M.A. DEGREE COURSE- STRUCTURE 2011-2014 Sem Course CCI Sub. Code 11KP1E01 Sub Title The Age of Chaucer to the Jacobean Hrs Credit Marks I.A 2 Marks E.A 7 Total CCII 11KP1E02 The Puritan to the Neo- Classical 2 7 I CCIII 11KP1E03 The Romantic Age 2 7 CCIV 11KP1E04 Indian Writing in English 2 7 CCV 11KP1E0 Literary Criticism- I 2 7 CCVI 11KP2E0 Total Victorian Literature 30 2 12 2 37 7 00 CCVII 11KP2E07 The Modern Age 2 7 II CCVII I 11KP2E08 English Language Teaching 2 7 CCIX 11KP2E09 Literary Criticism- II 4 2 7 NME 1 11KP2EE LO1 English For Mass Media-I 2 7 Total 30 24 12 37 00 CCX 11KP3E10 Language and Linguistics 4 2 7 CCXI 11KP3E11 New Literatures 4 2 7 III CCXII NME 2 11KP3E12 11KP3EE LO2 Shakespeare Intro. To Comparative Literature 4 2 2 7 7 Electiv e-i 11KP3EE LE1 English for Mass Media-II 2 7 Total 30 22 12 37 00 1
Sem Course Sub. Code Sub Title Hrs Credit Marks I.A Marks E.A Total IV CCXII I CCXI V Electiv e-ii 11KP4E13 11KP4E14 11KP4EE LE2 11KP4E1 PW Research Methodology American Literature Classics in Translation: Eastern and Western Project 12 4 4 2 2 2 -- 7 7 7 -- Total 30 19 7 22 400 Grand Total 120 90 1900 2
M.A. DEGREE COURSE- STRUCTURE 2011-2014 PG Abstract SNO SEM HRS CDTS NO OF CORE PAPERS OPEN ELECTIVE ELECTIVE PAPERS MARKS 1 I 30 2 * * 00 2 II 30 24 4 1 * 00 3 III 30 22 3 1 1 00 4 IV 30 19 2 * 1 300 Project- I 120 90 14 2 2 1900 3
I MA ENGLISH THE AGE OF CHAUCER TO JACOBEAN Semester-I Hours: Core Course-I Credits: Code:11KP1E01 a. Chaucer : Prologue to Canterbury Tales. I b. Spenser : Prothalamion. c. John Donne : Valediction Forbidding Mourning Canonization. The Sun Rising d. Andrew Marvell : To His Coy Mistress. e. George Herbert : Pulley. II PROSE V DRAMA DRAMA Francis Bacon : Of Friendship Of Adversity Of Truth Of Love Of Studies Marlowe : Dr. Faustus. Ben Jonson : The Alchemist 4
I MA ENGLISH THE PURITAN TO THE NEO- CLASSICAL AGE Semester-I Hours: Core Course-II Credits: Code:11KP1E02 John Milton : Paradise Lost- Book IV I Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock John Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel ( 1-200 lines) Thomas Gray : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard William Collins : Ode to Evening II PROSE V DRAMA Joseph Addison and : Sir Roger and the widow. Richard Steele Sir Roger at Church. Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer Sheridan : The Rivals FICTION Jonathan Swift : Gulliver s Travels Bunyan : Pilgrim s Progress.
I MA ENGLISH THE ROMANTIC AGE Semester-I Hours: Core Course-III Credits: Code: 11KP1E03 William Wordsworth : Ode on the Intimations of Immortality Upon Westminster Bridge. Samuel Taylor Coleridge : The Rime of Ancient Mariner. John Keats : Ode to a Nightingale Ode on a Grecian Urn. I Percy Bysshe Shelley : Ode to the West Wind. Lord Byron : Don Juan. II PROSE Charles Lamb : Christ s Hospital Dream Children : A Reverie William Hazlitt : My First Acquaintance with Poets. V DRAMA Jonathan Swift : The Battle of the Books. FICTION Sir Walter Scott : Ivanhoe. Jane Austen : Emma.
I MA ENGLISH INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH Semester-I Hours: Core Course-IV Credits: Code:11KP1E04 Nissim Ezekiel : Professor Good Bye Party to Miss Pushpa T.S A. K. Ramanujan : Smallscale Reflections in a Great House. I Sarojini Naidu : Bird Sanctuary Toru Dutt : Laxman Kamala Das : Freak. II PROSE Rabindranath Tagore : Personality : My School, Woman. V DRAMA Mahesh Datani : Dance Like a Man. Girish Karnard : Tughlaq. FICTION Sashi Deshpande : Roots and Shadows Amitav Ghosh : Shadow Line. Reference 1. V. K. Gokak. The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Treasury. New Delhi: Sahitya Academy,1970. 2. C. D. Narasimhaiah. An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry. Chennai : Macmillan, 1990 7
I MA ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISM I Semester-I Hours: Core Course-V Credits: Code:11KP1E0 An Introduction to Literary Theory and Literary Criticism ( pages 1-12) I Aristotle : Poetics Sir Philip Sidney : An Apology For Poetry II John Dryden V William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge : An Essay on Dramatic Poesie. : Preface to Lyrical Ballads. : Biographia Literaria. Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-Response Theory, Postmodernism, Post colonialism. Reference 1. Birjadish Prasad. An Introduction to English Criticism. India: Macmillan, 19. 2. R. A. Scott James. The Making of Literature. Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd, 194. 3. M. H. Abrahams. Glossary of Literary Terms. th edition. Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace College Pub, 1993. 4. Peter Barry. Beginning Theory : An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. UK: Manchester University Press, 199.. Ramaswamy and Sethuraman. The English Critical Tradition : Vol. 1 & 2. India: Macmillan, 1977.. Jeremy Hawthorn. A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory. London: Edward Arnold, 1992. 8
I MA ENGLISH THE VICTORIAN LITERATURE Semester-II Hours: Core Course-VI Credits: Code:11KP2E0 Alfred Tennyson : Ulysses Robert Browning : Andrea Del Sarto My Last Duchess Mathew Arnold : The Scholar Gipsy. I D. G. Rossetti : The Blessed Damozel A. C. Swinburne : The Chorus from the Atlanta. II PROSE John Ruskin : Sesame and Lillies ( Book II Queen s Garden) V DRAMA Oscar Wilde : The Importance of Being Ernest George Bernard Shaw : Apple Cart. FICTION Charles Dickens : A Tale of Two Cities Thomas Hardy : Tess of the D ubervilles. 9
I MA ENGLISH THE MODERN AGE Semester-II Hours: Core Course-VII Credits: Code: 11KP2E07 William Butler Yeats : Sailing to Byzantium T.S. Eliot : The Waste Land. W. H. Auden : Shield of Achilles I Philip Larkin : Church Going Wilfred Owen : Strange Meeting Ted Hughes : Hawk Roosting. II PROSE E. M Forster : Notes on the English Character My Wood Tolerance A Book that influenced me. V DRAMA John Osborne : Look Back in Anger Harold Pinter : The Caretaker. FICTION James Joyce : The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Graham Greene : The Power and the Glory. Reference 1. Michael Roberts. Faber Book of Modern Verse, Faber and Faber, 193. 10
I MA ENGLISH ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Semester-II Hours: Core Course-VIII Credits: Code:11KP2E08 Skills of LSRW I Language Theories S.R. Theories of learning or Behaviourist Theories of Learning Present Day Cognitive Theories. II Teaching of Prose Teaching of Poetry Teaching of Grammar V Teaching of Spelling Teaching of Pronunciation Teaching by Traditional method. Approaches and method. New Methods of Teaching English Error Analysis Evaluation Lesson Plan. Prescribed Text 1. Meenatchisundaram. Teaching English. 11
I MA ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISM II Semester-II Hours: Core Course-IX Credits: Code:11KP2E09 Percy Byssche Shelley : Defence of Poetry Sigmund Freud : Creative Writers and Day Dreaming I Raymond Williams : Realism and Contemporary Novel Claude Levi Strauss : Incest and Myth II Mathew Arnold : The Study of Poetry T. S. Eliot : Religion and Literature. UNIT- IV Elaine Showalter : Towards Feminist Poetics Edmund Fuller : The New Compassion in the American Novel. UNIT- V Realism, Naturalism, Imagism, Transcendentalism, Surrealism, Expresssionism, Euphemism, Objective Co-relative, Negative Capability. Reference 1. Birjadish Prasad. An Introduction to English Criticism. India: Macmillan Publishers, 19. 2. R. A. Scott James. The Making of Literature. Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd, 194. 3. M. H. Abrahams. Glossary of Literary Terms. th edition. Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace College Pub, 1993. 4. Peter Barry. Beginning Theory : An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. UK : Manchester University Press, 199.. Ramaswamy and Sethuraman. The English Critical Tradition : Vol. 1 & 2. India: Macmillan, 1977.. Jeremy Hawthorn. A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory. London: Edward Arnold, 1992. 12
I MA ENGLISH ENGLISH FOR MASS MEDIA- I Semester-II Hours: NME -I Credits: Code:11KP2EEL01 UNIT- I Understanding Mass media- importance of media literacy- types of media- print mediabook industry- news paper industry- magazine industry.- (Chap :Part-I&III*) I Introduction to Creative writing- creative writing in the world ( Chap-1)** - composition and creative writing( Chap-4)**- writing as art- personal narrative- poetry, drama, fiction and children s fiction- making time to write- writing aurally and visually- drawing on one s experience or relating one s life.(chap 1)*** II Introduction to visual writing- writing not to be read, but to be made- difference between visual writing and that of stage plays ( Chapter- Part-I-3-1)****- writing with dialoguedescribing sight and sound \(Chap-Part II)**** V Introduction to Script writing(chap-23)*****- writing as a therapy( Chap-30)*****- writing as experimental practice ( Chap29)*****- writing for stage (Chap-24)*****- writing for television( Cahp-2)***** Film and literature- cinema as institution- cinema, audience and society-cinema, media and globalization (Chap-1)******- Critical approaches to film- authorship and genre (Chap-3)****** Prescribed Texts 1.* Joseph Turow. Media Today: An Introduction to Mass Communication. New York: Routledge, 2009 2. **David Morley. The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 3. *** Adele Ramet. Creative Writing : How to unlock your imagination, develop your writing skills and get published. Oxford: How to Books Ltd, 1997. 4.****Anthony Friedmann. Writing for the Visual Media. New York: Focal Press, 200.. ***** Steven Earnshaw. The Handbook of Creative Writing. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.. ******Nathan Abrams, Ian Bess, Jaa Udris. Studying Films. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 13
II MA ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS Semester-III Hours: Core Course-X Credits: 4 Code:11KP3E10 Place of English in the Indo-European Family Grimm s Law, Verner s Law, i-mutation The rise and Growth of Standard English. I Classification of speech sounds The Description of vowels and consonants Syllable Word Stress and Sentence Stress. Intonation Strong and Weak Forms. II The Change of Meaning The Growth of Vocabulary. V TG Grammar IC Analysis Morpheme Transcription Prescribed Text 1. F.T. Wood. History of English Language. 2. J.D O Connor. Better English Pronunciation. New Delhi: OUP, 3. P. C Wren and H. Martin. High School English Grammar and Composition. S. Chand Publisher, 199. 4. A.C.Baugh. History of English Language. Bombay: Allied Publishers. Pvt. Ltd., 198. 14
II MA ENGLISH NEW LITERATURES Semester-III Hours: Core Course-XI Credits: 4 Code:11KP3E11 Margaret Atwood : Journey to the Interior. Judith Wright : A Fire at Murdering Hut Dereck Walcott : Ruins of a Great House I Michael- Dei Anang : Africa Speaks. A. D. Hope : Australia F. R. Scott : The Canadian Authors Meet II PROSE Margaret Atwood : Survival V. S Naipaul : A Wounded Civilization V DRAMA George Ryga : The Ecstasy of Rita Joe Douglas Stewart : Ned Kelley. FICTION Patrick White : Voss Thomas Audrey : Intertidal Life. Prescribed Text 1. C. D. Narasimhaiah. An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry. Chennai: Macmillan India Press, 1990. 1
II MA ENGLISH SHAKESPEARE Semester-III Hours: Core Course-XII Credits: 4 Code:11KP3E12 UNIT I Life of Shakespeare and his works, Elizabethan theatre and Critics on Shakespeare I As You Like It. II Hamlet V Antony and Cleopatra. Shakespeare s poems and Sonnets. 1
II MA ENGLISH INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Semester-III Hours: Elective : I Credits: 4 Code:11KP3EELE1 French and American Schools Comparative Literature : Definition and Scope Influence study in Reception I Study of Genre and Forms Thematology Periodisation & Influence Study. II Literature and Other Arts The Study of translation. A Theory of literary translatin Adaptation Abridgement Literal VS Literary rendering V Literature and Other Studies Philosophy Biography Psychology Theory of Translation Scripture Translation Scientific Translation Technical Translation Translating for the Media. Machine Translation ( problems, principles, methods and procedures) Reference 1. Dr. A. Nihamuthullah. Procedures of Translating. Thirunelveli: Shameem Publication, 2009. 2. Susan Bassnett. Translation Studies. New York: Routledge, 1988. 3. Rene Wellek and Austin Warren. Theory of Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1942. 17
II MA ENGLISH ENGLISH FOR MASS MEDIA- II Semester-III Hours: NME: II Credits: Code :11KP3EEL02 Types of Media- Electronic Media- Recording Radio industry- *Motion Picture industry- Television Industry- Internet- Advertising Industry.* I Creative Writing-visualizing background-** creating fictional characters- writing about setting and atmosphere- writing realistic dialogue.*** II Visual Writing- writing without dialogue- describing time and place- describing actiondescribing scene/ sequence of events.**** V Script Writing- writing for film- writing for web.***** Film and literature- film as text- film technology- the language of film and early cinema.- film literature and social discourse- visualizing voice/time etc.****** Prescribed Texts 1.* Joseph Turow. Media Today: An Introduction to Mass Communication. New York: Routledge, 2009. 2. **David Morley. The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 3. *** Adele Ramet. Creative Writing : How to unlock your imagination, develop your writing skills and get published. Oxford: How to Books Ltd, 1997. 4.****Anthony Friedmann. Writing for the Visual Media. New York: Focal Press, 200.. ***** Steven Earnshaw. The Handbook of Creative Writing. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,2007.. ******Nathan Abrams, Ian Bess, Jaa Udris. Studying Films. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 18
II MA ENGLISH RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND PRESENTATION SKILLS Semester-IV Hours: Elective : XIII Credits: 4 Code: 11KP4E13 Definition of Research- literary research- nature of inquiry in Physical Science- Philosophy and meaning of Research. I Choosing the topic mechanics of writing- punctuation- the colon- the dash- the parenthesis- square brackets- question marks- quotation marks- capitalization- the apostrophe and the hyphen. II Style suited for a thesis- structure and format of the thesis- acknowledging different sources documentation- foot notes and end notes- first draft and final draft. V Note-taking- primary and secondary sources- library and its usesbibliography/works cited- works consulted. Presentation Skills Viva-voce: Its meaning and purpose. Body Langue- posture. Reference 1. Modern Language Association of America (MLA). MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7 th edtn. USA: Modern Language Association of America, 2009. 2. ----------------. The Chicago Manual of Style. 1 th edtn, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 3. C. J Parsons. Thesis and Project Work. London: George Allen and Unwin, 197. 4. Jonathan Anderson and Millicent Poole. Assignment and Thesis Writing.. Presentation Skills. 19
II MA ENGLISH AMERICAN LITERATURE Semester-IV Hours: Elective : XIV Credits: 4 Code:11KP4E14 UNIT- I Walt Whitman : When Lilacs Lost in Dooryard Bloomed Robert Frost : Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Edgar Allan Poe : Annabel Lee Emily Dickinson : I taste a Liquor Never Brew d. I PROSE Ralph Waldo Emerson : Self-reliance. II DRAMA Eugene O Neil : The Hairy Ape. V DRAMA Tennesse Williams : The Street Car Named Desire Edward Albee : Who is Afraid of Virginia Wolf? FICTION Ernest Hemingway : A Farewell to Arms. Toni Morrison : The Bluest Eye. 20
II MA ENGLISH CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION : EASTERN AND WESTERN. Semester-IV Hours: Elective :II Credits: Code: 11KP4EELE2 (Detailed) Thirukkural - Chapters on 1. Love 2. Truth 3. Friendship Omar Khayyam- Rubaiyat 1 st five quatrains I (Detailed) Psalms : 1, 4, 23, 91, 121. II (Non- Detailed) Homer : Illiad ( Book I & II ) V Henrik Ibsen : The Wild Duck. Kalidasa : Sakuntala. Herman Hesse : Siddharta. 21