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SYLLABUS M.A. ENGLISH

ANNUAL SYSTEM
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M.A ENGLISH PART-I EXAMINATION 

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1ST ANNUAL 2013
Paper-I (Classical Poetry) ……………………………… 100
Paper-II (Drama-I) ……………………………………………100
Paper-III (Fiction-I) …………………………………………. 100
Paper-IV (Prose) …………………………………………... 100
Paper-V (American Literature) ……………………………. 100
Total…………… 500
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(SYLLABI AND COURSES OF READINGS)

PAPER ONE (CLASSICAL POETRY)

1. GEOFFREY CHAUCER The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

2. EDMUND SPENSER Farie Queen (Book 1, Canto-1)

3. JOHN MILTON Paradise Lost
Book-I (line 1-100 & 5 Speeches of Satan)
Book-IX (Speeches of Adam & Eve)

4. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(Sonnets) i. When I Consider Everything That Grows
ii. Shall I Compare Thee to A Summer’s Day?
iii. Weary with Toil, I Haste Me to My Bed
iv. Why Didst Thou Promise Such A Beauteous Day?
v. That Thou Hast Her It Is Not All My Grief
vi. Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea Take Them All
vii. What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made
viii. O, How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem

5. JOHN DONNE
(Selection from Love &
Divine Poems)
i. The Good Morrow
ii. Goe, and Catch a Falling Star
iii. The Sunne Rising
iv. Song: Sweetest Love, I do not Goe
v. A Valediction of Weeping
vi. A Valediction- Forbidding Mourning
vii. The Expiration
viii. Holy Sonnet-------Hymne to God, The Father
ix. Holy Sonnet--------A Hymne to Christ
x. Holy Sonnet--------A Hymne to God,My God.
6. Alexander Pope Rape of the Lock (canto 1, 2, 5)

PAPER TWO (DRAMA)
1. SOPHOCLES Oedipus Rex
2. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Jew of Malta
3. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Othello
The Tempest
4. OSCAR WILDE Importance of Being Earnest

PAPER THREE (NOVEL)
1. Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews
2. Jane Austin Pride and Prejudice
3. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
4. George Eliot The Mill on the Floss
5. Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles

PAPER FOUR (PROSE)
1. Sir Francis Bacon Of Truth, Of Revenge, Of Ambition, Of Studies, Of Great
(Essays) Places, Of Friendship, Of Adversity, Of Simulation &
Dissimulation
2. Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels (Book 1& 4)
3. Lytton Strachey
Selection from
Eminent Victorians (i) End of General Gordan
(ii) Florence Nightingale
4. Bertrand Russell
Selection of Essays i. Philosophy and Politics
ii. The Future of Mankind
iii. Philosophy For Laymen
iv. The Functions of a Teacher
v. Ideas That Have Helped Mankind
Vi. Ideas That Have Harmed Mankind
5. Edward W. Said Introduction to Culture & Imperialism

PAPER FIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
Poetry
Walt Whitman i. There was A Child Went Forth
ii. I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing
iii. One’s-Self I Sing
iv. Poets to Come
v. O Captain! My Captain!
vi. To A Stranger
vii. Shut Not Your Doors
viii. The Carols
Robert Frost i. Mending Wall
ii. After Apple Picking
iii. The Road Not Taken
iv. Tree at my Window
v. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening
vi. Acquainted with the Night
vii. The Pasture
viii. Meeting and Passing
John Ashbery i. Melodic Trains
ii. The Painter
Richard Wilbur i. After The Last Bulletin
ii. Still Citizen Sparrow
Drama
Eugene O’Neill Mourning becomes Electra (Homecoming)
Arthur Miller The Crucible
Novel
Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms
Tony Morrison Jazz

M.A ENGLISH PART-II

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ST ANNUAL 2014
The four papers are compulsory, the other four are optional. The candidates are
required to opt for any one of the four optional papers.
Compulsory Papers
Paper-I (Modern Poetry).………………………………….100
Paper-II (Drama-II) ..……………………………………….100
Paper-III (Fiction-II) ………………………………………...100
Paper-IV (Literary Criticism)………………………………..100
Optional Papers
Paper-V (Short Stories)....………………………………….100
Paper-VI (Linguistics)………………………………………100
Paper-VII (Essay)…………………………………………...100
Paper-VI (Literature in English around the World)……………..100
Total: 5009
Compulsory Papers10
(SYLLABI AND COURSES OF READINGS)
PAPER ONE (MODERN POETRY)
(SECTION-I)
1. William Blake
(Songs of innocence and Experience)
(Selection) i. The Divine Image
ii. Holy Thursday, I
iii. The Little Black Boy
iv. The Chimney Sweepers
v. A Poison Tree
2. William Wordsworth i. The Prelude Book-I,(Lines 1-100)
ii. Tintern Abbey, Revisited
iii. Ode on Immortality
3. P.B. Shelley i. Ode to the West Wind
ii. The Cloud
iii. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
iv. To a Skylark
4. John Keats i. Endymion (1-50 lines)
ii. Ode to Autumn
iii. Ode to a Nightingale
iv. Ode on a Grecian Urn
(Section-II)
1. T.S. Eliot i. Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
ii. The Waste Land
2. W.B. Yeats i. Wild Swans at Coole
ii. When You Are Old
iii. No Second Troy
iv. The Second Coming
3. Philip Larkin i. Mr. Bleaney
ii. Church Going
iii. Ambulances
iv. 1914
Reading List
• Comel R. (ed)(1971). Critcs on Yeats . London
• Drew, Elizabeth: T.S.Eliot
• Gardner, H. (1968) The Art of T.S Eliot. London
• Kenner, Hugh: ‘The Invisible Poet’s
• Southern, R. (ed) (1971) A Students’ Guide to the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot.
• Unterecker, J. (ed) (1970) Twentieth Century Views . London 11
PAPER TWO (DRAMA)
1. Henrik Ibsen Hedda Gabler
2. George Bernard Shaw Arms and the Man
3. Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
4. Edward Bond The Sea
5. Anton Chekhov Cherry Orchard
Recommended Readings:
• Bishop, Thomas. Pirandello and the French Theatre. New York: 1961.
• Chothia, Jean, English Drama of the the Early Modern Period 1890-1940. New York:
Longman, 1996.
• Gray, Ronald. Bertolt Brecht. New York: 1961.
• Kitchin, L. Mid-Century Drama. London: 1960 (For Osbone).
• Northam, John, Ibsen’s Dramatic Method. London: 1953. 12
PAPER THREE (NOVEL)
1. Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
2. D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers
3. Virginia Woolf To the Light House
4. Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
5. William Golding Lord of the Flies
Reading List
• Allen, W. (1954) The English Novel: A Short Critical History. Penguin
• Allot, M. (1959) Novelists on the Novel. Routledge and Kegan Paul
• Bradbucy, M. (1973) Possiblitities: Essays on the State of Nvel. OUP
• Ghent, D. The English Novel: Form and Function
• Green, M The English Novel in the Twentieth Century James. McMillan
• Kennedy, A. (1979) Developments in Criticism Since Henry
• Kettle, A An Introduction to the English Novel (1&2) 13
PAPER FOUR (LITERARY CRITICISM)
1. Aristotle Poetics
2. Philip Sidney An Apology for Poetry
3. T.S. Eliot i. Tradition and Individual Talent
ii. Metaphysical Poets
iii. Milton-1
iv. Milton-2
4. Cleanth Brooks
Selection from
“The Well Wrought Urn”
i. What does poetry communicate?
ii. Gray’s Storied Urn,
iii. Keats’ Sylvan Historian: History
without footnotes,
iv. Yeats’ Great Rooted Blossomer
5. Catherine Belsey Critical Practice
6. Practical Criticism (Compulsory)
Reading List
• Abercrombie, L. Principles of Literary Criticism.
• Abrams, M.H. (1977), The Mirror and the Lamp, OUP
• Arnold, Mathew, (1966), Essays in Criticism, Second Series. McMillan
• Atkins, J. W. H. Literary Citicism in Antiquity
• Atkins, J.W.H, History of Literary Criticism
• Buckley, Vineent. Poetry and Morality: Students in the Criticism of Arnold. Eliot and Leavis.
• Daiches, David ,(1967), Critical Approaches to Literature, Longman,
• Eliot, T.S,The use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism. Faber and Faber.
• James, S. The Making of Literature
• Read, Herbert, Collected Essays in Literary Criticism. Faber and Faber
• Read, Herbert,The True Voice of Feeling. Faber and Faber
Richar, I.A Principles of Criticism
• Saintsbury, G. History of Literature
• Wismatt and Brooks Literary Criticism
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OPTIONAL PAPERS
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PAPER FIVE (SHORT STORY)
1. Edgar Allen Poe The Man of The Crowd
2. Anton Chekhov The Man Who Lived In A Shell
3. James Joyce The Dead
4. Franz Kafka The Judgment
5. D.H. Lawrence The Man Who Loved Islands
6. V.S. Pritchett The Voice
7. Ernest Hemingway A Clean, Well Lighted Place
8. H.E. Bates The Woman Who Had Imagination
9. Naguib Mahfouz The Mummy Awakes
10. Doris Lessing A Sunrise on the Veld
11. Nadine Gordimer Once Upon aTime
12. Flannery O’Connor Everything That Rises Must Converge
13. William Trevor A Day
14. Brian Friel The Diviner
15. Chinua Achebe Civil Peace
16. Kamau Brathwaite Dream Haiti
17. Ali A. Mazrui The Fort
18. V.S. Naipual The Night Watchmen’s Occurrence Book
19. Alice Walker Strong Horse Tea
20. Amy Tan The Voice From The Wall
21. Sara Suleri The Property of Woman
22. Hanif Kureishi My Son The Fanatic
23. Ben Okri What The Tapster Saw 16
PAPER SIX (LINGUISTICS)
1. What is Language?
2. Characteristics of Human Language
3. Origin of Language
4. Language Universal Tripods
5. Functions of Language
6. What is Linguistics?
7. Linguistics as a science
8. Branches of Linguistics
9. Some major linguistics concepts
10. Levels of Linguistics
11. Phonetics & Phonology
12. Morphology
13. Syntax
14. Semantics/Pragmatics
15. Sociolinguistics/Psycholinguistics
16. Stylistics
17. Linguistic schools of thought
Recommended Reading
• Aitchison.J 2000 Linguistics (Teach Yourself Books)
• Akmajian, A; Demers, R.A; Farmer, A.K & Harish, R.M 2001. Linguistics: An introduction to
Language & Communication 4th ED ,Brace College Publishers, New York,Cambridge CUP
• Coutlhard, Malcom. 1985 An introduction to Discourse Analysis new ED.
• Crystal. D (1991), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
• Farmer, A.K; Demers, R.A.A Linguistics Work Book
• Finch, G How to Study Linguistics: A Guide to Understanding Linguistics.
• Formkin, V.A; Roadman, R and Hymas, M 2002. Introduciton to Language. 6th ed.
• Gee, J.P 2005 An introduction to Discourse Analysis.Kristen Malmkjaer (ed) (2000)London.
Longman.
• Lyons.J.(1990) Language & Linguistics Massachusetts: MIT.
• McCarthy, Micheal 1991. Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers Moonbean Publications.
New York: Heinly.
• Radford, A.Atkinson, M.Britain, D.Clahsen, H.Spencer.A (1999) Linguistics: An Introduction.
Rutledge. London & New York.
The Linguistics Encyclopedia.
• Todd, L (1987). An introduction to Linguistics.
• Victoria, F & Roadman.R (1998) An Introduction to Language Harcourt
• Yule, G 2006. The Study of Language. 2nd Edition. CUP. 17
PAPER SEVEN (ESSAY)
The paper on Essay will be designed to test the ability of the candidates in areas of
literary movements and history of English Literature. 18
PAPER EIGHT LITERATURE AROUND THE WORLD
Drama
1. Lorea House of Bernada Alba
2. Brain Friel Translations
Novel
1. Nugugi The River Between
2. Solzhynestsin A Day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch
Poetry
1. Taufiq Rafat Thinking of Mohenjodaro
The Stone Chat
The Last Visit
2. Daud Kamal Reproduction
The Street of Nightingale
A Remote Beginning
3. Maki Qureshi Air Raid
Kite
Christmas
Letter to my Sister
4. A. Hashmi Encounter with the Sirens
Autumnal
But where is the sky?
5. Zulfiqar Ghose Across India
February, 1952
The Mystique of Root
A Memory of Asia
6. Shirley Lim Monsoon History
Modern Secrets
7. Vikram Seth Humble Administrators
Garden
8. Annat Akhmatova Prologue Epilogue
9. Derek Walcott Far Cry From Africa
10. Ben Okri African Elegy
11. Achebe Refugee Mother & Child
Mango Seed
12. Nasim Ezekiel Night of the Scorpion
Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa
13. Moniza Alvi The Country at my Shoulder
Important Note/Instructions:
Books prescribed for different courses are the representative works of selected writers. The
students/candidates are required to have thorough knowledge/information of the writers’ life,
age, history and other works. Proper weightage will be given to all the writers included in the
courses of studies in all semesters. 19 20
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