MA ENGLISH PLANNER 2013 TILL DATE MA SEMESTER I: July-November Note: Mid-term tests in Sept-end/early-October; Autumn break in October PAPER I: LITERARY CRITICISM (NEHA; SUMATI) Introduction to Literary Criticism, History of English Literature, Romantic Age History of literary criticism: Plato's Moral-philosophical approach Aug- Sept: Wordsworth, French Revolution, Romantic Age, Neo Classical Age, Preface to Lyrical Ballads-- Text and Criticism Brief discussion on Aristotle s Poetics and Sublimity, Aristotle's Poetics: Text and discussion Oct-Nov: Victorian Age, Mathew Arnold, Puritanism, The Study of Poetry--text and Criticism Modernism, Introduction to the New Criticism, close reading, T. S. Eliot; text and critical analysis, PowerPoint presentation/assignments PAPER II: BRITISH POETRY (NEERAJ AGGARWAL/MRIDULA JOSHI) Introductions: Development of English Language; History of Poetry; age of Chaucer Introduction to British Poetry Over view of the Romantic Poets, Features of Romantic Poetry Reading of Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Literary Terms
August Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Keats s development as a poet Ode to Nightingale ; Ode to Grecian Urn September Critical appreciation of Chaucer as a Poet and his Poetry and other Poetry of the times Ode on Melancholy ; Ode to Autumn ; Ode to Psyche Critical Analysis of Keats as Poet Discussion on Questions from Examination point of view October Introduction to Elizabethan Age Metaphysical Poetry John Donne and major Metaphysical Poets Satyre of Religion ; The Good Morrow Victorian Period An estimate of Robert Browning My Last Duchess ; Andrea Del Sarto November: The Canonization ; At the Round Earth s Imagined Corners Batter my Heart, Three Person s God Literary Terms The Last Ride Together ; Rabbi Ben Ezra ; The Grammarian Funeral Critical Examination of all the poems PAPER III: BRITISH DRAMA (VIPANJEET/ANITA K.// TARA MITTAL) History Of British Drama, Introduction To Elizabethan Drama, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare August: Doctor Faustus : Introduction and Text Introduction To Shakespearean Tragedy; King Lear (Text) Sept:
Doctor Faustus : Critical Discussion, Question/Answers, Assignments King Lear : Critical Discussion, Question/Answers, Assignments Oct: Introduction to Comedy of Manners & R.B.Sheridan; School for Scandal : Introduction and Text Introduction to Comedy of Ideas and G.B. Shaw; Pygmalion : Introduction and Text Nov: School For Scandal : Question/Answers, Critical Discussion & Assignments Pygmalion : Question/Answers, Critical Discussion & Assignments PAPER IV: BRITISH FICTION (JASPREET/ SANDEEP) History of the Novel; Literary terms, concepts, movements Aug.: Introduction to Thomas Hardy Jude The Obscure (Text) Introduction to Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews (Text) Sept.: Jude The Obscure : Ques/Ans Discussion, Assignments Introduction to Charles Dickens; Hard Times (Text) Joseph Andrews : Ques/Ans Discussion, Assignments Introduction to Charlotte Bronte; Jane Eyre (Text) Oct.: Hard Times (contd.) Jane Eyre (contd.) Nov. Hard Times : Ques/Ans, Discussion,Assignments/Extension Lectures, etc. Jane Eyre : Ques/Ans,Discussion, Assignments/Extension Lectures, etc. SEMESTER II January to April/May-beginning Note: mid-term tests in March-end (NEHA, SUMATI) PAPER I: LITERARY CRITICISM
Jan: Introduction to literary theory, modern critical approaches Discussion on religion, myths, culture Feb- March: Formalist Approach, New Criticism, Practical Criticism---concepts and practice Introduction to Mythological and Archetypal Criticism: Freud and Jung, Frazer, Joseph Campbell, Northrop Frye; Analysis April-May: Psychological Approach, Stream of consciousness, Automatic writing-- concepts and practice Introduction to Marxist philosophy, Marxist approach to literature, literature and Ideology; presentations/assignments PAPER II: BRITISH POETRY( NEERAJ //MRIDULA January Introduction to Modern British Poetry with special reference to 20 th century. Introduction to W.B. Yeats Easter 1916 ; The Second Coming Literary Terms. February A Prayer for My Daughter ; Sailing to Byzantium ; The Circus Animals Desertion Introduction to T.S. Eliot and W.H.Auden In memory of W.B. Yeats ; Musse des Beauty Arts ; September I, 1939 ; Shield of Achilles ; Funeral Blues Discussion on questions March Waste Land Ted Hughes- Critical survey of his poetry The Jaguar ; Hawk Roosting April The Waste Land ; Ash Wednesday Thrushes ; Crow Alights ; Crow s Last Stand Discussion on Questions
PAPER III: BRITISH DRAMA( VIPANJEET/ANITA K. // TARA MITTAL) Jan.: The Modern Period, Introduction to T.S. Eliot & Murder In The Cathedral History of Twentieth Century Drama, Theatre Of Absurd, Samuel Beckett; Waiting For Godot Feb: Murder In The Cathedral (Text) & Waiting For Godot (Text) March: Murder In The Cathedral : Critical Discussion, Questions/Answers, Assignments Introduction To Tom Stoppard; Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (Text) Waiting For Godot: Critical Discussion, Questions/Answers, Assignments Introduction to John Osborne; Look Back In Anger (Text) April: Look Back In Anger : Critical Discussion, Questions/Answers, Assignments Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead : Critical Discussion, Questions/Answers, Assignments PAPER IV: BRITISH FICTION ( JASPREET/SANDEEP) Jan.: History of Twentieth Century Novel; Literary terms, concepts, movements Feb.: Introduction to D.H. Lawrence; Sons & Lovers (Text) Introduction to Joseph Conrad; Heart of Darkness (Text) March: Ques/Ans, & Assignments Introduction to Virginia Woolf; Mrs. Dalloway (Text) Ques/Ans, & Assignments Introduction to William Golding; Lord of the Flies (Text) April: -Continued- Ques/Ans., Discussion, Assignments