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Master of Arts (English) (Revised) - Wef - 2012-13
Master of Arts (English) (Revised) - Wef - 2012-13
Syllabus for
Choice Based Credit System
Master of Arts
For the Academic Year
2012-2013 & Until further notice
Department
English
Se
mes
ter
No.
ENG401
ENG402
ENG403
ENG404
ENG405
ENG406S
English
II
ENG407
ENG408
ENG409
ENG410EA
ENG410EB
ENG411EA
ENG411EB
ENG412S
English
English
III
IV
ENG501
ENG502
ENG503
ENG504EA
ENG504EB
ENG505EA
ENG505EB
ENG506S
ENG507
ENG508EA
ENG508EB
ENG509EA
ENG509EB
ENG510
ENG511EA
ENG511EB
ENG511EC
ENG 512
Course
Name
Othe
rs
Prac
tical
s
Tota
l
Course
Credit
3
3
3
3
3
1
1
1
1
1
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
15
4
24
3
3
3
1
1
1
4
4
4
4
24
4
4
4
15
4
24
3
3
3
1
1
1
4
4
4
15
24
3
Special Author
3
Literature and Gender
Introduction to Film Studies
3
New Literatures
Contemporary Theories (1960 Onwards)
3Literature and Performing Fine Arts
Life Literature and Thought in Twentieth Century 3Literatures of the Indian sub continent
-3
Professional Skills
Seminar
Total
9
1
1
4
4
4
24
4
4
-1
-1
4
4
-1
4
4
4
24
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
24
24
Marks 14x 2 = 28
Marks 07x 2 = 14
Marks 01x14 = 14
Marks 02x07 = 14
______________
Total
70
+ Internal Marks
30
_______________
(Marks for the paper) Total
100
Note: Course No. 405/ 409, and 406 / 412 and 411 to have different examination pattern
as suggested in the Syllabus itself.
Core 401
History of English Lit. 1500-1660
2012-2013,2013-2014,2014-2015
Unit
01
02
03
04
05 Non-Detailed Study
Author
Theory of Shakespearean
Tragedy
Shakespeare
C. M. Bowra
Milton
a) Spenser
b) Marlowe
c) Sidney
d) Ben Jonson
e) Thomas Kyd
Text
Dr. A. C. Bradley:
Shakespearean Tragedy
King Lear
Classical Epic Tradition
Paradise Lost Book I
The Faerie Queene
Dr. Faustus
Arcadia
Volpone
Spanish Tragedy
Recommended Reading:
1. Emily Legouis and Cazamian: History of English Literature.
2. Arthur Crompton Reckett: History of English Literature
3. Pelican Guide to English Literature
4. Cambridge History of English Literature.
Core 402
History of English Lit. 1660-1798
Unit
Author
Text
3
01
02
03
04
05 Non-Detailed Study
Dobree, Bomani
Dryden
Dobree, Bomani
William Congreve
a) Pope
b) Defoe
c) Swift
d) Richardson
e) Goldsmith
Restoration Tragedy
All for Love
Restoration Comedy
The Way of the World
The Rape of the Lock
Robinson Crusoe
Gullivers Travels
Pamela
The Deserted Village
Recommended Reading:
1.
2.
1.
2.
Core 403
Indian Writing in English
Unit
01
02
Author/ Topic
Pioneering Trio of Indian
English Novel
R. K. Narayan
Text
K.R. Shrinivas Iyengar:
Indian Writing in English
The English Teacher
03
04
05 Non-Detailed Study
Girish Karnad
a) Raja Rao
b) Anita Desai
c) Shashi Deshpande
d) Salman Rushdie
e) Arundhati Roy
Recommended Reading:
1. K. R. Srinivas Iyengar: History of Indian English Literature
2. M. K. Naik: History of Indian Writing in English
3. Northrop Fry: The Anatomy of Criticism
Core 404
Womens Writing
Unit
01
Author/ Topic
Virginia Woolf
Title
A Room of Ones Own
02
Kamla Das
03
Afro-American Feminism
04
Toni Morrison
05 Non-Detailed Study
a) Shashi Deshpande
b) Kiran Desai
c) Kundanika Kapadia
d) Ismat Chugtai
e) Imtiaz Dharkar
Moving On
The Inheritance of Loss
Seven Steps in the Sky
Lihaf (The Quilt)
Purdah I
Recommended Reading:
1. Simone De Beauvoir: The Second Sex
2. Kate Miller: Sexual Politics
3. Brinda Nabar: Caste as Women
4. Gilbert and Gubar: Mad Women in the Attic
Core 405
Communicative Skills I
Unit
01 (University
examination shall be out
of Unit 1,2and 3 for 40
marks and two hours)
02
03
04
05 Viva-voce. Marks 30
Topic
a) The Origin of Language
b) Phases of the
Development of English
Language
(Old/Middle/Modern
Phases)
a) Forms and Functions of
Nouns / Verbs / Adjectives
a) Human Speech
Mechanism
b) Classification of
Consonants and Vowels
Phonetic transcription of
words
Rapid Reading to test:
a) Pronunciation
b) Intonation (Rise-fall)
Text
C. L. Wrenn: The English
Language
Note: No transcription for Blind students. They shall be asked to write two short notes
out of four from Unit 1-3.
Recommended Reading:
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13.
14.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
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26.
27.
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M. A. (Previous) SYLLABUS
SEMESTER II
2012-2013,2013-2014,2014-2015
Author/ Topic
Wordsworth and
Coleridge
Wordsworth and
Coleridge
Theatre of Ideas
Shaw
a) Jane Austen
b) Charles Dickens
c) Byron
d) Charles Lamb
e) Orwell
* Lyrical Ballads:
Titles:
1.) I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
2.) To a Cuckoo
3.) To a Skylark
4.) The Solitary Reaper
5.) My Heart Leaps Up
Text
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Lyrical Ballads- *
Candida
Emma
Oliver Twist
Don Juan
Essays of Elia
Animal Farm
6) To a Butterfly
7) The Foster Mothers Tale
8) The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem
9) She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
10) The Dungeon
Recommended Reading:
1. Emily Legouis and Cazamian: History of English Literature.
2. Arthur Crompton Reckett: History of English Literature
3. Pelican Guide to English Literature
4. Cambridge History of English Literature.
5. A. Nicoll: British Drama
6. P.Rangaswamy: Selected Poems of Wordsworth. Macmillan. 1995.
History of English Lit. 1914-2000
Core 408
Unit
01
Author/ Topic
Modern English Fiction
02
03
04
D. H. Lawrence
The Movement Poetry
Philip Larkin
Text
Pelican Guide to English
Literature Vol. 7
Women in Love
The Movement
High Windows
05 Non-Detailed Study
a) T. S. Eliot
b) Harold Pinter
c) Ted Hughes
d) Russell
e) Conrad
Recommended Reading:
1. Emily Legouis and Cazamian: History of English Literature.
2. Arthur Crompton Reckett: History of English Literature
3. Pelican Guide to English Literature
4. Cambridge History of English Literature.
Communicative Skills II
Core 409
Unit
01 (University
examination shall be
out of Unit 1,2and 3 for
40 marks and two
hours)
02
03 Non-Detailed Study
Topic
Definition, Process and
Objective of Communication
Types of Communication
(Verbal and Non-Verbal)
Situational Communication
(Dialogue Writing and
Reproduction)
Text
Communication Skills :
Meenakshi Raman &
Sangeeta Sharma. Oxford
University Press. 2009
-do-
a) Reading Comprehension
b) Listening skills
Recommended Reading:
Kumar, Sanjay, Pushp Lata. Communication Skills. OUP. New Delhi. 2011. Print
10
American Lit.
Elective 410 EA
Unit
01
Author
American Renaissance
02
03
Hawthorne
Harlem Renaissance
04
05 Non-Detailed Study
Langston Hughes
a) Arthur Miller
b) Emerson
c) Alice Walker
d) Thoreau
e) Sylvia Plath
Text
Wyatt, A.W. and Waller,
ed. Cambridge History of
American Literature, New
York, Barbleby, 2000.
Print.
The Scarlet Letter
The Oxford Companion to
African American
Literature, OUP, 1996
Selected Poems*
Death of a Salesman
Brahma
The Color Purple
Walden Pond
Ariel
Recommended Reading:
1. Encyclopedia of American Literature, Vol. 1, 2, 3: Carol Berkin, Ed.
Author/ Topic
Pre-Independence Indian
Poetry
Tagore
03
Contemporary Indian
Text
K. R. Shrinivas Iyengar.
Indian Writing in English
Tagores Translation of
Kabir
Kamala Devi.Towards a
11
Drama
National Theatre.OUP
&
04
05 Non-Detailed Study
Vijay Tendulkar
a) U.R. Ananthamurthy
b) M.K.Gandhi
c) Rukaya Sakhawat
Hussain
d) Zaverchand Meghani
e) Prem Chand
Recommended Reading:
1. Contemporary Indian Drama: Astride Two Traditions. Urmil Talwar & Bandana
Chakrabarty
2. Indian English Drama: Critical Perspectives. K. V. Surendran and J. K. Dodiya
World Classics in English Translation
Elective 411 EA
Unit
01
Author/ Topic
Indian Classical Drama
02
03
Kalidas
Existentialism
04
05 Non-Detailed Study
Albert Camus
a) Bhasa
b) Sophocles
c) Albert Camus
d) Dostoevsky
e) Tolstoy
Text
History of Indian Classical
Drama
Shakuntala
Kierkegaard:
Existentialism:
Kierkegaard For Beginners
by Palmer, Donald D.
1996. Writers and Readers
Limited. London, England
Plague
Swapanavasavadattam
Oedipus Rex
Outsider
Crime and Punishment
War and Peace
Recommended Reading:
1. Max Muller: History of Classical Sanskrit Literature
12
Theory
Principles of Translation
02
03
04
Types of Translation
Problems of Translation
Practical Translation from
Gujarati/Hindi into
English
Practical Translation from
English into Gujarati/
Hindi
05
Text
S. Mukherjee. Translation
as Discovery
P. Lal: Transcreation
Paragraphs to be
Prescribed
-do-
Recommended Reading:
1. James Holmes: The Name and Nature of Translation
2. G. N. Devi: In Another Tongue
3. Donald Booths: Aspects of Translation
4. Harish Trivedi: Cultural and Linguistic Problems of Translation
Course 412
Seminar
(Core)
Note:
2. Repetition of the topics to be avoided.
3. Ideal length of seminar paper should be 8-10 A4 Size papers.
4. MLA 2006 methodology should be preferred.
5. All assignments should be computer generated in Times New Roman, Font 12,
1.5 spacing and 1 inches margins
6. No University exam is to be conducted for 406.
7. The internal assessment is to be done and submitted to the University as soon as
the University semester exams finish
8. All records and documents such as assignments/ attendance/ Presentation which
are used for awarding internal marks should be preserved by each PG Center.
1) Internal Assessment for 30 marks
13
14
MA Final
2012-2013,2013-2014,2014-2015
Examination Pattern:
5.
6.
7.
8.
Marks 14x2= 28
Marks 07x2 = 14
Marks 1x14 = 14
Marks 2x07 = 14
______________
Total
70
+ Internal Marks 30
_______________
(Marks for the paper) Total
100
Semester III
Total No. of courses in each Semester: 06
2012-2013,2013-2014,2014-2015
World Drama
Core 501
Unit
01
02
03
Author/ Title
Martin Esslin
Pinter
C.W.E. Bigsby
04
05 Non-Detailed Study
Arthur Miller
Luigi Pirandello
Bertolt Brecht:
Sudraka
Chekhov
Genet
Text
Theatre of Absurd
The Birthday Party
Modern American Drama
1945-2000, Cambridge
University Press,
Cambridge, England, 2004.
All My Sons
Six Characters in Search of
an Author
Mother Courage
The Little Clay Cart
The Cherry Orchard
The Balcony
Recommended Reading:
1. Bentley, Eric. The Theory of the Modern Stage: An Introduction to Modern
Theatre and Drama NY: Penguin, 1976
2. Brater, Enoch and Ruby Cohn, eds. Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and
Postmodern Drama. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P,1990.
3. Elam, K. The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama London: Routledge,1983
4. Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 1973.
15
Research Methodology
Core 502
Unit
01
10Marks
Topic
Identification of a research
problem and choice of
subject
How to write an academic
paper
Author-Text
Unit I and II - Thesis and
Assignment Writing,
Anderson Durston and Pool
&
MLA Handbook, 2006 Ed.
East and West Publishers
02
10Marks
-do-
Creating bibliographical
entries for_ Audio Visual
web video and e sources.Summarizing, Paraphrasing,
& Direct Quotations
-do-
-do-
03
15+5 Marks
04
10Marks
05 Non-Detailed Study
(Entries Concerning
Research Documentation)
10Marks
-do-
16
Literary Criticism
Core 503
Unit
01
02
03
04
Author/ Title
Aristotle
Bharata
Longinus
Dr.Johnson
Text
Poetics
NatayaShatra Chapter1& 6
On The Sublime
Preface to Shakespeare
05 Non-Detailed Study
Post-Structuralist
Psychoanalysis
Chicago Critics
Geneva School
Post-Modernism
Recommended Reading
1.
Cuddon. A Dictionary of Literary terms and Theories (Penguin)
2.
Wimsatt and Brooks eds. Literary Criticism: A Short History (Indian ed.,
Oxford Book Company)
3.
Selden, Widdowson and Brooker eds, A Readers Guide to Contemporary
Literary Theory, 5th Edition (Indian ed. Cambridge University Press)
4.
Modern Literary Theory: A Reader 2nd ed. Ed. Rice and Waugh
Comparative Lit.
Elective 504 EA
Unit
01
Topic/ Title
a) The concept and
Nature of
Comparative
Author-Text
1. Amiya Dev and
Sisirkumar Das (Ed.):
Comparative Literature
17
Literature
02
b) The Development
of Comparative
Literature in the
West and in India
Theory and approaches of
Comparative Lit.
Genology
03
Genealogy : Modern
Perspectives in Genealogy :
India and West
1. Ulrich Weinstein:
Comparative
Literature and
Literature Theory:
Survey and
Introduction
(Indiana University
Press, 1973)
2. Chandra Mohan
(Ed.) : Aspects of
Comparative
Literature : Current
Approaches,
India Publisher &
Distributors, New
Delhi.
Dasgupta, Subha
Chakraborty (Editor),
Genealogy, DSA, Dept. of
Comparative Literature,
Jadavpur
University,
2004.
04
05 Non-Detailed Study
The Challenge of
Comparative Literature
(Harvard University Press)
18
1. Dev, Amiya and Sisir Kumar Das, Editors, Comparative Literature: Theory
and Practice, Indian Institute of
Advanced Study, Shimla in association
with Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 1989
2. Scope of Comparative Literature (Com
3. Dev, Amiya, The Idea of Comparative Literature in India, Calcutta, Papyrus,
1984.parative Literature in India: A Perspective by Bijay Kumar Das from
Comparative Indian Literature ed. Rao & Dhawan)
4. 2 National Council of Teachers of English, Comparative Literature
Committee and others, Yearbook of
Comparative and General Literature,
Volume 1, Russell and Russell, 1952,Digitised 2009.
Author
Aime Cesaire
02
03
E.M. Foster
Edward Said
04
05 Non-Detailed Study
Achebe
George Orwell
Edward Thompson
Amitav Ghosh
Jean Rhys
Dorris Lessing
Text
Discourse on Colonialism
from Postcolonial
Criticism. Ed. Bart MooreGilbert
Passage to India
Orientalism from the
above collection by Gilbert
Things Fall Apart
Burmese Days
An Indian Day
Shadow Lines
Wide Sargasso Sea
The Grass is Singing
Recommended reading:
1. Ashcroft et. al. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Postcolonial
Literatures. London: Routledge, 1989
2. Bhabha, Homi K. Nation and Narration, Routledge: London, 1990
3. Patke, Rajeev S. Postcolonial Poetry in English, OUP: New Delhi,2009 (Indian
Edition, Second Impresion)
4. Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna. (ed.) An Illustrated History of IndianLiterature in
English, Orient Longman Pvt. Ltd.: Delhi, 2003
5. Ahmad, Aijaz. In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literature, OUP: Delhi, 1991
19
Introduction to Linguistics
Elective 505 EA
Unit
01
Author/ Topic
1.Definition of Linguistics
2. Branches of Linguistics a)
Phonology
b) Morphology
c) Syntax
d) Semantics
Text
Krishnaswamy, N. and
SK Verma. Modern
Linguistics: An
Introduction. New
Delhi: OUP, 2005.
02
Semantics:
a) Denotation and
Connotation
b) Collocation
c) Association
d) Semantic Field
-do-
03
Morphology:
a)Definition and
Explanation
b) Free Morpheme and
Bound Morpheme
c) Fused Morpheme
d) Lexical words and
Grammatical words
e) Affixes: i) Derivatives
ii) Inflexions
f) Phonemic variations of
the same morpheme:
-do-
04
Syntax:
a) Traditional Grammar
b) Structural Grammar
c) Chomsky:
Transformational
Generative
Grammar
-do-
20
05 Non-Detailed Study
a) Dialects
b) Registers
c) Child Language
Acquisition
d) Second Language
Learning
e) Culture and Language
(Whorfian Hypothesis)
Recommended reading:
1. Hockett. C.F. A Course in Modern Linguistics. New York: Macmillian, 1958.
2. Krishnaswamy, N. and Archana S. Burde. The Politics of Indians' English :
Linguistic Colonialism and the Expanding English Empire. New Delhi: OUP,
2004.
3. Prakasam, V. and Abbi. A Semantic Theories and Language Teaching. New
Delhi, Allied Publishers, 1985.
4. S. Pit Corder, Error Analysis and Interlanguage, Macmillan, 1986.
5. David Crystal : Linguistics
6. Henry Widdowson : Structural Linguistics
7. Frank Palmer : Grammar
8. Verma and Krishnamoorthy : Modern Linguistics
9. Yule, G. : Study of Language
10. Richards & Rodgers : Approaches and Methods
11. Pit Corder : Applied Linguistics
03
Topics
Mass communication:
Process and effects of mass
communication;
Methodologies of mass
communication,
understanding the audience.
Writing skills for
Developmental Stories:
rural issues, tribal issues,
environmental
issues, health issues
Writing and editing Radio
scripts or Magazines article
or Advertisement.
Text
(Topics to be explained
from the list of
recommended books)
Mass Communication in
India, Kewel J.Kumar,
Jaico, 2001
21
05
1. Communication for Development in the Third World; Theory and Practice for
EmpowermentSrinivas, R Melkote, HLeslie, Steevans Sage Publications
2. Developing Communication Skills -- Krishna Mohan and
Meera Banerji
3. Mass Media in National Development by Schramm, Wilbur.
4. Communication & Integrated rural development by J.S.Yadav.( IMC)
5. A Manual of Development Journalism by Alan Chalkely ( Press Institute Of
India.
6. Communication & Social Development in India- Kappuswami
Writing for the Media
7. The craft of copywriting ; June .A. Vailadaras, Response Books Sage
Publications
8. Here is the NewsReporting for Media, Rangaswami Parthasarthy, Sterling
Publications,1994
9. News Reporting and Editing; Sterling Publishers,1987
10. News Writing & Reporting for Todays Media by Bruce D.Itule & Douglas
A.Anderson.
11. A Handbook of Modern Newspaper Editing & Production; F W
Hodgson; Focal Press 1987
12. The Radio Handbook, Carole Fleming, Routledge 2002
13. Mass Communication in India, Kewel J.Kumar, Jaico, 2001
14. . Developing Communication Skills. Madras: Macmillan. Mohan, Krishna, Meera
Banerji. 1990
15. Writing for the Mass Media (6th Edition) by James Glen Stovall
16. Adair, J. & M. Allen : Time Management and Personal Development
22
Seminar
Core 506
Note:
9. Repetition of the topics to be avoided.
10. Ideal length of seminar paper should be 8-10 A4 Size papers.
11. MLA 2006 methodology should be preferred.
12. All assignments should be computer generated in Times New Roman, Font 12,
1.5 spacing and 1 inches margins
13. No University exam is to be conducted for 506.
14. The internal assessment is to be done and submitted to the University as soon as
the University semester exams finish
15. All records and documents such as assignments/ attendance/ Presentation which
are used for awarding internal marks should be preserved by each PG Center.
1) Internal Assessment for 30 marks
2) External assessment for 35+35 = 70 marks. External assessment can be conducted by
respective department by conducting open presentation and answering the questions
thereof. Each student shall make one class-presentation (CP) followed by question and
answer and discussion. (In this paper each student shall be expected to submit a typedwritten assignment on a topic for 35 marks and viva voce after presentation for 35 marks)
Suggested Topics for Seminar:
Any one topic out of the complete prescribed course in Semester III.
23
MA English
Syllabus (Semester System)
According to UGC Recommendations
MA Final
Semester IV
2012-2013,2013-2014,2014-2015
Author/ Topic
Revival of Poetic Drama
T.S. Eliot
03
T.S. Eliot
04
05 Non-Detailed Study
Eliots contemporaries
T.S.Eliot
War poetry
Dadaism
Stream of Consciousness
Myth criticism
Avant-Garde
Text
Introduction to T.S. Eliot
The Murder in the
Cathedral
Traditional and Individual
Talent
The Wasteland
Recommended Reading:
1 T. S. Eliot: Suggested Reading: by David Chinitz Loyola University. Chicago,
Illinois
2 Bataille, Georges. The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism. Edited,
translated, and introduced by Michael Richardson. London, New York: Verso,
c1994
3 Brger, Peter. Theory of the Avant-Garde.
4 Butler, Christopher. After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde.
5 Calinescu, Matei. Faces of Modernity: Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch.
6 Twentieth-Century Literature's: by Kappel, Andrew J.
24
Author/ Topic
Gender Specificity in
Womens Writing
Gender Specificity in Mans
Writing
Showalter: Feminist
Criticism
(Short story)
Rokeya Shakawat Husein :
Title
Charlotte Gilbert Perkins:
The Yellow Wallpaper
Tennyson: Lady of Challots
Howes Critic of the Mayor
of Casterbridge
Sultanas Dream
W.B. Yeats
Virginia Woolf
Caryl Churchill
Achebe
Toni Morrison
Recommended Reading:
1. Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble (1990).
2. De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex (1949).
3. Freidan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique (1963).
4. Gardener, Judith Kegan, ed. Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory: New
Directions (Columbia University Press, 2002).
5. Greer, Germaine. The Female Eunuch (1970).
6. Lal, Malashri. The Law of the Threshold (Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced
Study, 1995), pp.1-33.
7. Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Woman (1869).
8. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Gender Criticism: What Isnt Gender.
9. Tharu, Susie and K.S. Lalita, eds. Introduction Women Writing in India (New
Delhi: O.U.P., 1993)
10. Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth (1991).
11. Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).
12. Woolf, Virginia. Shakespeares Sister from A Room of Ones Own (1929).
25
Author
Cinema as an Art Form
02
03
04
Harper Lee
Robert Mulligan
05 (Non
Detailed
Study)
Title
The Art Of Cinema - An
Insiders Journey Through
Fifty Years Of Film History
by B D Garga : Penguin
Books India
India Fifty Years After
Independence: Images in
Literature, Film, and the
Media.
Felicity Hand and Kathleen
Firth
Film and Feminism: Jasbir
Jain and Sudha Rai
To Kill a Mockingbird
(Novel)
To Kill a Mockingbird
(Movie)
Recommended reading:
1. Braudy, Leo and Marshall Cohen. Film Theory & Criticism: Introductory Readings.
2. Bordwell & Thompson : Film Art and Film History Ideology of Indian Films
3. Boyum, Joy Gould. Double Exposure: Fiction & Film: Calcutta: Seagull, 1989.
4. Kolker, Robert. Film, Form and Culture.
5. Ray, Satyajit. Our Films, Their Films. Orient Black Swan (1976), 2009.
6. Nandy, Ashis and Viney Lal. Fingerprinting Popular Culture, Delhi : OUP (2006)
2010
7. Nandy, Ashis. The Secret Politics of Our Desires. 1998.
26
New Literatures
Elective 509 EA
Unit
01
Author
Discussion Regarding
Nomenclature
02
Ananda Coomarasamy
03
04
05 (Non Detailed Study)
James M. Coetzee
James Reaney
Derek Walcott
Brenda Walker
V. S. Naipual
David Diop
Wole Soyinka
Title
Amitav Ghoshs letter of
Non-Acceptance of
Commonwealth Awards
The Dance of Shiva (pp. 6679) (detailed prose)
Disgrace (novel)
Donnellys (triology)
Pantomime
The Wing of Night
House of Mr. Biswas
Africa (poem)
The Lion and the Jewel
(drama)
Recommended reading:
1. The Cambridge history of African and Caribbean Literature 2 Vols.
2. Cambridge History of Australian Literature ed. Peter Pierce
3. The Penguin Book of Australian Verse ed Harry Hesel Tine New Oxford Book of
Australian Verse ed Les Murray
4. Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature ed. Anita Hiess and Peter Minter
Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry ed. Gerald Moore and Uili Beier
5. Penguin Book of South African Stories ed. Steven Gray. The Arnold Anthology
of Postcolonial Literatures in English: ed. John Thieme
6. Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English ed. Paula Burnett
7. King, Bruce. New Literatures in English. Walsh William : Commonwealth
Literature
8. Dhawan : Commonwealth Fiction
9. Thieme, John : The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
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Contemporary Theories
Elective 509 EB
Unit
01
Theory
Michel Foucault:
Text
What is an Author?
02
Jacques Deridda:
03
Showalter
Feminist Criticism in
Wilderness
04
Mikhail Bakhtin
New Criticism
Marxism
Post Colonialism
Minority Discourse
Eco-Feminism
Recommended readings:
1 Levenson, Michael, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. (1999), 2003.
2 Leitch, Vincent B. American Literary Criticism 1930s to 1980s.
3 Selden, Widdowson and Brooker eds, A Readers Guide to Contemporary
Literary Theory, 5th Edition (Indian ed. Cambridge University Press)
4 Modern Literary Theory: A Reader 2nd ed. Ed. Rice and Waugh
Literature and Performing Fine Arts
Core 510
Unit
01(University
examination shall be out
of Unit 1,2and 3 for 40
marks and two hours)
02
Theory/ Author
Concept of Mimesis in
Plato and Aristotle
Text
Aristotle: Poetics Ch. 1 & 2
Bharata Muni
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04
05
Krishnalal Mohanlal
Jhaveri :
Binodini Dasi
References:
1. Aristotle. Poetics: Aristotles Theory of Poetry and Fine Art. Trans. with notes by
S. H. Butcher. Intro. John Gassner. 4th ed. New York: Dover, 1951.
2. Aristotle. Poetics: Aristotle on the Art of Poetry. Trans. Ingram Bywater
(available online).
3. Bertolt Brecht. 1950. The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre: Notes to the
opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny Brecht on Theatre: The
Development of an Aesthetic.Ed. and trans. John Willett. London: Methuen, 1964.
p. 33-42, and p. 169-175.
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4. Bharat Gupt. Dramatic Concepts: Greek & Indian. A Study of the Poetics and the
Natyasastra. New Delhi: D. K. Printworld, 1994.
5. Bharata Muni. Natyasastram with Abhinavabharati. Ed.Ramakrishna Kavi. 4
vols. Gaekwads Oriental Series. Baroda: Oriental Institute, vol. I (1956), vol. II
(1934), vol. III (1954), vol. IV (1964).
6. Konstantin Stanislavski. 1936. An Actor Prepares. London: Methuen, 1988.
02
03
04
Theory
Background of Ideas
Sigmund Freud
Text
Creative Writers and Day
Dreaming
Frederic Jameson
Poetry
E. E. Cummings
Judith Wright
From Amherst to
Kashmir, Lennox Hill
Fiction
Hanif Kureishi :
Jhumpa Lahiri :
Kazuo Ishiguro :
Cultural studies
Stuart Hall
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Recommended Books:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
Unit
01
02
03
04
05 (Non
Detailed
Study)
Theory
Amartya Sen
Text
Indian Tradition and the Western
Imagination
Aijaz Ahmad
Rienzi Crusz
Zulfikar Ghose
Eunice de Souza
Bapsi Sidhwa
Ice-Candy-Man
Michael Ondaatje
Anils Ghost
Mukul Kesavan
Monica Ali
Brick Lane
Homi K. Bhabha
Sara Suleri
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Amitav Ghosh
Yasmine
Gooneratne
Condition
Sea of Poppies
This Language, This Woman
Recommended readings:
1. Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture.
2. King, Bruce. New Literatures in English.
3. Harrex, S. C. The Fire and the Offering: The Modern Indian Novel in English.
4. Nandan, Satendra, ed. Language and Literature in Multicultural Contexts.
5. Shamsie, Muneeza, ed. A Dragonfly in the Sun.
Professional Skills
Elective 511 EC
Unit
01 (University examination
shall be out of Unit 1,2and
3 for 40 marks and two
hours)
02
Topics
Written Presentation
(Synopsis and CP)
03
04 & 05 To be tested by
viva-voce examination
Marks: 15X2= 30
05
Text
Malcolm
Goodale.
Professional
Presentations.
Priyadarshini Patnaik.
How to Face Interviews
and Succeed in Group
Discussions
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Recommended Reading:
1. Roldan , Amelia Samson . A Workbook on Personality Development and
Character Building. Skills on Development and Management Services
( SDMS ).Paranaque City , Metro Manila . 1993 .
2. Sanyal, Mukti : English at the Workplace
1. Sloane, Paul : The Leaders Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills
Seminar
Core 512
Note: 1) In this paper each student shall be expected to submit a typed-written Minor
Dissertation on one of the following mode in about 20-25 pages:
(a) Translation of a literary piece+ one chapter on problems of translation faced by
the translator based on Translation Theory .
(b) One minor research project on one literary nuance with relation to one literary
writing
(c) Creative Writing (e.g. Essay, short story, poems, novella, short play etc.)
2) Each student shall make one class-presentation (CP) followed by question and answer
and discussion.
Note: the internal evaluation will be for 30 marks and external evaluation for
35+35=70 marks in the presence of a team of faculty members.
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