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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.

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1) (*) Text Taught