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M. A. (English)
Two-Year Programme
Academic Curriculum (2015-16 onwards)
First Year
-
-
-
ETE
-
4
3
25
25
50
4
3
25
25
50
4
3
25
25
50
4
EL 561
Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century
English Literature-I
4
EL 571
Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth
Century English Literature-I
4
EL 581
American Literature
4
-
-
4
3
25
25
50
EL 591
Indian Writing in English
4
-
-
4
3
25
25
50
Sub Total
20
-
-
20
Foreign Language -I‡ (Non-credit)
3
-
-
3
3
25
25
50
ETE
Duration
Hours
ETE
-
MTE
-
Modern English Grammar and Usage
MTE
P
CW*
T
EL 551
4
3
25
25
50
4
3
25
25
50
4
3
25
25
50
Contact Hours per
Week
Course
Code
Spring Semester
L
CW*
Course Title
ETE
Duration
Hours
Credits
Autumn Semester
Course
Code
Weightage (%)
Credits
Contact Hours per
Week
Course Title
L
to
Linguistics
P
-
-
-
-
-
-
EL 562
Introduction
Phonetics
EL 572
Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century
English Literature-II
4
EL 582
Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth
Century English Literature-II
4
EL 592
Creative and Technical Writing
4
-
-
4
3
25
25
50
EL 514
Comparative Literature
4
-
-
4
3
25
25
50
-
-
20
-
-
3
3
25
25
50
Sub Total
and
T
Weightage (%)
4
20
Foreign Language -II‡ (Non-credit)
3
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M. A. (English)
Two-Year Programme
Academic Curriculum (2015 – 16 onwards)
Second Year
ETE
Duration
Hours
CW*
MTE
ETE
EL 661
Principles of Criticism- I
4
-
-
4
3
25
25
50
EL 671
Literature and Society- I
4
-
-
4
3
25
25
50
EL 681
Commonwealth Literature-I
4
-
-
4
3
25
25
50
EL 691
Translation Studies
4
-
-
4
3
25
25
50
EL 613
Indian Writing in Translation
4
-
-
4
3
25
25
50
-
-
-
4
20
-
-
24
Autumn Semester
Course
Code
EL 623
Course Title
Dissertation
&
Sub Total
L
T
P
100
ETE
Duration
Hours
CW*
MTE
ETE
Weightage (%)
Credits
Contact Hours per
Week
EL 662
Principles of Criticism- II
4
-
-
4
3
25
25
50
EL 672
Literature and Society- II
4
-
-
4
3
25
25
50
EL 682
Commonwealth Literature-II
4
-
-
4
3
25
25
50
EL 692
Women Studies
4
-
-
4
3
25
25
50
EL 614
World Literature(s)
4
-
-
4
3
25
25
50
EL 624
Dissertation&
-
-
-
4
20
-
-
24
Course
Code
Spring Semester
Weightage (%)
Credits
Contact Hours per
Week
Course Title
Sub Total
Total Credits
L
T
P
100
88
*Course Work (CW) would include evaluation of assignments, surprise tests and regularity.
‡
The Institute offers five foreign languages, i.e. Chinese, French, Japanese, German and Spanish, out of which a student is
required to select any one. There is no option of change once selected.
&
A candidate opting this programme is permitted to write a dissertation for 4 credits (4X2=8) in both the semesters of second
year.
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
M. A. (English)
EL 551
Modern English Grammar and Usage
4-0-0-4
Basic Sentence Types: Subject, Predicate, Object, Adjunct
[10]
Coordination and Subordination: Simple Sentence and Complex Sentence
[6]
Different Concepts and Notions: Request, Order, Question, Condition,
Purpose, Suggestion, Wish, Hope, Intention, Obligation, Contrast,
Commission
[7]
Theme Writing: Development of thoughts, Consistency in writing,
Vocabulary
[6]
Fallacies
[6]
Literary Appreciation
[5]
Précis Writing
[5]
Critical Reading Skills
[7]
Suggested Readings:
1. A.S. Hornby: A Guide to Patterns and Usage, (Oxford 1984).
2. CIEFL - Material on Morphology and Phonology from the Distance Education Dept.1992.
3. George Yule: The Study of Language, CUP (ELBS, 2002)
4. Geoffery Leech: English Grammar for Today (Longman, 2004)
5. Praveen K Thaker: Appreciating English Poetry: A Practical Course and Anthology, Orient Lognman,1999
6. Effective English Communication, Krishna Mohan and Meenakshi Rama, Tata McGraw Hill, 2001.
7. Spoken English, V. Sasi Kumar and P.V. Dhamija, Tata McGraw Hill, 2001.
EL 561
Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century
English Literature-I
Geoffrey Chaucer: General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
4-0-0-4
[10]
[8]
William Shakespeare: As You Like It, King Lear
[10]
Francis Bacon: Of Envy, Of Love, Of Adversity
[6]
John Donne: The Extasie, The Relique, The Flea
[7]
John Milton: Paradise Lost, Book I
[11]
Suggested Readings:
1.Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Edition Ltd, 1995.
2.Daiches, David: A Critical History of English Literature (vol. I), Delhi, Allied Publishers, 1998.
3.Grose, M. W.: Chaucer: Literature in Perspective.(OUP, 2000).
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4.Broadbrook, M.C.: Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Comedy, 1998.
5.Rudram, Alan: A Critical Commentary on Milton‟s Paradise Lost, 1999.
EL 571
Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth Century
English Literature-I
4-0-0-4
John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel
[9]
Jonathan Swift: The Battle of the Books
[4]
Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock
[9]
William Wordsworth: The Prelude, Book I
[8]
S.T. Coleridge : The Rime of Ancient Mariner
[4]
Percy Byssey Shelley: Adonais
[4]
Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
[5]
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Windhover, Felix Randal.
[5]
Thomas Stearns Eliot: The Four Quarters
[4]
Suggested Readings:
1.R. Humphreys, The Augustan World (London, 1954)
2.J. Sutherland, A Preface to Eighteenth Century Poetry, Oxford,1948)
3.P. Rogers, An Introduction to Pope (London, 1975)
4.R. Alter, Fielding and the Nature of the Novel (Cambridge,1968)
5.A,R, Humphreys, The Augustan World (London, 1964)
6.W.J. Bate, The Achievement of Samuel Johnson (New York, 1955)
7.Ford, Boris (Ed): Pelican Guide to English Literature (Blake to Byron, vol. 5), Delhi, Penguin.1994.
8.Hough, Graham: The Romantic Poets, London, Hutchinson‟s University Library.1953
9.Perkins, David: Wordsworth and the Poetry of Sincerity, Massachusetts, Belknap Harward University
Press.1964.
EL 581
American Literature
4-0-0-4
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The American Scholar
[4]
Walt Whitman: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Passage to India, I Hear It
Charged Against Me
[8]
Sojourner Truth : Ar‟n‟t I a Woman?- Speech to the Women‟s Rights
Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851
[4]
Robert Frost: Birches, Mending Wall
[6]
Wallace Stevens : Thirteen Ways of looking at a Blackbird
[4]
Eugene O’Neill: Emperor Jones
[8]
N. Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
[8]
Tony Morrison: The Bluest Eye
[10]
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Suggested Readings:
1.Bloom, Harold. ed. EuqueneO‟neill. New York, Chelsea, 1987.
2.Bentley, Eric. in Search of Theatre. New York, Knop, 1953.
3.Baqohee, Shymal. ed. Perspectives on O‟Neil:New Essays. New york:University of Victoria,1988
4.Lewis, Allan. American Plays and Playwrights of the Contemporary Theatre. New York:Crown, 1965.
5.Mukharjee, Sujit, and D.V.K. Raghara-Charyulu eds. Indian Essays in American Literature. 1969.
6.Ford, Boris. ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. 9.1994.
7.Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark, I Chapter.2004.
8.Robert Spiller: Literary History of the United States, (Amerind Publishing Co.2006)
9.Marcus Cunliffe : American Literature to 1900, (Sphere Reference)
10.F.O.Matthiessen. American Renaissance, 1992.
11.George McMichel : Concise Anthology of American Literature.2000.
12.SD Palwekar, Literature and Environment:A Select Study of British, American and Indian
Writings, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, 2012.
EL 591
Indian Writing in English
4-0-0-4
Raja Rao : Kanthapura
[8]
Anita Desai : Clear Light of Day
[8]
Salman Rushdie: Midnight‟s Children
[10]
A. K. Ramanujan : Is There an Indian Way of Thinking: An Informal Essay
[4]
Toru Dutt : Savitri- Part I
[4]
Nissim Ezekiel : “Goodbye Party for Ms Pushpa T.S., Background, Casually,
Night of the Scorpion
[5]
JayantaMahapatra : Evening Landscape by the River, From Temple
[5]
Mahesh Dattani: Tara
[8]
Suggested Readings:
1.Ahmad, Aijaz. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures.1994
2.Devy, G. N. After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism, 1992.
3.Gopal, Priyamvada. Indian English Novel: Nation,History and Narration, 2005.
4.Guha, Ranajit, ed. The Subaltern Studies Reader (Selected Essays), Delhi: OUP.2006
5.Iyenger, K. R. Srinivasa. Indian Writing in English.1998.
6.King, Bruce. Modern Indian Poetry in English.2002.
7.Khair, Tabish. Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels.2008.
8.Mukherjee, Meenakshi. The Twice Born Fiction, 2nd edn, 2001.
9.Naik, M. K. A History of Indian English Literature.2000.
10.Naik, M.K. and Shyamala A. Narayan. Indian English Literature 1980-2000: A Critical Survey. 2001.
11.Suleri, Sara. The Rhetoric of English India. 1992.
12.Vishwanathan, Gauri, Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India.1984.
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EL 562
Introduction to Linguistics and Phonetics
4-0-0-4
Introduction: Linguistics and its Scope, Branches of Linguistics, Some Basic
Concepts in Linguistics
[7]
Language and Communication, Language Variation and Language
Change.
[6]
Phonetics and Phonology:Phoneme, Allophone, Human Speech Mechanism,
Vowels and Consonants in English
[11]
Syllable structure, Supra-segmental features; GIE, Phonemic
Transcription.
[14]
Morphology and Syntax; Morpheme, Word Formation Processes in
English
[8]
IC Analysis, Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformation-Generative
Grammar
[6]
Suggested Readings:
1.Abercrombie, D. Elements of General Phonetics (Edinburgh University Press, 1967).
2.Balasubramaniam, T. A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students (Macmillan1981).
3.Chomsky, Noam. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1965).
4.Crystal, David. Linguistics (Penguin, 1971).
5.Hockett, C.F. A Course on Modern Linguistics (New York: Macmillan, 1958).
6.Katamba, F. Morphology (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993).
7.Lyons J. 1968. Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics (CUP, 1981).
8.O‟Connor, J.D. Phonetics (Penguin, 1973).
9.Robins, R.H. General Linguistics (Longman, 3rd Edition 1980).
10.Saussure, Ferdinand de. A Course in General Linguistics, Trans. Wade Baskin (New York: McGraw Hill),
1998.
11.Verma, S.K. and N. Krishnaswamy. Introduction to Modern Linguistics (OUP, 1993).
EL 572
Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century
English Literature-II
4-0-0-4
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Squire‟s Tale
[10]
Ben Jonson: Every Man in His Humour
[10]
Shakespeare: Othello
[7]
Edmund Spenser: Epithalamion
[8]
John Donne: Forbidding Mourning, Forbidding Weeping.
[6]
John Milton: Paradise Lost, Book II
[11]
6
Suggested Readings:
1.Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Edition Ltd.1995.
2.Daiches, David:A Critical History of English Literature (vol. I), Delhi, Allied Publishers.1998.
3.Grose, M. W.: Chaucer: Literature in Perspective.2002.
4.Broadbrook, M.C.: Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Comedy.1988.
5.Rudram, Alan: A Critical Commentary on Milton‟s Paradise Lost.1978.
EL 582
Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth Century
English Literature-II
4-0-0-4
William Collins: Ode to Simplicity, Ode to Music, Ode to Evening
[9]
Thomas Gray: Distant Prospects of Eton College, Death of a Favourite Cat,
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
[11]
W. B. Yeats: When You Are Old, A Bronze Head, Lapis Lazuli, Sailing to
Byzantium
[9]
W. H. Auden: Sir, No Man‟s Enemy, September 1, 1939, In Memory of W.
B. Yeats
[11]
James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
[12]
Suggested Readings:
1.R. Humphreys, The Augustan World (London, 1954)
2.J. Sutherland, A Preface to Eighteenth Century Poetry, Oxford,1948)
3.P. Rogers, An Introduction to Pope (London, 1975)
4.R. Alter, Fielding and the Nature of the Novel (Cambridge,1968)
5. A.R. Humphreys, The Augustan World (London, 1964)
6.W.J. Bate, The Achievement of Samuel Johnson (New York, 1955)
7.Ford, Boris (Ed): Pelican Guide to English Literature (Blake to Byron, vol. 5), Delhi, Penguin.2004.
8.Hough, Graham: The Romantic Poets, London, Hutchinson‟s University Library.1953.
9.Perkins, David: Wordsworth and the Poetry of Sincerity, Massachusetts, Belknap Harvard University
Press.1964.
EL 592
Creative and Technical Writing
4-0-0-4
Study of Literary Works in progress: Analysis of the Creative Writing
Components (Poem, Novel, Short Story, Drama, Diary)
[8]
Craft of poetry: Subject matter, theme, rhythm, metre, stanza forms, subgenres of Poetry
[8]
Fundamental Norms of Writing
[5]
Tools of Technical Writing: Feature Writing and Technical Writing
[5]
Editing & Proof Reading
[5]
Business Correspondence
[5]
Writing for various media: Learning to write scripts for Publishers and
Copy Writing, Writing for Radio, Theatre, Television and Films
[8]
Assignment in Creative Writing: Poetry/Fiction/Drama
[8]
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Suggested Readings:
1.Corbeff, Edward P. J. The little Rhetorica, Handbook. New York; John Wiley Sons, (1977).
2.Watkins, F. C. and Knight, K. E. Write to Write: Readings on the Craft of Writing. Bouston,
HoughtounMifelin, (1966).
3.Mullins, Carolyne J. A Guide to writing and Publishing, New York; John Wiley & Sons, (1987).
4.The Writer‟s Manual, Califirnia; ETC Publications, (1977)
5.Baker, Sheridial. The Practical Stylistics, New York; Harper and Raw, (1977).
6.Vrooman Alan. Good writing An informal Mannual of Style. Athemeum: New York, 1972
7.Belcher, Diane D. (ED.) English for Specific Purposes in Theory and Practice. (University of Michigan
Press, 2009).
EL 592
Comparative Literature
4-0-0-4
History of Development of Schools of Comparative Literature (French,
American, British & Indian)
[8]
Influence and Reception Study
[8]
Genology, Literary History (Period and Movement Study)
[5]
Thematology
[5]
Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies
[5]
Comparative Literature and Other Disciplines
[5]
The Future of Comparative Literature
[8]
Assignment in Comparative Literature
[8]
Suggested Readings:
1.Jost, Francois, Introduction to Comparative Literature. (Penguin, 2002).
2.Prawer, S.S. Comparative Literary Studies: An Introduction. (Allied, 1999).
3.Brandt, Corstius J. Introduction to the Comparative Study of Literature. (OUP, 2002).
4.Wellek,Rane & Warren, Austin. Theory of Literature. ( OUP, 1998).
5.Weisstein, Ulrich (Ed.) Comparative Literature and Literary Theory: Survey and Introduction, Cambridge,
2002.
6.Susan Bassanett. Comparative Literature: Introduction, (Routledge, 2002).
7.Nagendra, Comparative Literature. Delhi, University of Delhi, OUP, 2004.
EL 661
Principles of Criticism-I
4-0-0-4
Aristotle: Poetics
[9]
Horace: Ars Poetica
[6]
John Dryden: Essay on Dramatic Poesy
[6]
Alexander Pope: Essay on Criticism
[4]
Dr. Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare
[5]
8
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Biographia Literaria
[8]
Thomas Love Peacock: Four Ages of Poetry
[8]
T. S. Eliot: Metaphysical Poets
[6]
Suggested Readings:
1. Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.2007.
2. Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism.2000.
3. Goldmann, Lucien. “The Genetic-Structuralist Method in the History of Literature”.
4. Gramsci, Antonio. “Hegemony”.1999.
5. Greimas, A. J. Basil Soup or the Construction of an Object of Value.2002.
6. Jameson, Fredric. On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act.1987.
7. Said, Edward. “Crisis in Orientalism”. 1987.
8. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. “Introduction: Axiomatic” from Epistemology of the Closet, 2006.
9. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?”1984.
10. Thiong‟o, Ngugi wa. Decolonizing the Mind.(Muffin, 2004).
EL 671
Literature and Society-I
4-0-0-4
The Middle English Period: Norman Conquest of England
[5]
Manorial System of the Normans
[4]
Crusades in the Middle Ages
[4]
Hundred Years War
[4]
Social Life of England
[4]
England in the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century: Reformation and
Renaissance in England
University Wits, Social Life in the Age of Milton
[6]
Puritan Revolution, Glorious Revolution of 1688
[4]
Industrial Revolution
[4]
Main Literary Trends in Poetry and Drama
[4]
Emergence of Novel
[4]
Humanism
[4]
[5]
Suggested Readings:
1. Literary Movements for the students, second edition, Gale publication, 2004.
2. Abrams, M H -A Glossary of Literary Terms, 7th edition, 2004.
3. Cuddon, J C. The Penguin Dictionary of Theory and Criticism, Blackwell, 2013
4. Coyle, Martin. Encyclopedia of English literature and criticism, 2000.
5. Payne, Michael. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Theory of Literature, Blackwell, 2014.
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EL 681
Commonwealth Literature-I
4-0-0-4
Dom Moraes: A Letter
[5]
Gopal Honnalgere: The Donkeys
[5]
Kenneth Slessor: Country Towns
[5]
A.D. Hope: Australia
[5]
Les Murray: The Wilderness
[6]
Gabriel Okara: Were I to Choose
[5]
David Rubadiri: A Negro Labourer in Liverpool
[5]
Wole Soyinka: Death and the King's Horseman
[5]
Ngugi’ wa Thiong’O:A Grain of Wheat
[6]
Chinua Achebe:Things Fall Apart
[5]
Suggested Reading:
1. Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and
Practice in Post Colonial Literatures (2nd edition, 2002).
2. Ashcroft.. Postcolonial Studies: Key Concepts (London: Routledge, 2000).
3. Bhabha, Homi K., ed. Nation and Narration.( London: Routledge, 1990).
4. Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism (1950).
5. Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth (1961).
6. Gilbert, Helen and Joanne Tompkins. Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics
(London: Routledge, 1996).
7. Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized (1965).
8. Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism,1981-1991 (London: Granta,
1991).
9. Said, Edward. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (London: Routledge, 1978).
10. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?”1984
11. Trivedi, Harish and Meenakshi Mukherjee, eds. Interrogating Post-Colonialism: Theory, Text and
Context (Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1996).
EL 691
Translation Studies
4-0-0-4
Concept of Translation in the West and in the Indian Tradition
[7]
Types of translation – intra-lingual and inter-semiotic; „word for word‟ or
„sense for sense‟; decoding and recoding
[7]
Equivalence – linguistic and cultural; formal and dynamic; Equivalent Effect
[5]
Language and Culture
[5]
Translators’ Invisibility – Domestication and Foreignization
[5]
Self-translation (Auto Translation), Transcreation
[5]
Translation of an actual text: a short story / excerpts from a novel or play
/ poems
[5]
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Philosophical Theories of Translation – Steiner‟s Hermeneutic Motion;
Ezra Pound and the Energy of Language; The Task of the translator; Walter
Benjamin; Deconstruction
[5]
Literary Translation in Nineteenth Century India
[4]
Postcolonial Translation Theory
[4]
Suggested Readings:
1.Bassnett, Susan. Translation Studies (Revised ed 2000).
2.Catford, J.C. A Linguistic Theory of Translation.2002
3.Mukherjee, Sujit. Translation as Discovery and Other Essays, and Translation as Recovery.2004
4.Susan Bassnett and Harish Trivedi, eds. Post-Colonial Translation: Theory and Practice
(London & New York: Routledge, 1999).
5.Venuti, Lawrence. Translation‟s Invisibility: A History of Translation.2009.
EL 613
Indian Writing in Translation
Munshi Premchand: Godan
4-0-0-4
[10]
Mohan Rakesh: Aadhe Adhure
[8]
U. R. Ananthamurthy: Samskara
[8]
Saadat Hasan Manto: Toba Tek Singh
[5]
Mahasweta Devi: Draupadi
[5]
Vijay Tendulkar: Kanyadan
[8]
Baby Kamble: The Prisons We Broke
[8]
Suggested Readings:
1. A.K. Mehrotra, The Concise History of Indian Literature in English. Delhi: Permanent Black. 2008.
2. The Norton Anthology of World Literature. Volume F, 2009.
3. P.France, The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation (Oxford, 2000).
4. E Grossman, Why Translation Matters, Orient black swan Pvt. Ltd, 2007.
5. The Oxford India Premchand. OUP:Delhi, 1999.
6. Ananthmurthy. Samskara. OUP: Delhi.2000.
7. Collected Stories of Saadat Hasan Manto.2003.
8. Draupadi. Translated by Gayatri Spivak, 2001.
9. Baby Kamble. The Prisons We Broke. Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad.2004.
10. Tendulkar, Vijay. Kanyadaan. Trans. Gouri Ramnarayan. Delhi: Oxford U P, 1996
11. Mohan Rakesh. Half way House. Delhi: Worldview, 2002.
EL 623
Dissertation
0-0-0-4
The length of the dissertation to be submitted at the end of Autumn Semester of Second year shall be between
5,000 words and 8,000 words. It should be the outcome of a systematic study written in a lucid language. The
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Bibliography of the dissertation should reflect the current status of scholarship in the area. The dissertation
could be on a topic related to either the core or elective courses. The dissertation should conform to the
seventh edition of MLA Handbook.
EL 662
Principles of Criticism-II
4-0-0-4
Northrop Frye : The Archetypes of Literature
[8]
Ferdinand de Saussure : The Object of Study
[8]
Jacques Derrida : Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human
Sciences
[8]
Elaine Showalter: Towards a Feminist Poetics
[4]
Jean-François Lyotard : Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?
[5]
Michel Foucault : What is an Author?
[5]
Roland Barthes : From Work to Text
[4]
Homi K. Bhabha : Cultural Diversity and Cultural Difference
[5]
Jacques Lacan : The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason
since Freud
[5]
Suggested Readings:
1. Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.2007.
2. Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism.2000.
3. Goldmann, Lucien. “The Genetic-Structuralist Method in the History of Literature”.
4. Gramsci, Antonio. “Hegemony”.1999.
5. Greimas, A. J. Basil Soup or the Construction of an Object of Value.2002.
6. Jameson, Fredric. On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act.1987.
7. Said, Edward. “Crisis in Orientalism”. 1987.
8. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. “Introduction: Axiomatic” from Epistemology of the Closet, 2006.
9. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?”1984.
10. Thiong‟o, Ngugi wa. Decolonizing the Mind.(Muffin, 2004).
EL 672
Literature and Society-II
4-0-0-4
England in the Nineteenth Century: Social and Religious tendencies of the
Victorian Age
[6]
Oxford Movement
[5]
Feminist Movement
[5]
The Naughty Nineties
[5]
England in the Twentieth Century: Social and Literary Tendencies of the
Early Twentieth Century
[5]
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Emergence of the Labour Party
[5]
The Rise of the Problem Plays
[4]
The Stream of Consciousness Technique in Fiction
[5]
Main Trends in Poetry, Drama and Fiction
[8]
Cultural Studies
[4]
Suggested Readings:
1. Literary Movements for the students, second edition, gale publication , 2004.
2. Abrams, M H -A Glossary of Literary Terms, 7th edition, 2002.
3. Cuddon, J C. The Penguin Dictionary of Theory and Criticism , Blackwell, 2004.
4. Coyle, Martin. Encyclopedia of English literature and criticism, 2003.
5. Payne, Michael. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Theory of Literature, Blackwell, 2014.
EL 682
Commonwealth Literature-II
4-0-0-4
George Frederick Cameron: The Future
[5]
J. M. Smith:Ode on the Death of William Butler Yeats
[5]
Margaret Atwood: Journey to the Interior
[5]
Edward Brathwaite: Tizzic
[5]
Edwin Thumboo: Gods Can Die
[5]
Yasmine Goooneratne: There was a Country
[5]
Katherine Mansfield: The Man with the Wooden Leg
[4]
Pankaj Mishra: The Romantics
[9]
Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss
[9]
Suggested Reading:
1. Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and
Practice in Post Colonial Literatures (2nd edition, 2002).
2. Ashcroft.. Postcolonial Studies: Key Concepts (London: Routledge, 2000).
3. Bhabha, Homi K., ed. Nation and Narration.( London: Routledge, 1990).
4. Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism (1950).
5. Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth (1961).
6. Gilbert, Helen and Joanne Tompkins. Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics
(London: Routledge, 1996).
7. Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized (1965).
8. Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism,1981-1991 (London: Granta,
1991).
9. Said, Edward. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (London: Routledge, 1978).
10. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?”1984.
11. Trivedi, Harish and Meenakshi Mukherjee, eds. Interrogating Post-Colonialism: Theory, Text and
Context (Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1996).
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EL 692
Women Studies
4-0-0-4
Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain: Sultana‟s Dream
[8]
Katherine Mansfield: A Cup of Tea
[6]
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: If I were a Man
[6]
Ernest Hemingway: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
[6]
Coventry Patmore: Angel in the House
[6]
Imtiaz Dharker: Purdah, Battle Line, She Must Be From Another Country
[6]
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One‟s Own
[6]
Suniti Namjoshi: The Mothers of Maya Diip
[8]
Suggested Readings:
1. Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble (1990).
2. de Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex (1949).
3. Freidan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique (1963).
4. Gardener, Judith Kegan, ed. Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory: New Directions
(Columbia University Press, 2002).
5. Greer, Germaine. The Female Eunuch (1970).
6. Lal, Malashri. The Law of the Threshold (Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1995)
7. Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Woman (1869).
8. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Gender Criticism: What Isn‟t Gender.2002.
9.Tharu, Susie and K.S. Lalita, eds. Introduction Women Writing in India (New Delhi: O.U.P., 1993)
10. Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth (1991).
11. Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).
12. Woolf, Virginia. Shakespeare‟s Sister from A Room of One‟s Own (1929).
EL 614
World Literature(s)
4-0-0-4
Ibsen: A Doll‟s House
[8]
Brecht: Mother Courage
[8]
Dario Fo: Accidental Death of an Anarchist
[7]
Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali
[7]
Albert Camus: The Outsider
[8]
Pablo Neruda: Everyday You Play, I‟m Explaining a Few Things, Ode to a
Tomato
[7]
Rainer Maria Rilke: Fear of the Inexplicable, Falling Stars, You Who Never
Arrived
[7]
Suggested Readings:
1. Kahns, Richards. Tragedy: Contradictions and Repression. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1993.
2. Ellmann, Richard (ed.). The Modern Tradition: Backgrounds of Modern Literature. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1992.
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3. Parkar, Emmett. Albert Camus: the Artist in the Arena. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965.
4. Northam, John. Ibsen: A Critical Study. London: Everyman, 1970.
5. Hirst, David. Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Hampshire: Macmillan, 1989.
6. Bloom, Harold. Modern Critical Views: Gabriel Garcia Marquez. New York: Chelsea House Publishers,
1989.
7. Metzger, Erika A. & Metzger, Michael M. (eds.). A Companion to the Works of Rainer Maria Rilke
(Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture). New York: Camden House, 2004.
8. Raymond Williams. Drama from Ibsen to Brecht. London: Chatto and Windus,1968.
EL624
Dissertation
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The length of the dissertation to be submitted at the end of Spring Semester of Second year shall be between
8,000 words and 10,000 words. It should be the outcome of a systematic study written in a lucid language.
The Bibliography of the dissertation should reflect the current status of scholarship in the area. The
Dissertation could be on a topic related to either the core or elective courses. The dissertation should
conform to the seventh edition of MLA Handbook.
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