M.A.

FIRST SEMESTER (2023-2024)

ALLOCATION OF PORTIONS

MENICO1- British Literature from Chaucer to 18th Century (5 credits)

Section A: Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer The General Prologue to Canterbury Tales (First 100lines) HH
Sonnet 18. Shall I Compare thee to aSummer's Day RIZ
Shakespeare HC
John Donne The Canonization
John Milton Paradise Lost, BookI (lines up to 270) HCV
John Dryden Mac Flecknoe DIL
Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress RIZ
Thomas Gray Elegy written in a Country Churchyard" EKM
(All poems in section A are marked for annotation)
Section B: Drama
Hamlet RIZ
Shakespeare
Webster The Duchess of Malfi HC /
RB Sheridan The Rivals UB
Section C: Prose & Fiction
Francis Bacon Of Marriage UB
Joseph Addison Sir Roger at Church RIZ
Jonathan Swift Gulliver 's Travels DIL
Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews DIL
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe RIZ

MENICO2 BritishLiterature: The 19th Century. (5 credits)

Section A: Poetry
William Blake The Tiger, The Lamb RIZ U
Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey HC%
ST Coleridge Kubla Khan HH
PB Shelley Ozymandias HC
John Keats Ode to a Nightingale HCV
Byron She Walks in Beauty SFK
Alfred Tennyson Tithonus SFK
Browning Fra Lippo Lippi TM
Elizabeth Barret Browning AMusical Instrument TM
Matthew Arnold Dover Beach RIZ
D.G Rossetti The Blessed Damozel DIL

(All poems in section A are marked for annotation)

Section B: Drama
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest TM G
Section C: Prose &Fiction
Charles Lamb Old China RIZ
William Hazlitt On Reading Old Books EKM
Charles Dickens ATale of Two Cities EKM
Emile Bronte Wuthering Heights HCY
Thomas Hardy Tess of the DUrbevilles HCY
MENICO3 History of English Language (5 credits)
Section A Language families - The Indo-European family of languages; Germanic Family of languages TM
and the origin of English
Theearly history of English language;Old English Period - Scandinavian invasions - Middle STR
English Period: The Impact of the Norman Conquest on the English Language; - Middle
English Literature. Modern English Period
SFK
Loan words - The impact of the Renaissance
Bible Translations - Latin and Greek influence EKM

Sound changes in English - The Great Vowel Shift - Changes in Grammar, Vocabulary, TM
Phonology and Morphology - Semantics- Word formation

Section B Foreign influences on English in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries - UB
Expansion of Vocabulary -Colonialism and the English language -Semantic change- Pidgins
and Creoles. Contributions of major writerstothe growth of English vocabulary.
STR
SectionC The discrepancy between spelling and pronunciation -Attempts to reform English spelling
Evolution of Standard English -Dialects of English: British and American English in India
English in the postcolonial world -English as aglobal language -The rise of ,Englishes" -
Impact of Science and Technology- English in the digital age

MENIC04: Indian Literature in English (Credits 5)

Section A: Poetry
Toru Dutt Our Casuarina Tree ZK V
Rabindranath Tagore The Child RIZ
Nizzim Ezekiel In the Country Cottage HH
Jayantha Mahapatra Hunger ZK
A.K. Ramanujan Obituary HH
R. Parthasarathy River, Once RIZ
Kamala Das The Old Playhouse HH
Gieve Patel The Ambiguous fate of Gieve Patel, he being neither Muslim RIZ
nor Hindu in India
Meena Alexander Blue Lotus UB
Arundhathi Subramaniam Home RIZ
Meena Kandasamy ,Dead Woman Walking ZK

(All poems in section A are marked for annotation)

Section B: Fiction
Mulk Raj Anand Coolie ZK
R.K.Narayanan The Guide HH
Salman Rushdie Midnight 's Children SFK
Amitav Ghosh The Hungry Tide HCJ
Section C: Drama
Girish Karnad Yayati (English Translation) ZK
Mahesh Dattani Tara HH
Section B: Prose
Jawahar Lal Nehru What is Culture RIZ
Amartya Sen Reason and ldentity (From: The Argumentative Indian, Part IV SFK