English
English
English
Programme
Paper-I : Subjective
Duration : 2 Hours
Maximum Marks : 100 Marks
Important Note: Question Paper shall be from the present syllbi of Compulsory
Papers of M.A. English, Kurukshetra University i.e. Course No. I,
II, III, IV, VI, VII, VIII , IX, XI, XII, XIII, XVI, XVII, XVIII.
Questions to be attempted: All questions to be attempted (as per details given below)
Distribution of Marks :
3. One essay (of about 500 words) to be attempted out of four topics given in
the question paper. The topics will pertain to the syllabus : 16 Marks
Syllabus
Section-A
English Literature from Chaucer to 1900 (covering trends, movements, major
authors and texts)
Section-B
20th Century British Literature (covering trends, movements, major authors and
texts)
Section-C
American Literature and Indian Writing in English (covering trends, movements,
major authors and texts)
Section-D
Literary Theory and Critical Approaches
Paper-II (Objective)
Duration: 1 Hour
Max. Marks: 50
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KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY KURUKSHETRA
(Established by the State Legislature Act XII of 1956)
Outline of Test, Syllabi and Courses of Reading for M.A. (Previous) English First and
Second Semester Examinations (effective from the Academic session 2008-09).
OUTLINES OF TEST
FIRST SEMESTER
Max. Time
Marks
COURSE-I: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: 1550-1660 (PART-I) 100 3 HRS.
SECOND SEMESTER
Max. Time
Marks
COURSE-VI: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: 1550-1660 (PART-H) 100 3 HRS.
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M.A. (PREVIOUS) ENGLISH
FIRST SEMESTER
COURSE-I: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: 1550-1660 (Part-I)
Max. Marks: 100
Time: 3 Hours
Note: (To be printed in the question paper)
1. A candidate shall attempt 5 questions in all.
2. All questions carry equal marks.
Unit-I: Philip Sidney: The following Sonnets from Astrophel and Stella are prescribed:
"Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot",
"Vertue alas, now let me take some rest",
"It is most true, that eyes are formed to serve","Reason, in faith
thou art well serv'd, that still", "Alas have I not paine enough my friend",
"Your words my friend (right healthful Caustiks) blame",
"This night while sleepe begins with heavy Wings", "Stella oft
sees the Verie face of Wo", "No more, my dear, no more these
Counsels trie", "Desire, though my oId Companion art".
Unit-II: John Donne: The following poems from The Metaphysical Poets ed.
Helen Gardner (Penguin) are prescribed: "The Flea",
"The Good Morrow", "Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star",
"The Sun Rising", "The Canonization", "A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning", "The Extasie", "Batter My Heart:
Three Person' d God".
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BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
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COURSE-II : LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: 1660-1798 (Part-I)
Max: Marks: 100 Time: 3 Hours
1. There shall be one question with internal choice on each of the five units
prescribed in the syllabus.
2. Question No. 5 will cover the short items prescribed in unit 5 of the
syllabus. This question shall carry 6 items out of which the candidates shall
be required to write short notes (of about 150 words each) on four items.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
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COURSE-III : LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: 1798-1914 (Part-I)
Max. Marks: 100 Time: 3 Hours
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
1. C.M.Bowra: The Romantic Imagination.
2. James Reeves: A Short History of English Poetry.
3. M.H. Abrams: Enlgish Romantic Poets:Modern Essays in Criticism.
4. E. Batho and B. Dobree: The Victorians and After 1830-1914.
5. F.R.Leavis: New Bearings in English Poetry.
6. G.H.Hartman: Wordsworth's Poetry. 1787-1834.
7. F.W.Bateson: Wordsworth: A Re-Interpretation.
8. WaIter Jackson Bate, Ed.: Keats (Twentieth Century Views Series).
9. G.S.Fraser: John Keats: Odes (Casebook Series).
10. H.B1oom and Munich, eds.: Robert Browning: A Collection of Critical
Essays.
11. Borid Ford, ed: The New Pelican Guide to English Literature Volumes 5
and 6.
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12. F.R. and Q.D. Leavis: Dickens: The Novelist.
13. Stephan Hall, ed.: Charles Dickens (Penguin Critical
Anthologies).
Course IV: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: 1914-2000 (Part-I)
Max. Marks: 100 Time: 3 Hours
1. There shall be one question with internal choice on each of the five units
prescribed in the syllabus.
2. Question No. 5 will cover the short items prescribed in unit 5 of the
syllabus. This question shall carry 6 items out of which the candidates shall be
required to write short notes (of about 150 words each) on four items.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
1. C.B. Cox and Arnold P. Hinchlife (eds.): T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
(Casebook Series).
2. Jay Martin (ed.) : A Collection of Critical Essaxs On The Waste Land"
(Twentieth Century Interpretations)
3. Stephen Reagan (ed.): Philip Larkin (New Case Book Series, 1997).
4. Chetan Karnani: Nissim Ezekiel (New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann, 1974).
5. Bruce King: Three Indian Poets (OUP, 1994).
6. K.W. Gransden: E.M.Forster (Writers and Critics Series).
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7. Malcolm Bradbury, ed.: Forster: A Collection of Critical Essays (Twentieth
Century Views Series).
SECOND SEMESTER
COURSE-VI : LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: 1550-1660 (part-II)
Max. Marks: 100 Time: 3 Hours
1. There shall be one question with internal choice on each of the five units
prescribed in the syllabus.
2. Question No. 5 will cover the short items prescribed in unit 5 of the syllabus.
This question shall carry 6 items out of which the candidates shall be required
to write short notes (of about 150 words each) on four items.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
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COURSE-VII: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: 1660-1798 (Part-II)
Max. Marks: 100 Time: 3 Hours
1. There shall be one question with internal choice on each of the five units
prescribed in the syllabus.
2. Question No. 5 will cover the short items prescribed in unit 5 of the syllabus.
This question shall carry 6 items out of which the candidates shall be required
to write short notes (of about 150 words each) on four items.
The Vanity of Human Wishes, Collins, The Vicar of Wake field, Tartuffe,
Boswell, Poetic Satire in the neo-c1assical period, The Essays of Elia by
Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Thomas DeQuincey, Thomas Carlyle.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
1. J. Lannering: Studies in the Prose Style of Joseph Addison
2. lan Watt: The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe. Richardson and Fielding.
3. F.H.Ellis (ed.): Twentieth Century Interpretations of Robinson Crusoe.
4. M.C.Battestin (ed.): Twentieth Century Interpretations of Tom Jones.
5. Ernst Cassirer.: Rousseau. Kant. Goethe. Trans. James Guttmann, Paul O.
Kristeller, and John H. Randa1l, Jr.
6. Boris Ford (ed.): From Dryden to Johnson. the New Pelican Guide to English
Literature, Vo1. 4.
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COURSE-VIII : LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: 1798-1914 (Part-II)
Max. Marks: 100 Time: 3 Hours
1. There shall be one question with internal choice on each of the five units
prescribed in the syllabus.
2. Question No. 5 will cover the short items prescribed in unit 5 of the syllabus.
This question shall carry 6 items out of which the candidates shall be required
to write short notes (of about 150 words each) on four items.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
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(COURSE-IX : LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: 1914-2000(PART-II)
Max. Marks: 100 Time: 3 Hours
1. There shall be one question with internal choice on each of the five units prescribed
in the syllabus.
2. Question No. 5 will cover the short items prescribed in unit 5 of the syllabus. This
question shall carry 6 items out of which the candidates shall be required to write
short notes (of about 150 words each) on four items.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
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THIRD SEMESTER
Max. Marks Time
FOURTH SEMESTER
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M.A. (FINAL) ENGLISH
THIRD SEMESTER
1. There shall be one question with internal choice on each of the five units prescribed
in the syllabus.
2. Question No. 5 will cover the short items prescribed in Unit-5 of the syllabus. This
question shall carry six items out of which the candidates shall be required to write
short notes (of about 150 words each) on four items.
Unit-II Bharatmuni : Natyashastra (Ed. Dr. N.P. Unni) Chapter-I: The Origin of
Drama
Chapter-VI: Sentiments; Chapter-VII: The Exposition of Emotion
BOOK RECOMMENDED:
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COURSE-XII: American Literature (PART-I)
1. There shall be one question with internal choice on each of the five units
prescribed in the syllabus.
2. Question No. 5 will cover the short items prescribed in Unit-5 of the syllabus.
This question shall carry six items out of which the candidates shall be required
to write short notes (of about 150 words each) on four items.
Unit-I Walt Whitman: Ones Self I Sing, There was a Child Went Forth,
When
Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd, Crossing
Brooklyn Ferry,
On the Beach at Night, Song of Myself (Section
6 and Section 32)
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BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
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COURSE-XIII: Indian Writing in English (Part-I)
1. There shall be one question with internal choice on each of the five units
prescribed in the syllabus.
2. Question No. 5 will cover the short items prescribed in Unit-5 of the syllabus.
This question shall carry six items out of which the candidates shall be required
to write short notes (of about 150 words each) on four items.
Unit-II Kamala Das: The following Poems from R. Parthasarathy, ed. Ten
Twentieth Century
Indian Poets.
The Freaks, My Grandmothers House, A Hot
Noon in Malabar, The Sunshine Cat, The
Invitation, The Looking Glass.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
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M.A. (FINAL) ENGLISH
FORTH SEMESTER
1. There shall be one question with internal choice on each of the five units prescribed
in the syllabus.
2. Question No. 5 will cover the short items prescribed in Unit-5 of the syllabus. This
question shall carry six items out of which the candidates shall be required to write
short notes (of about 150 words each) on four items.
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BOOK RECOMMENDED:
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COURSE-XVII : American Literature (Part-II)
1. There shall be one question with internal choice on each of the five units prescribed
in the syllabus.
2. Question No. 5 will cover the short items prescribed in Unit-5 of the syllabus. This
question shall carry six items out of which the candidates shall be required to write
short notes (of about 150 words each) on four items.
Unit-I Robert Frost: Provide Provide, Mending Wall, The Road Not
Taken, Two
Tramps in Mud Time, Stopping By Woods on a
Snowy Evening,
Birches, The Onset, After Apple Picking
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sound and the Fury by
Faulkner, Herzog by Saul Bellow, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Arthur
Miller, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Albee, Sylvia Plath, Langston
Hughes, Wallace Stevens, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
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7. John Gassner (Ed): ONeill: A Collection of Critical Essays.
Twentieth Century Views
Series. Prentice-Hall.
8. Gerald Weales: Tennessee Williams, Pamphlets on American
Writers: Univ. of
Minnesota Press.
9 Richard Grey A History of American Literature (Blackwell,
2006)
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COURSE-XVIII: Indian Writing in English (Part-II)
1. There shall be one question with internal choice on each of the five units prescribed
in the syllabus.
2. Question No. 5 will cover the short items prescribed in Unit-5 of the syllabus. This
question shall carry six items out of which the candidates shall be required to write
short notes (of about 150 words each) on four items.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
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