KARNATAKA UNIVERSITY, DHARWAD
DR. D. B. GAVANI
Section—A Background
Section—B Poetry
Delhi
Section - C Fiction
Tennessee Lorraine
New Delhi
M.A. III SEMESTER
Section—A BackgroundIndia Battle Jamaica
Co. , New York
NGugi Wa Arnold London
Teaching Hours: 4 hours per week
NGugi Wa Delhi
DR. D. B. GAVANI
KARNATAK UNIVERSITY DHARWAD
P.G.DEPARTMENT OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH
M.A .ENGLISH SYLLABUS
UNDER CBCS PROGRAMME
(2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 for three years)
M.A. I. SEMESTER
1.1 THE 16th AND 17th CENTURY LITERATURE (100 Marks)
Section—A Background
Renaissance, Development of English Drama upto Restoration.
Elizabethan Poetry/ Metaphysical Poetry, Important Prose Writers of the Period.
Section—B
John Milton : Paradise Lost Book IX
John Donne : Poems: The Good-Morrow
The Sunne Rising
The Canonization
A Valediction: Forbidding
The Extasie
Section—C
William Shakespeare : Antony
Christopher Marlowe : Dr.Faustus
Section - D
Francis Bacon : Essays – Of Truth, Of Parents and Children, Of Travel, Of Friendship, Of Studies, Of Expense
Joseph Addison :Essays – Sir Roger at Home, Sir Roger’s Ancestors, On Ghosts and Apparitions, Sir Roger at Church, Labour and Exercise, Instinct in Animals
SUGGESTED READING
1. David Daiches: A Critical History of English Literature, 4--Vols., Allied
Pub. New Delhi
2. Boris Ford (ed): Pelican Guide to English Literature, 8 vols.
3. Hudson
*****
1.2 INDIAN ENGLISH POETRY AND PROSE (100 Marks)
Section—A Background
Romantic Poetry, Modernist Poetry, Satire, Biography, Autobiography in Indian English
Literature.
Section—B Poetry
Poetry: Makarand Paranjape: Ed : Indian Poetry in English( Macmillan )
Only the following poems of the below mentioned poets are for study:
a) Rabindranath Tagore: From Gitanjali
b) Nissim Ezekiel: Gooodbye Party to Miss Pushpa T.S., Birdwatcher and Poet
c) Kamala Das: An Introduction, The Old Playhouse
d) A.K Ramanujan: Still Another view of Grace, What his girl friend said to her
e) R. Parthasarathy: From Exile. Homecoming.
f) Shiv K. Kumar: Indian Women, To an unborn child
g) Jayant Mahapatra: Hunger, Life Signs
Section—C Prose
Mahatma Gandhi: Hind Swaraj (Navjeevan Publication, Ahmedabad)
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: Wings of Fire, (Any Edition)
Section—D Criticism
Sri Aurobindo : Future Poetry (Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
Rabindranath Tagore : What is Art? (Macmillan)
SUGGESTED READING
1. K. R. S. Iyengar and Prema Nandakumar: History of Indian Writing in English, Sterling
Publishers, New Delhi
2. M. K. Naik: A History of Indian English Literature, Sahitya Academy New Delhi
3. Basavaraj Naikar: Indian English Literature, Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi
*****
1.3 AMERICAN POETRY AND PROSE (100 Marks)
Section—A Background
Puritanism, Transcendentalism, New Criticism, and Harlem Renaissance
Section—B Poetry
Walt Whitman : Passage to India
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Robert Frost : Mending Wall
Birches
The Road Not Taken
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
After Apple Picking
Langston Hughes : Mother to Son
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
The Weary Blues
I Too
Theme for English B
Section—C Prose
R. W. Emerson : Self-Reliance
H. D. Thoreau : Civil Disobedience
Section—D Criticism
E. A. Poe : The Philosophy of Composition
Henry James : The Art of Composition
SUGGESTED READING
1. R. E. Spiller (Ed): A Literary History of the United States Macmillan , New York
2. The Norton Anthology of American Literature, W. W. Norton Co., New York
*****
1.4. Indian Literature in English Translation (100 Marks)
Section—A Background
Translation of fiction into English: problems and challenges, source language and target
language, cultural translation, and translation in the Indian context
Section – B
Assamese Indira Goswami – The Man from Chinnamasta (Katha Pub, New
Gujarati Harindranath Dave – Henceforth (Macmillan)
Section - C
Kannada Kuvempu: The House of Kanooru (Sahitya Academy New Delhi
Punjabi Gurdial Singh : The Survivors ( Katha Pub, New Delhi
Section— D
Hindi Krishna Sobti: Sunflowers of the Dark (Katha Pub, New Delhi
Konkani Pundalik Naik: The Upheaval (OUP)
SUGGESTED READING
1. Sujit Mukherjee: Translation as Discovery, Orient Longman, Hyderabad
2. Jeremy Munday: Introducing Translation Studies, Routledge, London
3. Encyclopoedia of Indian Literature, vols 1 to 6, Sahitya Academy New Delhi
4. Susan Bassnett : Translation (Routledge)
5. Basavaraj Naikar: Indian Literature in English Translation, National Pub. House, New
House, 2004.
*****
1.5 Indian Diasporic Writing
Section – A Background
Gurbhagat Singh – Expatriate Writing and the Problematic of the Centre: Edward Said and Homi Bhabha (From Writers of the Indian Diaspora – ed. Jasbir Jain, Rawat,
Jaipur)
Sudesh Mishra - From Sugar to Masala: Writing by the Diaspora (From Indian Literature in English, ed. A.K.Mehrotra, Permanent Black, New Delhi
Section – B Poetry
Agha Shahid - Postcard from Kashmir , A Dream of Glass Bangles, The Season
of the Plains, A Butcher
Sujata Bhatt - The Peacock, A Different History, Kankaria Lake
Stinking Rose, Search for My Tongue
Section - C Fiction
Chitra Banerji Divakaruni: Sister of My Heart (Any edition)
Rohinton Mistry : A Fine Balance (Any edition)
Section— D Prose
Meena Alexander - Fault Lines (Any edition)
Ved Mehta - Walking the Indian Streets (Any edition)
SUGGESTED READING
Writers of the Indian Diaspora – ed. Jasbir Jain, Rawat pub., Jaipur
Writing the Diaspora: Culture and Identity – Uma Parameshwaran, Rawat pub., Jaipur
*******
M.A. II SEMESTER
2.1 THE 18th AND 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE (100 Marks)
Section—A Background
Augustan Poetry and the Romantics, Victorian Poetry and Prose, Major novelists, and the 1890’s
Section—B Poetry
Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock
William Wordsworth : The Solitary Reaper
Daffodils
Intimations of Immortality
Tintern Abbey
John Keats : Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to Melancholy
Ode to Autumn
Shelley : Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
The Cloud
To a Skylark
Section—C Fiction
Charles Dickens : David Copperfield (Any edition)
Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre (Any edition)
Section—D Prose
William Hazlitt : Essays: Why Distant Objects Please
On the Ignorance of the Learned
On Actors and Acting—I
On Actors and Acting—II
Carlyle : Hero as Poet From On Heroes and Hero Worship
(Any edition)
SUGGESTED READING
1. The Norton Anthology of English Literature
2. David Daiches: A Critical History of English Literature, Allied Publishers
3. Arnold
*****
2.2 INDIAN ENGLISH FICTION AND DRAMA (100 Marks)
Section—A Background
Development of the Indian English Novel and Drama, Novel of Social Realism, Social Drama, Historical Drama.
Section—B Fiction
Mulk Raj Anand : Coolie (Any Edition)
Raja Rao : Kanthapura (OUP)
Section—C Fiction
Shashi Despande : A Matter of Time (Penguin)
Anita Nair : Ladies Coupe (Penguin)
Section—D Drama
Gurucharan Das : Larins Sahib (OUP, New Delhi
Girish Karnad : Nagamandala (OUP, New Delhi
SUGGESTED READING
1. K. R. S. Iyengar and Prema Nandakumar: History of Indian Writing in English, Sterling
Publishers, New Delhi
2. M. K. Naik: A History of Indian English Literature, Sahitya Academy New Delhi
3. Basavaraj Naikar: Indian English Literature, Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi
*****
2.3 AMERICAN FICTION AND DRAMA (100 Marks)
Section—A Background
Civil War Writings, the Frontier Literature, American Dream, Black, Jewish and Asian Writings
Section—B
Melville : Moby Dick (Any edition)
Mark Twain : Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Any edition)
Section—C
Ernest Hemingway: Old Man and the Sea (Any edition)
Toni Morrison : Sula (Any edition)
Section—D Drama
SUGGESTED READING
1. R. E. Spiller (ed): A Literary History of the United States Macmillan , New York
2. The Norton Anthology of American Literature, W. W. Norton Co., New York
*****
2.4 Indian Literature in English Translation (100 Marks)
Section—A Background
Poetry :A.K.Ramanujan: Speaking of Shiva (Penguin)
Section—B
Drama : Mohan Rakesh: One Day in Ashadha (Modern
Indian Drama, Sahitya Academy New Delhi
: Mahasweta Devi: Water (Seagull, Kolkota)
Section—C
Prose : Siddhalingayya : Ooru Keri (Sahitya Academi, New Delhi
: Durga Khote: I, Durga Khote (OUP)
Section—D
Short Stories : Prem Chand: The Shroud, The Panchayat is the Voice of God, The Thakur’s Well, A Tale of Two Oxen : Short Fiction from South India
Ed. Subashree Krishnaswamy & K.Srilata, ( OUP)
A Sweet Dish, Wooden Cradles, Squirrel, Rain
SUGGESTED READING
2. Sujit Mukherjee: Translation as Discovery, Orient Longman, Hyderabad
2. Jeremy Munday: Introducing Translation Studies, Routledge, London
3. Basavaraj Naikar: Indian Literature in English Translation, National Pub. House, New
House, 2004.
4. Encyclopoedia of Indian Literature, Vols 1 to 6, Sahitya Academy New Delhi
*****
Open Elective Course - I
5 ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY (100 Marks)
Section—A
Phonetic symbols
Articulatory system
English vowels/consonants
Syllable, Stress and Intonation
Section—B
Parts of speech
Tenses
Section—C
Direct/indirect speech
Active/passive voice
S
ection—D
ection—D
Types of sentences:
Positive/negative/assertive/interrogative/imperative/exclamatory
Simple/compound/complex
Internal Assessment:
In the two internal tests conducted in the Dept., one will be a written test and
another will be an oral test.
SUGGESTED READING
1. F.T.Wood: A Remedial English Grammar for Foreign Students, Macmillan
2. Raymond Murphy: Intermediate English Grammar, Cambridge
3. C. F. Hockett: A Course in Modern Linguistics, Macmillan , New York
4. Daniel Jones: English Pronouncing Dictionary, Universal Book Stall,
*****
M.A .ENGLISH SYLLABUS
UNDER CBCS PROGRAMME
(FROM 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 FOR THREE YEARS)
M.A. III SEMESTER
3.1 GENDER STUDIES (100 Marks)
(Compulsory Course)
Section—A Background
Concepts: Patriarchy, Sex and Gender, Stereotypes, Gynocriticism, Body Politics, Female Creativity.
Social Practices: Sati, Dowry, Rape, Child Marriage, Widowhood, Female Foeticide, Prostitution
Section—B
Simone de Beauvoir : The Second Sex (Introduction)
Kate Millet : Sexual Politics (Chapter II Theory of Sexual
Politics, OUP)
Brinda Bose(Ed) : Translating Desire (Introduction, Katha Pub in
Pandita Ramabai : On Widowhood, Extract from The High Caste Hindu
Woman
Section—C
Eunice D’Souza ed. : Selections from Nine Indian Women Poets:
: Tribute to Papa, Anonymous, Catholic Mother, Bequest, Purdah I,
Mahasweta Devi : Draupadi (Tr. Gayatri Spivak) (Sh.Story)
Ismat Chugtai : The Veil (Sh.Story)
Bama : Sangati (OUP) (Novel)
Section—D
Charlotte Perkins Gilman : “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Virginia Woolf : The New Dress”
SUGGESTED READING
1. Robin Warhol and Diane Price Herndl (eds): Feminsims, Rutgers Univ. Press
2. Susie Tharu and K. Lalitha(eds): Women Writing in India
3. Sushila Singh: Feminism, Pencraft International, New Delhi
4. Virginia Woolf: A Room of Their Own
5. Susan Gubar and Sandra Gilbert: Madwoman in the Attic
6. Radha Kumar: Women’s Movement
7. Urvashi Butalia: The Other Side of Silence
*****
3. 2 CRITICAL THEORY (Part-I) (100 Marks)
(Compulsory Course)
Section—A
Classicism : Aristotle’s Poetics
Sanskrit Criticism: Bharata’s Concept of Rasa
Section - B
Romantic Criticism – Coleridge on Imagination and Fancy
(Biographia Literaria Chap. xvii)
British Formalism – T.S.Eliot: “Tradition and Individual Talent”
Section – C
New Criticism - Mark Schorer: “Technique as Discovery”
Reader-Response Theory – Stanley
Section – D
Structuralism – Jonathan Culler: “Structuralism and Literature”
Feminism- Elaine Showalter: Towards a Feminist Poetics
SUGGESTED READING
1. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism: W. W. Norton and
2. S. Ramaswami and V. S. Sethuraman (eds): The English Tradition, Macmillan, Madras
3. Bill Ashcroft (ed): Key Concepts in Critical Theory, Routledge, London
*****
3.3 POST-COLONIAL POETRY AND PROSE (100 Marks)
Section—A Background
Australian poetry, African poetry, post-colonial criticism, and post-colonial travelogue
Section—B Poetry
A. D. Hope (Australian): Australia
The Death of a Bird
Standardization
Moschus Moschiferus
Gabriel Okara (Africa ) : Once upon a Time
Were I to Choose
The Mystic Drum
A Negro Labourer in Liverpool
You laughed and laughed and laughed
Derek Walcott (West Indies ): The Floc
Ruins of a Great House
A Sea Chantey
A Far Cry from Africa
Crusoe’s Island
Section—C Prose
V. S. Naipaul : India
Chinua Achebe : “The Novelist as Teacher”, “An Image of Africa : Racism in
Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”
Section—D Criticism
Edward Said : Orientalism (Chapter I) (Penguin, London
SUGGESTED READING
1. Ania Loomba: Post-Colonialism, Routledge, London
2. Leela Gandhi: Post-Colonialism, OUP, New Delhi
3. R. K. Dhavan: Commonwealth Literature, Vols 1 to 4, Creative Books, New Delhi
4. Basavaraj Naikar: Perspectives on Commonwealth Literature,
Book Enclave, 2003
*****
3.4 WORLD CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION (100 Marks)
Section—A Background
T. S. Eliot : “What is a Classic?” From On Poetry and Poets
L. Abercrombie : The Idea of Great Poetry
A. C. Bradley : “The Sublime” From Oxford
Poetry
Section—B
Vyasa : The Mahabharata in (Any edition)
Dante : Inferno (Penguin)
Section—C
Vishakhadatta : Mudrarakshasa ( Motilal Banarasidas)
Sophocles : King Oedipus (Any edition)
Section—D
Henrik Ibsen : The Master Builder(Any edition)
Tolstoy : War and Peace (Any edition)
SUGGESTED READING
1. H. D. F. Kitto: The Greek Tragedy, Methuen London
2. W. H. Wells: Classical Indian Drama, Asia Book House, Bombay
3. Hornstein et al: The Readers’ Companion to World Literature, Mentor Book, New York
*****
Open Elective Course
3.5 COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH (100 Marks)
Teaching Hours: 4 hours per week
Duration of Examination: 3 hours
Max. Marks: 75
Section A
Modals
Prepositions
WH Questions
Section B
Conjunctions
Relative Clauses
Section C
Letter Writing
Paragraph Writing
Section D
Speaking : Situations – at the bank, Post Office, Railway Station, Clinic, Shopping
Picture Description
Internal Assessment:
In the two internal tests conducted in the Dept., one will be a written test and another will
be an oral test.
SUGGESTED READING
1. F.T.Wood : A Remedial English Grammar for Foreign Students, Macmillan
2. Raymond Murphy : Intermediate English Grammar, Cambridge
3. C. F. Hockett: A Course in Modern Linguistics, Macmillan , New York
3. Daniel Jones: English Pronouncing Dictionary, Universal Book Stall, New Delhi
*****
M.A. IV SEMESTER
4.1 THE 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE (100 Marks)
Section—A Background
War Poetry, Modernist Poetry, Stream of consciousness technique, Psychological Novel, Science Fiction, Absurd Theatre, Poetic Drama
Section—B Poetry
G.M. Hopkins : Wreck of the Deutschland, God’s Grandeur,
The Windhover, Pied Beauty, Inversnaid
W.B. Yeats : 1916, The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium
Tower, Byzantium
W.H. Auden :Consider , O What is that Sound, Who’s Who, The Unknown
Citizen, Musee des Beaux Arts
Section—C Fiction
Graham Green : The Power and the Glory (Penguin)
David Lodge : Small World (Penguin)
Section—D Drama
Harold Pinter : The Caretaker ( Any Edition)
Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot (OUP)
SUGGESTED READING
1. David Daiches: A Critical History of English Literature, 4--Vols., Allied
Pub. New Delhi
2. Boris Ford (Ed), Pelican Guide to English Literature, 8 vols.
*****
4.2 CRITICAL THEORY (Part-II) (100 Marks)
Section—A Background
Structuralism : Jacques Derrida’s Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse
of Human Sciences
Section—B
Marxist Criticism : Edmund Wilson - Marxism and Literature
Psychoanalytic Criticism: Lionel Trilling- Freud and Literature
Section—C
Linguistic Criticism: Roman Jakobson - Linguistics and Poetics
Roland Barthes: The Death of the Author; & From Work to Text
Section—D
Cultural Studies : Raymond Williams - The Analysis of Culture
Stuart Hall : Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies
SUGGESTED READING
1. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism: W. W. Norton and Co., New York
2. S. Ramaswami and V. S. Sethuraman (eds): The English Tradition, Macmillan, Madras
3. Bill Ashcroft (ed): Key Concepts in Critical Theory, Routledge, London
*****
4.3 POST-COLONIAL FICTION AND DRAMA (100 Marks)
Section—A Background
Leela Gandhi : “After Colonialism” from Post-Colonial Theory (OUP)
Gayatri Spivak : “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Frantz Fanon : “On Black Consciousness”
Section—B Fiction-1
Achebe : A Man of the People (Any edition)
Margaret Laurence: A Jest of God (Any edition)
Section—C Fiction-2
Katherine Mansfield : Short Stories (Any edition)
Bapsi Sidhwa : Ice-Candy Man (Any edition)
Section—D Drama
Wole Soyinka : The Road (Collected Plays of Wole
Soyinka, OUP)
SUGGESTED READING
1. Bill Ashcroft et al: The Empire Writes Back, Routledge, London
2. R. K. Dhavan (Ed): Commonwealth Literature, Vols 1 to 4, Creative Book, New Delhi
3. Basavaraj Naikar: Perspectives on Commonwealth Literature, Book Enclave, Jaipur, 2003
*****
4.4 ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING (ELT) (100 Marks) or
Section—A
English in India
Beginning and growth
Current status and role
Section—B
Language teaching methods/approaches:
The direct method
Grammar—translation method
Structural—situational method
The bilingual method
Section—C
Teaching skills
Teaching of poetry, prose, fiction and drama
Practice teaching
Section—D
Linguistic aspect of translation:
The dynamics of translation in literary discourses
Translation from source language to target language
Translation problems: lexical/syntactical/semantic/cultural
SUGGESTED READING
1. Richards Jack C. and Rodgers, Theodore S. Approaches and Methods in Language,
CUP, 1986
2. Harmer Jeremy: The Practice of English Language Teaching, Essex , London
3. Mohammad Aslam: Teaching of English, Foundation Books
4. Sujit Mukherjee: Translation Studies, Methuen , New York
4.5 Dissertation (100 marks)
The students of the IV Semester will be distributed among the teachers of the Dept. equally. The teachers who become the supervisors will give different topics to individual students and assess the dissertation at the end of the semester. The minimum length of the dissertation will be 50 pages.
Division of Marks: Dissertation 50 marks
I. A. 25 marks
Viva voce 25 marks
Total 100 marks
Sd/-
Chairman,
BOS in English (PG),
Dept. of English, K.U.Dharwad
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