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JECRC UNIVERSITY JAIPUR

SCHEME AND SYLLABUS

FOR THE DEGREE

OF

MASTER OF ARTS

IN ENGLISH

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

JECRC UNIVERSITY JAIPUR [2013-2015]

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MA (English) COURSE OUTLINE

Paper

Code

Subjects L T P C

Semester-I

H11001 Language and Communication Skills 5 1 0 6

H11002 Poetry-I 4 1 0 5

H11003 Drama-I 4 1 0 5

H11004 Prose and Fiction-I 4 1 0 5

Total Credits 21

Semester-II

H12001 Language and Communication Skills-II 5 1 0 6

H12002 Poetry-II 4 1 0 5

H12003 Drama-II 4 1 0 5

H12004 Prose and Fiction-II 4 1 0 5

Total Credits 21

Semester-III

H13001 Literary Criticism – I (Renaissance to New Criticism) 5 1 0 6

H13002 Shakespeare-I 5 1 0 6

H13003 Indian Writing in English-I 5 1 0 6

H13004 American Literature-I 5 1 0 6

Total Credits 24

Semester-IV

H14001 Literary Criticism – II (Renaissance to New Criticism) 4 1 0 5

H14002 Shakespeare-II 4 1 0 5

H14003 Indian Writing in English-II 5 1 0 6

H14025 Dissertation 0 0 10 5

H14004 Open Elective 2 1 0 3

Total Credits 24

Grand Total of Credits 90

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JECRC UNIVERSITY JAIPUR

M.A. (Previous) I – Semester

Paper-I

H11001 LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS {5 1 0 6}

This paper is divided into six units. They are Unit I: Communication. Introduction. Types, Cycle

and Barriers; Unit II: Basic Sentence types. Different types of Sentences. The different functions

of a sentence. Unit III: Word substitution, Idioms and Phrases, Synonyms and Antonyms, Suffix

and Prefix. Unit IV: Theme Writing. Unit V: Job Application and Resume Writing. Unit VI:

Comprehension and Précis Writing.

Recommended Readings:

1. H.H. Stern: Fundamentals of Language Teaching, (OUP).

2. R. Quirk and S. Greenbaum: A University Grammar of the English

Language, Longman, 1973

3. A.S .Hornby: A guide of Patterns and Usage

4. K. Mohan and M. Raman: Effective English Communication, Tata McGraw Hill, 2001.

5. M. J. Murray and H. Hay-Roe: Engineered writing: a manual for scientific, technical, and

business writers. Tulsa, Okla., USA: Penn Well Pub. Co. 1986.

Paper-II

H11002 POETRY- I {4 1 0 5}

This paper offers a historical perspective of English poetry from Chaucer and Milton to the

Romantics, Keats, Browning and Wordsworth. This paper is divided into four units. Unit I: G.

Chaucer: Prologue to the Canterbury Tales and J. Milton‘s Paradise Lost, Book I. Unit II: Five

odes by J. Keats, Unit III: Four poems by the metaphysical poet J. Donne: ―The Sun Rising‖,

―The Ecstasy‖. ―The Apparition‖, ―The Anniversary‖ and A. Pope‘s Rape of the Lock. Unit IV:

W. Wordsworth: Prelude, Book I, ―Immortality Ode‖ and R. Browning‘s ―The Last Ride

Together‖, ―My Last Duchess‖, ―Abt Vogler‖ and ―Rabbi Ben Ezra‖.

Recommended Readings:

1. D. Traversi: The Canterbury tales : a reading. Newark : University of Delaware Press, c1983.

2. D. Danielson. The Cambridge companion to Milton. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge

University Press, 1989.

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3. N. Reisner. John Milton's Paradise lost : a reading guide. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University

Press, c2011.

4. C.M. Bowra. The Romantic Imagination. New York, Oxford University Press, 1961 [c1949].

5. H.A. Beers. A history of English romanticism in the nineteenth century. London Paul, Trench,

Trubner [1902].

6. E. Arnold. Metaphysical poetry. Stratford-upon-Avon studies; 11.

7. D. R. Dickson. (ed.) John Donne's poetry: authoritive texts, criticism. New York: W.W. Norton

& Co., c2007.

8. A. Guibbory (ed.) The Cambridge companion to John Donne. Cambridge, UK; New York :

Cambridge University Press, 2006.

9. P. Rogers. (ed.) The Cambridge companion to Alexander Pope. Cambridge, UK; New York:

Cambridge University Press, 2007.

10. P. Baines. The complete critical guide to Alexander Pope. London; New York: Routledge, 2000.

11. J. Engel: The creative imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard

University Press, 1981.

Paper III

H11003 DRAMA-I {4 1 0 5}

This paper traces English Drama from the Renaissance to the Jacobean Era. It is divided into

four units. Unit I: B. Jonson‘s Every Man in His Humour. This play is prescribed for study. Unit

II: C. Marlowe‘s revenge tragedy Doctor Faustus. Unit III: T. Kyd‘s tragedy The Spanish

Tragedy and J. Webster‘s The Duchess of Malfi. Unit IV: W. Congreve‘s The Way of the World

J. Dryden‘s All for Love.

Recommended Readings:

1. J. Loxley: The complete critical guide to Ben Jonson. London; New York: Routledge, 2002.

2. R. Harp and S. Stewart. (ed.) The Cambridge companion to Ben Jonson. Cambridge; New York:

Cambridge University Press, 2000.

3. T. Rutter. The Cambridge introduction to Christopher Marlowe. Cambridge, UK; New York:

Cambridge University Press, 2012.

4. S. M. Deats and R. A. Logan. Placing the plays of Christopher Marlowe: fresh cultural contexts.

Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub, c2008.

5. L. Erne. Beyond The Spanish tragedy: a study of the works of Thomas Kyd. Manchester; New

York : Manchester University Press; New York: Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,

2001.

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Paper-IV

H11004 PROSE AND FICTION-I {4 1 0 5}

This paper is divided into five units. Unit I: This unit engages with the Gothic Novel and we

will read and discuss M. Shelley‘s Frankenstein. Unit II Selected essays by F. Bacon-- ―Of

Truth‖, ―Of Adversity‖, ―Of Parents and Children‖, ―Of Friendship‖, ―Of Youth and Age‖, and

―Of Studies‖ and T. Hardy‘s modernist novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles. This unit is prescribed

for study. Unit III comprises J. Swift‘s A Battle of the Books. This unit is prescribed for study.

Unit IV is J. Austen‘s Pride and Prejudice. And Unit V E. Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights.

Recommended Readings:

1. M. Kilgour. The rise of the Gothic novel. London; New York: Routledge, 1995.

2. E. Schor. The Cambridge companion to Mary Shelley. Cambridge, UK; New York : Cambridge

University Press, 2003.

3. E. L. Webster-Garrett. The literary career of novelist Mary Shelley after 1822: romance, realism,

and the politics of gender. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, c2006.

4. F. Bacon. Essays. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin

Books, 1985.

SEMESTER II

Paper I

H12001 Language and Communication Skills –II {5 1 0 6}

This paper is divided into five units. Unit I: Here we will study the Formal/Informal Letter, the

components of a letter and its layout, planning a Letter: its tone, purpose, relevant information,

and arranging the material. We will discuss the process of Letter Writing. We will also discuss

E-mail Communication- Introduction & Popularity, the problems of E-mail communication, .

techniques for writing effective E-mails, E-mail etiquette and typography. Unit II: Here we will

discuss memos and memo reports: the usefulness of memos and the importance of context in

writing memos. We will also look at the structure for memos. We will also look at employment

communication: the Organization Role, the goals of interviews, types of interviews, writing a

resume, writing job application letters, the interview process. Unit III: comprises of the notice,

agenda, and minutes of a meeting: the meeting, the notice of a meeting, agenda, minutes,

structure and delivery. We will also look at brochures: the introduction, purpose, audience, and

qualities of a well-designed brochure. And Unit IV we will look at grammar: adjectives and

adverbs, prepositions and prepositional phrases, and the simple sentence. Unit V will include

presentations, GDs, and workshops.

Recommended Readings:

1 H.H. Stern: Fundamentals of Language Teaching, (OUP).

2. R. Quirk and S. Greenbaum: A University Grammar of the English

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Language, Longman, 1973

3. A.S .Hornby: A guide of Patterns and Usage

4. K. Mohan and M. Raman: Effective English Communication, Tata McGraw Hill, 2001.

Paper- II

H12002 Poetry II {4 1 0 5}

This paper is divided into five units. Unit I: a selection from W. Wordsworth‘s autobiographical

epic poem The Prelude, Book I and J. Keats‘ odes—―Ode to Grecian Urn‖, ―Ode to Psyche‖, and

―Ode to Melancholy‖. Unit II W.B. Yeats‘ poems ―Sailing to Byzantium‖, ―Byzantium‖, ―The

Second Coming‖, and ―Among School Children‖. This unit is prescribed for study. Unit III Here

will discuss T.S. Eliot‘s poem The Waste Land. This unit is prescribed for study. Unit IV The

Modernist Welsh poet D. Thomas‘s poems: ―The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the

Flower‖ ―And Death Shall Have No Domain‖, ―Fern Hill‖, ―Do Not Go Gentle into That Good

Night". And his poetry as a ritual enaction of the contradictory and correlated forces of life and

death and poems by P. Larkin: ―Whitsun Wedding‖, ―Ambulance‖, Wants‖, Next, Please‖,

―Toad‖. Unit V The poetry of T. Hughes: ―Pike‖, ―View of a Pig‖, ―Home Roosting‖, ―Thistles‖

Recommended Readings:

1. H. de Almeida. Critical essays on John Keats. Boston, Mass: G.K. Hall, c1990.

2. J. Keats. The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats. Boston, New York, Houghton,

Mifflin and company, c1899.

3. W.B. Yeats. Collected poems. London, Macmillan, 1950.

4. D. Thomas, The poems of Dylan Thomas / edited with an introduction and notes by Daniel

Jones; with a preface by Dylan Thomas. New York: New Directions, 2003.

5. S. Derek. Dylan Thomas; a literary study. New York, Citadel Press 1964.

6. A. Burnett. (ed.) The complete poems of Philip Larkin. London : Faber and Faber, 2012.

7. N. Marsh. Philip Larkin: the poems Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

8. T. Gifford. Ted Hughes : a critical study. London ; Boston: Faber, 198.

Paper-III

H12003 Drama II {4 1 0 5}

Introduction: Modernist twentieth century English drama. This paper comprises four units. Unit

I: G. B. Shaw: Saint Joan. This unit is prescribed for study. Unit II The British Modernist

playwright H. Pinter: The Birthday Party. This unit is prescribed for study. Unit III T. S. Eliot‘s

political play Murder in the Cathedral and J. M. Synge‘s The Playboy of The Western World.

Unit IV S. Becket‘s absurdist play Waiting for Godot and E. Bond‘s political rewriting of

Shakespeare‘s play Lear.

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Recommended Readings: 1. R. Hayman: Harold Pinter,(1968)

2. K. Sagar: The Acheivement of Ted Hughes (1983)

3. K. Worth : Revolutions in Modern English Drama(1973)

4. A. Marwick: British Society Since 1945,(1982)

5. B. Ford (ed.) : Pelican Guide to English Literature- Vol. 1-8

Paper­IV

H12004 Prose and Fiction ­ II {4 1 0 5}

The paper is divided into five units. The first unit is an introduction to the art of essay writing.

Selected essays of the essay writers like G. Orwell‘s ―From Inside the Whale‖, ―Down the

Mine‖, ―Shooting an Elephant‖, ―English Language and Politics‖ and B. Russell‘s ―Ideas that

have helped Mankind‖, ―Ideas that have Harmed Mankind‖ (from Unpopular Essays). The

second unit deals with the English Woman novelist‘s V. Woolf: A Room of One’s Own. In the

third unit, T.S. Eliot‘s selected essays from The Sacred Wood. (‗Hamlet and His Problems‘, ‗The

Perfect Critic‘, ‗The Possibilities of a Poetic Drama‘) are prescribed for study. The fourth unit

contains J. Conrad‘s The Heart of Darkness. The fifth unit consists of E. Hemingway‘s A

Farewell to Arms.

Recommended Readings:

1. A. Poole. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists. Cambridge: CUP.

2. H. Walker. The English Essays and Essayists. London: J M Dent & Sons.

3. P. Lubbock. The Craft of Fiction. New Delhi: Createspace Publishers, 2006.

SEMESTER-III (Final)

Paper-I

H13001 Literary Criticism – I (Renaissance to New Criticism) {5 1 0 6}

The paper is divided into five units. unit-I consists of Aristotle‘s Poetics, unit­II consists of the

essays of the literary critics like Sydney‘s ―Apology for Poetry‖, J. Dryden‘s ―An Essay on

Dramatic Poesy‖, unit-III consists of S. Johnson‘s ―Preface to Shakespeare‖, W. Wordsworth‘s

―Preface to Lyrical Ballads‖, unit-IV contains the essays of the modern literary critics like T.S.

Eliot‘s ―Tradition and Individual Talent‖, I.A. Richard‘s ―Pseudo Statements‖ and ―Four Kinds

of Meaning‖ and unit-V deals with the selected texts of the modern Indian novelists like M.

Anand‘s The Source of Protest in My Novels and S. Rushdie‘s Imaginary Homelands (Chapter-

I).

Recommended Readings:

1. D. J. Enright and Ernst De Chickera. English Critical Texts. Oxford: OUP, 2002.

2. I. A. Richard. Principles of Literary Criticism. Routledge: Routledge Publishers, 2007.

3. N. Fry. The Anatomy of Criticism. New York: Princeton University Press, 2000.

4. W. H. Auden. The Dyer’s Hand & Other Essays. New York: Knopf Doubleday.

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PAPER II

H13002 SHAKESPEARE-I {5 1 0 6}

This paper comprises five units. Here we will read and discuss five plays by W. Shakespeare.

Unit I King Lear. Unit II Hamlet. This unit is prescribed for study. Unit III As You Like It.

This unit is prescribed for study. Unit IV Othello. Unit V Henry IV Part I

Paper­III

H13003 Indian Writing in English–I {5 1 0 6}

The paper is divided into five units. The first unit consists of the essayists and their essays like R.

Tagore‘s ―Nationalism in India‖, ―What is Art‖ and M. K. Gandhi‘s Hind Swaraj. The second

unit deals with poems of the poets like S. Naidu‘s ―The Temple‖ and Sri Aurobindo‘s ―The

Symbol Dawn‖. The third unit deals with the Indian English dramatist like M. Dattani‘s Tara

and G. Karnad‘s Tale Danda. The fourth unit consists of the selected poems from R.

Parthasarathy‘s (ed) Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets. Oxford University Press, India. The

poems which are prescribed for study are: A. K. Ramanujan‘s ―Smallscale Reflections on a Great

House‖, ―Obituary‖ and R. Parthasarathy‘s ―Homecoming‖ Sections 1, 3 & 4. In the fifth unit,

the selected poems of the Indian poets in English like N. Ezekiel‘s ―Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher‖,

―Night of the Scorpion‖ and K. Das‘ ―A Hot Noon in Malabar‖ and ―My Grandmother‘s House‖

are prescribed from Parthasarathy (ed.) Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets. Oxford University

Press, India.

Recommended Readings:

1. K. R. Srinivasa Iyenger. Indian Writing in English. New Delhi: Sterling, 1984.

2. M. K. Naik. Dimensions of Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Sterling, 1965.

3. M. Mukherji. C.D. Narsimha. Realism and Reality.

4. R. Parthasarathy (ed). Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets. Oxford University Press, India.

Paper-IV

H13004-A AMERICAN LITERATURE ­ I {5 1 0 6}

The paper is divided into five units. The first unit deals with an introduction to the American

poetry along with the poems by the American authors like R. Frost‘s ―Stopping by the Woods on

the Snowy Evening‖, ―Mending Wall‖, W. Stevens‘ ―Of Modern Poetry‖ and ―Anecdote of the

Jar‖. In the second unit the poets and their poems like W. Whitman‘s ―Preface to the Leaves of

Grass‖, ―Crossing Brooklyn Ferry‖ and E. Dickinson‘s ―A Bird Came Down the Walk‖, ―I heard

a fly buzz‖, ―A Light Exists‖ are prescribed for study. The third consists of R.W. Emerson‘s

―The American Scholar‖ and ―Self­Reliance.‖ The fourth unit deals with the American dramatist

A. Miller‘s Death of a Salesman. In the fifth and the last unit, M. Twain‘s Huckleberry Finn is

prescribed for study.

Recommended Readings:

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1. A. Lewis. American Plays and Playwrights of the Contemporary Theatre. New

York: Crown, 1965.

2. B. Ford. Ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol. 9.

3. E. Bentley. In Search of Theatre. New York, Knop, 1953.

4. H. Bloom. Ed. Eugene O’Neill. New York, Chelsea, 1987.

5. S. Baqohee. Ed. Perspectives on O’Neill: New Essays. New York: University

of Victoria, 1988.

6. S. Mukherjee and D.V.K. Raghavacharyulu Eds. Indian Essays in American

Literature. Bombay Popular, 1969.

7. T. Morrison. Playing in the Dark, I Chapter. 25.

SEMESTER-IV

PAPER I

H14001 Literary Criticism-II (Modern And Contemporary Criticism) {4 1 0 5}

This paper comprises five units. Unit I R.S Crane: ―Conception of Poetic Structure in

Contemporary Criticism‖ and N. Frye: ―Archetypes of Literature‖. Unit II H. Widdowson:

―Stylistics‖, G. Genette‘s ―Structuralism and Literary Criticism‖ and Stanley Fish‘s ―Is there a

Text in the Class?‖ Unit III Post structuralism: J. Derrida ―Structure, Sign and Play in the

Discourse of the Human Sciences‖ and E. Showalter: ―Towards a Feminist Poetics‖. Unit IV A.

Pope‘s ―Essay on Criticism‖ Unit V Indian Aesthetics. Bharata: Natyashastra (Chapter I) with

translated excerpts from Abhinavbharti ed.J. L.Mason, M. Hiriyanna‘s ―The Main Aspects of

Indian Aesthetics‖ and V. Raghavan‘s ―Auchitya in Sanskrit Poetics‖.

Recommended Readings: 1. W. L. Guerin et al. A Handful of Critical Approaches to Literature. OUP, 1999.

2. R. S. Crane in V.S. Sethuraman and S. Ramswamy, ed. The English Critical

Tradition (The Major Statements). Light and Life Publishers, New Delhi, 1974.

3. N. Frye in Handy and Westbrook, ed. Twentieth Century Criticism.

4. Selections for Widdowson, Gennete, Stanley Fish, Derrida, Showalter and Medvedev and

Bhaktin in V.S. Sethuraman ed., Contempory Criticism: An Anthology. Macmillan India, 1982.

Paper­II

H14002 SHAKESPEARE ­ II {4 1 0 5}

The paper is divided into five units. Each unit deals with a single play by W. Shakespeare. In the

first unit, Shakespeare‘s comic play The Twelfth Night is prescribed for study. Similarly in the

second unit, Shakespeare‘s The Tempest is prescribed. The third unit deals with the tragedy

Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. The fourth unit consists of Shakespeare‘s tragic-comedy The

Merchant of Venice. In the fifth unit, The Comedy of Errors is prescribed for study.

Recommended Readings: 1. A. C. Bradley. Shakespearean Tragedy. New Delhi: AITBS Publishers, 2008.

2. A. Leggatt. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge Up,

2002.

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3. C. McEACHERN. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy. Cambridge:

Cambridge Up, 2002.

4. E. Dowden. Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2003.

PAPER­III

H14003 INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH ­ II {5 1 0 6}

The paper is divided into five units. The first unit deals with the introduction to the Indian novel

in English and the novel Rajmohan’s Wife by B. C. Chatterjee. In the second unit, *S. R.

Krishnan‘s Kalki and M. Anand‘s Coolie are described for study. The third unit consists of the

two novels of Indian novelists in English i. e. R. K. Narayan‘s The Man­Eater of Malgudi and

Bama: Sangati: Events. The fourth unit consists of the two novels viz R. Rao‘s Kanthapura and

A. Desai‘s Cry, the Peacock. In the fifth unit, A. Ghosh‘s The Shadow Lines is prescribed. One

question on critical comments on passages from the two texts for detailed study, marked with an

asterisk.

Recommended Readings:

1. S. Pandey. Contemporary Poets in English.

2. A Nandy. Re-Imagining India and Other Essays.

3. G. Devy. Literary Criticism.

4. S. Matterson. Studying Poetry.

5. R. Kumar. Dalit Personal Narratives.

6. P. Rubel. Translating Culture.

7. V. Pecora. Nations and Identities.

Paper­IV

H14004 OPEN ELECTIVE {2 1 0 3}

H14025 DISSERTATION {0 0 10 5}