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FACULTY OF LANGUAGES

SYLLABUS

FOR

M.A. ENGLISH (CBCEGS)(SEMESTER: I–IV)

EXAMINATIONS: 2016–17

GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITYAMRITSAR

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1M.A. ENGLISH (CBCEGS)

NOTE: All departmental courses shall be of 5 credit hours.

Semester–INote: The students will be required to take up FIVE courses: THREE core and TWO fromoptionals

Code Core CoursesENL401 Poetry-I (Renaissance to Romantic)ENL402 Indian Writing in EnglishENL403 Novel-I (British Novel upto 19th Century)

Optional coursesENL404 Phonetics and Spoken EnglishENL405 Literary CriticismENL406 Greek DramaENL407 Punjabi Literature in TranslationENL408 Communication Studies

Inter-disciplinary course for students of other departmentsENL051 Introduction to Literature in English

Semester–IINote: The students will be required to take up FIVE courses: THREE core and ONE fromoptionals and ONE from interdisciplinary courses being offered by other departments.

Code Core CoursesENL451 Drama-I (Marlowe to Shaw)ENL452 Western Literature: An OverviewENL453 Modern English Grammar and Advanced Writing

Note: The students will take one optional courseOptional Courses

ENL454 American Prose and DramaENL455 Spectrum of Poetry: Recurring Themes and MotifsENL456 Indian Literature in TranslationENL457 European Literature in Translation

Inter-disciplinary course for students of other departmentsENL076 Appreciation of Poetry


Semester–III

Note: The students will be required to take up FIVE courses: THREE core and ONE fromoptionals and ONE from interdisciplinary courses being offered by other departments.

Code Core CoursesENL501 Drama-II (Modern Drama)ENL502 Expanding Canon: An OverviewENL503 Modern Linguistic Theory and Application

Optional CoursesENL504 American NovelENL505 American PoetryENL506 Irish LiteratureENL507 Post-colonial LiteratureENL508 Diaspora Literature

Semester–IVNote: The students will be required to take up FIVE courses: FOUR core and ONE fromoptionals.

Code Core CoursesENL551 Short DissertationENL552 Poetry-II (Victorian and Modern)ENL553 Modern Critical TheoryENL554 Novel-II (Modern Novel)

Note: The students will take one optional course

Optional Courses

ENL555 Semiotics: Theory and PracticeENL556 Psychology and LiteratureENL557 Stylistics and Text Analysis


SEMESTER–I

ENL401: Poetry-I (Renaissance to Romantic)

UNIT–I

John Donne:-The Extasie-The Canonization-The Sunne Rising-A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning-The Flea-Batter my heart, three personed God-At the round earths imagin'd corners

UNIT–II

John Milton: Paradise Lost, Book I

UNIT–III

Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock

UNIT–IV

William Wordsworth:

-The World is Too Much with Us

-I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

-Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey

-Resolution and Independence

-Ode: Intimations of Immortality

-The Solitary Reaper

-London 1802

-Lucy Poems


SEMESTER–I

ENL402: Indian Writing in English

UNIT–I

Nissim Ezekiel:-Enterprise-Night of the Scorpion-Poet Lover Birdwatcher-The Worm-Background, Casually

Kamala Dass:-The Freaks-My Grandmother's House-A Hot Noon in Malabar-The Sunshine Cat-The Invitation

UNIT–II

Khushwant Singh:- Karma- The Mark of Vishnu- The Portrait of a Lady- A Bride for the Sahib

UNIT–III

Raja Rao:- Kanthapura

UNIT–IV

Arundhati Roy:- The God of Small Things


SEMESTER–I

ENL403: Novel-I (British Novel upto 19th Century)

UNIT–I

Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews

UNIT–II

Jane Austin: Emma

UNIT–III

Charles Dickens: Hard Times

UNIT–IV

Thomas Hardy: Tess


SEMESTER–I

ENL404: Phonetics and Spoken English

UNIT–I

Varieties of EnglishOrgans of SpeechThe R.P.English, IPA alphabetGeneral Indian English

UNIT–II

The Sounds of English;Articulation, description and classification of English phonemesAllophonic Variants in R.P.EnglishMorphophonemic changesIndian variants of English phonemes

UNIT–III

The Syllable and its structureStress and stress change in English words,Stress rules

UNIT–IV

Features of Connected English SpeechWeak forms,Intonation patterns of EnglishFunctions of Intonation


SEMESTER–I

ENL405: Literary Criticism

UNIT–I

Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare

UNIT–II

William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads

UNIT–III

Mathew Arnold: The Study of Poetry

UNIT–IV

T.S. Eliot: Tradition and Individual TalentThe Metaphysical Poets


SEMESTER–I

ENL406: Greek Drama

UNIT–I

Aristotle: The Poetics

UNIT–II

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

UNIT–III

Euripedes: Electra

UNIT–IV

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex


SEMESTER–I

ENL407: Punjabi Literature in Translation

UNIT–I

Peeloo:Mirza (trans. Satinder Aulakh, The Fast Horse and the Ferocious River, Patiala: PunjabiUniversity)

UNIT–II

Nanak Singh: The Watch Maker

UNIT–III

Gulzar Sandhu: Punjabis, War and Women (Trans. Marcus Franda)

UNIT–IV

Swarajbir: Dharam Guru


SEMESTER–I

ENL408: Communication Studies

UNIT–I

Fields of CommunicationModels of CommunicationMethods of Communication Research

UNIT–II

Language and RhetoricSemiotics and Narrative

UNIT–III

Professional CommunicationAudience Analysis and Mass Communication

UNIT–IV

Film AnalysisMass Media Analysis

Prescribed Books:

1. John Fiske: Introduction to Communication Studies; Routledge2. Sky Marsen: Communication Studies; Palgrave Foundations


SEMESTER–II

ENL451: Drama-I (Marlowe to Shaw)

UNIT–I

Marlowe: Dr. Faustus

UNIT–II

William Shakespeare: Hamlet

UNIT–III

Henrik Ibsen: Ghosts

UNIT–IV

Bernard Shaw: Saint Joan


SEMESTER–II

ENL452: Western Literature: An Overview

UNIT–I

Periodization of National Literatures

1. British2. American (USA)3. Continental (French, German, and Russian)4. Commonwealth (Canadian, Australian and from New Zealand)5. Latin American (Spanish and Portugese)

UNIT–II

Major Literary Periods and Movements

1. Classical and Medieval2. Renaissance3. Neoclassicism and Romanticism4. Nineteenth Century5. Modernism and Postmodernism

UNIT–III

Drama and Poetry

1. Classical Drama and Poetry2. Drama upto 19003. Modern Drama4. Poetry upto 19005. Modern Poetry

UNIT–IVProse and Fiction

1. The Essay2. Non Fictional Prose3. Rise of the Novel upto 19004. Modern Novel5. The Short Story


SEMESTER–II

ENL453: Modern English Grammar and Advanced Writing

UNIT–I

Word Classes: Form & Function; Open v/s ClosedDefining Criteria for Word ClassesClasses & Functions of Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb

UNIT–II

Noun Phrase: Structure and FunctionsDeterminers and ModifiersDeterminers: Sequence and ReferenceVerb Phrase: Finite & Non-finite; Simple and ComplexFinite & Non-finite formsTense, Aspect & TimeAdjective Phrase: Head and ModifiersAdverb Phrase & Adverbial: Semantic Roles and Grammatical FunctionsPrepositional Phrase

UNIT–III

Basic Clause Elements: SVOCASemantic Roles of Clause ElementsClause Complexes: Coordination & SubordinationTypes of subordinate clauses: Finite & Non-finiteNominal and Adverbial Clauses

UNIT–IV

Cohesion in Texts: Reference, Ellipsis, Substitution, Conjunction Cohesion, Lexical Cohesion,ParallelismBasic Sentence FaultsEffective Sentences & ParagraphsThe Whole Composition: Essay


SEMESTER–II

ENL454: American Prose and Drama

UNIT–I

Emerson: “Self Reliance”“The American Scholar”

UNIT–II

Edward Albee: Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

UNIT–III

Eugene O’Neill: The Hairy Ape

UNIT–IV

Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman


SEMESTER–II

ENL455: Spectrum of Poetry: Recurring Themes and Motifs

UNIT–I

Innocence and Experience

William Blake: The Lamb, The Tiger

John Keats: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

G.M.Hopkins: Spring and Fall

A.E.Housman: When I was one and twenty

Robert Frost: Nothing Gold can stay, Provide, provide

Countee Cullen: Incident

Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill

J. Peter Meinke: Advice to My son

Robert Wallace: In a Spring Still Not Written Of

UNIT–II

Conformity and RebellionJohn Milton: “Is this the region” from Paradise Lost. Bk.1 (l.242-270)

Sonnet XVII “When I consider how my light is spent”

William Wordsworth: The World Is Too Much With Us.

Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses

Emily Dickinson: Much Madness Is Divinest Sense, I’m Nobody! Who Are You?

G.M. Hopkins: Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord

E.A. Robinson: Miniver Cheevy

Robert Frost: Departmental

Wallace Stevens: Sunday Morning

Langston Hughes: Harlem

W.H. Auden: The Unknown Citizen

Nikki Giovanni: Dreams


UNIT–III

Love and Hate

Chirstopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

Walter Raleigh: The Maid’s Reply

John Donne: The Good Morrow

Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress

Robert Burns: A Red, Red Rose

John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Robert Browning: My Last Duchess

W.B.Yeats: When You are Old

Robert Frost: The Silken Tent, Fire and Ice

W.H.Auden: Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love

Philip Larkin: Talking in Bed

Sylvia Plath: Daddy

Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Love do not Ask

UNIT–IV

Suffering and Death

Shakespeare: Fear no more the heat of the Sun

John Donne: Death be not Proud

John Keats: When I have Fears I may cease to be

Emily Dickinson: Because I could not stop for Death

Robert Frost: Out, Out-

Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night

Stephen Spender: Funeral

W.H.Auden: Musee des Beaux Arts

William Carlos Williams: Tract

Shiv Kumar Batalvi: I Will Die in the Fullness of Youth.


SEMESTER–II

ENL456: Indian Literature in Translation

UNIT–I

Galib: Ghazals (Celebrating the Best of Urdu Poetry, trans. Khushwant Singh, Penguin Viking)- To be united with the beloved was not writ in my fate- If I found the one I long to see, I would not cry for peace of mind- Having willingly given away one’s heart to another why should songs

of lament be sung?- Though beyond compare is the beauty of the full moon- It is my heart, not a thing of brick and stone, why can’t it sometimes

fill with pain?- A sigh of longing takes to be heard, if ever

UNIT–II

Mahashveta Devi: Breast Stories

UNIT–III

Bhisham Sahni: Tamas

UNIT–IV

Girish Karnad: Hayavadana


SEMESTER–II

ENL457: European Literature in Translation

UNIT–I

August Strindberg: Miss Julia

UNIT–II

Sartre: The Flies

UNIT–III

Franz Kafka: The Trial

UNIT–IV

Albert Camus: The Stranger


SEMESTER–III

ENL501: Drama-II (Modern Drama)

UNIT–I

T.S. Eliot: The Cocktail Party

UNIT–II

Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party

UNIT–III

Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire

UNIT–IV

Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot


SEMESTER–III

ENL502: Expanding Canon: An Overview

UNIT–I

-What is Canon?-Religious and Literary Canon-Canon Formation-Critique of Established Canon

UNIT–II

- Afro-Asian Writing in English- South Asian Writing in English- Post Colonial Literature- Diaspora Literature

UNIT–III

- Afro-Asian Literature in Translation- South Asian Literature in Translation- Punjabi Literature in Translation- Classical and Medieval Literatures of the East

UNIT–IV

- Folklore- Culture and Popular Culture- Film Studies- Mass Media


SEMESTER–III

ENL503: Modern Linguistic Theory and Application

UNIT–I

Structural LinguisticsNature of Linguistic sign: signifier & signifiedSyntagmatic & Paradigmatic RelationsLinguistics as a scientific study of LanguageDiscovery Procedures: Minimal Pairs; Pattern Congruity; Complementary Distribution; ICAnalysis

UNIT–II

Transformational Generative LinguisticsCompetence & PerformanceDeep Structure & Surface StructurePhrase Structure RulesBasic Transformations: Negative, Question, Passive

UNIT–III

Functional LingusticsFunctions of Language: Ideational, Interpersonal, TextualContext: Field, Tenor, ModeClause Structure: Transitivity, Modality, & Theme organization

UNIT–IV

Linguistics & Language TeachingStructural Linguistics and Language TeachingCritique of Grammar Translation MethodDirect & Audio-Lingual MethodFunctional Linguistics & Language TeachingCommunicative Approaches to Language Teaching


SEMESTER–III

ENL504: American Novel

UNIT–I

Melville: Billy Budd

UNIT–II

Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea

UNIT–III

Scott F. Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

UNIT–IV

Saul Bellow: The Victim


SEMESTER–III

ENL505: American Poetry

UNIT–I

a) Walt WhitmanOne’s self I SingI Hear America SingingI Hear it was charged against meWhen I heard the Learn’d AstronomerA Noiseless Patient SpiderCrossing Brooklyn Ferry

b) Langston HughesHarlemThe Negro Speaks of RiversThe Weary BluesDream VariationsI, too, sing America

UNIT–II

Emily DickinsonI cannot live with youI heard a fly buzz when I diedI felt a funeral in my brainBecause I could not stop for DeathI taste a liquor never brewedMy life had stood a loaded GunWild Nights – Wild NightsSome keep the Sabbath going to churchThe soul selects her own societyTell all the Truth, but tell it slant.I like to see it lap the miles.A narrow fellow in the Grass.


UNIT–III

Wallace StevensAnecdote of the JarThe Emperor of Ice CreamThe Idea of order at key westSunday MorningThirteen Ways of Looking at a BlackbirdOf Modern Poetry

UNIT–IV

Robert FrostStopping by woods on snowy eveningThe Road Not TakenMowingAfter Apple PickingGood By and Keep coldThe Tuft of FlowersMending WallTwo Tramps in Mud TimeBirchesDesignThe Gift Outright


SEMESTER–III

ENL 506: Irish Literature

UNIT–I

Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

UNIT–II

J.M. Synge: The Playboy of the Western World

UNIT–III

James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

UNIT–IV

W.B.Yeats- September 1913- Easter 1916- In Memory of Major Gregory- Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen- The Municipal Gallery Revisited


SEMESTER–III

ENL507: Postcolonial Literature

UNIT–I

M.G. Vassanji: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

UNIT–II

Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss

UNIT–III

Jhumpa Lahiri:- “When Pirzada came to Dine”- "Interpreter of Maladies”- “Mrs. Sen”- "The Third and Final Continent”

UNIT–IV

Arundhati Roy: An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire Essay –“Come September” Edward Said:

Culture and imperialism Essay—“Chapter I”, Parts (i) and (ii).


SEMESTER–III

ENL 508: Diaspora Literature

UNIT–I

R. Radhakrishnan: Ethnicity in an age of DiasporaLisa Lowe: Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian-American DifferencesStuart Hall: Cultural Identity and Diaspora(From Jana Evans Braziel and Anita Mannur. (Ed) Theorising Diaspora. Blackwell, 2003.

UNIT–II

John Agard: Me No Oxford DonCheck Out me HistoryHalf-CasteThe Windowrush ChildRemembering the ShipBeat it outGod hear me is you talking to.

UNIT–III

Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake

UNIT–IV

Sadhu Singh Dhami: Maluka


SEMESTER–IV

ENL551: SHORT DISSERTATION

1. Students will be allocated equitably to all teachers with a provision that no teacher will have

less than 4 students.

2. The teacher shall provide a reading list on the proposed area of study of not less than 4 critical

articles.

3. The students would be instructed to make use of those articles and write a project/dissertation

of 5000 – 7000 words (excluding bibliography and footnotes).

4. The text/s selected for critical analysis shall be from outside the prescribed M.A. syllabus.

5. The project should be written in a clear and precise language and should have well developed

arguments presented in a logical order and concluded in an appropriate manner.

6. All references whether quoted or summarized should be appropriately inscribed and

acknowledged in the text.

7. For documentary references, students should consult Joseph Gibaldi's MLA Handbook for

Writers of Research Papers (Seventh Edition).

8. Submission date for the project/dissertation shall be as per date-sheet for Paper ENL510.

9. The name of the teacher or the student shall not be indicated on the project/dissertation (for the

sake of secrecy).


SEMESTER–IV

ENL552: POETRY II (Victorian and Modern)

UNIT–IROBERT BROWNING

-My Last Duchess- The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church-Andrea del Sarto- Fra Lippo, Lippi-A Grammarian's Funeral

UNIT–IIT.S. ELIOT

- The Waste Land- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

UNIT–IIIW.B.YEATS

- The Lake Isle of Innisfree-The Wild Swans of Coole-A Prayer for my Daughter-Among School Children-Leda and the Swan-The Second Coming- Sailing to Byzantium- Byzantium

UNIT–IV(a) W.H. AUDEN

- As I Walked Out One Evening- Lullaby- Musee Des Beaux Arts- September 1, 1939- In Memory of W.B. Yeats

(b) DYLAN THOMAS- After the Funeral- Fern Hill- And Death Shall Have No Dominion- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night- Especially When the October Wind


SEMESTER–IV

ENL553: MODERN CRITICAL THEORY

UNIT–I

a) Northrop Frye: The Archetypes of Literatureb) Lionel Trilling: Freud and Literature

UNIT–II

a) Terry Eagleton: Form and Contentb) Edward Said: Crisis (in Orientalism)

UNIT–III

a) Roman Jakobson: Linguistics and Poeticsb) Roland Barthes: Introduction to Structural Analysis of Narratives

UNIT–IV

a) Christopher Norris: Jacques Derrida: Language against Itselfb) Toril Moi: Feminist Literary Criticism


SEMESTER–IV

ENL554: Novel–II (Modern Novel)

UNIT–I

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

UNIT–II

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway

UNIT–III

D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers

UNIT–IV

William Golding: Lord of the Flies


SEMESTER–IV

ENL555: Semiotics: Theory and Practice

UNIT–I

V.N. Volosinov: "Verbal Interaction"

UNIT–II

Roland Barthes: "The Theory of the Text"

UNIT–III

Raja Rao: The Serpent and the Rope (First 50 pages)

UNIT–IV

Saadat Hasan Manto: "Toba Tek Singh"Bano Qudsia: "The Soul-weary"


SEMESTER–IV

ENL556: Psychology and Literature

UNIT–I

The Psychological Approach: Freud

UNIT–II

Mythological and Archetypal Approaches(Unit I and II from Guerin, Morgan et al. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature)

UNIT–III

Bernard Malamud: The Assistant

UNIT–IV

Iris Murdoch: A Severed Head


SEMESTER–IV

ENL557: Stylistics and Text Analysis

UNIT–I

Style and StylisticsPurpose and Method of Stylistic AnalysisVariations in Basic Clause StructureLevels of Language and Stylistics

UNIT–II

Style as DeviationStyle as ChoiceText as Representation

UNIT–III

Text as InteractionText as Message

UNIT–IV

Register, Genre and StyleRegister and Text AnalysisGenre and Text Analysis

NOTE

About 10% of the total credits have to be earned from other departments by thestudents of M.A. English

ANY STUDENT WHO FAILS TO MAINTAIN 4.5 CGPA IN SEMESTER-I ANDSEMESTER-II OR ANY STUDENT WHO FAILS IN MORE THAN 2 PAPERS OUT OF 10PAPERS IN SEMESTER-I AND SEMESTER-II SHALL BE CONSIDERED FAILED ANDHAVE TO APPEAR IN SEMESTER-I.

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