 1997.Print.

3. Altick, RD & Fenstermaker, John J. The Art of Literary Research. (4th Edition) NewYork: Norton, 1993. Print.

4. Barker, Nancy and Nancy Hulig. A Research Guide for Under Graduate Students:English and American Literature. New York: MLA of America, 2000.

5. Bateson, FW. The Scholar Critic: An Introduction to Literary Research. London:Routledge, 1972.

6. Chindhade, S & A Thorat. An Introduction to Research. Mumbai: CUP, 2009.7. Eliot, Simon & WR Owens. A Handbook to Literary Research. (4th Edition), London:

Routledge & Open University, 1998.8. Griffin, Gabriele. Research Methods for English Studies (Ed). Jaipur: Rawat

Publications, 2007.9. Harner, James L. Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference

Sources in English Literary Studies. New York: MLA of America, 2002.10. Miller, RH. Handbook of Literary Research. Methuen, 1995.11. Mishra, DS. A Grammar of Literary Research. New Delhi: Harman Publishing

House, 1989.12. Perry, F. Research in Applied Linguistics. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 1998. 18.13. Quadri, Syed Mohd. Haseebuddin. The Craft of Language and Literary Research.

New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors,14. Rahim, Abdul F. Thesis Writing: A Manual for Researcher. New Delhi: New Age

International, 2005.15. Rengachari, S & Rengachari, Sulochana. Research Methodology for English

Literature. Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot, 1995.

Optional Paper

Group B: Dalit LiteraturePaper -I (For M.A. III Semester)






Unit I: What is Dalit? Dalit Discourse, Dalit literature: Past, Present and Future, Dalit literature isbut Human Literature,

Unit II: PoetryKoshal Panwar’s “Life”, M. N. Javaraiah’s “Clamour of the Sin of Merit”, K. C.Kattakkada’s “Blacksmith”, Mohan Das Nemishaya’s “Death of God” Jyoti Lanjewar’s“Caves”, J V Pawar’s “Birds in Prison”, Arun Kamble’s “Which Language I ShouldSpeak?” Namdeo Dhasal’s “Hunger”

Unit III: Fiction & Short Story:Mulk Raj Anand’s UntouchableShort Story: Bandhumadhav’s The Poisoned Bread (Trns by Ramesh Dnyate), DavanaurMahadev’s “Sold Ones” (Trns by R. K. Naik), T. K. C. Vaduthala, “Take Your RosaryBack”,

Unit IV: Drama:Vijay Tendulkar’s Kanyadaan (Trans from Marathi by Gowri Ramnarayan), andA Santhakumar’s Dreamhunt (Trans. From Malayalam)

Unit V: Autobiography:Laxman Gaikwad: The Branded: Uchalya ( Trans. from Marathi by P A Kolharkar)Sharankumar Limbale’s Outcaste (Trns. from Marathi by Santosh Bhoomkar)

Reference Books:A. Gunashekaran K. The Scar. (Trans from Tamil by V Kadambari). Chennai: Orient Longman.2009.Dangle, Arjun. Poisoned Bread: Translations from Marathi Dalit Litarature. New Delhi: Orient

Blackswan, 2009.Dasan M., Pratibha V. et al (ed). 2012. The Oxford India Anthology of Malyalam Dalit Writing.

New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2012K Satyanarayana & Susie Tharu (ed). No Alphabet in Sight: New Dalit Writing from South India.

New Delhi: Penguine Books. 2011Limble, Sharankumar. Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature. (Trans from Marathi: Alok

Mukherjee). New Delhi: Orient LongmanR. Kumar . Dalit Personal Narratives. New Delhi: Orient BlackswanSharmila Rege. Writing Caste: Writing Gender. Delhi: Juban, 2006.

Optional PaperGroup B: Dalit LiteraturePaper -II (For M.A. IV Semester)



b.Short Answer Questions: 5x5=25 (5 out of 8 Questions)(At least 01 Question from each unit)



Total=100 Marks

Unit-I:Dalit Aesthetics, Dalit literature and Marxism, Dalit literature and Ambedkarism, DalitFeminism

Unit-I:Mahasweta Devi’s Water (Translated by Samik Bandhopadyay)Girish Karnad’s Tale Danda

Unit-III:U R Ananthmurthy’s Samskar: A Rite for Dead Man (Trans from Kannada by A. K.Ramanujan)Bama’s SangatiKancha Illaih: Untouchable God

Unit-IV:Om Prakash Valmiki’s Joothan (Trans. From Hindi by Arun Prabha Mukharjee),K. A. Gunasekaran’s The Scar (Trans from Tamil by V. Kadambari)

Unit V:Bama’s Kurukku ( Tanslated from Tamil by Lakshmi Holmstrom)Baby Kambale’s The Prison We Broke (Translated from Marathi by Maya Pandit)

Reference Books:

Anantha Murhty. Samskara: A Rite for Dead Man. New Delhi: OUP, 1977 (latest print1998).

Devi. Mahasweta. Five Plays. Trans. by Samik Bandhopadhyay. Calcutta: Seagull. 1997.Gunasesekaran, G. A. The Scar. Trans from Tamil by V. Kadambari. New Delhi: Orient

Backswan, 2009.Karnad, Girish. Tale Danda. New Delhi: OUP, 1993.Illaih, Kancha. Untouchable God. Kolkata: Samya. 2013.Limble, Sharankumar. Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature. (Trans from Marathi:

Alok Mukherjee). New Delhi: Orient LongmanSharmila Rege. Writing Caste: Writing Gender. Delhi: Juban, 2006.

Optional PaperGroup C: Gender StudiesPaper-I: (For M.A. III Semester)






Total=100 Marks

Unit-1: Defining the Concept, Sex and Gender, Stereotypes, Gynocriticism, Body Politics, FemaleCreativity, Social Practices: Sati, Dowry, Rape, Child marriage, Widowhood, FemaleFoeticide, and Prostitution.

Unit-II: Simon de Beauvoir: ‘The Second Sex’Kate Millett: ‘Sexual Politics’

Unit-III: Virginia Woolf: ‘A Room of One’s Own’Elaine Showalter: ‘Speaking of Gender’

Unit-IV: Ellen Moers: ‘Literary Women’Unit-V: Michele Barrett: ‘Women’s Oppression Today’

Reference Books:

Nayar, Pramod K. Literary Theory Today. New Delhi: Prestige/Asia Book Club, 2002.

Optional PaperGroup C: Gender StudiesPaper-II: (For M.A. IV Semester)






Total=100 Marks

Unit-1: Poetry:Eunice D’ Souza: ‘Tribute to Papa’, ‘Anonymous’, ‘Catholic Mother’, ‘Bequest’,

‘Purdah I’, ‘Battle Line’, ‘Request’ (Selections from Nine Indian Women Poets)Unit-II: Short Story:

Mahasweta Devi: ‘Draupadi’ (Translated by Gayatri Spivak)Ismat Chugtai: ‘The Veil’

Unit-III: Novel:Bama: ‘Sangati’Arun Dhauti Roy: ‘The God of Small Things’

Unit-IV: Drama:Manjula Padamnabhan: ‘The Harvest’

Unit-V: Criticism:Helene Cixous: ‘The Newly Born Woman’ (with Catherine Clement, translation in1986)

Reference Books:

Tharu, Susie & Lalitha, K. (Eds) Women Writing in India. O.U.P., 1989.

Optional PaperGroup D: Indian Literature in English Translation

Paper-I: (For M.A. III Semester)


b. Objective Type Questions: 10x1= 10 (10 out of 15 Questions)(At least 02 Questions from each unit)




Total=100 Marks

Unit-1: Translation—Its Meaning & Significance, Problems and Challenges, Source language andTarget language, Cultural Translation, Translation in Indian Context.

Unit-2: Poetry:A.K. Ramanujan: ‘Speaking of Shiva’ (Penguin)

Unit-3: Drama:Mohan Rakesh: ‘One Day in Ashadha’ (Modern Indian Drama, Sahitya Academy, New

Delhi)Mahasweta Devi: ‘Water’ (Seagull, Kolkota)

Unit-4: Prose:Siddhalingayya:‘Ooru Keri’ (Sahitya Academy, New Delhi)Durga Khote: ‘I, Durga Khote’ (O.U.P.)

Unit-5: Short Stories:Premchand: ‘The Shroud’, ‘The Panchayat is the Voice of God’, The Thakur’s Well’, *‘A

Tale of Two Oxen’

Reference Books:

Das, B.K. A Handbook of Translation Studies. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers,Mukherjee, Sujit. Translation as Discovery. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1964.Munday, Jeremy. Introducing Translation Studies. London: Routledge, 2001.Naikar, Basavaraj. Indian Literature in English Translation. Delhi: National Publishing House,

2004.Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature. Vol. 1-6, New Delhi: Sahitya Academy.

Optional Paper4. Group D: Indian Literature in English Translation

Paper-II: (For M.A. IV Semester)






Total=100 Marks

Unit-1: Assamese:Indira Goswami: ‘The Man from Chinnamastika’ (Katha Pub. New Delhi)

Unit-2: Gujrati:Harindranath Dave: ‘Henceforth’ (macmillan)

Unit-3: Kannada:Kuvempu: ‘The House of Kanooru’ (Sahitya Academy, New Delhi)

Unit-4: Punjabi:Gurudial Singh: ‘The Survivors’ (Katha Pub, New Delhi)

Unit-5: Hindi:Krishna Sobti: ‘Sunflowers of the Dark’ (Katha Pub, New Delhi)Konkani:Pundalik Naik: ‘The Upheaval’ (O.U.P.)

Reference Books:

Das, B.K. A Handbook of Translation Studies. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2005.Mukherjee, Sujit. Translation as Discovery. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1964.Munday, Jeremy. Introducing Translation Studies. London: Routledge, 2001.Naikar, Basavaraj. Indian Literature in English Translation. Delhi: National Publishing House,

2004.Ram Krishna, Shamtha. (Ed) Translation and Multilingualism. New Delhi: Pencraft International,

1997.Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature. Vol. 1-6, New Delhi: Sahitya Academy.

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