MA Eng

PANJAB UNIVERSITY, CHANDIGARHCHANDIGARH-160014 (INDIA)
(Estd. under the Panjab University Act VII of 1947enacted

1947 enacted by the Govt. of India)
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES
SYLLABI
FOR
M.A. English Parts I & II
Examinations, 2011
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The Registrar, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

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GUIDELINES FOR CONTINUOUS INTERNAL ASSESSMENT (20%) FOR REGULAR

STUDENTS OF POST-GRADUATE COURSES (Annual System) Except M.Sc. (Mathematics)
(Effective from the First Year Admissions for the Academic Session 2004-2005)
1.
The Syndicate has approved the following guidelines, mode of testing and evaluation including
Continuous Internal Assessment of students :
(i)
Terminal Evaluation
:
80 %
(ii)
Continuous Assessment
:
20 %
(iii)
Continuous Assessment may include written assignment, snap tests, participation in
discussions in the class, term papers, attendance etc.
(iv)
In order to incorporate an element of Continuous Internal Assessment of students, the
Colleges/Departments will conduct three tests as quantified below :
(a)
Three Tests :
I
25
II
25
2 best tests
=
50
III
25
(b)
Snap Tests
:
15
(c)
Participation in class discussions
:
10
(d)
Term Paper/s
:
15
(e)
Attendance
:
10
Total :
100 reduced to 20
2.
Weightage of 2 marks for attendance component out of 20 marks for Continuous Assessment shall be
available only to those students who attend 75% and more of classroom lectures/seminars/
workshops. The breakup of marks for attendance component for theory papers shall be as under :
Attendance Component
Mark/s for Theory Papers
(a)
(b)
75 % and above upto 85 %

Above 85 %
:
:
1
2
It shall not be compulsory to pass in Continuous Internal Assessment. Thus, whatever marks are
secured by a student out of 20% marks, will be carried forward and added to his/her score out of
80 %, i.e. the remaining marks allocated to the particular subject and, thus, he/she shall have to secure
pass marks both in the University examinations as well as total of Internal Continuous Assessment
and University examinations.
4.
Continuous Internal Assessment awards from the affiliated Colleges/Departments must be sent to the
Controller of Examinations, by name, two weeks before the commencement of the particular
examination on the proforma obtainable from the Examination Branch.
SPECIAL NOTE :
Instructions for the Paper-setters and candidates :
(i)
The theory question paper will be of 80 marks and 20 marks will be for internal assessment.
(ii)
For private candidates, who have not been assessed earlier for internal assessment, the marks
secured by them in theory paper will proportionately be increased to maximum marks of the paper
in lieu of internal assessment.
The paper setter must put note (ii) in the question paper.
(iii)
In the case of Postgraduate Courses in the Faculties of Arts, Science, Languages, Education,
Design & Fine Arts, and Business Management & Commerce (falling under the purview of
Academic Council), where such a provision of Internal Assessment/Continuous Assessment
already exists, the same will continue as before.
(iv)
The marks obtained by a candidate in Continuous Internal Assessment in Postgraduate Classes
from the admissions of 2004 will be shown separately in the Detailed-Marks-Card (D.M.C.).
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OUTLINES OF TESTS, SYLLABI AND COURSES OF READINGS FOR M.A. ENGLISH
PART-I AND II (ANNUAL SYSTEM) EXAMINATIONS OF 2011
M.A ENGLISH PART-I (ANNUAL SYSTEM) EXAMINATION, 2011
General Note :
1.
There will be four compulsory papers.
2.
Each paper shall carry 80 marks and be of 3 hrs duration.
General Note on the Testing Pattern :

All courses in M.A. I will follow a uniform testing pattern. In each paper, only five questions will be set.
These will include :
1.
One question of 20 marks in which the candidate will have to attempt three out of six notes of 200
words each. The nature of notes will vary from course to course.
2.
Four questions of 15 marks each, with one alternative for each question. Based on a random
clubbing of the units, these will cover all the eight units (authors/tests/sections) prescribed in the
respective courses. Word limit for each answer would be about 600 words.
3.
In all papers, marks of internal assessment out of 20 will be added to the marks secured by the
students out of 80 marks. However, for private and reappear candidates, who have not been assessed
earlier for internal assessment, the marks secured by them in theory paper, will proportionately be
increased to maximum marks of the paper in lieu of Internal Assessment.
The Paper Setter must put note (3) in the question paper.
Paper I : Approaches to Literature
Objectives :
(i)
To acquaint students with major critical terms/concepts used in the West from the Greeks to the
New Critics.
(ii)
To study selected seminal critical texts.
(iii)
To familiarize students with major approaches to literature.
M. A. ENGLISH PART I SYLLABUS
Testing :
(i)
There will be a three hour paper of 80 marks consisting of five questions.
(ii)
The first question of 20 marks related to concepts/terms would consist of six notes, out of which the
student would attempt three notes comprising 200 words each.
(iii)
The remaining four questions of 15 marks each will be set on the prescribed texts with only one
internal choice for each question.
(iv)
For private candidates, who have not been assessed earlier for internal assessment, the marks secured
by them in theory paper will proportionately be increased to maximum marks of the paper in lieu of
internal assessment.
The paper setter must put note (iv) in the question paper.
(v)
The question on short notes will relate to the following critical terms :
Mimetic and Expressive theories of poetry, Sublime, Three Unities, Decorum, Neoclassicism,
Romanticism, Humanism, Enlightenment, Fancy and Imagination, Synaesthesia, Disinterestedness,
Objective Correlative, What is a Classic?, Ambiguity, Irony, Paradox and Tension, New Criticism,
Intentional Fallacy, Affective Fallacy, Point of View.
The four essay type questions will be set on the following eight units :
1.
Aristotle
Poetics (Chapters I-XII, XIII, XVI, XXV).
2.
William Wordsworth
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800).
3.
Mathew Arnold
The Study of Poetry.
4.
T.S. Eliot
Tradition and Individual Talent.
Units 5 to 8 will be based on the following sections from Guerin et al., ed. A Handbook of Critical
Approaches to Literature :
5.
Traditional Approaches
2.I A & B, 2.II A.
6.
The Formalistic Approach
3.I, 3.II, 3.III, 3.IV, 3.VA, 3.VI.
7.
The Psychological Approach
4.I, 4.II F&G, 4.III.
8.
Mythological and Archetypal

Approaches
5.I, 5.II A, B & C, 5.III A 2, 5. III, B.I, 5.IV.
Suggested Readings :
1.
David Daiches
Critical Approaches to Literature.
2.
F.L. Lucas
Tragedy.
3.
Humphry House
Aristotles Poetics.
4.
Krishnaswamy et al
Contemporary Literary Theory.
5.
M.H. Abrams
A Glossary of Literary Terms.
6.
Peter Barry
Beginning Theory.
7.
Rene Wellek
A History of Literary Criticism.
8.
Wimsatt & Brooks
Literary CriticismA Short History.
MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Paper I : Approaches to Literature
Note :
(i)
Max. Marks : 80
Time : 3 hours
Attempt all questions.
(ii) Question No. 1 is of 20 marks.

(iii) The remaining four questions are of 15 marks each, with one alternative for each question.
(iv) For private candidates, who have not been assessed earlier for internal assessment, the
marks secured by them in theory paper will proportionately be increased to maximum
marks of the paper in lieu of internal assessment.
Q. I
Q. II
Write brief notes (about 200 words each) on any three of the following :
(a)
(b)
Three Unities.
Humanism.
(c)
(d)
Fancy and Imagination.

Irony in New Criticism.
(e)
Objective Correlative.
(f)
Longinuss Notion of the Sublime.
20 marks
Discuss Aristotles Definition of Tragedy.

OR
15 marks
Comment on Wordsworths views on Poetic Diction.

Q. III
Discuss Arnolds views on the nature and function of poetry.

OR
15 marks
Critically sum up Eliots essay Tradition and Individual Talent. Do you agree with
him?
Q. IV
Compare and contrast the two traditional approachesthe historical-biographical and

the moral-philosophicalto literary texts.
OR
15 marks
Comment critically on the relevance and limitations of the mythic-archetypal

approach to literature.
Q. V
Write an essay on New Criticism

OR
Discuss the abuses and misunderstandings of the psychological approach to literature.
15 marks
Paper II : British Literature upto 1750
Testing :
One question on short notes of 200 words each (three out of six topics to be attempted) covering British
Literary History upto 1750.
20 marks
4 essay type questions, with internal choice, covering all the prescribed texts/authors. Candidates will
attempt all questions. Each question will club two texts at random, out of which one will be attempted.
15 4 = 60 marks
For the question on social and Literary History of Britain, candidates are expected to be familiar with the
following terms/concepts :
The Age of Chaucer; the Elizabethan Age; the Elizabethan Theater; Jacobean Age; the Restoration; the
Augustan Age; Renaissance; Reformation; Introduction to King James Version of the Bible, Classicism and
Neo-Classicism; Miracle and Morality plays, Tragedy and Comedy; Metaphysical Poetry; Epic and Mock
Epic; Satire; Wit; the Picaresque; the Rise of the English Novel.
Prescribed Texts for Study :
Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus.
William Shakespeare
John Donne
John Milton
King Lear.
The Tempest.
Satyre : Of Religion.
The Good- Morrow.
The Canonization.
At the Round Earths Imagin d Corners.
Batter My Heart, Three Persond God
Paradise Lost Book I.
Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock.
Jonathan Swift
Gullivers Travels Book IV : The Houyhnhnms.
Henry Fielding
Joseph Andrews.
1.
Boris Ford
The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vols. IIV).
2.
G.M. Trevelyn
English Social History.
3.
Legouis and Cazamian
The History of English Literature.
4.
M.H. Abrams
A Glossary of Literary Terms.
5.
J.A. Cuddon
A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory.
6.
Clifford Leech
Twentieth Century Views on Marlowe.
7.
Judith ONeill
Critics on Marlowe.
8.
Ghansham Sharma
Reinterpretations of Doctor Faustus.
9.
A.C. Bradley
Shakespearean Tragedy.
10.
Ralf J. Kaufmann
Elizabeth Drama : Essay in Criticism.
11.
G.W. Knights
The Shakespearean Tempest.
12.
Alfred Harbage
Twentieth Century Views on Shakespearean Tragedies.
13.
C.S. Lewis
A Preface to Paradise Lost.
14.
B. Rajan
Paradise Lost and the Seventeenth Century Reader.
15.
C.M. Bowra
From Virgil to Milton.
16.
C.A. Partridges
Miltons Epic Poetry.
17.
A.J.A. Waldock
Paradise Lost and its Critics.
18.
Joan Bennett
Five Metaphysical Poets.
19.
Helen Gardner
Twentieth Century Views on Donne.
20.
G.S. Rousseau
Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Rape of the Lock.
21.
I.R.F. Gordon
Preface to Pope.
22.
Judith O Neill
Critics on Pope.
23.
Erskine Hill and A. Smith
The Art of Pope.
24.
P. Dixon
Alexander Pope.
25.
M.C. Battestin
The Moral Basis of Fieldings Art : A Study of

Andrews.
26.
R. Paulson
Twentieth Century Views on Fielding.
27.
L.A. Landa
Gullivers Travels.
28.
P. Dixon and J. Chalker
Gullivers Travels.
29.
Ernest Tuveson
Twentieth Century Views on Swift.
Joseph

Paper II : British Literature upto 1750
Note :
Q. I
Q. II
Max. Marks : 80
Time : 3 hours
Attempt five questions in all.

Write short notes not exceeding 200 words each on any three of the following :
(a)
Epic Poetry.
(b)
Metaphysical Poetry.
(c)
The Caroline Poets.
(d)
The Rise of the English Novel.
(e)
Restoration Comedy.
(f)
The Picaresque Tradition.
20 marks
Do you agree that Marlowes Doctor Faustus, is Christian in Concept. Give a

reasoned answer with suitable illustrations from the text.
OR
15 marks
King Lear might be described as a tragedy about a man whose passions have
mastered his reason. Discuss.
Q. III
Do you agree that The Tempest is lacking in conflict because Prospero controls the
action ? Give reasons for your answer.
OR
15 marks
Do you agree that Swifts satire in Gullivers Travels borders on misanthropy?

Illustrate your answer with examples from the text.
Q. IV
Discuss Paradise Lost Book I as a Protestant Epic, giving suitable illustration from
the text.
OR
15 marks
Would it be correct to say that Donnes love lyrics spring from a rich mind and a
passionate heart? Give a reasoned answer with suitable illustration from the poems
you have read.
Q. V
Discuss The Rape of the Lock as a genial satire, giving suitable illustration from
the text.
OR
Critically discuss Joseph Andrews as a novel of social criticism.
15 marks
Paper III : British Literature 1750 to 1900

Testing :
One question on short notes of 200 words each (three out of six topics to be attempted) covering British
Literary History from 1750 to 1900 will be set.
20 marks
Four essay type questions, with internal choice, covering all the prescribed texts/authors will be set.
Candidates will attempt all questions. Each question will club two texts at random, out of which one will be
attempted.
15 4 = 60 marks
Course for Study :
Social and Literary History of England from 1750 to 1900 covering the following topic :
Art for Arts Sake, the Picaresque Novel, Sentimental Novel, Gothic Novel, Historical Romance, Negative
Capability, Supernaturalism in Romantic Poetry, The French Revolution, Reform Bill of 1832, Industrial
Revolution, Development of Evolutionary Sciences, Victorian Compromise, the Pre-Raphaelites,
Sociological Novel, 19th Century Women Novelists, Romantic Revival, Naturalism, the Victorian Temper,
Dramatic Monologue, the Omniscient Author.
Prescribed Texts :
1.
William Blake
The following poems from the Songs of Innocence and

Experience : The Tyger, The Chimney Sweeper, The
Little Black Boy, The Garden of Love, A Little Girl
Lost, The School Boy.
2.
William Wordsworth
The French Revolution.

The World is Too Much with Us.
Ode-Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early
Childhood
Resolution and Independence.
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey.
(All poems taken from Fifteen Poets ed. Oxford University
Press).
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3.
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale.
Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Ode on Melancholy.
Ode to Autumn.
Ode to Psyche.
4.
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess.
Andrea del Sarto.
The Last Ride Together.
Rabbi Ben Ezra.
The Grammarians Funeral.
5.
Jane Austen
Emma.
6.
Charles Dickens
Hard Times.
7.
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre.
8.
Thomas Hardy
Return of the Native.

1.
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature ed. Boris Ford

Vol. 5 From Blake to Byron.
Vol. 6 From Dickens to Hardy.
2.
Abrams, M.H.
English Romantic Poets : Modern Essays in Criticism.
3.
Armstrong, I. ed.
Robert Browning : Writers and their Background.
4.
B.C. Southam ed.

(Case Book Series)
Jane Austen : Sense & Sensibility , Pride and Prejudice and

Mansfield Park.
5.
David Cecil
Hardy, The Novelist : An Essay in Criticism.
6.
Drew, P.
The Poetry of Robert Browning.
7.
Drew, P. ed.
Robert Browning : A Collection of Critical Essays.
8.
Edmund Blunden
Thomas Hardy.
9.
Fraser, G.S. ed.
Keats : The Odes (Case Book Series).
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10.
Helen Darbyshire
The Poet Wordsworth.
11.
Herbert Read
Wordsworth.
12.
J.R. Watson ed.

(Case Book Series)
Browning : Men and Women and Other Poems.
13.
John Bayley
Essays on Hardy.
14.
Lascelles Abercrombie
The Romantic Survival.
15.
Margaret Bottrall ed.
William Blake Songs of Innocence and Experience.
16.
Maynard Mack Gen ed.
20th Century Interpretation of Hard Times.
17.
Maynard Mack Gen ed.
20th Century Interpretations of Keats Odes.
18.
Miriam Allott ed.

(Case Book Series)
Charlote Bronte : Jane Eyre.
19.
Morton D. Paley ed.
20th Century Interpretations of Songs

Experience.
20.
Northrop Frye ed.
20th Century Views on Blake.
21.
R.P. Draper ed.
Hardy : The Tragic Novels.
22.
Robert Lidell
The Novels of Jane Austen.
23.
S.J. Warner
Jane Austen.
24.
Sperry Stuart
Keats : The Poet.
of Innocence and
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Paper III : British Literature - 1750 to 1900
Max. Marks : 80
Time :
3 hours

Q. 1.
Write short notes about 200 words on any three of the following :
Romantic Poetry, Dramatic Monologue, Naturalism, Historical Romance, Pre-Raphaelites, The
Omniscient Author.
20 marks
Q. 2.
What are the salient features of Romanticism that you can trace in the poetry of William Blake.
Illustrate your answer with reference to the poem you have studied.
OR
15 marks
Trace the development of thought in the Odes of John Keats with reference to the prescribed
Odes.
Q. 3.
My Last Duchess is the finest example of Robert Brownings poetry. Discuss.

OR
15 marks
William Wordsworth is essentially a poet of nature and simplicity. Discuss with reference to the
poems prescribed for study.
Q. 4.
In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte is concerned with the depiction of the loneliness of a soul
responding to the experiences of life with intensity. Discuss.
OR
15 marks
Comment and examine the views that Hard Times portrays vividly the society of its times.
Q. 5.
Discuss the theme of Hardys Return of the Native.

OR
15 marks
Critically examine the view that Emma offers an authentic portrayal of the society of its times.
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Paper IV : British Literature The Twentieth Century

Testing :
(i)
One question on short notes of 200 words each (three out of six topics to be attempted) covering
British Literary History of the twentieth century shall be set.
(ii)
Four essay type questions, with internal choice, covering all the prescribed texts/authors will be set.
Candidates will attempt all questions. Each question will club two texts at random, out of which
one will be attempted.
Course for Study :

Concepts and terms from Twentieth-Century British Literature covering the following topics :
Stream of Consciousness Novel, Modernism/Post Modernism, Dissociation of Sensibility, Impact of World
Wars on twentieth century literature, Existentialism, The Thirties, Autobiographical Novel, Psychological
Novel, Anti-hero, Pastiche, War Poets, Imagism, Symbolism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Impressionism,
Expressionism, Naturalism, Existentialism, Movement Poets, Problem Plays, Poetic Drama, Absurd
Drama, Theatre of Cruelty, Irish Literary Revival.
Prescribed Texts :
1.
W.B. Yeats
Easter 1916.
The Second Coming.
Lapis Lazuli.
Among School Children.
Circus Animals Desertion.
2.
T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land.
3.
Ted Hughes
The Jaguar, Hawk Roosting, Thrushes, Crow

Alights, Crows Last Stand.
4.
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot.
5.
Arnold Wesker
Roots.
6.
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
7.
E.M. Forster
A Passage to India.
8.
D.H. Lawrence
Sons & Lovers.
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1.
Boris Ford ed.
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, The Present,

Vol. 8.
2.
B.C. Southam
(Case Book Series)
T.S. Eliot : Prufrock, Gerontion, Ash Wednesday and

Other Shorter Poems.
3.
A.D. Chaudhary
Contemporary British Drama.
4.
Reade W. Dorman ed.
Arnold Wesker : A Case Book.
5.
John Elgon
Postwar British Drama.
6.
Edward Maline
A Preface to Yeats.
7.
Helen Gardner
The Art of T.S. Eliot.
8.
Hugh Kenner
A Readers Guide to Samuel Beckett.
9.
John Fletcher
Samuel Becketts Art.
10.
John Lucas
Modern English Poetry from Hardy to Hughes : A Critical

Survey.
11.
Jon Stallworthy ed.

(Case Book Series)
Yeats : Last Poem.
12.
Keith Sagar
The Art of Ted Hughes.
13.
M. KinkeadWeeks
William Golding.
14.
Malcolm Bradbury ed.

(Case Book Series)
E.M. Forster : A Passage to India.
15.
Martin Esslin
Theatre of the Absurd.
16.
Martin Esslin ed.
20th Century Views on Samuel Beckett.
17.
John Gassner
Masters of World Drama.
18.
Roger Eddatson & Catherine

Neale
E.M. Forster : A Passage to India.
19.
Stephen Spender
Eliot.
20.
Terry Giofford
Ted Hughes: A Critical Study.
21.
Virginia Tiger
William Golding.
22.
Robert Wilcher
Understanding Arnold Wesker.
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Paper IV : British Literature The Twentieth Century
Max. Marks : 80
Time : 3 hours
Note : Attempt all questions.

Q. 1.
Write short notes in about 200 words each on any three of the following :
Irish Literary Revival; Stream of Consciousness; Theatre of the Absurd; Existentialism in Modern
Literature; Pastiche; Free Verse.
20 marks
Q. 2.
Give a critical estimate of the use of Symbolism in Yeats poems with reference to the poem
prescribed.
OR
Comment on the use of symbolism in Eliots The Waste Land.
Q. 3.
15 marks
On the basis of the prescribed poems comment on the poetic imagery of Ted Hughes.
OR
Critically examine Waiting For Godot as a Drama of the Absurd.
Q. 4.
15 marks
Discuss the structure of A Passage to India with special focus on the three sections of the novel.
OR
15 marks
Discuss the technique of stream of consciousness in context of Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway.
Q. 5.
Roots examines the dilemma of the rootlessness of its heroine. Discuss

OR
Critically examine the theme of Lawrences Sons & Lovers.
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15 marks
OUTLINES OF TESTS, SYLLABI AND COURSES OF READINGS FOR M.A. PART-II

ENGLISH FOR THE EXAMINATIONS OF 2011
General Note :
1.
There will be four papers. Paper I & Paper II are Compulsory.
2.
In Papers III & IV, the candidate will choose one each out of the 3 options given.
General Note on the Testing Pattern :

All courses in M.A. II will follow a uniform testing pattern. In each paper, only five questions will be set.
These will include :
1.
2.
3.
4.
Question No. 1 is of 20 marks and the candidates will have to attempt three out of six notes of 200
words each. The nature of the notes will vary from course to course.
The remaining four questions of 15 marks each, with one alternative for each question, based on a
random clubbing of the units, will cover all the eight units (author/tests/sections) prescribed in the
respective courses. Word limit for each answer would be about 600 words.
The theory question paper will be of 80 marks and 20 marks will be for internal assessment.
The paper setter must put note (4) in the question paper.
Paper I : Contemporary Critical Theory (Compulsory)

Objectives :
(i) To acquaint students with Major Contemporary Western Critical approaches/concepts/terms.
(ii) To study selected seminal critical texts.
Testing :
There will be a three hour paper of 80 marks consisting of five questions.

The first question of 20 marks related to 20th century critical approaches/concepts/terms would
comprise three out of six notes of 200 words each.
(iii) The remaining four questions of 15 marks each will be set on the prescribed texts with one internal
choice for each question.
(iv) For the private candidates, who have not been assessed earlier for internal assessment, the marks
secured by them in theory paper will proportionately be increased to maximum marks of the paper in
lieu of internal assessment.
The paper setter must put note (iv) in the question paper.
(i)
(ii)
The question on short notes will test the candidates familiarity with the following critical
approaches/concepts/terms :Postmodernism, Poststructralism, New Historicism/Cultural Materialism,
Ideology, Hegemony, Intertextuality, Differnce. Indeterminacy, Trace and Supplement, Subject,
Essentialism, Simulacra, Discourse, Episteme, Hypertext, Text and Work, Diaspora, Canon, Master
Narrative, Orientalism, Sign.
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M. A. ENGLISH PART II SYLLABUS
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The four essay type questions will be set on the following eight units :
1.
Roland Barthes
The Death of the Author.
2.
M.H. Abrams
The Deconstructive Angel.
3.
Elaine Showalter
Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness.
4.
E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Faulty Perspectives.
5.
Edward Said
Introduction" to Orientalism.
6.
Jacques Derrida
Letter to a Japanese Friend from Julian

Literary Theories : A Reader and Guide (282-87).
7.
Raymond Williams
The chapters Dominant, Residual, and Emergent and Alignment and

Commitment from Marxism and Literature (121-27; 199-205).
8.
Aijaz Ahmad
Literary Theory and Third World Literature from In Theory (43-71).
Note :
Wolfreys,
Nos. 1-5 are available in David Lodge, ed. Modern Criticism and Theory
1.
Peter Barry
Beginning Theory.
2.
Raman Selden
A Readers Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.
3.
Jefferson & Robey ed.
Modern Literary Theory.
4.
Terry Eagleton
Literary Theory.
Marxism and Literary Criticism.
5.
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6.
Leela Gandhi
Postcolonial Theory.
7.
Krishnaswamy et al
Contemporary Literary Theory.
ed.
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Paper I : Contemporary Critical Theory
Note :
(i)
Max. Marks : 80
Time : 3 hours

Q. I
Write short notes (about 200 words each) on any three of the following :
(a) New Historicism.
(b) Hegemony.
(c) Intertextuality.
(d) Differnce.
(e) Essentialism.
(f) Diaspora.
Q. II
Explain what Roland Barthes means by the expression The Death of The Author. How far do
you agree with such radical views on the author-text relationship ?
OR
Comment on the nature of Elaine Showalters contribution to the feminist literary theory.
Q. III
Explain in detail what Derrida means by the term Deconstruction. How far is the term useful
in literary criticism ?
OR
On what grounds does M.H. Abrams reject deconstruction? Explain in detail the
deconstructionist attitude to meaning.
Q. IV
Define the term Orientalism.

OR
Critically sum up Aijaz Ahmeds views on the relevance of contemporary theory to Third World
Literature.
Q. V
Explain Raymond Williams notions of the Dominant, the Residual and the Emergent. How are
such ideas useful to our analysis of literary texts ?
OR
Explain what Hirsch means by cultural perspectivism and methodological perspectivism. Do you
agree with his views on literary meaning ?
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Paper II : Indian Writing in English (Compulsory)

Testing :
(i)
The first question on short notes of 200 words each (three out of six topics to be attempted) covering
concepts in Indian Aesthetics and the History of Indian Writing in English from the earliest times to
the present will be set.
20 marks
(ii)
The remaining four essay type questions, with internal choice for each question, covering all the
prescribed texts/authors will be set. The candidates will attempt all questions. (Each question will
club two texts at random, out of which one will be attempted).
15 4 = 60 marks
(iii)
The paper setter must put note (iii) in the question paper.
Course for Study :

Indian Aesthetics and History of Indian Writing in English covering the following topics :
1.
2.
Natyashastra, Auchitya, Rasa, Vakroti, Katha Sahitya, Dhvani.

The Beginnings of Indian Writing in English Historical Background; The Nation and the Novel
(Contribution of M.R. Anand and Raja Rao); Postcolonialism and Indian English Novel;
Postmodernism and Indian English Novel; Indianness; Essence or Construct; Dalit Writing; Indian
Women Writing in English; Writing of the Indian Diaspora; Indian English Poetry since
Independence; Indian English Drama since Independence.
Prescribed Texts :
1.
A.K. Ramanujan
The Following Poems

Self Portrait
The Hindoo : The Only Risk
Love Poem for a Wife 1
Love Poem for a Wife 2
Looking for a Cousin on a Swing
A River
Of Mothers Among Other Things
Obituary
Small Scale Reflections on a Great House
2.
Imtiaz Dharker
Purdah I, Purdah II, Grace, Prayer, Sacrifice from Purdah

and Other Poems.
3.
R.K. Narayan
The English Teacher.
4.
Shashi Deshpande
The Binding Vine.
5.
Amitav Ghosh
The Shadow Lines.
6.
U.R. Ananthamurthy
Samskara (Tr. A.K. Ramanujan).
7.
Girish Karnad
Tuglaq.
8.
Mahashweta Devi
Draupadi & Breast Giver, Stories from Breast Stories.
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For the question on short-notes, the following sources are recommended :
A.
Terms/concepts related to Indian Aesthetics (Sr. No. 1-8) :

1.
2.
3.
B.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
An Introduction To Indian Poetics by V. Raghavan and Nagendra, Bombay, Macmillan, 1970.

Introduction to Tales From The Kathasaritsagar (ed. and translated by Arshia Sattar), New Delhi, Penguin
Books, 1994 (For Indian Katha tradition), pp. xv-xli.
Bharata Natya-Manjari : Bharata On The Theory and Practice of Drama (ed. by G.K. Bhat), Poona,
Bhandarkar Research Institute, 1975, pp.vii-xxv.
Short-notes/topics related to Indian Writing in English :

1.
Indian Writing in English by KRS Iyengar, New Delhi, Sterling, 1999 (pp 1-54 and pp. 435-77).
2.
The Perishable Empire : Essays on Indian Writing in English by Meenakshi Mukherjee, New Delhi, Oxford
Univ. Press, 2000, pp. 1-29 and 166-186 and Twice Born Fiction : Themes and Techniques of The Indian
Novel in English by Meenakshi Mukherjee, New Delhi : Heinemann, 1971, pp. 34-64.
3.
The Postmodern Indian English Novel (ed. and Introduced by Viney Kripal), Mumbai, Allied, 1996, pp.1-26,
355-367 and 383-399.
4.
An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English (ed. by A.K. Mehrotra), New Delhi, Permanent Black,
2003, pp. 1-27, 243-75, 276-94, 318-36, 337-50, 366-76.
5.
Poisoned Bread (ed. by Arjun Dangle), Hyderabad, Orient Longman, 1992, pp. 271-289.
6.
Women Writing in India : 600 B.C. To The Present Vol. I (ed. by S. Tharu and K. Lalita), New Delhi, Oxford
Univ. Press, 1995, pp 1-37.
7.
Modern Indian Poetry in English (by Bruce King), New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001,
and 147-61.
Suggested Readings (General) :
Sri Aurobindo
G.N. Devy and Fred Dallmayr
G.N. Devy
Gandhi, M.K.
Hay, Stephen ed.
Iyengar, K.R.S.
King, Bruce
Kirpal, Viney ed.
-Mehrotra, A.K.
Mukherjee, M.
-Naik, M.K.
Paranjape, M.
--, ed.
Rushdie, Salman
-- and Elizabeth West
Tabish Khair
Tharu, Susie and
Lalitha, K.
Walsh, W.
pp. 73-90
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:
:
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:
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:
:
:
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Foundations of Indian Culture.

Between Tradition and Modernity.
After Amnesia.
Hind Swaraj or Indian Home.
Sources of Indian Tradition V-II.
Indian Writing in English.
Modern English Poetry in English.
The New Indian Novel in English : A Study of the 1980s.
The Postmodern Indian English Novel.
An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English.
Twice Born Fiction.
The Perishable Empire : Essays on Indian Writing in English.
Aspects of Indian Writing in English.
Towards a Politics of the Indian English Novel.
In Diaspora : Theories, Histories, Texts.
Imaginary Homelands.
Introduction to The Vintage Book of Indian Writing : 1947-1997.
Babu Fictions.
Women Writing in India, 600 BC to the Present.
Indian Literature in English.
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Paper II : Indian Writing in English
Note :
(i)
Max. Marks : 80
Time : 3 hours

Q. I
Q. II
Write short notes (not more than 200 words each) on any three of the following :
(a)
Macaulays Minutes.
(b)
Concept of Sahitya.
(c)
Writing by the Indian Diaspora.
(d)
Indian English Drama and the Folk Tradition.
(e)
Postcolonialism and the Indian English Novel.
(f)
Rasa in Indian Aesthetics.
Critically analyze The Shadow Lines as a narrative of the nation.

OR
Write a feminist critique of Shashi Deshpandes The Binding Vine.
Q. III
Critically consider U.R. Ananthamurthys Samskara as a narrative that foregrounds the conflict
between tradition and modernity.
OR
Critically analyze Mahashweta Devis concern for the subaltern as reflected in her stories
prescribed for you.
Q. IV
Critically assess the play Tughlaq as a political allegory.

OR
Critically analyze The English Teacher as the story of a divided individual.
Q. V
Write an essay on the imagery employed by Ramanujan in the poems prescribed in your course.
OR
Imtiaz Dharkers poetry reflects the condition of Muslim Women in India. Critically analyze
this statement with suitable examples from the texts.
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Paper III Opt. (i) : European Classics in Translation

Testing :
(i)
The first question on short notes of 200 words each (three out of six topics to be attempted) from the
text for the study will be set.
20 marks
(ii)
The remaining four essay type questions, with internal choice for each question, covering all the
prescribed texts will be set. The candidates will attempt all questions (Each question will club two
texts at random, out of which one will be attempted).
15 4 = 60 marks
(iii)
Prescribed Texts :
1.
Sophocles
Antigone.
2.
Dante
Inferno.
3.
Cervantes
Don Quixote.
4.
Tolstoy
Anna Karenina.
5.
Kafka
The Trial.
6.
Ibsen
A Dolls House.
7.
Brecht
Mother Courage and Her Children.
8.
Albert Camus
The Outsider.
1.
Brian Wickers
2.
Holmes
Dante.
3.
Francis Ferguson
Dantes Drama of the Mind.
4.
P. Thody
Albert Camus.
5.
J. Cruikshank
Albert Camus and the Literature of Revolt.
6.
R.P. Blackmur
Eleven Essays on the European Novel.
7.
John Gassner
Masters of World Drama.
8.
M.C. Bradbrook
Henrik Ibsen.
9.
Rolf Fjelde, ed.
Ibsen : A Collection of Essays.
10.
Peter Demetz, ed.
Brecht : A Collection of Critical Essays.
11.
Martin Esslin
Theatre of the Absurd.
12.
Ruby Cohn
Contemporary Dramatists.
13.
Dante
Inferno Tr. & ed. Mark Musa (Penguin) and Inferno

(Wordsworth Classics)
:
Towards Greek Tragedy.
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Paper III (Opt. i) : European Classics in Translation
Note :
(i)
Max. Marks : 80
Time :
3 hours

Q. I
(a)
Symbolism in A Dolls House.
(b) Relationship between Antigone and her brothers.

(c)
Alienation effect in Mother Courage and Her Children.
(d) Circle Seven of Inferno.
Q. II
(e)
Mambrinos Helmet in Don Quixote.
(f)
Symbolism of the train in Anna Karenina.
Comment on the significance of the title of Kafkas The Trial.

OR
Attempt a critical estimate of Camus The Outsider as a Political Novel.
Q. III
Highlight the salient features of Antigone as a classical tragedy.

OR
Discuss Mother Courage and Her Children as an example of epic theatre.
Q. IV
Critically analyze A Dolls House as a feminist play.

OR
Comment on Dantes Inferno as a record of a spiritual journey.
Q. V
Critically assess the plot construction of Anna Karenina.

OR
Write a critical essay on the narrative devices used by Cervantes in Don Quixote.
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Paper III (Opt. ii) : American Literature

Testing :
(i)
The first question on short notes of 200 words each (three out of six topics to be attempted) from
American Literary History will be set.
20 marks
(ii)
The remaining four essay type questions, with internal choice for each question, covering the
prescribed texts/authors will be set. Candidates will attempt all questions (Each question will club
two texts at random, out of which one will be attempted).
15 4 = 60 marks
(iii)
Course for Study :

Background and Movements : A broad survey of American Literature from the beginnings to the present,
covering the following landmarks related to America :
Puritanism; Frontier Consciousness; Womens Liberation Movement; American Renaissance; American
Transcendentalism; Realism; American Literary Naturalism; Regionalism and Local Color Fiction; Harlem
Renaissance; Black Mountain and Projective Verse; Confessional Poetry; The Beats; Deep Image Poetry;
the Gothic Revival; Contemporary Apocalyptic fiction; Multiculturalism and American Literature : Native
American and Chicana Writing, Afro-American/Asian-American/Jewish-American Literature, Absurd
Drama; Psychological/Sociological Drama.
Prescribed Texts :
1.
2.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
:
:
The Scarlet Letter.

Old Man and the Sea.
3.
Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye.
4.
Emily Dickinson
The following poems :

The Soul Selects Her Own Society,
I heard a fly buzz when I died,
The World is not Conclusion,
It was not Death for I Stood up,
Because I could not stop for Death,
I dreaded that first Robin, so, He fumbles at your Soul.
5.
Robert Frost
The following poems :

(i)
"Mending Wall".
(ii) "Birches".
(iii) "Design".
(iv) "Fire & Ice".
(v) "The Road Not Taken".
(vi) "After ApplePicking".
(vii) "Neither Out Far Nor in Deep".
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6.
Adrienne Rich
7.
8.
Arthur Miller
Eugene O Neill
:
:
Selected Poems : I am in Danger, Sir, The Demon

Lover, Planetarium, From a Survivor, Diving into the
Wreck.
Death of a Salesman.
Desire Under the Elms.
1.
Richard Chase
American Novel and its Tradition.
2.
Charles Fiedelson
Symbolism and American Literature.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
Alan Downer ed.

Roy Harvey Pearce
Boris Ford
H. Waggoner
A.N. Kaul, ed.
William Gitson
H.N. Smithy
Jan Furman
Linden Peach, ed.
Barbara and Albert Gelpi
N. Carson
Richard H. Rupp
Judith Farr
Chaman Ahuja
J.M. Cox Ed.
P. Gerber
Reuben A. Brower
L. Moss
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
American Drama and its Critics.

The Continuity of American Poetry.
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature Vol. 9.
Hawthorne : A Critical Study.
Hawthorne : A Collection of Critical Essays.
The Art of Mark Twain.
Mark Twain : A Collection of Critical Essays.
Toni Morrisons Fiction.
Toni Morrison : Contemporary Critical Essays.
Adrienne Richs Poetry.
Arthur Miller.
Critics on Emily Dickinson.
Emily Dickinson : A Collection of Critical Essays.
Tragedy Modern Temper and ONeill.
Robert Frost : A Collection of Critical Essays.
Robert Frost.
The Poetry of Robert Frost.
Arthur Miller.

Paper III (Opt. ii) : American Literature
Note :
Max. Marks : 80
Time :
3 hours
(i)
(ii)
Attempt five questions.

Question No. 1 is compulsory carrying 20 marks.
(iii)
The remaining four questions are of 15 marks each, with one alternative for each
question.
For private candidates, who have not been assessed earlier for internal assessment, the
(iv)
Q. I
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Write short notes (200 words each) on any three of the following :
(a) The Puritan Tradition.
(b) Beat Poetry.
(c) Black Arts Movement.
(d) Native American Literature.
(e) Transcendentalism in American Literature.
(f) The Frontier Spirit.
20 marks
Q. II
Examine the role of Pearl in the moral evolution of Arthur Dimmesdale.
15 marks
OR
Discuss the relationship between Old man and Sea in Hemmingways Novel.
Q. III
Discuss the theme of violence in The Bluest Eye.

OR
How does Adrienne Richs poetry reflect her involvement in radical feminism?
Q. IV
15 marks
Consider The Death of a Salesman as an indictment of the American Dream of Success.

OR
Write an essay on the moral note in Eugene O Neills plays with special reference to Desire
Under the Elms.
15 marks
Q. V
Would you agree with the view that Emily Dickinsons writing was the poetry of craftsmanship
rather than that of confession? Discuss and illustrate.
15 marks
OR
Write an essay on Robert Frosts treatment of nature in his poetry.
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Paper-III (Opt. iii) : New Literatures

Testing :
(i)
The first question on short notes of 200 words each (three out of six topics to be attempted) will be
set.
20 marks
(ii)
The remaining four essay type questions, with internal choice for each question, covering the
prescribed texts/authors will be set. Candidates will attempt all questions. (Each question will club
two texts at random, out of which one will be attempted).
15 4 = 60 marks
(iii)
Objectives : To familiarize the students with literatures of the new worldAsian, African, Australian,
Caribbean, Latin American, Canadianwhich have long remained ignored; to foreground issues such as
history, class, race, gender, nation, culture, diasporic consciousness etc., emphasizing the emergent nature
of literary productions from decolonized communities.
For the question on short notes : Candidates are expected to be familiar with the following
concepts/terms : Aboriginal/Indigenous peoples; Alterity; Apartheid; Colonialism/Neo-colonialism;
Colonial Discourse; Creolization; Decolonization/Postcolonialism; Cultural Difference; Hybridity;
Diaspora/Exile; Globalization; Hegemony; Imperialism; Magic Realism; Mimicry; Nation/Nationalism;
Other/Othering; Race/Class/Gender, Eurocentrism, Nativism.
Prescribed Texts :
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Margaret Atwood
Sally Morgan
Salman Rushdie
J.M. Coetzee
Naguib Mahfouz
Jean Rhys
Chinua Achebe
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Surfacing.
My Place.
Midnights Children.
Disgrace.
Search.
Wide Sargasso Sea.
Things Fall Apart.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Achebe, C.
Anderson, B.
Attwell, David, J.M. Coetzee
Atwood, M.
Ashcroft, Bill, et al eds.
Ashcroft, Bill
:
:
:
:
:
:
Hopes and Impediments.

Imagined Communities.
South Africa and the Politics of Writing.
Survival : A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature.
The Post-Colonial Studies Reader.
Post-Colonial Configurations.
7.
Bhabha, Homi
Nation and Narration.
8.
Bourke, Lawrence
A Vivid Steady State.
9.
Brathwaite, E.K.
History of the Voice.
10.
Brennan, Timothy
Salman Rushdie and the Third World : Myths of the Nation.
11.
12.
J.M. Coetzee
Mary Loou Emery
:
:
White writing The Culture of Letters in South Africa.

Jean Rhys at "Worlds End".
13.
Frickey, Pierrette, M. ed.
Critical Perspectives on Jean Rhys.
14.
Gallagher, Susan Vanzanten
A Story of South Africa : J.M. Coetzees Fiction in Context.
15.
J.M. Coetzee.
16.
Hodge, B. and Mishra, V.
The Dark Side of the Dream.
17.
James, Louis
Critical Studies of Carribean Writers.
18.
King, Bruce
The New Literatures in English.
19.
---
New National and Post-Colonial Literatures.
Head, Dominic
20.
Kossew, Sue, ed.
Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee.
21.
Ramazani, Jahan
The Hybrid Muse : Postcolonial Poetry in English.
22.
Rushdie, Salman
Imaginary Homelands.
Step Across this Line.
23.
---
24.
Said, Edward
Reflections on Exile and Other Essays.
25.
Soyinka, W.
Myth, Literature and the African World.
26.
Strauss, J. and Bennet Bruce,

eds.
The Oxford History of Australia.
27.
Staley Thomas, F.
Jean Rhys : A Critical Study.
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Paper III (Opt. iii) : New Literature
Note :
Q. I
Max. Marks : 80
Time :
3 hours
(i)
(ii)
question.
(iii)
Write short notes (not less than 200 words each) on three of the following :
(a)
Colonial Discourse.
(b)
Creolization.
(c)
Hybridity.
(d)
Diaspora.
(e)
Hegemony.
(f)
Imperialism.
20 marks
Q. II
Critically consider Marquezs One Hundred Years of Solitude as an example of magical realism.
OR
Attempt a deconstructive reading of Atwoods Surfacing.
Q. III
15 marks
Critically consider My Place as a metaphor of aboriginal identity.

OR
Discuss Rushdies blending of History and Fiction in Midnights Children.
15 marks
Q. IV
Write an essay on the major theme/s of Search.

OR
Critically analyze Wide Sargasso Sea as a fictional intertext that subverts the issue of gender
politics.
15 marks
Q. V
Critically evaluate Disgrace as a national allegory.

OR
Discuss how Achebe foregrounds the colonial subjugation of Africa in Things Fall Apart.
15 marks
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Paper IV (opt i) Linguistics

Testing :
(i)
The first question on short notes of 200 words each (three out of six topics to be attempted) will be
set.
20 marks
(ii)
The remaining four questions including one question of analysis will be set. The analysis question
will be based on Units 4, 6 & 7 (Grammar) and/or phonetic transcription and morphological
description. Other questions will club 2 units with internal choice, out of which one has to be
attempted.
15 4 = 60 marks
(iii)
For the private candidates, who have not been assessed earlier for internal assessment, the marks
UNIT-1
Language : Its Nature and functions : (Language as a system of signs, as human, social,
conventional, arbitrary, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations, levels of language
structurephonology, syntax and semantics).
UNIT-2
A Brief History of Linguistics : The growth of modern linguistics with particular reference
to the main ideas contained in the works of :
(i) Bloomfield (Language)
(ii) Saussure (A Course in General Linguistics).
UNIT-3
Sociolinguistics : Variation and Change in Language; Dialect, Register, Style, Acceptability

and Appropriateness. The Pedagogic significance of Language variety.
Psycholinguistics : General theories of Language acquisition (i) The Monitor Model
(ii) Acculturation Theory (iii) Inter-language; Behaviourism and Mentalism : Individual
variation in Language Learning Performance, Aptitude, Motivation.
UNIT-4
The organs of speech (production and classification of speech, sounds, The I.P.A.
classification). The phonetory system. The concept of phoneme, minimal pairs allophonic
variations. Vowels and consonants, cardinal vowels.
UNIT-5
The Phonetics of English, Transcription of words and connected English speech with
reference to Jones, E.P.D. The description of English vowels and consonants. Some
differences between R.P. and Indian English, Syllable structure in English, Word Stress and
Word Accent, rhythm and intonation in connected speech.
UNIT-6
Theory of Grammar : The differences between traditional and structural approaches to

grammar. The major tenets of the structural approach, including the study of :
(a) Morphology : The nature and function of the morpheme, morph and allomorph,
morphological analysis of English words.
(b) Syntax : Constituent Structure : Immediate-constituent analysis of sentences. The
theory of transformational generative grammar (with reference to the work of
Chomsky up to Aspects 1965). Transformation rules, transforming Kernel Sentences
into passive, interrogatives, negatives.
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Recent Theories : A brief overview of the functional approach to grammar with

reference to the work of Halliday (Study Lyons, Palmer, Robins).
UNIT-7
The Grammar and Usage of Modern English : The constituents of simple sentences, verbbased sentence patterns, the noun phrase, the verb phrase, auxiliary, adverbial and
prepositional phrases, direct and indirect reference, sentence connection (Ref. to Chapters
2-7, 10 Quirk and Greenbaum, University Grammar of English, and exercises in Workbook
on University Grammar of English by Close).
UNIT-8
Linguistics and Language Teaching : The problem of teaching language without linguistics
insight; the Relation of Linguistics to Language Teaching, Insights, Implications and
Applications.
1.
Methods and Approaches to Language Teaching : An historical survey including

methods such as GrammarTranslation, Direct, Bilingual, Audio-lingual, Structural
and Communicative.
2.
Stylistic Study of Literature.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Allen, H.B.
Close
Crystal, D.
Crystal, D.
Crimson, A.C.
Jones, D.
Krishnaswamy and Verma
Leech, G.
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
Reading in Applied Linguistics (Amerind).

Workbook on University Grammar of English.
What is Linguistics ?
Linguistics (Penguin).
An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English.
English Pronouncing Dictionary 14th Ed.
Modern Linguistics.
Semantics (Penguin Chapters 1, 2, 6, 10).
9.
Lyons, J.
Introduction to Theoretical LinguisticsLast Two Chapters
10.
Lyons, J.
Chomsky (Fontana)
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
Mackey, W.F.
Palmer, F.
Parren, G.E. and J.J.M. Trim
Pinsleur, Paul and Terence
Pincorder, S.
Quirk and Greenbaum
Richards and Rogers
Robin, R.H.
Robin, R.H.
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
Language Teaching Analysis.

Grammar and Semantics (Penguin).
Application of Linguistics (O.U.P.).
The Psychology of Second Language Learning (O.U.P.).
Introducing Applied Linguistics (Penguin).
University Grammar of English.
Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching.
A Short History of Linguistics (Longmans).
General Linguistics : An Introductory Survey.
20.
Sethi & Jindal
21.
22.
23.
24.
Sethi and Dhilmaja

Syal and Jindal
Wilkin, D.A.
Yule, G.
:
:
:
:
A Handbook of Pronunciation of English Words (Prentice Hall

of India).
A Course in Phonetics and Spoken English.
An Introduction to Linguistics (Prentice Hall of India).
Linguistics in Language Teaching (Edward Arnold).
The Study of Language (O.U.P.).
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Paper IV (Opt. i) : Linguistics

Note :
Q. I
Q. II
Q. III
Q. IV
Q. V
Max. Marks : 80
Time :
3 hours
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
Attempt five questions.

question. Question No. V have two parts, (a) and (b) of 10 marks and 5 marks
respectively.
15 4 = 60 marks
(iv)
20 marks
(a) Langue and Parole.
(b) Dialect and Accent.
(c) Motivation.
(d) Function of Soft Plate.
(e) Stress and Rhythm.
(f) Morph and Allomorph.
What are the different levels of language structure ? Briefly discuss the various levels.
OR
Discuss the contribution of Bloomfield and Saussure to the growth of modern linguistics.
15 marks
How do we acquire language ? How is it different from learning?
OR
Explain the role of complementary distribution and free variation in the understanding of the
concept of phonemes of English.
15 marks
What are the articulatory parameters for the description of vowel sounds of English ? Describe the
monophthongs of English.
OR
15 marks
Distinguish between functional grammar and transformational generative grammar. How is
functional grammar more suitable for the analysis of language ?
(a) Transcribe phonetically the following words marking the primary stress : 1 10 = 10 marks
Chaos, dias, rhythm, aisle, naive, hypocrisy, photographic, Symbiosis, referee, mechanism.
(b) Attempt an IC analysis of the following sentences :
1 5 = 5 marks
He finished the work in time.
It was raining heavily on Monday.
The girl in the blue dress has come first.
The sun rises in the East and sets in the West.
OR
(a) Give a morphological analysis of the following words :
1 10 = 10 marks
Manhood, beautify, children, sheep, roses, democracy, politician, quickly, misunderstanding,
unlikely.
(b) Give sentences as example of the following sentence patterns :
1 5 = 5 marks
SV, SVOO, SVC, SVOC, SVA.
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Paper-IV Opt. (ii) : Shakespeare

Testing :
1.
2.
3.
The first question is of 20 marks. The candidate will have to attempt three out of six notes of 200
words each.
20 marks
The remaining four questions are of 15 marks each, with one alternative for each question, based on a
random clubbing of the units, will cover all the eight units (authors/texts/sections) prescribed in the
respective courses.
(15 4 = 60 marks)
For the private candidates, who have not been assessed earlier for internal assessment, the marks
The paper setter must put note (3) in the question paper.
Course for Study :

The following topics related to Social and Literary aspects of the Age of Shakespeare : The Rise of
Regular Comedy and Tragedy, Shakespearean Comedy, Shakespearean Tragedy, Roman Plays, History
Plays, The Sonnet, Tragi-comedies, Shakespeares longer poems, Globe Theatre, Shakespearean Stage, the
Groundlings, the Fool in Shakespeares plays, First Folio, Holinsheds Chronicles, Play-within-a-play,
Supernatural in Shakespeare, Shakespearean Language, Dark Lady, Comic Relief.
The following texts for detailed study :
1.
Sonnet Nos.
12 When I do count the clock that tells the time

19 Devouring Time, blunt thou the lions paw
29 When in Disgrace with Fortune and mens eyes
32 If thou survive my well-contented day
46 Mine Eye and heart are at a Mortal War
55 Nor marble nor the gilded monuments
65 Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
71 No longer mourn for me when I am dead
147 My love is a fever, longing still
152 In loving thee thou knowest I am forsworn
2.
As You Like It
3.
The Taming of the Shrew
4.
The Winters Tale
5.
Hamlet
6.
Othello
7.
Macbeth
8.
Richard II
1.
B. Ford, ed.
The Age of Shakespeare.
2.
A.C. Bradley
Shakespearean Tragedy.
3.
L. Lerner ed.
Shakespeares Tragedies.
4.
J.R. Brown
Shakespeare & His Comedies.
5.
H.B. Charlton
Shakespearean Comedy.
6.
L.C. Knights
Shakespeare : The Historics.
7.
C. Leech
Shakespeare : The Chronicles.
8.
G.W. Knights
The Imperial Theme.
9.
P. Ure
Shakespeare : The Problem Plays.
10.
F. Kermode
Shakespeare : The Final Plays.
11.
G.W. Knights
The Shakespearean Tempest.
12.
Harry Levin
The Question of Hamlet.
13.
Alfred Harbage (ed.)
Twentieth Century Views on Shakespearean Tragedies.
14.
Mathew, N. Prose
The Heroic Image in Five Shakespearean Tragedies.
15.
Arthur Sewell
Character and Society in Shakespeare.
16.
Robert Speight
Nature in Shakespearean Tragedies.
17.
William Rosen
Shakespeare & The Craft of Tragedy.
18.
Sigurd Burckhardt
Shakespearean Meanings.
19.
S.S. Schoenbaum
Shakespeare : A Documentary Life.
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Paper IV (Opt. ii) : Shakespeare
Note :
Q. I
Max. Marks : 80
Time :
3 hours
(i)
(ii)
Question No. 1 is of 20 marks.
(iii)
The remaining four questions are of 15 marks each, with one alternative for each question.
(iv)
Write short notes (150 to 200 words) on any three of the following :
(a) Dark Lady, (b) Supernatural in Shakespeare, (c) Globe Theatre, (d) The Shakespearean
Sonnet, (e) University Wits, (f) The Fool in Shakespeares plays, Shakespeares tragi-comedies.
Q. II
Attempt a critical estimate of the predominant concerns of the Shakespearean sonnet.

OR
Would you consider As You Like It a true Shakespearean Comedy ? Illustrate your answer with
examples from the text.
Q. III
The Taming of the Shrew is often taken as an anti-feminist text. Do you agree ? Give adequate
reasons to support your answer.
OR
Critically examining The Winters Tale, show how it is different from other plays of Shakespeare
in its design and execution.
Q. IV
Discuss Hamlet as a psychological play.

OR
Macbeth is the tragedy of overweening ambition. Do you agree ? Illustrate your answer with a
close look at the text.
Q. V
Where do you find Hamartia in Othello ? Explain how it influences action and character in the
play.
OR
In Richard II, Shakespeare aims at presenting history through a poetic sensibility. Discuss.
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Paper IV Opt. (iii) : Twentieth Century British Fiction

Testing :
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
The first question on short notes of about 200 words each (3 topics out of 6 to be attempted) will be
set.
20 marks
The remaining four essay-type questions, with internal choice for each question, covering the
prescribed texts will be set. Candidates will attempt all questions. Each question will club two texts
at random.
15 4 = 60 marks
For private candidates, who have not been assessed earlier for internal assessment, the marks
Course for Study :

Short notes on the following topics related to Twentieth-Century British Fiction : Realism; Naturalism;
Time and Chronology; the influence of Freud and the Psychological Novel; Bildungsroman;
Kunstlerroman; Stream of Consciousness; Omniscient and Limited points of view; Reliable and Unreliable
Narrators; the Political Novel; Utopian and Anti-Utopian fiction; the World Wars and the Novel;
Colonialism and the Novel; Novel of Ideas; Existentialism and the Novel; Myth and Fable in Fiction; the
Alienated Hero; Feminism and the Novel; Science Fiction; Fantasy Literature.
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Prescribed Texts :
1.
Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
2.
James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
3.
William Golding
The Lord of the Flies.
4.
Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory.
5.
George Orwell
Animal Farm.
6.
John Fowles
The French Lieutenants Woman.
7.
Iris Murdoch
The Time of Angels.
8.
Muriel Spark
The Drivers Seat.

1.
Allen, Walter
Tradition and Dream.
2.
Allot, Kenneth and Miriam
Graham Greene.
3.
Atkins, John
Graham Greene.
4.
Baldanza, F.
Iris Murdoch.
5.
Bold, Alan Ed.
Muriel Spark : An Odd Capacity for Vision.
6.
Bradbury, M. and Palmer,

D. eds.
The Contemporary English Novel.
7.
Byatt, A.S.
Degrees of Freedom : The Novels of Iris Murdoch.
8.
Daiches, David
The Novelist and the Modern World.
9.
Ellman, Richard
Joyce
10.
Gindin, J.
Post-War British Fiction.
11.
Guerard, Albert
Conrad, the Novelist.
12.
Hynes, Samuel ed.
Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Nineteen Eighty Four.
13.
Karl, P.R.
The Readers Guide to Contemporary English Novel.
14.
Litz, A. Walton
The Art of James Joyce.
15.
Lodge, David
The Novelist at the Crossroads.
16.
Loveday, S.
The Romances of John Fowles.
17.
Meyers, Jefferey
A Readers Guide to George Orwell.
18.
Salgado, Gamini Ed.
Casebook Series on Sons and Lovers.
19.
Spilka, Mark
The Love Ethic of D.H. Lawrence.
20.
West, Paul
The Modern Novel.
21.
Wiley, Paul
Conrads Measure of Man.
22.
Woodcock, B.
Male Mythologies : John Fowles and Masculinity.
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Paper IV (Opt. iii) : Twentieth Century British Fiction
Note :
Q. I
Q. II
Max. Marks : 80
Time :
3 hours
(i)
(ii)
Question No. 1 is of 20 marks.
(iii)
The remaining four questions are of 15 marks each, with one alternative for each question.
(iv)
Write short notes (of about 200 words each) on any three of the following :
(a)
The Psychological Novel.
(b)
Unreliable Narrators in the Twentieth-Century Novel.
(c)
Novel of Ideas.
(d)
Archetypal Symbolism in the Modern Novel.
(e)
The Alienated Hero.
(f)
Existentialism in the Contemporary Novel.
Discuss the narrative technique of Lord Jim with special reference to the role of Marlow as
narrator.
OR
How far is A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man an autobiographical novel ? Is there any
ironic distancing between Joyce and Stephen ?
Q. III
Discuss the use of nature symbolism in Lord of the Flies.

OR
Discuss the thematic relevance of the title of The Drivers Seat.
Q. IV
Comment on the Paradoxes of Sainthood in The Power and the Glory.

OR
Discuss Animal Farm as a Political Satire.
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Q. V
Discuss the structural complexities of The French Lieutenants Woman.

OR
Discuss Iris Murdochs art of characterization with particular reference to The Time of Angels.
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PANJAB UNIVERSITY, CHANDIGARHCHANDIGARH-160014 (INDIA)

(Estd. under the Panjab University Act VII of 1947enacted

M.A. English Parts I & II

The Registrar, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

APPLICABILITY OF REGULATIONS FOR THE TIME

GUIDELINES FOR CONTINUOUS INTERNAL ASSESSMENT (20%) FOR REGULAR

75 % and above upto 85 %

PANJAB UNIVERSITY, CHANDIGARH

There will be four compulsory papers.

Each paper shall carry 80 marks and be of 3 hrs duration.

General Note on the Testing Pattern :

Paper I : Approaches to Literature

To study selected seminal critical texts.

To familiarize students with major approaches to literature.

M. A. ENGLISH PART I SYLLABUS

There will be a three hour paper of 80 marks consisting of five questions.

Poetics (Chapters I-XII, XIII, XVI, XXV).

Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800).

The Study of Poetry.

Tradition and Individual Talent.

2.I A & B, 2.II A.

The Formalistic Approach

3.I, 3.II, 3.III, 3.IV, 3.VA, 3.VI.

The Psychological Approach

4.I, 4.II F&G, 4.III.

Mythological and Archetypal

5.I, 5.II A, B & C, 5.III A 2, 5. III, B.I, 5.IV.

M. A. ENGLISH PART I SYLLABUS

Critical Approaches to Literature.

Contemporary Literary Theory.

A Glossary of Literary Terms.

A History of Literary Criticism.

Wimsatt & Brooks

Literary CriticismA Short History.

M. A. ENGLISH PART I SYLLABUS

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Attempt all questions.

(ii) Question No. 1 is of 20 marks.

Fancy and Imagination.

Longinuss Notion of the Sublime.

Discuss Aristotles Definition of Tragedy.

Comment on Wordsworths views on Poetic Diction.

Discuss Arnolds views on the nature and function of poetry.

Compare and contrast the two traditional approachesthe historical-biographical and

Comment critically on the relevance and limitations of the mythic-archetypal

Write an essay on New Criticism

M. A. ENGLISH PART I SYLLABUS

Paper II : British Literature upto 1750

Prescribed Texts for Study :

The Rape of the Lock.

Gullivers Travels Book IV : The Houyhnhnms.

M. A. ENGLISH PART I SYLLABUS

The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vols. IIV).

English Social History.

Legouis and Cazamian

The History of English Literature.

A Glossary of Literary Terms.

A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory.

Twentieth Century Views on Marlowe.

Reinterpretations of Doctor Faustus.

Elizabeth Drama : Essay in Criticism.

The Shakespearean Tempest.

Twentieth Century Views on Shakespearean Tragedies.

A Preface to Paradise Lost.