MPAT-2017 (Paper-II)
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Faculty of Arts
Subject: English
SYLLABUS
SECTION A
16" and 17" Century
Unit A- Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
I. Shakespearean Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
IL. Shakespearean Comedies and Tragi-Comedies:
Merchant of Venice, Tempest, A Midsummer Nights Dream, As You Like It
IML. Ben Jonson: Every Man in his Humour
IV. Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
V. Webster: Duchess of Malfi
VL. Francis Bacon’s Essays: of Truth, of Adversity, of Simulation and
Dissimulation, of Revenge
Unit B- Restoration Age and the Augustan Age
1. Metaphysical Poets: John Donne ~ The Sunne Rising, The Exstasie, A
Valediction forbidding Mourning, Holy Sonnets
Il. George Herbert ~ The Collar
III. Andrew Marvel - To His Coy Mistress, Garden, The Retreat
IV. Congreve ~ The Way of the World
V. Dryden: Mac Flecknoe, Song for St. Cecilia's Day
VI. Pope : Rape of the Lock
VII. John Milton : Paradise Lost, Book 1Ne
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Section B
18" and 19" Century
Johnson; Preface to Shakespeare
Thomas Gray ; Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Wordsworth : Prelude, Ode on the Intimations of Immortality, Tintern Abbey
Coleridge : Christabel, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan
Shelly; Ode to the West Wind, To a Sky Lark
Keats: Ode to the Nightingale, Ode to Autumn, Ode on a Grecian Um,
Byron : The Vision of Judgement
Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park
Tennyson : Ulysses, Lotos Eaters
Browning: Prophyria’s Lover, My Last Duchess, Andrea del Sarto,
Grammarian’s Funeral, The Last Ride Together
M. Amold : The Study of Poetry, Dover Beach, The Scholar Gypsy
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Dickens : Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities
Emerson : The American Scholar
Walt Whitman : When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
Hawthome : The Scarlet Letter, Young Good Man Brown
Poems of Emily Dickenson: I Felt a Funeral in My Brain, Because [ Could not
Stop for Death, I heard a Fly Buzz, The Morns are Meeker
Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Edgar Allen Poe : The Fall of the House of Usher
Thomas Hardy : Tess of D’urbervilles
Pre-Raphaelite Poets
Lamb: Imperfect Sympathies, Dream Children, In Praise of Chimney
Sweepers
Hazlitt: On Going a Journey, On familiar Styley
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Section C
20" Century
TS. Eliot : The Wasteland, The Love Song of J. Alfred Pruftock, Murder in
the Cathedral
W.B. Yeats : Sailing to Byzantium, Second Coming, Lapis Lazuli, A Prayer
for My Daughter
W. H. Auden : On the Death of W.B. Yeats, Ist September 1939
Bernard Shaw : Pygmalion, Arms and the Man
Samuel Becket : Waiting for Godot
Arthur Miller : Death of a Salesman
Eugene O'Neill : Emperor Jones
Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
IX. M.K. Gandhi : Hind Swaraj
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|. Salman Rushdie : Imaginary Homelands
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Tagore : Nationalism, Home and the World
Mulk Raj Anand : Untouchable
R. K. Narayan : The Vendor of Sweets, Guide
Raja Rao : Kanthapura
Anita Desai : Fire on the Mountain, Where Shall We Go This Summer?
Shashi Deshpande ~ Writing From the Margins, That Long Silence
Amitav Ghosh : Shadow Lines
Nayantara Sehgal : Rich Like Us
Ten Twentieth Century Poets Ed. By R. Parthasarthy (the entire volume)
Girish Kamad : Tale Dande, Tughlag
Mahesh Dattani : Tara
Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart
Toni Morrison : The Bluest Eye
Edward Said : Orientalism
English Language Teaching:
Grammar and Translation Method;
Communicative Language Teaching
Dialect, Pidgin, Creole
(Dr. Sunita Agarwal)
Convener, BOS