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NEW SYLLABUS
COURSE OF
STUDY
For
POST
GRADUATE
ENGLISH
GOVT.(AUTO) COLLEGE
ROURKELA
P.G. Syllabus
ENGLISH
Aims of the Syllabus
The aims ofthis course in literature are to:a) Disseminate among the students both the historical and contemporary aspects of
literary texts;b) Create a bridge between local and global knowledge systems;c) Reorient them through literature in such a way that they become empowered to
understand different cultures, and respect the variety each presents;d) Develop their communication skills both written and oral;e) Equip them with an aptitude for researchf) To make significant intellectual connections between the texts of the course and the
larger literary and theatrical tradition that engendered them.g) To examine the way that various plays are translated and interpreted through in the
process of collaborative production.h) To encourage the development ofcritical close reading and writing.i) To foster enthusiastic classroom debate.
At the end ofthe course, a student should develop:
a) Humanitarian values and perspectives available in literary texts that embody theessence ofmultiple societies and cultures;
b) A comprehensive knowledge of major literary texts, movements and concepts inliterature;
c) Written and oral communication essential to participate in a global community;
A student should acquire the following skills in particular:
a) Critical reading and interpretation oftextsb) A variety of writing skills as required by the syllabusc) Conducting research and presenting the findings through seminar papersd) The students have to make themselves aware of the ways in which British literature
was used as an instrument of conquest and the ways by which literary studies can beused for decolonization of the minds
M.A.ENGLISH
The course in M.A. English carries 1000 marks spread over fOUf semesters in two years
Semesters I and II in the first year and semesters 1II and IV in the second year. There are five
papers each in semesters I and II, each paper of 4 credits. In semester 1II, there are three
papers, again each equal to 4 credits. Two of these are special papers. In addition to these,
there is one seminar paper of 4 credits and another paper having two term papers of 2
credits each. In semester IV there are three papers of four credits each out of which two are
special papers. In addition, there are two dissertation papers (for oral and written
presentation) of eight credits.
Students have to choose one group from the three groups of special papers. A student, in order
to get an MA. degree, must have 80 credits. Each four hour credit will cany 50 marks. Each
paper carries 50. marks out of which 40 marks are set in the university examination and
10 marks in the internal assessment test. However, papers 2.3.14 and 2.3.15 (Semester III)
and 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 (Semester IV) will carry 50 marks each.
Semester IPaper Paper
Code
101
2 102
3 103
4 104
P.O. Department ofEnglishConsolidated Chart of Courses ofStudy (M. A.)
Title Marks Credithours
Introductory Linguistics, Stylistics and Indian 100 8
Aesthetics
British Poetry I 100 8
British Drama I 100 8
British Novel I 100 8
Semester IIPaper Paper Code Title Marks Credit hours
5
6
7
8
201 British Poetry II
202 British Drama II
203 British Novelll
204 Readings in Critical Theory
100 8
100 8
100 8
100 8
Semester IIIPaper Paper Code Title Marks Credit hours
9
10
301
302
Introduction to World Literature
Essays
100 8
100 8
II 303 (Special paper)
12 304(Special paper)
(Interdisciplinary course)
GroupA/B/C
GroupA/B/C
100
100
8
8
Semester IVPaper Paper Code Title Marks Credit hours
13 401 Introduction to lWE 100 814 402 American Literature 100 8
15 403 (Special paper) GroupA/B/C 100 8
16 404 (Special paper) GroupAiB/C 100 8
17 405 Dissertation (written presentation) 100 8
18 406 Dissertation (Oral Presentation) 100 8In each paper, questions will come in the exam paper in two divisions, consisting
of Group A and Group B. In group A, students will be asked to answer eight
short questions out of ten questions ( at least two questions from each unite). In
Group B, students will have to answer 4 long type questions comprising of 16
marks each out of 5 questions (at least 1 question from each unit)
The structure will be like the following:
Group A2X8 = 16Group B4x16=64Total 80 marks+ 20 internal exam
Special Papers:Group A: Indian Writings in English Group B: American Literature Group C:Professional Writing
PGI:ENGLISH
SEMESTERI
Paper I - Introductory Linguistics, Stylistics and Indian AestheticsPaper code - I. I. I
Full marks: 10+40hours
Time: 3
Unit - I 20 teaching hours(a) Language - Definitions, Theories of origin of language, Characteristics of human
language, Using language; Origins ofLinguistic Science(b) Sounds ofEnglish - The speech mechanism, passive and active articulators,
description and classification of consonants and vowels, consonant clusters, thesyllable.
Unit-2(c) Phonetic transcription and Phonology - IPA, phonemes and allophones, phonemic
system, phonemic sequences, syllable structure, suprasegmental phonology - wordaccent and stress, intonation, rhythm in connected speech.
(d) The study ofwords - Word formation· in English - Inflectionalmorphology, derivational morphology.
Unit-3(e) Syntax and Structural Linguistics - Introduction to structuralism in Linguistics
Saussurean concepts - langue, parole, arbitrariness of sign, diachrony, synchronyand syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations; American and European Structuralism Sapir and Bloomfield; Generative linguistics - Chomsky; Identification ofsyntactic constituent.
Unit - 4 12 teaching hours(a) Language variation: Dialect, style, register(b) Style - Monist, Dualist and Pluralist views; Literal versus figurative
meaning; Foregrounding - Parallelism, Deviant structures(c) Analysing extracts from fiction/poetry
Unit - 5 16 teaching hours(a) Theory ofRasa by Bharata(b) Theory ofDhvani by Abhinavgupta
Recommended Reading:UnitT
David Abercrombie. Studies in Phonetics and Linguistics. Oxford University Press, 1965.J. Aitchison. Linguistics. NTC Publishing House, 1999..Harold B Allen. Applied English Linguistics. 1964.Noam Chomsky. Reflections on Language. Random House, 1975.
David Crystal. Linguistics. Penguin Books, 1971---. Dictionary ofLinguistics and Phonetics.Blackwell, 1991
Andrew Radford, et al. Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press,1999. D. Thakur. Syntax. Patna: Bharati Bhavan, 1998Peter Trudgill. Sociolinguistics. Penguin, 1994Terence Hawkes. Structuralism and Semiotics. Methuen and Co., 1977Irene Heim and A. Craben. Semantics in Generative Grammar. Blackwell, 1998Sharad Rajimwale. Introduction to English Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology. Rawat
Publications, 1997Winfred P Lehmann. Historical Linguistics: An Introduction. Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
1962. Rpt. 1966.Robert D King. Historical Linguistics and Generative Grammar. Prentice Hall, 1969John Lyons. Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, 1971.Stanlaw Salzmann and Adachi. Language, Culture and Society. Westview Press, 2012.William Rutherford. A Workbook in the Structure of English. Blackwell Publishing,1998. Daniel Jones. An Outline ofEnglish Phonetics. Kalyani Publishers, 1979G Yule. The Study of Language. Cambridge University Press, 2006R. H. Robins. H. General Linguistics - An Introductory Survey. 1964H. R. Gleason. An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics. Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1955F. C. Stork & Widdowson, J. D. A. Learning about Linguistics. Hutchinson Educational Ltd,
1974
Unit IIRichard Bradford. Stylistics. Tf, 1997Roger Fowler. Linguistics and the Novel. Methuen, 1976Carl A Lefevre. Linguistics and the Teaching of Reading. McGraw-Hill, 1964.Partha Sarathi Mishra. Stylistics: Theory and Practice. Orient Blackswan, 2009
Paper 2 - British Poetry IPaper code - 1.1.2
Unit-IPrologue to the Canterbury Tales
Unit-IIJohn Milton: Paradise Lost Book IX
Unit-IVAlexander Pope: The Rape ofthe LockUnit-III
I) William Wordsworth:"Tintern Abbey"2) John Keats:"Ode on a Grecian Urn"3)P.B. Shelley:"Ode to the West Wind"
20teachinghrs
16teachinghrs
12teachinghrs
4) S.T. Coleridge:"Kubla Kbau"
Unit-V 16teachinghrsLord Byron: The Vision ofJudgment Recommended Reading:
T S Eliot: "Milton I", "Milton II" in On Poetry aud Poets. Faber and Faber, 1947
Hobbes: Leviathan - Chapter I, Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1651John Milton: "The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce".
http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/milton-the-prose-works-of-john-miltonKG Hamilton: Paradise Lost: A Humauist Approach, University ofQueenslaud Press, 1983Stuart Curran: Poetic Form aud British Romanticism, Oxford University Press, 1986B. Ifor Ivans, A Brief History ofEnglish Literature, Penguin Books. 1990
Paper 3 - British Drama I
Paper code - 1.1.3
Unit-IWilliam Shakespeare - Othello
Unit- IIWilliam Shakespeare - The Tempest
Unit- IIIWilliam Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra
Unit-IV
William Shakespeare: Measure for Measure
Unit-VChristopher Marlowe: The Jew ofMalta
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
16teachinghrs
16teachinghrs
Recommended Reading:Sukauta Chaudhuri and Chee Seng Lim eds. Shakespeare Without English: The Reception of
Shakespeare in Non-auglophone Countries. Longman, 2006Poonam Trivedi and Dennis Bartholomeusz, Ed. "Shakespeare on the Stages of Asia."
CambridgeCompanion to Shakespeare on Stage. Cambridge, 2002William Hazlitt. Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth and Characters of
Shakespear's Plays.J. R. Brown. Antony and Cleopatra, Case Book Series, Macmillan,1972. E.M.W. Tilliyard. Shakespeare's Histories. New Statesman, 1984S Viswanathan. Exploring Shakespeare. Orient Longman, 2005Stephen Greenblat. Renaissauce Self-fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. University of
Chicago Press, 1980.S.M.Deats, Antony and Cleopatra, routledge, 2005.N.Potter, Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra, Palgrave, 2007.
Paper4-BritishNovelIPapercode-1. 1.4
Unit-IElizabeth Gaskell: MaryBarton
Unit-III 6teachinghrsHenry Fielding: Joseph Andrews
Unit-IIIThomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Unit-IVJane Austen: Emma
Unit-VHenry Fielding: Tom Jones
Recommended reading:Trevelyn.AShortenedHistoryofEngland,PenguinBooks,20 IIThomasRecchio,MaryBarton.W.W.Norton&Company,2008JamesGibson.ThomasHardy:ALiteraryLife.Macmillan,1996.Gatrell,Simon.HardytheCreator:ATextualBiography.Clarendon,1988.
16teachinghrs
16teachinghrs
16teachinghrs
16teachinghrs
NEW P.G. SYLLABUS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISHSecond Selllester
GOVT.AUTONOMOUS COLLEGE,ROURKELA
2018
In each paper, questions will come in the exam paper in two divisions, consisting of Group A and Group B. In
group A, students will be asked to answer eight short questions .out of ten questions ( at least two questions from
each unite). In Group 8, students will have to answer 4 long type questions romprising of 16 marks each out of 5
questions (at least 1 question from each unit)
The structure will be like the following:
Group A2Xa=16Group B4x16=64Total 80 marks
This is applicable to all the following papers
SEMESTER - II
Paper 6 - British Poetry II
Paper code· 201Unit I:
Tennyson:Browning:Mathew Arnold:
G M Hopkins:
Unit IIW. B. Yeats (5 poems)
UlyssesMy Last Duchess
Dover Beach
Pied Beauty
"Sailing to Byzantium""The Second Coming""Among School Children""Easter 1916""A Prayer for My Daughter"
Unit III
Walter De La Mare:Rupert Brooke:
Siegfried Sassoon:Wilfred Owen:
Unit IV
T 5 Eliot:
Unit V: Poems of 1930s and 1950s
W H Auden:
Daylan Thomas:
Ted Hughes:
Philip Larkin:
An Epitaph
"The Soldier""Everyone Sang"
"Apologia Pro Poemate Meo"
The Wasteland (1922)
16 Teaching Hours
"The Unknown Citizen"
Firn Hill
"The Thought Fox"
"Church Going"
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Paper 7 - British Drama II
Paper code - 2.0.2
Unit-I
Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man (1898)
Unit -II
J M SYNGE: Riders to the Sea (1904)
Unit-III
T. S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
Unit-IVJohn Osborne: Look Back in Anger (1956)Unit- V
Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party (1957)
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
Paper 8 - British novel II
Paper code - 203
Unit-I
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (1899)
Unit - IIJames Joyce: The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
Unit -III
D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love (1920)
Unit-IV
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse (1927)
Unit-V
Graham Greene: Power and Glory (1940)
Paper 8 - Readings in Critical Theory
Paper code - 204
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
Unit - I 16 teaching hrsCritical terms:
l)Parole 2) Langue 3) Trace 4) Differance 5) Ecriture 6) Cultural Poetics 7) Discourse8) Hybridization 9) Orientalism 10) Gynocriticism 11) Heteroglossia 12) Subalternism13)Ecocriticism 14)Ecofiminism 15) Defamiliarization or Ostranenie
Unit - II Structuralism & Post structuralism 16 teaching hrs
Ferdinand De Saussure: From Course In General linguistics (Modern LiteraryTheory
Or
Roland Barthes: "Death of the Author"
Unit - III Deconstruction and Post-Modernism 16 teaching hrs
Derrida: Structure, Sign and Play in the discourse of Human ScienceOr
Foucault: What is an Author? (Contemporary Literary criticism)
Raymond Williams: Base and Super Structure in Marxist CulturalTheory (Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Robert Con Davis, et
al Longman)Or
Louis Althusser: "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus"
Unit: V: Feminism 16 Teaching Hours
Elaine Showalter: Towards a Feminist Poetics (Modern Literary Theory) Or
Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak: Feminism and Critical Theory
In each paper, questions will come in the exam paper in two divisions, consisting of Group A and Group B. In
group A, students will be asked to answer eight short questions out of ten questions ( at least two questions from
each unite). In Group B, students will have to answer 4 long type questions comprising of 16 marks each out of 5
questions (at least 1 question from each unit)
The structure will be like the following:
Group A2X8 = 16Group B4x16=64Total 80 marks
This Is applicable to all the following papers
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P.G. II:ENGLISH
SEMESTER-III
In each paper, questions will come in the exam paper in two divisions, consisting of Group A and Group B. In
group A, students will be asked to answer eight short questions out of ten questions ( at least two questions
from each unite). In Group B. students will have to answer 4 long type questions ctJll'JprisirlY ur 1B "I<::Irk.\; eett:h
out of 5 questions (at least 1 question from each unrt)
The structure will be like-the following:
GroupA2XB = 16GroupB4><16=64TotalBO marks
This is applicable to all the following papers
Paper 9 - Introduction to WorldPAPER CODE 301
(Interdisciplinary Course)
Unit - IHomer: The Iliad (Book I) (Trans. Alexander Pope)
Unit- IIMiguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
Unit -1IISophocles: Oedipus Rex
Unit-IVAristotle: Poetics
Unit-VPlate: Republic (book 3, 10)
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
Recommended rending:David Damrosch: "What is World Literature?", Princeton University Press, 2003H.D.F. Kitto, Greek Drama. Roputledge, 2002Sarah Lawall, ed.: Reading World Literature: Theory, History, Practice. University of Texas
Press, 1994Harold Bloom. Homer. Chelsea House Publishers, 2006
Nagy Gregory. Homer tho Proclassic. Univorsity of California P"oss, 20 IO.Louden Bruce. The tliad: StructLII'C, Myth, "lid Meaning. JHU P"ess, 2006.Harold Bloom. Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Bloom's Litermy Criticism. 2007.
Griffith Drew. Theatre of Apollo: Divine Justice "nd Sophocles' Oedipus the King.McGill·
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Queen's Press - MQUP, 1996.Girard Renem. Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire.StanfordUniversity Press, 2004.Ormand Kirk. A Companion to Sophocles. John Wiley & Sons,2012.Frederick A. Dc Armas. Quixotic Frescoes: Cervantes and Italian Renaissance Art.
University ofToronto Press, 2006.J. A. G. Ardila. The Cervantean Heritage: Reception and Influence of Cervantes inBritain.
MHRA,2009.Michael Armstrong-Roche. Cervantes' Epic Novel: Empire, Religion, and the Dream LifeofHeroes in Persiles. University ofToronto Press, 2009.Harold Bloom. Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote. InfoBase Publishing,2010.
Paper 10Essays
Paper code· 302
Unit - II)
"Recollections""The Spectator Club"
2)essays) The Superannuatred Man"The Two Races ofMen"
Unit II3)
essays) "On Courage""On Letter Writing"
4)essays) "Davos in Winter""Health and Mountains"
Unit -1II5)
essays) "On Being an Alien""A Disappointed Man""On Telling the Truth"
6)
Richard Steele (2 essays)
Charles Lamb (2
A G Gardiner (2
R L Stevenson (2
Robert Lynd (3
A.G. Gardiner (3
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hI's
essays) "On Superstition""On Saying Please"liOn Lottor WritingH
Unit--IV7) William I-1azlitt (3 essays) "On Going a Journey" "Table-talk"
8) Aldous Huxley (2 essays) "Heaven and Hell" Pleasures
Unit·· V
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16 teaching hrs
George Orwell9)(3 essays) '''Baokshop Memories"Shooting an Elephant"Good Bad Books"
I0) Oscar Wilde (3essays) "House Decoration""London Models""Art and the Handicraftsman"
Recommended reading:K Deighton, Ed. Addison and Coverley's Papers. Macmillan and Company,1957. E. V. Lucas. Life ofCharles Lamb. G.P. Putman & Sons, 1905.Edmund Blunden. Charles Lamb and His Contemporal"ies. Cambridge University Pross, 1933.Graham Balfour. The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. Methuen, 1901.Philip Bounds. Orwell and Marxism: The Political and Cultural Thinking ofGeorge Orwell.I.B.
Tautis. 2009.Gordon Bowker. George Orwell. Little Drown. 2003.Bernard Crick. George Orwell: A Life. Penguin. 1982.Merlin Holland, ed. The Complete Works ofOscar Wilde. Halper Collins.2003. H. M. Hyde. Oscar Wilde: The Aftermath. Farrar Straus ltd. 1964.Reda Bensmara. The Barthes Effect: The Essay as Reflective Text. Trans. Pat Fedkiew. Univ. of
Minnesota Press, 1987.Nigel Warburton. The Basics ofEssay writing. Routledge, 2006.
Paper II (Special Paper)Paper code - 303
Students are required to opt for only one special paper, choosing from one of the followingthree groups: Group A, Group B and Group C.
Group AWriting the Nation: Indian Writing in English in the Colonial and Postcolonial Period
Unit I
Unit--2
16 teaching hrsToru Dull: "The Lotus'" "m'I"lIjlUl'illllll1lnillFr~~"!k!~jJj~s"l!l'l'I~,m", ~m".o~~iil:ltii?,,,,,,"'h!J~j",,cl~~,;,",i~'F,,~JI'~i:,,r,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,",,,.,,JiJ:
Hen Louis Vivian Derozio: "!i!OO"WI~~"it"flf'll~!Il::llIHllW!fll:IGtG)!r 8"et:',~The"fIaor1')' ~i~lii!J;~~~m\\ill:YHJI"i'MlL,IF+Jh":J1.,;,,,,,,,,,,.;~!~",",,,I'",..,""'" ,.".as'~',:1J!'";,, '"" ''," " JPm""';llm1>1~""!ll"·I"'~~ri·il3,"'m"~lmi"'''I'm''""m' ",,!!,",,~,"'1'" ,'" .·"I'\1!1·"''''''''''"'''''' H""~,·'ll:a.,lk~rtil.\l .(:j". 'I,' j~ ,IiI l:sa un ,., ,h"e;" ",llatlst n, 'JiIl,Y,l)nstf!,Ji. ""t"bll". ,,, ."". R~"" ..,,, ,, ,.!'!., .il ".",.., " ,L.."", ,.,,"~ ..~" ,"""". , ~
Madhusudan Dutt: "Satan"; "The Captive Ladie", "King Porus - A Legend oCOld"
;~!!:§j~~~~mf~l~!,J"Village Song"; "Awake!", "The Soul's Prayel'l" "The Birel
Sanctuary"
Unit III:~l'W;"I'i"q:;;Ji"'ji~tljWUlm":~Jl'\itrf"~r\'~!lI'D""fI'l~"'~r>1'n'''!:"'Hi'"'l)l.Q>'ll"~"'''''J~pa ~~ •."!"".,,e Q, .Ol)~ IP,::
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16 teaching hrs
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Unit IV 16 teaching hrsA K Ramanujan: 'l!It,,~, 'OfMother Among Others', 'Love Poem for a Wife-I'Kamala Das: "Jaiswya", An _ "The Wild Bougainville"
Unit--V
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Recommended reading:
W. Walsh. R.K.Narayan: A Critical Appreciation. London, I982.Angelie Multani. Mahesh Dattani's Plays: Critical Perspectives. Pencraft International, 2007Brinda Bose, ed. Amitav Ghosh: Critical Perspectives ed. Brinda Bose Pencraft, 2005Gokak, V.K., The Golden Treaswy ofIndo-Anglian Poetry. Sahitya Akademi, 2006.
GroupBAmerican Literature
The Emergence ofa Nation
Unit- IM. G. Jean de Creveceour: Letters from a Farmer
Unit-IIThomas Paine: Common Sense
Unit - IIIF. J. Turner: The Significance ofthe Frontier in American History
Unit-IVUnlt-V
Suggested Reading:
George Santyana. The Genteel Tradition. Harvard University press, 1967.
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
.~:
Michael Kammen. People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American
Civilization. Alfred A. Knopf, 1972
Group CProfessional Writing
I~it
Unit I 16 teaching hrsI) History of Writing2) a) Mechanics ofWriting: How to Write a Sentence; Plain and Simple English; Levels
of Style: Communicative, Academic and Grand; Persuasive Writingb) Stages ofWriting; Basic Writing skills: Description, Exposition, Narration; Higher
Level Skills: Critical Thinking, CreativeThinking.
c) Characteristics ofGood Writing: Clarity, Precision, Tightness, Focus, Vigour, Voice
Unit IIWorking Writing:
a)
Minutesb)
c)
16 teaching hrs
The Daily Bread (of Drafting): Application, Memo, Noticesand
Writing for business: Proposal, Review and ReportAcademic Writing: Essay, Review Essay
Unit~ IIIWriting for Mass Media:
a) Writing for print journalismb) Writing for broadcast journalism
16 teaching hrs
Unit-IV: Mechanics or Editingi. What is Editing?ii. The Editorial Loop: Micro and Macro Editing; Style guides & checklists (MLAIChicago)iii. Proorreading: traditional methods, aiternative methods; Proof reading vs. Copy editing
iv, Editing PracticeUnit-V: Working Writing, Journalistic Writingi. The Daily Bread (of Drafting): Application, Memo, Notices and Minutesii. Raising the Bar: Proposal, Review and Report; Academic Writing: Essay, Review Essayiii. Writing for the Print Media: News Stories, Features, Editorialsiv. Writ.ing for the Electronic Media
Recommended Readings:
Steven Roger Fischer. A History of Writing. Reaktion Books, 2001Ray Bradbury. Zen in the Art of Writing. Joshua Odell Editions, 1994Stanley Fish. How to Write a Sentence and How t.o Read Ol1e. Harper Coilins, 2012.Maxine Keene & Hairst.on, Miehael. Suecessful Writing. 5th ed. Norton & Co., 2003.E.H. McGrath. Basic Managerial Skills for All. 9t.h cd. PHI Learning.McLaren,Stephen, Easy Wl'iter: Student's Guide to Writing Essays and Report. PascalEducational
Serviecs.2007.
PAPER 12 - (Special paper)Paper code - 2.3.13 I
IIII
GROUP A - Writing the Nation: Indian Writing in English in the Colonial and PostcolonialPeriod
The Emergence ofthe Indian Novel
Unit IMulk Raj Anand: CoolieUnit-,R K Narayan: The Guide
Unit IIArundhati Roy. The God of Small Things
Unit IIIAmitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines
Kiran Desai: The Inheritance ofLoss
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
Recommended Reading:Brinda Bose, ed. Amitav Ghosh. Pencrafllntemational, 2003Amitav MandaI. Amitav Ghosh. Manchester University Press, 2007K. V. Surendran. The God ofSmall Things: A Saga of Lost Dreams. Atlantic, 2007Amitabh Roy. The God of Small Things: A Novel of Social Commitment. Atlantic 2005Lauwrence Brander. E.M. Forster. A critical study Brander. Bucknell University Press, 1970Norman Page. E.M. Forster. Macmillan, 1987
Group B - American LiteratureThe Emergence of Modem America
Unit-IMark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Unit-llMelville: Moby Dick
Unit-llIErnest Hemingway: Farewell to Arms
Unit-IVZora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Unit-VFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
Recommended reading:John McCormick. American Litel'flturc 1919-1932. Routledge and Kcgan OPrcss, 1971
G K Hall and Company, 1994 III
Henry Serrano Villard & Nagel, James. Hemingway in Love and War: The Lost Diary ofAgnes von Kurowsky: Her letters, and Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway_Hyperion,1996
Hazel Arnett Ervin, ed. African American Literary Criticism. Tawyne, 1999R. Kent Rasmussen. Critical Comp:mion to mark Twain.Houston Baker. Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of harlem and Black Aesthetic. University
of Wisconsin Press, 1980.Henry Louis Gates. Race, Writing and Press, University ofChicago Press, 1986D H Lawrence. Studies in Classical American Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2003
2.3.13Group C - Professional Writing
Unit I 16 teaching hrsJournalistic writing (part I):
a) Copy Writing: Tracking Down Sources; Accessing bottom-lineinformation; story construction; copy preparation; Writing press releases, newsreports
b) Copyediting - Micro and Macro Editing, Proofreading, rewriting,newspaper style sheet
Unit IIJournalistic writing (partII) Writing Features:
a) Informative: News Storiesb) Interpretative: Column, Leader, Editorialc) Imaginative: Middle, Profile
16 teaching hrs
Unit III 16 teaching hrsNew media:
a) Advertising - Copywriting: Writing for Commercials, Writing for Infomercials, Useof rhetoric in advertorials; Promotional writing: Research, Branding and Positioning
b) Freelancing, Magazine Writing.c) Writing for the web: Blogging
Unit ··IV:i. Promotional Writing: Media planning; Designing, Branding, Packagingii. Use of Rhetoric In Advertorialsiii. Copywriting; Writing for Commercials & Infol110rclalsIv. Evaluating advertisements
Unit-VI. Writing for the Web: Email; 810gglng; Social networkingii. Website content writingIii. Internet JO~lrnalismlv, PllOtO Editing and Graphics
I
Recommended reading:
Judith Butcher, Caroline Drake, & Maureen Leach eds. Butcher's Copy-editing.TheCambridge Handbook for Editors, Copy-editors and Proofreaders. Cambridge University
Press, 2007Sarah Freeman. Written Communication in English. Orient Biackswan, 2008Stanley Fish. How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One. Harper Collins,2012.Keene, Maxine & Hairston, Michael. Successful Writing. 5th ed. Norton & Co.,2003.David Shipley. "What We Talk About When We Talk About Editing." The New York Times.
31July 2005. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31!0pinion/3Ishipley.html.
Ralph L Wahlstrom. The Tao ofWriting. USA: Adams Media, 2006.Colson Whitehead. "Howto Write." 26 July 2012. The New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/books/reviewlcolson-whiteheads-rules-forwriting.html?-,""'0
In each paper, questions will come in the exam paper in two divisions, consisting of Group A and Group B. In
group A, students will be asked to answer eight short questions out of ten questions ( at least two questions
from each uniteLIn GroupB, students will have to answer 4 long type quest"ns comprising of 16 marks each
out of 5 questions (at least 1 question from each unit)
The strucbJre will be like the following:
Group A2X8 = 16GroupB4x16=64Total 80 marks
This is applicable to all the above mentioned papers
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SEMESTER 4
In each paper, questions will come in the exam paper in two divisions, consisting of Group A and Group B. In
group A, students will be asked to answer eight short questions out 01 ten questions ( atleast two questions
from each unite). In Group B, students will have to answer 4 long type questions comprising of 16 marks each
out 01 5 questions (at least 1 queslionfrom each untt)
The structure will be like the following:
Group A2X8= 16GroupB4x16=64Total 80 marks
This is applicable to all the following papers
Paper 13Indian Ljteratnre in English and in
TranslationPaper code - 401
Unit Ihours
(i) Ezekiel: Night ofthe Scorpion(ii) Kamala Das: My Grandmother's House(iii) Ramanujan: Obituary(iv) Jayanta Mahapaira: Of a Questionable Conviction
16 teaching
Unit n Gopinath Mohaniy: Paraja (Translated by Bikram Das) 16 teaching hrs
Unit IIIGirish Karnad: Tuglaq 16 teaching hrs
Unit IVRamanujan: Is There an Indian Way of Thinking
UNIT--V'·Fakir Mohan Senapati: Atma carita
Suggested Reading:B King. Modem Indian Poetry in English. Princeton University Press, 200 IAryind Krishna Mehrotra, ed. A History ofIndian Literature in English. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2003.Kaiser Haq, ed. Contemporary Indian:Poetry. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990.Preston A Taylor. Ezekiel: God's Prophet and His Puzzling Book. Xulon Press, 2006.
N. V. Raveendran. The Aesthetics of Sensuality: A Stylistic Study ofthe Poetry ofKamala Das.
Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 2000.
Shirish Chindhade. Five Indian English Poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan, Arun
Kolatkar, Dilip Chitre, R. Parthasarathy. Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 1996.
Amar Nath Dwivedi. Poetic Art ofA.K.Ramanujan. B.R. Publishing COlporation. 1995.
Rajuladevi Shankar. Jayanta Mahapatra the poet: quest for identity. Prestige Books, 2003.
Neeru Tandon. Perspectives and Challenges in Indian-English Drama. Atlantic Publishers
&Dist,2006.Sitakant Mahapatra. Reaching the Other Shore: The World ofGopinath Mohanty's Fiction.
B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1992.
Paper 14 - Americanliterature
Paper code - 402
Unit-I1) Walt Whitman: Song of Myself2) Emily Dickinson: Inebriate of Air Am 1...3) Robert Frost: Mending Wall
4) Wallace Stevens: Sunday Morning
Unit-II5) William Carlos Williams: Red Wheelbarrow6) Carl Sandburg: Chicago7) Langston Hughes: The Negro Speaks of Rivers8) Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Unit-IIINathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Unit-IVEugene 0' Neill: Desire Under the Elms
UNIT -V Thomas pain: commonsense
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
Recommended reading:Ruland Richard and Malcom Bradbury. From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A Historyof
American Literature (part I and II), Penguin Books, 1991Emerson: "The American Scholar". Laurentian Press, 1901H. D. Thoreau: Walden, Houghton, 1892
Frederick Crews. The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes.Berkeley: University ofCalifornia Press, 1966; reprinted 1989.
James R Mellow. Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,1980.
Brenda Wineapple. Hawthorne: A Life. Random House: New York, 2003.Stephen A Black. Eugene O'Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy. Yale University press.2002. Virginia Floyd, ed. Eugene O'Neill: A World View. Frederick Unger. 1979.Virginia Floyd. The Plays ofEugene O'Neill: A New Assessment. Frederick Unger. 1985.
PAPER 15 (Specjalpaper) Paper code - 403
Group A - Writing the Nation: Indian Writing in English in the Colonial andPostcolonial Period
Poetry
Unit IhrsRamachandra Guha: Makers of Modern India (TenChapters)
Unit IIhrsRamachandra Guha: Makers of Modern India (TenChapters)
Unit IIIhrsBankim Chandra Chatterjee: Anand Math Or,the Sacred Brotherhood
Unit-IVRobindranath Tagore: Nationalism
16 teaching
16 teaching
16 teaching
Unit -V 14 teaching hrsSalman Rushdie: Imaginary Homelands
Recommended Readings:Gauri Viswanathan. Masks and Conquests: Literary Studies and British Rule. Columbia
University Press, 1989
.~ . 'Beyond Orientalism: Syncretism and Politics of Knowledge' Stanford
Group B - American LiteratureAmerican Diversity
UnillToni Morrison: Beloveg
16 teaching hrs
Unit IISaul Bellow: The Victim
Unit IIIJames Welch: Winter in the BloodUnit-IVUnit-V
16 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
Suggested Reading:John Hutchinson and Anthony Smith. Ethnicity. Oxford University Press, 1996Nathan Glazer and Daniel P Moynihan. Ethnicity Theory and Experience. Harvard University
Press, 1975Boudreau, Kristen. "Pain and the Unmaking ofSelf in Toni Morrison's Beloved".
Contemporary Literature JSTOR 1208829La Vinia Delois Jennings. Toni Morrison and the Idea ofAfrica. Cambridge University Press:
2010.
Group C - Professional Writing
Production oftwo pieces ofprofessional writing (50 marks)
E. H. McGrath. Basic Managerial Skills for All. 9th ed. PHI Learning.
Stephen, McLareu. Easy Writer: Student's Guide to Writing Essays and Report. PascalEducational Services. 2007.
Roslyn Petelin, Roslyn & Marsha Durham. The Professional Writing Guide.Australia: Woodslane, 1992.
David Graddol. English India Next. http://www.britishcouncil.orgllearning-english-nextindia-20 IO-book.pdf
Paper 16 (Specialpaper) Paper code
404
Group A - Writing the Nation: Indian Writing in English in the Colonial andPostcolonial
PeriodDrama I Non-fiction I
-, Autobiography
Unit IGirish Karnad: Nagamandala
Uliit IIVijayTendulkar: Silence! the Court is in Session
16 teaching hrs
18 teaching hrs
Unit IIIBadal Sarkar
'Ebong Indrajit'
Unit-IVMahesh Dattani, TaraUnit-VRabindranath Tagore: Red Oleander
14 teacbing hrs
Recommended ReadingV Rangan. "Myth and Roman in Naga-Mandala or their Subversion" Girish Karnad's Plays:
Performance and Critical Perspectives. Ed. Tutun Mukherjee. Pencraft International,2006
Praful D Kulkarni. The Dramatic World ofGirish kamad. Creative Books, 2010
Group B - American LiteratureContemporary American Writing
Unit IJohn Ashberry: "SelfPortrait in a Convex Mirror"
Unit IIThomas Pynchon: The Crying ofLot 49
Unit IIISam Shepherd: The Tooth ofCrimeUNIT-IVUNIT-V
20 teaching hrs
12 teaching hrs
16 teaching hrs
Recommended Reading: Laura Quinney, The Poetics ofDisappointment: Wordsworth toAshbery. The University Press of Virginia, 1999
Jean-Fran90is Lyotard, The Postmodem Condition: A Report on Knowledge, trans. GeoffBennington and Brian Massumi. University ofMinnesota Press, 1984
Christopher Butler. Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction.Charles Altieri. 'John Ashberry and Challenge ofPostmodernism in Visual Arts.'http://www.jstor.org/discover/l 0.2307/1343673?uid-2129&uid-2&uid-70&uid~&sid-21I
04268850633Stephen J Bottoms. Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway
Movement. The University ofMichigan Press, 2006Leonard Wilcox. "Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Shepard's The Tooth of Crime and the
Discourses ofPopular Culture," Modern Drama 30/4 (1987): 560-573-'ThomasPvnchon.com, a web-based exploration ofPynchon's fiction.
Group C - ProfessionalWriting
Pr~uctionof two pieces of professional writing (50 marks)
Recommended reading: ,Jyoti Sanyal. Indlish: The Book for Every English-speaking Indian. Viva Books, 2007.
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