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    MA English Syllabus for Semester 1

    The Structure of Modern English

    ● Communication
    ● Phonology
    ● Morphology
    ● Syntax
    ● Semantics

    English Fiction

    ● Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels


    ● Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews
    ● Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
    ● Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
    ● George Eliot: Middlemarch

    Traditional English Drama

    ● Ben Jonson: Volpone


    ● Christopher Marlowe: Dr Faustus
    ● William Congreve: The Way of the World
    ● Sheridan: The School for Scandal
    ● William Goldsmith: She Stoops To Conquer

    Indian Verses (Elective)

    ● Background to Indian English Poetry


    ● Nissim Ezekiel
    ● Arun Kolatkar – Jejuri
    ● The Old Playhouse and Other Poems – Kamla Das
    ● William Goldsmith: She Stoops To Conquer

    English Language and Literature Teaching (Elective)

    ● Methods and Approaches to Language Teaching


    ● Teaching of Grammar
    ● Dimensions of Research in English Language and English Literature
    ● Teaching of Language Skills
    ● Approaches to Teaching of Literature
    ● Teaching of Poetry, Drama, Fiction

    Research Methodology (Elective)

    ● What is Research?
    ● Constructing Research Design
    ● Research Process
    ● Dimensions of Research in English Language and English Literature
    ● Development, Hypothesis and Preparation of Research Proposal
    ● Research Process
    ● Parts of the Dissertation
    ● Presentation of Research
    ● Presentation of Research
    ● Major Concerns in the Thesis

    MA English Syllabus for Semester 2


    The Structure of Modern English

    ● Language and Society


    ● Distinctive Features of British, American and Indian English
    ● Pragmatics
    ● English in India
    ● Introduction to Stylistics

    English Fiction

    ● Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure


    ● Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim
    ● D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
    ● Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory
    ● EM Forster: A Passage to India.

    Modern English Drama

    ● GB Shaw: Candida
    ● TS Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral
    ● Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
    ● Harold Pinter: Home Coming
    ● John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
    Indian Prose Works (Elective)

    ● Background to Indian Prose


    ● Kanthapura
    ● Lokmanya Tilak – Essays from Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    ● RK Narayan: An Astrologer’s Day
    ● Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance

    MA English Syllabus for Semester 3


    Literary Theory and Criticism

    ● Aristotle: The Poetics


    ● Philip Sidney: An Apology of Poetry
    ● Dr Johnson: A Preface to Shakespeare
    ● William Wordsworth: A Preface to Lyrical Ballads
    ● Matthew Arnold: The Study of Poetry

    English Poetry

    ● John Milton: Paradise Lost Book 1


    ● John Donne: The Sun Rising
    ● Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
    ● Alexander Pope: The Rape of The Lock
    ● William Blake: From Songs of Innocence

    English Language and Literature Teaching (Elective)

    ● Methods and Approaches to Language Teaching


    ● Teaching of Grammar
    ● Relationship between Psychology and Teaching of Language
    ● Teaching of Language Skills
    ● Approaches to the Teaching of Literature
    ● Teaching of Poetry, Drama and Fiction

    MA English Syllabus for Semester 4


    Literary Theory and Criticism

    ● T.S.Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent


    ● F.R.Leavis: Literature and Society
    ● Northrope Frye: The Archetypes of Literature
    ● Ronald Barthes: The Death of the Author
    ● Elaine Showalter: Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness

    English Poetry

    ● ST Coleridge: The Rime of Ancient Mariner


    ● William Wordsworth Poetry
    ● Tennyson Poetry
    ● Robert Browning Poetry
    ● W. B. Yeats Poetry

    Shakespeare

    ● King Lear
    ● Macbeth
    ● Julius Caesar
    ● Measure for Measure
    ● Tempest

    American Literature (Elective)

    ● Background Topics
    ● Arthur Miller: The Death of a Salesman
    ● Edward Albee: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
    ● John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
    ● Poetry

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