ma english iind,iiird and ivth semester syllabus- choice based

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M A English IInd,IIIrd and IVth Semester Syllabus- Choice Based Credit Semester System- Revised with effect from 2011 admission- Implemented in the University Department- Approved-Orders issued

GENERAL AND ACADEMIC BRANCH-IV-I3' SECTION

No: GAIV/B2/2140/06 Dated, Calicut University. P.O; o ci 03 .2-0 I (2- Read: 1. U.0 GAI/JI/1373/08 dated 01-07-2008

2. U.O of even no dated 22-12-2008

3. U.O of even no dated 17-08-2011

4. Minutes of the meeting of the Board of Studies in English(P.G) held on

29.02.2012 (item nol)

5. Letter dated 01.03.2012 from the Chairman Board of Studies English(P.G)

& Letter dated 03.03.2012 from the Head of the Department English(P.G) 6. Orders of the Vice-Chancellor in file of even no dated 08.03.2012

ORDER

Vide University Order read first above orders were issued implementing the

Choice based Credit Semester System in the teaching Departments/School of the

University with effect from 2008 admission onwards.

Vide University Order read second above the syllabus of MA English Programme

under Choice based Credit Semester System was implemented in the University

Teaching Department with effect from 2008 admission.

Vide University Order read third above the syllabus of first semester MA

English Programme under Choice based credit semester system was revised with effect

from 2011 admission.

Vide paper read as fourth above the Board of Studies in English(P.G) at its

meeting held on 29.02.2012 vide item no 1 discussed and approved the modifed

syllabus of 'Ind, IIIrd and IVth semester of MA English under Choice based Credit

Semester System submitted by the Department of English University of Calicut to be

implemented in the University Department with effect from 2011 admission.

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Vide paper read as fifth above the modified syllabus of MA English Programme

under Choice based credit Semester System Hind, IIIrd and IVth semesters, 2011

admissions endorsed by the Board of Studies was submitted by the Head of Department

English(P.G).

The Vice Chancellor after having considered the urgency and exercising the

powers of the Academic Council has approved item no 1 of the minutes of the meeting of

the Board of Studies in English(P.G) held on 29.02.2012 subject to ratification by the

Academic Council vide paper read as sixth above.

Sanction has therefore been accorded for implementing the revised scheme and

syllabus of IInd, Illrd and IVth semester MA English Programme under Choice based

Credit Semester System in the University Teaching Department with effect from 2011

admission.

Orders are issued accordingly.

The syllabus is appended herewith.

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MA English Language & Literature Programme

Syllabus (2011 admission) Core Courses

I Semester (4 credits each course)

ENG 1 COI ENG 1 CO2 ENG 1 CO3 ENG I C04 ENG 1 CO5

British Literature 14th Century to the Elizabethan Age Indian Writing in English History of English Language Literary Criticism and Theory — Part I Postcolonial Writings

II Semester (4 credits each course)

ENG 2 CO6 ENG 2 C07 ENG 2 C08

British Literature 17th & 18th Century American Literature -I Literary Criticism and Theory -2

III Semester (4 credits each course)

ENG 3 C09 ENG 3 CIO ENG3 C11

Introduction to Linguistics American Literature -II British Literature 19th Century

IV Semester

ENG 4 C12 20th Century and Contemporary British Literature (4 credit) ENG 4 C13 Dissertation / Project (8 credits)

Elective Courses

II Semester (4 credits each course)

ENG 2 E01 ENG 2 E02 ENG 2 E03 ENG 2 E04

World Drama Indian Writing in English Translation Canadian Literature Literature of the Marginalized

III Semester (4 credits each course)

ENG 3 E05 ENG 3 E06 ENG 3 E07 ENG 3 E08 ENG 3 E09

Translation Theory & Practice

20th Century Arabic Literature in English Translation

Introduction to Cultural Studies Women's Writing Post 1980 Indian Writings in English

IV Semester (4 credits each course)

ENG 4 E10 ENG 4 Ell ENG 4 E12 ENG 4 E13

Malayalam Literature in English Translation Literary Theory — An In-depth Study Ecology and Literature Teaching of English

II Semester MA English ENG 2 C06: 17'1' & 18'h Century British Literature

Course Description:

The course is intended to familiarize the students with various trends and movements in literature during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.

Course Content

Metaphysical school of poetry- Donne, Marvell, Herbert, Cowley, Crashaw, Vaughan, Carew, Lovelace - Age of Puritans- John Milton.

Restoration Period- Neoclassical poets-Dryden, Pope Restoration Drama- Congreve, Etherage, Wycherly, Farquhar, Vanburgh, Shadwell, Goldsmith, Sherriden - Fiction- Bunyan, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding- Rise of Journalism and Periodical literature- Addison, Steele. Graveyard school of poetry-Precursors of Romantic Movement-Grey, Percy, Cowper, Collins.

Texts For Study

A. Poetry

John Donne

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Canonization Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress John Milton - Paradise Lost - Book IX John Dryden - Mac Flecknoe Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock - Canto I Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard

B. Fiction

John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Jonathan Swift The Battle of Books Samuel Richardson

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Pamela

C. Prose

Richard Steel - "Recollections of Childhood" Samuel Johnson - "Preface to A Dictionary of English Language"

D. Drama

Sheridan - The Rivals

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Model question paper

Second Semester MA Degree Examination

English Language and Literature

British Literature 17th&18th Century

Time: 3 hours Marks: 80

I. Write an essay on any three of the following choosing one question each from all the three sections

Section A

I. Discuss "Canonization" as a parody of Christian sainthood.

2. Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" is an illustration of the theme of Carpe-diem. Explain.

3. Enumerate the mock heroic elements in Pope's Rape of the Lock

4. Comment on Milton's use of grand style in Paradise Lost.

(I x 20=20)

Section B

1. Explain the use of allegory in Pilgrim's Progress.

2. Discuss the role of Dr. Johnson's dictionary in the development of English language.

3. The Battle of Books is a satire on the famous controversy regarding the relative merits of ancient and modern literature. Elaborate.

4. Sheridan's play The rivals reflects the contemporary social changes of England. Explain

(I x 20=20)

Section C

1. Enumerate the features of metaphysical poetry.

2. The poets and dramatists of the Restoration period looked back to the ancient

classical poets and dramatists for inspiration. Explain.

3. Comment on the general characteristics of Restoration drama.

4. Elaborate on the role of periodical literature in the development of prose during

the Augustan age. (1 x 20=20)

Section D

Write short notes on any four of the following

I. Treatment of religion in Robinson Crusoe

2. Epistolatory novel

3. Malapropism

4. Richard Steele's Prose style.

5. Spectator Club

6. Neo-classicism

7. Comedy of manners

8. Mac Flecknoe as a personal satire

(4 x 5 =- 20)

CC o 1 CC SS)

ENGO...-tri7American Literature - 1

Course Description:

The Course is intended to familiarize the students with the trends and movements in American literature from the early colonial period to the beginning of the Twentieth Century.

Course Content

Colonial literature 1607 to 1776 — The social context of American colonial literature — Early

American Poetry — Religious and secular prose — slave poetry and slave narratives — major authors and texts

Early American Literature after Independence 17

76-1820 — early novels, poetry — encounters with native culture — major authors and texts.

Romanticism and Transcendentalism (1820-1860)— Romanticism in America — The

American Nation - The impact of Transcendentalism — Individualism in religion and politics Abolitionism as an influence on literature — Major authors and texts.

The age of realism(1860-1910) — realism and regionalism — early social realism — literature in the new Industrial nation — major authors and texts

Texts for Detailed Study

Anne Bradstreet - The Flesh and the Spirit

Olaudah Equiano - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Chapter 3)

Benjamin Franklin - Autobiography

Washington Irving - "Rip Van Winkle."

Whitman "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"

Hawthorne - The House of the Seven Gables

Emerson - Self-Reliance

Chief Seattle - Speech on Treaty

Emily Dickinson - "Because I Could not Stop for Death"

"I Felt a Funeral in My Brain"

"There is a Certain Slant of Light"

Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn

rise of the

Henry James - Portrait of a Lady

Upton Sinclair - The Jungle

Reading

American Literature Outline - htt www.amenca

ublications book outline-of-american-

literature.html

Brucoli Clark-Layman — Colonial Literature (1616-1776)

Angelo Vietto — Early American Literature: 1776-1820. Research Guide to American Literature

Jerry Phillips and Andrew Ladd —Romanticism and Transcendentalism (1800-1860)

Roger Lathbury — Realism and Regionalism (18.60-1910)

Scheme of Questions and Model Question Paper

Scheme of Questions

One essay covering authors and texts from the first two sections (Colonial and Early

American Literature) with three choices carrying 15 marks

One essay on authors and texts from the third section (Romanticism and

Transcendentalisrn) with three choices carrying 15 marks

One essay on authors and texts from the fourth section (Realism and Regionalism) with

three choices carrying 15 marks

IV. One essay on literary history (trends and movements) covering all the literary periods

chosen for study.

V. Four short answer questions (with 8 choices) each carrying 5 marks in the following

proportion:

a) Two questions; from section 1 and 2

b) Two questions from section 3

c) Two questions from section 4

d) Two questions on literary history

Model Question Paper

SECOND SEMESTER MA DEGREE EXAMINATION j...a.11: cast" essio to_D English Language and Literature

ENG*ColArnerican Literature —1


I Write an essay on any one of the following (about 3 pages):

1) Discuss Olaudah Equiano's autobiography as a 'slave narrative.'

2) Discuss how Benjamin Franklin's autobiography represents a nation in the making.

3) Assess the story of Rip Van Winkle as both an allegory and a myth.

II Write an essay on any one of the following (about 3 pages):

4) Discuss how Whitman's poetry cohfigures the American nation.

5) Discuss how the themes and idiom of Emily Dickinson's poetry takes it beyond its times.

6) Discuss how The House of the Seven Gables represents Nineteenth Century American

society's reckoning with its past.

III (115=15 7) Discuss how Huckleberry Finn serves as a model for much of American fictional

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narratives in

marks)

the Twentieth Century. . . 8) Discuss Portrait of a Lady as a typical realistic novel. - - - -- 9) Discuss Jungle as an early manifestation of social realism in American fiction.

(1x15=15

IV 10) Discuss briefly the chief trends in American Literature upto the end of the Eighteenth marks)

Century.

11) Discuss how American Romanticism developed a distinct identity of its own.

12) Discuss how Transcendentalism became a pervasive influence in American literature in The Nineteenth Century.

(1x15=15 marks)

(1x15=15 marks)

V Attempt any four of the following questions (about one page):

13) Colonial American poetry

14) American landscape in "Rip Van Winkle"

15) Death and Love in Whitman's poetry

14) Emily Dickinson's imagery

15) Colloquial language in Huckleberry Finn

16) Jungle as a committed novel.

17) Imitation of British models in early American literature

18) Thematic concerns of American novel in the Nineteenth Century. (4x5=20)

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ENG 2 CO8 Literary Criticism and Theory-2

Syllabus

Course description and objective

This course is structured to provide an introduction to modem critical strategies/approaches to literary texts and to familiarize students with basic theoretical concepts underlying contemporary approaches to literature and the major differences between them.

Since the course is an introduction/orieniation, we have to cover a substantial amount of materials and schools of thought within the time limit of one semester. Therefore we will not be able to spend much tfireattempting to penetrate dense theoretical texts. Instead, after brief introductions that will provide overviews of the various schools of literary theory, we will read and discuss representative pieces from practitioners of various schools. At the end of the course, the student should be able to read literary and critical texts with judicious appreciation and build up the competence to generate and articulate personal responses to literary and critical texts, as well to explain the premises and assumptions underlying such personal response.

Syllabus in detail

1. Overview Discussion







:New Criticism/Formalism ::Cleanth Books — "Language of paradox"

:Structuralism/Semiotics : Roland Barthes, "On Wrestling" from Mythologies

:Marxist Criticism : Terry Eagleton, "Literature and History" from Marxism and

Literary Criticism

:Reader Response : Wolfgang Iser, "Role of the Reader"

:Post Structuralism/ Deconstruction : Jacques Denide "Structure sign and Play in the discourse of Human. Science"

:Psychoanalytic Criticism : Jacques Lecan :"The Mirror Stage"

: Post Modernism Fredric Jameson, "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"



and

:Feminism : Helen Cixous "The Laugh of the Medusa"

:New Historicism/Cultural Materialism : Louis A Montrose "Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics

Politics of Culture"



:Cultural Studies : Walter Benjamin, "Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

:Ecocriticism : Cheryll Glotfelty: Introduction to The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology

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Second Semester MA Degree Examination (2011 admission)

CCSS ENGLISH

ENG 2 C08 Literary Criticism and Theory-2

Time: 3 Ins Max.: 80 marks

Write an essay of about 350 words on any one of the following:

1. Examine how Cleanth Broolcs argues for centrality of ambiguity and paradox as a way of understanding poetry.

2. Discuss how Wolfgang Iser decontextualize and dehistoricize the text and the reader

3. Examine how Barthes presents wrestling as a staged spectacle portraying the moral concept of justice.

(1x15---15 marks)

Write an essay of about 350 words on any one of the following:

4. Discuss in detail the concept of 'Mirror Stage'- in Lacan's work. 5. How do you respond to Jameson's idea that the postmodernism replicates,

reproduces or reinforces the logic of consumer capitalism? 6. Examine how Cixous advocates the freeing of female self through writing.

(1x15=15 marks)

III. Write an essay of about 350 words on any one of the following:

7. Texts not only represent culturally constructed pattern but also reproduce cultural construction. Discuss in connection with Louis Montrose's prescribed essay.

8. Examine how Walter Benjamin explores the interrelation of political, technological and artistical development under capitalism.

9. Discuss how Cheryl] Glotfelty brings in an environmental perspective to literary -Shtelies 25

IV. Write an essay of about 350 words on any one of the following:

10. Contrary to new critical insistence on autonomy of literary texts, New Historicism refigures the relationship between text and culture. Discuss.

11. Examine post-structuralism as a linguistic arm of postmodernism. 12. Critically examine the major points of convergence and the points of departure

between New Critical persuasions and later developments in literary theory.

(1x15---15 marks)

Write short notes on any four of the following:

a. Notion of Centre in Derrida's analysis of structure of language b. Author as producer c. Ecriture feniinine d. Cultural poetics e. Loss of aura through mechanical reproduction f The fundamentals of ecocriticism g. Critical approaches to interpretation of meaning h. Post modernism and Marxism

(4x5=20)

ENG 3 C09 Introduction to Linguistics

The course will help students have a general idea about the nature and organization of

language. The course is of an introductory nature intended to familiarize students with the history and key concepts of the discipline.

Course Content

Unit I

Aspects of Language: The origin of Language — Language families - features of language — language in the communicative system — language typology

Unit II

History of Linguistics- a brief outline — Comparative Philology — Sassure's theories - Structuralist Linguistics — Sociolinguistics — Psycholinguistics — Applied Linguistics -Computational Linguistics

Unit III

Organization of Language — Introduction to Phonology (Phoneme, allophones, classification of sounds, stress, intonation) - Introduction to Morphology (Morpheme, allomorph,

word-formation, affixation, compounding) - Introduction to Semantics (sound and meaning,

synonymy, hyponymy, semantic fields, semantic change) — Introduction to Syntax (word classes — case - word order— Morphophonemics - )

Unit IV

Introduction to Chomskyan Linguistics: Transformational Generative Grammar—Deep Structure and Surface Structure - Language as a biological endowment — Universal Grammar -rationalist theory of language acquisition.

Recommended Reading 1. A Short History of Linguistics 2. Jean Aitchison — General Linguistics

3. Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Andrea Deumert & William L Leap — Introducing Sociolinguistics.

4. Vivien J Cook and Mark Newson — Chomsky's Universal Grammar

5. Andrew Radford et al — Linguistics — An Introduction.

6. Laurie Bauer — Linguistics Students' Handbook.

7. Igor Bolshakov, Alexander Gelbukh — Introduction to Computational Lingustics

8. Susan J Behrens and Judith A Parker — Language in the Real World

9. A H Gleason—An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics

10. R H Robin —A Short History of Linguistics

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Scheme of Question Paper

The course is intended to be a brief, but comprehensive introduction to Linguistics. The

questions are, therefore, expected to test the students' awareness about concepts and categories rather than an indepth understanding of any area or topic. Only short questions in the nature of

brief write-ups need be set relating to units III and IV

L Two essays (with three choices each), one each on topics from Unit I and Unit II,

carrying 15 marks each.

2. Seven short answer questions (with fourteen choices) each carrying 5 marks,

distributed over the four units.

3. Five very short answer questions (with ten choices) distributed over the four units.

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MA III Semester Examinations - English

ENG 3 C09 Linguistics


I. Write an essay on any one of the following (about three pages):

1) Discuss the various theories about the origin of language.

2) Discuss some of the salient features of Language

3) Discuss how the world's languages are divided into families and types.

(1x15=15 marks)

II Write an essay on any one of the following (about 3 pages):

4)Give a brief outline of the history of Linguistics in the Twentieth Century. 5)Briefly discuss the important principles of sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. 6)Briefly describe the various branches of Applied Linguistics.

(1x15= 15 marks)

III Write short notes on any seven of the following (200 words):

7) Language families 8) Criteria for classifying languages 9) Dialects 10) The beginnings of Linguistics 11) Social Class and Language 12) Immediate Constituents 13) Language Teaching 14) Classification of Sounds

15) Aspects of Semantic change 16) Phonological rules 17) Word Classes 18) Transformational Generative Grammar 19) Universal Grammar 20) Deep Structure and Surface Structure

IV Write short notes on any five of the following (100 words)

21) Pooh-pooh theory 22) Stress-timed languages 23) Post-editing in Machine Translation 24) Slang 25) Allophones 26) Intonation 27) Suffixation 28) Syntagmatic paradigm 29) Synonymy 30) Kernel Sentences

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(7x5=35 marks)

(5x3=15 marks)

Panel of Question Paper Setters

1. Prof. N Rajendran, Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, Kerala University, Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Phone — 94447653970.

2. Dr S A Shanavas, Associate Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, Kerala University, Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Phone — 9495074811.

3. Dr Sreenadhan K, Associate Professor, Department of Dravidian and Computational Linguistics, Dravidian University, Srinivasa Varam, Kuppam — 517425, AP., Phone —09959172551.

4. Dr S Radhakrishnan Nair, Associate Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, Kerala University, Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Phone — 9496662547.

5. Prof. Bala Subrahmaniam, Head, Department of Dravidian and Computational

Linguistics, Dravidian University, Srinivasa Varam, Kuppam — 517425, AP

6. Dr L Rama Moorthy, Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages, CIIL,

Manasagangotri, Mysore.

7. Dr Panachanan Mohanty, Associate Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, Hyderbad Central University, Gachibowla, Hyderabad, AP.

8. Dr Kesava Murthy, Asst. Professor, Department of Dravidian and Computational

Linguistics, Dravidian University, Srinivasa Varam, Kuppam — 517425, AP

9. Dr Arul Mozhi, Asst. Professor, Department of Dravidian and Computational Linguistics, Dravidian University, Srinivasa Varam, Kuppam — 517425, AP.

Panel of Examiners

1. Dr P K Prabha , Associate Professor, Dept, of English, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Kozhikode — 673013, Phone: 9447132496

2. Dr A Rose Mary, Dept. of Linguistics, Kerala University, Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram, phone — 9400514982.

3. Dr S Kunjamma, Dept. of Linguistics, Kerala University, Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Phone — 9995129664.

4. Dr Sreenadhan K, Associate Professor, Department of Dravidian and Computational

Linguistics, Dravidian University, Srinivasa Varam, Kuppam — 517425, AP., Phone —

09959172551.

5. Dr S Radhakrishnan Nair, Associate Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, Kerala University,

Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Phone — 9496662547.

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643C., ENG 3 COT American Literature - II

Course Description

The course is intended to familiarize the students with the chief movements and trends in

American Literature from the Second decade of the Twentieth Century to the first decade of the

Twenty First Century. Some of the key authors and texts in the period will be discussed in detail.

Course Content

The rise of modernism —The Harlem renaissance — Literature on the Left — Postmodernist trends

— The Beat Generation - Second Generation African American writing — Native American Renaissance —

Women Writing — The Assertion of Sexual Minorities — Representations of postmodernity

Texts for Study

Poetry

William Carlos Williams "Spring and All (By the Road to the Contagious Hospital)"

Ezra Pound "Ballad of the Goodly Fere"

Langston Hughes "I, too, Sing America"

Allen Ginsberg "America"

Sylvia Plath "Tulips"

Chrystos "Song for a Lakota Woman"

Joy Harjo

Kevin Young "To the Confederate Dead"

Fiction

Ernest Hemingway • The Snows of Kilimanjaro

William Faulkner Light in August

Phillip Roth Portnoy's Complaint

Toni Morrison Tar Baby

Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Don Delillo Falling Man

Prose

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Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream"

Drama

Eugene O'Neil Emperor Jones

Tennesee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Edward Albee Zoo Story

Amiri Baraka Dutchman

William S Yellow Robe Rez Politics

Reference

George Parker Anderson American Modernism.

Linda Trinh Moser & Kathryn West Contemporary Literature — 1970 to the Present

Jennifer Ashton From Modernism to Postmodernism

Michael Hinds & Stephen Mattersen The American Poetry Book

American Literature Outline , http://www.america.gov/publications/books/

outline-of-american-literature.html

Scheme of Questions

1. Four essays (with three choices each, carrying 15 marks each) as follows.

Ra-

a) One related to prescribed authors/texts in poetry

b) One related to prescribed authors/texts in fiction

c) One related to prescribed authors/texts in drama and prose

d) One related to literary history in general

II Four short answers (Out of a choice of eight, each carrying 5 marks) as follows:

a) One related to prescribed authors/texts in poetry

b) One related to prescribed authors/texts in fiction

c) One related to prescribed authors/texts in drama and prose

d) One related to literary history in general


MA (English) Ill Semester 3c_ ND

ENG-667 American Literature —II


Write essays on four of the following choosing one from each section.

Section A

1) Compare and Contrast Pound and Williams as American modernist poets.

2) Trace the trajectory of African American poetry from Langston Hughes to Kevin Young.

3) Discuss the configurations of identity in the poems of Joy Harjo and Chrystos.

Secton B

4) Attempt a critical reading of Snows of Kilimanjaro, discussing the configuration of the hero and his environment in Hemingway's fiction.

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5) Discuss Tar Baby as a statement on identity politics.

6) Discuss Falling Man as a novel of survival and disillusionment.

Section C

7) "Emperor Jones is a typical White reaction to the rising tide of African

American assertion." Discuss.

8) Discuss Zoo Story as an allegory of a consumerist society at work.

9) Discuss Rez Politics as a statement on the politics of American

multiculturalism.

Section D

10) Compare and Contrast Harlem Renaissance with the second wave of African

American writing after the 1960s.

11) Discuss how native American writing registers a strong presence in

Twentieth Century American literature.

12) Discuss how American fiction engages history at the turn of the Twenty First

Century.

(15x4=60 marks)

ll Write short notes on any four of the following:

13) Violent subversion in America

14) Imagery in "Tulips"

15) Carnivalesque in Portnoy's Complaint

16) Animal Dreams as a 'green dream'

17) The use of religious imagery in I Have a Dream

18) Seduction motif in Dutchman

19) Assertion of sexual minorities in American literature

20) Contemporariness of contemporary American fiction

(4x5=20)


1. Dr K M Krishnan, Associate Professor, School of Letters, M G University, Kottayam, Phone: 9447179486

2. Dr M Dasan, Professor and Head, Dept. of Studies in English, Kannur Univers y Phone: 9447157268

3. Dr Saji Mathew, Associate Professor, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam. Phone: 9847237570

4. Dr Meena T Pillai, Associate Professor, Institute of English, Kerala University, Phone: 9495919749.

5. DrJamuna S, Associate Professor, Institute of English, Kerala University. Phone: 9497621662 6. Dr Sherine Upot, Professor, School of Distance Education, MG University, Phone: 9447558619. 7. Dr Prasad Pannian, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Central University of Kerala, Kasargod,

Phone: 9445460202

Panel of Examiners 1. Dr Saji Mathew, Associate Professor, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam. Phone:

9847237570

2. Dr K M Krishnan, Associate Professor, School of Letters, M G University, Kottayam. Phone: 9447179486

3. Dr Sherine Upot, Professor, School of Distance Education, MG University, Phone: 9447558619. 4. Dr Prasad Pannian, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Central University of Kerala, Kasargod,

Phone: 9445460202

5. Dr Anitha Ramesh, Associate Professor, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Kozhikode, Phone — 9388431553,

6. Dr Meena T Pillai, Associate Professor, Institute of English, Kerala University, Phone: 9495919749.

7. Anvar N K, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Govt. College, Mokeri, Kozhikode Dt., Phone -9846051604

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MA English

ENG 3C11: British Literature- 19th Century

Course Description:

The Course is intended to familiarize the students with the trends and movements in English Literature during the Nineteenth Century.

Course Content

English literature in the 19th Century — Romantic Revival — Publication of Lyrical Ballads — Poets — Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats- Odes-features, Essays of Lamb, Hazlitt and Strachey.

Victorian Compromise — Dramatic Monologue — Browning, Tennyson, Arnold - Gothic Literature—Pre-Raphaelite Movement — Theatre —Novels - Major authors and texts.

Tats for Study

A. Poetry

William Blake "The Poison Tree"

William Wordsworth "Lucy Gray"

ST Coleridge "Kublakhan"

PB Shelley "Ode To The West wind"

John Keats "Ode on A Grecian Urn"

Tennyson "Ulysses"

Robert Browning "Fra Lippo Lippi"

Mathew Arnold "Dover Beach" •

G.M. Hopkins "The Wind hover"

B. Drama

Oscar Wilde - The Importance Of Being Earnest

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C. Prose

Charles Lamb " Dream Children"

Hazlitt "On Familiar Style"

Strachey - "Dr. Arnold"

D: Fiction

Emile Bronte • Wuthering Heights

Charles Dickens Hard Times

Thomas Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge

Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

Scheme of Questions and Model Question Paper

Scheme of Questions

Section. A (15 x4 -=-60)

Essays

I. One out of four Choices( Essays based on Poetry)

11. One out of four Choices( Essays based on Drama and Prose)

III. One out of four Choices( Essays based on Fiction) One out of four Choices( Essays based on literary back ground of 19th Century)

Section. B (4x5=20)

Short note Questions

Four out of Eight Choices on specific themes, concepts, theoretical terms, etc. prescribed.


T HI g D t-SEMESTER MA DEGREE EXAMINATION


ENG 3C11: British Literature- 19th Century


Answer four questions from the following choosing one question each from all the four sections

Section I

I) Discuss the features of ode based on the odes you have studied. 2) Dover Beach depicts the dilemma of the Victorian age. Explain 3) Compare and contrast the conception of dramatic monologue in "Ulysses" and "Fra Lippo

Lippi". 4) Elaborate on the concept of poetic imagination in "Kublakhan"

Section II

5) How does Hazlitt advocate a genuine familiar English Style of writing in "On Familiar Style"?

6) Comment on the influence of Lamb's autobiography and psyche in " The Dream Children". 7) Describe Strachey's attitude towards Arnold's Public School System. 8) Importance of Being Earnest is a serious comedy for trivial people. Comment.

Section III

9) Consider Emile Bronte's Wuthering Heights as a Gothic Novel. 10) Hard Times is a true record of the heartfelt miseries brought about by industrialization in

Europe. Elaborate.

I I) Reveal the structural pattern of coincidence in Hardy's The Mayor Of Caster bridge. 12) Discuss the importance of social class and its impact on the relationship between the

characters in Pride and Prejudice.

MA English IV semester Examination (2010 admissions) ENG 4 C12: 20th Century and Contemporary British Literature

Time: 3 Ms Max. Marks: 50

Course description

The course is intended to familiarize the students with various trends in literature from the early twentieth century upto the present.

Course content

Modernism and Post modernism-shift in literary and aesthetic sensibilities of the age-Thinkers associated-Neitzche, Freud, Marx, Frazer-Movements associated-expressionism, imagism, surrealism, cubism

Poets-Yeats, Eliot-Movement poetry-Robert Bridges-Bloomsbury group-Virginia Woolf- Stream of consciousness-James Joyce Angry Young Men-Allam Sillitoe-George Orwell Graham Green, Ian Mc Ewan, Lessing, Drabble, Jeanette, Absurd Theatre-Beckett, Pinter-Wesker- Synge and Winterson

Poetry

Yeats : "Second Coming" Eliot : "Love Song of Alfred Prufrock" Auden : "In Memory of WB Yeats" Larkin : "Church going" Ted Hughes : "Second Glance at a Jaguar" Carol Ann Duffy : "History"

Drama

G.B. Shaw : Doctor 's Dilemma Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot Wesker : Kitchen David Greig : Dunsinane

Fiction

Virginia Woolf :To the Light House James Joyce : The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man Allam Sillitoe : The Lonliness of a Long Distance Runner Jeanette Winterson :Oranges are not the only Fruit Ian Mc Ewan :Amsterdam

Scheme of questions

Essay questions 1. One out of three choices from the poetry section 2. One out of three choices from the drama section 3. One out of three choices from the fiction part 4. One out of three choices from the literary background.

(4 x 15 = 60) Short questions

Four out of eight questions giving due weightage to all the texts prescribed and literary background

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Model question paper MA (English) IV Semester Examination

ENG 4 C12: 20th Century and Contemporary British Literature

Attempt any, our of the following selecting one question from each section

(4x 15 = 60)

Section A

1. Discuss the modernist techniques employed by Eliot in "Love Song of Alfred Prufrock"

2. Bring out the complexities of images in Yeats' "Second Coming" 3. Elaborate on the British attitude to religion in "Church going"

Section B

4. Bring out the existential elements in Waiting for Godot 5. Elaborate on the dramatic vision of Wesker in terms of social consciousness 6. Discuss Dunsinane as a political play

Section C

7. Consider To the Light house as a feminist novel 8. Comment on the structure of The Golden Note Book 9. Consider Lonliness of a Long Distance Runner as an anti-establishment novel.

Section D

10. Examine the various experimentations and innovations in modern poetry. 11. Discuss various factors that contributed to the revival of drama in the

twentieth century 12. Bring out the salient features of post modern fiction

II Write short notes on any four of the following (4 x 5 = 20)

1. Proletarian ethos in Kitchen 2. Oranges are not the only Fruit as a testimony of sexual minorities 3. "History" as "Her story" 4. The title Doctors Dilemma 5. Yeats death in "In memory of W.B. Yeats" 6. Depiction of 'monstrous' forces in Ted Hughes's poetry 7. Religion in Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man 8. Euthanasia as murder in Amsterdam.

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ENG 2E01 World Drama

The course is intended to introduce students to important ages and movements in world drama and to make them aware of the great diversity of theatre in different parts of the world. A major focus of the course is the alternative traditions of drama present in the

non-western world.

A. General To 'es: 1. The Origins of Drama (Greek, Indian and English contexts)

2. Major ages/movements in world drama/theatre (topics to be studied irrms of the plays prescribed for detuled study):

a. Classical Greek Theatre f. Realist theatre'

b. Classical Indian/Sanskrit theatre g. Epic 'Theatre , -

c. Classical Japanese Theatre h. Postcolomal Drama & Theatre

d. Classical Chinese Theatre

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ICalidasa

Oedipus The King .

Sakuntala (Acts One & Five for detailed study, general

familiarity Withlthe whole play expected.)

TsunernasaVapaneselsioh)

Twice .aBilde, (Chinese Opera)

Ghosts

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

The Lion and the Jewel

The River of Madness

Zeami Metoltiyo

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Second Semester M.A. Degree Examination English Language and Literature

Choice Based Credit Semester Scystem

ECG 2E01 World Drania

Time: 3 hours Maximum: 80 marks

L Write essays on any three of following, choosing at least one question from each section.

Section A 1. Discuss how the symbols of blindness / vision are connected with the themes of

ignorance / lmowledge in Oedipus The King. -

2. Critically evaluate the statement that `the story of Sokurunla is about male betrayal of love and how one woman deals with it"

3. Do you agree that Twice a Bride is a play about middle class ambition and the corruption of the human spirit that accompanies it. Discuss.

4. Discuss the significant features of the narrative structure of Japanese Nob theatre with reference to Tsunenrasa.

Section B 5. In Ghosts Ibsen "uses the problem of congenital venereal diseases as a metaphor

for moral ills inherited from the past which thrive in the dark and kill the present." Discuss. '

6. With reference to The Caucasian Chalk Circle, review how Brecht uses themes and dramatic elements to alert the audience of the need for historical and social change.

7. "Wole Soyinka does not use the culture of his ancestors as a gimmick to sell or as an export commodity, but an inborn material for expansion and liberation." Consider this statement with reference to The Lion and the Jewel.

8. Are you in agreement with the opinion that Tawfici el-Hakim's The River of Madness is a dramatic statement of the principle that "truth is determined by the masskis

or the public rather than individuals in the last instance." Discuss

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9. What are the major thematic and dramatic features of realist theatre? Discuss with Section C

reference to the plays prescribed.

ois 10. Critically comment on the prominent features of eine theatre and how they relate

to specific political aims.

11. Compare The Lion and the Jewel and The River of Madness as postcolonial plays.

12. Compare the prologues of Oedipus The King and Sakuntala in order to bring out

their dramatic functions and the salient differences among them.

(3 x 15 = 45 marks)

II. Write notes of about hundred and fifty words on any four of the following:

1. The plight ofJocasta in Oedipus The King.

2. The role of the Vidushaka in Sanskrit drama.

3. The character of the Beggar King in Twice a Bride.

4. The thematic significance of the appearance of the ghost in Tsunemasa.

5 The origins of drama in Greece. 6. The mother as central preSenee in Ghosts.

7 The eccentric justice of Azdakin the Caucasian Chalk Circle.

8. The play within the play in The Lion and Jewel.

9. The motif of sanity/insanity in The River of adness.

10. The role of dance in theatm

(4x5= 20 marks)

Ill. Write short notes on any five of the following in a paragraph not exceeding fifty

words: 1. ILamartia 2. Amagnorisis 3. The waki in Noh Theatre 4. Surrealism in theatre 5. Alienation effect 6. Simile in Kalidasa 7. Yoruba rituals in Lion and the Jewel

8. Initial critical responses tb Ghosts

9. Pan-Arabian features of the River of Madness

10. Operatic features of Twice a Bride

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• (5 x 3 = 15 marks)

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Second Semester MA Degree Examination English Language and Literature

Choice Based Credit Semester System

ENG 2E01 World Drama

Panel of Question Paper Setters / External Examiners

1. Dr. B. Hariharan Institute of English University of Kerala Trivandrum Phone: 9446203008

2. Dr. K.K.Kunhammed Dept. of Studies in English Kannur University Thalassery Phone: 9946665444

3. Dr. K.M. Krishnan School of Letters M.G. University Kottayam Phone: 9447179486

4. Dr. Ramesh Varma Dept. of Theatre Arts Sree Sankara Sanskrit University

Kalady Phone: 9349296159

5. Dr. V.C. Harris School of Letters M.G. University Kottayam Phone: 9447113218

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MA English II Semester (2011 Admissions)

ENG 2 E02 Indian Writing in English Translation

Section —A

1. Sujit Mulcherjee : "The Making of Indo-English Literature" Translation

As Discovery

2. Rita Kothari : "Outside the Discipline Machine" Translating India

3. Mini Krishnan : "Introduction" Short Fiction from South India

Section-B Poetry

1. N.Pichamurti : National Bird 2. Vinda Karandikar : The Traitor 3. Dhoomil : A city, an evening and an Old Man

4. G.M. Sheikh : Mahabalipuram

Section-C Drama

1. Vijay Tendulkar 2. Girish Karnad 3. Habib Tanvir 4. Mahasweta Devi

Section D Fiction- Short Stories

a. Paul Zacharia b. C.S.Ambai c.Ismat Chughtai

Novels

: Silence; the Court is in Session : Tughlak : Charan Das Chor : Bayen

: The Last Show (tr. Gita Krishnankutty) : Squirrel (tr. From Tamil) : Lihaaf

a. U.R.Ananta Murthy b. Vaikom Mohammed Basheer c. Prem Chand

: S amskara : Pathumma's goat : Godan

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Model Question Paper Second Semester MA Degree Examination (2011 admission)


ENG 2 E02: Indian Writing in English Translation Time: Three Hours

Maximum marks: 80

I Write essays on any Four of the following choosing at least one question from each section:-

Section A

1. Comment on the impact of colonialism on the practice of translation in India. 2. Discuss Sujit Mukherjee's critique of the role of the translator in the making of

Indo-English Literature. 3. If the colonial generations submitted to the power of English the postcolonial

generations bend it and use it for their own purpose. Elaborate.

Section B 4. Discuss how the Indian poetry of the 60s became a scathing critique of the post-

independence Indian society.

5. Comment on the poetic devices used to communicate the experiences of alienation, loss and anonymity in the poems prescribed for study.

6. How does Indian poetry engage with the experiences of war, violence and regional chauvinism?

Section C

7. How does Chandi Dasi epitomize the -tragic contradictions within the subaltern consciousness? 8. Attempt an essay on the post-independence developments in Indian theatre with

specific reference to the plays prescribed for study. 9. Discuss the importance of the play Charan Das Chor in Indian theatre-history.

Section D

10. Discuss how the novel Samskara challenges the brahminical orthodoxy and social conservatism?

11. Critically examine the political overtones in the novel Godan by Premchand. 12. How effectively does Basheer use humour to depict the pathos and misery of rural poverty?

37 (15x4=60 marks)

III Write short notes of about 150 words on any Four of the following-

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/ 13. Representation of power and authority in 'Tughlaq'.

14. Art and Reality in 'The Last Show' by Paul Zacharia.

15. Inter-generational dialogue in Ambai's 'Squirrel'.

16. Play within a play in 'Silence, the Court is in Session'.

17. Motherhood in 'Bayen.

18. Significance of 'Lihaaf' in Indian literary history.

19. Role of Sahitya Akademi in the making of Indo-English Literature.

20. Middle class and English in India after liberalization.

(4x5=20 marks)

Panel of Examiners

First Semester MA English

ENG 2 E02: Indian Writing in English Translation

1.Dr.Meena Pillai Reader Institute of English University of Kerala. Ph: 9495919749

2. Dr. Saji Mathew Lecturer School of Letters Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam Ph: 9847237570

3 Dr.Salil Varma Reader

Dept.of English Devagiri College Calicut. Ph: 9447333380

4. Dr.Anitha Ramesh Reader

Dept.of English Sree Guruvayurappan College Calicut Ph: 9388431553

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First Semester MA English

ENG 2 E02: Indian Writing in English Translation

I.Dr.13.S.Hariharan Lecturer

Institute of English University of Kerala. Ph: 9446203008

2. Dr. Saji Mathew Lecturer School of Letters Mahatma Gandhi University . Kottayam Ph: 9847237570

3. Dr.Meena Pillai Reader

Institute of English University of Kerala. Ph: 9495919749

4.Dr.K.M.Krishnan Reader School of Letters

Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam

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II Semester MA English (CCSS) 2011 Admission ENG2E03 :Canadian Literature

Credits: 4

In an age of multiculturalism it becomes imperative to introduce into our range of

inquiry a refocusing of disciplines away from a nation based approach to a cross-cultural

approach and an understanding of Communicative equivalence among contemporaneous

civilizations around. The course in Canadian Literature is designed to help students achieve

the following objectives:

(1) To gain perspectives of the diversity of Canada, its people, its literature and to

develop an understanding of Canada's mosaic culture.

(2) To encourage interdisciplinary nature of the field of literature across national

borders, across genres and across boundaries-To enable students to integrate

literary experience with other cultural phenomenas such as historical,

philosophical concepts and social movements.

(3) To facilitate exchange of ideas and information among students by providing a

space for interdisciplinary dialogue about culture, literature and literary studies.

(4) To interrogate the connection between literature, place, gender and identity.

(5) To examine how writers use varieties of genres to illuminate questions

surrounding national identity, race, gender, language, history and culture in a

country whose bilingual identity, colonial past, postcolonial present, immigrant

experience etc have all left distinctive traces in its literature.

(6) To acquire critical knowledge of literary themes, motifs, structure, narratives

points of view and values that are typical of various regions of Canada. To enable

the students to combine theoretical angles with the close study of a wide range of

texts from different cultural, geographic, linguistic backgrounds.

Faculty who offers the Course: Dr.V. Prathiba

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Poetry:

Sue Deranger Eli Mandel Rita Joe Lee Maracle Robin Skelton Jay Macpherson

Beth Brant

Jeannette Armstrong

"The Untitled" "Ventriloquists" "I am the Indian" "My Box of Letters" Viator Poems "The Boatman"

" Her name is Helen"

"Reclaiming Earth"

Fiction :

Rudy Weibe W.O. Mitchelle Maria Campbell Sindair Ross Alice Munroe Vassanji.M.G Ondatge Sheila Watson Nicole Brossard Yann Martel Gabrielle Roy Eden Robinson Joy Kogawa

Drama: James Reaney Sharon Pollock Tomson Highway George Ryga

Temptation of Big Bear

The Vanishing Point

Half breed

As for Me and My House Carried Away Selected Stories No New Land

In the Skin of a Lion The Double Hook

Mauve Desert The Self The Tin Flute

Monkey Beach Obasan

Alice through the Looking Glass Blood Relations The Rez Sisters The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

Book for Reference

William.H.New Sharron Smith (Sr Maurinnne Oconnor

A History of Canadian Literature Canadian Fiction: A Guide to Reading Interest

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Syllabus

Section A: General Introduction to Canadian Literature

Geography and History of Canada-Diversity of Canada and Mosaic Culture-

Bilingual Identity of Canada and multiculturalism-Literary tradition of Colonial past and

post colonial present-Major authors, works, forms, periods, movements and concerns in

Canadian literature- National Identity, Race, gender and language questions -

Immigrant Literature -First Nations Ethnic minority writings - Place of Canadian

Literature in World Context.

Section B: Texts prescribed for study

(1) Poetry:

Pauline Johnson

Irving Layton

Al Purdy

Margaret Atwood

Connie Fife

(2) Fiction:

Michael Ondatge

Margaret Laurence

Margaret Atwood

Beatrice Culleton

Shyam Selvadurai

"The Cattle Thief"

"The Search"

" The Cariboo Horses"

" First Neighbours"

" Resistance"

The English Patient

The Stone Angel

The Handmaids Tale

In Search of April Rain Tree

Funny Boy

(3) Drama (1) Drew Hayden Taylor

(2) Annie Marie Macdonald

Someday

Goodnight Desdemona, Good morning Juliet

Further Reading Recommended

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Canadian Literature

Question Paper Pattern

Time: Three hours

I Essay Question from poetry (one out of three choices)

II Essay Question from Fiction (one out of three choices)

III Essay question from Drama (one out of three choices)

IV Short Notes on any four out of a choice of 12 questions covering the entire texts for study

Maximum: 80 marks

(1x20 = 20 marks)

((1x20 = 20 marks)

(1x20 = 20 marks)

(4x5 =20 marks)

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Canadian Literature

Panel of Question Paper Sellers

(1) Dr.M. Dasan Professor and Head Dept. of Studies in English Palayad, Karmur University Phone: 9447157268

(2) Dr.B. Hariharan Institute of English. University of Kerala Phone: 9446203008

(3) Dr. B. S. Jamuna Reader, Institute of English -University of Kerala Phone: 9446502873

Panel of Examiners

(1) Dr. B. Hariharan Institute of English, Trivandrum Phone: 9446203008

(2) Dr. B.S. Jamuna Institute of English University of Kerala Phone: 9446502873

(3) Dr. P.K. Prabha Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College Calicut Phone: 9447132496

(4) Dr. K.P. Asha KMM Govt. Womens College Kannur Phone: 9447007515

(5) Dr. Rajini. B Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College Calicut Phone: 8893730001

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Course Description:

This course aims to familiarise students with the contemporary discourses related to the experiences of marginalization in the current global and local political contexts. It intends to discuss the linkages between the social experiences of exclusion and marginality on the bases of gender, class, caste, ethnicity and sexuality and their literary manifestations which in turn raise certain fundamental questions regarding aesthetics and politics.

Sectiion A: Essays

1.Karl Marx & Frederick Engels :The Communist Manifesto Section I

2.Eleanor Zelliott : "Dalit Sahitya :A Historical Background"

3. Gloria Anzaldua : "La Conciencia de la Mestiza• Towards a New Consciousness" (The Essential Feminist Reader)

4. Larry Neale : "Black Arts Movement" Section 1, (text available online)

5. Adrienne Rich

6. Eve Kosofsy Sedgwick

7. Chief Seattle's Speech

1. Bertolt Brecht

2. Namdeo Dhasal

3. Hira Bansode

4. S.Joseph

5. Langston Hughes

6. Muriel Rukeyser

: "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" (text available online)

: "Epistemology of the Closet" (text available online)

Section B:Poetry

: "A Worker Reads History" (www.poemhunter.com)

"Hunger" (The Poisoned Bread)

: "Yashodhara" (The Poisoned Bread)

: "The Identity Card" (No Alphabet in Sight)

"Theme for English B"

• "Despisals"

Section C: Fiction and Autobiography

1. Bama : "Ponnuthayi"(No Alphabet in Sight)

2.C.Ayyappan : "Madness"The Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit Writing)

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Kandal Poklcudan

: "Draupadi(Ln Other worlds by Gayatry Chalcravorthy Spivak)

: 'By the River,The Lesson and Troglodyte(Fennnist Fables)

: "Lihaf' (Women Writing in India ed Susie Tharu and K.Lalitha)

Autobiography:

: "My Life" (The Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit

Writing)

Janu : Mother Forest

.B.R. Ambedkar : "Scoundrel:You Polluted the Parsi Inn"

Ambedkar:Autobiographical Notes

I. Nalini Jameela : Chapter 1V, Autobiography of A Sex Worker

10. A.Revathy : The Truth About Me: A Hijra Lifestory.

Section D: Drama

1. A.Santhakumar

: "Dreamhunt" (The Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit

Writing)

2. Mahesh Dattani : "Bravely Fought the Queen"(Final Solutions and other Plays)

3. Israel Zangwill : The Melting Pot (text available online)

Recommended Reading:-

1. The Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit Writing ed M.Dasan,V.Prathiba et al.

2.No Alphabet in Sight ed Satyanarayana and Susie Than'

3. Why I ant not a Hindu. Kancha Ilaiah _

4. Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature.Sharan Kumar Limbale

5 .Gender Trouble : Judith Butler

6. The Poisoned Bread: translations from modern Marathi Dalit literature

ed. Arjun Kamble

7 Race Matters edited volume 8. Facing the Mirror ed. Aswini Sukhthankar

9.Womens Studies in India: A Reader ed. Mary John

10 Winona Laduke : The Indigeneous women Network:Our future Our responsibility" (The Essential Feminist Reader)

11. Maxine Hong Kingston : The Woman Warrior

12. Mulk Raj Anand : Untouchable

13. K.J.Baby : Nadugaddika

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Second Semester M. A Degree Examination CCSS

/ Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80

I Write an essay of about 350 words on any four of the following choosing one from each section:..

Section A

1. Trace the development of Dalit literature in India as mapped out by Eleanor Zelliott. 2. Critically examine how Adrienne Rich and Eve Kosofsky interrogate and counter the notions of

heteronormativity that inform dominant patterns of western thought and sensibility. 3. How does Larry Neale chart out the necessity for redrawing the connections between a

revolutionary consciousness and emancipatory writing?

Section B 4. How does Dalit poetry enter into a critical engagement with the accepted norms of writing and

reading poetry? Discuss in the light of the poems prescribed for study 5. Discuss the dynamics of the consciousness of the marginalised as explored in the poems of

Bertolt Brecht and Langston Hughes. 6. How does the poem "Despisals" become an incisive critique of a phallocentric culture?

Section C

7. Writing an autobiography is itself a political act. Comment. 8. How do C. Ayyappan and Mahasweta Devi complicate the subject ivities of the marginalized in

their short stories?

9.The significance of "Lihaf' "lies in its attention to the intricately layered sexual politics of the domestic sphere and the complicated emotional lives of its denizens" Discuss.

Section D

10. Examine the political significance of dreams in the play "Drearnhunt". 11. How does Mahesh Dattani's play bring out the duplicity and hypocrisy of the Indian middle

class in matters of gender and sexuality? 12. Critically comment on the significance of the adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" in The Melting Pot in its dramatizaton of the ethnic_questionin early 20th century America.

(15x4=-60 marks)

II. Write short notes of about 100 words on any four of the following:

13. Class struggle 14. Politics of Reservation in "The Identity Card" 15.The Mestiza consciousness. 16.Ecology.spirituality and survival in aboriginal thought. 17.Counterdiscourse in Suniti Namjoshi's fables. 18.Struggle between two genders in A.Revathy's autobiography 19.Ponnuthayi's struggle for freedon. 20.Politicization of Nalini Jameela.

(4x5=20marks)

ENGLISH ENG2E04 Literature of the Marginalized

ENG 2E04 Literature of the Marginalized

Panel of question paper setters/examiners

1. Dr.Saji Mathew School of Letters M.G.University, Kottayam Mob: 9847237570

2. Dr.Meena Pillai Reader Institute of English University of Kerala Mob:9495919749

3. Dr.Krishnan.K.M School of Letters M.G.University, Kottayam Mob: 9447179486

4. Dr. Muraleedharan.T., St. Aloysius College, Elthuruthi, Trissur Dt. Phone : 9447350091

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ENG 3E05 - Translation Theory and Practice

Course Description

The course aims at familiarizing the students with the core of translation theory and some of the

current theoretical positions, and at offering training in translation of literary and non-literary texts and

interpreting. The students can also obtain a general understanding of the current debates in the

discipline.

Eligibility

Ability to translate from Malayalam or Hindi into English and from English to Malayalam/Hindi

UNIT I — Theoretical and Descriptive translation studies

Types of translation — equivalence in translation — process of translation — language and culture

in translation — translatability - Audiovisual Translation — Translation in Journalism - basic features of

interpreting — introduction to Machine Translation - historicity and politics in literary translation — Indian

tradition in translation theory.

Prescribed texts

Susan Bassnett — Translation Studies. Chapter I, "Central Issues."

Ayyappa Pa nikker —"Towards an Indian Theory of Literary Translation."

Translation: From Periphery to Centrestage (Ed. Tutun Mukherjee).

K M Sherrif — Kunhupaathumma's Tryst with Destiny. Section IV.

Jorge Diaz Cintas - "Audio-Visual Translation: An Overview of its Potential"

New Trends in Audio Visual Translation (Ed. Jorge Diaz Cintas

Sara Bani — "An Analysis of Press Translation Process" Translation in Global News (Ed. Kyle

Conway and Susan Bassnett)

W John Hutchins & Harold L Somers —An Introduction to Machine Translation (Chapter 1)

S Sushant — "Interpretation." Translation and Interpreting: Reader and

Workbook (Orient Longman).

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John Milton — "Translation Studies and Adaptation Studies"

UNIT II — Translation Practice

Practice in translation and interpretation

The direction of translation/interpreting will be from Malayalam or Hindi into English and from

English into Malayalam/Hindi

Note: Tamil and Gujarati may be considered as additional source/target languages for translation

practice on demand by students registered for the course.

Recommended Reading

J C Catford. A Linguistic Theory of Translation: An Essay in Applied Linguistics.

London: Oxford University Press, 1965.

Susan Bassnett. Translation Studies. Rev.ed. London and New York: Routledge, 1991.

Peter Newmark. Approaches to Translation. New York: Pergamon, 1981.

Jeremy Munday. Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications. New York and London:

Routledge, 2008.

Mona Baker and Kirsten Malmkjaer, eds. Routledge Encyclopaedia of Translation Studies.

London: Routledge, 2006

Ravinder Gargesh and Krishna Kumar Goswami (Ed.) Translation and

Interpreting: Reader and Workbook. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2007.

Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown . A Practical Guide for Translators. Clavedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd.,

2004.

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Scheme of Questions

1. One essay (out of three choices) for 15 marks. 2. Five short answers (out of ten) for 25 marks. 3. Two passages in Malayalam/Hindi for translation, one from literature (prose, fiction or drama)

and one from another discourse (each with two choices. One of the choices in the second question should be a news item) for 20 marks.

4. Two passages in English for translation into Malayalam/Hindi, one from literature (prose, fiction or drama) and one from another discourse (each with two choices. One of the choices from the second question should be a news item) for 20 marks


MA(English) II Semester

ENG 3E05 - Translation Theory and Practice

Time: 3 hours Marks: 80.

I. Write an essay on any one of the following:

1) Discuss some the central issues of translation described by Susan Bassnett. 2) Discuss the potential and current trends of audio-visual translation. 3) Discuss the conceptualization of translation in India.

II. Write short notes on any five of the following:

4) Nida's three-stage process of translation. 5) Loss in translation 6) Ur-texts and translation 7) Domesticating translation 8) Audiovisual translation modes 9) Speed in press translation 10) Adaptation and appropriation 11) Intertextuality in translation 12) Interpreter's basic skills 13) Pre-editing and interactive mode in machine translation.

III. Attempt Section A or B:

Section A

14) Translate one of the following passages into English:

(1x15=15 marks)

(6x5= 30 marks)

cmacriv oflofl nioan2rm Alamo. ampm2o, noecrumpavpo caps& curopommileT a3arroymiatogyammed. rum)) rnsmlastaff

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(1x10= 10 marks)

15) Translate one of the following passages into English:

czeicao. s1rcolasoa.)0 acEb(ogotonanp)20 nJm1LCmmoroltoa a10601 MI18.1F)0CD4o Qso <61,6)6c5OTCDACID6T3. 0-00q,

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2J16)5 mou34 6)03350)1g alosaillmos <thscma aatothbAcm 6302, aoomi 2(f-doe-mos <Nolo, ,isropeahomflom calms;

C000.0cEnCio st-mA unoloneaV nysksoLcnamomiksa ed3). ace,2<mamo0sarma atofebsysio) aJ1. not&

she). raernicassa 0JObarj crwaecroloamsth. ace,cop(oxolom flmooaxs) awricuilnancsa Laxx2sum?,0 swami's)) ace,02

(:)(parro2o-3 pmmoalos crunonfrapamnocaoploa smommaav nJobaulasa airannaag,Ngl awnniesooAos

Itt).1013V00.4o alObeia (106)(11).

OR

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meicepprii mx-Ocesta; nahorollei amrosnan neka2capail_alka2cm2. arrasmoces)glocrio ceborocinailei nemaolasi n2s06moincro

cru2u-30 acaosel tottha)n_i molffiscrri shdls=moslai (01 bqd3Dpi op or inlaiasupo mgiceplocpcmanascri aarograrsilogio sicog

rOTVCOn_IGMo. grasmoceog'10 snagagssrol CDSMMDM2o 6Qr m2ai020 camossnlocrin ax-fica,scrri no14'mpsrlai

mirOaoua6ay30 mtie1s102rtn2. n2JCIAGCLI 211Z n.g)nidlecoon a:rocuarn@TD, ace,ro@o orailistpaaa rucmifforsi

aflekeol unison1w ogg nurcomilaa a ni6x-)oNo2cnig manaumeoo, strap& wrapirolaQ0 arannuanmpa

acasuos2(nai20 raibC1J6)0ENCIDOOmi cargcthrajos2cmasilcri ap2auni2na2omcm2q00 2:109D02aneo2saat

(1x10=10 marks)

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Section B

16. Translate one of the following passages into English:

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OR

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( 1 xl0=10marks)

17. Translate one of the following passages into English:

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OR

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w,ocbt qiide,tt ft-trt- ER- Tit olIcll Qtri 31-47-411 fir 3-fWrf0sta- tt 414 tbr1 k<t,

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fact)! ell 3117 Hari! 341:AWa1 alq-”( Tit dRIII TAae c111,41 ut dI3, #ita- se' QrfaT

oic4 ailMf hci rlYccbt cr-c4tatftd- a1 cmd-i cbta r df1, at cle aff a 14-( -Oen dm ri #a- 1 oic4

aeoT zt fv atD-a yr 311$ at tilt EVA StrA- Sr T-4

( lx10=1 Ornarks)

IV 000018) Translate one of the following passages into Malayalam or Hindi:

When the Washington correspondent fell ill, Vernon was ordered to stand in for him. In this third month, at a dinner for the German Ambassador, a congressman mistook Vernon for a

writer on the Washington Post and tipped him off about a presidential indiscretion — a radical hair implant procured at taxpayers' expense. It was generally accepted that Tategate'- a story that dominated American domestic politics for almost a week — had been broken by Vernon

Halliday of The Judge. Or

Some hours before dawn Henry Perowne, a neurosurgeon, wakes to find himself already in motion, pushing back the covers from a sitting position, and then rising to his feet. It's not

clear to him when exactly he became conscious, nor does it seem relevant. He's never done

such a thing before, but he isn't alarmed or even faintly surprised, for the movement is easy,

and pleasurable in his limbs, and his back and legs feel unusually strong. He stands there, naked

by the bed—he always sleeps naked—feeling his full height, aware of his wife's patient breathing and of the wintry bedroom air on his skin. That too is a pleasurable sensation.

(1x10=10)

19) Translate one the following passages into Malayalam or Hindi:

A top Iranian oil official has described as irrelevant the bill passed on Tuesday by the U.S. House of Representatives that seeks to impose sanctions on global companies selling

refined petroleum to Iran.

"We can receive the amount of gasoline we need," Hojjatollah Ghanimifard, a top official at

the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.

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"We do not even bother about these kind of sanctions," he observed. In a parallel show of defiance, Iran fired a two-stage solid fuelled missile, Sejl-2, which Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said would be used "to defend peace, security and stability both in Iran and in the entire region."

Or Ragging can be in any form, the mildest being the practice of asking freshers to introduce

themselves. There is nothing particularly insulting in introducing oneself But the queries often verge on the obscene and the young students are at a loss to give the answers expected of them by the 'big brothers.' It is not uncommon for the seniors to fish into the pockets of the juniors for money, or to ask them to buy cigarettes for them. The more harrowing experiences include the measuring of the length of a football field with matchsticks, doing suiya namaskar in the blazing sun at noon and cleaning the closets in the seniors' rooms with bare hands. It has also been observed that senior students from the disadvantaged sections of society are also subjected to ragging by their more privileged peers.

(Ix10=10)

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1. Dr Meena T Pillai, Associate Professor, Institute of English, Kerala University, Phone:

9495919749.


3. Dr K M Krishnan, Associate Professor, School of Letters, M G University, Kottayam. Phone:

9447179486

4. Dr V C Harris, Professor, School of Letters, M G University, Phone — 9447113218.

5. Dr Prasad Pannian, Associate Professor, Central University of Kerala, Kasargod,

Phone — 9445460202.

Panel of Examiners

1. Dr Saji Mathew, Associate Professor, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam. Phone:

9847237570 2. Dr K M Krishnan, Associate Professor, School of Letters, M G University, Kottayam. Phone:

9447179486

3. Anvar N K, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Govt. College, Mokeri, Kozhikode Dt., Phone -

9846051604.

4. Dr Anitha Ramesh, Associate Professor, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Kozhikode, Phone —

9388431553

5. Dr Sherine Upot, Professor, School of Distance Education, MG University, Phone: 9447558619.

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ENG 3 E06 Twentieth Century Arabic Literature in English Translation

Course Description

The course is designed to introduce students to a cross section of Twentieth Century and

Contemporary Arabic Writing in English Translation. The course is introductory in nature and is

intended only to offer glimpses of lives and world views of Arabic speaking cultures which are

constructed in literature. The students are also expected to acquire basic background information about

the social and political history of Arabic-speaking peoples during the period

Texts for Study

Poetry

Adonis "Elegy for Al-Hajjaj"

Badr-Shakir Al-Sayyab "Rain Song."

Salah Abd 'al-Saleh "Expectation: Night and Day."

Nazik al-Malaika "Love Song for Words."

Muhammad al'Ali "When I Write of Love"

Mahmoud Darweish "Edward Said: A Contrapuntal Reading."

Suad Al-Sabah "Mad Woman."

Mohammed Bennis "Seven Birds"

Sail AI-Rahbi "Our Old House"

Qassim Haddad "'Stone"

Fatima Naoot "Cock's Crest"

Fawziyya Abu Khalid "Two Little Girls"

Fiction

Muhammed Hussain Haykal Zainab

Naguib Mahfouz The Thief and the Dogs

Najad Khayyat "One Day the Sun will Rise"

SG

Zakaria Tamir

Ghassan Kanafani

Was Khouri

Emile Habiby

Mahmoud Shaheen

"What Took Place in the City that was Asleep"

"If You'd been a Horse"

"City Gates"

"The Mandelbaum Gate"

"Ordeal by Fire"

Drama

Abdallah Abd-al Jabbar The Dumb Devils

Roger Allen

Muhsin J al-Musawi

Munir Mezyed

Abdul-Sattar Abdul-Lathif

Pierre Cachia

Salma K Jayyusi (ed.)

Salma K Jayyusi et al (ed.)

Anasthasia Valossopoulos

Reference

An Introduction to Arabic Literature

Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

The Gateway to Modern Arabic Poetry

Arabic Literature: An Overview

"Introduction", Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology

"Introduction", An Anthology of Modern Saudi Literature

Contemporary Arab Women Writers

Scheme of Questions

1. Three Essays, each carrying 15 marks (with three choices for each) on the following:

a) Poetry

b) Fiction and Drama

c) Cultural and Literary History

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2. Seven short answer questions, each carrying 5 marks (out of a choice of 14) set as

follows:

a) Five questions from poetry

b) Five Questions from fiction and drama

c) Four questions from literary and cultural history


Ill Semester MA (English)

ENG 3 E06 Arabic Literature in English Translation


I Write an essay on any one of the following:

a) Discuss how Arabic speaking cultures are represented in contemporary

Arabic poetry

b) Discuss how history is reconstructed in contemporary Arabic poetry

c) Attempt a brief analysis of the thematic concerns of Arabic women poetry.

(15x1=15)

II Write an essay on any one of the following:

a) Discuss the play of tradition and modernity in Contemporary Arabic fiction

b) Compare and contrast Haykal and Mahfouz as modern fictionists

c) Discuss how Arabic fiction represents Arab multiculturalism

(15x1=15)

Ill Write an essay on any one of the following:

a) Discuss the role of the formative political events in the Arab world in the

shaping of contemporary Arabic literature

b) Discuss the level of perceptible Western influence in contemporary Arabic

literature.

Co

c) Discuss the formal innovations in Arabic poetry in the Twentieth Century.

(15x1=15)

IV Write short notes on any seven of the following:

1. Adonis' imagery

2. Nostalgia in "Rain Song"

3. Malaika as a modernist

4. Edward Said's portrait in "Edward Said: A Contrapuntal Reading"

5. Feminist assertion in Arabic poetry

6. Zainab as a love story in the Arabic Tradition

7. Naguib's depiction of the underworld in The Thief and the Dogs

8. Palestinian politics in "If You'd been a Horse"

9. Narrative technique in "What Happened to the City that was Asleep."

10. The Dumb Devils as political satire

11. Modernism in Arabic poetry

12. Use of traditional poetic forms in Contemporary Arabic poetry

13. Liberation Movements and Arabic literature

14. Religious impulses in contemporary Arabic literature

(7x5=35)

ac


1. Dr K M Krishnan, Associate Professor, School of Letters, M G University, Kottayam. Phone: 9447179486


3. Dr M Dasan, Professor and Head, Dept. of Studies in English, Kannur University, Phone: 9447157268

4. Dr P P Raveendran, Professor, School of Letters, MG University, Phone- 9447120845

5. Dr Prasad Pannian, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Central University of Kerala, Kasargod, Phone: 9445460202.

Panel of Examiners

1. Dr Anitha Ramesh, Associate Professor, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Kozhikode, Phone —9388431553.

2. Anvar N K, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Govt. College, Mokeri, Kozhikode Dt., Phone —9846051604.


4. Dr K M Krishnan, Associate Professor, School of Letters, M G University, Kottayam. Phone: 9447179486.

5. Dr Sherine Upot, Professor, School of Distance Education, MG University, Phone: 9447558619. 6. Dr Prasad Pannian, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Central University of Kerala, Kasargod,

Phone: 9445460202.

'M. A. English Language and Literature Choice Based Credit Semester System

Semester 4 Syllabus

ENG 3E07 Introduction to Cultural Studies Credits: 4

Course Description

This course provides a general introduction to cultural studies, emphasizing its history, theoretical foundations and (inter)disciplinary attributes. Along with an overview of the methods and strategies used in cultural studies, the course takes an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing how culture acts on individuals in a society, how it is produced, where it is located, and how it engenders consensus/resistance.

1. Toby Miller, "What it is and what it isn't: Introducing. . Cultural Studies," A Companion to Cultural Studies, Ed. Toby Miller (Blackwell, 2001).

2. Roland Barthes, "Myth as a Semiological System," "The form and the Concept," Mythologies, (Noonday Press, 1991).

3. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment As Mass Deception," Cultural Studies Reader, Ed. Simon During (Routledge, 1999).

4. Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," Illuminations, Trans. Harry Zola]: (Schocken, 1969).

5. Raymond Williams, "Culture is Ordinary," The Everyday Life Reader, Ed. Ben Highmore, (Routledg,e, 2002).

6. Stuart Hall, "Encoding/Decoding," Culture, Media, Language (Routledge, 1980).

7. Edward Soja, "History: Geography: Modernity," Cultural Studies Reader, Ed. Simon During (Routledge, 1999).

8. Judith Butler, "Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire," Cultural Studies Reader, Ed. Simon During (Routledge, 1999).

9. Mark Gibson and Alec McHoul, "Interdisciplinarity," A Companion to Cultural Studies, Ed. Toby Miller (Blackwell, 2001).

10. Toby Miller and Geoffrey Lawrence, "Globalization and Culture,"A Companion to Cultural Studies, Ed. Toby Miller (Blackwell, 2001).

11. Sarah Berry, "Fashion," A Companion to Cultural Studies, Ed. Toby Miller (Blackwell, 2001).

12. Alastair Pennycook, "Beyond Homogeny and Heterogeny: English as a Global and Worldly Language," The Politics of English as a World Language, Ed. Christian Mair (Rodopi, 2003).

Further Reading:

Ziauddin Sardar & Ziauddin Sardar and Bonin Van Loon Introducing Cultural Studies, (Icon, 1999).

Michael Ryan, Cultural Studies: A Practical Introduction, (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

Anthony Easthope, Literary Into Cultural Studies, (Routledge, 1991).

John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture, (Routledge, 1989).

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SECOND SEMESTER (CCSS) MA DEGREE EXAMINATION EngIlsh Language and Literature 3E cg

ENG2010/H -'Women's Writing- Syllabus

Section A

'Theoretical Contexts:

1. Virginia Woolf • "'Judith Shakespeare" A Room Of One's thS11 Norton Anthology 2. Alice Walker Search of MyMother"s clan-fens" The Norton Anthology: 3. Susie Thant and IC.Lalitic, Section I Introduction,' Women Writing hi India Vol.'

Section B

1. Thpri ClathaR ;„ „pgikagg-thp..11w=..., a) Mutta (So free an I, SO gloriously free) p.68 Women Writing In India Vol.I h) Sumangalamata (A woman Well Set Free) P.68 Women Writing In India V01.1 cyvtettika(Though't am Weialrialtilli-edilow) p.69 Wonien Writinith inch

Vol .l

2. Oriva Folksong—You Nurtured WI e to be a carefree bird 0 Mother. _Women Writing'In India Vol. 1p.135

ir 9;

✓ . Anne Bradstreet – The Author to Her Book The Norton Anthology: Literature bv Women A. Phyllis Wheatley On Being Bought from Africa to America The Norton Anthology: Literature by Wotnen

/5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning –To George Sand :the Norton Anthology: Literature by Women 16 Mary Coleridge —the-Other side of a Mirror. The Norton Anthology Literature hy. Women

7 Sylvia Plath -- Mirror. The Norton Anthology: Literature by Women ,j8. Adrienne Rich -- Aunt Jennifer's Tigers. The Norton Antholog_y_: Literaturek_ women 9. Denise Levertov --The Goddess. The Norton Anthology: Literature, by Women 0 Maya Angel ou -- The Phenomenal Woman

I Margaret. Atwood --- This is a Photograph of me. The Norton_Antholosy: Wom en

Section D: Fiction.and Drama

Fiction

e_Surt Drama:

A) Lorraine lHansbetry A Raisin In

Section C — Autobiographicth Sketchei and Short Fiction

1. Autobiographical Sketches: ja) Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman'? 'The NortonAnthology: Literiture byyllonieg

b) Hamsa Wadkar I'm Telling eon Listen Warren Writing In India V61.1

c) Baby Kamble: Our Wretched Live`s_Worneri Ws-Ali:410114a Vol.)

id) Kmnala Das: "The AnCient Hungers that once tormented me That

Excerpt from My Sion.

11 Short Fictions: a) Charlotte Perkins Oilman: The Yellow Wallpaper Norton Anthology

lb) Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour

j) Lalitambika Antadanam Prathikariide Women Writing In India Vol.1

a) Charlotte Bronte

h) Alice Walker

j c) Shashi Deshpande

id) AnwitaPritam

:Jane Eyre

: The Colour Puiple

:'That Long Silence

A Line in Water

MA English Language and Literature CCSS (2011 admission)

ENG 3E09 : Post 1980 Indian Writings in English

(4 credits)

Course description and objective:

The post 1980 Indian writings in English reflect the fast changing elements in the social structure of India. It indeed is a contest over the nature, identity and ultimately the destiny of modern India. These writings have gained a new viability, vitality and vibrancy; they are in the global spotlight via wide readership home and abroad and through winning major literary awards. In the present literary scenario, the realistic, modernistic pessimistic mode of post independence writings have given way to a non-representational, experimental self-conscious and optimistic writings. There writers also create a new Indian English idiom by taking recourse to code mixing in their writings.

This course is structured to orient students towards the latest and the most contemporary in IWE, to acquaint and familiarize them with the diverse contribution of these new writers of repute and to sensitize them to the real challenge contemporary IWE is facing by way of enforced homogenization and standardization of culture in the wake of globalization and neo-liberalism.

Syllabus

Module 1: Poetry

1. Kamala Das 2. Shiv. K Kumar 3. Vikram Seth 4. Niranjan Mohanty 5. Gauri Deshpande 6. Meena Alexander 7. Meena Kandasamy

Module 2: Fiction

: Next to Indira Gandhi : Thus spake the Buddha : From California : A House of Rains : A Lunch on the Train : Illiterate Heart : Mulligatawny Dreams

1. Aravind Adiga 2. Rukun Advani 3. Tarun Tejpal 4. Manju Kapur 5. Chetan Bagath 6. Manjula Padmanabhan 7. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Module 3: Drama and Prose

1. Girish Karnad 2. Mahesh Dattani 3. Anupama Chandrasekhar 4. Arundhathi Roy

: The White Tiger : Beethoven Among the Cows : The Alchemy of Desire : Difficult Daughters : Revolution 2020 : Kleptomania (Short Fiction) : One Amazing Thing

Wedding Album Bravely Fought the Queen Free outgoing call The Ladies have feelings, so...shall we leave it to the experts?

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ENG 3E09 : Post 1980 Indian Writings in English Question Paper pattern

Max: 80 Marks Time: 3 Hrs.

I. Essay from Poetry One out of a choice of 3

IV. Essay from Fiction One out of a choice of 3

III Essay from Prose and Drama One out of a choice of 3

IV. Short notes covering the entire syllabus Seven out of a choice of 12

'(1x15= 15 marks)

(1x15= 15 marks)

'(1x15= 15 marks)

(7x5= 35 marks)

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ENG 3E09 : Post 1980 Indian Writings in English Model Question Paper

Time: 3 Hrs Max: 80 marks

I. Write an essay on one of the following

1. Post 1980 Indian English poetry has a wide range of contents and perceptions. Discuss its strength and variety as reflected in the prescribed poems

2. Discuss Kamala Das's love-hate relationship with her father in the poem "Next to Indira Gandhi"

3. Both Meena Alexander and Meena Kandasamy articulate some of the linguistic dilemmas confronting Indian writers in English. Discuss.

(1 x 15 = 15 marks)

II. Write an essay on one of the following

1. Difficult Daughters is a novel about female desire and entrapment; about compromise and compliance. Discuss

2. Examine Alchemy of Desire as a fascinating analysis of 20th Century India.

3. One Amazing Thing affirms that life, for all its pain, is miraculous. Discuss..

(1 x 15 = 15 marks)

III. Write an essay on one of the following

1. Examine the contemporary concerns of Urban middle class Indians portrayed in Wedding Album.

2. Arundhathi Roy ponders on the ill effects of globalization and the role of the artist in combating these effects in her essay "The Ladies have feelings, so...shall we leave it to the experts?". Discuss.

3. Analyse how Anupama Chandrasekher's play Free Outgoing raises valid questions about sensational media stories voyeurism.

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(1 x 15 = 15 marks)

IV. Write an short notes on any seven of the following:

1. Nuances of the word "Kleptomania" in ManjuM. Padmanabhan's story. 2. The significance of the title Bravely Fought the Queen 3. Love, corruption and ambition in Revolution 2020 4. Polyphonic voices of India in Alchemy of Desire. 5. Adiga's portrait of India in The White Tiger

6. Forays into recesses of self and the nation's history in Beethoven

Among The Cows 7. Theme of renunciation and detachment in "Thus spake the Buddha" 8. The voices of Rain in "A House of Rains" 9. Gauri Deshpande's views on middle class Indian woman in "A Lunch

on the Train" 10. Experiences of exile in Meena Alexander 11. Meena Kandasamy and counter poetic speech of emancipatory energy. 12. Presence of past in "From California"

(7 x 5 = 35 marks)

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Panel of question Paper Setters

1. Dr. Saji Mathew, Lecturer, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam Phone : 9847237570

2. Dr. Meena. S.Pillai, Reader, Institute of English, Kerala University, Tvm. Phone : 9495919749

3. Dr. K.M. Krishnan, ., Lecturer, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam Phone : 9447179486

4. Dr. Raghavan, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragode Phone: 9496419986

Panel of Examiners

1 Dr. Anitha Ramesh, Reader, Dept. of English, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Calicut -- Phone 9388431553

2. Dr. P.K. Prabha, Dept. of English, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Calicut -- Phone 9447132496



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ENG4 LW Malayalam Literature in English Translation (CCSS)

Objectives of the Course: To introduce the movements and trends in Malayalam literature since the 1970s to the students and to familiarize them with some of the important authors and texts of the period.

Course Content: Modernism, political modernism and postmodernism — Women writing from the 1970s — Dal it and Environmentalist concerns — Resurgence of political theatre.

Texts for Study

Poetry

Ayyappa Panikker Hey, Gagarin N N Kakkad

Death of a Rogue Elephant K Satchidanandan Testament K G Sankarappillai

The Dhobhi and the Dhoti Balachandran Chu llikkad

Approver

V M Girija Baptised by the Waves Rose Mary The Mourning Man — A Sketch Vijayalakshmi

In Hiding Raghavan Atholi

Kandathi Veerankutty In the Sanatorium for Trees

Fiction

Sethu 0 V Vijayan Zachariah Anand Pattathuvila Karunakaran M Sukumaran Sarah Joseph Gracy C Ayyappan Narayan

- Pandavapuram Legends of Khasak Some Recent Unnatural Deaths The Last Laugh

- Akbar's Upanishad Broken Glasses

- Inside Every Woman Writer Panchali

- Spectral Speech Footprints of the Predator

Drama

G Sankarappillai

Bharatavakyam K J Baby

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Nadugaddika

The texts for study will be supplemented by handouts of specially prepared material on the history of Malayalam literature post-1970 which outline the chief trends and movements.

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1. Dr P P Raveendran, Professor, School of Letters, MG University. Phone: 9447120845.

2. Dr V C Harris, Professor, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam. Phone: 94447113218.

3. Dr Meena S Pillai, Reader, Institute of English, Kerala University, Thiruvanathapuram. Phone: 9495919749.

4. Dr B Hariharan, Reader, Institute of English, Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram. Phone: 9446203008.

5. Dr Saji Mathew, Lecturer, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam Phone: 9847237570

Panel of Examiners

1. Dr K M Krishnan, Reader, School of Letters, M G University, Kottayam Phone: 9447179486

2. Dr Sherine Upot, Professor, School of Distance Education, MG University, Kottayam. Phone: 9447558619.

3. Dr Saji Mathew, Lecturer, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam Phone: 9847237570. 4. Dr B Hariharan, Reader, Institute of English, Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram. Phone: 9446203008.

5. Dr Meena S Pillai, Reader, Institute of English, Kerala University, Thiruvanathapuram. Phone: 9495919749.

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Scheme of Question Paper

Time: 3 hours, Marks: 80.

I. Three essays of 15 marks each: a) Essay I (1 out of 3 choices) — On trends, movements and

characteristics of post-1970 Malayalam literature b) Essay 2 (1 out of 3) — relating to the prescribed texts in poetry c) Essay 3 (1 out of 3) — relating to the prescribed texts in fiction

II Seven short notes (out of a choice of 14) of 5 marks each: a) Poetry: 5 topics b) Fiction: 5 topics c) Drama: 4 topics


MA IV Semester Examination (CCSS)

ENG4 El0Malayalam Literature in English Translation


I. 1) Write an essay on any one of the following in about 4 pages:

Briefly discuss the changes in sensibility that modernism effected in Malayalam Literature

OR Examine how political modernism emerged as a powerful force in Malayalam Literature.

OR

Discuss the impact of feminist, dalit and environmentalist writing in Malayalam.

2) Write an essay on any one of the following in about 4 pages: Attempt a comparative study of the poetry of Satchidanandan and K G Sankarappillai.

OR Discuss the thematic and stylistic features of Balachandran Chullikkad's poetry.

OR Examine whether feminist poetry in Malayalam represents a break with modernism.

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3) Write an essay on any one of the following in about 4 pages: Is Pandavapurani modernist in its theme and idiom? Discuss.

OR Discuss Legends of Khasak as a multi-voiced text

OR Discuss "Spectral Speech" and 'Footprints of the Predator'' as political fiction.

(15x3=45 marks) H. Write short notes in about a page each on seven of the following:

1) "Hey, Gagarin" as a manifesto of modernism. 2) The alienated self in"Death of a Rogue Elephant." 3) "The Mourning Man — A Sketch" as an "anti-confessional" poem. 4) The mother figure in "Kandathi." 5) Imagery in "In the Sanatorium for Trees." 6) "The Last Laugh" as a parable. 7) "Broken Glasses" as a political statement. 8) "Inside Every Woman Writer" as the testament of a woman writer. 9) The play of social realism and fantasy in "Some Recent Unnatural Deaths." 10) "Panchali" as feminist deconstruction of a classical myth. 11) Modernist techniques in Malayalam drama. 12) Questions of life and art in Bharatavakyam 13) Political theatre in Malayalam. 14) Re-invention of ritual in Nadugaddika.

(7x5=35 marks)

M.. A. English Language and Literature Choice Based Credit Semester System

Semester 4 (2011) Syllabus

ENG 4E11 Literary Theory—An In-depth Study Credits: 4

Course Description This course aims at providing an in-depth understanding of four major schools of contemporary theory that have had significant bearing on the study and analysis of literature— viz, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies. The course is designed in such a way that the students can, on the one hand, form a general understanding of the the issues and concerns of each school, and on the other, learn in depth one or two major theoretical contributions in each school.

Section 1 General Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theory — Major movements and figures

Section 2: Post-structuralism 1. Hans Bertens, "The Poststructuralist Revolution: Derrida, Deconstruction and

Postmodernism," Literal)) Theoy: The Basics, New York: Roudedge, 2001. 2. Jacques Derrida, "Differance" Literag Theog: An Anthology, Julie Rivkin and Michael

Ryan (Eds), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, 278-299.

Section 3: Postmodernism 3. Gregory Castle, "Postmodernism," The Blackwell Guide to Literag Theory, Oxford:

Blackwell Publishing, 2007, 144-153. 4. Jean-Frangois Lyotard, "Defining the Postmodern," Norton Anthology of Theog and

Criticism, Vincent B. Leitch (Gen. Ed.), Norton, 2001, 1609-1615. 5. Jean-Frangois Lyotard, "The Postmodern Condition," Literary Timmy: An Anthology,

Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan (Eds), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, 355-364.

Section 4: Psychoanalysis 6. David Wilburn, "Reading After Freud," Contemporary Literag Meaty, Douglas Atkins

and Laura Morrow (Eds), Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989, 158-179.

7. Jacques Lacan, "The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since Freud," Literag Theog: An Anthology, ulie Rivkin and Michael Ryan (Eds), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, 447-461.

Section 5: Cultural Studies 8. Gregory Castle, "Cultural Studies," The Blackwell Guide to Literag Theog, Oxford:

Blackwell Publishing, 2007, 144-153. 9. Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer, "The Culture Industry. Enlightenment as

Mass Deception," The Cultural Studies Reader, Simon During (Ed.), London: Roudedge, 2001, 31-41.

10. Mikhail Bakhdn, "Rabelais and his World," Literati, Theo!" An Anthology, Julie Rivkin

and Michael Ryan (Eds), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, 686-692.

For further reading: Terry Eagleton, Literary Theog: An Introduction, London: Blackwell Publishing, 1983.

Gregory Castle, The Blackwell Guide to Literaty Theog, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007.

Hans Bertens, Literag Theogn The Basics, New York: Routledge, 2001.

Douglas Atkins & Laura Morrow, Contemporaty Literaty Theory, Amherst: University of

Massachusets Press, 1989.

M. A. English Language and Literature Choice Based Credit Semester System

Semester 4 (2011)

ENG 4E11 Literary Theory — An In-depth Study

Scheme of Questions:

Credits: 4

The following scheme is aimed at a fair representation of all areas of the course in the examination and to ensure an equitable distribution of questions addressing the different topics and areas. The question paper setter is requested to kindly adhere to this scheme.

Essay 1: One out of three choices on Essays No. 1, 3, 6 and 8 (general essays introducing each school) in the syllabus, addressing specific issues in individual essays— 15 marks.

Essay 2: One out of three choices on Essays No. 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 10 (major theoretical contributions) in the syllabus, addressing specific issues in individual essays— 15 marks.

Essay 3: One out of three choices addressing larger areas/issues figuring in more than one essay included in the syllabus — 15 marks.

Essay 4: One out of three choices of a comparative nature or bringing up issues of mutual influence/impact, in order to test the student's overall understanding of the relative positions of different theoreticians and approaches represented in the syllabus — 15 marks.

Short Notes Questions: Five out of ten choices, on specific concepts, theoretical terms, etc, figuring in the essays included in the syllabus — 4 X 5 = 20

Note: In order to ensure fair distribution of questions, it is most important that no essay is left unrepresented in the paper and that no essay(s) is given undue weightage.

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Semester 4 (2011) ENG 4E11 Literary Theory — An In-depth Study

1. Dr. K. K. Kunhammad Department of Studies in English Kannur University Tel: 9946665444

2. Dr. B. Hariharan Institute of English University of Kerala Trivandrum Tel: 9446203008

3. Dr. K. M. Krishnan School of Letters Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam Tel: 9447179486

4. Dr, Meena Pillai Institute of English University of Kerala Trivandrum Tel: 9495919749

5. Dr. P. P. Raveendran School of Letters Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam Tel: 9447120845

6. Dr. V. C. Harris School of Letters Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam Tel: 9447113218

Panel of Examiners


Semester 4 (2011) ENG 4E11 Literary Theory — An In-depth Study

1. Dr. K. K. Kunhammad Department of Studies in English Kannur University Tel: 9946665444

2. Dr. B. Hariharan Institute of English University of Kerala Trivandrum Tel: 9446203008

3. Dr. K. M. Krishnan School of Letters Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam Tel: 9447179486

4. Dr, Meena Pillai Institute of English University of Kerala Trivandrum Tel: 9495919749

5. Dr. P. P. Raveendran School of Letters Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam Tel: 9447120845

6. Dr. V. C. Harris School of Letters Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam Tel: 9447113218


ENG 4 Ell Ecology and Literature

( 4 credits)

Course description and objectives

This course will explore human connection to environment and especially its nature in various literary works. Ecology has come to play a central intellectual role in our present age and here we are introducing students to one of the newest most vibrant and relevant method of reading literary texts, whereby literary and cultural productions are examined in relation to environmental impact, ecological models and the social, political, ontological and epistemological implication of the categories of `human' and `nature'. Our focus would be on the role of language and literature in understanding and expressing our connection to the world around us.

Students will develop abilities to experience literary works and the social and natural worlds in critical and creative ways. It will create an openness to thinking critically and creatively about the human world and the environment and develop aesthetics of nature and literary texts.

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Module I

General Introduction to Environmental Literature

Books for reference

1. Cheryll Glotfelty : Ecocriticism Reader 2. Timothy Clark

: The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Environment

Module II

Literary texts for Reading and Discussion

Section A

Wangari Maathai

: Replenishing the Earth Peter Mathiessen : The Snow Leopard Jamaica Kincaid

: In History bell hooks : Touching the Earth

Section B

Nadine Gordimer : The conservationist Rachel Carson : Silent Spring Amitav Ghosh

: The Hungry Tide Ruskin Bond

: The Kitemaker

Section C

Robert Frost Langston Hughes Seamus Heaney Ted Hughes Gordon JL Ramel

: A Brook in the City : The Negro Speaks of Rivers : Death of a Naturalist : Thistles : Tiger Tiger Revisited; Daffodils no More


ENG 4 E12 Ecology and Literature

Question Paper pattern.

Max: 80 marks Time: 3 hrs

I. Essay from Module 1 One out of 3 (1x20--- 20 )

II. Essay from Module 2 Section A One out of 3 (1x20= 20 )

III. Essay from Module 2 Section B One out of 3 (1x20= 20 )

IV. Essay from Module 2 Section C One out of 3 (1x20= 20 )


ENG 4 E12 Ecology and Literature

Model question paper

Time: 3 Hrs Max. Marks: 80

I. Write an essay on any one of the following:

1. The ability to practice unconditional love towards nature and its beings can surely change the world into a better place. Discuss

2. Examine how literary studies play a major role in dealing with menacing environmental issues

3. The most important function of literature today is to redirect human consciousness to full consideration of its place in a threatened natural world. Elaborate

(I x 20 = 20 marks)

II. Write an essay on any one of the following:

1. Examine in detail how Wangari Maathai makes an impassioned call to heal the wounds of our planet and ourselves.

2. The Snow Leopard describes different aspects, conviction and tradition of culture with which the author is interacting. Substantiate

3. Explain how bell hooks explores the relationship between farming and race in Touching the Earth.

(1 x 20 = 20 marks)

III. Write an essay on any one of the following:

1. Death is an obsessive theme in conservationist. Discuss

2. Examine how Carson creates awareness regarding the toxicity of pesticide and warns against recklessness with which they are used.

3. Amitav Ghosh places on record the conceptnal question as to how humans share a complex and dangerous ecosystem with animals. Discuss with reference to The Hungry Tide.

(1 x 20 = 20 marks)

IV. Write an essay on any one of the following:

1. Analyse the immortal force of the brook as portrayed by Robert Frost 2. Write about the image of death and idea of deathlessness portrayed by

Langston Hughes in A Negro Speaks of River

3. Examine how Gordon J L Ramel makes use of parodies to convey a timely message by focusing on the spiritual crisis of the human species and the loss of local biodiversity

(1 x 20 =- 20 marks)






Panel of Examiners

1 Dr. Anitha Ramesh, Reader, Dept. of English, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Calicut — Phone 9388431553

2. Dr. P.K. Prabha, Dept. of English, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Calicut — Phone 9447132496




Course Title: ENG 4E13 TEACHING OF ENGLISH

Marks: 80 Time: 3 hours

The course aims to introduce students to the basic concepts and the current developments in

English Language Teaching. Linguistic theories and its impact on language teaching; different

teaching methods and their pedagogical implications will be taken up for study. Students will be

introduced to the various classroom strategies, techniques and teaching aids; lesson plan for

teaching effectively the different genres and language skills; and the process and procedure for

testing and evaluation.

Module I

Basic Terms and Concepts: ESL and EFL; LI and L2; Bilingualism and multilingualism;

Teaching/Learning, Acquisition/Learning distinction; Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics

Psychological Approaches to Language Learning: The role of psychology in language

learning; Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism, Social Constructivism, Critical Pedagogy;

Learner factors- age, aptitude, learning conditions and environment

Module 2

Methods of Language Teaching: Grammar Translation method, Direct method, Audio-lingual

method, Silent way, suggestopaedia, CLT, the Concept of Comprehensible Input

Classroom Procedures: Literature and Language teaching; Lesson Plan for teaching of poetry,

prose, Grammar, and fiction. Teaching of oral and written communication. Teaching aids- audio-

visual, CALL

Module 3

Testing and Evaluation: Internal and External evaluation; Summative and Formative assessment,

Continuous and comprehensive evaluation, Assessment of Learning and Assessment for learning,

Types of tests; criteria for a good achievement test; tools of evaluation-types of questions

Books for Reference

H.H. Stern - Fundamentals of Language Teaching (OUP)

Wilga Rivers — Teaching Foreign Language Skills

Harold V. Allen - Teaching English as a Second Language

Rosamond Mitchell and Florence Myle — Second Language Learning Theories

George Yule - The Study of Language

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Stephen Krashen - Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition. English

Language Teaching series. London: Prentice-Hall International (UK) Ltd.

Jack C Richards & Theodore Rodgers - Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

Kincheloe, Joe L - Critical Pedagogy

Scheme of questions

Essay questions 1. One out of three choices from Module I 2. One out of three choices from Module 2

3. One out of three choices from Module 3

(3 x 15 = 45)

Short questions (to be answered in 3 or 4 sentences) Five out of ten choices giving due weightage to all the areas prescribed

(5 x 2 = 10)

Short notes :

Five out of ten choices giving due weightage to all the areas prescribed (5 x 5 = 25)


ENG 4E13 TEACHING OF ENGLISH Model question paper

Time: 3 Hrs Max. Marks: 80

I. Attempt any three questions from the following selecting one from each section:

(3 x 15 = 45)

Section A

Elaborate on I) Behaviourist theory of language learning 2) Cognitive Theories 3) Social Constructivism

Section B

I. Enumerate the different methods of teaching English 2. Differentiate between structural and communicate approach to language teaching 3. What are the different steps involved in teaching a prose lesson?

Section C

1. Explain the concept of Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation 2. What are the different criteria for conducting a good Achievement Test? 3. Prepare a model English question paper for the X standard students giving due

weightage to all the language skills.

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IT. Answer any five questions (in three or four sentences)

1. L I and L2

2. Bilingualism 3. Difference between acquisition and learning of a language

4. Differentiate approach and method 5. Multiple Intelligence 6. CALL 7. Summative evaluation 8. Aims and objectives of teaching in English 9. Principles of selection of vocabulary items 10. Podcasting

III. Write short notes on any five of the following

I. Deductive and inductive method of teaching grammar 2. Direct method of teaching English 3. Remedial teaching 4. Substitution tables 5. Blogs 6. Language laboratory 7. Teaching aids 8. Teaching of vocabulary 9. Supra segmental features 10. Receptive skills (5 x 5 = 25)

(5 x 2 = 10 )






Panel of Examiners

1 Dr. Anitha Ramesh, Reader, Dept. of English, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Calicut — Phone 9388431553.

2. Dr. P.K. Prabha, Dept. of English, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Calicut — Phone 9447132496



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