Friday, July 14, 2017

MA ENGLISH SYLLABUS SEM - I & III



Semester I
Paper English 0101
Poetry (1550 to 1660)
Unit I: Edmund Spenser - Faerie Queene-Book-I
Unit II: John Milton - Paradise Lost Book I
Unit III: John Donne – “The Extasie”
“The Anniversarie”
Andrew Marvell       “To his Coy Mistress”
“Definition of Love”
Unit-IV: William Shakespeare - Sonnets 18, 29, 55, 65
Unit-V: Short Notes
Paper English 0102
Shakespearean Drama
Unit I: William Shakespeare - As You like It
Unit II: William Shakespeare - Hamlet
Unit III: William Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra
Unit IV: William Shakespeare - King Lear
Unit-V: Short Notes
Paper English 0103
Restoration and Augustan Literature
Unit I: Dryden - Absalom and Achitophel
Unit II: Pope - The Rape of the Lock
Unit III: Dryden - All for Love
Unit IV: Jonathan Swift - “The Battle of the Books”
Unit-V: Short Notes
Paper English 0104
World Classics (Drama) in Translation
Unit I: Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Unit-II: Euripides - Hippolytus
Unit-III: Aeschylus – Oresteia-Agamemnon
Unit-IV: Aristophanes - The Frogs
Unit-V: Short Notes
Paper English 0105
Indian Renaissance Literature
Unit I : Sri Aurobindo - “ The Renaissance in India”
Unit-II: Swami Vivekanand (i) “First Public Lecture in the East” (Vol.3)
(ii) “My Plan of Campaign” (Vol.3)
(iii) “Modern India” (Vol. 4)
(iv) “The Women of India” (Vol.9)
Unit-III: Rabindranath Tagore - Gora
Unit-IV: M. K. Gandhi - Hind Swaraj
Unit-V: Short Notes

Semester III
Paper English 0301
Critical Theory
Unit I: Aristotle - Poetics
Unit II: Dryden - Essay on Dramatic Poesy
Unit III : Wordsworth - "Preface" to the Lyrical Ballads.
Unit-IV: Coleridge - Biographia Literaria, Chapters XIII – XV & VII
Unit-V: Short Notes
Paper English 0302
American Literature
Unit I : (i) Emerson - "Nature", “The American Scholar”
Unit II : (i) Whitman - “A Passage to India”, “When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloomed”
(ii) Dickinson - “Because I could not Stop for Death”
“Much Madness in Divinest Sense”
Unit III : (i) Frost - "Birches”, “Mending Walls"
(ii) Sylvia Plath - "Narcissus " “Daddy”
Unit IV : Hawthorn - The Scarlet Letter
Unit-V: Short Notes
Paper English 0303
Colonial and Postcolonial Studies: Texts
Unit I : Raja Rao - Kanthapura
Unit II : Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Unit III : Amitav Ghosh - The Shadow Lines
Unit IV : Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Unit-IV: Short Notes
Paper English 0304
World Classics in Translation (Novels)
Unit 1: Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Unit-II: Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Unit-III: Gustav Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Unit-IV: Albert Camus -The Plague
Unit-V: Short Notes
Paper English 0305 (Interdicsiplinary Paper)
Philosophy and Literature
Unit 1: Plato - The Republic (Chapters 6, 8, 9)
Unit-II: Marcus Aurelieus - Meditations (Books: VII and VIII)
Unit-III: Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
Unit-IV: Herman Hesse - Siddharth
Unit-V: Short Notes

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