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S RTM University, Nanded English Language & Literature (PG I(Modified) and II(Revised) Syllabus, wef. June 2014.
Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada

University, Nanded
SYLLABUS
M.A. ENGLISH
I (Modified) and II Year (Revised)
With Effect from June 2014
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Syllabus of M.A. First Year

SEMESTERS I & II
(Modified)
SEM I SEM II
Paper 1 : Paper 5:
The English Language Basics of Linguistics
Paper 2: Paper 6:
History of English Literature British Literature from Romantic Age to
Contemporary Times
Paper3: Paper 7:
British Literature from Chaucer to Augastan Indian English Writing
Age
Paper 4 (Elective A): Paper 8 (Elective A):
Classical and Medieval European Literature Modern European Literature
Paper 4 (Elective B): Paper 8 (Elective B):Masterpieces of World
Masterpieces of World Literature: Ancient and Literature: Modern period
Medieval Age
Syllabus of M.A. Second Year
SEMESTERS III & IV
SEM III SEM IV
Paper 9 : Paper 13:
Indian Poetics Advanced Critical Theory
Paper 10: Paper 14:
English Language and Literature Teaching Indian Literature in English Translation
Paper11: Paper 15:
American Literature New English Literatures
Popular Literature Cultural Studies
Paper 12 (Elective B): Paper 16 (Elective B):
Discourse Analysis Special Authors
G.B.Shaw and R.K.Narayan
Paper 12(Elective C): Subaltern Literature Paper 16 (Elective C) Cinematic
Representations of Literature
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Syllabus of M.A. First Year

SEMESTERS I AND II
(Modified With effect from June 2014)
SEM I SEM II
Paper 1 : Paper 5:
The English Language Basics of Linguistics
Paper 2: Paper 6:
History of English Literature British Literature from Romantic Age to
Contemporary Times
Paper3: Paper 7:
British Literature from Chaucer to Augastan Indian English Writing
Age
Classical and Medieval European Literature Modern European Literature
Paper 4 (Elective B): Paper 8 (Elective B):Masterpieces of World
Masterpieces of World Literature: Ancient and Literature: Modern period
Medieval Age
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Paper 1: The English Language
Rationale
This course has been designed with multiple objectives regarding the acquaintance of the
students with the facts and features of the English Language. The main objectives are a) to give
the student an adequate knowledge of the history of the English Language through a diachronic
study of the language tracing its development from the time of the earliest records in the
language to the present day. b) to make the student understand the historical and sociological
factors involved in the growth and evolution of a language with particular reference to the
political and social changes which have made a lasting impact on the English Language. c) to
trace the numerous changes which have taken place in the English Language from the old and
Middle English periods till the modern period, phonological changes, changes in spelling,
morphological and syntactical changes and semantic changes. d) to draw the attention of the
student to the way in which the English Language has grown and matured through the
contributions of the great markers of English like Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton and Johnson
who have enriched the language by their indigenous exploitation of the resources of the
language. e) to make the student understand the growth and development of global English and
the emergence of new registers, new dialects, creoles, pidgins and new varieties of English in
countries outside England. f) to enable the student to linguistically analyse modern English from
Saussurian and Chomskian perspective.
Course Contents
Unit 1. A Brief History of English Language

a) Definition of Language, Definition of Communication, Types of Communication,
Animal And Human Communication, Other types of Communication, Characteristics Of
Human Language, Levels of Linguistic Analysis: Phonological, Morphological, Lexical,
Syntactic and Semantic and pragmatic analysis
b) Indo- European Family of Language, the Teutonic Languages, Grimm’s Law, Verner’s
Law
Unit 2:
a) Old English dialects, Characteristics of Old English, Old English Spelling,
Vocabulary, Grammar, Pronunciation
b) Middle English dialects, Characteristics of Middle English, Middle English Spelling,
Vocabulary, Grammar, Pronunciation
Unit 3:
a) Modern English dialects, Characteristics of Modern English, Modern
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English Spelling, Vocabulary, Grammar, Pronunciation

b) Varieties of English Language: International varieties of English, Social varieties of
English, Pidgins and creoles, Dialects, Registers, Style, Formal and Informal English,
Code Switching and Code Mixing
Unit 4:
a) Foreign Influences: Latin influence, Greek influence, Celtic influence, Scandinavian
influence, French influence, Indian and American Loan words
b) The Makers of English: The Bible, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton
Unit 5: Looking at data of Modern English Structure:

a) Structuralism-Saussure, Bloomfield, Sapir, Whorf,
b) Chomskian Approach – Transformational Generative Grammar and Phrase Structure
Rules
Prescribed Texts:
Bradley ,H.. The Making of English, Macmillan & Co , 1927
Baugh ,A.C.. A History of English Language, Allied Publishers,1997
Jesperson ,Otto. Growth and Structure of the English Language ,B. G. Teubner, 1926
Potter ,Simeon. Our Language, Penguin Books, 1957
Pyles ,Thomas. The Origins and Development of English Language ,Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
College, 1993
Williams,Joseph M : Origins of the English Language, Free Press, 1986
Recommended Reading
Asher, R. E. (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
1994.
Bauer, Laurie. English Word-Formation. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics.Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Biber, Douglas, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan. Longman
Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Harlow: Longman, 1999.
Brinton, Laurel J.The Structure of Modern English : A Linguistic Introduction .Amsterdam:John
Benjamins,2000.
Clark, John and Colin Yallop. An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. 2nd ed. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1995.
Collinge, N. E. (ed.).. An Encyclopedia of Language. London: Routledge, 1990.
Croft, William. Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Approach. Harlow: Longman,
2000.
Cook, Vivian and Mark Newson. Chomsky’s Universal Grammar: An Introduction. 2nd ed.
Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. 2nd ed. Cambridge:
Finegan, Edward. Language: Its Structure and Use. 4th ed. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, 2004.
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Gelderen, Elly van.A History of the English Language,Amsterdam:John Benjamins,2006.

Greenbaum, Sidney and Randolph Quirk. A Student's Grammar of the English
Language. Harlow: Longman, 1990.
Halliday, M. A. K. An Introduction to Functional Grammar. 3rd ed. London: Arnold, 2004.
Leech, Geoffrey and Jan Svartvik. A Communicative Grammar of English. 2nd ed.
London: Longman, 1994.
Mc Arthur,Tom eds. The Oxford Companion to the English Language,Oxford:OUP,1992.
Ouhalla, Jamal. Introducing Transformational Grammar: From Principles and Parameters to
Minimalism. London: Arnold, 1999.
Radford, Andrew. English Syntax: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2004.
Wood,F.T.An Outline History of the English Language,New Delhi:Macmillan,2000.
Yule, George. The Study of Language: An Introduction. 2nd ed. Cambridge:
Web Resources
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish
learnenglish.britishcouncil.org
www.englishclub.com/english-language-h s o y h m
www.usingenglish.com
www.elearnenglishlanguage.com
www.lel.ed.ac.uk
www.scientificpsychic.com/linguistics.htm
http://www.vtstutorials.co.uk/tutorial/english/
Question Paper Pattern
Q.1 An essay type question on Unit 1 with internal choice 16

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Paper 2: History of English Literature
Rationale
The main objective of this course are a) to give the student an adequate knowledge of the history
of the English Literature b)to make the student understand the historical and sociological factors
involved in the growth and evolution of English Literature with particular reference to the
political and social changes which have made a lasting impact on the English Language/ c)to
enable the student understand the various periods of English Literature. d) to enable the student
understand the Modern Literary Movements and Trends related to English Literature. e) to
interpret literary genres and appreciate literature.
Course Contents
Unit 1:
a) Old English Period (7th Century- 1066) & Middle English Period (1066 – 1400)-
Chaucer & Chaucerian Alliterative Revival
b) Mystery, Miracle, Morality plays The English Renaissance, Reformation, Humanism
Unit 2:
a) Elizabethan Poetry and Elizabethan Prose
b) Elizabethan Drama: University Wits, Senecan Tragedies, Shakespearean Tradition
Unit 3:
a) Jacobean Poetry (Metaphysical & Cavalier Poetry), Jacobean Prose (Milton), and
Jacobean Drama
c) Restoration Drama: Comedy, Heroic Play & Tragedy; Restoration Prose and Poetry
Unit 4:
a) Augustan Period( Satires, Travelogues, Prose ,the Periodical , Graveyard Poets),
The rise of the Novel, Age of Johnson
b) Major features of the Romantic Revival, Romantic Prose & Poetry
Unit 5:
a) Victorian Poetry, Drama, Novel & Prose
b) 20th Century Literature: Georgian Poets, Trench Poets, Angry Young Men, Kitchen –
Sink drama, British Poetry Revival
Recommended Reading:
Bruce Mitchell, A Guide to Old English. Sixth Edition. Massachusetts. Blackwell Publishers,
2001.
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Carter, Ronald & MacRae,John. The Routledge History of English Literature in English: Britain
and Ireland, New York.Routledge 1997.
Gardner, Helen The Metaphysical Poets Penguin Books,1957.
Gassner, John; Quinn, Edward (1969). "England: middle ages". The Reader's Encyclopedia of
World Drama. London: Methuen 2000.
Graham Law, Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press. New York: Palgrave, 2000.
Henry Mayr-Harting, The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England. Pennsylvania:
University Press Pennsylvania, 1992.
----The English Alliterative Tradition. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1991
Hieatt, A. Kent (1983). Beowulf and Other Old English Poems. New York: Bantam Books 1999.
Mikics, David . A New Handbook of Literary Terms. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2007.
Rupert Christiansen. Romantic Affinities: Portraits From an Age, 1780–1830. London: Bodley
Head, 1988.
Sanders ,Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford: Clarendon
Press,1994.
Stanley Brian Greenfield, A New Critical History of Old English Literature. New York: New
York University Press, 1986.
William ,Harmon and C. Hugh Holman, A Handbook to Literature. (Upper Saddle River, New
Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1986
Web Resources:
www.readcentral.com/...English-Literature
global.oup.com/academic/.../o/oxford-history-of-english-literature-ohel/
www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/.../History-of-English-Literature
www.angelfire.com/darkside/sjhscult/notes/unit2/eng_lit.htm
European lit classical and medie
http://guides.main.library.emory.edu/content.php?pid=378716&sid=3162995
worldwidegreek om
web.cn.edu/kwheeler/resource_lit.classics.html
exhibitions.slv.vic.gov.au/love-and.../european.../european-literature
www.bigeye.com/liteur20.htm

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Paper 3: British Literature from Chaucer to Augustan Age
Rationale
British literature in modern English language started developing from the age of Geoffrey
Chaucer. The present course attempts to cover major literary works starting from the Chaucerian
period up to the Augustan Age. Effort has been made to include most of the literary works
belonging to different genres so that the learner gets a fair idea of the literature from the later
middle ages, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Caroline, Commonwealth, Restoration, Neo-classical and
the Augustan eras. The study of British Literature being an essential part of any English literature
course has thus been prescribed to cover the time period roughly up to the end of the eighteenth
century.
Course Contents
Unit 1:
a) Canterbury Tales: The Knight’s Tale
b) Marlowe: The Jew of Malta
Unit 2:
a) Ben Jonson: The Alchemist
b) William Congreve: Love for Love
Unit 3:
a) Francis Bacon: The New Organon
b) John Milton: Samson Agonist
Unit 4:
a) John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel
b) Alexander Pope: The Dunciad
Unit 5:
a) Jonathan Swift: Gulliver ’s Travel s (Part I & II)

b) Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of the Wakefield
Recommended Reading
Achinstein, Sharon. "Samson Agonistes" in A Companion to Milton. Ed. Thomas Corns. Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
Black, Joseph, ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume C. New York: W. W.
Norton, 2006.
British Identities and English Renaissance Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2002.
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Cantor, Norman F., and Peter L. Klein. Seventeenth-Century Rationalism: Bacon and Descartes.
Massachusetts: Blaisdell, 1969.
Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923.
Craig, D. H. Ben Jonson: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge, 1999.
Drabble,Margaret The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1996.
Fulk,R. D. and Christopher M. Cain, A History of Old English Literature. Malden: Blackwell,
2003.
Harmon ,William and C. Hugh Holman, A Handbook to Literature. Uper Saddle River,NJ:
Prentice Hall, 1986.
Maxwell ,Richard and Katie Trumpener, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the
Romantic Period 2008.
Web resources
www.bardweb.net/england.html
elizabethan.org/sites.html
http://www2.bakersfieldcollege.edu/english/Recommended/literature_sites_for_students.htm
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REVenglish.htm
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/english/

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Paper 4 A. (Elective): Classical and Medieval European Literature
Rationale
The European continent has been at the forefront of literary and philosophical productivity since
the time of the great Greek and Roman civilizations. Much of the modern literature, both in the
European countries as well as in the cultures of other continents, still exhibit a deep influence of
Classical European literature. This paper has the texts from the Classical period and the
Medieval period for study along with brief survey of major historical and literary events. This is
the first half of the course on European literature, aiming to acquaint the student with the initial
and middle stages of the development of the European canon.
Course Contents
Unit 1: Historical background

a) Ancient Greece, the Rise and decline of Roman Empire, Migration period ,
Byzantium, Feudal Christendom, Holy Wars, Classical Greek Literature (Poetry,
Drama, Philosophy)
b) Latin Literature (The Golden Age, Silver Age), The Vernacular Literature: Religious
Writing, Arthurian Romances, Sagas
Unit 2:
a) Homer: Odyssey (Book X , XI)
b) Sophocles: Electra
Unit 3:
a) Aeschylus: Agamemnon
b) Plato: Lysis
Unit 4:
a) Seneca: Daughters of Troy/ Trojan Women
b) Terence: The Self Tormentor (Heauton Timorumenos)
Unit 5:
a) Dante Alighieri: Inferno
b) Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron( Selection:Day 2nd, Stories- 3,6,7,8)
Bates, Alfred. The Drama: Its History, Literature, and Influence on Civilization, Vol. 1. London:
Historical Publishing Company, 1906.
Beye, Charles Rowan . Ancient Greek Literature and Society. Ithaca, New York: Cornell
University Press, 1987.
Boardman, John, et al. eds. The Oxford History of the Roman World,2001.
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Bolotin, David. Plato’s dialogue on Friendship. An Interpretation of the Lysis with a new
translation, Ithaca/London 1979.
Cartledge, Paul. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece ,2002.
Cropp, Martin . "Lost Tragedies: A Survey". A Companion to Greek Tragedy. Blackwell
Publishing, 2006.
Easterling, P.E., and Knox, B.M.W., [editors] . The Cambridge History of Classical Literature:
Greek literature: Volume 1. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1985.
Oliver Taplin's chapter on Homer, The Oxford History of the Classical World, Oxford University
Press, 1993.
Smith, Helaine . Masterpieces of Classic Greek Drama. Greenwood, 2005.
Whitmarsh, Tim . Ancient Greek Literature. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004.
Web Resources:
http://guides.main.library.emory.edu/content.php?pid=378716&sid=3162995
worldwidegreek.com/
web.cn.edu/kwheeler/resource_lit.classics.html
exhibitions.slv.vic.gov.au/love-and.../european.../european-literature
www.bigeye.com/liteur20.htm

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Paper 4 B (Elective): Masterpieces of World Literature: Ancient and Medieval Age
Rationale
The concept of World Literature has been received with enthusiasm from literary scholars since
Goethe’s comments in the nineteenth century. In today’s circumstances when literature from
diverse nations of the world has become accessible to the readers due to increase in the
translation activity and revolution in communication technology , it becomes pertinent to
prescribe the texts by literary stalwarts of different languages to a student of literature. The first
part of this course begins with the most ancient literary creation Gilgamesh and covers various
classical and medieval cultures from Asia, Europe and Africa. The objective is to make the
landmarks in the literature available to the students so that they develop a wider understanding of
literature as a common heritage of humanity.
Course Contents
Unit 1:
a) Richard Moulton: The Unity of Literature and the Conception of World Literature
(from World Literature and Its Place in General Culture ,Whitefish ,Montana: Kessinger
Publishing LLC, 1911,reprint 2010)
b) Goethe ’s Theory of World Literature (from Goethe’s L y Essays edited by J E Spigarn
. Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger Publishing LLC, 1921, reprint 2006)
Unit 2:
a) The Epic of Gilgamesh
b) The Epic of Sundiata
Unit 3:
a) Sophocles: Ajax
b)Kalidasa: Abhigyan Shakuntalam
Unit 4:
a) ) Sir Gwain and the Green Knight
b) Farid ud din Attar: The Conference of the Birds
Unit 5:
a) Analects of Confucius (Selections-Books I, VII, XI)
b)Arabian Nights (Selections: The Tale of the Bull and the Ass,
The Tale of the Three Apples,
The Ebony Horse)
Suggested translated Texts:

Sandars, N. K. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Penguin 1960
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Djibril Tamsir Niane, Sundiata: an epic of old Mali, London: Longmans, 1965
The Conference of the Birds : Farid ud din Attar
The Arabian Nights Entertainment, translated by Sir Richard Burton
Apter, Emily. The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature. Princeton: Princeton U.P.,
2006.
Casanova,Pascale. The World Republic of Letters, trans. M. B. DeBevoise. Cambridge: Harvard
U. P., 2004.
David, Damrosch. What Is World Literature? Princeton: Princeton U. P., 2003.
DeBevoise, M. B.trans The World Republic of Letters, Harvard U.P., 2004
----, How to Read World Literature. New York and London: Blackwell, 2009.
David et al., Damrosch eds., The Longman Anthology of World Literature. New York: Pearson
Longman, 6 vols., 2d ed. 2009.
Davis ,Paul et al., eds., The Bedford Anthology of World Literature. New York: Bedford/St.
Martin's, 6 vols., 2004.
D'haen,Theo. The Routledge Concise History of World Literature. London: Routledge, 2011.
D’haen et al.,Theo eds., The Routledge Companion to World Literature. London: Routledge,
2011.
----, World Literature: A Reader. London: Routledge, 2012.
Hashmi,Alamgir. The Commonwealth, Comparative Literature and the World. 1988.
Jerome Rothenberg & Pierre Joris, eds., Poems for the Millennium: A Global Anthology.
Berkeley: U. of California P., two vols., 1998.
Kurian, George Thomson, Timetable of World Literature, New York: Fact on File, 2003
Moretti ,Franco. Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary Theory. London: Verso,
2005.
Moss,Joyce & valestuk,Lorraine, eds., World Literature and Its Times, New York: Gale group,
2001
Pizer ,John. The Idea of World Literature: History and Pedagogical Practice. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State U. P., 2006.
Posnett ,H. M., Comparative Literature. London: K. Paul, Trench, 1886.
Prendergast, Christopher ed., Debating World Literature. London: Verso, 2004.
Puchner , Martin et al., eds., The Norton Anthology of World Literature. New York: W.W.
Norton, 6 vols., third edition, 2012.
Puchner,Martin. "Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Garde Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2012.
Tanoukhi, Nirvana. The World Literature Reader. London: Routledge, 2012.
Thomsen, Mads Rosendahl. Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and
Transnational Literatures. London: Continuum, 2008.
Schmeling, Manfred ed., Weltliteratur Heute: Konzepte und Perspektiven. Würzburg:
Königshausen und Neumann, 1995.
Web Resources:
http://www.sacred-texts.com
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http://omacl.org
http://www.learner.org/courses/worldlit/
http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/
http://wordswithoutborders.org/
http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/

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Paper 5: Basics of Linguistics
Rationale
The study of Linguistics is an essential part of the course work for postgraduation in English.
This course has the objectives a)to acquaint the students with the fundamentals of Modern
Linguistics b)To introduce the basic concepts in Linguistics, and c)To train the students in the
principles of language study in general.
Course Contents
Unit1: Introduction
a) Definition, Scope of Linguistics, Levels of Linguistic Analysis, Branches of
Linguistics , Interdisciplinary fields of Linguistics
b) The Traditional approach to Linguistics, The structural Approach to Linguistics, The
Cognitive Approach to linguistics
Unit 2: Phonology
a) Phonetics and Phonology, Principles of Phonemic Analysis, Phonemes And
Allophones,
b) Word Accents, Intonation, Assimilation and Elision, Segment Vs Features
Unit 3: Morphology
a) Morpheme: Free, Bound Morpheme , Word Formation Methods
b) Inflectional and Derivational Morphology, Morphological Analysis of Words
Unit 4: Syntax
a) Seven Basic clause types, Subordination and coordination, Phrases – NP, VP, Adj.P,
Adv.P, PP
b) IC Analysis of a simple sentence, X-bar theory: NP Movement and Wh Movement
Unit 5: Semantics & Pragmatics

a) Semantics: Definition, Varieties of Meanings, Sense and Reference, Denotation and
Connotation, Components and Contrast of meaning (synonym, antonym, hyponymy, etc),
Sentence-meaning and Utterance-meaning, Lexical relations (homonymy, homophony,
polysemy, metonymy), Entailment and Presupposition
B) Pragmatics: Definition, Scope, Performatives, Speech Acts, Speaker, Reference,
Literal and non-literal communication, Direct and indirect communication, Discourse and
conversation, Language and context
Prescribed Textbooks:
Syal , Pushpinder, D.V. Jindal,(2nd Ed) An Introduction to Linguistics, Prentice Hall of India,
New Delhi, 2007.
Akmajian, A et al, Linguistics: An Introduction To Language And Communication, Practice Hall
of India, New Delhi. 1996 (fourth ed) 2010 (Fifth ed)
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Aitchison ,Jean .Lingustics, Licolnwood:NTC Publishing Group, 1999.
Barber, Charles. The English Language: A Historical Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge
Chomsky,Noam.Syntactic Structures,Berlin:Mouton,(1957)reprint 2004.
Culler, Jonathan. Saussure. Fontana. 1976.
DeLacy ,Paul,ed. The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology, Cambridge University Press,2007.
Fromkin,Victoria et al ,An Introduction to Language, New Delhi:Cengage Learning, (10th
edition), 2013.
Gregory,Howard.Semantics,London: Routeledge,2000.
Griffiths,Patrics.An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics ,Edinborough:
Edinborough Univ.Press,2006.
Harris, Roy. Reading Saussure: A critical commentary on the Cours de linguistique générale. La
Salle, Illinois: Open Court. 1987.
Jeffries,Lesley. Discovering Language,The Structure of Modern English,New
York:Palgrave,2006.
Ladefoged, Peter & Ian Maddieson .Th So s of h Wo ’s L s. Oxford: Blackwell1996.
O'Grady, William, et al. Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction (5th ed.). Bedford/St.
Martin's, 2005.
Saussure Ferdinand, Eds. Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye,tr.Roy Harris.A Course in General
Lingistics, La Salle, Illinois:Open Court,(1916)Reprint 1998.
Sobin, Nicholas.Syntactic Analysis:The basics,Chickester:Wiley Blackwell,2011.
Sperlich,Wolfgang B. Noam Chomsky,London:Reaktion,2006.
Trask,R.L.Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics,Oxon:Routledge,2004.
----A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics,London:Routlegde,1992.
Web resources:
www.isle-linguistics.org
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
https://www.llas.ac.uk//index.html www.degruyter.com/view/serial/182226
http://linguistlist.org/
http://www.lagb.org.uk/ www.scientificpsychic.com/linguistics.html
Q.2. a. An essay type question on Unit 2 with internal choice 08
b. Transcription of 08 sentences with stress and intonation. 08
Q.3 a. An essay type question on Unit 3 with internal choice 08
b. Morphological Analysis of 08 words 08
Q.4 a. Functional identification of Basic Clauses (2 out of 4) 04
b. Phrasal Analysis (2 out of 4) 04
c. Clausal Analysis (2 out of 4) 04
d. IC Analysis of simple sentences (2 out of 4) 04
Q.5 a. Short notes on Unit 5 (2 out of 4) 08
b. Form and Meaning (2 out of 4) 04
c. Ambiguity (2 out of 4) 04
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Paper 6: British Literature from Romantic Age to Contemporary Times
Rationale
This course forms the latter part of British Literature course from earlier semester. It takes up the
study of British literature from the Romantic Period onward and concludes in the contemporary
times. The student is expected to gain an understanding of the process of literary development
from the revolutionary Romantic Age through the Victorian period to the more turbulent
twentieth century when the literature became more complex as well as technically more refined.
Course Contents
Unit 1: a) S.T.Coleridge: Rime of the Ancient Mariner

b) Wordsworth: Ode on Intimations of Immortality
Unit 2: a) Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

b) Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Unit 3: a) T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land

b)Seamus Heany: Digging, Follower, Midnight
Unit 4: a) G. B. Shaw: Man and Superman

b)Tom Taylor: Still Waters Run Deep
Unit 5: a) Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter

b) Doris Lessing: The Good Terrorist
Recommended Reading
Barth, J. Robert. Romanticism and Transcendence. Columbia: University of Missouri
Press, 2003.
Bowra, C. M. The Romantic Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1949.
Christopher John Murray, Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era: A-K, Taylor and Francis
Books,2004.
Deirdre Le Fay, Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels, London: Frances Lincoln
Limited, 2002.
Duncan Wu, A Companion to Romanticism, Blackwell Publishing, 1998.
David Levin, History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, and Parkman , 1967.
Marsh, Jan. Introduction. Poems and Prose. By Christina Rossetti. London: Everyman,
1994.
Taylor,Tom, Still Waters Run Deep, Nabu Press,2012.
Dickens , Charles, Great Expectations, Research and Education Association, New
Jersey,1994.
Shaw ,G.B., Man and Superman, Chelsea House, 1987
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Web Resources:
www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html
www.k-state.edu/english/westmank/literary/contempbrit_resources.html
vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2747
libguides.indycc.edu/britlit
www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=2400

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Paper 7: Indian English Writing
Rationale
Though Indian writing in English started in the colonial period as a result of the British rule in
India, the English language went on to become an integral part of the Indian culture and
consequently, Indian literature .From the pre-independence era to the present times, works by
Indian English writers have been gaining worldwide critical recognition. The literature by Indian
authors represents the cultural heritage of Indian literary tradition as well as grip on the
contemporary literary forms and issues. With the study of this course, it is expected for the
student to get an overall view of the contribution of the notable Indian authors to the body of
English Literature.
Course Contents
Unit 1: Historical Background

a) The Winds of Change: 1857 to 1920, Independence and After: Poetry, Prose and
Drama
b) The Gandhian Whirlwind: 1920 to 1947, Independence and After: Fiction, Short Story
Unit 2:
a) Toru Datt: Sita, Sindhu, Our Casuarina Tree
b) Arun Kolatkar (From Jejuri) : The Bus, The Priest, An Old Woman
Unit 3:
a) Rabindranath Tagore: The Post Office.
b) Girish Karnad: The Fire and the Rain.
Unit 4:
a) Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines
b) Shashi Deshpande: That Long Silence
Unit 5:
a) Swami Vivekananda: To the Youth of India
b) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: Marx or Buddha
Prescribed Reading: (Unit 1 and 2):
Naik, M.K. A History of Indian English Literature, Sahitya Academy, 1982, reprint 2009
A.Iyengar, Srinivasa K.R.: Indian Writing in English. Sterling Publishers Private Limited.
Reprint 1994
de Souza, Eunice. Nine Indian Women Poets, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997.
----Talking Poems: Conversations With Poets. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.
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---- Early Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology : 1829-1947. New Delhi: Oxford University
Press, 2005.
Haq, Kaiser (ed.). Contemporary Indian Poetry. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990.
Hogan, P. C., Colonialism and Cultural Identity: Crises of Tradition in the Anglophone
Literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean, State University of New York Press 2000
King, Bruce Alvin. Modern Indian Poetry in English: Revised Edition. New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1987, rev. 2001. ("the standard work on the subject and unlikely to be
surpassed" — Mehrotra, 2003).
Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (ed.). A History of Indian Literature in English. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2003.Distributed in India by Doaba Books Shanti Mohan House 16,Ansari
Road, New Delhi.
Parthasarathy, R. (ed.). Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets (New Poetry in India). New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 1976.
Sadana, Rashmi. "Writing in English," in The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Thomson, E., Rabindranath Tagore: Poet and Dramatist, Pierides Press, 1926
Web Resources:
http://indianwritinginenglish.blogspot.in/
http://literarism.blogspot.in/2012/01/indian-english-literature.html
http://www.indiaheritage.org/creative/english.htm
http://society.indianetzone.com/literature/1/writers_english_literature_india.htm
http://academia.edu/Documents/in/Indian_Writing_in_English

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Paper 8A (Elective): Modern European Literature
Rationale
The continent of Europe and its literature underwent a significant change since the Renaissance.
The present course, second part of the European Literature study from the earlier semester,
covers the European Literature from Renaissance to the contemporary period. The study includes
masterpieces from Italy, Spain, Russia, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Romania and
England. The student can get an idea of the transformation ,both in the socio-political and the
literary fields through the five centuries across different national cultures in Europe by studying
the prescribed units.
Course Contents

a) Age of Revolutions, Industrial Revolution, Imperialism, Rise of Socialism, World
Wars I & II, Formation of European Union
b) Renaissance, Enlightenment, Realism in 19th Century Literature, Existentialism,
Modernism, Postmodernism
Unit 2:
a) Elizabeth Barret Browning- Sonnets from Portuguese
i) I thought once how Theocritus had sung
ii) Unlike are we, O princely Heart
iii) Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
iv) I lived with visions for my company
b) Charles Baudelaire- The Flowers of Evil(selections)

i) Benediction
ii) Exotic Perfume
iii) Hymn to Beauty
iv) Spleen
Unit 3:
a) Joost Van der Vondel: Lucifer
b) Eugene Ionesco-Rhinoceros
Unit 4:
a) Dostoevsky- Crime and Punishment
b) Kafka :The Trial
Unit 5:
a) Michel Foucault : Archeology of Knowledge part 1 & 2 (Chapter 1-7) –
b) Martin Buber : I and Thou
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Aldridge, Alfred Owen (1975). Voltaire and the Century of Light. Princeton, New Jersey:
Princeton University Press
Barbara Bush, Imperialism and Postcolonialism (History: Concepts,Theories and Practice),
Longmans, 2006,
Chambers, Ross. The Writing of Melancholy: Modes of Opposition in Early French Modernism.
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1993. Print.
E. J. Hobsbawm, On Empire: America, War, and Global Supremacy, Pantheon Books, 2008,
Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, Vintage Books, 1998,
Ionesco, Eugene, (Translated into English by Derek Prouse), Rhinoceros and Other Plays, New
York : Grove Press, 1960
J. A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study, Cosimo Classics, 2005,
Leo Blanken, Rational Empires: Institutional Incentives and Imperial Expansion, University Of
Chicago Press, 2012
Robert Bickers/Christian Henriot, New Frontiers: Imperialism's New Communities in East Asia,
1842–1953, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2000,
Simon C. Smith, British Imperialism 1750–1970, Cambridge University Press, 1998,
Thompson, William J. Understanding Les Fleurs Du Mal: Critical Readings. Nashville:
Vanderbilt UP, 1997
Web Resources
www.bibliomania.com/
http://guides.main.library.emory.edu/medievalearlymodernliterature
http://latrobe.libguides.com/content.php?pid=297612&sid=2442635
http://guides.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/content.php?pid=459816&sid=3779475
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Paper 8B (Elective): Masterpieces of World Literature: Modern Period
Rationale
In the modern period, the literatures across the world became more enriched with increase in
contact. The Post World War era saw a facilitation of interest in the study of world literature. In
the present section of the course on World Literature, texts from Latin American, Asian, African
and European cultures have been prescribed to bring out the different facets of human experience
and literary technique.
Course Contents
Unit 1:
a) Pascal Casanova : Literature as a World (from The World Republic of Letters.Harvard
University Press,2004)
b) Franco Moretti : Conjectures on World Literature(from Debating World Literature,
edited by Christopher Prendergast.London:Verso,2004)
Unit 2:
a) Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote (Part I)
b) Wu Cheng'en : Journey to the West
Unit 3:
a) Pablo Neruda : The Heights of Macchu Picchu
b) Nguyễn Du: The Tale of Kieu
Unit 4:
a) Kahlil Gibran : The Prophet
b) Jean Jacques Russo : The Social Contract
Unit 5:
a) Jean Paul Sartre : The Flies
b) Maxim Gorky :Mother
Recommended Reading
Desan ,Wilfred. The Tragic Finale: An Essay on the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre (New York:
Harper Torchbooks, 1960.
Flynn, Thomas. Sartre and Marxist Existentialism: The Test Case of Collective Responsibility,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Foster ,David William Mexican Literature,A History .Austin:Univ of Texas Press, 1994.
Fulton ,Ann. Apostles of Sartre: Existentialism in America, 1945-1963.Evanston, IL:
Northwestern University Press, 1999.
Gies ,David T. (Ed.). The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature. Cambridge University Press,
2008.
Keene, Donald. Five Modern Japanese Novelists. Columbia University Press. 2005.
Kurian, George Thomson, Timetable of World Literature, Fact on File, New York, 2003.
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Lal ,Mohan . The Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature (Volume Five (Sasay To Zorgot). Sahitya
Akademi, 2006.
Moss,Joyce & valestuk,Lorraine, ed., World Literature and Its Times, Gale group, New York,
2001.
Owen, Stephen, Reading in Chinese Literary Thoughts, Harvard University Press,1992.
Sollars ,Michael and Arbolina, Llamas Jennings, eds. The Facts on File companion to the world
novel: 1900 to the present. Infobase Publishing.2008.
Zelinsky ,K.Soviet literature: Problems and People ., Progress Publishers. Moscow. 1970.
Zhukov, Vladislav . The Kim Vân Kiều of Nguyen Du (1765–1820). Pandanus Books,2004.
Web Resources:
http://fajardo-acosta.com/worldlit/
www.dmozo.o rg › Arts › Literature › World Literature
http://guides.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/content.php?pid=459816&sid=3764441
http://libguides.unbc.ca/content.php?pid=456534&sid=3738739
Question Paper Pattern Marks

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Syllabus of M.A. Second Year

SEMESTERS III & IV
SEM III SEM IV

Paper 9 : Paper 13:
Indian Poetics Advanced Critical Theory
Paper 10: Paper 14:
English Language and Literature Teaching Indian Literature in English Translation
Paper11: Paper 15:
American Literature New English Literatures
Popular Literature Cultural Studies
Paper 12 (Elective B): Paper 16 (Elective B):
Discourse Analysis Special Authors
G.B.Shaw and R.K.Narayan
Paper 12(Elective C): Subaltern Literature Paper 16 (Elective C) Cinematic
Representations of Literature
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Paper 9: Indian Poetics
Rationale
India has a rich and diversified tradition of critical thought. This course is designed with the aim
of providing the students an access to India’s critical thought. Some of the key concepts and
ideas in the Indian Poetics are delineated in the prescribed essays. The course can acquaint the
student with both, the ancient and the modern theories from the most significant literary thinkers
in our own tradition and thus can introduce the student to the Indian concepts of literary
theorizing.
Course Contents
Unit I:
a) K. Krishnamoorthy’s Sanskrit Poetics: An Overview
b) R. B. Pathankar’s Aesthetics: Some Important Problems
Unit II:
a) Bharatamuni – On Natya and Rasa
b) Bhartrhari- On Syntax and Meaning
Unit III:
a) Anandavardhana- Dhvani: Structure and Poetic Meaning
b) Kuntaka: Language of Poetry and Metaphor
Unit IV:
a) Rabindranath Tagore-What is Art?
b) B. S. Mardhekar- Poetry and Aesthetic Theory
Unit V:
a) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak- A Literary Representation of the Subaltern
b) Aijaz Ahmad- Orientalism and After
Prescribed Book:
Devy, G. N. 2002. Indian Literary Criticism,: Theory and Interpretation. Orient Longman:
Hyderabad
Recommended Reading
Bhattacharya, Sivaprasad. Studies in Indian Poetics.Firma KLM,1981
De,S.K. History of Sanskrit Poetics (2nd edn., Firma KL Mukhopadhyay, Calcutta, 1960
Deshpande ,G.T. Indian Poetics. Pune: Popular Prakashan,2009
T.Nanjundaiya Sreekantaiya.Indian Poetics. Delhi: Sahitya Akademi,1991
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Raghavan, An Introduction to Indian Poetics (Macmillan, Madras, 1970
Seturaman ,V.S. (ed.) Indian Aesthetics (Madras: Macmillan, 1993).
Web Resources
www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in
www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Indian_Poetics

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Paper 10: English Language and Literature Teaching
Rationale
In today’s world of Globalization, English language has an important status in India as an
international and intra-national language. National Knowledge Commission (NKC) (2006)
recommends that graduates with high proficiency in English and good communication skills
should be groomed in the institutes of Higher Education. There are a number of challenges in the
teaching and learning of English as a Second Language. This course aims at providing an
orientation to the postgraduate students in the contemporary practices of English Language and
Literature teaching in India which is essential for those who plan to become teachers of English.
Course Contents
Unit 1: Introduction
a) ELT in India –An overview, Aims and Objectives of teaching English,
b) Principles of Learning a Foreign Language, Problems of Learning a Foreign Language
Unit 2: Context of Language Teaching

a) ELT: A historical Overview and Current Trends, Psychology of Language Learning,
Second language teaching from the psychological perspective, Behaviourism,
Cognitivism.
b) Krashen’s Monitor Model, Natural Order Hypothesis, Acquisition/Learning Hypothesis,
Monitor Hypothesis, Input Hypothesis, Affective Filter Hypothesis, Innate language
Hypothesis and Inter language Hypothesis, Sociological Perspectives on ELT
Unit 3: Language Teaching Methods-

a) Grammar Translation Method, Oral and Situational Language Teaching Practices, Direct/
Natural Method, Reading Method.
b) Communicative Language Teaching, Humanistic Approach to language Teaching, Place
of Activities and games in Language Classrooms.
Unit 4: Teaching Language and Literature

a) Developing language skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
b) Organising teaching English-Lesson planning, Teaching Prose and Poetry, Teaching
Grammar, Vocabulary
Unit 5: Course and Evaluation

a) Curriculum, Syllabus and its types, Course and designing Course, A/V aids
b) Tests and Examinations in English, Formative and Summative Evaluation and Remedial
English
Prescribed Books:
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1. Bose, Kshanika. 1998. Teaching of English: A Modern Approach. Doaba House: New
Delhi.
2. Tickoo, M. L. 2003. Teaching and Learning English. Orient Black Swan: Hyderabad
3. Nagaraj, Geetha. 1996. English Language Teaching: Approaches, Methods and
Techniques. Orient Longman: Calcuttta
English Language Teaching Documents (British Council, London, 1977)
H.B. Allen (ed.), Teaching English as a Second Language (McGraw-Hill, NY, 1972)
C.J. Brumfit, Communicative Methodology in Language Teaching (Cambridge UP,
1984)
J. Carroll & P. Hall, Make Your Own Language Tests: A Practical Guide to Writing
Language Performance Tests (Pergamon, Oxford, 1985)
M. Celce-Murcia & L. McIntosh (ed.), Teaching English as a Second or Foreign
Language (Newbury House, Rowley, Mass., 1979)
J. Harmer, The Practice of ELT (Longman, London, 1983)
K. Johnson, Communicative Syllabus Design and Methodology (Pergamon, Oxford,
1982)
W. Littlewood, Foreign and Second Language Learning (Cambridge UP, 1984)
W. Rivers, Communicating Naturally in a Foreign Language; Speaking in Many
Tongues (Newbury House, Rowley, Mass., 1972)
L. Smith (ed.), English for Cross-Cultural Communication (Macmillan, London,
1981)
R. Quirk & H. Widdowson (ed.), English in the World: Teaching and Learning the
Language and Literatures (Cambridge UP, 1985)
R.K. Bansal, Spoken English for India (Orient Longman, Madras, 1972)
V.V. Yardi, Teaching English in India Today (Parimal Prakashan, Aurangabad, 1977)
N.S. Prabhu, Second Language Pedagogy (Oxford UP, 1987)
R.J. Baumgardner (ed.), South Asian English: Structure, Use and Users (Oxford UP,
1996)
T. Balasubramanian, Introduction to English Phonetics (Macmillan, Madras, 1985)
Web Resources
British Council : http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
The Internet TESL Journal : http://iteslj.org/
English online : http://www.english-online.at/index.htm
Clarity Language Consultants : http://www.clarityenglish.com/
Question Paper Pattern:

Q.4 An essay type question on Unit 4 with internal choice
to a practical plan of teaching of a Poem/prose 16
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Paper 11: American Literature
Rationale
American Literature has developed as a distinctive literature since the days of colonization of
America by European powers. The present course has the objective of providing a brief
introduction to the history of American literature and of carrying out close study of some of the
landmark texts in the American literary tradition.
Course Contents
a) Early American and colonial period, democratic origins and revolutionary

Writers (from the beginning to 1820), The Romantic Period (1820-1860), The Rise of
Realism (1860-1914)
b) Modernism and Experimentation (1914-1945), The Anti-tradition, Realism and
Experimentation (1945-1990), Contemporary American Literature
Prescribed Text: Outline of American Literature by Kathryn Van Spankeren (Revised

Edition) Published by U.S. Dept. of State, 1994 ( download
linkphotos.state.gov/libraries/amgov/30145/publications.../outline_us_lit.pdf)
Unit 2
a) David Mamet -Glengarry Glen Ross
b) Arthur Miller-The Crucible
Unit 3
a) e e cummings- i) pity this busy monster manukind
ii) anyone lived in a pretty how town
iii) I sing of Olaf glad and big
iv) the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
v) all in green went my love riding
b) Edgar Allen Poe- i) The Raven
ii) Annabel Lee
iii) Eldorado
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iv) To Helen
v) Ulaume
Unit 4
a)Thomas Paine- Common Sense
b) Martin Luther King Jr- I have a dream
Unit 5
a) F Scott Fitzgerald-The Great Gatsby
b)Toni Morrison-Beloved
Recommended Reading
Alpana Sharma Knippling New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our
Multicultural Literary Heritage .Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1996
Blanck, Jacob, comp. Bibliography of American literature. New Haven, 1991.
Earl N. Harbert and Robert A. Rees. (eds.)Fifteen American authors before 1900;
bibliographic essays on research and criticism. Madson,1984.
Jackson R. Bryer (ed.Sixteen modern American authors; a survey of research and criticism.
Durham, N.C., 1974.
Lauter, Paul. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath,
1990.
Lentricchia, Frank and Thomas McGlaughlin. Critical Terms for Literary Study. Chicago: U
of Chicago Press, 1990.
Millwood Literary writings in America; a bibliography., N.Y., 1977. Nilon, Charles H. Rees,
Robert A. and Harbert,
Rubin, Louis D. A bibliographical guide to the study of Southern Literature. Baton Rouge,
1969.
Spiller ,Robert et al (eds)Literary history of the United States 4th ed., rev. New York, 1974.
Woodress, James. Eight American authors; a review of research and criticism. Rev. ed. New
York, 1972. R810.9 St761
Web Resources
The American Literature Library :www.americanliterature.com
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide
An Ongoing Project http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.html
American authors on the Web :http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html
Columbia University American Literature Resources
:http://www.columbia.edu/~lmg21/bookmark.htm
Virginia University hypertexts : http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hypertex.html
Online American Literature Resources : http://college.cengage.com/english/heath/toc.html
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Keele University,American studies : http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.html

American Literary Scholarship
:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_literary_scholarship/toc/als2003.1.html
American Literature on the Web: http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/index.htm
Q.1 Question on Unit 1: Write short notes on any two

(four items to be given) 8x2= 16
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Paper 12 A (Elective): Popular Literature
Rationale
The study of popular literature was neglected by literary critics for a long time, but with the
advent of Postmodernism, it was deemed necessary to pay attention to popular literary texts. The
present course gives an opportunity to study the various genres of popular literature so as to
bring the realization about the immensely important place of popular literature in modern culture.
Course Contents
Unit 1
a) John A. Weaver: “Traditions of Popular Culture Studies” (Chapter 2 from Popular
Culture Primer, New York: Peter Lang Publishing ,2005)
b) Ken Gelder : “Popular Fiction, The Opposite of Literature?”(Chapter 1 from Popular
Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field, Oxon: Routledge,2002)
Unit 2
a) Self-Help: Stephen R Covey- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
b) Science Fiction: Robert A Heinlein-Stranger in a Strange Land
Unit3
a) Thriller: Dan Brown-The Da Vinci Code
b) Mystery: Agatha Christie-And Then There were None
Unit 4
a) Romance: Erich Segal- Love Story
b) Fantasy: J K Rowling-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Unit 5
a) Horror: William Peter Blatty-The Exorcist
b) Indian Bestseller: Amish Tripathy-The Immortals of Meluha
Recommended Reading
Cawleti, John G.(ed.) Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and
Popular Culture. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1976.
Coser, Lewis A., et al. Books: The Culture and Commerce of Publishing. Chicago and London:
U of
Chicago Press, 1982.
Curwen, Peter. The World Book Industry. New York and Oxford: Fact On File Publications,
1986.
Fiedler, Leslie. What was Literature. New York: Simon and Schuster 1982.
Freccero, Carla. Popular Culture: An Introduction. New York: N Y U Press.1999.
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Gans,Herbert J. Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste. New
York:Basic Books, 1974.
Hayes, Tom. The Birth of Popular Culture. Duquene University Press: Pittsburgh, 1992.
Rosenberg, Bernard, and David Manning White. Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America.
Glencoe: Free P, 1957.
Hoppenstand Gary,et al (eds.). Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture.
Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008.
Storey, John. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction. University of Georgia
Press, 2006.
Strinati, Dominic. An Introduction to the Theories of Popular Culture. Routledge, 1995.
Web Resources
H-Net: Humanities, and Social Sciences OnLine. The Popular Culture Association and the
American
Culture Association: Home Page (1999): http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca/
Popular Culture: Resources for Critical Analysis: http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/pop/
Popular Culture: http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/popculture/
University of Iowa: www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/POP-Culture.html
Springer Link: www.springerlink.com
Rock Internet Resources: www.rockinternetresources.com
Bowling Green State University: www.bgsu.edu/departments/popc/

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Paper 12 B (Elective): Discourse Analysis
Rationale
The purpose of this course is to introduce MA students to major theoretical frameworks and
current issues in discourse analysis and demonstrate the relevance and usefulness of discourse
studies to the field of applied linguistics. To provide for the practical application of the course
instruction, each participant is expected to conduct research on a particular topic in discourse
analysis, using elicited or natural data collected during the semester. To this end, the following
materials are to be covered.
Course Contents
Unit 1: What is Discourse Analysis?
a. A Brief historical review, Form and Function, Speech Acts and discourse structures,
Spoken discourse: Models of Analysis
b. Conversations outside the classroom, Talk as a social activity, Written Discourse, text
and interpretation, Larger Patterns in Text
Unit II: Discourse Analysis and Grammar& Vocabulary
a. Introduction, Grammatical Cohesion and Textuality, Theme and reme, Tense and Aspect
b. Introduction, Lexical cohesion, Lexis in Talk, Textual Aspects of Lexical Competence,
Vocabulary and the organizing of text
Unit III: Discourse analysis and Phonology
a. Introduction, Pronunciation, Rhythm, Word Stress and prominence, the Placing of

Prominence
b. The Intonational units, tones and their Meaning, Key, Pitch across the speakers
Unit IV: Spoken Language
a. Introduction, Adjacency Pairs, Exchanges, Turn-taking, Transactions and topics

b. Interactional and transactional talks, Stories, anecdotes and jokes, Other spoken discourse
types, Speech and grammar
Unit V: Written Language
a. Introduction, Text types, Speech and writing, Units in written discourse, Clause relations
b. Getting to grips with larger patterns, Pattens and the learner, Culture and rhetoric,
Discourse and the reader.
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Prescribed text:
Michael McCarthy. Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers. Cambridge University Press ,
2000.
Recommended Reading
Bhatia, V.J. (1993) Analysing Genre: Language in Professional Settings. England: Longman.
Bhatia, V.J. (2004) Worlds of Written Discourse. London: Continuum.
Blommaert, J. (2005). Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Brown, G., and George Yule (1983). Discourse Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Carter, R. (1997). Investigating English Discourse. London: Routledge.
Corcoran, J. (1971). Discourse Grammars and the Structure of Mathematical Reasoning I, II,
and III, Journal of Structural Learning 3.
Gee, J. P. (2005). An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method. London:

Routledge.
Deese, James. Thought into Speech: The Psychology of a Language.Century Psychology

Series. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1984.
Halliday, M.A.K., and Greaves, W.S. (2008). Intonation in the Grammar of English, London,
Equinox.
Halliday, M.A.K., and C.M.I.M. Matthiessen (2004). An introduction to functional grammar,

3d ed. London, Arnold
Jaworski, A. and Coupland, N. (eds). (1999). The Discourse Reader. London: Routledge.
Johnstone, B. (2002). Discourse analysis. Oxford: Blackwell.
Keller, R. (2011). The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD). In: Human
Studies 34 (1), 43-65.
Keller, R. (2013). Doing Discourse Research. An Introduction for Social Scientists. London:
Sage
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Kittredge, Richard & John Lehrberger. (1982.) Sublanguage: Studies of language in

restricted semantic domains. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Loriot, James and Barbara E. Hollenbach. 1970. "Shipibo paragraph structure." Foundations
of Language 6: 43-66. The seminal work reported as having been admitted by Longacre and
Pike. See link below from Longacre's student Daniel L. Everett.
Longacre, R.E. (1996). The grammar of discourse. New York: Plenum Press.
Miscoiu, S., Craciun O., Colopelnic, N. (2008). Radicalism, Populism, Interventionism.

Three Approaches Based on Discourse Theory.
Renkema, J. (2004). Introduction to discourse studies. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Schiffrin, D., Deborah Tannen, & Hamilton, H. E. (eds.). (2001). Handbook of Discourse
Analysis. Oxford: Blackwell.
Stubbs, M. (1983). Discourse Analysis: The sociolinguistic analysis of natural language.

Oxford: Blackwell
Teun A. van Dijk, (ed). (1997). Discourse Studies. 2 vols. London: Sage.
Potter, J, Wetherall, M. (1987). Discourse and Social Psychology: Beyond attitudes and
behaviour. London: SAGE.
Underhill, James W. (2011). Creating Worldviews: metaphor, ideology & language,

Edinburgh UP.
Underhill, James W. (2012). Ethnolinguistics & Cultural Concepts: truth, love, hate & war,
Cambridge UP.

Q.5 An essay type question on Unit 5 with internal choice
to a practical written discourse 16
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Paper 12 C (Elective): Subaltern Literature
Rationale
Subaltern Studies has brought about the most important and influential change in the
historiography of South Asia, and particularly India in recent years. The present course
represents an introduction to Subaltern Studies and the worldwide debates it has generated
among scholars of history, politics and sociology. The objectives of the course are :
 To acquaint the students with the terms 'subaltern' and 'subaltern studies'.
 To acquaint the students with the subaltern theory and it's applicability in the post
colonial studies.
 To make the students aware of the subaltern politics by introducing close study of certain
seminal texts.
Course Contents
Unit 1
a) “A Brief History of Subalternity” by David Ludden (Introductory chapter from Reading
Subaltern Studies Critical History, Contested Meaning and the Globalization of South Asia
Edited by David Ludden )
b) “Can the subaltern speak?” by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak( from The Postcolonial
Studies Reader edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin)
Unit 2
a) Urmila Pawar’s The Weave of Life: Aaydaan
b) Laxman Mane’s Upara: An Outsider
Unit 3
a) Richard Wright’s Native Son
b) Tony Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
Unit 4
a) Vijay Tendulkar’s Kanyadaan
b) Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084
Unit 5:
a) Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
b) Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s A Grain of Wheat

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Recommended Reading
Chaturvedi, Vinayak, ed., Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial. London and New
York: Verso, 2000.
Gramsci, Antonio Selections from the Prison Notebooks, ed. Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey
Nowell Smith. New York: International Publishers, 1973.
Guha, Ranajit, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Eds. Selected Subaltern Studies.New York:
Oxford University Press, 1989.
Rodríguez, Ileana (ed.), The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader. Durham, NC: Duke
Devi, Mahasweta. Imaginary Maps. Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
London&New York: Routledge, 1995
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the
Vanishing Present. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard UP, 1999
Menchu, Rigoberta. I, Rigoberta Menchu.London & New York: Verso, 1984

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Paper 13: Advanced Critical Theory
Rationale
The objective of this course is to acquaint the student with the contemporary developments in
critical theory. A knowledge of these theories can enable a student to apply the theories to
literary texts and moreover, to carry out a reflective assessment of literature, society, and culture.
The most significant theories have been surveyed to bring out the diversity between different
ideologies and critical methods. This type of overview can help the learner for orientation to the
critical practices carried out in the contemporary era.
Course Contents
Unit 1
a) New Criticism, moral formalism and F R Leavis
b) Russian Formalism and the Bakhtin School
Unit 2
a) Reader oriented theories
b) Structuralist Theories
Unit 3
a) Marxist Theories
b) Feminist Theories
Unit 4
a) Poststructuralist Theories
b) Postmodernist Theories
Unit 5
a) Postcolonialist Theories
b) Post-theory
Prescribed Text: A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory (fifth edition) by Raman
Seldon, Peter Widowson, Peter Brooker.Harlow: pearson Education Ltd,2005.
Recommended Reading
Adorno, T. W., with Max Horkheimer. Dialectic of Enlightenment. Trans. Edmund Jephcott.
Stanford: Stanford UP, 2002.
Arac, Jonathan. Critical Genealogies: historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies,
New York: Columbia University press, 1987.

Barthes, Roland, S/Z (Translated by Miller) London: Jonathan cape, 1975.
Bloom, Harold . The Anxiety of Influence, New York: O.U.P.
Brandom, R.. Making It Explicit. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.
Brooks, Cleanth. The well wrought urn, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1947
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Coyle, Martin etal (eds) Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism, London; Routledge, 1991
Culler, Jonthan. Structuralism Poetics: structuralism, Linguistics, and the study of Literature,
London: Rutledge & Kegan Paul, 1975
D. Hiley, J. Bohman and R. Shusterman.(eds.) The Interpretive Turn, ed. Ithaca: Cornell
Eagleton Terry. Against the Grain, London: Faber and Faber, 1928
Fish, Stanley. Doing what comes naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the practice of theory in
Literary and legal studies, new yolk: O.U.P, 1989
Gadamer , H.G. Truth and Method, London : Sheed & Ward, 1975
Genette, G. Narrative Discourse : An Essay in Method, Ithaca : cornell University Press,
1979.
Geuss ,Raymond. The Idea of a Critical Theory. Habermas and the Frankfurt School.
Habermas, J. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, Cambridge L Polity Press 1987
Horkheimer, Max: Critical Theory: Selected Essays. Translated by Matthew J. O'Connell and
others. New York: Continuum, 1982.
----. Critical Theory. New York: Seabury Press,1982.
Hutcheson, Linda . A Poetics of Postmodernism, London : Routledge, 1987.

Jones ,R.W.(ed)Critical Theory and World Politics. London: Lynne Reinner,2001.
Kermode, Frank . The sense of an Ending, New york : O U P ,1969
Leavis, F.R. The Common pursuit, London: chatto and windus, 1952
M. Friedman (ed.)Feminism in a Global Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press,2004.
Macherey , Pierre. A Theory of Literary Production, London: Routledge and kegan paul ,
1978
Marcuse, H. Negations. Boston: Beacon Press, 1969.
McCarthy, T. and D. Hoy. Critical Theory. London: Basil Blackwell, 1994.
Putnam, H. Words and Life. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.
Rawls, J. Collected Papers.Cambridge: Harvard University Press,1999.
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Rorty, Richrd. Consequnences of pragmatism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota press,

1982.
Sprinker, Michel. Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Theory of Historical
Materialism London : Verso, 1987.
Willard ,Charles Arthur. Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge: A New Rhetoric for Modern
Democracy. University of Chicago Press. 1996.
----, A Theory of Argumentation. University of Alabama Press. 1989.
----, Argumentation and the Social Grounds of Knowledge. University of Alabama Press. 1982.
Web Resources
www.critical-theory.com/
en.metapedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5q2nb391/
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Critical_theory.html

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Paper 14: Indian Literature in English Translation
Rationale
Generally acknowledged as one of the oldest in the world, Indian Literature has been written
over the millennia in numerous regional languages. The aim of this course is to introduce the
student to the rich tradition of Indian literature through the medium of translated texts and a brief
overview of Indian literary history. The texts range from the ancient to the modern times. The
student shall be able to critically appreciate some of the most seminal works through the study of
this course.
Course Contents
Unity I
a. Introduction to Indian Literature, Vedic Literature, Indian Epic Poetry
b. Sanskrit Literature, Buddhist Literature, Urdu Literature
Unit II
a. Kalidas : Malavikagnimitra
b. Jataka Tales: i) The Asss in the Lion’s Skin,

ii)The Jackal and the Crow,
iii) The Jackal and the Otters,
iv)The Lion and the Woodpecker,
v) The Ox who envied the Pig,
vi) The Swan with Golden Feathers,
vii) The Turtle who couldn’t stop talking,
viii)Vessentara Jataka
Unit III
a. Mirza Ghalib: i) Yeh Na Thi Hamari Qismat,

ii) Hazaaron Khwahishen Aisi
iii) Ibn-e-Mariam Hua Kare Koi,
iv)Aah Ko Chaahiye Ik Umar Asar hone Ke liye,
v) Dard Minnat Kash-e-Dava na huaa,
vi) Dil-e-Naadan Tuze Hua Kya Hai
(English translation available on
www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ghalib/ghazal_index.html )
b.Meerabai: i) Hari main to dard divani
ii)Nahi aiso janam barambar
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iii)Saamp pitaro Rana Bhejyo

iv)Mere to Giridhar Gopal
v) Patian main kaiso likhoon
vi)Pag ghungaroo bandh Meera naci re

( English translation available on-
http://www.oocities.org/worldwidetechnologies/)
Unit 1V
a. Premchand : Godan, tr.P.Lal and Jai Ratan, Jaico,1957
b. U. R. Ananthmurthy, Samskara
Unit V
a. Vijay Tendulkar : Silence, The Court is in Session,tr. Priya Adarkar, O.U.P., 1978.
b. Badal Sarkar : Evam Indrajit: Three-act Play. tr. by Girish Karnad. Oxford University
Press. 1975.
Prescribed Text (for Unit I):
P.K.Sinha and Jagadish K. Ghosh. 2011. History of Indian Literature. Commonwealth

Publishers: New Delhi.
Recommended Reading
Chanda, Ipshita. Historiography. Kolkata: Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur

University. 2004
Das, Sisir Kumar. A History of Indian Literature 1800-1910 ;Western Impact: Indian Response.
New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. 1991
Devy. G.N. Of Many Heroes: An Indian essay in Literary Historiography. New Delhi: Orient
Longman, 1998
Gupta, Prakash Chandra. Makers of Indian Literature: Prem Chand. Sahitya Akademi. 1998
Madge, V.M.Vijay Tendulkar's Plays: An Anthology of Recent Criticism. Pencraft International.

2007.
Roy, Pinaki. “The First Man of the Third Theatre: Badal Sircar”. Insights into Indian English
Fiction and Drama. Ed. Nawale, A. New Delhi: Access-Authors Press
----Crusader against Hegemonies: A Brief Study of Badal Sircar”. Contemporary Indian Drama
in English: Trends and Issues. Ed. Sarkar, J. New Delhi: Delta Book World, 2013
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Orsini ,Francesca (2004). The Oxford India Premchand. Oxford University Press,2000.
Rai ,Amrit; Harish Trivedi Premchand: his life and times. Oxford University Press. 1991
Sigi ,Rekha. Munshi Prem Chand. Delhi:Diamond,2006
Winternitz , Moriz. A History of Indian Literature.Delhi:Motilal Banarsidas,1996.

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Paper 15: New English Literatures
Rationale
This course deals with what is called as the ‘New English Literatures’ indicating the writings that
emerged in former British colonies such as: parts of Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada,
Caribbean countries, India, , Pakistan, Bangladesh ,Malaysia, Malta, Singapore, islands in the
South Pacific, and Sri Lanka. It can also be termed as the postcolonial literature but as the critics
have not yet agreed upon an acknowledged and recognized definition of the term postcolonial,
and as there is an ongoing debate concerning the terminology and what exactly postcolonialism
means, the present title of ‘New Literatures ‘ seems more apt. However, in order to understand
the concept of ‘New Literatures’ it is necessary to be familiar with colonialism which is
associated with the expansion of the European imperial power. After decolonization, this
literature is considered as critical reflection of colonial experience. In general, the authors here
look for a distinctive national/cultural identity and independence. Among other things, the use of
English language for expressing their diverse concerns is a remarkable feature that binds together
the literatures from different nations in postcolonial era. The course aims at providing an insight
into how the dominant language and its discursive forms are appropriated to express widely
differing cultural experiences.
Course Contents
Unit 1
a) Decolonizing the Mind: Nguigi wa Thiong’o
b) “Re-thinking the post-colonial”: Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin
(from The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post Colonial Literatures)
Unit 2
a) The Schooner Flight: Derek Walcott
b) Rough Passage R.: Parthasarathy
Unit 3
a) The English Patient: Michael Ondaatje
b) The Reluctant Fundamentalist : Mohsin Hamid
Unit 4
a) i-The Bear Came over the Mountain, ii-Runaway: Alice Munro
b) i) Bliss ii) Miss Brill: Katherine Mansfield
Unit 5
a) Anowa: Ama Ata Aidoo
b) The Lion and the Jewel: Wole Soyinka
Recommended Reading
Bhabha ,Homi, The Location of Culture', Routledge 1994
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Benson ,Eugene and Conolly ,L. W. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in

English, 1994, 2005.
Döring ,Tobias, Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction, 2008.
Hashmi,,Alamgir The Commonwealth, Comparative Literature and the World, 1988.
----Commonwealth Literature: An Essay Towards the Re-definition of a Popular/Counter

Culture, 1983.
Hashmi ,Alamgir, Boehmer and Elleke, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant
Olinde Olinde ,Britta, A Sense of Place: Essays in Post-Colonial Literatures
McLeod ,John, Beginning Postcolonialism, second edition (MUP, 2010).
Poddar ,Prem and David Johnson, A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literature in

English, 2005.
Thieme ,John, The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
Thompson ,Peter, Littérature moderne du monde francophone. Chicago: NTC (McGraw-

Hill), 1997
Web Resources
http://www.soas.ac.uk/literatures/
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/lit.html
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/oztexts/ozlit.html
a.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/other.html#Literary Resources - Other National Literatures.
www.english-literature.uni-bayreuth.de/.../Literature...new.../index.html
https://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/en/lehrstuehle/anglistik/nelk/
public.wsu.edu/~brians/anglophone/postcolonial.html

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Paper 16 A (Elective): Cultural Studies
Rationale
The study of Cultural Studies is an ever-evolving academic and intellectual project. Cultural
Studies is a body of theory generated by thinkers who regard the production of theoretical
knowledge as just a political practice, while for others it is a serious scholastic and intellectual
exercise. Cultural studies aims at making an academic and intellectual enquiry into the rich and
varied complexities of diverse social, cultural, ethnic and linguistic groups. The study of Cultural
Studies is a discursive formation, that is, a cluster or formation of ideas, images, and practices
which provide ways of enquiry into the problems of life in a globalized context. In Cultural
Studies, knowledge is never a neutral or objective phenomenon but a matter of positionality, that
is, of the place from which one speaks and views life around.
The discipline of Cultural Studies emerged during the 1950s when Raymond Williams made an
attempt to link culture with contemporary society. As a critical discourse, Cultural Studies tries
to challenge the hierarchies of traditional literary theories. Ideologically speaking, this discourse
attempts a dialogue between margin and centre by foregrounding the cultural objects of mass
culture. The objectives of the present course are
 To enable the students to appreciate the benefits of an interdisciplinary approach to

understand multiculturalism and pluralism,
 To introduce the students with the issues of race, colonialism, imperialism, nationalism,
politics, regional and cultural identities, class and gender which are generally examined
in the study of Cultural Studies,
 To enable the students to perceive the importance of multicultural and multilingual
communication for self-navigation in the globalized, pluralistic climate,
 To encourage the students to study and celebrate the reality of racial, ethnic, cultural, and
linguistic diversity which is a prominent feature of the contemporary globalized society,
 To inculcate the discipline of comparative thinking by offering the study of diverse
cultural forms, and thereby establish a foundation for comparative thinking.
Course Contents
Unit1:
a) Cultural studies: an introduction: John Storey
b) The evolution of cultural studies: Colin Sparks
Unit2:
a) Cultural studies: two paradigms: Stuart Hall
b) The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies: Michael Green
Unit3:
a) Scattered Speculations on the Question of Cultural Studies: Gayatri Chakravorty
Spivak
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b) The Postcolonial and the Postmodern: the Question of Agency: Homi K. Bhabha
Unit4:
a) The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception: Theodor Adorno and Max
Horkheimer
b) Dominici, or The Triumph of Literature: Roland Barthes
Unit5:
a) Putting Policy Into Cultural Studies: Tony Bennett
b) Political Ecomony and Cultural Studies: Nicholas Garnham
Prescribed Texts:
1. John Storey(ed). 1997. What is Cultural Studies? A Reader.London: Arnold
2. Simon During(ed). 2001. The Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge
Achebe, Chenua Hopes and Impediments Selected Essays. Heinaman. 1988.
Ashcroft Bill, Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in
Postcolonial Literature. London: Rutledge, 1989.
----eds. The Postcolonial Studies Reader London: Rutledge, 1994
Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. New York: Rutledge, 1990.
Ghassan, Hage, Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for hope in a shrinking society,
NSW, 2003.
Hall, Stuart. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices, London:

Thousand Oakks, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1997.
Kermode, Frank. History and Value. Oxford: Clarendon press 1986.
Kauffman, Linda. Theory and Gender. Oxford , New York Basil Blackwell, 1989
Marilyn Butler. Rethinking Historicism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989
Said, Edward. Orientalism. Rutledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.

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Paper 16 B (Elective): Special Authors
R. K. Narayan and G. B. Shaw
Rationale:
This course aims at a detailed study of some significant literary works by two of the most
notable writers: G. B. Shaw and R.K. Narayan. Narayan was the author who actually made the
Indian English Writing popular in the western world. The plays by Shaw have been widely
studied but this course also includes his fiction. In this way a deep critical study of these writers
can give the student a comprehensive idea about the literary genius of these two writers.
Course Contents
Unit 1: R. K. Narayan
a) The English Teacher
b) The Vendor of Sweets.
Unit 2: G. B. Shaw
a) The Irrational Knot
b) Love among the Artists
Unit 3: R. K. Narayan
a) Swami and his Friends
b) My Days.
Unit 4: G.B. Shaw.
a) Arms and the man
b) Candida
Unit 5:
a) R. K. Narayan: i) Under the Banyan Tree
ii) The Grandmother's Tale.
b) G. B.Shaw: i) The Black Girl in search of God
ii) The Miraculous Revenge
Recommended Reading
Brown, G.E. George Bernard Shaw. Evans Brothers Ltd, 1970
Evans, T.F. Shaw: The Critical heritage. The Critical Heritage series. Routlege & Kegan
Paul, 1976
Gibbs, A.M. Bernard Shaw, A Life. University of Florida Press, 2005.
Henderson, Archibald. Bernard Shaw: Playboy and Prophet. D. Appleton & Co., 1932.
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Kain, Geoffrey. R.K. Narayan : contemporary critical perspectives. Michigan State

University Press. 1993.
Khatri, Chotte Lal. RK Narayan: Reflections and Re-evaluation. Sarup & Son, 2008.
Ohmann, Richard M. "Shaw: The Style and the Man". Wesleyan University Press, 1962.
Peters, Sally. Bernard Shaw: The Ascent of the Superman. Yale University Press, 1996.
Pousse, Michael. R. K. Narayan: A Painter of Modern India, Vol. 4. Lang, Peter Publishing.
1995.
Prasad, Amar Nath . Critical response to R.K. Narayan. Sarup & Sons. 2003.
Rao, Ranga .R.K. Narayan. Sahitya Akademi. 2004.
Smith, J. Percy. Unrepentant Pilgrim: A study of the development of Bernard Shaw. Victor
Gollancz Ltd, 1965
Sundaram, P. S.. R.K. Narayan as a Novelist. B.R. Pub. Corp.1988.
Walsh, William . R.K. Narayan: a critical appreciation. University of Chicago Press. 1982.
Weintraub, Stanley. Bernard Shaw 1914–1918: Journey to Heartbreak. Routledge & Kegan
Paul, 1973.
Wilson, Colin. Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment. Athenum, 1969.

Q.5 Short notes on Unit 5 with internal choice (2 out of 4) 16
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Paper 16 C (Elective): Cinematic Representations of Literature
Rationale
After the invention of cinema, many texts from the literary field have been adapted to this
powerful medium. The contemporary age is described as an age of visual culture. This course is
aimed at gaining an understanding of the complex relationship between film and literature in
their cultural and historical contexts, and as socio-cultural processes engaging with issues
of representation, production and consumption .The course examines the interaction between
film, film theory, literature and literary theory in its various aspects. Selected works of fiction
and plays are analyzed in relation to film versions of the same works in order to obtain an
insight of the possibilities and problems involved in the process of the transposition of literary
works to film. The works selected for study range from the earliest form of literature-
mythology to the most contemporary genres like the horror and sci-fi to provide sufficient
examples of cinematic adaptation. The students are expected to develop an understanding of
critical analysis of film through careful examination of cinematic adaptations of literary texts,
focusing on character development, dramatic structure, and performance. Although a single
cinematic adaptation of one literary work is selected for close study, the discussions of other
adaptations of the same work are also expected to be included in the critical explorations.
Course Contents
Unit 1:
a)“Beginning to Theorize Adaptation”- Linda Hutcheon (Chapter 1 from A Theory of
Adaptation)
b) “Introduction to Film Studies”-Amy Villarejo ( Chapter 1 from Film Studies: The
Basics)
Unit 2:
a) The Gospel of John adapted as “The Gospel of John”(2003) Dir.- Philip Saville,
Writer- John Goldsmith.
b) The Iliad by Homer adapted as “Troy”(2004) Dir. -Wolfgang Peterson, Writer-David
Benioff
Unit 3:
a) Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare adapted as “Romeo+Juliet”(1996) Dir. Baz
Luhrmann Writer- Craig Pearce and Baz Luhrmann
b) Pygmalion by G.B.Shaw adapted as “My Fair Lady”(1964) Dir.-George Cukor, Writer
-Alan Jay Lerner
Unit 4:
a) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick adapted as “Blade
Runner”(1982) Dir.-Ridley Scott, Writers-Hampton Fancher and David Peoples
b) Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally adapted as “Schindler’s List”(1993) Dir.-Steven
Spielberg, Writer- Steven Zaillian
Unit5:
a) Psycho by Robert Bloch adapted as “Psycho”(1960) Dir.-Alfred Hitchcock, Writer-
Joseph Stefano
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b) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen adapted as “Pride and Prejudice”(2005) Dir.-Joe
Wright, Writer-Deborah Moggach
Recommended Reading
Abel, Marco. Violent Affect : Literature, Cinemas & Critique after Representation. Lincoln :
Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2007.
Boozer, Jack ed. Authorship in Film Adaptation. Austin : Univ. of Texas Press, 2008.
Braendlin, Hans P. Ambiguities in Literature and Film. Tallahassee : Univ. of Florida
Press,1988.
Buhler, Stephen. Shakespeare in the Cinema. Albany : State Univ of N.Y. Prem, 2002.
Burgoyne, Robert. The Epic Film in World Culture. New York : Routledge, 2011.
Cartmel, Deborah etal eds. Classics in Film and Fiction. London : Pluto Press, 2000.
Grace, Pamela. The Religious Filme. Chichester : Wiley Blackwell, 2009.
Humphries – Brooks, Stephenson. Cinematic Savior. Westport : Praeger, 2006.
Hutcheon, Linda. A Theory of Adaptation. New York : Routledge, 2007.
Jackson, Russell ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Cambridge : C UP,
2007.
Kelly, Andrew. Cinema and the Great War. New York : Routledge, 1997.
Kolker, Robert ed. Alfred Hitchcok’s Pycho : A Casebook.Oxford : OUP, 2004.
Leitch, Thomas. Film Adaptation and Its Discounts. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Prers,
2007.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas ed. The Visual Culture Reader. London : Routledge, 1999.
O’Pray, Michael. Film, Form and Phantasy. New York : Palgrave, 2004.
Pepperell, Robert and Punt, Michel eds. Screen Consciousness. New York : Rodopi, 2006.
Snyder, Mary H. Analyzing Literature – to – Film Adaptations. New York : Continuum, 2004.
Staley, Jeffrey and Walsh, Richard. Jesus, the Gospels and Cinematic Imagination. London:
Westminster John Knox Press, 2007.
Stam Robert and Raengo Alessandra eds. Literature and Film. Oxford : Wiley Blackwell, 2003.
Szumskyj, Benjamin ed. The man who collected Psychos. London : Mc Farland & Co., 2009.
Tibbetts, John and Welsh, James M. eds. The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film. New York :
Facts on File Inc, 2005.
Villare jo, Amy. Film Studies, the Basics. Oxon : Routledge, 2007.
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S RTM University, Nanded English Language & Literature (PG I(Modified) and II(Revised) Syllabus, wef. June 2014.

Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada

With Effect from June 2014

Syllabus of M.A. First Year

Syllabus of M.A. First Year

Paper 1: The English Language

Unit 1. A Brief History of English Language

English Spelling, Vocabulary, Grammar, Pronunciation

Unit 5: Looking at data of Modern English Structure:

Gelderen, Elly van.A History of the English Language,Amsterdam:John Benjamins,2006.

Question Paper Pattern

Q.1 An essay type question on Unit 1 with internal choice 16

Paper 2: History of English Literature

Question Paper Pattern

Q.1 An essay type question on Unit 1 with internal choice 16

Paper 3: British Literature from Chaucer to Augustan Age

a) Jonathan Swift: Gulliver ’s Travel s (Part I & II)

Question Paper Pattern

Q.1 An essay type question on Unit 1 with internal choice 16

Paper 4 A. (Elective): Classical and Medieval European Literature

Unit 1: Historical background

Q.1 An essay type question on Unit 1 with internal choice 16

Paper 4 B (Elective): Masterpieces of World Literature: Ancient and Medieval Age

Suggested translated Texts:

Question Paper Pattern

Q.1 An essay type question on Unit 1 with internal choice 16

Paper 5: Basics of Linguistics

Unit 5: Semantics & Pragmatics

Paper 6: British Literature from Romantic Age to Contemporary Times

Unit 1: a) S.T.Coleridge: Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Unit 2: a) Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

Unit 3: a) T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land

Unit 4: a) G. B. Shaw: Man and Superman

Unit 5: a) Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter

Question Paper Pattern

Q.1 An essay type question on Unit 1 with internal choice 16

Paper 7: Indian English Writing

Unit 1: Historical Background

Prescribed Reading: (Unit 1 and 2):

Question Paper Pattern

Q.1 An essay type question on Unit 1 with internal choice 16

Paper 8A (Elective): Modern European Literature

Unit 1: Historical Background

b) Charles Baudelaire- The Flowers of Evil(selections)

Question Paper Pattern

Q1 An essay type question on Unit 1 with internal choice 16

Paper 8B (Elective): Masterpieces of World Literature: Modern Period

Question Paper Pattern Marks

Q.1 An essay type question on Unit 1 with internal choice 16

Syllabus of M.A. Second Year

SEM III SEM IV

Paper 9: Indian Poetics

Deshpande ,G.T. Indian Poetics. Pune: Popular Prakashan,2009

T.Nanjundaiya Sreekantaiya.Indian Poetics. Delhi: Sahitya Akademi,1991

Raghavan, An Introduction to Indian Poetics (Macmillan, Madras, 1970

Seturaman ,V.S. (ed.) Indian Aesthetics (Madras: Macmillan, 1993).

Question Paper Pattern

Q.1 An essay type question on Unit 1 with internal choice 16

Paper 10: English Language and Literature Teaching

Unit 2: Context of Language Teaching

Unit 3: Language Teaching Methods-

Unit 4: Teaching Language and Literature