Department of English & Other Foreign Languages Mahatma Gandhi KashiVidyapith, Varanasi. Syllabus for M.A. in English. (w.e.f.

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1 Department of English & Other Foreign Languages Mahatma Gandhi KashiVidyapith, Varanasi. Syllabus for M.A. in English (w.e.f ) M.A. Course in English shall have four semesters. Each semester shall have four papers. In all, there shall be sixteen papers. Each paper shall carry 100 marks. pg. 1

2 Semester I Paper -I English Literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare Unit I Social and Literary Scene (14 th- 16 th centuries) *Francis Bacon : Of Truth : Of Death : Of Superstition Poetry * Geoffrey Chaucer : Prologue to The Canterbury Tales *Edmund Spenser: :Faerie Queene(Bk-1) Unit -III Drama Unit -IV * Christopher Marlowe : Dr. Faustus * Ben Jonson: :Everyman in His Humour *William Shakespeare : Hamlet :The Tempest : Sonnet Nos. 54&130 pg. 2

3 Paper -II English Literature from Donne to Blake Unit-1 Social and Literary Scene (17 th- 18 th Centuries) John Dryden: Alexander Pope: Absalom andachitophel The Rape of the Lock Poetry John Milton: John Donne: Andrew Marvell: William Blake: Paradise Lost Book-1 The Canonization The Ecstasie The Garden The Chimney Sweeper Drama R.B. Sheridan: William Congreve: The School for Scandal The Way of the World Unit IV Prose and Fiction *Joseph Addison: Henry Fielding: The Aim of Spectator Tom Jones pg. 3

4 Paper-III English Literature from Wordsworth to Hardy Social and Literary Scene (19 th Century) Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy Poetry *William Wordsworth: The Prelude Book-1 S.T. Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn *Alfred Tennyson: Lotos - Eaters Robert Browning: Rabbi Ben Ezra *Matthew Arnold: Thyrsis Unit -III Prose Charles Lamb: Hazlitt: New Year s Eve A Familiar Style Fiction Jane Austen Charles Dickens Thomas Hardy : Emma : Great Expectations : Tess of the D Urbervilles pg. 4

5 Paper IV Elementary Linguistics and the Structure of English Nature of Language: Definition; Properties Definition & Scope of Linguistics Branches of Linguistics Historical Background to Modern English: Old English; Middle English; Early Modern English. Phonetics: Written and Spoken Symbol Transcription of English Word in Common Use Phonemes: English Vowels and Consonants Stress and Intonation Morphology: Morpheme & Words Processes of Word Formation Syntax: Phrase Structure Noun, Adjective & Verb Basic Structure Patterns 1. There will be ten short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each =40 2. There will be four long answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks pg. 5

6 SemesterII Paper -V Albert Camus: Jean Paul Sartre: Twentieth Century Literature Social and Literary Scene The Myth of SisyphusChapterI& IV Existentialism and Human Emotions Poetry W.B. Yeats: Byzantium, Sailing to Byzantium, A Prayer for My Daughter T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land Philip Larkin: Next Please, High Windows Ted Hughes: Hawk Roosting, Thought Fox Drama *G.B. Shaw: St. Joan *Samuel Becket: Waiting for Godot Unit IV Fiction Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway pg. 6

7 Paper VI Literary Criticism Unit- I Aristotle: Bharatamuni: Poetics On Natyaand Rasa: Aesthetics of Dramatic Experience Anandvardhana : Dhwani; Structure of Poetic Meaning John Dryden: An Essay of Dramatic Poesie S.T. Coleridge: BiographiaLiteraria,Chap. XIV Matthew Arnold: T.S. Eliot: The Study of Poetry Tradition & Individual Talent Unit IV Derrida: Structures, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences Elaine Showalter: Towards a Feminist Poetics pg. 7

8 Paper VII American and Canadian Literature Poetry Emily Dickinson: Robert Frost: Margaret Atwood: A.L. Purdy: Eugene O Neill: George Ryga: Emerson: H.G. Vassanji: Toni Morrison: Michael Ondaatjee: Hope is the Thing with Feathers, How Beautifulis the Little Stone The Birches, The Onset Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer The Country North to Belleville, Wilderness Gothic Drama The Hairy Ape The Ecstasy of Rita Joe Non-Fictional Prose The American Scholar Am I a Canadian Writer? Fiction Beloved The English Patient pg. 8

9 Paper-VIII Indian English Literature Poetry Toru Dutt: Our Casuarina Tree Nissim Ezekiel: Background Casually Kamala Das: Introduction A.K. Ramanujan: Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House JayantMahapatra: Hunger Shiv K. Kumar: Border-Guards Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Fictional Prose Hind Swaraj Nirad C. Chaudhary: A Passage to England Drama GirishKarnad: Tughlaq Mahesh Dattani: Final Solutions Raja Rao: AmitavGhosh: Fiction The Serpent and the Rope Shadow Lines pg. 9

10 Semester III Paper IX New Literatures in English SAARC Literature Unit - II Agha Shahid Ali: Postcard from Kashmir KishwarNaheed: I am not that Woman ShyamSelvadurai :Funny Boy KunzangChoden :The Circle of Karma Australian Literature A.D. Hope: Australia, Death of the Bird Judith Wright: The Company of Lovers, Failure of Communication Patrick White: Voss Canadian Literature Earle Birney: The Bearon the Delhi Road Susanna Moodie: Indian Summer Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin pg. 10

11 Paper X Contemporary Literary Theories Northrop Frye: Raymond Williams: Myth, Fiction and Displacement Romantic Artist from Culture and Society Victor Shklovsky: M.M. Bakhtin: From Art as Technique Discourse in the Novel from The Dialogic Imagination Louis Althusser: WolfgangIser: From Ideology and the State FromThe Reading Process Roland Barhes: Homi K. Bhabha: The Death of the Author How Newness Enters the World: Postmodern Space, Postcolonial Times and the Trials of Cultural Translation, in The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994), pp Note:- These essays are available in The English Critical Tradition, Vol. II edited by S. Ramaswamy and V.S. Seturaman (Macmillan, 1986), Literary Criticism: A Reading edited by B. Das and J.M. Mohanty(OUP,1999) and Patricia Waugh &Philop Rice (eds.) Modern Literary Theory Second Edition, Edwin Arnold, London, There will be ten short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each. 10 4=40 2. There will be four long -answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks pg. 11

12 Paper-XI Translation: Theory and Practice The Concept of Translation Some Definitions of Translation eastern and western Social Significance of Translation Theories of Translation Concept of Equivalence Problems of Translation Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Translation Machine Translation Merits &Demerits Translation of given passages from Hindi into English and Vice-Versa 1. There will be ten short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each. 10 4=40 2. There will be four long answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks pg. 12

13 Paper XII Post-Colonial Theory and Literature B. Ashcroft, G. Griffiths & H. Tiffin: Cutting the Ground: Critical Models of Post-Colonial Literatures from The Empire Writes Back (London& New York, Rutledge, 1989) Edward Said: Aijaz Ahmad: Crisis in Orientalism Language of Class, Ideology of Immigration from In Theory (Bombay, OUP, 1992) NgugiwaThiongo: Decolonising the Mind Chinua Achebe: Colonialist Criticism ShrilalShukla: Prem Chand: RaagDarbari Karmabhumi Salman Rushdie: ShashiTharoor: Midnight s Children The Great Indian Novel 1. There will be ten short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each. 10 4=40 2. There will be four long answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks pg. 13

14 SemesterIV Paper- XIII African and Caribbean Literature The following poems from An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry edited by C.D. Narsimhaih, Macmillan, 1990 for detailed study *Denis Brutus: You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed *Gabriel Okara: The Mystic Drum *Wole Soyinka: Dedication *Derek Walcott: A Far Cry from Africa *Mervyn Morris: Literary Evening, Jamaica V.S. Naipaul: George Lamming: Chinua Achebe: A House for Mr. Biswas The Pleasures of Exile Things Fall Apart J. M. Coetzee: Disgrace Wole Soyinka: A Dance of Forests August Wilson: Fences pg. 14

15 Paper XIV Indian Literature in Translation General acquaintance with great Indian epics-the Ramayana and the Mahabharata Kalidas: Jaishankar Prasad: Shakuntla Kamayani Rabindranath Tagore: Mohan Rakesh: The Post Office AdheAdhure Amrita Pritam: Mahasweta Devi: Revenue Stamp Draupadi Qurrat-ul-AinHaider: U.R.Ananthmurthy: River of Fire Samskara 1. There will be ten short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each. 10 4=40 2. There will be four long- answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks pg. 15

16 Paper-XV Women Writing Bharati Mukherjee: Jasmine ShashiDeshpande: That Long Silence BapsiSidhwa: Monica Ali: The Crow Eaters Brick Lane YasmineGooneratne: Manjushree Thapa: A Change of Skies The Tutor of History Arundhati Roy: Kiran Desai: The God of Small Things The Inheritance of Loss 1. There will be ten short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each. 10 4=40 2. There will be four long- answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks pg. 16

17 Paper-XVI Objective Type Questions: 50 Marks Viva-Voce: 50 Marks pg. 17