1 MA English: Syllabus and Course of Study 2018 Programme Structure & Syllabus for M.A English Programme Programme Structure S.No Course Course Title Type of Teaching Credits Max Marks Total Hours/ Code Course Week CIA External SEMESTER I 1 MEG Introduction to C 4 4 40 60 100 101 Linguistics And Teaching of English 2 MEG102 English Poetry : From C 4 4 40 60 100 Chaucer to Dryden 3 MEG103 English Novel: Defoe to C 4 4 40 60 100 Dickens 4 MEG104 Elizabethan and C 4 4 40 60 100 Jacobean Drama 5 SEC Skill Enhancement Course SEC 4 4 40 60 100 SEMESTER II 6 MEG201 English Poetry: C 4 4 40 60 100 Romantic and Victorian 7 MEG202 English Drama: From C 4 4 40 60 100 Dryden to Eliot 8 MEG203 Modern British Fiction C 4 4 40 60 100 9 MEG204 Indian Writing In C 4 4 40 60 100 English 10 AEC Ability Enhancement AEC 4 4 40 60 100 Course SEMESTER III 11 MEG301 Literary Theory & Criticism I C 4 4 40 60 100 12 MEG302 American Literature C 4 4 40 60 100 13 MEG303 Modern British Poetry C 4 4 40 60 100 and Drama 14 Elective Elective Course I E 4 4 40 60 100 15 OGE Open Generic Elective OGE 4 4 40 60 100 SEMESTER IV 16 MEG401 New Literatures in C 4 4 40 6;0 100 English 17 MEG402 Non -Fictional Prose C 4 4 40 60 100 18 MEG403 Literary Theory & Criticism II C 4 4 40 60 100 19 MEG404 Indian Writing in C 4 4 40 60 100 English Translation 20 Elective Elective Course II E 4 4 40 60 100 Grand Total 80 80 800 1200 2000
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MA English: Syllabus and Course of Study 2018
Programme Structure & Syllabus for M.A English Programme
Programme Structure
S.No Course Course Title Type of Teaching Credits Max Marks Total
Hours/
Code
Course
Week
CIA External
SEMESTER I
1 MEG Introduction to C 4 4 40 60 100
101 Linguistics And
Teaching of English
2 MEG102 English Poetry : From C 4 4 40 60 100
Chaucer to Dryden
3 MEG103 English Novel: Defoe to C 4 4 40 60 100
Dickens
4 MEG104 Elizabethan and C 4 4 40 60 100
Jacobean Drama
5 SEC Skill Enhancement Course SEC 4 4 40 60 100
SEMESTER II
6 MEG201 English Poetry: C 4 4 40 60 100
Romantic and Victorian
7 MEG202 English Drama: From C 4 4 40 60 100
Dryden to Eliot
8 MEG203 Modern British Fiction C 4 4 40 60 100
9 MEG204 Indian Writing In C 4 4 40 60 100
English
10 AEC Ability Enhancement AEC 4 4 40 60 100
Course
SEMESTER III
11 MEG301 Literary Theory & Criticism I C 4 4 40 60 100
12 MEG302 American Literature C 4 4 40 60 100
13 MEG303 Modern British Poetry C 4 4 40 60 100
and Drama
14 Elective Elective Course I E 4 4 40 60 100
15 OGE Open Generic Elective OGE 4 4 40 60 100
SEMESTER IV
16 MEG401 New Literatures in C 4 4 40 6;0 100
English
17 MEG402 Non -Fictional Prose C 4 4 40 60 100
18 MEG403 Literary Theory & Criticism II C 4 4 40 60 100
1. Skill Enhancement Course SEC-102-DPE Digital Photography Image Editing SEC-103-EDS Entrepreneurship Development Skills SEC-104-HS Hospitality Skills SEC-105-ICT Information & Communication Technology SEC-106-LDA Legal Drafting & Advocacy SEC-107-PDC Personality Development Skills SEC-108-MSA Modern Spoken Arabic
2. Ability Enhancement Course AEC-101-C Consumerism AEC-102-DM Disaster Management AEC-103-EDS Environment & Sustainable Development AEC-104-MPCS Media, Peace & Conflict Studies AEC-105-MHA Mental Health & Adjustment AEC-106-PS Politics & Society AEC-107-SCJL Social Justice, Civil Liberties AEC-108-RSJ Religion & Social Justice
3. Open Generic Elective Courses OGE-101-AMPR Advertising Management & Public Relations OGE-102-IE Introductory Econometrics OGE-103-VE Value Education OGE-105-DMS Database Management System OGE-106-EM e-Marketing OGE-107-EM Mathematics & Society OGE-109-PPPT Principles, Policies & Products of Tourism OGE-110-RE Religion & Ecology OGE-111 Human Rights
3. List of Electives for Elective Course I. MEG E 301: Literature and Gender MEG E 302: Translation and Translation Theories MEG E 303: Greek and Latin Classics in Translation MEG E304: Revisionary Writing MEG E305: Latin American Literature
4. List of Electives for Elective Course II. MEG E 401: Continental Drama MEG E 402: Short Story MEG E 403: Postmodern Theory and Fiction MEG E 404: Literature of Dissent MEG E 405: South Asian Diasporic Literature ELECTIVES WILL BE OFFERED SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FACULTY
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DETAILED SYLLABUS FOR M.A.ENGLISH PROGRAMME
Introduction: The M.A. Programme in English will be taught over 4 semesters. Semester 1st. 2nd and 4th will consist of 4 core courses and 1 elective course while 3rd Semester shall consist of three core courses and two electives. Students will be required to complete 15 courses of 4 credits each in the core subjects. In addition, a student would be required to complete 3 elective courses of 4 credits each available in interdisciplinary subjects. Besides, students shall also take 2 discipline-centric elective courses. In case no courses are available in interdisciplinary subjects, students will be expected to complete these courses in English.
SEMESTER I Core Courses: MEG 101: Introduction to Linguistics and Teaching of English 1. Language: Origin, Difference between human and animal communication, unique properties of human language. 2. Linguistics: scope, nature, its objection to traditional grammar and comparative philology; branches of linguistics 3. English phonetics and phonology: phonetics and its branches, articulation of sounds, speech chain/mechanism, difference between phonetics and phonology, phoneme: nature and description, Description of English vowel and consonant sounds, suprasegmentals: syllable, stress and intonation; phonemic transcription of a passage or dialogue showing stress and intonation. 4. Methods of Language Teaching. Stylistics and the Teaching of Literature Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books): George Yule The Study of Language (CUP) John Lyons An Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics(CUP) O’Conner Better English Pronunciation(CUP)
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David Crystal Linguistics (Penguin) Peter Roach English Phonetics and Phonology (CUP) Daniel Jones English Pronunciation Dictionary (CUP) H G Widdowson Linguistics and Teaching of English Aslam & Kak English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course (CUP) Mohammad Aslam Developing a Learner-Centred ELT Curriculum in India (PBD) Mohammad Aslam Teaching of English for BEd (CUP) Mohammad Aslam Teaching of English for BEd: A Study Guide (CUP) MEG 102: English Poetry: From Chaucer to Dryden 1. Geoffrey Chaucer: General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales 2. Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Nos. 18,25,and 66
John Donne: The Canonization The Ecstasy Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Batter My Heart
Andrew Marvell: To his Coy Mistress
3. John Milton: Paradise Lost, Book I 4. John Dryden: Mac Flecknoe Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books): R.D French A Chaucer Handbook (New York)
Shakespeare in Literature (In Perspective Series) G.W.Knight The Wheel of Fire (Mesheen) Martin Dodsworth Hamlet closely observed (Latest Edition) J.Dover Wilson What Happens in Hamlet (Cambridge) F.Kermode Shakespeare: The Final Plays (Longman) G.W.Knight The Shakespeare Tempest G.W.Knight The Crown of Life Hamlet (Casebook) Anne Burton Ben Jonson: Dramatist (Cambridge, 1984) Volpone or The Fox (Casebook) Lee Bliss John Webster and the Jacobean Drama (Latest Edition) Jonathan Dollimore Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism & Alan Sinfield SEMESTER II Core Courses: MEG 201: English Poetry: Romantic and Victorian 1. William Blake: Introduction (From Songs of Innocence)
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The Shepherd
The Lamb
Holy Thursday
Introduction (From Songs of Experience)
The Tyger
The Chimney Sweeper
London
The Sick Rose 2. William Wordsworth: Ode on the Intimations of Immortality
The Prelude, Book I S T Coleridge Kubla Khan 3. John Keats: Hyperion I & II
Ode to Nightingale
When I Have Fears I May Cease to Be P.B. Shelley: Adonais 4. Alfred Tennyson: In Memoriam Robert Browning: Porphyria’s Lover
Rabbi Ben Ezra Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books): C.M.Bowra The Romantic Imagination (Oxford) M.H.Abrams English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism
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Graham Hough The Romantic Poets J.M. Murray William Blake The Songs Of Innocence and of Experience (Casebook) J.Wickstead Blake’s Innocence and Experience Helen Dardishire The Poet Wordsworth (Oxford) John Wordsworth The Music of Humanity Ed.Abrams Wordsworth in Twentieth Century Views Series The Prelude (Casebook) H.W. Garrod Keats (Oxford, 1926) J.M.Murray Keats and Shakespeare Fred Inglis Keats (in Literature In perspective Series) The Odes of Keats (Casebook) E.R.Wasserman Shelley: A Critical Reading Shelley: A Collection of Critical Essays (Twentieth Century Views Series) Christophe Ricks Tennyson Isobel Armstrong Robert Browning S T Coleridge The Poetical Works of ST Coleridge (OUP) M H Abrams The Milk of Paradise (Harvard University Press) A Patricia The Walking Dream: A Study of Coleridge's Poetry Schneider Coleridge, Opium and Kubla Khan (Chicago University Press) Katheleen Coleridge: A Collection of Critical Essays MEG 202: English Drama: From Dryden to Eliot 1. John Dryden: All for Love
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2. Aphra Behn : The Rover –Part I 3. J.M Synge: Playboy of the Western World 4. T.S.Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books): Keith Walker (editor) John Dryden: The Major Works (Oxford University Press) David Hopkins (Editor) John Dryden Selected Poems (London: Everyman Paperbacks) T.S .Eliot John Dryden in Selected Essays (London: Faber and Faber) Oden, Richard,L. Dryden and Shadwell: The Literary Controversy and Mac
Flecknoe(1668-1679) Bruce King (Editor) Kirsch, Arthur, ‘All for Love.’ In Twentieth Century Interpretation
of ‘All For Love’ (Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall) Charles. A . Berst Bernard Shaw and the Art of Drama (University of IllinoisPress) Harold Bloom(Editor) George Bernard Shaw(New York: Chelsea House Publishers) Christopher Innes(Editor) The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw (CUP) Charles.A.Bennet ‘The Plays of J.M. Synge,’ (The Yule Review) Daniel Corkery Synge and Inglo-Irish Literature (Mercier) P.P.Howe J.M.Synge: A Critical Study (Martin) Norman Podhoretz, Synge’s Playboy: Morality and the Hero, in Twentieth
Century Interpretation of Playboy of the Western World. Harold Bloom Introduction to Twentieth Century Interpretation of Murder in
the Cathedral (Chelsea House) T.S.Eliot ‘Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry’ in Selected Essays (Faber and
Faber) Brace Harcourt T.S.Eliot Murder in the Cathedral
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Gorgean Angelina Reconstructing Aphra: A Social Biography of Aphra Behn (New
York Press) Gorgean Angelina Aphra Behn: A Scandal to Modesty in Spender. MEG 203: Modern British Fiction 1. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness 2. Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway 3. E M Forster: Howards End 4. James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books): F.R.Leavis The Great Tradition (Penguin). M.C.Bradbrook England’s Polish Genius. R.L. Chambers The Novels of Virginia Woolf. E.M.Forster Virginia Woolf. Harry Levin James Joyce: A Critical Introduction Sydney Bolt A Preface to James Joyce. Lionel Trilling E.M.Foster (London, 1944). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Casebook) MEG 204: Indian Writing In English 1. Raja Rao: Kanthapura 2. R K Narayan The Guide 3. Anita Desai: In Custody
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4. Kamala Das The Freaks
The Sunshine Cat
An Introduction Nissim Ezekiel Background Casually
Enterprise
Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher A K Ramanujan Looking For a Cousin on a Swing
A River
Of Mothers, Among Other Things Imtiaz Dharker Minority
The Right Word
Postcards from god Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books): K R S Iyenger Indian Writing in English. Sterling M.K. Naik A History of English Literature (New Delhi)
Twentieth Century Indian English. DK Publishers Raja Rao Twayne Meenakshi Mukerjee The Twice Born Fiction –Themes and Techniques of the Indian
Novel in English (Heinemann, 1971) C.D Nararsimhaiah Raja Rao, (Arnold Heinemann) J P Sharma Raja Rao K.S.Ramamurti Rise of the Indian Novel in English (New Delhi: Sterling) Partha Charterjee The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Post
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Colonial Histories (Delhi: CUP, 1994)
Suman Bala(Editor) Raja Rao’s Kanthapura: A Critical Study (Runu Uniyal, 2007) Pranjape Markand The Best of Raja Rao Dayesh The Novel of Raja Rao (New Delhi: Prestige, 1992) Fawzia Afzal Khan Cultural Imperial and the Indo- English Novel: Genre and
Ideology in R.K. Narayan, Anita Desia, Kamala Markandaya
and Salman Rushdie(University Park, 1993) Jain and Agarwal(Ed) In Writers of the Indian Diaspora(Jaipur: Rewa,2002) Alan Almond ‘Post Colonial Melancholy: An Examination of Sadness N.Bagchi The Process of Validation in Relation to Materiality and
Historical Reconstruction in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines, Modern
Fiction Studies’ A.N.Kaul ‘The Shadow Lines,’ Indian Literature (1990). P.Mongia ‘Postcolonial Identity in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines Marta Dvorak The Faces of Carnival in Anita Desai’s In Custody Devendra Kohli Anita Desai: Critical Perspectives (Delhi, Pencraft, 2008) and Melanic Marie Elaine Ho LI Yin. Anita Desai Salman Rushdie: Imaginary Homelands K Chirantan (Ed). Contemporary Indian English Verse. Arnold Heinemann. E Narendra Lall. The Poetry of Encounter: Three Indo-Anglian Poets (Dom
Moraes, A.K. Ramanujan, and Nissim Ezekiel. Sterling. Anisur Rehman. Expressive form in the Poetry of Kamla Das. Sterling. Mdhusudan P (ed). Living Indian English Poets. Sterling. K N Daruwalla. Two Decades of Indian Poetry: 1960-1980. Vikas.
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S Krishna Bhatta. Indian English Drama: A Critical Study. MK Naik & S M Punekar (eds) Perspectives on Indian Drama in English. OUP. J Dodiya (ed). The Plays of Girish Karnad: Critical Perspectives. Prestige. Parthasarathy Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets (Oxford) Atma Ram(Editor) Perspectives on R.K.Narayan (Ghaziabad )
M.K. Narayan The Ironic Vision: A Study of the Fiction of R.K. Narayan (New Delhi:
Sterling, 1982)
Wlliam Walsh ‘The Intricate Alliance: The Novels of R.K. Narayan.’ A Review of English
Literature
Fawzia Afzal Khan Cultural Imperial and the Indo- English Novel: Genre and Ideology in R.K.
Narayan, Anita Desia, KamalaMarkandaya and Salman Rushdie
(University Park)
SEMESTER III Core Courses: MEG 301: Literary Theory and Criticism I 1. Classical and Neoclassical Criticism Plato: The Republic (Book X) Aristotle: Poetics Dryden Of Dramatic Poesie 2. Romantic Criticism William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Biographia Literaria (Chapters 12, 13, 14 and 17) Victorian and Modern Criticism
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Matthew Arnold The Functions of Criticism at the Present Time T. S. Eliot Tradition and Individual Talent I A Richards Four Kinds of Meaning
Two Uses of Language 3. New Criticism Wimsatt and Beardsley The Intentional Fallacy
The Affective Fallacy Cleanth Brooks The Language of Paradox 4. Myth and Archetypal Criticism Northrope Frye The Archetypes of Literature Levi Strauss Incest and Myth Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books): Humphry House Aristotle’s poetics (Oxford). Rene Wellek A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950.The Romantic Age (Jonathan Cape). Mary Warnock Imagination (Faber). J.A.Chapman Wordsworth and Literary Criticism. R.L.Breted S.T.Coleridge. I.A.Richards Coleridge on Imagination (Routledge). I.A.Richards Principles of literary Criticism. I.A.Richards Practical criticism (1929). T.S.Eliot Selected Essays (Faber). T.S.Eliot The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (Faber).
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Northrop Frye Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Princeton). Cleanth Brooks Modern Poetry and the Tradition. Cleanth Brooks & Understanding Poetry. Robert Penn Warren David Daiches Critical Approaches to Literature. Wimsatt and Brooks Literary Criticism: A Short History. Patricia Waugh Literary theory and Criticism (Oxford). M A R Habib Modern Literary Criticism and theory Peter Barry Beginning Theory Francis Korn Elementary Structures Reconsidered: Levi-Strauss on
Kinship (Routledge) Adams and Searle Critical Theory Since 1965 Boris Wiseman Introducing Levi Strauss and Structural Anthropology MEG 302: American Literature 1. Walt Whitman: Song of Myself
Emily Dickinson: Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Success is Counted Sweetest
There’s a Certain Slant of Light
2. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
3. Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
4. Eugene O’Neill : The Hairy Ape
Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books): Gay Wilson Arlen The Solitary Singer: A critical Biography of Walt Whitman
(New York: Macmillan).
Milton Hindus Leaves of Grass: One Hundred Years After (Stanford
University Press).
G. F. Witcher This Was a Poet: A Critical Biography of Emily Dickson
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Richard Cheese Emily Dickson.
Henry James Hawthorne.
Hyatt H Waqqoner Hawthorne: A Critical Study.
Yvor Winters Maule’s Curse.
Walter Blair Mark Twain and Huck Finn (California University Press)
Richard Letts Huckleberry Finn and His Critics (New York: Macmillan)
Virginia Floyd The Plays of Eugene O’Neill: A New Assessment.
Sophus K. Winther Eugene O’Neill: A Critical Study
W E B Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk
MEG 303: Modern British Poetry and Drama 1. W.B. Yeats: Easter 1916,
The Second Coming, The Tower
W.H.Auden: In Memory of W.B. Yeats
The Shield of Achilles 2. T.S.Eliot: The Waste Land 3. Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot 4. Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books): Harold Bloom Yeats (U.S.A: Riverhead Books) Richard Ellmann Yeats: The Man and the Masks (Faber). Richard Ellmann The Identity of Yeats (Faber). The Later Poems of W.B.Yeats. (Casebook)
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Helen Gardner The Art of T.S Eliot (London). George Williamson A Reader’s Guide to T.S. Eliot (London). The Waste Land (Casebook) Barbara Everett Auden. M.K.Spears The Poetry of W.H.Auden: The Disenchanted Island (New York, 1963). Harold Bloom Samuel Beckett. Hugh Kenner A Reader’s Guide to Samuel Beckett. Victor Chan Beyond Absurdity: The Play of Stoppard (Routledge) Jim Hunter Tom Stoppard’s Plays. Elective Course I MEG E301 Literature and Gender 1. Sex and Gender: Political and ideological concerns of feminist theories from the Eighteenth century onwards with particular emphasis on the following: Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own
Simone de Beauvoir: Introduction to The Second Sex (Trans. Borde & Malovany-Chevallier
2. Dorris Lessing: The Golden Notebook 3. Ismat Chaughtai The Crooked Line
Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books):
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Chandra Talapade Mohanty “Under Western Eyes” Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of Rights of Women Grosz, E. (1990). “Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction”, London: Routledge Butler, J. (1999). “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity”. Anne-Marie Smith, J Kristeva: Speaking the Unspeakable (Pluto Press) Nina Cornietz, Dangerous Women, Deadly Words. (Stanford University Press.) Grebowicz, M.. Gender After Lyotard. NY: SUNY Press, 2007. Fahim, Shadia S.. Doris Lessing: Sufi Equilibrium and the Form of the
Novel. Basingstoke, UK/New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan/St. Martins Press.
Galin, Müge. Between East and West: Sufism in the Novels of Doris
Lessing. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Raschke, Sternberg & Doris Lessing: Interrogating the Times. Ohio State University Phyllis, Sandra. Press. Ridout, Alice. Contemporary Women Writers Look Back: From Irony
to Nostalgia. London: Continuum International Publishing. Ridout, Alice; Doris Lessing: Border Crossings. London: Continuum Watkins, Susan. International Publishing. Skille, Nan Bentzen Fragmentation and Integration. A Critical Study of
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook. University of Bergen. Lizbeth and Goodman Literature and Gender N. K. Prasad Feminism in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande Elenore Geethamala The Novels of Shashi Deshpande: A Critical Evaluation MEG E 302 Translation and Translation Theories 1. Varieties of Translation: Literal translation; re-creative translation; natural translation;
literary translation; technical translation 2. Walter Benjamin The Task of the Translator
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3. Susan Bassnette Culture and Translation 4. Translation of a 500-word prose piece or short story or a journalistic piece from Hindi,
Kashmiri or Urdu into English. Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books): Baker, Mona ed. Encyclopaedia of Translation Studies. New York and
London: Routledge. Bassnett, Susan Translation Studies. New York and London: Routledge. Gentzler, Edwin Contemporary Translation Theories. 2nd Ed. Routledge. Munday, Jeremy Introducing Translation Studies. London and New York: Routledge Pym, Anthony Exploring Translation Theories. London: Routledge. Robinson, Douglas The Translator’s Turn. Baltimore and London: Johns
Hopkins University Press. Steiner, George After Babel. Oxford and New York: Oxford University
Press. Venuti, Lawrence The Translation Studies Reader, 3rd ed. London: Routledge. Reza Jelveh Universal and Patriotic Translation. Hellenic American
University, Manchester, NH, USA. Juliane House A Model for Translation Quality Assessment. Germany Peter Newmark A Textbook of Translation: Approaches to Translation MEG E 303: Greek and Latin Classics in Translation 1. Homer: The Iliad
2. Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
3. Aristophanes: The Frogs
4. Virgil: The Aeneid
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Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books): Homer The Iliad H.Van Thiel, A Commentary on Three Translations World Classics(Oxford) Translations of Greek and Roman Classics Everyman’s Library Editions Translations of Greek and Roman Classics H.J.Rose A Handbook of Greek Mythology Gilbert Norwood Greek Tragedy H.D.F Kitto Greek Tragedy (Methuen) Tragedy: Development in Criticism (Casebook)
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy B.M.W Knox The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy
W.F.Jackson Knight The Aeneid of Virgil (Penguin) Gilbert Murray Ancient Greek Literature (Heinemann) C.M. Bowra Ancient Greek Literature (Home University library) J.W. Mackail Latin Literature (Murray) Virgil The Eclogues and The Georgics(translator R.C.) MEG E 304: Revisionary Writing 1. Jean Rhys: ` Wide Sargasso Sea
2. Jane Smiley: A Thousand Acres
3. Peter Philip Carey: Jack Maggs
4. J M Coetzee: Foe
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Boehmer, Elleke,
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Katy Iddiols and
Robert Eaglestone. J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory. Continuum International
Publishing Group.
Carey, Peter. Jack Maggs. Faber & Faber
Chris, Danta,
Sue Kossew and
Julian Murphet. Strong Opinions: J. M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary
Fiction. Continuum International Publishing Group.
Clarkson, Carrol. J. M. Coetzee Countervoices. UK; Palgrave Macmillan.
Head, Dominic. J. M. Coetzee (Cambridge studies in African and Caribbean
Literature) Cambridge University Press.
Mannino, M Ann Vigilante. Revisionary identities: strategies of empowerment in the writing
of Italian/American women. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York.
McFarlane, Brian. Screen Adaptations: Great Expectations, A close study of the
relationship between text and film. London: Methuen Drama.
Patrick Hayes. J. M. Coetzee and the Novel: Writing and Politics After Beckett.
Oxford UP.
Poyner , Jane. J. M. Coetzee and the Paradox of Postcolonial Authorship. UK;
Ashgate Publishing Limited.
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Peter Carey: A Literary Companion. Jefferson.
Judith L. Reiskin. Ed. Wide Sargasso Sea. Norton Critical Editions.
Elaine Savory. The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys.
Anne B.Simpson. Territories of the Pshyche: The Fiction of John Rhys. Palgrave
Macmillan.
Jean Rhys, Wyndham. Wide Sargasso Sea. WW Norton and Co.
Elaine Savory. Jean Rhys. Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Lit.
Victoria Burrows. Whiteness and Trauma: The Mother- Daughter Knot in the Fiction
of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison. Palgrave
Macmillan.
Thomas F. Staley. Jean Rhys: A Critical Study. Palgrave Macmillan
Sylvie Maurel. Jean Rhys. Macmillan Education UK.
Jane Smiley. 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel. Anchor
Jane Smiley. A Thousand Acres. Anchor
Paul Antze,
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Michael Lambeek eds. Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory. NY: Routledge
Svetlana Boyn. The Future of Nostalgia. NY: Basic Books.
Roberta Rubenstein. Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning
in Women's Fiction. Basingstoke, Palgrave.
MEG E 305: Latin American Literature 1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
2. Mario Vargas Llosa : The War of the End of the World
3. Octavio Paz “Small Variation”
“I spoke of the City”
(From The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry);
J. D. McClatchy, Vintage
Pablo Neruda “I remember you as you were that final Autumn”
“Poet’s Obligation”
(From The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry);
J. D. McClatchy, Vintage
4. Jorge Luis Borges “The Garden of Forking Paths”
Alejo Carpentier The Journey Back to the Source
(From The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories)
Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books):
1. Latin American Fiction : A Short Introduction; Philip Swanson, Blackwell
2. Octavia Paz; Harold Bloom, Chelsea House Publishers
3. The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry; J.D.McClatchy, Vintage.
4. Postcolonial Reconstruction: A Sociological Reading of Octavio Paz; Oliver Kozlarek,
Springer International Publishing.
5. The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo. G. Aching, Cambridge University Press.
6. Critical Survey of Poetry Latin American Poets; Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman, Salem
Press.
7. Rewriting American Identity in the Fiction and Memoirs of Isabel Allende. Bonnie M. Craig,
8. Gabriel García Márquez: A Critical Companion. Rubén Pelayo, Greenwood.
9. Gabriel García Márquez: Solitude and Solidarity. Michael Bell, Macmillan Education UK
10. A companion to Jorge Luis Borges; Boldy, Steven;Tamesis Books
11. The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa, John King.
12. The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Oxford
SEMESTER IV Core Courses: MEG 401: New Literatures in English 1. Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart 2. Derek Walcott: Leventville,
The Castaway,
A Far Cry from Africa 3. Margaret Atwood: Surfacing 4. Bapsi Sidhwa: Ice Candy Man Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books): Chinua Achebe Things fall Apart (Heinmann) John Clement Ball Satire and the Postcolonial Novel: V.S. Naipaul, Chinua
Achebe, Salman Rushdie (Routlege) Emmaneul Edama Egar The Rhetorical Implication of Chinua Achebe’s ‘Things
Fall Apart‟(University Press America) Simon Gikandi Reading Chinua Achebe: Language and Ideology in Fiction
(London: James Curry) Bene Elic Chiaka Njaku The Four Novel of Novel of Chinua Achebe: A Critical study
(Peter Long) Robert D. Hammer, ed The Caribbean Poetry of Derek Walcott and the Art of Romera
Edward Bough, Farrar, Selected Poems Strauss and Girour(Editor) Paul Brestin No Body’s Nation: Reading Derek Walcott. Pamela Kester Shelton (ed) Barbara Godard, Margaret Atwood, In Feminist Writers Ashcroft, Grifiths The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (Routledge) Helen Tiffin (Eds) Eleonra Roa Strategies for identity: The Fiction of Margeret Atwood Elaine Showalter Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness (Longman press) Sangeeta Ray Engendering India: Women and Nation in Colonial and
Post-colonial Narrative (Duke University Press) Jagdev Singh ‘Ice-Candy-Man.’ A Parsi Perception on the Partition of India
(Literary criterion) Ritupurna Ray South Asian Partition Fiction in English: From Khushwant
Singh to Amitav Ghosh Gillian Dooley V.S. Naipaul, Man and Writer Michael Gorra After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie MEG 402: Non-Fictional Prose 1. St. Augustine: Confessions, Books II and III 2. Machiavelli: The Prince, ( Chapters 15-19)
Bacon: Of Truth
Of Studies
Of Ambition 3. Addison: The Spectator’s Account of Himself Hazlitt: On Going a Journey Lamb: Oxford in the Vacations Carlyle: Everlasting Yea
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Everlasting No (From Sartor Resartus) 4. A. G.Gardiner On Courage
On Writing an Article George Orwell Why I Write
Politics and the English Language Jacob Bronowsky Truth and Value Suggested Reading (Latest editions of the following books): St. Augustine The Confessions
The Enchiridion
On the Trinity Machiavelli The Prince (Norton edition) Lisa Jar dines Francis Bacon: Discovery of the Art of Discover Brain Vickers Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose. W.A. Speck Society and Literature in England 1700-1760. Basil Willey The Eighteen Century Background. Harold Bloom William Hazlitt. A.W.Cafarelli Prose in the Age of Poets. A.L.Le Quesene Carlyle. Sukanta Chaudhary Essays of Bacon (OUP) MEG 403: Literary Theory and Criticism II 1. Structuralism and Post-Structuralism Roland Barthes: The Death of the Author Jacques Derrida: Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences
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Roman Jakobson: “Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles” 2. Marxism and Historicism Louis Althusser Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus Michel Foucault What is an Author? 3. Postcolonial Theory Edward Said Introduction to Orientalism G. Spivak Can the Subaltern Speak? 4. Psychoanalytical Criticism Jaques Lacan The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious (From Ecrits: A Selection, tr. Alan Sheridan) Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books): Patricia Waugh Literary theory and Criticism (Oxford, 2006). David Lodge Modern Criticism and Theory (Oxford) Kathy Althusser Essays on ideology (London, 1984). Roland Barthes S/Z (trans. Richard Miller) (New York, 1974). David Carroll Paraesthics: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida (London,
Methuen 1987). Steven Cornor Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction (Oxford, 1989). Paul de Man Resistance to theory (Manchester University Press) F de Saussure Course in General Linguistic (London, 1974). Jacques Derrida Of Grammatology (trans-Gayatri Spivak) (John S
Hopkins University, 1976). Terry Eagleton Literary Theory: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell). Jean Jacques Lyotard The Postmodern Condition: A Report On Knowledge
(Manchester University Press). Christopher Norris The Truth About Postmodernism (Oxford: Blackwell).
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Rene Wellek A History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950 (London:
JonathanCape). Edward Said Orientalism (1978) MEG 404: Indian Writing in English Translation 1. Kalidasa: Shakuntala (trans.Sir William Jones) 2. Ghalib: Ghazals (trans. Aijaz Ahmad) Only fifteen ghazals:
Ghazal Nos: II, IV, VII, X, XI, XIII, XV, XVI, XXII,
XXV, XXVI, XXVIII, XXIX, XXXVI, XXXVII. 3. Rabindarnath Tagore Gitanjali ( trans. Tagore) 4. Mohammad Iqbal: Secrets of the Self (trans. R.A.Nicholson) Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books): V.K. Gokak The Concept of Indian Literature Srinivasa Iyenger Indian Writing in English (Asia Publishing House) C.D. Narasimhaiah Indian Literature of the Past Fifty Years C.Kuhan Raja Survey of Sanskrit Literature William Jones Sacontala or The Fatal Ring V.Raghavan & Nagendra An Introduction to Indian Poetics (Delhi: Macmillan) Annemarie Schimmel A Dance of Sparks: Imagery of Fire in Ghalib’s Poetry. Ralph Russel and Khurshid-ul- Islam Ghalib: Life and Letters Ralph Russell (Editor) Ghalib: The Poet and His Age
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Ahmad Ali Ghalib: Selected Poems Amiya Chakravarty (Editor) A Tagore Reader Sisir Kumar Ghosh Rabindranath Tagore: A critical Introduction Ramesh Gupta The Essential Tagore Lini.S. May Iqbal, His Life and Times Hafeez Malik (Editor) Iqbal: Poet Philosopher of Pakistan Annie Schimmel Gabriel’s Wing: A Study into the Religious Ideas of
SirMuhammad Iqbal (Leiden E.j.Brill, 1963) S.A.Wahid Glimpses of Iqbal (Karachi, 1974) 16 Elective Course II: MEG E 401: Continental Drama 1. Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House
2. Anton Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard
3. Bertolt Brecht: The Caucasian Chalk Circle
4. Jean- Paul Sartre: No Exit
Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books): Sandra Saari ‘Female Becomes Human: Nora Transformed’ Brain Johnston(ed) Ibsen’s SelectedPlays Errol Durback A Doll’s House: Ibsen’s Myth of Transformation Toril Moi ‘First and Foremost Human Beings: Idealism, Theatre and
Gender in A Doll’s House’ Harold Bloom(ed.) Modern Critical Views: Anton Chekhov Jean-Pierre Barricella(Ed.) Chekhov’s great plays: A Critical Anthology John Willet Brecht on Theatre
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John Willet(Trans.) Brecht on Theatre: The Development of An Aesthetics Jean Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness Jean Paul Sartre No Exit and Three other Plays MEG E 402: Short Story 1. Guy de Maupassant: The Minuet
The Rose Franz Kafka: The Great Wall of China
A Dream (Ein Traum)
2. Leo Tolstoy: What Men Live By Chekov: Death of a Clerk
The Bet
3. Katherine Mansfield: At the Bay The Garden Party
O. Henry: The Last Leaf The Roads of Destiny
4. Tagore: Kabuliwala Mulk Raj Anand: The Lost Child
Akthar Mohi-ud-Din: Fixture Hari Kishan Kaul: The Naked Truth
Suggested Readings (Latest editions of the following books): Leo Tolstoy Guy de Maupassant
Mary Donaldson Evans Women’s Revenge: The Chronology of Dispossession in
Maupassant’s fiction
Richard Fusco Maupassant and the American Short Story
Max Brod Franz Kafka, 2nd Edition
Pietro Citati Kafka
Angel Flones (editor) The Kafka Debate
N.N. Glatzer The Love of Franz Kafka
Ronald Gray (editor) Kafka: A Collection of Critical Essays
Alan Udoff (editor) Kafka and the Contemporary Critical Performance
George H. Szan Narrative Consciousness: Structure and the Perception in the
Fiction of Kafka, Beckett, and Robbe-griller
Rosamand Bartlett Chekov (Simon & Schuster)
Victor Emeljanow (editor) Chekov: The Critical Heritage (New York, Routledge)
Michael C. Finke Seeing Chekov (Comell University Press)
A.E. Golovachev Panayer Russian Writers and Artists: Reminiscenes, 1824-1870 (Gubinsky)
N. K. Mikhailorsky Literary Reminiscence and Contemporary Muddle, Vol.1 Russian
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Wealth, St. Petrsburg)
Eugene Solovynov L. N. Tolstoy: His Life and the Literary life and work American
greater and most Beloved master of the Short Story (Caxton
Printers)
Richard O’Connor O’Henry: The Legendary Life and Willium S. Porter (Doubleday and
Co)
Mohit Chakrbarti Rabindranath Tagore: Diverse Dimentions (Atlantic)
Krishna Dutta,
Andrew Robinson Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad Minded Man (St. Martins)
Kalyan Sen Gupta The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore (Ashgare Pub.)
Margaret Berry Mulk Raj Anand: The Man and the Novelist (Oriental Press)
Saros Cowasjee Mulk Raj: Coolie: An Assessment (Oxford Press)
Marlene Fisher The Wisdom of the Heart: A Study of the Work of Mulk Raj Anand
(Sterling)
J. M. Murry (editor) Novels Novelists: A Collection of Reviews (Constable London)
MEG E403: Postmodern Theory and Fiction
1. Jean Francois Lyotard: Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?
2. Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-five
3. John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman
4. Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
Suggested Readings (Latest Editions of the Following Books)
J.F. Lyotard The Postmodern Explained to Children: Correspondence. 1982-85.
Kiff Bamford Lyotard and the Figure in the Performance, Art and Writing.
Ashley Woodward Nihilism in Postmodernity.
Bill Reading Introducing Lyotard: Art and Politics.
Allan W.Rodney Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut. Jackson and London: UP of
Mississippi.
Thomas Marvin Kurt Vonnegut: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular
Contemporary Writers).
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Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death.
1969. London: Vintage.
Susan Farrel. Critical Companion to Kurt Vonnegut.
James R. Aubrey John Fowles; A Reference Companion, Greenwood Press
Mahmoud Salami John Fowles's Fiction and the Poetics of Postmodernism,
Eileen Warburton John Fowles; A Life in Two Worlds, Viking Press.
John Fowles Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings.
Salman Rushdie Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981 - 1991
Benedict Anderson Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism.
Timothy Brenon Salman Rushdie and the Third World Myths of the Nation.
Camilla Karlsson Cracks Fragments and Disintegration in Midnight’s Children by Salman
Rushdie.
MEG E 404: Literature of Dissent
1. Aime Cesaire: Discourse on Colonialism
Arundhati Roy: “Algebra of Infinite Justice”
2. Nazim Hikmet: “Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in
Prison”
“Trains I Didn’t Know I Loved”
Mahmoud Darwish “Identity Card”
“Diary of a Palestinian Wound”
3. Ghassan Kanafani “The Death of Bed Number 12”
Adriene Rich “Power”
4. Milan Kundera: Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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Suggested Readings (Latest Editions of the following books) James Arnold Modernism and negritude: The Poetry and Poetics of Aime Cesare,
Harward University Press. Robert Young White Mythologies: Writing History and the West, Rutledge. Fanon Black Masks White Skins. translated by Constance Farmington, Grove
Press. Bahri Deepika Native Intelligence: Aesthetics, Politics and Post literature. University of
Minnesota Press. Barsamian,David and Naomi Klein. The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy,
South End Press. Ch’ien E Nien-Ming The Politics of Design: Arundhati Roy, University Press. Roy, Arundati An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire, Penguine Books. India. Mutlu K Blasing. Nazim Hikmet, Life and Times of Turkey’s World Poet. Persia Books, New
York. N. Fusat Nazim Hikmet, Adam Yayinlari. Gursel, N. Nazim Hikmet. Can Yayinlari. Goksu,S. Timms, E. Romantic Communist, The Life and Works of Nazim Hikmet. Hurst & Co. Suleiman, Y. The Arabic Language and National Identity, Edinburgh University Press. Khalidi, R. Palestinian Identity: Construction of Modern National Consciousness,
Columbia University. Rahman, Najat. Literary Disinheritance: The Writings of Home in the Works of Mahmod
Darkish and Assia Djebar,. Lexington Books. Jayyusi, K Srlma ed. Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature, Columbia University Press. Siddiq, Muhammad. Man is a Cause: Political Consciousness and the Fiction of Ghassan
Kanafani. University of Washington.
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Porter, Robert. Milan Kundera: A Voice from Central Europe, Arkone Publishers. O’ Brien, John. Milan Kundera and Feminism: Dangerous Intersections, St. Martin’s
Press. Misurella, Fred. Understanding Milan Kundera: Public Events, Private Affairs, University of
South Caroline Press. Templeton, Alice. The Dream and the Dialogue: Adrienne Rich’s Feminist Poetics, University
of Tennessee Press. Broumas, Olga. Adrienne Rich’s Poetry and Prose. ed. Barbara Charleworth Gelpi and
Albert Gelpi. Norton and Company. Lorna Sage ed. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English, Cambridge
University Press. MEG E405: South Asian Diasporic Literature
1. Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient
2. Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance
3. Jhumpa Lahiri: Unaccustomed Earth
4. Monica Ali: Brick Lane
Suggested Readings (Latest Editions of the Following Books)
Steven Totosy de Zepetnek Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing
(Comparative Cultural Studies), Purdue UP
Chitra khrishnan Exploring Identity in the Novels of Michael Ondaatje, Scholars
Press
Milena Marinkova Michael Ondaatje: Haptic Aesthetics and Micropolitical Writing,
Bloomsbury Academic.
Annick Hillger Not Needing all the Words: Michael Ondaatje’s Literature of
Silence, McGill Queens’s UP
Beverley Curran Ondaatje’s The English Patient and Altered states of Narrative
Sonika Sethi Rohinton Mistry’s Fiction: A Postmodern Approach, Notion Press
Media Pvt. Limited
Bharucha, Nilufer. “When Old Tracks Are Lost”: Rohinton Mistry’s Fiction as
Diasporic Discourse. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
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Nelson, Emmanuel S. “Rohinton Mistry (1952-)”. Writers of the Indian Diaspora A
Bibliographical Critical Source Book. West Port: Greenwood Press.
Martin Genetsch The Texture of Identity : The Fiction of MG Vassanji, Neil
Bissoondath, and Rohinton Mistry, TSAR 2007
Gale Cengage Learning A Study Guide for Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance
Bill Ashcroft The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, Routledge
Greg Clinton Reading and Interpreting the Works of Jhumpa Lahiri, Enslow
Publishing, LLC,
Sarah Harvey The Jhumpa Lahiri Handbook, Emereo Publishing
Delphine Munos After Melancholia: A Reappraisal of Second Generation Diasporic
Subjectivity in the Works of Jhumpa Lahiri, Rodopi
Gale Cengage Learning A Study Guide for Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth
Noemi pereir-Ares Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives:
From the Eighteenth Century to Monica Ali, Springer International
Publishing
John Eade The Politics of Community: The Bangladeshi Community in East
