KARNATAK
UNVERSITY, DHARWAD
P.
G. DEPARTMENT OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH
MA
ENGLISH SYLLABUS
UNDER
CBCS PROGRAMME
(2014-15,
2015-16, 2016-17 for three years)
M. A. I.
SEMESTER
1.1 - THE 16TH TO
18TH CENTURY ENGLISH 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 Poetry
John Milton: Paradise Lost Book
I
John Donne: poems: The Good
Morrow
The Sunne Rising
The Canonization
A Valediction: Forbidding
The Extasie
Section—C Prose
William Shakespeare: Othello
Chistrtopher Marlowe: Dr.
Faustus
Section—D Drama
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 : A Short History of
English Literature
*****
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. Rabindranth Tagore: From Gitanjali,
b. Nissim Ezekiel: Good Bye
Party to Miss Pushpa T.S,Birdwatcher and Poet
c. A.K.Ramanujan: Still
AnotherView of Grace, What his girl friend said to
her
d. Kamala Das: An
Introduction, The Old Play House
e. R. Parthasarathy: From Exile,
Homecoming
f. Shiv K.Kumar :Indian Women,
To an Unborn Child
g. Jayanta Mahapatra: Hunger,
Life Signs
Section—C Prose
Mahatma Gandhi: Hind Swaraj (Navajeevan
Publication, Ahmedabad)
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: Wings of
Fire (any edition)
Section—D
Criticism
Sri Aurbindo :Future Poetry
(Aurbindo Ashram , Pondichery)
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
*****
1.3 - AMERICAN
POETRY AND PROSE (100 Marks)
Section—A
Background
Puritanism (Colonial period),
Transcendentalism, Rise of Realism 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
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 Fiction
SUGGESTED
READING:
1. R. E. Spiller (ed), A
Literary History of the United States, Macmillan, New
York, 1948.
2. The Norton
Anthology of American Literature, W. W. Norton Co., New York,
1945.
1.4 - INDIAN
LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION (100 Marks)
SECTION – A:
BACKGROUND
Translation Process: its problems
and challenges, Source language and Target
Language, Brief History of
Translation, Cultural Translation, Translation in the
Indian Context
SECTION-B
Assamese: Rasna Barua -The
Partings (Sahitya Academy, New Delhi)
Telugu : G.V. Krishna Rao - Puppets
(Macmillan)
SECTION-C
Kannada: Kuvempu -The House of
Kanooru (Sahitya Academy,
New Delhi)
Marathi: Vibhavari Shirurkar - The
Victim (Sahitya Academy, New Delhi)
SECTION-D
Tamil: Indira R Parthasarathy - The
River of Blood (Sahitya Academy,
New Delhi)
Konkani: Pundalik Naik - The
Upheaval (OUP)
SUGGESTED
READING:
1. Sujit Mukherjee: Translation
as Discovery, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 1964.
2. Jermey Munday: Introducing
translation Studies, Routledge, London, 2001
3. Encyclopedia of Indian
Literature, vols 1 to 6, Sahitya Academy, New Delhi
4. Susan Bassnett: Translation
(Routledge)
1.5 - INDIAN DIASPORIC WRITING
Section- A:
Background
Sudesh Mishra- From Sugar to
Masala: Writing by the Diasopra
(Indian Literature in English,
ed.A.K.Mehrotra, Permanent Black, New Dehli)
Uma Parameshwaran – Home is Where
Your Feet Are, and May Your Heart Be
There Too!
(From - Writers of the Indian
Diaspora – ed. Jasbir Jain, Rawat, Jaipur)
Section-B:
Poetry
Agha Shahid- Postcard from
Kashmir, A Dream of Glass Bangles, The Season of the
Season of the Plains, A Butcher
Sujata Bhatt- The Peacock, A
Different History, Kankaria Lake, the
Stinking Rose, Search for My
Tongue
Section - C
Fiction
Chitra Banerji Divakaruni:- The
Mistress of Spices, 1998 ( Any edition)
Jhumpa Lahiri: - The Low Land
(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 Diasopra
-ed.Jasbir Jain, Rawat pub., Jaipur
Writers of the Diasopra:Culture
and Identity- Uma Parameshwaran, Rawat pub,.
Jaipur
M.A. II SEMESTER
2.1 THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY
LITERATURE (100)
Section- A
Background
Augustan Poetry and the
Romantics, Victorian Poetry and Prose, Major novelists, the
1890s
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 Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to Melancholy
Tennyson: Ulysses
The Lotus Eaters
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, Ailied Publishers
3. Arnold Kettle: The English
Novel (Any edition)
2.2 INDIAN
ENGLISH FICTION AND DRAMA (100 MARKS)
Section- A
Background
Development of Indian English
Novel and Drama, Novel of Social Realism, Social
and Historical
Section- B
Fiction
Mulk Raj Anand: Coolie (Any
edition)
Raja Rao: Kanthapura (OUP)
Section- C
Fiction
Shashi Deshpande: Roots and
Shadows (Orient Blackswan)
Anita Nair: Ladies Coupe
(Penguin)
Section- D Drama
Girish Karnad: Nagamandala (OUP,
New Dehli)
Mahesh Dattani: Dance Like a Man
(OUP, New Dehli)
SUGGESTED
READING:
K.R.S Iyengar and Prema
Nandakumar: History of Indian Writing in English,
Sterling Publishers, New Dehli
M.K. Naik: A History of Indian
English Literature, Sahitya Academy, New Dehli.
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
Fiction
Melville: Billy Budd (Any
edition)
Mark Twain: Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn (Any edition)
Section - C
Fiction
Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man
and the Sea (Any edition)
Zora Neal Hurston : Their Eyes
were Watching God (Any edition)
Section - D
Drama
Arthur Miller: Death of a
Salesman ( Any edition)
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin
in the Sun ( Any edition)
SUGGESTED
READING:
1. R.E.Spiller (ed): A
Literary History of the United States, Macmillan, New York,
1948.
2. Norton Anthology of
American Literature, W.W.Norton Co., New York, 1945.
2.4 INDIAN LITERATURE IN
ENGLISH TRANSLATION (100 Marks)
Section- A:
Poetry
Poetry: A.K.Ramanujan: Speaking
of Shiva (Penguin)
(Basavanna – 8,36,59, 97,563, 820
Devara Dasimayya- 25,80,87,
157,283
Mahadeviyakka- 2, 17, 26, 87,
157, 283
Allama Prabhu- 59, 699,775,972,
959
Section- B:
Drama
1. Mahashweta Devi: Mother of
1084
(Modern Indian Drama, Sahitya
Academy, New Dehli)
2. Vijay Tendulkar: The
Vultures
(Modern Indian Drama, Sahitya
Academy, New Dehli)
Section- C:
Prose
1. Aravind Malagatti: Government
Brahmana (Orient Blackswan)
2. Bama: Karukku (Macmillan)
Section-D: Short
Stories
1. Prem Chand: The Panchayat is
the Voice of God, The Thakur’s Well,
The Shroud, A Tale Of Two Oxen
2. Allama Rajaiah: Bhoomi, Fish,
Jungle Man, Change
SUGGESTED
READING:
1 Sujit Mukherjee: Translation as
Discovery, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 1964.
2 Jeremy munday: Introducing
Translation Studies, Routledge, London, 2001
3 Basavaraj Naikar: Indian
Literature in English Translation, National Pub. House,
New House, 2004
4 Encyclopedia of Indian
Literature, Vols 1to 6, Sahitya Academy, New Delhi
Open Elective
Course- 1
2.5 : Language Through
Literature (100
Marks)
Teaching hours: 4hrs per week
Duration of examination: 3hrs
Max. marks:75
Section-A:
Literary Terms
Different Forms of Literature,
Classicism, Romanticism,
Postcolonialism, Feminism
Section-B:
Poetry
Shakespeare: Sonnet 116
Wordsworth: Daffodils
Shelley: Ozymandias
Keats: Ode to Grecian Urn
Section-C :
Prose
Raja Ram Mohan Roy: Letter to
Amherst
Meenakshi Mukherjee: The Anxiety
of Indianness
Section-D: -
Short Stories
Shashi Deshpande: The Stone Women
Hasan Sadat Manto: Toba Tek Singh
M.A. ENGLISH
SYLLABUS (FROM 2014-15, 2015-16 ,2016-17)
M.A. III
SEMESTER
3.1 GENDER
STUDIES (100 Marks)
Section-A
Background
Concepts: Patriarchy, Sex and
Gender, Stereotypes, Gynocriticism, Body Politics,
Female Feoticide,
Section-B
Simone de Beauvoir: The Second
Sex (Introduction )
Susan Guber and Sandra Gilbert:
Madwoman in the Attic
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,
Battle Line, Request
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”
Jamaica Kincaid: “Girl”
SUGGESTED
READING
1 Robin Warhol and Daine Price
Herndl (eds): Feminsims, Rugers Univ. Press
2 Susie Tharu and K.Lalitha
(eds): Women Writing in India, (OUP).
3 Sushila Singh: Feminsism, Pencraft
International, New Dehli
4 Virginia Woolf: A Room of Their
Own
5 Radha Kumar: Woman’s Movement
7 Urvashi Butalia: The Other Side
of Silence
3.2 CRITICAL
THEORY (PART-I) (100 Marks)
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 XIII)
British Formalism - T.S.Eliot: “Tradition
and Individual Talent”
Section-C
New Criticism- Mark Schorer: “Technique
as Discovery”
Reader- Response Theory- Stanley
Fish: “Is there a Text in the Class?”
Section-D
Stucturalism- 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 Co., New York,
2001.
2 S.Ramaswami and V.S.Sethuraman
(eds): The English Critical 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, Postcolonial Travelogue
Section-B:
Poetry
1. A.D. Hope (Australia):
Australia
Standardization
2. Judith Wright (Australia):
Woman to Man
Clock and Heart
3. Gabriel Okara (Africa): Once
Upon A Time
Were I to Choose
4. Wole Soyinka (Africa):
Telephone Conversation
Agbor Dancer
5. Derek Walcott (West Indies):
Ruins of a Great House
A Far Cry from Africa
Section-C Prose
1. V.S. Naipaul: India: An
Area of Darkness (Any edition)
2. Chinua Achebe: “An Image of
Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of
Darkness”
Section-D
Criticism
NGugi wa Thiong’o: Decolonising
the Mind
Edward Said: Orientalism (Chapter
I- The Scope of Orientalism)
Any edition
SUGGESTED
READING
1 Ania Loomba: Post-Colonialism,
Routledge, London, 2002
2 Leela Gandhi: Post-Colonialism,
OUP, New Delhi, 2001
3 R.K. Dhavan: Commonwealth
Literature, Vols 1to 4, Creative Books, New Delhi
3.4 WORLD
CASSICS 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 Lectures on Poetry
Section-BVyasa:
The Mahabharat (Any edition)
Homer: The Iliad (Penguin)
Section-C
Kalidasa: Shakuntala (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 Great 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: 4hrs per week
Duration of examination: 3hrs
Max. marks:75
Section-A
Essay Writing
Comprehension
Section-B
Preparing CV
Applying for a Job
Section-C
Letter Writing
Paragraph Writing
Section-D
Dialogue Writing on given
Situations - At the bank, Post Office, Railway Station,
Doctor’s Clinic, Shopping at the
Mall
Section-E
Text: Fantasy (First Five
Stories to be taught)
Pub: Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad
Division of
marks
I) IA-11+11+3=25
One IA on grammar
One IA on Text
II) Semester End Exam:
40 for Grammar (4 section 10 marks
each)
35 for Text (5questions X 7=35)
Total 75 Marks.
SUGGESTED
READING:
1 F.T.Wood: A Remedial English
Grammar for Foreign Students, Macmillan
2 Raymond Murphy: Intermediate
English Grammar, Cambridge Univ. Press
3 C.F.Hockett: A course in Modern
Linguistic, Macmillan, New York, 1958
4 Daniel Jones English
Pronouncing Dictionary, Universal Book Stall, New Delhi,
2000
*****
M.A. IV SEMESTER
4.1 THE 20TH CENTURY
LITERATUTE (100)
Section-A
Background
War Poetry, Modernist Poetry,
Stream of consciousness technique, Psychological
Novel, Science Fiction, Absurd
theatre, Poetic Drama
Section-B
G.M.Hopkins : Wreck of the
Deutschland, God’s Granduer,
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
Citizens, Musee des Beaux Arts
Section-C
Fiction
Graham Greene: The Power and the
Glory (Penguin)
E.M.Forster: Passage to India
Section-D Drama
John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
(Any edition)
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
(OUP)
SUGGESTED
READING:
1 David Daiches: A Critical
History Of English Literature, 4—Vols., Allied Pub.
New Dehli.
2 Boris Ford (ed), Pelican Guide
to English Literature, 8 vols.
4.2 CRITICAL
THEORY (PART-II) (100 Marks)
Section-A
Structuralism - Jacques Derrida: “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”
Post-Structuralism - Ronald
Barthes: “The Death of the Author”
Section-D
Cultural Studies - Raymond
Williams: “The Analysis of Culture”
Max Horkheimer and Theodor
Adorno: “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as
Mass Production”
SUGGESTED
READING:
1 The Norton Anthology of
Theory and Criticism: W.W. Norton and Co. New
York,
2001
2 S.Ramaswami and V.S.Sethuraman
(eds): The English Critical 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
Ngugi: Weep Not, Child (Any
edition)
Margaret Atwood: The Edible Woman
(Any Edition)
Section-C
Fiction-2
Katherine Mansfield: Short
Stories : The Garden Party, The Canary, The
Doll’s House, Bliss, Pictures
Bapsi Sidhwa: Ice Candy Man (any
edition)
Section-D Drama
Wole Soyinka: Bacchae (Collected
Plays of Wole Soyinka, OUP)
NGugi Wa Thiong’O: The Trial of
Dedan Kimathi (Worldview, Dehli)
SUGGESTED
READING:
1 Bill Ashcroft et al: The Empire
Writes back, Routledge, London
2 R.K.Dhavan (eds): Commonwealth
Literature,Vols 1to 4, Creative Books,New
Dehli
4.4 ENGLISH
LANGUAGE TEACHING (ELT) (100 MARKS)
Section-A:
Background
English in India:
Beginning and Growth
Current status and role
Section-B:
Language Teaching Methods
The Direct Method
Grammar- translation Method
The Bilingual Method
The Structural- situational
Method
Section-C:
Teaching Skills
Teaching of Poetry
Teaching of Prose,
Teaching of Fiction
Teaching of Drama
Section-D:
Reading Interpretation
The Practice of Reading
Evaluation
Prose Passage analysis
Analysis of a poem
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, Esex, London, 1983
3 Mohammad Aslam: Teaching of English,
Foundation Books
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