MIDNAPORE COLLEGE
(AUTONOMOUS)
MIDNAPORE
DEPARTMENTOF ENGLISH
FIRST SEMESTER
ENGPG- 101
BRITISH POETRY (MEDIEVAL TO PRE-ROMANTIC)
UNIT 1:
A) Geoffrey Chaucer: Prologue to the Canterbury Tales*
OR The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
B) Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene (Book-I) *
UNIT 2:
A) William Shakespeare: Sonnets(Selections)
B) John Donne: The Canonization, The Extasie
C) John Milton: Paradise Lost (Book-Iv)
UNIT 3:
A)Alexander Pope: An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
B) William Blake: Songs of Innocence &Songs of
Experience
C) Introduction ii) The Lamb iii) The Tyger
SYLLABUS FOR P.G.
COURSE
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS
1) Candidates will be required to answer one long answer type
question out of two from each unit (3×10=30) Marks
2) Candidates will be required to answer Short Answer Type
Questions out of two from each unit, 1,2,3(2×5=10)Marks
3) Internal Assessment 10 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
A) Winthrop Wetherbee: The Canterbury tales, Cambridge
University Press, London,2004
B) Edmund Spenser :The Faerie Queene, Orient Blackswan,
Hyderabad,2012
C) Stanley wells: Cambridge Compamnion to Shakespeare
Studies
D) Arthur Symons: William Blake, Booksway, Kolkata,2010
E) Kathleen Rasime: William Blake, Orient Longman, Kolkata,
1951
N.B: 1) (*) Text Taught
FIRST SEMESTER
ENGPG – 102
BRITISH DRAMA (16TH- 19TH CENTURY)
UNIT: 01
A) Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
B) William Shakespeare: King Lear
UNIT: 02
A) Ben Jonson: Everyman in His Humour
B) William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
UNIT: 03
A) William Congreve: The Way of the World
B) Richard Sheridan: The School for Scandal
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS
1) Candidates will be required to answer one long answer type
question out of two from each unit (3×10=30) Marks
2) Candidates will be required to answer Short Answer Type
Questions out of two from each unit, 1,2,3(2×5=10) Marks
3) Internal Assessment 10 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
A) Stanley Wells: Cambridge Compamnion to Shakespeare
Studies
B) William Congreve: The Way of the World, Rama Brothers,
New Delhi, 2008
C) C.L. Barber: Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy,1959-1972
D) Stanley Greeblatt: Renaissance Self Fashioning,1980
N.B: 1) (*) Text Taught
FIRST SEMESTER
ENGPG – 103
FICTIONAL & NON FICTIONAL PROSE(18TH& 19TH CENTURY)
UNIT: 01
A) Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe*OR Moll Flanders
B) Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels *
i) A Voyage to Brobdingnag (Part- II)
ii)A Voyage to the Country of Houyhnhnms (Part -IV)
OR
HenryFielding: Tom Jones
UNIT: 02
A) Charles Dickens:Hard Times*
OR
George Eliot: Middlemarch
B) Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
UNIT: 03
A) Joseph Addison: Sir Roger and Will Wimble
B) Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of
Woman (Chapter-V)
C)Thomas De Quincey: The Knocking at the Door
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS
1) Candidates will be required to answer one long answer type
question out of two from each unit (3×10=30) Marks
2) Candidates will be required to answer Short Answer Type
Questions out of two from each unit, 1,2,3(2×5=10) Marks
3) Internal Assessment 10 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
A) Albert J Rivero: Moll Flanders, Norton Company, New York,
2004
B) Michael Shinagel: Robonson Crusue, New York, Norton
Company,1975
C) Dorothy Vanghent: Form and Function of English Novel
D) Arnold Kettle: An Introduction to English Novel(Two
volumes)
E) A.E. Baker: A History of English Novel(11 Volumes)
F) E. M. Foster : Aspects of the Novel
G) Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth century Novel
N.B: 1) (*) Text Taught
FIRST SEMESTER
ENGPG – 104
BRITISH POETRY( 19TH CENTURY)
UNIT:01
A)William Wordsworth: The Prelude(Book-I)
B)S.T.Coleridge: Kubla Khan & The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner
UNIT:02
A) John Keats: Introduction to the Fall of Hyperion , Ode To
Psyche, Ode on Melancholy
B) Alfred Lord Tennyson: In Memoriam (Selections)
UNIT:03
A) Robert Browning: Andrea del Sarto & Fra Lippo Lippi
B) Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Windhover, Felix Randal,
Thou Art Indeed Just Lord
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS
1) Candidates will be required to answer one long answer type
question out of two from each unit (3×10=30) Marks
2) Candidates will be required to answer Short Answer Type
Questions out of two fromeach unit, 1, 2, 3 2×5=10) Marks
3) Internal Assessment 10 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
A) John Middleton Murray: Keats and Shakespeare: A Study of
Keats’ Poetic Life, Oxford University Press, 1927
B) W. T. Young: Robert Browning: A selection of Poems, CUP,
London,1929
C) Harold Bloom: The Visionary Company
D) Lyton Strachey: Eminent Victorians
E) Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism
F) M.H.Abrams: The Mirror and the Lamp
G) Graham Hough: The Romantic Poets
H) C.M. Bowra: The Romantic Imagination
I) Octavio Paz: Children of the Mire
N.B:
1) (*)Text Taught
MIDNAPORE COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)
MIDNAPORE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
SECOND SEMESTER
ENGPG- 201
BRITISH DRAMA (19th- 20th Century) UNIT 1 :
A) G. B. Shaw : Man And Superman* OR St. Joan
B) J. M. Synge :The Playboy of the Western World
UNIT 2 :
A) Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
B) T. S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral
UNIT 3 :
A) Harold Pinter :The Birthday Party
B) Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:- 1. Candidates will be required to answer one long answer type
question out of two from each unit (3×10=30) Marks
2. Candidates will be required to answer Short Answer Type
Questions out of two from each unit, 1,2,3 (2×5=10) Marks
3. Internal Assessment 10 Marks
SYLLABUS FOR P.G.
COURSE
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:-
A.C.Ward : Bernard Shaw
William Archer : English Dramatist Today
Raymond Williams : English Drama Form Ibsen to Eliot
John Russel Taylor :Harold Pinter
Martin Esslin : Pinter the Playwright
D.E.Jones : The Plays of T.S.Eliot
Grover Smith : T.S. Eliot : Poetry and Plays
N.B:
1) (*) Text Taught
SECOND SEMESTER
ENGPG - 202
FICTIONAL AND NON-FICTIONAL PROSE (19th- 20th Century)
UNIT 1 :
A) Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles* OR Bronte :
Jane Eyre
B) D. H. Lawrence : The Rainbow OR Sons and Lovers*
OR
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim* OR The Secret Sharer
UNIT 2 :
A) Virginia Woolf : To the Lighthouse OR
Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*
UNIT 3 :
A) Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy : Preface to Culture
and Anarchy, Sweetness and Light, Philistine & Barbarian,
Hellenism & Hebraism.
B) Walter Pater : Postscript (Appreciations) OR
Strachey: Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale *
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:-
1. Candidates will be required to answer one long answer type
question out of two from each unit (3×10=30) Marks
2. Candidates will be required to answer Short Answer Type
Questions out of two from each unit, 1,2,3 (2×5=10) Marks
3. Internal Assessment 10 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:-
Keith Sagar : The Art of D.H Lawrence
F.R Leavis : D.H. Lawrence, Novelist
Hugh Walker : Literature in the Victorian Era
H.C. Duffin : Thomas Hardy
F.B. Pinion : A Hardy Companion
J.Holloway : Hardy’s Major Fiction
Bernard Blackstone : Virginia Woolf
Robert Humphrey : Stream of Consciousness in the
Modern Novel
Albert J. Guerard : Conrad the Novelist
Norman Page : Conrad Companion
N.B:
1) (*) Text Taught
SECOND SEMESTER
ENGPG - 203
BRITISH POETRY (19th- 20th Century)
UNIT 1 :
W. B. YEATS: Byzantium, Sailing to Byzantium, Easter 1916,
Among School Children
D. H. Lawrence : Snake, Bavarian Gentians
UNIT 2 :
T. S. Eliot: The Wasteland
W. H. Auden: Musee des Beaux Arts
Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill, A Refusal to Mourn
UNIT 3 :
Philip Larkin : Whitsun Weddings
Ted Hughes: Crow Alights, Crow’s First Lesson (from The
Crow)
Semus Heaney: Death of a Naturalist, Digging
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:-
1. Candidates will be required to answer one long answer type
question out of two from each unit (3×10=30) Marks
2. Candidates will be required to answer Short Answer Type
Questions out of two from each unit, 1,2,3 (2×5=10) Marks
3. Internal Assessment 10 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:-
John Unterecker : A Reader’s Guide to W.B Yeats
A.Norman Jeffers : W.B Yeats : Man and Poet
Cleanth Brooks : Modern Poetry and the tradition
F.O. Matthiessen : The Achievement of T.S.Eliot
Calvin Bendient : Eight Contemporary Poets
David Perkins : A History of Modern Poetry
N.B:
1) (*) Text Taught
SECOND SEMESTER
ENGPG – 204
FINAL COPY OF CBCS
RUDIMENTS OF PHONETICS AND UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION
UNIT 1 :
Phonetics
Organs of Speech
Syllables
Word Stress
Vowels and Consonants
Linguistics
UNIT 2 :
Subject- Verb agreement
GroupVerbs
Idiomatic Expressions
Joining of Sentences
Splitting up of Sentences
Syntax
UNIT 3 :
Summary writing
Translation into English
Common Errors
Proof Reading
Situational English
Spoken / Communicative English
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:-
1. Candidates will be required to answer one long answer type
question out of three from unit 1 and one long answer type
question out of three from unit 3 (2×10=20) Marks
2. Candidates will be required to answer ten questions of 2
marks each out of 15 alternatives from unit 2
(10x2= 20) Marks
3. Internal Assessment 10 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:-
English Literature for Foreign Students- R. Rees
English Pronouncing Dictionary- Daniel Jones
A Text book of English Phonetics- T. Balasubramaniam
Strengthen Your Writing: V. R. Narayanswami
Better English Pronunciation: J. B. O’ Connor
Written Communication in English: Sarah Freeman
Spoken English for You: C. I. E. F.L., Hydrabad
MIDNAPORE COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)
MIDNAPORE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
THIRD SEMESTER
ENGPG- 301
Literary Criticism Any two from each unit
UNIT 1 :
Plato- The Republic*( Books 3 & 10),Aristotle- Poetics*,
Horace- Ars Poetica, Longinus- On the Sublime*
UNIT 2 :
Sidney- An Apology for Poetry*, Dryden- An Essay of
Dramatic Poesy*, Pope- Eassy on Criticism
Wordsworth- Preface to the Lyrical ballads*, Coleridge-
Biographia Literaria (Ch 13,14,18), Shelley- Defence of
Poetry, Keats- Letters (Selections).
UNIT 3 :
Arnold- The Study of Poetry*, Eliot- Tradition and The
Individual Talent*, The Metaphysical Poets, I.A. Richards-
Principles of Literary Criticism*(Psychological Theory of
Value).
SYLLABUS FOR P.G.
COURSE
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:- 1. Candidates will be required to answer one long answer type
question out of two from each unit (3×10=30) Marks
2. Candidates will be required to answer Short Answer Type
Questions out of two from each unit, 1,2,3 (2×5=10) Marks
3. Internal Assessment 10 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:-
Rene Wellek : A History of Modern Criticism
J.H.W Atkins: Literary Criticism in Antiquity (2 Vols)
Wimsalt and brooks : Literary Criticism : A short History
M.H. Abrams: Mirror and the Lamp
Raman Selden: The theory of criticism from plato to the
present: A Reader
V.S. Seturaman (ed) contemporary and anthology
George saintorry: A history of English Criticism
Scott- James: The making of literature – From socratis to
Sartre
David lodge- (e.d.) modern Criticism and Theory (London :
Longman, 1988)
Plato, Dialogues, e.g. in the Penguin Classics edition
Plato, the Republic, e.g. in the Penguin Classics edition
Ingram Bywater (Trans), On t he Art of Poetry by Aristotle
(Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1962)
Penelop Murray (Trans), Classical literary Criticism (London:
Penguin Classics, 2000)
Harry blamires, A history of Literary Criticism (New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 1991)
M.A.R. Habib, A History of Literary Criticism and theory, from
Plato to the Present (London: Blackwell,2005)
Marilyn Butler, Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English
Literature and its Background 1760-1830 (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1981)
Lionel Trilling, Mathew Arnold (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1949) Michael Thorpe, Mathew Arnold
(New York: Arco, 1969)
D.A Russell and M. Winterbottom, eds, Ancient Literary
Criticism
A.H. Gilbert, ed. Literary Criticism: Plato to Dryden
Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle , eds, Critical Theory since
1965
David Simpson,ed The Origins of Modern Critical Thought
David Lodge,ed, Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader
N.B:
1) (*) Text Taught
THIRD SEMESTER
ENGPG- 302
Literary Criticism & Theory
UNIT 1 : (Any Three)
Terry Eagleton- Rise of English (From Literary Theory) OR
Louis Althusser- Ideology and Ideological State
Apparatuses*, Saussure – Signifier and the Signified*,
Focault- What is an Author (from Reader), Barthes- Death of
the Author*, Derrida- Structure, Sign, Play, Walter Benjamin-
Author as Producer.
UNIT 2 : (Any Two)
Elaine Showalter –Feminist Poetics OR Judith Butler Preface*
(From Gender Trouble ), Stephen Greenblat- Resonance and
Wonder* (From Learning to Curse) OR Cultural Materialism
UNIT 3 : (Any Four)
Defamiliarisation, Langue and Parole, Discourse,
Gynocriticism, Subalternism, Heteroglassia, Cultural
Industry, Cultural Poetics, Hybridity, Mimicry, Diaspora, Eco
Feminism.
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:- 1. Candidates are required to answer one long answer type
question of 10 marks out of two and one short answer type
question of 5 marks out of two from unit -1 and Unit-2
(10+5=15) marks from unit -1 and (10+5=15)marks from
unit -2 = Total- 30 Marks.
2. Candidates are required to answer two short answer type
questions of (5+5)=10 marks out of four from unit 3.
3. Internal Assessment 10 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:-
Roland Barthes, Mythologies, English edn. (London: Paladin,
1972)
Gayatri Chakraborty (trans.) Of Grammatology by Jacques
Derrida (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1974)
Alan Bass (Trans.), Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978)
Colin Gordon (ed.) Power Knowledge: Selected Interviews and
Other Writings 1972-77 by Michel Foucault (Hertfordshire:
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1980)
Lois Tyson, Critical Theory Today: A user- Friendly Guide
(New York: Garland Publishing, 1999)
Peter Barry, Beginning Theory : An introduction to Literary
and Cultural Theory (Manchester : Manchester University
Press, 2002)
Patricial Waugh, Literary theory and criticism: an Oxford
Guide (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006
Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction, with a new
preface (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008)
Benett, Andrew, and Nicholas Royle. An Introduction to
Literature, Criticism and Theory harlow: Pearson Education
Limited, 2009
Hall, Donald E. Literary and Cultural Theory: From Basic
Principles to Advanced Application. Boston: Houghton, 2001
Latimer, Dan. Contemporary Critical Theory. San Diego:
Harcourt, 1989
Wolfreys, Julian. Ed. Introducing Literary theories: A Guide
and Glossary, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003
Glotfelty, Cheryll and Harold Fromm (Ed.) The Ecocriticism
Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Athens: The
University of Georgia Press, 1996
Culler, Jonathan Literary Theory: A very short introduction.
Oxford: OUP, 2011
Mar Klages, Literary Theory: A Guide for the perplexed, 2008
Terry Eagleton. After Theory, 2006
New historicism & Cultural Materialism : Stephen Greenblat-
Romance and Wonder (From Learning Course)
N.B:
1) (*) Text Taught
THIRD SEMESTER
ENGPG - 303
Colonialism & Post Colonialism UNIT 1 :
Benedict Anderson- Imagined Communities OR Asish Nandy-
Nationalism*, Genuine & Spurious, Fanon- Preface by Sartre
from Wretched of the Earth*, Ngugi-Language of African
Literature from Decolonizing the Mind*.
UNIT 2 :
Homie K. Bhaba- The Other Question* (From Location of
Culture), Bill Ashcroft- Introduction from Empire Writes
Back , Edward Said- Orientalism*(Excerpt from David
Lodge)
UNIT 3 :
E.M Forster- A Passage to India*or Coetze- Foe,
Soyinka-Dance of the Forest,
Any two poems from the following poets:
Meena Alexander- House of a Thousand Doors*.
Agha Sahid Ali- Postcard from Kashmir*
Uma Parameshwaran- This Land Whereon I Stand.
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:- 4. Candidates are required to answer three long answer type
questions out of two from each unit (3×10=30) Marks
5. Candidates are required to answer two Short answer type
Questions out of Six from Unit- 1,2,3 (2×5=10) Marks
6. Internal Assessment 10 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:-
Bhabha Homik . The Location of Culture King, Bruce. New
literatures in English
Ngugi’s From “The Language of African Theatre ” in
Readical street performance, An international anthology.
Ed. Jan cohen cruz. London and New York : Routledge
1998, PP 238-244
Bill, Ashcroft et.al. The Empire writs Back McGaw William,
ed inventing countries Essays in post colonial literature.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, Gender criticism: What Isn’t
Gender
Butler , Judith , Gender Trouble (1990)
De Beavoir , simone, : The Second Sex, 1949
Gardener, Judith Kegen, ed. Masculinity studies and
feminist theory: New Direction, Columbia University Press,
2002.
Braziel Jana Evans and Anita Mannur (ed) Theorizing
dispora, London Black well, 2003
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on
the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
K.W. Appiah, In My Father’s House: Africa in the
Philosophy of Culture
W. Harris, Tradition, The Writer and Society
G. Lamming, The Pleasures of Exile
Edward Said, Orientalism
Wole Soyinka, Myth, Literature and the African World
THIRD SEMESTER
ENGPG - 304
FINAL COPY OF CBCS
CRITICAL THEORY AND CULTURAL STUDIES UNIT 1 :
Modernism and Post Modernism
Marxism
Hegemony and Resistance
New historicism
Structuralism
Marginality
Eco Feminism
UNIT 2 :
Jayanta Mahapatra- Dawn at Puri
Nissim Ezekiel- Night of the Scorpion
G.B Shaw – Spoken English, Broken English
Nehru- Discovery of India (An essay from Essays and
Stories, Burdwan University)
R.K. Narayan-
UNIT 3 : K. M. Munshi- Culture
O Henry- The Last Leaf
Anil Ghorai- Footprint of an Elephant
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:- 1. Candidates will be required to answer one long answer
type question out of two from unit 2 and 3
(3×10=30) Marks
2. Candidates will be required to answer two Short Answer
Type Questions out of six from unit 1 (2×5=10) Marks
3. Internal Assessment 10 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:-
Quintessence of Literary Essays - Goodman
A Dictionary of Literary Modern Critical Terms(Ed) - Roger
Fowler
Dictionary of Literary Terms - Cuddon
A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory- Jeremy
Hawthorn
Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature - Bill Ashcroft
A Handbook to Literature: Thrall & Hibbard
Literary Criticism: A Reading - Das & Mohanty
Modern Prose- Michael Thorpe
Eight Essayists- A.S. Cairncross (Ed)
N.M. Aston (ed.): Dalit Literature and African-American
Literature
Fernando Franco, Jyotsna Macwan & Suguna Ramanathan:
Journeys to Freedom: Dalit Narratives
Murali Monohar: Critical Essays on Dalit Literature
OPTION - B
Linguistics UNIT I :
What is Linguistics, Branches of Linguistics, Some Basic
Concepts: Structure and function, Synchrony and
Diachronic, Language Variation and Language Change. UNIT II
What is Phonetics, Phoneme, Allophone, Human Speech Mechanism, Vowels and Consonants in English, Pure Vowels and Diphthongs of English, PhoneticTranscription.
UNIT III
What is Morpheme, Distinction between Phoneme &
Morpheme, Word Formation Processes in English,
Traditional Grammar, Transformation-Generative
Grammar.
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:- 1. Candidates will be required to answer one long answer
type question out of two from each unit
(3×10=30) Marks
2. Candidates will be required to answer two Short Answer
Type Questions out of six from each unit, 1,2,3
(2×5=10) Marks
3. Internal Assessment 10 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:-
Abercrombie, D. Elements of General Phonetics (Edinburgh University Press, 1967).
Balasubramaniam, T. A Textbook of English Phonetics for
Indian Students (Macmillan1981). Chomsky, Noam. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1965). Crystal, David. Linguistics (Penguin, 1971).
Hockett, C.F. A Course on Modern Linguistics (New York:
Macmillan, 1958). Katamba, F. Morphology (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993).
yons J. 1968. Introduction to TheoreticalLinguistics (CUP,
1981). O’Connor, J.D. Phonetics (Penguin, 1973).
Robins, R.H. General Linguistics (Longman, 3rd Edition 1980).
Saussure, Ferdinand de. A Course in General Linguistics, Trans. Wade Baskin (New York: McGraw Hill).
Verma, S.K. and N. Krishnaswamy. Introduction to Modern
Linguistics (OUP, 1993).
N.B:
1) (*) Text Taught
MIDNAPORE COLLEGE
(AUTONOMOUS)
MIDNAPORE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
FOURTH SEMESTER
ENGPG- 401
AMERICAN LITERATURE UNIT 1 : American Novel
H. Melville-Moby Dick, Hemingway- A Farewell to Arms*,
Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby*, Toni Morrison – The
Bluest Eye*.
UNIT 2 : American Drama
Arthur Miler- Death of a Salesman*, Tennessee Williams- A
Street Car Named Desire*,
Eugene O’Neill- Mourning Becomes Electra, Lorraine Vivian
Hansberry- A Raisin in the Sun.
UNIT 3 : American Poetry
Walt Whitman- Song of Myself
Robert Frost- Birches*
Sylvia Plath- Daddy*
Langston Hughes- The Negro Speaks of Rivers*
Allan Ginsberg- Sunflower Sutra*
SYLLABUS FOR P.G.
COURSE
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:- 1. Candidates will be required to answer three long answer
type questions out of six from each unit taking at least one
from each unit. (3×10=30) Marks
2. Candidates will be required to answer two Short Answer
Type Questions out of six taking at least one from each unit
(2×5=10) Marks
3. Internal Assessment 10 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:-
Handlin, Oscar: The Americans: A New History of the
People of the United States (Two Vols)
Lewis, Richard W: The American Adam
Persons, Stow: American Minds: A History of ideas
Horton. Rod W. & Herbert W. Edwards: Backgrounds of
American Literary Thought
Cunliffe, Marcus: The Literature of the United States.
N.B:
1) (*) Text Taught
FOURTH SEMESTER
ENGPG- 402
INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE UNIT 1 : Novel
Raja Rao- Kanthapura*, R.K. Narayan- The Guide
Amitava Ghosh- The Shadow Lines*, Shashi Deshpande- That
Long Silence
UNIT 2 : Drama
Rabindranath Tagore- The Red Oleanders, Mahesh Dattani-
Tara*
Vijay Tendulkar- Silence! The Court is in Session*, Girish
Karnad- Hayabadhana
UNIT 3 : Poetry
Nissim Ezekiel- Background, Casually, R. Parthasarathy-
Exile, A.K. Ramanujan- A River
Kamala Das- An Introduction , Jayanta Mahapatra- Hunger.
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:- 1. Candidates will be required to answer three long answer
type questions out of six from each unit taking at least one
from each unit. (3×10=30) Marks
2. Candidates will be required to answer two Short Answer
Type Questions out of six taking at least one from each unit
(2×5=10) Marks
3. Internal Assessment 10 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:-
M.K. Naik P: A History of Indian Literature
Makarand Paranjape: The Penguin Aurobindo Reader
Bruce King: Modern Indian Poetry in English
William Walsh: ‘Small Observations on a Large
Subject(Nissim Ezekiel, R. Parthasarathy, A. K. Ramanujan)’
in Aspects of Indian Writing in English,ed. M.K. Naik
Anisur Rahaman: Form and Volue in the Poetry of Nissim
Ezekiel
Rabindranath Tagore: Three Plays (Translated and with an
Introduction) Three Modern Indian Plays (Girish Karnard:
‘Tughlaq’, Badal Sirkar: ‘Evam Indrajit’, Vijay Tendulkar:
‘Silence! The Court is in Session’) with and introduction by
U.R. Anantha Murthy
N.B:
1) (*) Text Taught
FOURTH SEMESTER
ENGPG - 403
DIASPORIC LITERATURE UNIT 1 : Novel
Salman Rushdie- Midnight’s Children*, Bapsi Sidhwa- Ice
Candy Man*,
Jhumpa Lahiri- The Namesake*, Bharati Mukherjee- Jasmine
UNIT 2 : Poetry
Meena Alexander- Art of Pariahs, Agha Shahid Ali- The
Correspondent,
Imtiaz Dharkar-Purdah-2, Uma Parameswaran-This Land
Whereon I Stand (Kabya Bharati-17)
UNIT 3 : Non Fictional Prose
Salman Rushdie- Imaginary Homelands (Selections)
Stuart Hall- Cultural Identity & Diaspora*
William Safran- Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of
Homeland and Return (1991)*
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:-
1. Candidates are required to answer three long answer type
questions out of two from each unit (3×10=30) Marks
2. Candidates are required to answer two Short answer type
Questions out of Six from Unit- 1,2,3 (2×5=10) Marks
3. Internal Assessment 10 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:-
A.K. Mehrotra: An Illustrated History of Indian Literature
in English Maleolm Bradbury: The Atlas of Literature
Avtar Brah: Cartographies of Diaspora: Contested
Identities
N.B:
1) (*) Text Taught
FOURTH SEMESTER
ENGPG - 404
OPTION - A
DALIT LITERATURE
UNIT 1 : (Novel)
Omprakash Valmiki- Joothan*, Bama- Karukku,
, Anantha Murthi- Samskara*
UNIT 2 : (Poetry)
M.R. Anand & Eleanor Zelliot (eds)-
1. Revolution*
2. Slave*
3. Great Man*
Arjun Dangle (ed) – Poisoned Bread
1. To be or not to be born*
2. Take a hammer to change the world*
UNIT 3 : (Non Fictional Prose)
Sharankumar Limbale- Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit
Literature –
Dalit Literature : Form and Purpose
Dalit Literature and Ambedkarism
Arjun Dangle (ed) – Poisoned Bread: Dr- Ambedkar’s
Speech at Mahad
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:-
1. Candidates will be required to answer three long answer
type questions out of two from each unit (3×10=30) Marks
2. Candidates will be required to answer two Short Answer
Type Questions out of two from each unit, 1,2,3(2×5=10)
Marks
3. Internal Assessment 10 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:-
Dr. B. R Ambedkar: Annihilation of Case
_____________________ Who were Shudras
Kancha Illaih : Why I am not a Hindu
N.M. Aston (ed.): Dalit Literature and African-American
Literature
Fernando Franco, Jyotsna Macwan & Suguna Ramanathan:
Journeys to Freedom: Dalit Narratives
Murali Monohar: Critical Essays on Dalit Literature
OPTION - B
SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
UNIT 1 : (Fiction)
Mahasweta Devi- Draupadi
Kazuo Ishiguro- Remains of the Day
Jhumpa Lahiri- When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine
Hanif Kureishi – The Buddha of Suburbia
UNIT 2 : (Poetry)
E.E. Cummings – I Carry Your Heart With Me
Judith Wright – Woman’s Song
Seamus Heany – Terminus
Adrienne Rich- Power
UNIT 3 : (Non Fictional Prose)
Sigmund Freud – Creative Writers and Day Dreaming
Simone de Beauvoir- The Independent Woman
Frederic Jameson- Third World Literature in The Era of
Multinational Capitalism
G. N. Devy- After Amnesia (Selections)
Ranajit Guha- On Some Aspects of the Historiography of
Colonial India.
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:- 1. Candidates will be required to answer three long answer type
questions out of two from each unit (3×10=30) Marks
2. Candidates will be required to answer two Short Answer Type
Questions out of two from each unit, 1,2,3 (2×5=10) Marks
3. Internal Assessment 10 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:-
Blamires, Harry,ed. A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature
in English
Ford, Boris,ed. The MKodern Age (Vol.7 of The New Pelican
Guide to English Literature)
McGaw, Wiliam,ed Inventing countries: Essays in Post-
Colonial Literature
Wain, John. Essays on Literature and Ideas.
N.B:
1) (*) Text Taught
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