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Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Single Paper Pattern Syllabus for U.G. Classes Under Semester System
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class: B. A.
Semester: I
Subject: Special English
Title of Subject Group: Poetry
Compulsory/ Optional: Compulsory
Max. Marks: 85 +15
Unit-1 Annotations
Unit-2 EPIC; SONNET; DEFINITIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS
William Shakespeare – From Fairest Creatures, The Little Love God, True Love, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day.
John Milton – On His Blindness, On Man’s First Disobedience (Paradise Lost, Bk- I, Lines 1 to 26)
Unit-3 METAPHYSICAL SCHOOL OF POETRY; SATIRE IN THE NEO-CLASSICAL AGE
John Donne – Sweetest Love I Do not Go, This is my Play’s Last Scene.
John Dryden – The Portrait of Shadwell
Alexander Pope – Ode to Solitude
Unit-4 THE AGE OF TRANSITION; PRECURSORS OF ROMANTICISM
Thomas Gray – Elegy Written in the Country Churchyard
William Collins – Ode to Evening
Oliver Goldsmith – Portrait of the Village School Master (Extract from The Deserted Village)
Unit-5 CHARACTERISTICS OF ROMANTIC AGE, VICTORIAN AGE, MAJOR POETS
William Blake – Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright
P. B. Shelley – To A Skylark
John Keats – To A Nightingale.
Edwin Arnold – Light of Asia (An extract from Book III)
All Questions carry equal marks Two essay type questions will be asked from each unit – II, III, IV, V. One from each unit to be attempted. Annotations six passages, at least one from each unit – II, III, IV, V will be set and any three to be attempted. A total five question should be attempted. Those who opt for Project in English will have to do a project of 50 marks in addition to theory paper.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Single Paper Pattern Syllabus for U.G. Classes Under Semester System
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class: B. A.
Semester: II
Subject: Special English
Title of Subject Group: Prose
Compulsory/ Optional: Compulsory
Max. Marks: 85+15
Unit-1 Annotations
Unit-2 A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH ESSAY: MAJOR WRITERS
OF THE DIFFERENT AGES.
Francis Bacon – Of Studies. Of Expense, Of Travel, Of Great
Place.
Unit-3 Joseph Addison – Sir Roger at Church, Sir Roger at Home, The
Spectator’s Account of Himself, The Vision of Mirza.
Unit-4 CHARACTERISTICS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS.
Charles Lamb: After a Holiday, Loneliness
E. V. Lucas: Unbirthday and other presents, On Finding Things
Unit-5 KINDS OF ESSAYS – REFLECTIVE, ARGUMENTATIVE,
DESCRIPTIVE, SCIENTIFIC.
A.G. Gardiner – On the Rule of the Road, On Saying Please
H.G. Wells – The Stolen Bacillus
Note:
• All Questions carry equal marks.
• Two essay type questions will be asked from each units – II, III, IV, V. One from each unit to be attempted.
• Annotations six passages, at least one from each unit – II, III, IV, V will be set and any three to be attempted.
• A total five question should be attempted.
• Those who opt for Project in English will have to do a project of 50 marks in addition to theory paper.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Single Paper Pattern Syllabus for U.G. Classes Under Semester System
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class : B.A.
Semester: III
Subject: Special English
Title of Subject Group: Drama
Max. Marks: 85+15
Unit-I Types of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy, Historical Play, One - Act Play
Elements of Drama: Plot, Theme, Character, Dialogue, Music/ Rhythm, Spectacle Setting
Unit-II William Shakespeare : Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice
Unit-III Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer
Richard Brinsley Sheridan : The Rival
Unit-IV John Galsworthy : Loyalties
G.B. Shaw : Saint Joan
Unit-V J.M. Synge : Riders to the Sea
H.H.Munro : The Miracle Merchant
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Single Paper Pattern Syllabus for U.G. Classes Under Semester System
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class: B.A.
Semester: IV
Subject: Special English
Title of Subject Group : Fiction
Compulsory/ Optional: Compulsory
Max. Marks: 85+15
Unit-I Forms of Fiction: Nature of Narratives, Historical, Psychological, Short story.
Aspects of the Novel: Plot, Character, Points of View, Setting, Theme
Unit-II John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress.
Jane Austen: Emma
Unit-III Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Caster bridge
Unit-IV George Orwell: Animal Farm
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own
Unit-V Somerset Maugham: Red
Isaac Asimov: The Martian Way (Only the title story)
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Single Paper Pattern Syllabus for U.G. Classes Under Semester System
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class: B.A.
Semester: V
Subject: Special English
Title of Subject Group : Contemporary Literature
Compulsory/ Optional: Compulsory
Max. Marks: 85+15
Unit-I Poetry: T.S. Eliot : The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock W.B. Yeats : Lake Isle of Innisfree, Prayer for My Daughter Unit-II Poetry :Philip Larkin : At Grass, The Whitsun Weddings Sylvia Plath : Daddy, Morning Song Unit-III Drama: R.N.Tagore : Post Office Tennesse Williams: A Street Car Named Desire Unit-IV Prose: APJ Abdul Kalam : ‘ Patriotism beyond Politics and Religion’ from The Ignited Minds (Penguine Books) Amartya Sen : ‘ Tagore and His India’ from The Argumentative Indian by Armartya Sen (Penguine Books). Unit-V Short Stories: Ruskin Bond: The Kite Maker Jhumpa Lahiri: The Interpreter of Maladies (only the first story) Unit-VI The Modern Age: Changing trends in Poetry Prose and Drama .
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Single Paper Pattern Syllabus for U.G. Classes Under Semester System
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class: B.A.
Semester: VI
Subject: Special English
Title of Subject Group : Indian Writing in English
Compulsory/ Optional: Compulsory
Max. Marks: 85+15
Unit-I : Concept of Rasa in Indian Poetry: Definition, Kinds, Theory of Bhava. Unit-II Poetry: R.N. Tagore : The first two songs of Geetanjali Sarojini Naidu : Krishna, Indian Weavers Unit-III Prose: M.K.Gandhi : National Education J.L.Nehru : The Quest of Man, The Book of Nature from Letters from a Father to His Daughter Unit-IV Drama: Girish Karnad : Hayavadana Asif Currimbhoy : Goa Unit-V Fiction: R.K.Narayan : An Astrologer’s Day M.R.Anand : A Pair of Moustache. Unit- VI Indian Writing in English: The Colonial Phase –Major Writers and their works. The Post Colonial Phase: Major Writers and works.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015 – 2016
Class M.A Previous
Semester I
Subject English
Title of Subject Group Poetry
Paper No. I
Compulsory/ Optional Compulsory
Max. Marks 50
Note: All questions are compulsory.
The paper will be divided into three sections.
Section A: It will comprise of FIVE Objective type questions based on all units.
Section B: It will comprise of FIVE Short answer type questions. (Word limits 100- 150 words). Internal choice will be given.
Section C: It will comprise of FIVE Long answer type questions with internal choice. Question No 1 will be based on Annotations. (Word limits 200-300 words).
History of English poetry from old English period till Neo- Classical Age
# Questions in examination need not be asked
Unit-1 Annotations (Any two out of the four given passages. At least one from each unit.
Unit-2 Elements of Poetry: How to approach poetry
Figures of Speech: Imagery, Rhythm and
Epic Poetry:
John Milton: Paradise Lost Book I
Valmiki: Ramayana (Sundar Kand).
Unit-3
Narrative Poetry:
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
S.T.Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Unit-4
Renaissance Poetry:
William Shakespeare: Sonnets Nos.1, 23, 24, 26, 27, 31, 44.
John Donne: The Extasie, A Valediction Forbidden Mourning.
The Good Morrow, Love’s Alchemies, The Canonization,
The Anniversarie.
Unit-5
Satirical Poetry:
John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel.
Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock.
Books Recommended:
Emile Legouis: Chaucer
E.M.W Tillyard: Milton
Compton Rickett: History of English Literature
David Daiches: History of English Literature
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor, M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class M.A Previous
Semester I
Subject English
Title of Subject Group Drama
Paper No. II
Compulsory/ Optional Compulsory
Max. Marks 50
Note: All questions are compulsory.
The paper will be divided into three sections.
Section A: It will comprise of FIVE Objective type questions based on all units.
Section B: It will comprise of FIVE Short answer type questions. (Word limits 100- 150 words). Internal choice will be given.
Section C: It will comprise of FIVE Long answer type questions with internal choice. Question No 1 will be based on Annotations. (Word limits 200-300 words).
Unit-1: Annotations (Any two out of four given passages selecting at least one from each unit).
Unit-2 History and Development if English Drama
Kinds of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy, Tragi –Comedy, Historical Plays,
Non-English Drama:
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex.
Kalidas: Abhigyana Shankuntalam. (English Translation, Sahitya Academy)
Unit-3
Shakespearean Tragedy: Hamlet
King Lear
Unit-4
Other Shakespearean Plays: Twelfth Night,
The Tempest.
Unit-5
Renaissance Drama: (Non- Shakespearean)
Christopher Marlowe: Dr.Faustus.
Ben Jonson: Every Man in His Humour.
Books Recommended
A.C.Bradley: Shakespearean Tragedy.
H.B.Charlton: Shakespearean Comedy. .
Ram Vilas Sharma: Shakespearean Tragedy
Allardyce Nicoll: British Drama
Department of Higher Education, Gov. of M.P
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor,M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class: M.A Previous
Semester I
Subject English
Title of Subject Group Fiction
Paper No. III
Compulsory/ Optional Compulsory
Max. Marks 50
Note: All questions are compulsory.
The paper will be divided into three sections.
Section A: It will comprise of FIVE Objective type questions based on all units.
Section B : It will comprise of FIVE Short answer type questions. (Word limit 100- 150 words). Internal choice will be given.
Section C: It will comprise of FIVE Long answer type questions with internal choice. (word limit 200-300 words).
Unit-1 How to Study Novel: Plot, Character, Point of View, Setting, Dialogue,
List of Booker Prize Winners,
Development of Novel
Early Prose Narrative:
Bana Bhatt: Kadambari.
Cervantes: Don Quixote.
Unit-2
Picaresque Novel:
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones.
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe.
Unit-3
Historical Novel:
Walter Scott: Kenilworth.
Thackeray: Henry Esmond.
Unit-4
Fiction by Women:
George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss.
Emily Bronte: Jane Eyre
Unit-5
19th Century Realistic Novel:
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations.
Zola: Nana.
Books Recommended
Walter Allen: History of English Novel.
O.P. Budholia: George Eliot: Art and Vision in Her Novels
Austin Dobson: Fielding
David Daiches: Critical Approaches to Literature
Ian Watt: The Rise of the Novel.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor, M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class M.A Previous
Semester I
Subject English
Title of Subject Group Prose
Paper No. IV
Compulsory/ Optional Compulsory
Max. Marks 50
Note: All questions are compulsory.
The paper will be divided into three sections.
Section A: It will comprise of FIVE Objective type questions based on all units.
Section B: It will comprise of FIVE Short answer type questions. (Word limits 100- 150 words). Internal choice will be given.
Section C: It will comprise of FIVE Long answer type questions with internal choice. Question No 1 will be based on Annotations. (Word limits 200-300 words).
Unit-1: Annotation
(Any two out of four given passages selecting at least
one from each unit).
Types of Prose: Reflective, Argumentative, descriptive etc.
Unit-2
Interpreting Prose: Stylistics Features- Figures of Speech, Tone, Emotion
Biography and Autobiography:
J.L. Nehru: Autobiography (Fourth Chapter).
Kamala Das: My Story (Fourth Chapter).
Unit-3:
Political and Social Writings:
Plato: The Republic, Book II (First four chapters).
Bacon: Of Truth, Of Studies, Of Revenge, Of Love.
Unit-4
Philosophical Writings:
J. Krishnamurti: 1. Individual and Society.
2. Action and Idea.
3. What is Self?
4. What are We Seeking?
Lala Hardayal: Intellectual Culture.
Unit-5
Bertrand Russell: True Success.
William Hazlitt: 1. The Ignorance of the Learned.
2. The Indian Jugglers
Books Recommended
Benson: The Art of Essay Writing.
J.Krishnamurti: The First and the Last Freedom.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor, M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class M.A Previous
Semester II
Subject English
Title of Subject Group Poetry
Paper No. I
Compulsory/ Optional Compulsory
Max. Marks 50
Note: All questions are compulsory.
The paper will be divided into three sections.
Section A: It will comprise of FIVE Objective type questions based on all units.
Section B: It will comprise of FIVE Short answer type questions. (Word limits 100- 150
words). Internal choice will be given.
Section C: It will comprise of FIVE Long answer type questions with internal choice.
(Word limits 200-300 words).
UNIT-1: Annotation
Unit-2:
Pre- Romantic Poetry:
Thomas Gray: The Bard
The Progress of Poesy
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
William Blake: On Another Sorrow
From Auguries of Innocence
The Poison Tree
The Tyger.
Unit-3
Romantic Poetry:
W. Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey
Ode on Intimations of Immortality.
P. B.Shelley: Adonais
To a Skylark
John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to Autumn,
Ode to Nightangle
Unit-4
Victorian Poetry:
Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses
The Lotos Eaters
Matthew Arnold: Thyrsis
The Scholar Gypsy.
Unit-5
Symbolist Poetry:
T.S.Eliot: The Waste Land
W.B.Yeats: The Second Coming
Byzantium
Sailing to Byzantium.
Modern Poetry:
W.H.Auden: Strange Meeting
The Shield of Achilles
Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill
A Refusal to Mourn the Death of a Child.
Books Recommended:
Desmond King: Shelley- His Thought and Work
Graham Hough: The Last Romantics
Humphrey House: Coleridge,
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor,M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class M.A Previous
Semester II
Subject English
Title of Subject Group Drama
Paper No. II
Compulsory/ Optional Compulsory
Max. Marks 50
Note: All questions are compulsory.
The paper will be divided into three sections.
Section A: It will comprise of FIVE Objective type questions based on all units.
Section B: It will comprise of FIVE Short answer type questions. (Word limit 100- 150
words). Internal choice will be given.
Section C: It will comprise of FIVE Long answer type questions with internal choice.
Question No.1 will be based on Annotations. (Word limits 200-300 words)
Unit-1: Annotations
Unit-2
Restoration Drama:
John Dryden: All for Love.
Congreve: The Way of the World
Unit-3
Victorian Drama:
G.B.Shaw: Man and Superman
Galsworthy: Justice
Unit-4:
Characteristics of Modern Drama
Modern Drama:
Ibsen: A Doll’s House
Brecht: Mother Courage
Unit-5
Indian Drama:
Girish Karnad: The Fire and the Rain
Mahesh Dattani: Tara
Vijay Tendulkar: Silence! The Court is in Session
Books Recommended
Frederick Lumley: Trends in 20th Century Drama.
Allardyce Nicoll: British Drama.
Raymond Williams: Drama from Ibsen to Eliot.
O.P. Budholia: Critical Essays on Indian English Literature
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class M.A Previous
Semester II
Subject English
Title of Subject Group Fiction
Paper No. III
Compulsory/ Optional Compulsory
Max. Marks 50
Note: All questions are compulsory.
The paper will be divided into three sections.
Section A: It will comprise of FIVE Objective type questions based on all units.
Section B: It will comprise of FIVE Short answer type questions. (Word limits 100- 150
words). Internal choice will be given.
Section C: It will comprise of FIVE Long answer type questions with internal choice.
Unit-1:
19th Century Fiction,
Flaubert: Madame Bovary.
George Meredith: The Egoist.
Unit-2
Rural Novel:
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’urbervilles.
Premchand: Godaan.
Unit-3
Psychological Novel:
Virginia Woolf: To the Light house.
D.H.Lawrence: Sons and Lovers.
Unit-4:
Naturalist Novel:
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim.
Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
.
Unit-5
Post Naturalist Novel:
William Golding: Lord of the Flies.
Saul Bellow: Herzog.
Books Recommended
Sisir Chattopadhyaya: The Technique of the Modern English Novel.
A.S.Collins: English Literature of the 20th Century.
Arnold Kettle: An Introduction to the English Novel.
David Daiches: The Novel and the Modern World.
Dorothy Van Ghent: The English Novel form and Function.
Ian Watt: The Rise of the Novel.
Sisir Chatterjee: Problems in Modern English Fiction.
Katherine Lever: The English and the Reader.
Wilbur L.Cross: The English Novel.
David Cecil: Early Victorian Novelists.
S.S.Narula: Galsworthy and the English Novel.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class M.A Previous
Semester II
Subject English
Title of Subject Group Prose
Paper No. IV
Compulsory/ Optional Compulsory
Max. Marks 50
Note: All questions are compulsory.
The paper will be divided into three sections.
Section A: It will comprise of FIVE Objective type questions based on all units.
Section B: It will comprise of FIVE Short answer type questions. (Word limit 100- 150
words). Internal choice will be given.
Section C: It will comprise of FIVE Long answer type questions with internal choice.
Question No.1 will be based on Annotations. (Word limits 200-300 words).
Unit-1: Annotations:
Unit-2
Boswell: The Life of Dr.Johnson
(From Everyman’s Edition of Boswell’s life
Dr.Johnson. London: J,M.Dent 1958 Vol. I, Introductory
Pp 5-11).
Addison: On Ghosts and Apparitions, Fans.
Unit-3
Goldsmith: The Man in Black.
Charles Lamb: New Year’s Eve,
A Bachelor’s Complaint
Against the Behavior of Married People,
Dream Children: A Reverie
Unit-4
A.G.Gardiner: On the Rule of the Road,
In Defence of Laziness.
Robert Lynd: Back to the Desk.
Forgetting
, The Pleasures of Ignorance,
I Tremble to Think.
Unit-5
Twentieth Century Prose: Major Writers and Characteristics
G.K.Chesterton: On Running after One’s Hat, Patriotism and
Sport.
Hilarry Bellock: On Books, On Preserving English.
Books Recommended
R.P.Tiwari(ed): A.G.Gardiner: Selected Essays.
Stuart Hodgson: A.G.Gardiner.
G.S.Fraser: The Modern Writer and His World.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class M.A
Semester III
Subject English
Title of Subject Group English Language
Paper No. II
Compulsory/ Optional Compulsory
Max. Marks 50
Unit-1 Definition, Functions, Characteristics, Development of English Language.
Unit-2 Language Varieties: Register, Style and Dialect Approaches to the study
of language: Synchronic and Diachronic, Langue and Parole,
Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic, Syntactic Analysis.
Unit-3 Definition of Phonetics & Phonology, Difference between Phonetics and
Phonology Organs of Speech.
Unit-4 Phonemes, Allophones, Phonetic Symbols for Sounds in RP
Unit-5 Basics of Transformational generic Grammar: Nature and
Characteristics.
Suggested Readings :
Sethi and Dhamija: A course in Spoken English.
Verma and Krishnaswamy: Modern Linguistics: An Introduction (O.U.P.1989)
A.C.Gimson: An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English.
R.K.Bansal and J.B.Harrison: Spoken English for India.
Geoffrey Leech: A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (Longman. London 1969)
David Crystal: Linguistics (Penguin)
Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvic: A Communicative Grammar of English.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class M.A
Semester III
Subject English
Title of Subject Group Critical Theory
Paper No. I
Compulsory/ Optional Compulsory
Max. Marks 50
Particulars
Unit-1 Natyashastra - Rasa Theory, Aristotle – Poetics (Butcher’s
Translations).
Unit-2 Longinus – On the Sublime, Philip Sydney – Apology for Poetry.
Unit-3 John Dryden – An essay on Dramatic Poesy; Dr. Johnson – Preface
to Shakespeare.
Unit-4 Wordsworth – Preface to the Lyrical Ballads; Coleridge – Biographia
Literaria. Ch. XIII & XIV.
Unit-5 Mathew Arnold – Essays in Criticism (Second series); T.S. Eliot –
Tradition and Individual Talent.
New Critics: A Brief Study.
Books Recommended:-
Kapil Kapoor : Critical Theory
R.S. Pathak : Literary Theory
Charusheel Singh : Literary Theory, Linear Configurations
Butcher (tr.) : Aristotle’s Poetics
Scott James : The Making of Literature
David Daiches : Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader (Long man)
H. Adams and L. Searle (ed.) : Critical theory since 1965 (Farida stale University Press)
A. H. Gilbert : Literary Criticism Plata to Drayden.
T. Eagleton : Literary Theory an Introduction (Black well Oxford, 1983)
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of
M.P.
Session 2013-2014
Class M.A
Semester III
Subject English
Title of Subject Group English Language
Paper No. II
Compulsory/ Optional Compulsory
Max. Marks 50
Particulars
Unit-1 Definition, Functions, Characteristics, Development of English Language.
Unit-2 Language Varieties: Register, Style and Dialect Approaches to the study of language: Synchronic
and Diachronic, LANGUE AND PAROLE, PARADIGMATIC AND SYNTAGMATIC
Unit-3 Definition of Phonetics & Phonology, Difference between Phonetics and Phonology Organs of
Speech.
Unit-4 Phonemes, Allophones, Phonetic Symbols for Sounds in RP
Unit-5 Basics of Transformational generic Grammar: Nature and Characteristics.
Suggested Readings :
Verma and Krishnaswamy: Modern Linguistics: An Introduction (O.U.P.1989)
A.C.Gimson: An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English.
R.K.Bansal and J.B.Harrison: Spoken English for India.
Geoffrey Leech: A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (Longman. London 1969)
David Crystal: Linguistics (Penguin)
Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvic: A Communicative Grammar of English.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class M.A Semester III Subject English Literature Title of Subject Group Indian Writings in English Paper No. III(A) Compulsory/ Optional Optional Max. Marks 50
Unit-1 Annotations: Six passages selecting at least two from Unit II, III and IV will be
given and two to be attempted.
Unit-2 Sri Aurobindo : Savitri - Book I Canto I.
Tagore : Geetanjali – poems 1 to 10 (McMillan edition). 11-20 (for non-
detailed)
Unit-3 APJ Abdul Kalam – Wings of Fire
INDIAN AUTOBIOGRAPHIES IN ENGLISH : AN OVERVIEW ( SHORT
ANSWER)
Unit-4 Asif Currimbhoy : Valley of Assassins.
Badal Sircar : Evam Indrajit.
Girish Karnad : Hayavandana
Unit-5 Anita Desai : Cry, the Peacock.
Arun Joshi : The City and the River
JHUMPA LAHIRI: THE UNACCUSTOMED EARTH(SELECTED STORIES NON-
DETAILED)
Books recommended: K.R.S.Iyengar: Indian Writings in English. Meenakshi Mukherjee Twice Born Fiction. A.N.Dwivedi: Kamala Das. Thompson: Tagore. O.P.Budholia: Anita Desai: Vision and Technique in her Novels. M.K.Naik(ed): History of Indian English Literature.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class M.A
Semester IV
Subject English Literature
Title of Subject Group Indian Writings in English
Paper No. III (A)
Compulsory/ Optional Optional
Max. Marks 50 (40+10)
Unit-1 Annotations: Six passages selecting at least two from Unit II, III and IV will be given and two to
be attempted.
Unit-2 Indian Writings in English Post colonial Indian poetry in English (1) Sarojini naidu. All poems in V.K. Gokak ed. Golden Treasury of Indo Anglican Poetry – Sahitya Academy (4) Kamala Das: The Dance of The Enunchs
Unit-3 (1) M.R.Anand : Untouchable
(2) R.K.Narayan : The English Teacher
Unit-4 (1) Vishnu Sharma : Panchatantra (Book I)
(2) Munshi Premchand: The Shroud (Kafan)
Unit-5 (1) Amitav Ghosh : The Shadow lines
(2) Shashi Deshpande : That Long Silence
3). ARVIND ADIGA : THE WHITE TIGER
PRIZE WINING INDIAN FICTION WRITER TO THE PRESENT(OBJECTIVES)
Books recommended: K.R.S.Iyengar : Indian Writings in English.
M.K.Naik : History of Indian English Literature. M.K.Naik(ed) : Perspectives on Indian Drama in English. Meenakshi Mukherjee : Twice Born Fiction. Thompson : Tagore. O.P.Budholia : Anita Desai: Vision and Technique in her Novels.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class M.A Semester IV Subject English Title of Subject Group Critical Theory Paper No. I
Compulsory/ Optional Compulsory Max. Marks 50
Unit-1 Anand Vardhan : Dhwani Theory.
Ferdinand Sausure : The Nature of Linguistic Sign.
Unit-2 I. A. Richards : Two Uses of Language.
J.C. Ransom : Concept of Structure and Texture of Poetry.
Unit-3 F. R. Leavis : Literary Criticism & Philosophy.
J.Derrida : Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences.
Unit-4 Edward Said : Crisis (The Scope of Orientalism) Basic Trends in Feminist Criticism.
Unit-5 Practical Criticism – It will contain two passages : One in verse and the other in prose for
Practical Criticism following the technique as illustrated in I. A. Richard’s book on ‘Practical
Criticism’ and David Daiches’ ‘Critical Approaches’
Books recommended : Kapil Kapoor : Critical Theory. R.S. Pathak : Literary Theory.
Charusheel Singh : Literary Theory, Linear Configuration.
Butcher (tr) : Aristotle’s Poetics.
Scott James : The Making of Literature.
David Daiches : Critical Approaches to English Literature.
H. Adams and L. Searle (ed.): Critical Theory since 1965 (Florida State University Press).
A. H. Gilbert : Literary Criticism Plato to Dryden.
T. Eagleton : Literary Theory : An Introduction (Black well, Oxford, 1983).
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P. Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P. Session 2015-2016
Class M.A Semester IV Subject English Literature Title of Subject Group English Language (Compulsory Paper) Paper No. II Compulsory Compulsory Max. Marks 50
Unit-1 Morphology
Morpheme, Allomorph, Word formation.
Unit-2 Linguistic Analysis
I. C. Analysis & Ambiguities.
Unit-3 Phonology
Sound sequences : Syllable, Word Stress, Strong and Weak forms, Stress and Intonation.
PRACTICE EXERCISE ON PHONOLOGY I LANGUAGE LAB MODULE NO:11
Unit-4 Grammar
Sentence types and their transformation relations : (a) Statement (b) Question (c) Negative (d)
Passive (e) Imperative.
PRACTICE EXERCISE ON PHONOLOGY I LANGUAGE LAB MODULE NO:11
Unit-5 Grammar
Word classes : Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjunct Phrase, Syntax Coordination,
Subordination, Relative Clauses, Adverbials, Determiners, Article Features, concord.
Books recommended :
1. Verma and Krishnaswamy: Modern Linguistics: An Introduction (O.U.P.1989)
2. A.C.Gimson: An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English.
3. R.K.Bansal and J.B.Harrison: Spoken English for India.
4. Geoffrey Leech: A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (Longman. London 1969)
5. David Crystal: Linguistics (Penguin)
6. Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvic: A Communicative Grammar of English.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Under Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
as recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2011-12
Class
%
B.A./B.Sc./B.Com./B.H.Sc. I Year
Semester
%
II
Subject
%
English Language and Indian Culture
Paper No.
%
I
Compulsory /Optional
%
Compulsory
Max. Marks
%
85 (15 CCE, 85 Semester Exam)
Particulars
Unit-1
1. Amalkanti :
Nirendranath Chakrabarti
2. Sita :
Toru Dutt
3. Tryst with Destiny :
Jawaharlal Nehru
4. Delhi in 1857 :
Mirza Ghalib
5. Preface to the Mahabharata :
C. Rajagopalachari
6. Where the Mind is Without Fear :
Rabindranath Tagore
7. A Song of Kabir :
Translated by Tagore
8. Satyagraha :
M.K. Gandhi
9. Toasted English :
R. K. Narayan
10. The Portrait of a Lady :
Khushwant Singh
11. Discovering Babasaheb :
Ashok Mahadevan
Unit-2
Comprehension
Unit-3
Composition and Paragraph Writing (Based on expansion of an idea).
Unit-4
Basic Language Skills : Vocabulary – Synonyms, Antonyms, Word Formation, Prefixes
and Suffixes, Words likely to be confused and Misused, Words similar in Meaning or
Form, Distinction between Similar Expressions, Speech Skills
Unit-5
Basic Language Skills: Grammar and usage – The Tense Forms, Propositions,
Determiners and Countable/Uncountable Nouns, Verb, Articles, Adverbs.
Prescribed Books : English Language and Indian Culture, published by M. P. Hindi Grant Academy.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Under Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
as recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the
Governor of
M.P.
Session 2012-13
Class B.A./B.Sc./B.Com./B.H.Sc.
Semester: IV
Subject : English Language and Scientific Temper
Paper : I
Compulsory/Optional: Compulsory
Max. Marks 85 (Theory Paper 85 marks, CCE 15 marks)
Particulars
Unit 1 20 marks
1. Tina Morris: Tree
2. Nissim Ezekiel: Night of the Scorpion
3. C. P. Snow: Ramanujan
4. Roger Rosenblatt: The Power of WE
5. George Orwell: What is Science?
6. C. Rajagopalachari: Three Questions
7. Desmond Morris: A short extract from
The Naked Ape
8. A. G. Gardiner: On The Rule of the Road
Unit II
Comprehension of an unseen passage
10 marks
Unit III
Letter Writing : Formal Letters, Informal letters, Applications
5 marks
Unit IV
Report Writing
5 marks
Unit V
Language Skills :
10 marks
Correction of common errors in sentence structure: usage of pronouns, subject/verb agreement,
word order, gender; compound nouns, collective nouns, possessives, articles and prepositions
(advanced)
Note :
Scheme of Marks
Unit I
a. This will include 5 objective type questions based on text and language skills. (1x5 = 5 marks)
b. This will also include short-answer questions from text. One question will be asked from each
lesson (total 8 questions) and 5 have to be attempted (3x5 = 15 marks)
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2013-2014
Class M.A
Semester III
Subject English Literature
Title of Subject Group Commonwealth Literature in English
Paper No. III(B)
Compulsory/ Optional Optional
Max. Marks 50
Particulars
Unit-1 Canadian Poetry
Margarette Atwood : (1) This is a Photograph of Me,
(2) Tricks with Mirrors.
Unit-2 Canadian Fiction
Margaratte Laurence : The Stone Angel
Unit-3 The African Novel
Doris Lessing : The Grass is Singing.
Unit-4 Carribean Novel
George Lamming : In the Castle of my Skin.
Unit-5 Australian Novel
Patrick White : A Fringe of Leaves.
Books recommended :
1. R. K. Dhawan ed. Commonwealth Literature in English.
2. All original works by the prescribed authors.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2013-2014
Class M.A
Semester IV
Subject English Literature
Title of Subject Group Commonwealth Literature in English
Paper No. III(B)
Compulsory/ Optional Optional
Max. Marks 50
Particulars
Unit-1 Canadian Poetry
Michael Ondaatje : (1) The Cinnamon Peeler
(2) To a Sad Daughter.
Unit-2 Canadian Fiction
Magarate Atwood : Surfacing.
Unit-3 The African Novel
Nadime Gordimer : July’s People
Chinua Achebe : Arrow of God.
Unit-4 Australian and Carribean Novel
V.S.Naipaul : A House of Mr. Biswas,
Elizabeth Jolley : My Father’s Moon
Unit-5 Canadian Drama
Sharan Pollock : Walsh
Draw Heydon Taylor : Alternatives
Books recommended :
1. R. K. Dhawan ed. Commonwealth Literature in English.
2. All original works by the prescribed authors.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class M.A
Semester III
Subject English Literature
Title of Subject Group Special Studies
Paper No. IV(A)
Compulsory/ Optional Optional
Max. Marks 50
Note: (A) Choose any one of the following writers for Special Study.
(B) The chosen writers will be studied on the basis headlines given below.
1. Shakespeare
2. John Milton
3. Alexander Pope
4. William Coleridge
5. P.B.Shelley
6. Mathew Arnold
7. T.S.Eliot
8. G.B.Shaw
9. R.W.Emerson
10. Sri Aurobindo.
Headlines :
1. Biography
2. Selected Works
3. Technique: Style, Language, Plot, Characterization
4. Critical Opinions
Books Recommend :
1. O Elton, Shakespeare.
2. K.R.S Iyengar, Shakespeare’s Dramatic World
3. R. B. Sharma, Shakespearean Tragedy
4. A. C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy
5. Walter Raleigh, Shakespearean
6. Wilson Knigh, Wheel of Fire
7. Amresh Datta, Tragic vision of Shakespeare
8. C. M. Bowra, Romantic Imagination.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2013-2014
Class M.A
Semester IV
Subject English Literature
Title of Subject Group Special Studies
Paper No. IV (A)
Compulsory/ Optional Optional
Max. Marks 50
Note: (A) Choose any one of the following writers for Special Study.
(B) The chosen writers will be studied on the basis headlines given below.
1. Charles Dickens
2. Thomas Hardy
3. D. H. Lawrence
4. J. P. Sartre
5. Dosteovesky
6. Albert Camus
7. Ernest Hemingway
8. William Golding
9. Walt Whitman
10. Margaret Atwood
11. Swami Vivekanand
Headlines :
1. Biography
2. Selected Works
3. Technique: Style, Language, Plot, Characterization
4. Critical Opinions
Books Recommend :
1. Crompton Ricket, History of English Literature.
2. David Cecil, Nineteenth Century Fiction.
3. B.S. Dhaiya, Heroes of Hemmingway.
4. E. A. Baker, History of English Fiction.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2013-2014
Class M.A
Semester III
Subject English Literature
Title of Subject Group American Literature
Paper No. IV (B)
Compulsory/ Optional Optional
Max. Marks 50
Particulars
Unit-1 Annotations :( Six passages selecting at least two from units II, III and IV each to
be set, two to be attempted).
Unit-2 Prose
Emerson: Self Reliance, The Over Soul
Unit-3 Poetry
Walt Whitman: O Captain, My Captain ; Song of Myself; Gross; When Lilacs last
in the Dooryard Bloomed; I celebrate Myself.
Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, After Apple Picking,
Birches, The Road not taken .
Unit-4 Drama:
Eugene O’Neil : Mourning Becomes Electra.
Unit-5 Fiction : Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn.
Books recommended :
1. History of American Lietrature Goodman.
2. Walt Whitman by D. Dhawale.
3. Cycle of American Literature by Robert Spiller.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class M.A
Semester IV
Subject English Literature
Title of Subject Group American Literature
Paper No. IV(B)
Compulsory/ Optional Optional
Max. Marks 50
Particulars
Unit-1 Annotations:(Six passages selecting at least two from Units II, III and IV each to
be set, two to be attempted).
Unit-2 Prose
Emerson: American Scholar
Thoreau : Civil Disobedience
Unit-3 Poetry
Emily Dickinson: Because I could not Wait for Death, I Taste a Liquor Never
Brewed, Light in Spring, This is my letter to the World.
Sylvia Plath : Daddy, Lady Lizarus, The Bee Meeting.
Unit-4 Drama:
Tenessee Williams : The Glass Menagerie
Edward Albee : The Zoo Story.
Unit-5 Fiction : Ernest Hemingway : The Old Man and the Sea.
Steinbeck : Of Mice and Men.
Books recommended :
1. History of American Literature by Goodman.
2. Cycle of American Literature by Robert Spiller.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class M.A
Semester IV
Subject English Literature
Title of Subject Group Linguistics and Stylistics
Paper No. IV(C)
Compulsory/ Optional Optional
Max. Marks 50
Particulars
Unit-1 Linguistics :
Competence and Performance, Morphology, IC Analysis, Amlsiguities.
Unit-2 Phonetics
Transcriptions – Phonetic phonemic, Strong and weak forms, word Accent, the
Word stress rules, intonation and rhythm in connected speech. Difference
between R.P & G.I.E.
Unit-3 Stylistics:
Foregrounding, Repetition, Collocation, Collocational clash, Inversion,
parallelism, coupling, embedding.
Unit-4 Deviance – grammatical and conceptual
Presupposition, pragmatics, Implicature.
(Stylistic Analysis of a poem, two to be set, one to be attempted)
Unit-5 Grammar
Sentence patterns, Syntax, Semantics, Surface structures & deep structures,
Negativisation, Passivisation, Interrogative, and Imperative Transformations.
Books recommended :
1. Verma and Krishnaswamy : Modern Linguistics : An Introduction.
2. A. C. Gimson : An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English.
3. R. K. Bansal : An Outline of General Phonetics.
4. Geoffrey Leech : A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry.
5. David Crystal : Linguistics.
6. Mittins : Attitude to English Usage.
7. N. Krishnaswamy : Modern English.
8. Collims Cobuild : English Grammar.
Note : In addition to the papers of theory, there will be a project of 50 marks in Semester Fourth.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Post Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
As recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2015-2016
Class M.A
Semester III
Subject English Literature
Title of Subject Group Linguistics and Stylistics
Paper No. IV(C)
Compulsory/ Optional Optional
Max. Marks 50
Particulars
Unit-1 Definition of Linguistics, branches, characteristics of language , nature and properties of
language.
Language as a system of communication
Human language and Animal Communication, Language as a system of systems.
Unit-2 Linguistics :
Language varieties, Register & style, Language variation and Sociolinguistics, Language change.
Synchronic, Diachronic & historical linguistics, Minimal and non-minimal pairs.
Unit-3 Phonetics
Organs of speech, speech mechanism, Classification & Description of Speech Sounds,
Consonants & Vowels.
International Phonetic Alphabet, The Phoneme, The Allophones, the syllable, The Phoneme theory
& Syllable Theory.
Unit-4 Grammar
Determiners, Word Classes, Noun Phrase, Verbal group, Verb Phrase, Verb Pattterns Finite & non
finite forms, Article Features, Affix Switch.
Unit-5 Stylistics
Nature and scope; Figures of speech; Imagery.
Books recommended :
1. Verma and Krishnaswamy : Modern Linguistics : An Introduction (OUP 1989).
2. C. Gimson : An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English.
3. R. K. Bansal : An Outline of General Phonetics.
4. Geoffrey Leech : A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (Longman, London 1969)
5. David Crystal : Linguistics (Penguin)
6. Mittins : Attitude to English Usage, Oxford.
7. N. Krishnaswamy : Modern English.
8. Collims Cobuild : English Grammar.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Under Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
as recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the Governor of M.P.
Session 2011-12
Class
B.A./B.Sc./B.Com./B.H.Sc. I Year
Semester
%
II
Subject
%
English Language and Indian Culture
Paper No.
I
Compulsory /Optional
Compulsory
Max. Marks
85 (15 CCE, 85 Semester Exam)
Particulars
Unit-1
1. Amalkanti :
Nirendranath Chakrabarti
2. Sita :
Toru Dutt
3. Tryst with Destiny :
Jawaharlal Nehru
4. Delhi in 1857 :
Mirza Ghalib
5. Preface to the Mahabharata :
C. Rajagopalachari
6. Where the Mind is Without Fear :
Rabindranath Tagore
7. A Song of Kabir :
Translated by Tagore
8. Satyagraha :
M.K. Gandhi
9. Toasted English :
R. K. Narayan
10. The Portrait of a Lady :
Khushwant Singh
11. Discovering Babasaheb :
Ashok Mahadevan
Unit-2
Comprehension
Unit-3
Composition and Paragraph Writing (Based on expansion of an idea).
Unit-4
Basic Language Skills : Vocabulary – Synonyms, Antonyms, Word Formation, Prefixes
and Suffixes, Words likely to be confused and Misused, Words similar in Meaning or
Form, Distinction between Similar Expressions, Speech Skills
Unit-5
Basic Language Skills: Grammar and usage – The Tense Forms, Propositions,
Determiners and Countable/Uncountable Nouns, Verb, Articles, Adverbs.
Prescribed Books : English Language and Indian Culture, published by M. P. Hindi
GrantAcademy.
Department of Higher Education, Govt. of M.P.
Under Graduate Semester wise Syllabus
as recommended by Central Board of Studies and approved by the
Governor of
M.P.
Session 2012-13
Class B.A./B.Sc./B.Com./B.H.Sc.
Semester: IV
Subject : English Language and Scientific Temper
Paper : I
Compulsory/Optional: Compulsory
Max. Marks 85 (Theory Paper 85 marks, CCE 15 marks)
Particulars
Unit 1 20 marks
1. Tina Morris: Tree
2. Nissim Ezekiel: Night of the Scorpion
3. C. P. Snow: Ramanujan
4. Roger Rosenblatt: The Power of WE
5. George Orwell: What is Science?
6. C. Rajagopalachari: Three Questions
7. Desmond Morris: A short extract from
The Naked Ape
8. A. G. Gardiner: On The Rule of the Road
Unit II
Comprehension of an unseen passage
10 marks
Unit III
Letter Writing : Formal Letters, Informal letters, Applications
5 marks
Unit IV
Report Writing
5 marks
Unit V
Language Skills :
10 marks
Correction of common errors in sentence structure: usage of pronouns,
subject/verbagreement,
word order,gender; compound nouns, collective nouns, possessives, articles and prepositios
(advance)
Note :
Scheme of Marks
Unit I
a. This will include 5 objective type questions based on text and language skills. (1x5 = 5
marks)
b. This will also include short-answer questions from text. One question will be asked from
each
lesson (total 8 questions) and 5 have to be attempted (3x5 = 15 marks)