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SCHELL OF EXAMINATION
AND
COC O E S OF READING
FOR
THE M. A. EXAMINATION
IN ENGLISH
The M.A. English syllabus comprises 16 courses to be taught over 4 semesters and two
years.
Semester 1 Courses 0101 - 0104
Semester 2 Courses 0201 - 0204
Semester 3 Courses 0301 - 0304
Semester 4 Courses 0401 - 0404
Courses 0104,0203, 0304 and 0403 offer options. Students will be required to opt for one
of the two or three optional papers listed under each of these courses. However, the
Department of Eng lish reserves the right to withdraw an optional paper at the beginning
of the concerned semester.
Note: Over and above the courses taught at the department, students will be
required to opt courses, one each during the 2nd and 4th semesters, outside the
department acrc^ faculties depending on the availability of seats and the eligibility
criteria set down by the concerned department. However, in case interdisciplinary
courses are no£ a vailable, the number of electives to be chosen for paper 0203 and
04i>3 respectively will be two.
SCHEME OF EXAMINATION
Students will be evaluated on the basis of a wrL.sn examination at the end of each
semester and internal assessment for each course during the semester. Each paper will be
of three hours’ d. ,ation, and the maximum marks for each paper will be 70. The internal
assessment for each course will be for 30 marks, out of which 25 marks will be for
assignments given by the Department and 5 marks ibr tutorials in the respective colleges.
Note: The Department may change the edition and the translations prescribed
defending upiiii their availability, and in the light of new publications.
Bibliographical entails and page numbers hav;; been given for ready reference.
However, other i ^ndard editions of the same teii^ and translations may be used.
Semester 1
Paper Eng 0101 English Poetry from Chaucer to Mliion
Paper Eng 0102 Eighteenth Century English Literature
Paper Eng 0103 Literary Criticism 1
Paper Eng 0104 Optional Paper (One of the following):
Paper Eng 0104 (i) Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Drama
Paper Eng 0104 (ii) European Comedy
3
Semes: 2
Paper E. 0201 Shakespeare
Paper Ejsj 0202 Language and Linguistics
Paper Enu 0203 Optional Paper (One of the following):*
Paper Eng 0203 (i) Literature and Gender
Paper Eng 0203 (ii) New Literatures in English
Paper Eng 0203 (iii) Romantic Poetry
Paper E r 0204 A course in another ciscipline. #
Semester 3
Paper Env 0301 Nineteenth Century Novel
Paper Ena 0302 Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama
Paper Eng 0303 Indian Literature 1
Paper E i ^ 0304 Optional Paper (One of the following):
Paper Eng 0304 (i) American Literature
Paper Eng 0304 (ii) Literature and the Visual Arts in Europe
Sem es:, 4
Paper En* 0401 Twentieth Century Novel
Paper Eng 0402 Literary Criticism 2
Paper 0403 Optional Paper (One :.f the following): *
Paper Eng 0403(i) Ancient Greek and Latin Literature
Paper Eng 0403(ii) Indian Literature 2
Paper Eng 0403(iii) The Novel in India
Paper Eng 0404 A course in another discipline. #
* In case interdisciplinary courses are not available, the number of electives to be chosen
for paper G203 and 0403 respectively will be two.
# Student will be notified the departments where interdisciplinary courses are being
offered.
Other Details:
PROMOTION CRITERIA
SEME STER TO SEMESTER: Within the same Part, the candidate will be promoted
from a Semester to the next Semester (Semester 1 io Semester 2 and Semester 3 to
Semester 4), provided the candidate has passed at least two of the papers of the current
semester by securing at least 40% marks in each paper.
Note. A candidate who does not appear in a paper will be allowed ON LY ONE more
attempt to pass the paper. No further attempts for improvement will be allowed. A
candidate will not be allowed to reappear even if he/she is absent.
PAR , I TO PART II: Admission to Part II of the program shall be open to only those
students who have fulfilled the following criteria:
1. have scored at least 45% marks in the practical papers of both Semester 1 and 2
laken together,
2. have passed at least four of the papers o "; rred in courses of Part I comprising
Semester 1 and Semester 2 by securing at least 40% marks in each of these four
papers and
3. have secured at leasi 45% in aggregate of all theory papers of Part I.
Note: Hie candidate, however, has to clear the remaining papers either while enrolled in
Part i: of the program as a regular student or as an ex-student (after two years but within
a sptL_; period of a total of four years).
Only TWO attempts in total will be allowed to then candidate to clear any particular paper.
The candidates will be allowed to reappear for &particular paper in its respective
semibier only.
A W A ^P OF DEGREE
A Citr didate will be awarded M.A. degree at the end of Semester 4 provided he/she has
pasit :; all the papers of Part I (Semester I arid 2) and Part II (Sen .ester 3 and 4) by
sec.„tr. j at least 40% marks in each paper and Ma also obtained at least 45% in aggregate
of Par: 1 and Part II.
DIVISION CIRTERIA
Successful candidates will be classified on the basis of the combined results of Part I and
Part II examinations as follows:
SPAN PERIOD
No student shall be admitted as candidate for the examination for any of the
Parts/Semesters after the lapse of four years from the date of admission to the Part 1/
Semester 1 o f the M.A. program.
CREDITS
Semester I
Eng 0101
English Literature from Chaucer to Milton
Martin Luther Sections III, IV, V, IX, from On the Bondage o f the Will,
in Martin Luther: Selections From His Writings, tr. Packer
and Johnston, ed. John Dillenberger (Anchor, 1961), pp.
175-90.
Eng 0102
Eighteenth Century English Literature
3. Alexander Pope From Moral Essays: Epistle II. ‘To a Lady: Of the
Characters of Women’; Epistle IV. ‘Of the Use of Riches:
To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington’,
‘Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot’.
Bernard Mandeville ‘An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue’ [including
the Introduction], in The Fable o f the Bees, ed. F. B. Kaye
(Oxford: Clarendon, 1957), vol. 1, pp. 39-57.
Eng 0103
Literary Criticism 1
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria, Chapters IV, XIII, and XIV.
Thomas Middleton
and William Rowley The Changeling
Semester II
Eng 0201
Shakespeare
2. Hamlet
Niccolo Machiavelli From The Prince, tr. and ed.Robert M. Adams (N.Y.: Norton,
1977) Chapters 6 ,7 ,1 5 ,1 6 ,1 7 ,1 8 ,2 1 ,2 2 ,2 3 and 25.
3. King Lear, ed. R. A. Foakes, The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series, 1997.
Eng 020?
Language and Linguistics
The main objective of this course is to introduce the student to the basic tools essential
for a systematic study of language. While the course will include, under various topics,
an illustrative discussion of the specific features of English language, the multilingual
context of the classroom will also be kept in mind.
Unit 1
Language: language and communication; properties of human language; language
varieties: standard and non-standard language, dialect, register, slang, pidgin, Creole;
varieties o f English; language change
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Mesthrie, Rajend and Rakesh M Bhatt. 2008. World Englishes: The study o f new
linguistic varieties. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Chapter 1: The spread of English
Pinker, Steven. 1994 The language instinct. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Chapter 1: An instinct to acquire an art
Chapter 2: Chatterboxes
Chapter 3: Mentalese
Unit 2
Structuralism: Ferdinand de Saussure; synchronic and diachronic approaches; langue and
parole; si^n, signifier, signified and semiology; syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations
de Saussu_s, Ferdinand. 1966. Course in general linguistics. New York: McGraw Hill
introduction: Chapter 3
Part I: Chapters 1 & 2
Part II; Synchronic linguistics
Part Li: Diachronic linguistics
U n it 3
SynuT; and semantics: categories and constituents, predicates and argument structure,
then les, case; phrase structure; lexical meaning relations; implicature, entailment
and iv- i opposition; maxims of conversation, speech act
Imtiaz Dharker (i) ‘Purdah I’, ‘Minority’, Battle Line’, in Nine Indian
Women Poets, ed. Eunice de Souza (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1997),
(ii) ‘Honour Killing’, ‘Stitched’, ‘Tongue’, ‘Front Door’,
‘At the Lahore Karhai’, ‘Hanging Gardens’, ‘They’ll Say,
“She Must Be From Another Country’” , ‘The Umbrella’,
‘Knees’, ‘All of Us’, ‘Being Go<?d in Glasgow’, ‘Canvas’,
‘Compromising Positions’, ‘Exorcism’, in I Speak fo r the
Devil (Penguin India, 2003).
1. J. M. Coetzee Disgrace
Meaghan Morris ‘On the Beach’, in Too Soon, Too Late: History in Popular
Culture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988), pp.
93-119.
Michael Ondaatje ‘The Cinnamon Peeler’, ‘The Time Around Scars’, ‘Letters
and Other Worlds’, ‘Billboards’, in The Cinnamon Peeler:
Selected Poems (London: Picador, 1989).
Edmund Burke From A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin o f our Ideas
o f the Sublime and the Beautiful, ed. James T. Boulton
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1987), Part 1, Section VII, Section
XVIII; Part 2, Sections I- VIII; Part 3, Section XXVII (pp.
39-40, 51-52, 57-74, 124-25).
2. William Wordsworth The Prelude (1850), Books I, VI, IX, XII, and XIV
Eng 0204
A course in another discipline
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Semester III
E ng 0301
Nineteenth Century Novel
Eng 0302
Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama
Theodor Adorno ‘Lyric Poetry and Society’, Telos, no. 20 (Summer 1974),
pp. 56-70.
4. Luigi Pirandello Henry IV, tr, Julian Mitchell (London; Eyre Methuen,
1979).
Bertolt Brecht Life o f Galileo, in Collected Ploys, vol. 5, ed. and tr, John
Willett (London: Methuen, 1999).
Eng 0303
Indian Literature 1
William Jones ‘On the Poetry of the Eastern Nations’, in The Works o f Sir
William Jones (Delhi: Agam Prakashan, 1979), vol. 10.
Mira ‘I’m colored with the color of dusk’, ‘Life without Hari is
no life’, ‘Today your friend is coming’, ‘I saw the dark
clouds burst’, ‘Hey love bird, crying cuckoo’, Murli sounds
on the banks of the Jumna’, ‘The Bil woman tasted them,
plum after plum’, ‘Sister, I had a dream that I wed’, ‘I have
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4. Kabir Poems: ‘Go naked if you want’, ‘Hey Qazi, what’s the
book you’re preaching from?’, ‘Kabir is done with
Stretching thread and weaving’, ‘Tell me, Ram: what will
happen to me?’ ‘If cast was what the Creator had in mind?,
‘Why be so proud of this useless, used-up body?, ‘Hey
brother, why do you want me to talk?’, ‘That master
weaver, whose skills ‘That thief has gone on thieving’,
‘Pundit, so well-read, go ask God’.
Epigrams: ‘So I’m bom a weaver’, ‘The true master’,
‘Kabir: Even worthless bushes’, ‘Your chance of human
birth’, ‘The lean doe’, ‘Scorched by the forest fire’, ‘They
bum’, ‘Kabir: My mind was soothed’, ‘The sense o f
separation’, ‘God is the jewel’, ‘I’m dead’, ‘Kabir: The hut
was made of sticks’, ‘The pundits have taken’, ‘Kabir: The
instrument is still’, in Songs o f the Saints ofIndia, pp. 50-
61.
Eng 0304
Optional Course {One o f the following)
Langston Hughes ‘Madam’s Calling Cards’, ‘Madam and the Census Man’,
‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’, ‘Theme for English B’,
‘Harlem’, in Selected Poems (New York: Random House,
1990).
1. Introduction
1. Learning to view; periods, movements, and the language of art.
2. Problems of representation: reading and seeing.
3. Problems of gender.
4. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits o f
Painting and Poetry, tr. Edward Allen McCormick (New York:
Library of Liberal Arts), ch. 16-18.
2. The body and the self
1. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Bernini, Velasquez,
Rembrandt, Vermeer.
2. a) Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man.
Semester IV
E ng 0401
Twentieth Century Novel
Sigmund Freud Sections VII and VIII, from Civilization and its
Discontents, in Freud, Civilization, Society and Religion, tr.
Joan Riviere, Penguin Freud Library, vol. 12
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991), pp. 315-340.
4. Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years o f Solitude, tr. Gregory Rabassa
(London: Harper and Row, 1970).
E ng 0402
Literary Criticism 2
Mikhail Bakhtin ‘Epic and Novel’, trs. Caryl Emerson and Michael
Holquist, in M. M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination, ed,
Michael Holquist (Austin, Texas: University of Texas
Press, 1981), pp. 3-40.
Julia Kristeva ‘Women’s Time’, tr. Alice Jardine and Harry Blake, in
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Eng 0403
Optional Course (One o f the following)
Eng 0403(i)
Greek and Latin Literature
4. Horace (1) From Horace: The Complete Odes and Epodes with the
‘Centennial Hymn’, tr., with notes, by W.G. Shepherd,
with an introduction by Betty Radice (Penguin Books,
1983): Book 1: Odes 9, 11,25; Book 2: Ode 14; Book 3:
Ode 30.
(2) From Horace: Satires and Epistles; Persius: Satires, tr.
Niall Rudd (Penguin Books, 1997): Horace. Book I,
Satire 9.
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Eng 0403(H)
Indian Literature 2
1. RajaRao Kanthapura
Eng 0403(iii)
The Novel in India
M irza Mohammad
Hadi Ruswa Umrao Jaan Ada (1899), tr. David M atthews (New
Delhi: Rupa, 1996).
3. Shrilal Shukla Raag Darbari (1968), tr. Gillian Wright (New Delhi:
Penguin).
Eng 0404
A Course in Another Discipline
Students will be notified the departments where interdisciplinary courses are being
offered.