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Resolution No 1

GULBARGA UNIVERSITY, KALABURARGI

DEPARTMENT OF STUDIES & RESEARCH IN ENGLISH

M.A. IN ENGLISH COURSE (CBCS WITH CREDITS)

(FOR NEXT 3 YEARS WITH EFFECT FROM 2017-18)

SYLLABUS OF M.A. (CBSC) COURSE IN ENGLISH (2017-2020)

(With effect from the Academic Year JUNE/July 2017 for three years)

Semest

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Code Title of the paper Marks

Theory

Marks

IA

Total L T Credits

First 1.1.HC British Literature-I 80 20 100 5 0 5

1.2.HC Indian English Literature-I 80 20 100 5 0 5

1.3.HC American Literatures-I 80 20 100 5 0 5

SOFT CORE(ANY2)

1.1. SC General Linguistics 80 20 100 5 0 5

1.2. SC South Asian Literature 80 20 100 5 0 5

1.3 SC Translation Studies 80 20 100 5 0 5

1.4. SC Indian Diaspora 80 20 100 5 0 5

Total Semester 400 120 500 25

Second 2.1 HC British Literature-II 80 20 100 5 0 5

2.2 HC Critical Theory –I 80 20 100 5 0 5

2.3 HC Indian English Literature-II 80 20 100 5 0 5

1 SC & 1 OE (ANY2)

2.1.SC American Literatures-II 80 20 100 5 0 5

2.2 SC English Phonetics 80 20 100 5 0 5

2.1.OE General English-I 80 20 100 4 0 4


Third 3.1HC British Literature-III 80 20 100 5 0 5

3.2HC Critical Theory-II 80 20 100 5 0 5

3.3HC Post-Colonial Literatures 80 20 100 5 0 5

1 SC & 1 OE (ANY2)

3.1.SC English Language Teaching 80 20 100 5 0 5

3.2.SC Cultural Studies 80 20 100 5 0 5

3.1OE General English –II 80 20 100 4 0 4


Fourth 4.1HC British Literature-IV 80 20 100 5 0 5

4.2HC Critical Theory-III 80 20 100 5 0 5

4.3HC Project Work 80 20 100 5 0 5

SOFT CORE(ANY2)

4.1 SC Research Methodology 80 20 100 5 0 5

4.2 SC World Literature 80 20 100 5 0 5

4.3 SC Communicative English

4.4 SC Literature & Film Studies

(Inter-Disciplinary)

80 20 100 5 0 5

Total Semester 400 98 500 25 25

THE FIRST SEMESTER

1.1 (HC) BRITISH LITERATURE-I (5 Credits)

Preamble:

To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of the major writers and their texts of the 16th

& 17th centuries of British Literature and also to acquaint them with the socio-cultural milieu of the times.

BACKGROUND STUDY: A survey of the 16th and 17

th century British Literature in socio-cultural context of

England serves the suitable background, The Great Plague, Miracles and Mysteries, Geoffrey Chaucer, The

University Wits, Metaphysical poets, Utopia, Thomas Browne’s Urn Burial, Wyatt and Surrey, Jacobean

Drama, and John Dryden, Texts prescribed: Major movements, trends, the writers and texts should be studied.

Unit 1. Poetry: Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene ( Canto I: first 100 lines from Any Edition)

Unit 2. Poetry: John Milton: Paradise Lost Bk I &II

Unit 3 Drama: William Shakespeare: Hamlet (Any Edition)

Unit 4. Drama: Ben Jonson: The Alchemist (Any Edition)

Unit 5. Prose: Francis Bacon: Essays: ( ‘Of Travel’, ‘Of Studies’, ‘Of Truth’, ‘Of Love’)

Reference Books:

1. George Sampson: The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature (CUP, Chennai)

2. Andrew Sanders : A Short Oxford History of English Literature ( OUP, Chennai)

3. David Daiches: A Critical History of English Literature. (Allied Publishers, New Delhi)

4. Paul Poplawaski: English Literature in Context ( CUP, Chennai)

5. Margaret Drabble: Ed. The Companion to English Literature.

1.2( HC) INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE(5 Credits)

PREAMBLE:

To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of the major and writers and their texts of

early period of 19th

century Indians’ writings in English and also to acquaint them with the socio-cultural

milieu of the times.

BACKGROUND STUDY: A survey of the 16th and 17

th century Indian English Literature is apt background.

Savitri, Fakir of Jangheera, Henri Derozio, Anandmath, Suguna, Kamala Satthianadhan, Gora, Raj Mohan’s

Wife, A.S.P. Iyer, R.K.Naryayan , Chandalika , Gopalakrishna Gokhale. Toru Dutt, and The Dutt Family

Album.

Texts prescribed:

Unit 1. Prose : Sri Aurobindo: The Future Poetry ( I Chapter)

Unit 2: Poetry: Sarojini Naidu: “Purdha Nahsin”, “Song of Radha” and “Indian Weavers”

Unit 3. Novel: Mulk Raj Anand: Coolie ( Any Edition)

Unit 4. Novel: Raja Rao: Serpent and The Rope (Any Text)

Unit 5. Drama: Gurcharan Das: Larins Sahib (Any Edition)

Reference Books: Makarand Paranjape. Indian Poetry in English. Madras: Macmillan, 1995.

K.R.S. Iyengar. Indian Writing in English. New Delhi: Sterling , 1965.

M.K.Naik. A History of Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1980.

M.K. Naik. Indian English Literature (1900-2000) New Delhi: Abhinav, 1986.

1.3 (HC) AMERICAN LITERATURES-I (5 Credits)

PREAMBLE:

To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of the major and writers and their texts of early

period of 19th

century in America and also to acquaint them with the socio-cultural milieu of the times.

BACKGROUND STUDY:

A survey of the 19th century literature of America in socio-cultural context serves the purpose: Major writers,

trends, movements, & works. Transcendentalism, Puritanism, The Civil War, Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography,

Walden, Emily Dickinson, The House of Seven Gables, The Desire Under the Elms, Sarah Hutchinson, Leaves of

Grass, James Fenimore Cooper, Phyllis Wheatley, The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, Moby Dick,

Units & Texts prescribed:

Unit 1. Poetry: Edgar Allen Poe: Poems- “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee”

Unit 2: Novel: Nathanial Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter (Any Edition)

Unit 3. Poetry: Walt Whitman: “O, Captain! My Captain!”, “ Lilacs at the Dooryard Bloomed.” “Song of

Myself”

Unit 4. Prose: H.D. Thoreau: “Economy”(From Walden)

Unit 5. Drama: Eugene O’Neill: The Hairy Ape (Any Edition)

Reference Books:

Richard Gray: The Brief History of American Literature. London: Wiley-Blackwell 2011.

V.R. Badiger: A Short History of America Literature. New Delhi: Standard Publishers, 2016. (Press)

R.E. Spiller: A Literary History of the United States, New York.

O. Mattheisen, Ed. American Literature of the Nineteenth Century-An Anthology (New Delhi: Eurasia Publishing

House (Pvt) Ltd

Egbert S. Oliver : Ed. American Literature –1890-1965(New Delhi: S.Chand & Co,)

1.1(SC) GENERAL LINGUISTICS (5 Credits)

PREAMBLE:

To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of the major Linguists of 19th century England

and America and also acquaint with the theorists and their theorists of the contemporary times.

BACKGROUND STUDY:

A survey of the 19th & 20 th century theoretical development in the field of General Linguistics is necessary.

Units & Texts prescribed : Unit 1. Meaning and Scope of Linguistics- A Brief History of Linguistics

Unit 2. Different Branches of Linguistics

Unit 3. Descriptive & Comparative Linguistics; Historical Linguistics & Psycho-Linguistics

Unit 4. Socio-Linguistics, Literary Linguistics & Anthropological Linguistics;

Unit 5: Phonetics and Phonology, Syntax, Grammar; Semantics and Pragmatics

Unit 6. Levels of Linguistics Analysis.

Unit 7.Morphology and Word-Formation;

Unit 8. IC Analysis and Transformational Generative Grammar.

Reference Books:

D .Crystal. Linguistics. Harmondsworth, London:1978.

Adrian Akmajian, et al. Linguistics-An Introduction to Language & Communication Vth Ed. New Delhi: PHI

C.A Hockett. A Course in Modern Linguistics. London: Macmillan, 1979.

F. Palmer. Grammar. London:ELBS,1985.

A . Zandvoort. Handbook of English Grammar. London: ELBS, 1978.

Pushpinder, Syal. An Introduction to Linguistics. New Delhi: Prentice-Hall & Co, 2007

1.2 (SC ) SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE (5 Credits)

PREAMBLE:

To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of the major and writers and their texts of

prominent South Asian writers of 20th century and also acquaint with the socio-cultural milieu of the times.

BACKGROUND STUDY:

The background of the survey of the South Asian literature of the 20th century.


Unit 1: R.K. Narayan: The Guide (Any Edition)

Unit 2: Bapsi Sidhwa: Cracking India (Any Edition)

Unit 3: Agha Sahib Ali : “Tonight”, “Even the Rain”, “Storm”, ,”Ghazal”, and “Taxidermist”.(Web)

Unit 4: Ysamine Gooneratne:“Big Match, 1983” and “This Language, This Woman” (Any Edition)

Unit 5: Taslima Nasreen: Lajja (Any Edition)

Reference Books:

John Theme. The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures. London: Arnold, 2000.

1.3 (SC) TRANSLATION STUDIES PREAMBLE: To introduce this age long discipline of the Translation studies and make the students familiar

with the emerging methods, trends and new developments in the 20th century. To train the students in

translation skills in different fields.

BACKGROUND STUDY: A brief history of translation studies in our country. William Jones, Max Muller,

Sujit Mukherkjee, A.K.Ramanajnujan, Tejaswani Niranjan, Jacques Derrida etc. Abhigranan Shakuntlam,

Mrictha katika, Gitanjali, Asiatic Society of Literature.

Units Prescribed:

1. Translation: Its Definition, Meaning & Scope.

2. Translation: Its History and the Methods.

3. Translation as Re-writing.

4. Translation as Inter-Discipline

5. Literary Translation and Translators

REFERENCES:

1. Bassnet, Susun. Translation Studies. New York: Methuen,

2. Edwin Gentzler: Contemporary Translation. New York: Routledge

3. Sujit Mukherjee. Translation as Discovery. Hyderabad. Orient Longman.

1.4 (HC) INDIAN DIAPSORIC LITERATURE (5 Credits)

PREAMBLE:

To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of Indian writers who are migrants in America,

England and Canada and other countries. It necessary to study these writers as they are gaining more importance in

the international level

BACKGROUND STUDY: In the study of this literature, there are basic concepts, movements and trends. Sugar

Diaspora, Sandwich Diaspora, Parsi Diaspora, Expatriate Writing, V.S.Naipaul, Chitra Benarjee Divakaruni,

M.G.Vassanji, No New Land, Anita Desai, The Palace of Illusion, The Mimic Men, Fasting, Feasting etc.


Unit 1. Novel: Rohinton Mistry: Such a Long Journey. (Any Ediiton)

Unit 2: Novel: Bharathi Mukherjee: Wife (Any Edition)

Unit 3. Novel: Salman Rushdie: Midnight Children. (Any Edition)

Unit 4. Novel: Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss. (Any Edition)

Unit 5. Novel: Hanif Khureshi : Buddha of Suburbia. (Any Edition)

Reference Books:

R.K.Dhawan. The Writers of Indian Diaspora. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2000.

Emmanuel S,Nelson. The Writers of the India Diaspora.

Bed Prasad Giri. The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Imaginary.

London: Routledge, 2007.

Malti Agarwal. English Literature- Voices of the Indian Diaspora.

THE SECOND SEMESTER

2.1 (HC) BRITISH LITERATURE-II (5 Credits)

PREAMBLE:


period of 17th,

& 18th centuries roughly and also to acquaint them with the socio-cultural milieu of the times.

BACKGROUND STUDY:

A survey of the 17th

and 18th century literature and socio-cultural milieu of England. Fletcher and Marston,

George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Mall Flanders, Walter Scott. The Bride of the

Lammermoor, Romantic Revival, James Boswell, R.B. Sheridan, The Rivals, Oliver Goldsmith, The Rise of

Periodicals. Tattler, Rambler, Vicar of the Wakefield, and Sentimental Comedy.


Unit 1: Drama: John Webster: The White Devil (Any Edition)

Unit 2: Poetry: John Donne: Poems-“Sunne-Rising”, “The Canonization”, “Death Be Not Proud”. (Any Edition)

Unit 3: Prose: Samuel Johnson: The Life of Milton ( Macmillan)

Unit 4: Drama: William Congreve: The Way of the World (Any edition)

Unit 5: Novel: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice ( Any Edition)

Reference Books:

W.H. Hudson: A History of English Literature (Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi)

George Sampson: The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature. (CUP, Chennai)

Andrew Sanders: A Short Oxford History of English Literature ( OUP, Chennai)

David Daiches: Critical Approaches to English Literature.(Allied Publishers, New Delhi)

Paul Poplawaski: English Literature in Context. ( CUP, Chennai)

2.2 HC. CRITICAL THEORY-I (CLASSICAL & NEO-CLASSICAL ) (5 Credits)

PREAMBLE:


period of the Classical and Neo-Classical & periods. .

BACKGROUND STUDY:

The background of survey of the literary criticism of Europe & England is necessary. Socrates, Rhapsode,

Poetaster, Mimesis, Tragic Flaw, Katharsis, The Republic, Negative Capability, Pathetic fallacy, Poetic Diction,

and Primary & The Secondary Imagination, Ars Poetica,


Unit 1: Classical Criticism: Aristotle: Poetics- “Tragedy”

Unit 2: Neo-Classical: Sir Phillip Sidney: In Defense of Poesy &

Unit 3: John Dryden: An Essay on Dramatic Poesy

Unit 4: Samuel Johnson: A Preface to Shakespeare

Unit 5: Romantic Period Criticism: Wordsworth: A Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Reference Books:

W.H.Hudson. A Study of Literature. New Delhi: Kalyani Publishers, 1970.

R.Scott-James. Making of Literature. London: Routledge, 1965.

Cleanth Brooks. A Short History of Literary Criticism. New Delhi: OUP, 1980.

M.S. Nagarajan. Literary Theory and Literary Criticism. Madras: Macmillan, 1965.

D.J.Enright & Chickera. The English Critical Texts. Madras: OUP, 1980.

S. Ramaswami & Seturaman.V.S. The English Critical Tradition. Madras: Macmillan India Ltd, 1978 Vol.1& 2.

2.3 HC INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE-II (5 Credits)

PREAMBLE:


period of 20th centuries and also acquaint with the socio-cultural milieu of the times.

BACKGROUND STUDY:

A survey of the 20th century literature of England. Kamala Das, Manjeri Ishwaran, Midnights’s Children, I am

Not an Island, Tara, Discovery of India, Kushwant Singh, Parthasarathy, Thus Basava Spake, Shiv K.Kumar,

Rohinton Mistry, Vikram Seth, Vikram Chandra, and Heat and Dust


Unit 1: Poetry: Nissim Ezekiel: Poems-“Night of the Scorpion”, “Poet, Lover and Birdwatcher”

Unit 2: Novel; Manohar Malgoankar: Bend in the Ganges (Any Edition)

Unit 3: Novel: Arundhati Roy: God of Small Things (Any Edition)

Unit 4: Drama: Mahesh Dattani: Thirty Days in September (Any edition)

Unit 5: Prose: Nirad Chaudhuri: The Continent of Circe (Any Edition)

Reference Books:

Makarand Paranjape. Indian Poetry in English. Madras: Macmillan, 1995.

K.R.S. Iyengar: Indian Writing in English. New Delhi: Sterling , 1965.

M.K.Naik. A History of Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1980.

M.K. Naik Indian English Literature (1900-2000) New Delhi: Abhinav, 1986.

M.K.Naik. Twentieth Century Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 1995

2.1 (SC) AMERICAN LITERATURES-II (5 Credits)

PREAMBLE:


period of 20th centuries and also acquaint with the socio-cultural milieu of the times

BACKGROUND STUDY:

A survey of the 20th century literature of England is necessary.

Arthur Miller, Carl Sandberg, Langston Hughes, the Harlem renaissance, Living and the Dead, Native Son, The

Color Purple, Sula, John Steinbeck and Malcolm X, The Beat Poets, and The House of Dawn.


Unit 1: Novel: Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea (Any Edition)

Unit 2: Novel: F.Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (Any Edition)

Unit 3 :Poetry: Robert Frost: Poems- “The Mending Wall”, The Death of the Hired Man” & “Stopping by the

Woods on a Snowy Evening”

Unit 4: Sylvia Plath: “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus”

Unit 5:Drama: Edward Albee: The Human Zoo (Any Edition) &:

Reference Books:

V.R. Badiger: A Short History of American Literature. New Delhi: Standard Publishers, 2016.

R.E. Spiller: A Literary History of the United States, New York

Richard Gray: A Brief History of American Literature. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 1992.

Egbert S.Oliver Ed. American Literature –1890-1965(New Delhi: S.Chand & Co.,)

--------------- Ed. American Literature –Twentieth Century (New Delhi: S.Chand & Co.,)

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1.2. (SC) ENGLISH PHONETICS (4 Credits)

PREAMBLE:

To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of English Phonetics and its various benefits in

day to day life as it is related to the spoken English, and art of public speaking.

BACKGROUND STUDY:

A survey of the history of the General Linguistics and Phonetics aptly serves the background.


Unit 1: Language and Speech

Unit 2: Organs of Speech and Speech Mechanism

Unit 3. Sounds of English-Vowels, Consonants, Consonant Clusters, & Diphthongs,

Unit 4: Phoneme, Allophone and Morpheme; Syllable & Word

Unit: 5 Stress & Accent,

Unit 6. Ellison and Glide

Unit 7. Intonation-Its patterns

Unit 8: Transcription of Words & Sentences

Reference Books:

A.R. Gimson. The English Pronunciation. London: ELBS Edition. 1990.

Peter Roach. Phonetics and Phonology. (CUP)

Daniel Jones. English Pronouncing Dictionary. London: Penguin, 1969.

Mark Hancock. Pronunciation of English. Cambridge: CUP, 1995.

J.D.O’ Connor. Better English Pronunciation. Cambridge: CUP, 2000.

Daniel Jones. Outline of English Phonetics. Cambridge: CUP, 1991.

2.1. O.E. GENERAL ENGLISH –I (4 Credits)

PREAMBLE:

To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of the grammar & usage of English language to

the beginners.

BACKGROUND STUDY:

A survey of the origin and development of Teaching of English Grammar in India serves as proper background.


Unit 1: Sentence and its kinds

Unit 2: Mood & Modality

Unit 3: Tense and Time

Unit 4: Active and Passive & Direct and Indirect

Unit 5: Transformation of Sentences

Reference Books:

Raymond Murphy- The Essential Grammar (Madras: Macmillan)

David Green -Practical English Grammar (Madras: Macmillan)

N. Krishnaswamy: Modern English Grammar (Hyderabad: Macmillan)

Active English Grammar by Teachers Forum (Madras: Macmillan)

Michael Swan. Practical English Usage (Oxford: OUP )

THE THIRD SEMESTER

3.1(HC) BRITISH LITERATURE-III (5 Credits)

PREAMBLE:

To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of the major and writers and their texts of the

Victorian and early Modern periods and also acquaint them with the socio-cultural milieu of the times.

BACKGROUND STUDY:

A survey of the 19th

century literature of England is necessary. George Meredith, The Woman Question, Benjamin

Disraeli, William Morris, William Makepeace Thackeray, Dramatic Monologue, Leonardo Woolf , The Ring and

the Book, Vanity Fair, The Egoist , Matthew Arnold, Middlemarch, R.L. Stevenson.


Unit 1: Poetry: Alfred Tennyson: In Memoriam (100 Lines) (Any Edition)

Unit 2: Prose : Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy (Any Edition)

Unit 3: Novel: Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native (Any Edition)

Unit 4: Novel: D.H. Lawrence: Women in Love (Any edition)

Unit 5 :Bernard Shaw: The Apple Cart (Orient Longman)

Reference Books:

George Sampson- The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature (CUP, Chennai)

Andrew Sanders A Short Oxford History of English Literature ( OUP, Chennai)

David Daiches: Critical Approaches to English Literature.(Allied Publishers, New Delhi)

Paul Poplawaski: English Literature in Context ( CUP, Chennai)

3.2 (HC) CRITICALTHEORY –II (19 &Early 20th

Century) 5 Credits

PREAMBLE: To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of the major and writers and their

texts of 19th & early 20th centuries.

BACKGROUND STUDY: A survey of the 20th century literature of England. Negative Capability, Pathetic

Fallacy, Practical Criticism, Textual Criticism, Touchstone Method, Objective Correlative, Ambiguity,

Psychological Criticism, Biographical Criticism, Historical Criticism.


Unit 1: Matthew Arnold: “The Study of Poetry” & “The Function of Criticism in Present Time”

Unit 2: Virginia Woolf: “The Modern Fiction”

Unit 3: T.S. Eliot: “The Metaphysical Poets” & “The Tradition and Individual Talent”

Unit 4: Edmund Wilson: “Interpretation of Literature”

Unit 5. William Empson: “Seven Types of Ambiguity”.

Reference Books:

D.J.Enright & Chickera Ed.: The English Critical Texts (OUP)

S.Ramaswami & V.S.Sethuraman Ed. The English Critical Tradition Vol. I. ( Macmillan)

S.Ramaswami & V.S.Seturaman . Ed. The English Critical Tradition Vol. II (Macmillan)

Norton Anthology of Literary Criticism ( Norton Press)

3.3 (HC) POST- COLONIAL LITERATURES (5 credits)

PREAMBLE: To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of the major and writers and their

texts of 20th century Post-Colonial Literatures.

BACKGROUND STUDY: A survey of the 20th century Post-Colonial Literatures. Prospero–Caliban Complex,

Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Hybridity, Mimicry, Hegemony, Anti-Colonialism, Nationalism, Master Narrative,

Multi-Culturalism, Dominant Culture and Subaltern Culture.


Unit 1: Drama: Wole Soyinka: The Lion and the Jewel(Any Edition)

Unit 2: Novel: Nadine Gordimer- July’s People (Any Edition)

Unit 3: Novel: Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin (Any Edition)

Unit 4: Poetry: Henry Lawson: “The Drover’s Wife” & “Middleton’s Rouseabout”

Unit 5: Short Story: Katherine Masefield: “The Garden Party” (from John Thieme’s Anthology)

Reference Books:

C.D.Narasimhaiah Ed. An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry ( OUP)

John Thieme. Ed. Post-Colonial Literatures in English (Arnold)

Elleke Bohmer. Post- Colonial Literature. (Any Edition)

Leela Gandhi. Ed. Post-Colonial Theory. (Any Edition)

Bill Ashcroft.et. al. The Empire Writes Back . London: Routledge, 2000.

R.K.Dhavan (Ed) Commonwealth Literature Vol.1to4 New Delhi: Creative Books, 1980.

Basavaraj Naikar. Perspectives on Commonwealth Literature. Jaipur: Book Enclave, 2003.

3.1 (SC) ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING (5 Credits)

PREAMBLE: To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of the texts in the field of

teaching of English Language .

BACKGROUND STUDY: The history of the teaching of English Language in India. Its meaning, scope and

limitations. Short notes :English Global Language, English as Second Language, Varieties of English, Slang,

Colloquial English, Spoken and Written English, Remedial Teaching, the Language of Advertisement etc.

Units Prescribed:

Unit .1: Teaching Reading & Writing

Unit .2: Teaching Pronunciation & Listening

Unit. 3: Teaching Speaking &Grammar

Unit .4: Teaching Vocabulary & Lesson Planning

Unit .5 : Syllabus and Teachers

Unit .6: Teachers and Teaching Materials

Unit .7: Teacher as Tester and Evaluator

Unit .8: Approaches and Methods

Reference Books:

Harmer, Jeremy. The Practice of English Language Teaching. London: 1983.

Tickoo. M.L. Teaching and Learning of English. Chennai: Oriental Black swan, 2008.

Halliday, M.A.K., An Introduction to Functional Grammar. London: Edward –Arnold.

________ Spoken and Written Language. Oxford: OUP, 1989.

Hornby, A.S. Guide to Patterns & Usage in English. Oxford: OUP, 1954.

Mohammed Aslam. Teaching of English. Bangalore: Foundation Books, 2002.

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3.2 (SC) CULTURAL STUDIES (5 Credits)

PREAMBLE: To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of the major theorists and writers

in the field of Cultural Studies.

BACKGROUND STUDY: A survey of cultural studies , short notes and acquaintances will be the basic

component. Important jeys and concepts, trends and movements.etc.

Gultiral materialism, Concept of Culture, Native culture, Popular Culture , John Clarke, Brian Roberts, Raymond

Williams, David Morley, Stuart Hall, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Michael Denning, etc Analysis of Culture,

Media and Cultural Studies Orientalism..

Units prescribed:

Unit I a) Cultural Studies: An Introduction b) Understanding Cultural Studies c) Modernity-Post-modernity,

Hegemony-Resistance d) Colonialism-Post colonialism. Reading Baldwin E. Introducing Cultural Studies During,

S. Cultural Studies Reader Williams, Raymond. The Analysis of Culture: Culture and Society

Unit II a) Power-Agency, Identity-Subjectivity b) Ideologies c) Symbol-Semiotics d) Gender-Feminism Reading

Hall, Stuart. What Is Culture? (Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies) During, S. Cultural Studies: An

Introduction

Unit III a) Race, Ethnicity, Nation b) Orientals c) Subaltern d) Globalization, Diaspora, Multiculturalism Reading

Hooks, Bell. A Revolution of Values: The Promise of Multicultural Change Tomlinson, John. Globalization and

Culture Edward Said, Orientalism Spivak, Gayatri. “Can the Subaltern Speak?”

Unit IV a) Popular Culture- Culture Industry- The Commodity b) Media, Television- Representation,

Consumerism c) Science, Technology and Cultural Studies d) Cyber-culture

Reference Books:

Mark J.Smith Culture, New Delhi: Viva Books Private Limited, 2005

Ross, Andrew. The Challenge of Science.

Fiske, J. Understanding Popular Culture.

Promod Nayar. Cultural Studies.

3.2. (OE) GENERAL ENGLISH –II ( 4 Credits)

PREAMBLE: To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of the texts in teaching of

English Language & Grammar and teach the compositional skills in English Language.

BACKGROUND STUDY: The A history of teaching of English Grammar & Composition in India. :

Units Prescribed :

Unit 1: The English Usage

Unit 2: Essay-Writing

Unit 3: Comprehension

Unit 4: Paragraph-Writing

Unit 5: Precise-Writing

Reference Books:

David Green. English Grammar .( Macmillan)

N.Krishnaswamy: Modern English Grammar & Usage.

Michael Swan. The English Usage. ( Macmillan)

Nesfield. J.C. English Grammar and Composition.

THE FOURTH SEMESTER

4.1(HC) BRITISH LITERATURE-IV (5 Credits)

PREAMBLE: To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of the major writers and their

texts of the twentieth century and contemporary literature and also acquaint them with the socio-cultural milieu

of the times.

BACKGROUND STUDY: A survey of the British Literature 20th and contemporary times. Absurd Drama.

Drama of Ideas , Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, Laurence Durrell, The Alexandria

Quartet, Malcolm Bradbury, Seamus Heaney, Tom Stoppard.


Unit 1: Prose: Aldous Huxley: “Work and Leisure”, and “Comfort” (from Essays of Aldous Huxley)

Unit 2: Drama: Thomas Beckett: Waiting for Godot (Any Edition)

Unit 3: Novel: Graham Green: The Power and the Glory ( Any Edition)

Unit 4: Novel: William Golding: The Lord of the Flies (Any Edition)

Unit 5: Poetry: Philip Larkin: Poems- “Church Going” , Whitsun Wedding” ( Any Edition)

Reference Books for History of British Literature: 1. W.H. Hudson: A History of English Literature ( Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi)

2. George Sampson: The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature (CUP, Chennai)

3. Andrew Sanders: A Short Oxford History of English Literature ( OUP, Chennai)

4. David Daiches: Critical Approaches to English Literature.(Allied Publishers, New Delhi)

5. Paul Poplawaski: English Literature in Context ( CUP, Chennai)

4.2 (HC) CRITICALTHEORY-III (Modern and Contemporary) 5 Credits

PREAMBLE: To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of the major writers and their

texts of the twentieth century and contemporary literary criticism.

BACKGROUND STUDY: A survey of the 20th and Contemporary times.


Unit 1: Ronald Barthes: “The Death of the Author”

Unit 2: Helen Cixous: “The Laugh Of Medusa”

Unit 3: Jacques Derrida: “Desire in Language”

Unit 4 : Laura Mulvey: “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema””.

Unit 5: Jacques Lacan: “Desire in Language”

Reference Books:

D.J.Enright & Chickera. Ed.: The English Critical Texts (OUP)

S.Ramaswami & Seturaman Ed. The English Critical Tradition Vol. I. ( Macmillan)

S.Ramaswami & Seturaman Ed. The English Critical Tradition Vol. II (Macmillan)

Norton Anthology of Literary Criticism. ( Norton Press)

4.3. (HC) PROJECT WORK (5 Credits)

The candidates shall study in a specific area of Indian English /American/British Literature under a

permanent faculty member and select a topic in consultation with him /her. They are expected to write the project

to the best satisfaction of the supervisor first in hand and then at the time of submission, in typed copy. The project

shall be submitted to The Chairman BOE a week before the final examination. The Chairman, in turn, shall

forward a copy of each to the Registrar (Evaluation). All permanent faculty members should involve in this project

work; the total number of students who opt for this project work should equally divided in the beginning of the

semester.

There shall be internal by supervisor and external evaluation by an external member who should invited for

the evaluation and viva voce. The components are as follows:

Component 1: Writing of Project Work: 80 marks

Component 2: Viva voce, ( i.e., meant for testing the candidate’s authenticity of writing) carries 20 marks.

The Chairman BOS shall conduct viva voce of the candidates with external member being present; the viva

voce shall be for the evaluation of the project work also. The other teachers/supervisors shall be present during the

viva and evaluation involve in just and objective evaluation. The concerned supervisors as internal members shall

award marks for their candidates’ performance.

4. 1(SC) WORLD LITERATURE ( 5 CREDITS)

PREAMBLE: To introduce and enable the students to understand newly emerging literature like ‘World

Literature’ which is gaining much popularity because of its universal nature and ‘great reads’ in recent times. It is

new kind of literature identified by our academics to do innovative research or comparative research.

BACKGROUND STUDY: A survey of the history of the world literature. Bhasa, Vyasa, Valmiki, Dante, Virgil,

Maxim Gorky, Franz Kafka, Homer, Sophocles, The Golden Ass, The Arabian Nights, Crime and Punishment,

Panchatantra, Waiting for Godot, The Odessey, The Illiad, Classicism, Neo –Classiciam, Epic, Hellenism. The

Magic Mountain, Maupassant,

Units Prescribed:

Unit 1: Aeschylus: Oedipus the King (Any Edition)

Unit 2: Virgil: Aeniad (Any Edition)

Unit 3. Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha (Any Edition)

Unit 4: Dante: Divine Comedy – (only Inferno is prescribed) (Any Edition)

Unit 5: Kalidas: Abhignan Shakuntalam (Any Edition)

Reference Books:

Encyclopaedia of World Literature.

Theo D’haen . A Routeledge History of World Literature. (2011)

Pranav Kumar Jaiswal. World Literature: A Brief Introduction

Ignatitus Joseph Estroga. Introduction to World Literature.

4.2 (SC) RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ( 5 Credits)

PREAMBLE: To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of the meaning and process of

research and distinguish between literary research and research in social science.

BACKGROUND STUDY: To study the background for Research and Literary research and know the

development that has taken place in England and America: Short Notes: Footnotes, Endnotes, Abbreviations,

Webliography, Bibliographic cards, Card Catalogue, Numbering, Hypothesis, Notes-making, Notes-taking etc.

Units Prescribed:

Unit I: Literary Research: Meaning, & Scope: Methods of Research

Unit II: Library Use & Documentation

Unit III: Research Paper Thesis, and Dissertation

Unit IV: Literature Survey, Hypothesis & Structure of a Good Thesis

Unit V: Writing of the Pre-final Draft Editing & Proof Reading ; Viva Voce.

Reference Books:

Durston & Poole. The Dissertation & Assignment Writing. New Delhi: Eastern Economy Publishing, 1988.

Bhusanagi. N. Fundamentals of Research. Hyderabad: ASRC, 2000.

Richard Altick. The Art of Literary Thesis. London. Routledge, 1993.

S.V. Deshpande. Research in Humanities & Social Science. Kolhapur, 2005.

4.3. (SC) COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH (4 Credits)

PREAMBLE:

To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of Communication Skills in English Language

and its importance.

BACKGROUND STUDY:

A survey of the origin and development of Communication Skills and Communication skills in English is

necessary.


Unit 1: Language & Body Language-its Meaning and Importance

Unit 2: Meaning, Definition and Nature of Communication.

Unit 3: Types of Communication & Barriers of Communication

Unit 4: Verbal & Non-Verbal Communication

Unit 5: Communications Skills in English

Unit 6. Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing skills.

Reference Books:

Alan Pease. The Body Language.

R.P. Singh. Professional Communication. Madras: OUP, 2001

Sealy, A. The Oxford Guide to Speaking and Writing. (OUP)

4.4 (SC) LITERATURE & FILM STUDIES (5 Credits)

( Inter-Disciplinary)

PREAMBLE: To introduce and enable the students to have firsthand knowledge of the major developments in the

Films and Film Studies – major directors, and their movies of the 19th, and 20th

centuries and also of the

Contemporary times.

BACKGROUND STUDY: A survey of the 19

th century literature of England, America and Europe.

Concepts and trends: Movies, Rewriting History, Play and the Movie, Women Film makers, Film as a Cultural

text, Ethnographic film, Detective Movie, Documentary Film, Artistic Film, Popular Movie,

Films: Pather Panchali, Singing in the Rain, Once Upon a Time in the West, Mera Nam Joker, etc.

Devadas, Ganga Teri Maili Amrut etc

Units Prescribed:

Unit 1 : Film: and Literature: Definitions and Meanings

Unit 2 The Origin and Growth of Film in the Europe Seeing, Editing & Hearing the Film.

Unit 3 Film in relation to Narrative, Authorship & Genre.

Unit 4 Theories & Histories: Film as Production and Consumption

Unit 5: British & Indian Movies- “ The Gold Finger”/ Indian Movies-“Lagan”

Reference Books: 1. Andrew Dix. Beginning Film Studies.

2. Bardwell, David and K. Thompson. Film Art :An Introduction. Boston:

McGraw, 2007.

3. Anwar Huda. The Art and Science of Cinema. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2004.

4. Robert Stam. A Companion to Literature and Film. Alessandra Renege, 2004.

5. Linda Castagno Cahier: Literature into Film: Theory and Practical Approaches, 2006.

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