M A ENGLISH Semester Subject Code Subject Sem-I MA101 (POETRY-I) RENAISSANCE TO ROMANTIC Sem-I MA102 RENAISSANCE DRAMA Sem-I MA103 ENGLISH NOVEL (UPTO 19TH CENTURY) Sem-I MA104 PHONETICS AND SPOKEN ENGLISH Sem-I MA105 WESTERN LITERARY HISTORY I Sem-III MA301 IRISH LITERATURE Sem-III MA302 GENERAL LINGUISTICS Sem-III MA303 LITERARY CRITICISM Sem-III MA304 INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH Sem-III MA305 COMMUNICATION STUDIES
LESSON PLAN M A ENGLISH SEMESTER I (POETRY-I) RENAISSANCE TO ROMANTIC JULY 2017 UNIT I John Milton: Paradise Lost, Complete Text, Literary Quiz EPIC Book 1 Paraphrasing and AUGUST UNIT II UNIT III SEPTEMBER UNIT IV Poetry of John Donne Alexander Pope Poetry of William Wordsworth explanation John Donne: The Good Morrow The Sunne Rising The Extasie A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning The Canonization The Flea Batter My Heart A Hymn to God The Father The Rape of the Lock William Wordsworth: Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey. Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood Resolution and Independence Sonnet: London, 1802 Strange Fits of Passion Assignment of Religious and Love Poetry of John Donne Assignment on Epic and Mock Epic on Nature Worship in Wordsworth s poetry
LESSON PLAN MA ENGLISH SEMESTER 1 RENAISSANCE DRAMA July 2017 Criticism UNIT I Aristotle: Poetics (Butcher s Translation) Play UNIT II Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus Text, Question-Answers Text, Annotations and Explanation Applying Aristotle s theory on Shakespearean Plays Symposium on Doctor Faustus UNIT III William Shakespeare: Hamlet September Play UNIT IV Ben Jonson: Volpone Comedy of Humors Movie on Hamlet Assignment on Comedy of Humors LESSON PLAN M A ENGLISH SEMESTER I ENGLISH NOVEL (UPTO 19TH CENTURY) July 2017 Novel UNIT I Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews the text Quiz Novel UNIT II Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice UNIT III Charles Dickens: Hard Times September Novel UNIT IV Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure the text the text Movie and symposium on Pride and Prejudice Literary Quiz Group
LESSON PLAN M A ENGLISH SEMESTER I PHONETICS AND SPOKEN ENGLISH July 2017 Varieties of Pronunciation Study of Sounds UNIT I Varieties of English Organs of Speech The R.P. English, IPA alphabet General Indian English UNIT II The Sounds of English Articulation, description and classification of English phonemes Allophonic Variants in R.P. English Morphophonemic changes Indian variants of English phonemes Reading and practice of sounds Phonetic Transcription Guest Lecture Assignment UNIT III The Syllable and its structure Stress and stress change in English words Stress rules September Intonation UNIT IV Features of Connected English Speech Weak form Intonation patterns of English Functions of Intonation Reading and Practice of Intonation Group LESSON PLAN M A ENGLISH SEMESTER I WESTERN LITERARY HISTORY I July 2017 History of Literature History of Poetry UNIT I Background Classicism Medievalism The Renaissance Enlightenment Neoclassicism Romanticism UNIT II Drama Classical Drama (Poetics, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence, Seneca) Medieval Drama (Mysteries, on Basics Classical Literature Assignment Literary Quiz
Miracles, Moralities, Interludes) Renaissance Drama (University Wits, Shakespeare, Comedy of Humours, Jacobean Drama) Neoclassical and Romantic Drama (British Restoration Drama, French Neoclassical Drama, German Sturm und Drang) September History of Novel UNIT III Poetry Classical Poetry (Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Pindar, Theocritus, Virgil, Catullus, Horace, Ovid, Juvenal) Medieval Poetry (Old English Poetry, Romances, Allegories, Ballads, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer and his contemporaries) Renaissance Poetry (Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne and the Metaphysicals, Cavalier Poetry, Milton) Neoclassical Poetry (Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Poetic Diction, Transition Poets) Romantic Poetry (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson) UNIT IV Fiction Rise of the Novel (Precursors, Renaissance Fictional Prose, Cervantes, Aphra Behn, Reasons for the rise of the novel) Eighteenth Century British Novel (Sub Genres: Picaresque, Epistolary, Sentimental, Gothic; Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Walpole, Radcliffe) Eighteenth Century French and German Novel (Voltaire, Rousseau, Goethe) British Romantic Novel (Austen, Scott) on Novel Literary Devices
IRISH LITERATURE July 2017 Novel UNIT I Jonathan Swift: Gulliver s Travels Play UNIT II Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest UNIT III J.M. Synge: Play The Playboy of the Western World September Novel UNIT IV James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Text and on Question- Answers Text and on Question- Answers Text and on Question- Answers on Satire Movie on the play on Irish dramatic Literature on Bildungsroman GENERAL LINGUISTICS July 2017 Structural Theory: UNIT I Structural Theory: Saussure: The nature of Linguistic sign, Signifier and Signified; Syntagmatic and paradigmatic Relations; Synchrony and Diachrony; Langue and Parole etc. Bloomfield: Scientific Study of Language; Discovery Procedures: minimal pairs, pattern congruity, complementary distribution, IC analysis. Basics of Linguistics Power Point Presentation on Structuralism
Transformational Generative Theory: UNIT II Transformational Generative Theory: Chomsky: Competence and Performance, Phrase Structure rules, Basic transformational rules e.g. negative,, passive, Deep Structure and Surface Structure. Studying the text with examples Assignment on Chomsky September Applied Linguistics: UNIT III Functional Theory: Halliday: Functions of Language: Ideational, Interpersonal Textual, Field, Tenor and Mode of Discourse, Clause as message, exchange and representation. UNIT IV Applied Linguistics: Methods and Approaches to Language Teaching: Grammar-Translation, Direct and Audio- Lingual Methods; Structural and Communicative Approaches Studying the text with examples Group on ELT methods
LITERARY CRITICISM July Wordsworth UNIT I Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads Text Reading and Question Comparing Wordsworth s Poetry and Criticism Mathew Arnold UNIT II Mathew Arnold The Study of Poetry The Functions of Criticism at the Present Time Text Reading and Question Assignment on Importance of Victorian Criticism September T.S. Eliot Cleanth Brooks Northrop Frye Viktor Shklovsky UNIT III T.S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent Cleanth Brooks Heresy of Paraphrase UNIT IV Northrop Frye: The Archetypes of Literature Viktor Shklovsky: Art as Technique Text Reading and Question on T S Eliot s Theory and implication on his Poetry Assignment on Myth criticism INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH July Poetry UNIT I Nissim Ezekiel: Enterprise Philosophy Night of the Scorpion Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher The Visitor Background, Casually Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa, T.S Kamala Das: An Introduction The Freaks My Grandmother's House A Hot Noon in Malabar Text and Explanation Group on Indian poetry
The Sunshine Cat The Invitation Novel UNIT II R.K. Narayan: The Guide UNIT III Anita Desai: Fasting, Feasting September Novel UNIT IV Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things Text, summary and Text, summary and Movie on The Guide Assignment on Roy COMMUNICATION STUDIES July 2017 September Varieties of Communication Study of Language Media communication UNIT I Fields of Communication Models of Communication Methods of Communication Research UNIT II Language and Rhetoric Semiotics and Narrative UNIT III Professional Communication Audience Analysis and Mass Communication UNIT IV Film Analysis Mass Media Analysis text and discussion on text and discussion on text and discussion on Group on communication Assignment on Mass comm. Applying theory on Movies