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SHIVAJI UNIVERSITY, KOLHAPUR

Syllabus for M. A. English Programme

(Choice Based Credit System with Internal Evaluation)

To be introduced from June 2017 (for Regular Students)

To be introduced from June 2018 (for Distance mode Students)

OBJECTIVES:

The objective of this syllabus is:

1. To provide a wide range of options at post-graduate level under Choice Based Credit

System comprising core and elective papers of Literature and Language and assess the

performance of students through four semester exams having 80 marks each for written

papers and 20 marks for internal evaluation except Research Methodology courses.

2. To introduce core literature courses to provide comprehensive knowledge of major

literary works of the periods with the help of representative texts and to acquaint the

students with literary movements, genres and critical theories.

3. To introduce core language courses to provide an introduction to the basic concepts of

linguistic theory.

4. To introduce elective courses to acquaint the students with Global developments in

Literature, Language and Theory.

5. To introduce practical components to enhance students’ competence in English, Soft

Skills, Computer and Research Skills.This will help students prepare for language

proficiency tests like GRE-TOEFL, IELTS, etc.

6. To introduce interdisciplinary papers to make students aware of the developments in other

branches of knowledge like Political Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Theatre and Film

Studies, Culture Studies, Subaltern Studies, Gender Studies, etc.

7. To develop research perspective among the students and to enable them to write a short

dissertation with the help of the Research Methodology courses.

SEM-I Courses

C1: Poetry in English up to 19th century

C2: Fiction in English up to 19th century

C3: Introduction to Modern Linguistics

E1: Elective

SEM-II Courses

C4: Poetry in English: Modern and Postmodern

C5: Fiction in English: Modern and Postmodern

C6: Sociolinguistics and Stylistics

E2: Elective

SEM-III Courses

C7: Drama in English up to 19th century

C8: Critical Theories- I

E3: Elective

E4: Elective

SEM-IV Courses

C9: Drama in English: Modern and Postmodern

C10: Critical Theories- II

E5: Elective

E6: Elective

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Elective Courses:

Group

E 1

E 2

E 3

E 4 *E 5 *E 6 E 5 E 6

Exclusively For Regular

Students

Exclusively For

College PG Centres

and Distance mode

students

I. British

Literature

British

Renaissanc

e

Literature

British

Neoclassica

l and

Romantic

Literature

Victorian

and Early

Modern

Period

Modern and

Postmodern

British

Literature

British

Literature

and

Interdiscipli

nary Studies

Research

Methodology: British

Literature

Special

Author:

Kingsley

Amis

British

Women

Writers

II. American

Literature

American

Literature

up to Civil

War

American

Literature

from the

Civil War

to the Turn

of the

Century

Modern

American

Literature

Postmodern

American

Literature

American

Literature

and

Interdiscipli

nary Studies

Research

Methodology: American

Literature

Special

Author: Ernest

Hemingway

American

Women

Writers

III. New

Literatures

Indian

English

Literature

English

Literatures

of SAARC

Nations

African

and

Caribbean

Literature

Australian

and Canadian

Literature

Interdiscipli

nary Studies

Research

Methodology:

New

Literatures

Special

Author:

Amitav

Ghosh

Postcoloni

al Women

Writers

∞IV. Linguistics

Applied

Linguistics

Theories of

Language

Learning

Theoretical

and

Descriptive

Linguistics

English

Language

Teaching

Stylistics

Research

Methodology -- --

∞V. Comparative

Literature

and

Translation

Studies

Comparati

ve

Literature: Theory

Comparativ

e Study of

Major

Literary

Movements

: English

and Marathi

Translatio

n Studies: Theory

Translation: Problems and

Evaluation

Adaptations

of a Literary

Text

Research

Methodology

in

Comparative

Literature

-- --

#VI

Cultural

Studies

Introductio

n to

Cultural

Studies

Popular

Culture

Cultural

Studies:

Theory – I

Cultural

Studies and

Media

Cultural

Studies:

Theory – II

Research

Methodology:

Cultural

Studies

-- --

#VII

Gender

Studies

Introductio

n to

Gender

Studies

Feminist

Movements

and

Theories

Masculinity

Studies

LGBT and

Queer

Studies

Gender

Studies:

Application

of Theories

Research

Methodology -- --

#VIII

Sociolinguis

tics

Sociolingu

istics:

Basic

Issues and

Concepts

Language

Contact

World

Englishes

Dialectology

Extensions in

Sociolinguisti

cs

Research

Methodology -- --

* Courses only for regular students

∞ Elective groups open for Regular Students.

# Elective groups open for University Department Students. (These Elective Papers will

be introduced from the Academic Year 2018-19)

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M.A. Part I

SEMESTER I

C1: Poetry in English up to 19th century

Unit 1: Tradition of Pindaric Ode

Pindar–Odes (Selected Poems from Pindar: The Complete Odes. Translated by

Anthony Verity. Oxford: OUP, 2007.)

a. Olympian: 1 to 3

b. Pythians: 1 to 3.

c. Nemeans: 1 to 3.

Unit2: Russian Romanticism

Alexander Pushkin: (Selected Poems from Poems, Prose and Plays of Alexander

Pushkin. New York: Modern Library, 1936.)

a. The Bronze Horseman, b. Winter Evening,

c. The Coach of Life, d. With Freedom’s Seed,

e. Beneath her Native Skies, f. Arion

g. To the Poet, h. Elegy

i. When in My Arms, j. Autumn

Unit 3: French Symbolist Poetry

Stéphane Mallarmé- (Selected poems from Collected Poems and Other Verse.

Translated and notes by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore. Oxford: OUP, 2006.)

a. Funerary Toast, b. Prose

c. The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe, d. The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire

e. To Introduce Myself into your Tale… f. Homage

g. A Few Sonnets, h. Little Ditty

i. Remembering Belgian Friends, j. Album Leaf

k. Fan – l. Another Fan

Unit 4: American Romanticism

Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’

Reference Books:

The Home book of verse, American and English, 1580-1920, ed. Burton Egbert Stevenson.

Pindar, Ian Rutherford, Oxford University Press, 2001

Briggs, A. D. P., Alexander Pushkin: A Critical Study, Barnes & Noble Books, Totowa,

New Jersey, 1983

Stéphane Mallarmé - (Selected poems from Collected Poems and Other Verse. Translated

and notes by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore. Oxford: OUP, 2006

The collected writings of Walt Whitman-Harold .W. Blodgett and Scully Bradley,

University of London Press, 1965.

The Oxford book of English of Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome Edited by Michael Gagarin, OUP

2010

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Revard, Stella P., Politics, Poetics, and the Pindaric Ode 1450–1700, Turnhout, Brepols

Publishers, 2010,

Burnett, Anne Pippin, Pindar (London: Bristol Classical Press, 2008) (Ancients in action).

Binyon, T. J. (2002) Pushkin: A Biography. London: HarperCollins US edition: New

York: Knopf, 2003

Yuri Druzhnikov (2008) Prisoner of Russia: Alexander Pushkin and the Political Uses of

Nationalism, Transaction Publishers

Stéphane Mallarmé: Collected Poems and Other Verse, Oxford: OUP, 2006.

Stéphane Mallarmé – Ed. Mary Ann Caws, A New Directions Book, 1982

Greenspan, Ezra, ed. Walt Whitman’s "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical

Edition. New York: Routledge, 2005

C2: Fiction in English up to the end of 19th century

Unit 1: Rise and development of British Novel

Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews.

Unit2: Realism (and Naturalism) in Fiction

Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary

Unit 3: Psychological Fiction

Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment

Unit 4: 19th Century American Short Fiction

E. A. Poe:‘The Fall of the House of Usher’

O’Henry: ‘The Gift of the Magi’

Reference Books:

Waugh, Patricia, Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious fiction,

Routledge, 1984.

Church, Margaret (1983)."Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Kafka's The Trial".

Structure and Theme – Don Quixote to James Joyce. Ohio State University Press.

Meyers, Jeffrey (1992).Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy. New York: Cooper Square

Press.

Frederic Tuten, Dostoevsky‘s Crime and Punishment, New York, 1963

Sava, Dawn B, Edgar A. Poe A TO Z: The Essential Reference to his life and Work. New

York: Checkmark Books, 2001

C3: Introduction to Modern Linguistics

Unit 1: Nature, scope and branches of Linguistics

Unit2: Major Concepts in Linguistics: Langue/parole, signifier/ signified, synchronic/

diachronic, syntagmatic/ paradigmatic, competence/ performance, Jakobson’s six

elements/ functions of Speech Event

Unit 3: Semantics - Approaches to study of Meaning, Seven types of meaning

Unit 4: Pragmatics – Emergence of pragmatics, speech act theory, cooperative and

politeness principles

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Reference Books:

Verma, S.k . (1989).Modern Linguistics: An Introduction.

Mccabe, Anne .(2011). Introduction to Linguistics and Language Studies. London: Equinox

publication.

David, Crystal. (1971). Linguistics. London: Penguin

Lyons, John. (1981). Language and Linguistics: An Introduction. Master Trinity Hall,

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Radford, Andrew. (2002). Linguistics: An Introduction.et.al. New York: Cambridge

University Press.

Potter, Simeon. (1957). Modern Linguistics. London: Andre Deutsch.

Lass, Roger. (1976). English phonology and Phonological Theory-Synchronic and

diachronic studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Balsubramanian T. (1981). (2008). A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students.

Macmillan India Limited.

O’Connor J.D. (1967). (2009). Better English Pronunciation. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

Aronoff, Mark, Fudeman Kirsten. (2011). What is Morphology (Fundamentals of

Linguistics).Wiley- Blackwell: A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Publication.

Andrew, Carnie. (2013). Syntax: A Generative Introduction. Third edition. Wiley-

Blackwell: A John Wiley &Sons, Ltd. Publication.

Scott, F. C. (1968). English Grammar: A Linguistic Study of its classes and structures.

London: Heinemann Educational books.

Wilkins, Wendy (ed.) (1988). Syntax and Semantics. San Diego Press, Academic Press.

Catell, Ray. (1984). Syntax and Semantics: Composite Predicates in English .Sydney

Academic.

SEMESTER II

C4: Modern and Postmodern Poetry

Unit 1: Modern Australian poetry

Alec Derwent Hope (Poems selected from The Penguin Book of Australian Verse

edited by Harry Haseltine)

a. Australia, b. The Wandering Islands

c. The Death of the Bird, d. The Imperial Adam

e. Pasiphae, f. Letter from the Line

g. Ode on the Death of Pius the Twelfth, h. Crossing the Frontier

Unit2: Modern British Poetry

T.S.Eliot- The Waste Land

Unit 3: Poetry of Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes: (Poem Selected from The Norton Anthology of Poetry.edited

by Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, Jon Stallworthy. (5th ed.)

a. The Weary Blues, b. The Negro Speaks of Rivers

c. Dream Variations, d. Cross

e. Bad Luck Card, f. Song for a Dark Girl

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g. Harlem Sweeties, h. Harlem

i. Theme for English B, j. Dinner Guest: Me

Unit 4: Modern Indian Poetry

Jayant Mahapatra: (The Oxford Indian Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets

edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. OUP)

a. A Rain of Rites, b. I Hear My Fingers Sadly Touching an Ivory Key

c. Hunger, d. Hands

e. The Moon Moments, f. A Kind of Happiness

g. The Door, h. The Abandoned British Cemetry at Balasore

i. The Captive Air of Chandipur-on-Sea, j. Of that Love

k. Days, l. Waiting

Reference Books:

Hooton Joy, A. D. Hope Oxford University Press, 1979

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance edited by George Hutchinson,

CUP, New York, 2007

Tracy Steven C., Langston Hughes and the Blues University of Illinois Press, Urbana and

Chicago, 2001.

The Oxford Indian Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets edited by Arvind Krishna

Mehrotra. OUP1992

Robson, W.W.: Modern English Literature: OUP, 1970.

Press, John: Rule and Energy: Trends in British Poetry since Second World War, OUP,

New York, Toronto, 1963.

Williamson, G Reader’s Guide to T.S.Eliot, Syracuse University Press, 1998.

Sharma, Jitendra Kumar: Time and T. S. Eliot, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1985.

Robert M Wren: J.P. Clark, Twayne Publishers, 1984

Wilde William H., Hooton Joy, Andrews B. G. (Ed), The Oxford Companion to Australian

Literature, OUP, 1994.

Trotman James C. (Ed.) Langston Hughes: The Man, His Art, and His Continnuing

Influence Garland Publishing, Inc. New York & London, 1995.

Edwin Thumboo: An Ibadan Dawn: The Poetry of J. P. Clark Books Abroad Vol. 44, No. 3

1970 Published by: Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma

Chindhade, Shrish: Five Indian English Poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan, Arun

Kolatkar, Dilip Chitre, R. Parthasarathy, Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 1996.

Naik, M. K.: Perspectives on Indian Poetry in English. Abhinav Publications, 1985.

C5: Modern and Postmodern Fiction

Unit 1: Existentialism and Modern Fiction

Albert Camus – The Outsider

Unit2: Tribe and Nationhood in Modern Fiction

Chinua Achebe– Things Fall Apart

Unit 3: Postmodernism in Fiction

Orhan Pamuk-My Name is Red

Unit 4: Feminism in Postmodern Indian Fiction

Githa Hariharan– The Thousand Faces of Night

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Reference Books:

Hughes, Edward J., Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Albert Camus. Cambridge: CUP,

2007.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Interpretations: Albert Camus’s The Stranger. New

York: Chelsea House, 2001.

Patil, Mallikarjun. Trends and Techniques in Modern English Literature. Author Press

(2011).

Nicol, Bran. The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction. C U P

C6: Sociolinguistics and Stylistics

Unit 1: Sociolinguistics:

Language and society, Speech community, Varieties- languages, dialect, register,

style; Language contact- pidgin, creole, diglossia, code mixing, code switching

and borrowing

Unit 2: Register Analysis

Unit 3: Stylistics:

Ordinary language and language of literature; foregrounding- deviations and

parallelism; analysing metaphor

Unit 4: Stylistic analysis of poetry

Reference Books:

Peter, Trudgil. Sociolinguistics: An introduction to Language. Penguin Books (S U Lib)

Mohsen, Ghadessy. Register Analysis: Theory and Practice. Amazon .com (Net)

Jeffries, Lesley & Macintyre, Dan. Stylistics. C U P. (S U)

Leech, G. N. A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry. Longman. (S U)

Hudson, R. A. Sociolinguistics. C U P.

Biber, Duglas. Register, Genre and Style. C U P (Net)

Verdonk, Peter & Widdowson. Stylistics. O U P.

Widdowson, H. G. Stylistics and the Teaching of Literature.Longman. (S U )

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M.A. Part II

SEMESTER III

C7: Drama in English up to 19th century

Unit 1:

General Topic: Sanskrit Drama

Text: Vishakhadatta’s Mudrarakshasa (4/8c. BC)

Unit 2:

General Topic: Greek Drama

Text: Euripides’s – Medea (431 BC)

Unit 3:

General Topic: Elizabethan Drama

Text: Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta (1589/90)

Unit 4:

General Topic: Realism in Drama

Text: Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler (1891)

Reference Books:

Leech, Clifford, Tragedy (Critical Idiom Series: Methuen)

Kitto, H.D.F. Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study. London: University Paperbacks, 1950.

Fyfe, Hamilton W., Aristotle’s Art of Poetry: A Greek View of Poetry and Drama, London

OUP, 1957

Varadpande, Manohar Laxman. History of Indian Theatre: Classical theatre. Volume 3 of

History of Indian Theatre, Abhinav Publications, 1987.

Keith, A.B. The Sanskrit Drama its Origin, Development, Theory and Practice. London :

OUP, 1959.

Mirashi, Vasudev Vishnu. Kalidasa: Date, Life and Works (Bombay Popular, 1969)

Eliot, T. S.. Essays on Elizabethan Drama. New York: Harvest Book. 1932.

Schelling, Felix Emmanuel. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in

England from the Accession of Queen Elizabeth to the Closing of the Theaters. Read

Books, 2008

Boulton, Marjorie: The Anatomy of Drama. Ludhiana: Kalyani Publishers, 1979.

Raymond Williams. Drama: From Ibsen to Brecht. London: University Press, 1987.

Esslin, Martin: An Anatomy of Drama. London: Temple Smith 1976

Kitto, H.D.F.: Form and Meaning in Drama. (London: Methuen).

Styan, J. L.: Modern Drama in Theory and Practice. Volume 1, Realism and Naturalism.

Cambridge: CUP, 1982.

Mane, Prabhanjan. Interpreting Drama. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2010.

Raymond Williams. Drama: From Ibsen to Eliot. Chatto and Windus, 1952.

Theory of Drama: - Rai R.N., Classical Publication, Delhi.

The Modern Drama :- Maeterlinck Maurice, Oriental Publication, Delhi.

British Drama: - Nicoll Allordyce, Dorba House, Delhi.

Feminism and Literature: - Dass Veena. Prestige Books, New Delhi.

Dramatic Theory & Practice: - Kashwaha M. S. Creative Books New Delhi.

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Indian English Drama: - Dodiya and Surendram . Sarup and Sons Publication, Delhi.

Contemporary Indian Drama: - Talawar Urmil and Chakraborty Bandana, Rawat

Publication, New Delhi.

Frederick S. Boas. , Christopher Marlowe, A Biographical and Critical Study (Oxford:

Clarendon Press, 1953).

C8: Critical Theory- I

Unit 1: Psychoanalytical criticism

Marxist Criticism

Structuralist Criticism

Unit 2:

1. Carl Jung – ‘Psychology and Literature’ (from 20th Century Literary Criticism –

Reader, Ed. By David Lodge)

2. Juliet Mitchell- ‘Femininity, narrative and psychoanalysis’ from Modern Criticism

and Theory A Reader Edited by David Lodge

Unit 3:

1. Baliber and Macherey – ‘Literature as an Ideological Form’ (Essay 13 from Rice

and Waugh)

2. Terry Eagleton- On Canon Formation – from Literary Theory: An Introduction

(Essay 40 from Rice and Waugh’s Modern Literary Theory” A Reader, Fourth

Edition)

Unit 4:

1. Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the Folk-tale (from Literary Theory, An

Anthology, edited by Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. - 2nd ed.)

2. Tzvetan Todorov ‘The typology of detective fiction’ from Modern Criticism and

Theory A Reader Edited by David Lodge

Reference Books:

Rice and Waugh. Ed. Modern Literary Theory: A Reader. 4th Edition London: Hodder

Arnold. 2001.

Lodge, David. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. 2nd Edition. Harlow, England:

Longman Publication. 2000.

Lodge, David. Ed. 20th Century Literary Criticism – Reader, Routledge; 2016.

Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. OUP. 1997.

Newton, K. M. Twentieth-Century Literary Theory. Macmillan Education. 1997

Leitch, Vincent B. and Cain, William E., Eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory And

Criticism. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2001.

Bronner, Stephen Eric. Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction. 1st Edition. Oxford

University Press; 2011.

Bennett, Andrew and Royle, Nicholas. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and

Theory. 5th Edition. Routledge. 2016

Eagleton Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction 3rd Edition. University Of Minnesota

Press, 2008.

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Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary & Cultural Theories, 2nd

ed., Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2004.

Cuddon, J. A., Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Wiley, 2013

M.S. Nagarajan, English Literary Criticism & Theory: An Introductory History,

Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2006.

Selden, Widdowson and Brooker. Eds, A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary

Theory, New Delhi: Pearson, 2006.

M.A. Part –II

SEMESTER -IV

C9: Drama in English: Modern & Postmodern

Unit 1:

General Topic: Rejection of Realism in Drama

Text: Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921)

Unit 2:

General Topic: The Epic Theatre

Text: Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1948)

Unit 3:

General Topic: The Theatre of the Absurd

Text: Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1961-2)

Unit 4:

General Topic: Modern Indian Drama

Text: Manjula Padmanabhan’s Lights Out (1986)

Reference Books:

Raymond Williams. Drama: From Ibsen to Brecht. London: University Press, 1987.

Bassanese, F. A. , Understanding Luigi Pirandello. Univ of South Carolina Press, 1997.

Pirandello Luigi, Bentley Eric. Six Characters in Search of an Author. Signet Classics,1998.

Harold Bloom. Luigi Pirandello (Bloom’s major dramatists). Philadelphia. Chelsea House

Publishers. 2003.

Antonin Artaud. The Theater and its Double. London: Colder and Boyers, 1970.

Travis Bogard and W.T. Oliver.ed. Modern Drama. London: OUP, 1965.

Styan, J. L. The Dark Comedy: The Development of Modern Comic Tragedy. Cambridge:

CUP, 1962

Brustein, Robert., The Theatre of Revolt. New York: NYU, 1991.

Styan J. L., Modern Drama in Theory and Practice. Cambridge: CUP, 1982.

Styan J. L. Elements of Drama. Cambridge: CUP, 1960.

M. Bennett, Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and

Pinter. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011

Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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Matthew Roudané, Edward Albee: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge introductions to

literature. Cambridge University Press, 2017

Govind P. Deshpande, Modern Indian drama: An Anthology Sahitya Akademi, 2000

Sudhakar Pandey, Freya Barua. New Directions in Indian Drama: With Special Reference to

the Plays of Vijay Tendulkar, Badal Sircar and Girish Karnad, Prestige, 1994

M. K. Naik, Shankar Mokashi-Punekar, Perspectives on Indian drama in English, Oxford

University Press, 1977

Bradbury and McFarlane eds. Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890- 1930

(Penguin)

Peter Childs. Modernism (Routledge: The New Critical Idiom Series)

Patricia Waugh ed. Postmodernism: A Reader (Edward Arnold)

Barret H. Clark. A Study of Modern Drama. New York: NYUP, 1925.

Mane, Prabhanjan. Interpreting Drama. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2010.

Gassner John, Masters of the Drama, New York, Dover Publication 1954.

Lumley Frederich, New Trends in 20th Century Drama, Barrie and, London, Jenkins, 1972.

C10: Critical Theory- II

Unit 1: Poststructuralist Criticism

Feminist Criticism

Postcolonialism

Unit 2:

1. Derrida – ‘Structure Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’

(From David Lodge’s Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader.)

2. Foucault – ‘What is an Author?’ (From David Lodge’s Modern Criticism and

Theory: A Reader.)

Unit 3:

1. Gilbert and Gubar – From ‘The Madwoman in the Attic’ (essay 15 from Rice and

Waugh’s. Modern Literary Theory: A Reader)

2. Umberto Eco: Casablanca: Cult movies and intertextual collage (From David

Lodge’s Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader.)

Unit 4:

1. Anandvardhana: ‘Dhvani: Structure of Poetic Meaning’. (From G. N. Devy’s

Indian Literary Criticism. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan) P. 31 to 40.

2. Homi Bhabha: ‘Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse’

(Essay 15 from Rice and Waugh’s Modern Literary Theory: A Reader)

Reference Books:

Rice and Waugh. Ed. Modern Literary Theory: A Reader. 4th Edition London: Hodder

Arnold. 2001.

Lodge, David. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. 2nd Edition. Harlow, England:

Longman Publication. 2000.

Devy, G. N. Indian Literary Criticism. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan

Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge. 1994.

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Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years Ed. Annette R. Federico

University of Missouri Columbia.2009.

Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. OUP. 1997.

Newton, K. M. Twentieth-Century Literary Theory. Macmillan Education. 1997

Leitch, Vincent B. and Cain, William E., Eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory And

Criticism. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2001.

Bronner, Stephen Eric. Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction. 1st Edition. Oxford

University Press; 2011.

Bennett, Andrew and Royle, Nicholas. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and

Theory. 5th Edition. Routledge. 2016

Eagleton Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction 3rd Edition. University Of Minnesota

Press, 2008.

Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary & Cultural Theories, 2nd

ed., Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2004.

Cuddon, J. A., Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Wiley, 2013

M.S. Nagarajan, English Literary Criticism & Theory: An Introductory History,

Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2006.

Selden, Widdowson and Brooker. Eds, A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary

Theory, New Delhi: Pearson, 2006.

Jaaware, Aniket. Simplifications: An Introduction to Structuralism and Post-structuralism,

Orient Blackswan, 2001.

Group 1: British Literature

G1E1 – British Renaissance Literature

Unit 1. British Renaissance: Intellectual Background

Francis Bacon – Selected Essays (Essays I to XX)

(Of Truth, Of Death, Of Unity in Religion, Of Revenge, Of Adversity, Of Simulation

and Dissimulation, Of Parents and Children, Of Marriage and Single Life, Of Envy,

Of Love, Of Great Place, Of Boldness, Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature, Of

Nobility, Of Seditions and Trouble, Of Atheism, Of Superstition, Of Travel, Of

Empire, Of Counsel.)

(Selby, F. G. Ed. Bacon’s Essays. Basingztoke: Macmillan, 1971)

Unit 2. Shakespearean Tragedy

William Shakespeare – King Lear

Unit 3. Epic Tradition

John Milton – Paradise Lost (Book I)

Unit 4. Elizabethan and Metaphysical poetry (Selected Poems)

(Source: The Norton Anthology of Poetry (5th ED.) Margaret Ferguson Jo Salter, Jon

Stallworthy (ed.): W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London)

Edmund Spenser: Sonnets from Amoretti.

Sonnet 75: ‘One day I wrote her name upon the strand’

Sonnet 79: ‘Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it’

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586): ‘Ye Goatherd God’, ‘The Nightingale’, ‘Ring Out Your Bells’

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Michael Drayton (1563-1631): Sonnets from IDEA

Sonnet No. 1: Into these loves who but for passion looks

Sonnet No. 61: Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part

John Donne: ‘A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning’, ‘The Sun Rising’;

Andrew Marvell: ‘To His Coy Mistress’, ‘The Definition of Love’;

George Herbert: ‘Easter Wings’, ‘The Collar’.

Reference Books:

Blamiers, Harry. A Short History of English Literature. London: Routledge, 2003.

Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature Vol.1-4.

Carter, Ronald and John McRay. The Routledge History of Literature in English. London:

Routledge, 2001.

Saintsbury, George. A History of Elizabethan Literature. London: Macmillan, 1920.

Bradley, A. C. Shakespearean Tragedy.London: Macmillan, 2003.

McEachern, Claire, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy.


Danielson, Dennis, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Milton. Cambridge: CUP, 1997.

Kinney, Arthur F., Ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Literature: 1500-1600.


Corns, Thomas N., Ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry: Donne to Marvell.


G1E 2 – British Neoclassical and Romantic Literature

Unit 1. Restoration Drama (Comedy) –

William Congreve – The Way of the World

Unit 2. 18th Century British Fiction

Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels (Book I & II)

Unit 3. Romanticism in British Fiction

Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

Unit 4. Neoclassical & Romantic poetry (Selected Poems)

Alexander Pope: ‘Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot’, ‘The Dunciad’;

Dr. Samuel Johnson: ‘Vanity of Human Wishes’,

Thomas Gray: ‘The Elegy Written in Country Churchyard’

William Wordsworth: ‘Tintern Abbey’;

S.T. Coleridge: ‘Kubla Khan’,

P.B. Shelley: ‘Ode to the West Wind’,

John Keats:‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’.

Reference Books:



Carter, Ronald and John McRay. The Routledge History of Literature in English. London:

Routledge, 2001.

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Zwicker, Steven N., Ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Literature: 1650-1740.


Fisk, Deborah Payne, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre.


Fox, Christopher, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift. Cambridge: CUP,

2003.

Keymer, Thomas, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Literature: 1740-1830.


Copeland, Edward and Juliet McMaster, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen.


Curran, Stuart, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Cambridge: CUP,

2003.

G1 E 3 – Victorian and Early Modern Period

Unit 1. Victorian Novel

Emily Brönte – Wuthering Heights

Unit 2. 19th Century British Drama

John Galsworthy– Justice

Unit 3. Victorian and Early Modern Short Story

Selected Short Stories

Rudyard Kipling: ‘They’

Joseph Conrad: The Secret Sharer

Robert Louis Stevenson: The Body Snatcher

Thomas Hardy: The Three Strangers

H. G. Wells: The Country of The Blind

Wilkie Collins: Who Killed Zebedee?

Unit 4. Victorian and Early Modern Poetry (Selected Poems)

Lord Alfred Tennyson: ‘Ulysses’, ‘Charge of Light Brigade’

Robert Browning: ‘My Last Duchess’,

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: ‘The Blessed Damozel’,

G.M. Hopkins: ‘Pied Beauty’,

W.B. Yeats: ‘Sailing to Byzantium’,

War Poets: Rupert Brook-‘The Soldier’,

Siegfried Sassoon ‘Christ and the Soldier’,

Wilfred Owen-‘Dulce et Decorum est’.

Reference Books:



Carter, Ronald and John McRay. The Routledge History of Literature in English.

London: Routledge, 2001.

Adams, James Eli. A History of Victorian Literature. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

David, Deirdre, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel. Cambridge:

CUP, 2001.

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Glen, Heather, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Bröntes. Cambridge: CUP, 2002.

Powell, Kerry, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre.


G1E 4 – Modern and Postmodern British Literature

Unit 1. (Modern and) Postmodern Irish Drama

Brian Friel– Dancing at Lughnasa (1990)

Unit 2. British Feminism

Fay Weldon – Fat Woman’s Joke

Unit 3. Postwar British Fiction

William Golding– Rites of Passage (1980)

Unit 4. Modern and Postmodern Poetry (Selected Poems)

Philip Larkin: ‘Church Going’, ‘Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph

Album’

W. H. Auden: ‘Museé des Beaux Arts’, ‘The Unknown Citizen’

Ted Hughes: ‘Hawk Roosting’, ‘Horses’

Seamus Heaney: ‘A Drink of Water’, ‘Follower’

Dylan Thomas: ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ ‘And Death Shall

Have No Dominion’

Reference Books:



Carter, Ronald and John McRay. The Routledge History of Literature in English.


Levenson, Michael, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. Cambridge: CUP,

2005.

Connor, Steven, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism. Cambridge: CUP,

2004.

Caserio, Robert L., Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English

Novel. Cambridge: CUP, 2009.

Corcoran, Neil, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English

Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 2007.

Richards, Shaun, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century Irish

Drama. Cambridge: CUP, 2009

G1E 5 – British Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies

Text: William Shakespeare- Hamlet (1603)

Unit 1: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Gender studies

Unit 2: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Psychology

Unit 3: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Culture

Unit 4: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Film adaptations

Reference Books:

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Grazia, Margreta De, and Stanley Wells, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare.


Jackson, Russell, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Cambridge: CUP,

2000.

The Approach to Shakespeare 1st edition London: Thomas Nelson 1925.

Saintsbury, George. A History of Elizabethan Literature. London: Macmillan, 1920.

Bradley, A. C. Shakespearean Tragedy. London: Macmillan, 2003.

McEachern, Claire, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy. Cambridge:

CUP, 2004.

Kinney, Arthur F., Ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Literature: 1500-1600.


Dobson, Michael, Ed. The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford: OUP, 2001.

Mc Evoy Sean: Shakespeare The Basics, Routledge, London, 2000.

Gandhi, Leela. (ed.) William Shakespeare, Canon and Critique, Pencraft International,

Delhi, 1998.

G1 E6 Research Methodology: British Literature

Unit 1: Research in Literature: Key Issues

Research questions, hypothesis and its types, hypothesis testing, research design,

ethics

Unit 2: The place of theory in literary disciplines (Chapters 7 to 12 from A Handbook to

Literary Research edited by Simon Eliot and W.R. Owens, 1998 and chapter 7 from

The Handbook to Literary Research Edited by Delia da Sousa Correa and W.R.

Owens, New York, Routledge, 1998

Unit 3: Literary research and interdisciplinarity, Use of linguistics and stylistics in

literary research, Literary research and translation, Literary research and other media

(Chapters 8,9,10 from The Handbook to Literary Research Edited by Delia da

Sousa Correa and W.R. Owens, New York, Routledge, 1998)

Unit 4: Report Writing

Structure of Research Report, style manuals, avoiding plagiarism

Reference Books:

Correa, Delia da Sousa and W.R. Owens, (ed.) The Handbook to Literary Research.


Deshpande, H. V. Research in Language and Literature: Philosophy, Areas and

Methodology. Kolhapur: Sukhada Sourabh Prakashan.2007.

Eliot, Simon and W. R. Owens, (ed.) A Handbook to Literary Research. London:

Routledge, 1998.

Griffin, Gabriele, ed. Research Methods for English Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh

University Press, 2007.

Harner, James L., ed. Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference

Sources in English Literary Studies. 2nd ed. Texas: MLA, 2008.

Sinha, M. P. Research Methods in English. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2007.

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Schwartz B M, Landrum, R. E, Gurung, R. An Easy Guide to APA Style, Easy Guide

Series Edition 3. SAGE Publications, 2016

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 8th Edition, Modern Language

Association of America, 2016

The Chicago Manual of Style, University of Chicago Press, 2017.

G1E 5 – Special Author: Kingsley Amis

(For PG Centres and Distance Mode Students only)

General Topics: 1. Post War British Fiction

2. Angry Young Man Movement

3. Campus Novel

4. History and Society in Amis’ novels

Unit 1: Lucky Jim (1954)

Unit 2: That Uncertain Feeling (1955)

Unit 3: I Like It Here (1958)

Unit 4: I Want It Now (1968)

Reference Books:

Burgess, Anthony. A Students Guide to Contemporary Fiction: A Novel Now, London,

Faber & Faber (1971)

Neill, Diana S. A Short History of the English Novel, London, Jerroid’s Publishers. (1971)

Green, Martin. The English Novel in the 20th Century, London Routldge & Kegan Paul

(19620

Karl, Frederick R. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary English Novel, London, Themer

and Hudson, (1962)

McEvan, Neil. The Survival of the Novel: British Fiction in the Latter 20th Century,

London McMillan (1981)

Patil, M. R. Fictional World of Kingsley Amis, Latur, Indotech Publications (2012).

West, Paul. The Modern Novel, London Hatchinson Ltd. (1963)

G1E6 – British Women Writers


Unit 1: Twentieth Century Women’s Drama

Sarah Kane: Blasted (1995)

Unit 2: Twentieth Century Women’s Fiction

P. D. James: Cover Her Face (1962)

Unit 3: Feminine Awareness of twentieth century

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own (1929)

Unit 4: Twentieth Century Women’s Poetry

The following poets are selected from The Norton Anthology of Poetry (5th Edition)

edited by Margaret Ferguson et al.

a. Charlotte Mew: i) ‘The Farmer's Bride’, ii) ‘In Nunhead Cemetery’

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b. Stevie Smith: i) ‘No Categories!’ ii) ‘Mr. Over’,

iii) ‘The Death Sentence’

c. Elizabeth Jennings : i) ‘My Grandmother’, ii) ‘One Flesh’

d. Carol Ann Duffy: i) ‘Warming Her Pearls’, ii) ‘Prayer’,

iii) ‘Anne Hathaway’, iv) ‘Little Red-Cap’

e. Lavinia Greenlaw: i) ‘Skin Full’, ii) ‘What's Going On’,

iii) ‘A World Where News Travelled Slowly’

Reference Books :

Daiches, David: The Novel and the Modern World. London: University of Chicago, 1960.

Fraser, G. S. The Modern Writer and His World. London: Dere Verchoyle, 1953.

Untermeyer, Louis. Ed. Modern British Poetry. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1920.

Dowson, Jane and Alice Entwistle. A History of Twentieth-Century British Women’s Poetry.


Levenson, Michael, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. Cambridge: CUP, 2005.

Connor, Steven, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism. Cambridge: CUP,

2004.

Caserio, Robert L., Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English

Novel. Cambridge: CUP, 2009.

Corcoran, Neil, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Poetry.


Goldman, Jane. The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf. Cambridge: CUP, 2006.

Armstrong, Jolene. Cruel Britannia: Sarah Kane’s Postmodern Traumatics. Bern: Peter

Lang, 2015.

Group 2: American Literature

G2E1 – American Literature up to the Civil War (1865)

Unit 1. Historical Romance

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) – The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

Unit 2. Sentimental novel

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96) – Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

Unit 3. Puritanism

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) – The Scarlet Letter (1850)

Unit 4. Early American Poetry (including the Fireside Poets)

Anne Bradstreet: “The Prologue”, “The Author to her Book”,

“Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666”;

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Paul Revere’s Ride”;

John Greenleaf Whittier: “A Day”;

R. W. Emerson: “Brahma”, “Each and All”, “Concord Hymn”;

E. A. Poe: ‘Raven”, ‘Annabel Lee’.

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Reference Books:

Ford, Boris (ed.). The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol.9: American

Literature. London: Penguin, 1995.

Gray, Richard. A History of American Literature. 2nded. Chichester, West Sussex:

Blackwell, 2012.

Crane, Gregg. The Cambridge Introduction to the 19th Century American Novel.


Lauter, Paul (ed.). A Companion to American Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell,

2010.

Millington, Richard H., Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne.


Weinstein, Cindy, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Cambridge:

CUP, 2004.

G2E2 – American Literature from the Civil War to turn of the Century

Unit 1. Bildungsroman

Mark Twain (1835-1910) – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

Unit 2. Narrative Techniques

Henry James (1843-1916) – Turn of the Screw (1898)

Unit 3. American novel at the turn of the century

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) –The House of Mirth (1905)

Unit 4. Late 19th Century American Poetry

Paul Laurence Dunbar: ‘Sympathy’

Emily Dickinson, “Because I could not stop for death”,

“Hope is the thing with feathers”,

“The Soul selects her own society”,

“My Life Closed twice before its close”,

“I felt a funeral in my brain”

“A Narrow fellow in the grass”

Herman Melville: The Portent”, “Shiloh”, “The Maldive Shark”

Walt Whitman: “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd”

Hart Crane: “At Melville's Tomb”, “Voyages”, “My Grandmother's Love Letters”

E. A. Robinson: “Richard Cory”, “The Mill”, The Flood’s Party”

Reference Books:

Ford, Boris (ed.). The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol.9: American

Literature. London: Penguin, 1995.

Gray, Richard. A History of American Literature. 2nd ed. Chichester, West Sussex:

Blackwell, 2012.

Lauter, Paul (ed.). A Companion to American Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell,

2010.

Robinson, Forrest G., Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain. Cambridge: CUP,

1995.

Bell, Millicent, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton. Cambridge: CUP, 1995.

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Singley, Carol J., Ed. Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth: A Casebook. Oxford: OUP,

2003.

G2E3 – Modern American Literature

Unit 1. Southern Renaissance

William Faulkner (1897-1962) – The Sound and the Fury (1929)

Unit 2. Rise and Development of American Drama

Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) – The Iceman Cometh (1939)

Unit 3. Race and Racism in American Fiction

Richard Wright (1908-60) – Native Son (1940)

Unit 4. Experimentation in Modern American Poetry

Selected Poems from American Literature 1890-1965: An Anthology edited by Egbert Oliver

et al. (New Delhi: Eurasia, 1998)

a. Robert Frost: i)“The Road not Taken”, ii)“Birches”;

iii) “The Death of the Hired Man”

b. Archibald MacLeish: i)“Ars Poetica”, ii) “The End of the World”,

iii) What the Serpent said to Adam”

c. Carl Sandburg: i) “Chicago”, ii) “Cool Tombs”

d. Ezra Pound: i) “In a Station of the Metro”, ii) “The Rest”,

iii) “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”

e. e.e. cummings: i) “old age sticks”,

ii) “somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond”,

iii) “anyone lived in a pretty how town”

f. Wallace Stevens: i) “Sunday Morning”, ii) “The Emperor of Ice-cream”,

iii) “A High-toned Old Christian Woman”

Reference Books:

Beach, Christopher. The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry.


Bigsby, Christopher, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture.


Bloom, Harold, ed. Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Richard Wright. New York: Bloom’s

Literary Criticism, 2009.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Eugene O’Neill. Philadelphia: Chelsea

House, 2007.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: American Modernist Poets. New

York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2011.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Robert Frost. Philadelphia: Chelsea

House, 2003.

Cox, James M., ed. Robert Frost: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:

Prentice Hall, 1962.

Ford, Boris, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol.9: American Literature.

London: Penguin, 1995.

Gray, Richard. A History of American Literature. 2nded.Chichester, West Sussex:

Blackwell, 2012.

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Kalaidjian, Walter, ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism. Cambridge:

CUP, 2006.

Lauter, Paul. ed. A Companion to American Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell,

2010.

Manheim, Michael, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O’Neill. Cambridge: CUP,

1998.

Nadel, Ira B., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound. Cambridge: CUP, 2001.

Serio, John N., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens. Cambridge: CUP, 2007.

Weinstein, Philip M., ed. The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner. Cambridge:

CUP, 1995.

G2 E4 – Postmodern American Literature

Unit 1. Narrative techniques in 20th Century American Fiction

Saul Bellow (1915-2005) – Herzog (1964)

Unit 2. Epistolary novel

Alice Walker (1944 -) – The Color Purple (1982)

Unit 3. Contemporary American Drama

Suzan-Lori Parks (1963 -) – Topdog/Underdog (2001)

Unit 4. Postmodern American Poetry (Beat Generation, Confessional poetry…)

(Selected Poems)

a. Allen Ginsberg: i) “Howl”; ii) “A Supermarket in California”,

b. Adrienne Rich: i) “Diving into the Wreck”, ii) “Rusted Legacy”;

c. Robert Lowell: i) “The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket”,

ii) “For the Union Dead”, iii) “Skunk Hour”;

d. Sylvia Plath: i) “Lady Lazarus”, ii) “Daddy”;

e. Gwendolyn Brooks – i) “The Explorer”, ii) “The Sonnet-Ballad”,

iii) “The Bean Eaters”, iv) “We Real Cool”

f. Anne Sexton – i) “Oysters”, ii) “A Curse against Elegies”,

Reference Books:

Beach, Christopher. The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry.


Bloom, Harold, ed. Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Alice Walker. New York: Chelsea

House, 2007.

Donnelly, Mary. Alice Walker: The Color Purple and Other Works. New York: Marshall

Cavendish, 2010.

Ford, Boris, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol.9: American Literature.

London: Penguin, 1995.

Gill, Jo. The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath. Cambridge: CUP, 2008.

Gray, Richard. A History of American Literature. 2nded.Chichester, West Sussex:

Blackwell, 2012.

Hyland, Peter. Saul Bellow. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

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Lauter, Paul, ed. A Companion to American Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell,

2010.

Opdahl, Keith. The Novels of Saul Bellow. University Park: Pennsylvania State University

Press, 1967.

Wetmore, Kevin J. Jr. and Alycia Smith-Howard, (ed.), Suzan-Lori Parks: A Casebook.


G2 E5 – American Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies

John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

Unit 1. Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and the Great Depression.

Unit 2. Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Film

Unit 3. Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Gender

Unit 4. Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and psychology

Reference Books:

Beegel, Susan F., Susan Shillinglaw and Wesley N. Tiffney, Jr. Steinbeck and the

Environment: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press,

1997

Bigsby, Christopher, (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture.


Bloom, Harold, ed. Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: John Steinbeck. New York: Bloom’s

Literary Criticism, 2008.

Davis, Robert Murray, ed. Steinbeck: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:

Prentice-Hall, 1972.

Ditsky, John, ed. Critical Essays on Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Boston: G.K. Hall &

Co., 1989.

French, Warren, ed. A Companion to The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 1989.

Heavlin, Barbara, ed. The Critical Response to John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Lauter, Paul, ed. A Companion to American Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell,

2010.

Owens, Louis. The Grapes of Wrath: Trouble in the Promised Land. Boston: Twayne, 1989.

Palmer, R. Barton, ed. Twentieth Century American Fiction on Screen. Cambridge: CUP,

2007.

Wyatt, David, ed. New Essays on The Grapes of Wrath. Cambridge: CUP, 1990.

G2 E6 Research Methodology: American Literature



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Unit 2: The place of theory in literary disciplines (Chapters 7 to 12 from A Handbook to

Literary Research edited by Simon Eliot and W.R. Owens, 1998 and chapter 7 from

The Handbook to Literary Research Edited by Delia da Sousa Correa and W.R.

Owens, New York, Routledge, 1998

Unit 3: Literary research and interdisciplinarity, Use of linguistics and stylistics in

literary research, Literary research and translation, Literary research and other media

(Chapters 8,9,10 from The Handbook to Literary Research Edited by Delia da Sousa

Correa and W.R. Owens, New York, Routledge, 1998)



Reference Books:

Correa, Delia da Sousa and W.R. Owens, eds. The Handbook to Literary Research.




Eliot, Simon and W. R. Owens, eds. A Handbook to Literary Research. London:

Routledge, 1998.



Harner, James L., ed. Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference

Sources in English Literary Studies. 2nd ed. Texas: MLA, 2008.


Schwartz B M, Landrum, R. E, Gurung, R. An Easy Guide to APA Style, Easy Guide

Series Edition 3. SAGE Publications, 2016

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 8th Edition, Modern Language

Association of America, 2016


G2E 5 – Special Author: Ernest Hemingway


Unit 1. Lost Generation

The Sun Also Rises (1926)

Unit 2. First World War and Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

Unit 3. Imagery, allusions and narrative modes in Hemingway’s works

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Unit 4. Hemingway code-hero

The Old Man and the Sea

Reference Books:

Bloom, Harold, ed. Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Ernest Hemingway. Philadelphia:

Chelsea House, 2005.

Grebstein, Sheldon Norman. Hemingway’s Craft. Carbondale: Southern Illinois


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Hays, Peter L. Ernest Hemingway. New York: Continuum, 1990.

Meyers, Jeffrey, ed. Ernest Hemingway: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge,

1997.

Messent, Peter. Ernest Hemingway. London: Macmillan, 1992.

Oliver, Charles M., ed. Critical Companion to Ernest Hemingway. 2007.

Wagner, Linda Welshimer. Ernest Hemingway: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall,

1977.

G2E 6 – American Women Writers


Unit 1. American Women’s Short Stories

Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) – “The Grave”

Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) – “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”

Unit 2. American Women’s Drama

Wendy Wasserstein (1950-2006) - The Heidi Chronicles (1988)

Unit 3. American Women’s Fiction

Toni Morrison (1931- ) – The Bluest Eye (1987)

Unit 4. American Women Poetry

a. Anne Bradstreet – i) “To My Dear and Loving Husband”,

ii) “The Author to Her Book”,

iii) “Upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666”

b. Emily Dickinson – i) “Success is counted sweetest”,

ii) “A Bird, came down the Walk -”

iii) “After great pain, a formal feeling comes -”

c. Marianne Moore – i) “Poetry”, ii) “The Fish”

d. Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) – “Helen”, ii) “Epitaph”

e. Elizabeth Bishop – i) “Filling Station”, ii) “The Man-Moth”,

iii) “The Fish”

f. Alicia Ostriker – “His Speed and Strength”

Reference Books:

Aston, Elaine. An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre. London: Routledge, 1995.

Bauer Dale M. and Philip Gould, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-

Century American Women’s Writing. Cambridge: CUP, 2001.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Toni Morrison: Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House,

1990.

Fredman, Stephen, ed. A Concise Companion to Twentieth-century American Poetry.

Malden: Blackwell, 2005.

Furman, Jan. Toni Morrison’s Fiction. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina,

1996.

Kubitschek, Missy Dehn. Toni Morrison: A Critical Companion. Westport, CT:

Greenwood Press, 1995

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Marc Maufort, ed., Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and

Drama. New York: Peter Lang, 1995.

Murphy, Brenda. The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights.


Tally, Justine. The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison. Cambridge: CUP, 2007.

Elective Group 3: New Literatures in English

G 3 E 1: Indian English Literature

The students are expected to know major trends in the colonial and postcolonial Indian

English Literature

Unit 1: Narrative experiments in Postmodern Indian English Novel

Salman Rushdie- Midnight’s Children

Unit 2: Trends in Modern Indian English Drama:

Girish Karnad– Tughlaq

Unit 3: Trends in Modern Indian English Short Stories

Mahasweta Devi- After Kurukshetra; Three Stories

Unit 4: Trends in Indian English Poetry

Selected Poets from Indian Poetry in English Edited by Makarand Paranjape

Sri Aurobindo: ‘From Savitri’

Nissim Ezekiel: ‘Poet Lover Birdwatcher’, ‘Enterprise’ ‘A Time to Change’

Dom Moraes: ‘Letter to My Mother’, ‘Song’, ‘Future Plans’

Kamala Das: ‘Ghanashyam’, ‘My Grandmother’s House’, ‘The Sunshine Cat’

A. K. Ramanujan: ‘Breaded Fish’, ‘A River’, ‘Love Poem for a Wife I’

Meena Alexander: ‘Dream Poem’, ‘House of a Thousand Doors’, ‘From The Travelers’

Books for Reference

Naik M.K., A History of Indian English Literature, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2004

Iyengar K.R. Srinivasa, Indian Writing In English, New Delhi, Sterling Pubs., 1985

Deshpande G.P. (ed.) Modern Indian Drama: An Anthology, Delhi: Sahitya Akademi,

2004

King Bruce, Modern Indian English Poetry, Delhi OUP, 1990.

Ashcroft, Bill, Griffiths, The Empire Writes Back: Theory & Practicein Post-Colonial,

Literatures, London Routledge 2000.

Sinha Sunita, Post Colonial Women Writers: New Perspectives, NewDelhi Atlantic pubs.,

2008.

Seiwoong Oh, Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature, An imprint of Infobase

Publishing, New York. 2002

G3E2: English Literatures of SAARC Nations

The students are expected to know major trends in the colonial and postcolonial English

Literatures of SAARC Nations.

Unit 1: Gender and Politics in Postcolonial SAARC Fiction

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Taslima Nasrin: Lajja

Unit 2: Trends in short stories of SAARC countries

Sushma Joshi: The Prediction

Unit 3: Trends in Drama of SAARC countries

Mohan Rakesh: Halfway House (Tr. of Aadhe Adhure )

Unit 4: Trends in Poetry of SAARC Countries

Selected Poets from Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry Ed. C. D. Narasimhaiah

Sarojini Naidu: ‘Indian Weavers’, ‘Songs of Radha’, ‘The Milkmaid’

R. Parthasarthy: ‘Exile from Home Coming’

Patrick Fernando: ‘Elegy for my son’

Yasmine Gooneratne: ‘On an Asian Poet Fallen Among American Translators’ ‘There

was a country’

Ahmed Ali: ‘On the Tenth Night of the Tenth Moon’ Dialogue With Lee San’ ‘The

Year of the Rat: 1984

Razia Khan: ‘My Daughter’s Boy Friend’ ‘The Monstrous Biped’

Books for Reference

Europa Publications, International Who’s Who of Authors and Writers 2004, Routledge.

Trevor, James, English Literature From The Third World, Beirul, Longman York Press,

1986

Walsh William (ed.), Readings in commonwealth Literature, Delhi OUP, 1973.

Bharucha, Nilufer, World Literature- Contemporary Postcolonial and Post-Imperial

Literatures, New Delhi Prestige Pubs, 2007.

Young Robert, Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Culture, Theory and Race, Routledge,

London, 2000.

Pullock Sheldon, Literary Cultures in History: Reconstruction from South Asia, University

of California, 2003

Dodiya, Jaydipsinh, Parsi English Novel, Delhi, Sarup and Sons, 2006.

R.K. Dhawan and Novy Kapadia (ed). Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa, Reader's Comparison. New

Delhi: Prestige Books, 1996.

Chhote Lal Khatri. Mohan Rakesh’s Halfway House: A Critique: Aadhe Adhure Prakash

Book Depot, 2003

G 3 E 3: African and Caribbean Literature

The students are expected to know major trends in the colonial and postcolonial African and

Caribbean Literature.

Unit 1: Major Trends in Postcolonial Caribbean Novel

George Lamming In the Castle of My Skin

Unit 2: Major Trends in African Drama

Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman

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Unit 3: Major Trends in African Short Stories

Selected stories from Things Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Nogichi

Adichi:

i) Imitation

ii) A Private Experience

iii) Ghosts

Unit 4: Major Trends in African and Caribbean Poetry

Selected Poets from Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English edited

by Adewale and Maja-Pearce

Dennis Brutus: ‘Simple Lust is All My Woe’, ‘Roben Island Sequence’

Frank Chipasula: ‘Ritual Girl’, ‘Friend, Ah You Have Changed!’

Selected Poets from Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry in English edited by

Stewart Brown and Ian McDonald:

Edward Brathwaite: ‘Miss Own’, ‘Xango’

Derek Walcott: ‘The Hotel Normandie Pool’ ‘The Season of Phantasmal Peace’

Books for Reference:

Abrahams Lionel (ed.) South African Writing Today, Hardnondsworth, Penguin Books

1967.

Dhawan R. K. (ed.). Commonwealth Fiction, Classical publishing company, New Delhi,

1988.

King Bruce, West Indian Literature, Macmillan Press Ltd. 1979.

Paquet, Sandra Pauchet, The Novels of George Lamming, Heinemann, London, 1982.

Mpative– Hangson Msiska, Wole Soyinka, Writers and their Work Series, Northcote

House Pub. , U. K. 1998.

Trevor James, English Literature From The Third World, Beirut, Longman, York Press,

1986.

Walsh William, Commonwealth Literature, OUP Delhi, 1981.

Cook David, African literature: A Critical View, Longman, 1977.

Bharucha, Nilufer, World Literature- Contemporary Postcolonial and Post-Imperial

Literatures, Prestige Publication. New Delhi, 2007.

G 3 E 4: Australian and Canadian Literature

The students are expected to know major trends in the colonial and postcolonial Australian

and Canadian Literature.

Unit 1: Major Trends in Australian Drama

Ray Lawler: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Unit 2: Major Trends in Canadian Fiction

Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient

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Unit 3: Major Trends in Canadian Short stories

Selected Stories from Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

i) Deep Holes

ii) Face

iii) Too Much Happiness

Unit 4: Major Trends in Australian and Canadian Poetry

Following Poems from Penguin Book of Australian Verse by Harry Heseltine

Kenneth Slessor: ‘Sensuality’ ‘Five Bells’

Mary Gilmore: ‘Eve Song’, ‘Never Admit the Pain’

Following Poems from 15 Canadian Poets by Gary Geddes

Leonard Cohen: ‘You Have the Lovers’, ‘The Genius’

Raymond Souster: ‘Young Girls’, ‘Night Raider’


Webby, Elizabeth. The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature, Cambridge

University, press, 2000

Kramer, Leonie. The Oxford History of Australian Literature, OUP, Melbourne, 1981.

Andrews Berry, The Oxford Guide to Australian Literature, OUP, Melbourne, 1981

Keith, W. J. Canadian Literature in English Longman, London and New York, 1985.

Elizabethan Waterson, A Short History of Canadian Literature. Methuen Ontario,1973

Kinck ,Carl F (ed), Literary History of Canada Vol. 1 to 3, Toronto press, Canada, 1976.

Toye, Willam(ed.), The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Toronto, Oup,1983.

New, W.H. , A History of Canadian Literature, Macmillan, London, 1989.

Burns, Graham. Kenneth Slessor, Melbourne OUP London, 1975.

Michael Ondaatje: Leonard Cohen, The Canadian Publishers, Totonto, 1970.

Harold Bloom, Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Alice Munro, Infobase Publishing, USA,

May Charles Edward, Alice Munro, Salem Press, 2013

G 3 E 5: Interdisciplinary Studies

Text: Jean Rhys- Wide Sargasso Sea

Unit 1: - Wide Sargasso Sea and Gender Issues

Unit 2: Jean Rhys- Wide Sargasso Sea and Film Adaptation

Unit 3: Jean Rhys- Wide Sargasso Sea and Psychological Interpretations

Unit 4: Jean Rhys- Wide Sargasso Sea and Cultural Issues


Pierrete M. Frickey., Ed. Critical Perspectives on Jean Rhys, Three Contents Press,

Washington D. C., 1990

Savory Elaine, The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys, Cambridge University Press,

Cambridge, 2009

Staley Thomas F. Jean Rhys: A Critical Study, Macmillan Press Ltd. London, 1979.

Swietlik Malgorzata, "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys as a Postcolonial response to

"Jane Eyre (Seminar Papers) Druck and Bindung, Germany,

Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Lis Møller, Lilian Munk Rösing,

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Peter Simonsen, Dan Ringgaard (ed.) Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis,

Bloomsbury Publication, U S A, 2017.

Margarete Rubik, Elke Mettinger-Schartmann (ed) A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Intertextual

and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre, Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York, 2017.

Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margeret Iverson (ed.) Colonial Discourse/ Postcolonial

Theory, Manchester University Press, New York, 1996.

Cristina-Georgiana Voicu, Exploring Cultural Identities in Jean Rhys’ Fiction, De Gruyter

Open Ltd., Warsaw/Berlin, 2014.

Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) film adaptation of Jean Rhys’s novel of the same name, directed

by John Duigan.

Arash Moradi and Alireza Anushirvani “John Duigan’s 1993 Film Adaptation of Jean

Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea: Repossessing and Reclaiming Rhys’s Liberated

Antoinette/Bertha1 Journal of Language Horizons, Alzahra University, Volume 1, Issue

1, Spring-Summer, 2017.

Gilbert Sandra M., Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and

the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, Yale University Press, London, 2000.

G 3 E 6: Research Methodology



ethics

Unit 2: The place of theory in literary disciplines (Chapters 7 to 12 from A

Handbook to Literary

Research edited by Simon Eliot and W. R.Owens, 1998 and chapter 7 from The

Handbook to Literary Research Edited by Delia da Sousa Correa and W.R. Owens,

New York, Routledge, 1998

Unit 3: Literary research and interdisciplinarity, Literary research and translation,

Literary research and other media (Chapters 8,9,10 from The Handbook to

Literary Research Edited by Delia da Sousa Correa and W.R. Owens, New York,

Routledge, 1998)



Books for Reference

Correa, Delia da Sousa and W.R. Owens, eds. The Handbook to Literary Research. London:

Routledge, 2010.



Eliot, Simon and W. R. Owens, eds. A Handbook to Literary Research. London: Routledge,

1998.



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Harner, James L., ed. Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources

in English Literary Studies. 2nd ed. Texas: MLA, 2008.


Schwartz B M, Landrum, R. E, Gurung, R. An Easy Guide to APA Style, Easy Guide Series

Edition 3. SAGE Publications, 2016

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 8th Edition, Modern Language Association

of America, 2016


G3E5 – Special Author: Amitav Ghosh


Unit 1. General Topic: History and Narrative

The Shadow Lines (1988)

Unit 2. General Topic: Narrative Techniques

The Calcutta Chromosomes (1995)

Unit 3. General Topic: Colonial and Post-Colonial discourse

The Imam and the Indian (2002)

Unit 4. General Topic: Myth and Ecological Concerns

The Hungry Tide (2004)

Books for Reference

Dirks, Nicholas B. (Ed.) Colonialism and Culture. Ann Arbor: University of

Michigan Press, 1992.

Hawley, John, C. Amitav Ghosh: An Introduction. Delhi: Foundation Books, 2005.

Mondal, Anshuman A. Amitav Ghosh. Manchester: Manchester University Press,

2007.

Sankaran, Chitra.(ed.) History, narrative, and testimony in Amitav Ghosh’s Fiction.: State

University of New York Press, Albany, 2012.

Khair, Tabish. Amitav Ghosh, A Critical Companion, Permanent Black, 2003.

Bose, Brinda. Amitav Ghosh: Critical Perspectives, Pencraft International, 2003.

Hawlwy John C., Amitav Ghosh, Foundation Books Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi, 2005.

Chowdhary Arvind (ed.) Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines: Critical Essays,

Atalantic Publishers, Delhi, 2008.

Choudhury, Bibhash. Amitav Ghosh: Critical Essays, PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. Delhi, 2015.

G3 E 6 – Postcolonial Women Writers


Unit 1. Postcolonial Australian Novel

Doris Pilkington Garimara, Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence (1996)

Unit 2. Postcolonial African Short stories

Selected stories from Jump and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer (1992)

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i) Jump

ii) My Father Leaves Home

iii) A Journey

Unit 3. Postcolonial Poetry

Following Poems from Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry in English

Selected By Stewart Brown and Ian McDonald:

Pamela Mordecai: ‘Easy Life’, ‘Last Lines’

Mahadai Das: ‘Horses’, ‘The Leaf in his Ear’

Following Poems from 15 Canadian Poets edited by Gary Geddes

Margaret Atwood: ‘Birth Day’, ‘Snow’

P.K. Page: ‘The Land Lady’, ‘Stories of Snow’

Following Poems from Indian Poetry in English edited by Makarand Paranjape

Toru Dutt: ‘Sita’ ‘Our Casuarina Tree’

Imtiaz Dharkar: ‘Purdah – I’ ‘Another Women’

Unit 4. Postcolonial Indian Drama

Mehta Dina’s Getting Away With Murder, from Lakshmi C. S. Body Blows:

Women, Violence, and Survival: Three Plays, Seagull Books, Calcutta,

2000.


Iyer, Sharda Natesan. Musings on Indian Writing in English: Drama, Sarup & Sons,

Delhi, 2007.

Das Chaturvedi Ravi, Tapati Gupta, Contemporary Indian Theatre, Rawat Publications,

Jaipur, 2017.

Pamela Mordecai and Mervyn Morris, eds. Jamaica Woman: An Anthology of Poems.

(Exeter, NH: Heinemann Educational Books, Inc., 1 982)

Tandon, Neeru. Perspectives and Challenges in Indian English Drama. Atlantic Publishers,

2006.

King, Bruce. Modern Indian Poetry in English. Oxford University Press, 2005.

Smith, Rowland. Critical Essays on Nadine Gordimer .G.K. Hall & Co. US, 1990.

Ettin. Vogel Andrew. Betrayals of the Body Politic: The Literary Commitments of Nadine

Gordimer. Virginia University Press, 1993.

Nayar, Pramod. Modern Indian Poetry in English: Critical Studies. Creative Books, 2000.

Bhatta, Krishna S. Indian English Drama: A Critical Study. Oriental University Press, 1987.

Wheeler, Belinda. A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature. Camden House, 2013.

Cook, Nathalie. Margaret Atwood: A Critical Companion. Greenwood, 2004.

Michele Grossman (Ed.) Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous

Australians. Victoria, Melbourne UP, 2003.

Nettleback, Amanda. “Presenting Aboriginal Women‘s Life Narratives.” New Literatures

Review -34, 1997.

Rickard, John. Australia: A Cultural History. Longman, London, 1988.

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Group 4: Linguistics

Elective Group V: Language and Linguistics

G4E1: Applied Linguistics

Unit 1: Nature and scope of Applied Linguistics (Chapter 1 from Guy Cook, Applied

Linguistics, and other sources)

Unit 2: Language Education – English for Academic Purposes.

Unit 3: Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis

Unit 4: Language Policy and Planning; World Englishes.

(Units 2 to 4 from The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics, Ed. James Simpson,

2011, London: Routledge)


Bhatia, Vijay K., John Flowerdew and Rodney H. Jones (Eds.) (2008) Advances in Discourse

Studies. Routledge: London and New York.

Corder S. P., (1973) Introducing Applied Linguistics, Penguin.

Coulthard Malcolm, (1977) An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. Longman: London.

Davies, Alan (2007) An Introduction to Applied Linguistics: From Practice to Theory.

Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh.

Davies, Alan and Catherine Elder (Eds.) (2004) The Handbook of Applied Linguistics.

Blackwell Publishing Ltd.: USA, UK & Australia

Guy, Cook. (1990) Discourse. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Guy, Cook. (2003) Applied Linguistics. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Jørgensen Marianne and Louise Phillips (2002) Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method.

SAGE Publications: London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi.

Sealey, Alison and Bob Carter (2004) Applied Linguistics as Social Science. Continuum:

London.

Simpson, James (Ed.) (2011) The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics. Routledge:

London and New York.

Hyland, Ken and Philip Shaw (Eds.) (2016) The Routledge Handbook of English for

Academic Purposes. Routledge: London and New York.

G4E2: Theories of Language Learning

Unit 1: Behaviorist Theories: Pavlov and Skinner

Unit 2: Cognitive and Developmental Theories: Chomsky, Lenneberg, Piaget, Vygotsky

Unit 3: Contrastive Analysis, Error Analysis and Interlanguage Theory

Unit 4: Language Learning Process and Strategies


Backman, L. F., (1988) Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing, Oxford: OUP.

Fergusson, Dan, Psycholinguistics.

James Carl, (1980) Contrastive Analysis. Longman: London.

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Lado, (1957) Linguistics across Cultures. Michigan.

McLaughlin, (1987) Theories Second Language Learning. London: Edward Arnold: London.

Richards J.(ed.), (1974)Error Analysis, Longman.

Rod Ellis, (1984) Understanding Second Language Acquisition. OUP: Oxford

S. Pit Corder, (1986)Error Analysis and Interlanguage, Macmillan.

G 4 E 3: Theoretical and Descriptive Linguistics

Unit 1: Traditional Approach

Unit 2: Structural Approach

Unit 3: Transformational - Generative Approach

Unit 4: Systemic and Functional Approach


Bloomfield, Leonard. (1933) Language. George Allen and Unwin Ltd.: London.

Brodraick, John. (1975) Modern English Linguistics: Structural and Transformational

Grammar. Thoman Crowell Company: New York.

Chomsky, Noam (2002). Syntactic Structures. Mouton de Gruyter: New York and Berlin.

Crystal, David, (1971) Linguistics, Pelican.

Frank, Palmer, (1971) Grammar, Penguin.

Johnson, Kyle (2004). Introduction to Transformational Grammar. Uni.ofMassachusetts

Harris, Zelling (1947) Structural Linguistics. Phonenix Books: Chicago and London.

Kress Gunther, (1985)Halliday: Structure and Function in Languages, Oxford.

Lyons J., (1970) Chomsky, Fontana.

Suzanne, Eggins (2004) An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics. Continuum

G 4 E 4: English Language Teaching

Unit 1: Approaches to Syllabus design – Structural, Functional, Communicative

Unit 2: Methods of teaching - grammar- translation; direct, audio-lingual, task- based,

Communicative.

Unit 3: Testing and Evaluation – Significance, Reliability and validity of Tests, Types of

Tests

Unit 4: Lesson plan and peer teaching (for LSRW)

Reference Books:

Allen H. B. & Campbell R. N.: Readings in Teaching English as a Second Language,

McCraw.

Allen JPB and S. Pit Corder (ed.): The Edinburgh Course in Applied Linguistics, Vols. II,

III.

Brumfit C. J. & R. A. Carter: Literature and Language Teaching, 1985.

Brumfit C. J. (ed.): Teaching Literature Overseas: Language Based Approaches ELT

Documents, 1985.

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Brumfit C.J. & K Johnson (ed.): The Communicative Approach to Language Teaching,

OUP, 1979.

Gokak V. K: English in India, its Present and Future, 1966.

Howatt APR: A History of English Language Teaching, OUP, 1984.

Indian Ministry of Education Study Group Reports, 1965, 1967.

Kelly, Louis G.: 25 Centuries of Language Teaching

New Education Policy Govt. of India, 1987.

Prabhu N.S.: Second Language Pedagogy, OUP, 1897.

Richard, Jack. Methodology in Language Teaching. C U P.

Richards, J and T. Rodgers : Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, OUP, 1986

Stern H. H.: Fundamental Concepts of Language Teaching, OUP.

Yardi V. V.: Teaching English in India Today, Parimal Prakashan.

G 4 E 5: Stylistics

Unit 1: Approaches to Style, Traditional Criticism and Linguistic Stylistics

Unit 2: The Concept of Foregrounding: Contribution of Shklovsky, Mukarovsky,

Jakobson, Levin and other British stylisticians

Unit 3: Ancient Indian School of Stylistics: Vakrokti, Swabhavokti, Riti

Unit 4: Stylistic Analysis of Prose (chapters 3 and 7 from Leech and Short)


Attridge Derek (1982): The Rhythms of English Poetry, Longman.

Baker William E. (1967): Syntax in English Poetry1970-1990. Berkeley.

Blackstone Bernard (1965): Practical English Prosody, Longman Rutledge & K. Paul.

Chatman S. & S. Levin (ed) (1967): Essay on the Language of Literature.

Chatman Seymour (1971): Literary Style: A Symposium.

Ching Marvin K.L.M.C. Haley & R.F. Lunsford (ed) (1980) Linguistics: Perspectives on

Literature, Routledge.

Cluysennar Anne (1976): Introduction to Literary Stylistics, Batsford.

Donald C. Freeman (1988): Essays or Modern Stylistics, Methuen, London.

Enkvist Nils, John Spencer and Michael Gregory (1964). Linguistics and Style. OUP

Fowler Roger (1975): Essays on style and Language, Routledge & K Paul.

Fowler roger (1975): Style and Structure in Literature, Oxford.

Fowler Roger (1986): Linguistics and Criticism, OUP.

G. T. Deshpande: Bharatiya Sahitya shastra

Groom Bernard (1955): Diction of Poetry from Spenser to Bridges. Uni. of Toronto Press:

Canada.

Halliday and Hassan (1976): Cohesion in English, Longman.

Leech Geoffrey (1969): A linguistic guide to English Poetry, Longman.

Leech G. & Michael H. Short (1981): Style in Fiction, Longman.

P. V. Kane: History of Sanskrit Poetics.

S. K. De : Sanskrit Poetics.

Sebeok Thomas A. (ed) (1960): Style in Language, Cambridge Mass.

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Widdowson H.G. (1975): Stylistics and the Teaching of Literature.


Unit 1: Research in Language and Linguistics: Key Issues

Research questions, hypothesis, research design

Unit 2: Types of Data in Linguistic Research

Longitudinal – cross-sectional, qualitative – quantitative, mixed method, action

research, experimental research

Unit 3: Data collection and Analysis

Sampling, sound recording, interviews, questionnaire and case study

Transcription, statistical tools, content analysis




Dornyei, Zolton (2007) Research Methods in Applied Linguistics: Quantitative, Qualitative

and Mixed Methodologies. OUP: Oxford.



Heigham, Juanita and Robert A. Croker (Eds.) (2009) Qualitative Research in Applied

Linguistics: A Practical Introduction. Palgrave Macmillan: London.

Patricia A. Duff (2008) Case Study Research in Applied Linguistics. Lawrence Erlbaum

Associates: New York and Oxon.

Bert Vaux& Justin Cooper (2003) Introduction to Linguistic Field Methods. Lincom Europa

Nunan, David (1992) Research Methods in Language Learning. CUP

Lia Litosseliti (Ed.) (2010) Research Methods in Linguistics. Continuum: London & New

York.

Mackey, Alison & Susan M. Gass. (2005) Second Language Research: Methodology and

Design. Lawrence Erlbaum: New Jersey and London.

Group 5: Comparative Literature and Translation Studies

G5E1: Comparative Literature: Theory

Unit 1: The concept of Comparative Literature, Nature and Development of Comparative

Literature in the West and in India.

Unit 2: Schools of Comparative Literature

Unit 3: Methodology of Comparative Literature- Thematic, Influence, Reception, Movement,

Genre

Unit 4: Recent developments: from nation-based approach to culture-based approach

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Reference Books:

Newton, P. Stalkencht and Horst Frenz (eds) Comparative Literature: Method Perspective

University of Southern Illinois Press, 1961, Second enlarged and modified edition, 1971.

Henry Clifford, Comparative literature London: Routledge, KeganPaul, 1969.

Harry, Levin, Ground for Comparison Massachusetts: Cambridge, 1972.

S. S. Prawar Comparative Literary Studies: An Introduction London: Duckworth, 1973.

Ulrich Weisstein Comparative Literature and Literature Theory: Survey and Introduction

Indiana University Press, 1973.

Susan Bassnett Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.

Anand Patil The Whirligig of Taste: Essays in Comparative Literature Delhi: Creative

Books, 1993.

Amiya Dev and Sisirkumar Das (eds) Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice New

Delhi: Sahitya Adademi, 1994.

Chandra Mohan (ed) Aspects of Comparative Literature: Current Approaches New Delhi:

Reliance Publishing House, 2001.

R. M. Badode and A. R. Mardikar (ed) New Directions in Comparative Literary Studies.

Pune: Macmillan India Ltd., 2006.

Steven Totosy de Zepetnek (ed.) Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application,

Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009.

G5E2: Comparative Study of Major Literary Movements: English and Marathi

A Comparative study of major literary movements with special reference to authors and text

prescribed.

Unit 1: Romanticism: English and Marathi –Wordsworth and Keshavsut.

Unit 2: Modernism: Kafka: Metamorphosis and other stories. Dilip Chitre: Orpheus

Unit 3: Women’s Literature: Mary McCarthy: Memories of a Catholic Childhood.

Baby Kamble: Jeena Amacha

Unit 4: Minority Literature: Le Roi Jones: Dutchman,

Datta Bhagat: Wata Palawata

Reference Books:

Bassnett, Susan Translation Studies London & NY: Routledge, 2008

Bassnett, Susan & Andre Lefevere Translation, History and Culture London: Pinter, 1990

Catford, J. C. A Linguistic Theory of Translation London: OUP, 1965

Holmes, James (ed.) The Nature of Translation: Essays on the Theory and Practice of

Translation. The Hague: Mouton, 1970

Hermans, Theo The Manipulation of Literature: Studies in Literary Translation. London:

Croomhelm, 1985.

Gentzler, Edwin Contemporary Translation Theories Cleveden: Multilingual Matters Ltd.

2001

Bassnett, Susan & Harish Trivedi Post-Colonial Translation: Theory and Practice,

London: Routledge, 1999

Tymoczko, Maria & Edwin Gentzler Translation and Power Amherst & Boston: University

Massachusetts Press, 2002.

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Baker, Mona & Gabriela Saldanha Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies London

& NY: Routledge, 2009

Baker, Mona Critical Readings in Translation Studies London & NY: Routledge, 2010.

Erin B Mee (Ed): Drama Contemporary India London: The John Hopkins University Press,

2001

Shubha Tiwari (Ed): Indian Fiction in English Translation. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers,

2005

G5 E3: Translation Studies: Theory

Unit 1: History and practice of translation in the West and in India

Unit 2: Early theories of Translation:

1. Jiří Levý,

2. Anton Popovich,

3. James Holmes,

4. Andre Lefevere,

5. Susan Bassinett

Unit3: Later Theories of Translation:

1. Catford,

2. Nida,

3. Jakobson,

4. Katherina Reiss,

5. Holz-Manttari,

6. Gideon Toury,

7. Itmar Evan-Zohar’s Polysystem

Unit 4: Translation and (De) Colonisation –

1. Aurobindo, Tagore and A. K. Ramanujan, Vinay Dharwadkar on translation

2. G. N. Devy on obsession with equivalence

3. Tejaswini Niranjan and Gayatri Chakravarti –Spivak on translation practice and

theory

Reference Books:

Bassnett, Susan and Andre Lefebvre (Ed.) Translation, History and Culture. London: Pinter,

1990.

Gentzler, Edwin. Contemporary Translation Theories. London: Routledge, 1993.

Patil, Chandra Shekhar. “Rhythm in Translation: Between the Words and Beyond Them,” in

Literature in Translation. (Ed.) Pramod Talgeri and S B Varma. Bombay: Popular

Prakashan, 1988.

Baker, M. (Ed.). Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. New York: Routledge.

1998.

St-Pierre, P. and Kar, P. C. (Eds.) In translation: reflections, refractions, transformations.

Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing. 2007.

Lambert, Jose. “Literatures, Translation and (De) Colonization” in Translation and

Modernization (Eds.) Theresa Hyum and Jose Lambert. Tokyo: International

Comparative Literature Association, 1995.

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Devy, G. N. “Translation Theory: An Indian Perspective,” in Anuvada. Madras: Macmillan,

1991.

G5 E4: Translation: Problems and Evaluation

Unit 1: Translation: Problems and Evaluation

Unit 2: J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace (tr. Dr. Vishal Taide)

Unit 3: Bhalchandra Nemade: Kosala (tr. Sudhakar Marathe)

Unit 4: Satish Alekar: Begum Barve (Tr. Shanta Gokhale)

Reference Books:

Pandit, Maya “The Problems of Translation,” in Literary Criterion 22:2, 1987.Das, Bijay

Kumar. A Hand Book of Translation Studies. Atlantic publishers: New Delhi, 2005

Julia Sainz, M. (1992) 'Student-Centered Corrections of Translations'

Amsterdam/Philadelphia. John Benjamins Publishing Co.

http://www.pfri.uniri.hr/~bopri/documents/06TeachingTR-Assessmentandevaluation.pdf

http://translationjournal.net/translation-books

Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language: Eva Hoffman Penguin Paperback – March 1,

1990

House, Juliana. Translation Quality Assessment: Past and Present: Routledge, 2015.

J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace (tr. Dr. Vishal Taide), Aurangabad: Saket Prakashan.

Group 6: Cultural Studies

E1 Introduction to Cultural Studies

E2 Popular Culture

E3 Cultural Studies: Theory – I

E4 Cultural Studies and Media

E5 Cultural Studies: Theory – II

E6 Research Methodology: Cultural Studies

G6 E1 – Introduction to Cultural Studies

Unit 1. i) “Cultural Studies: an Introduction” by John Storey

from What is Cultural Studies?: A Reader edited by John Storey

ii) “Introduction: From the Beginning” from Culture and Society: An

Introduction to Cultural Studies by David Oswell

Unit 2. i) “Introduction” from The Cultural Studies Reader edited by Simon During.

ii) “Introduction: Locations of culture” from The Location of Culture by Homi

K. Bhabha

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Unit 3. “The Evolution of Cultural Studies” by Colin Sparks

from What is Cultural Studies?: A Reader edited by John Storey

Unit 4. “Culture and English Studies in India” by Kapil Kapoor

from Cultural Studies in India edited by Rana Nayar et al.

Reference Books:

Barker, Chris. Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. 4th ed. New Delhi: Sage

Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2012.

Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.

During, Simon. Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2005.

Edgar Andrew and Peter Sedgwick. Ed. Cultural Theory: Key Thinkers. London:

Routledge, 2002.

Edgar Andrew and Peter Sedgwick. Ed. Key Concepts in Cultural Theory. London:

Routledge, 1999.

Ogden, Daryl. Introduction to Cultural Studies. New York: Pearson, 2000.

Oswell, David. Culture and Society: An Introduction to Cultural Studies. London: Sage

Publications, 2006.

Rana Nayar et al. ed. Cultural Studies in India. New Delhi: Routledge, 2016.

Ryan, Michael. Cultural Studies: A Practical Introduction. Chichester, UK: John Wiley &

Sons Ltd, 2010.

Storey, John. ed. What is Cultural Studies?: A Reader. London: Arnold, 1996.

G6 E2 – Popular Culture

Unit 1. i) “What is Popular Culture?” from Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An

Introduction by John Storey

ii) “Popular culture studies in India today: issues and problems” by Simi

Malhotra. from Cultural Studies in India edited by Rana Nayar et al.

Unit 2. i) “The return of the silenced oral: culture and study in our time” by G. N.

Devy from Cultural Studies in India edited by Rana Nayar et al.

Unit 3. i) “Popular Music Genres” by Marco Katz Montiel from A Companion to

Popular Culture edited by Gary Burns.

ii) “Reinvention and appropriation of the folk in Daler Mehandi’s Pop Videos”

by Pushpinder Syal from Cultural Studies in India edited by Rana Nayar

et al.

Unit 4. Bram Stoker’s Dracula: a study in popular literature

Reference Books:

Burns, Gary. Ed. A Companion to Popular Culture. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John

Wiley & Sons, 2016.

Browning, John Edgar and Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart. Ed. Draculas, Vampires, and

other Undead Forms: Essays on Gender, Race, and Culture. Lanham, Maryland:

Scarecrow Press, Inc, 2009.

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Hughes, William. Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker’s Fiction and its Cultural Context.

London: Macmillan, 2000.

McRobbie, Angela. Postmodernism and Popular Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.

Rana Nayar et al. ed. Cultural Studies in India. New Delhi: Routledge, 2016.

Storey, John. ed. What is Cultural Studies? A Reader. London: Arnold, 1996.

Elective Group 7: Gender Studies

G 7 E 1: Introduction to Gender Studies

G 7 E 2: Feminist Movements and Theories

G 7 E 3: Masculinity Studies

G 7 E 4: LGBT and Queer Studies

G 7 E 5: Gender Studies: Application of Theories


G 7 E 1: Introduction to Gender Studies

Unit 1: Gender Studies Basic Terms:

Gender and Sex, Gender Stereotyping, Gender Roles, Social construction of

Femininity and Masculinity, Socio-Cultural and Political Perspectives of body.

Unit 2: Gender and Marginalization: Class, Race, Caste and Colonization

Unit 3: Gender and Media (Gender construct in T.V. serials and cinema, Centric

Representation and Gender Stereotyping, Commercialization and Objectification of

Body, Film Appreciation).

Gender and Language (Differences in men’s and women’s speech, man made

language)

Unit 4: Gender Studies and Women Studies

Books for Reference-

Glover, David. Kaplan, Cora. Genders, Routledge, London, 2007.

Oakley A Sex, Gender and Society. London: Temple Smith.1985

Pilcher, Jane. Whelehan, Imelda. Fifty Key Concepts in Gender Studies, Sage

Publications, New Delhi.2004.

Skeggs, B. Formations of Class and Gender, London: Sage.1997

Robinson, L.S Sex, Class and Culture, London: Methuen. .1978

Crompton, R. Gender and Class Analysis, in Lee, D. and Turner, B. (eds) Conflicts

About Class, London: Longman, 1996

Connell, R.W. Gender and Power. Cambridge: Polity. 1987

Connell, R.W. Masculinities, Cambridge: Polity Press. 1995

Enteman, W. Stereotyping, Prejudice and Discrimination. in Lester, P. (ed.) Images

that Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media, London: Praeger 1996

Brook, B. Feminist Perspectives on the Body. London: Longman. 1999

Anne Cranny-Francis, Joan Kirby, and Wendy Elizabeth Waring, Gender Studies:

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Terms and Debate, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2003.

Spender Dale, Man Made Language, Pandora, 1988.

G 7 E 2: Feminist Movements and Theories

Unit 1: Historical Overview of Feminist Movements;

Western (US and Europe) and

Indian (pre-independent and post-independent, grassroots)

Unit 2: Early Feminist Theories: Liberal, Radical, Marxist, Socialist

Unit 3: Later Developments in Feminist Theories: Psychoanalytical, Postmodern,

Postcolonial, Dalit.

Unit 4: Analysis of the Text

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre


Barrett, M. Women’s Oppression Today: Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis

(Revised Edition), Verso, London, 1998.

De Beauvoir, S. The Second Sex, Virago London, (first published 1953). 1997.

Millett, K. Sexual Politics, Virago, London, (first published 1971)

Evans,M. Introducing Contemporary Feminist Thought, Polity Press, London, 1997.

Jackson,S.and Jones,J. Contemporary Feminist Theories, Edinburgh

University Press, Edinburgh, 1998.

Humm, Maggie. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism.

Harvester Wheatsheaf, Heartfordshire, 1994.

Walby, S. Theorizing Patriarchy, Blackwell, Oxford, 1990.

Robinson, V. and Richardson, D. (eds) Introducing Women’s Studies, second edition,

Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1997.

Meyers,D.(ed.) Feminist Social Thought: A Reader, New York: Routledge. 1997

Minsky, R. (ed.) Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader, Routledge

London, 1996.

Menon, Nivedita. Gender and Politics in India. Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

1999.

Nicholson, Linda. The Second Wave ( A Reader in Feminist Theory). Routledge, New

York, 1997.

Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Everyman’s

Library, London, 1929.

Margarete Rubik, Elke Mettinger-Schartmann (ed) A Breath of Fresh Eyre:

Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre, Rodopi, Amsterdam, New

York, 2017.

Bloom Harold, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Chelsea House Publishers, USA, 2007.

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Wheat Patricia H. The Adytum of the Heart: The Literary Criticism of Charlotte

Brontë, Associated University, Press, U S A, 1992.

Gilbert Sandra M., Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and

the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, Yale University Press, 2000.

Group 8: Sociolinguistics

E1: Sociolinguistics: Basic Issues and Concepts

E2: Language Contact

E3: World Englishes

E4: Dialectology

E5: Extensions in Sociolinguistics

E6: Research Methodology

G8 E1: Sociolinguistics: Basic Issues and Concepts

Unit 1: Power, Social Diversity and Language

Unit 2: The Social Psychology of Language

Unit 3: Orality and Literacy in Sociolinguistics

Unit 4: Sign Language

*All units are from The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics (Part 1) by Rajend Mesthrie

et al.

References:

Hudson, R. A. (1983) Sociolinguistics, Cambridge: CUP.

Mesthrie, Rajend (Ed.) (2011) The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Cambridge:

CUP.

Silvia Kouwenberg and John Victor Singler (eds.) (2008) The Handbook of Pidgin and

Creole Studies. United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell.

Mesthrie, Rajend and Bhatt, Rakesh M. (2008). World Englishes: The Study of New

Linguistic Varieties. Cambridge University Press.

Mesthrie, Rajend, Swann, Joan, Deumert, Ana and Leap, William. (2009). Introducing

Sociolinguistics. 2nd edn. Edinburgh University Press.

Crystal, David (2000) Language Death. Cambridge: CUP.

Matras, Yaron (2009) Language Contact. Cambridge: CUP.

Jourdan, Christine and Kevin Tuite (2006) Language, Culture and Society. Cambridge:

CUP.

Mesthrie, Rajend (Ed.) (2001) Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics. Elsevier.

Wardhaugh, Ronald (2006) An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Fifth Edition, Blackwell

Publishing.

Umberto Ansaldo (2009) Contact Languages: Ecology and Evolution in Asia. Cambridge:

CUP.

Escure, Geneviève and Armin Schwegler (Eds.) (2004) Creoles, Contact, and Language

Change: Linguistic and social implications. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John

Benjamins Publishing Company

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Thomason, Sarah G. (2001) Language Contact: An Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh

University Press Ltd.

G8E2: Language Contact

Unit 1: Contact and Borrowing

Unit 2: Pidgins and Creoles

Unit 3: Language Maintenance, Shift and Death

Unit 4: Saving Endangered Languages

*All Units are from Introducing Sociolinguistics (Chapters 8 and 9) by Rajend Mesthrie et al.

References:

Hudson, R. A. (1983) Sociolinguistics, Cambridge: CUP.

Mesthrie, Rajend (Ed.) (2011) The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Cambridge:

CUP.

Silvia Kouwenberg and John Victor Singler (eds.) (2008) The Handbook of Pidgin and

Creole Studies. United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell.

Mesthrie, Rajend and Bhatt, Rakesh M. (2008). World Englishes: The Study of New

Linguistic Varieties. Cambridge University Press.

Mesthrie, Rajend, Swann, Joan, Deumert, Ana and Leap, William. (2009). Introducing

Sociolinguistics. 2nd edn. Edinburgh University Press.

Crystal, David (2000) Language Death. Cambridge: CUP.

Matras, Yaron (2009) Language Contact. Cambridge: CUP.

Jourdan, Christine and Kevin Tuite (2006) Language, Culture and Society. Cambridge:

CUP.

Mesthrie, Rajend (Ed.) (2001) Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics. Elsevier.

Wardhaugh, Ronald (2006) An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Fifth Edition, Blackwell

Publishing.

Umberto Ansaldo (2009) Contact Languages: Ecology and Evolution in Asia. Cambridge:

CUP.

Escure, Geneviève and Armin Schwegler (Eds.) (2004) Creoles, Contact, and Language

Change: Linguistic and social implications. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John

Benjamins Publishing Company

Thomason, Sarah G. (2001) Language Contact: An Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh

University Press Ltd.

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Question Paper Pattern for M.A. Part I & II

(Common for all courses unless specified as below)

Total marks – 80

Note:

1. All Questions are compulsory.

2. Figures to the right indicate full marks

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Q. 1. Answer in one word/phrase/sentence (Ten items to be set): 10

Q. 2. Answer any two (out of three) in about 600 words each 30

(Two questions will be set on General Topics and One on a text)

Q. 3. Answer any two (out of three) in about 600 words each. 30

(All the questions will be set on prescribed texts – not covered in Q. 2)

Q. 4. Write short notes on (any two – out of three: in about 200 words each) 10

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Question Paper Pattern

(for C6 – Sociolinguistics and Stylistics)

Total marks – 80

Note:



Q. 1. Answer in one word/phrase/sentence (Ten items to be set) 10

Q. 2. Answer any two (out of three) in about 600 words each 30

Q. 3. A. Stylistic Analysis of a poem. 15

B. Analysis of Register 15


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Question Paper Pattern for E6 (all Elective Groups) Research Methodology

Total marks 100 each paper

(Written Exam 40 + Dissertation 40 Marks+ Internal Evaluation20 Marks)

Time: 1.30 hr Total marks – 40

Note:



Q. 1. Broad Answer-type question with internal option (in about 800 words) 20

Q. 2. Answer the following in short (any two out of three: in about 400 words each) 20

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Question Paper Pattern for ELT course (G4 E4)

Total marks – 80

Note:




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Q. 2. Answer any three (out of four) in about 600 words each 45


Q. 4. Lesson Plan. 15

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Question Paper Pattern for Stylistics course (G4 E5)

Total marks – 80

Note:




Q. 2. Answer any three (out of four) in about 600 words each 45


Q. 4. Stylistic Analysis of a prose passage. 15

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