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Department of English & Other Foreign Languages
M.A. Course in English shall have four semesters. Each semester shallhave
four papers. In all, there shall be sixteen papers. Each paper shall carry100 marks.
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Semester I
Paper -I
English Literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare
Unit –I Social and Literary Scene
(14th–16thcenturies)
Unit-II Poetry
* Geoffrey Chaucer : Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queen Bk-1
Unit -IV
*William Shakespeare : Hamlet
: The Tempest
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Paper -II
Unit-III Drama
* R.B. Sheridan : The School for Scandal
William Congreve : The Way of the World
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Paper-III
Unit-II Poetry
*William Wordsworth : The Prelude Book-1
*S.T. Coleridge : ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’
* John Keats : ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’
*Alfred Tennyson : ‘Lotos - Eaters’
* Robert Browning : ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’ (1-20 stanzas)
Unit-IV Fiction
Charles Dickens : Great Expectations
Thomas Hardy : Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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Paper –IV
Unit-I
Nature of Language : Definition; Properties
Definition & Scope of Linguistics
Branches of Linguistics
Historical Background to Modern English: Old English; Middle English;
Early Modern English.
Unit-II
Unit-III
Unit-IV
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Semester-II
Paper -V
Unit-II Poetry
Unit-III Drama
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Paper –VI
Literary Criticism
Unit- I
* Aristotle : Poetics
Bharatamuni : Rasa: Chapter VI of Natya Shastra
Anand vardhana : Dhvani
Unit-II
Unit-III
Unit –IV
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Paper –VII
American and Canadian Literature
Unit-I Poetry
Unit-II Drama
Unit-IV Fiction
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Paper-VIII
Indian English Literature
Unit-I Poetry
Unit-III Drama
* GirishKarnad : Tughlaq
* Mahesh Dattani : Final Solutions
Unit-IV Fiction
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Semester – III
Paper IX
New Literatures in English
Unit-I SAARC Literature
Unit - II
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Paper –X
Contemporary Literary Theory
Unit-I
Unit-II
Unit-III
Note:- These essays are available in The English Critical Tradition , Vol. II
editedby S. Ramaswamy and V.S. Seturaman (Macmillan, 1986), Literary
Criticism: AReading edited by B. Das and J.M. Mohanty(OUP,1999) and Patricia
Waugh &Philop Rice (eds.) Modern Literary Theory Second Edition, Edwin
Arnold,London, 1992
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2. There will be four long -answer questions with internal choices of 15
markseach.
4×15= 60
Paper-XI
Translation: Theory and Practice
Unit-I
Unit-II
Theories of Translation
Concept of Equivalence
Unit-III
Problems of Translation
Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Translation
Machine Translation—Merits &Demerits
Unit-IV
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Paper –XII
Post-Colonial Theory and Literature
Unit-I
Unit-II
Unit-III
Unit-IV
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Semester-IV
Paper- XIII
African and Caribbean Literature
Unit-I
Unit-II
Unit-III
Unit-IV
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Paper –XIV
Unit-I
Kalidasa : Shakuntla
Jai Shankar Prasad : 'Shraddha Sarga'from Kamayani
Unit-II
Unit-III
Unit-IV
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Paper-XV
Women's Writing
Unit-I
Unit-II
Unit-III
Unit-IV
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Paper-XVI
Viva-Voce: 50 Marks
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