VIKRAMA SIMHAPURI UNIVERSITY :: NELLORE::524 003M.A.(ENGLISH) SYLLABUS (Choice Based Credit System)

With effect from 2017-2018

Course No. English

Course Title No.of.Hours

No.of.Credits

Univ. Exam. Duration (Hrs)

Univ. Exam

Internal Assessment

Max. Marks

FIRST SEMESTERENG :101 Poetry- I 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :102 Drama –I 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :103 Fiction – I 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :104 Prose – I 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :105 English Language and

Language Teaching I5 4 3 70 30 100

ENG :106 Human values and professional ethics – I (*)

5 -- 3 70 30 100

SECOND SEMESTERENG :201 Poetry- II 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :202 Drama –II 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :203 Fiction – II 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :204 Prose – II 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :205 English Language and

Language Teaching – II5 4 3 70 30 100

ENG :206 Foundation Course in Computer Applications (*)

5 -- 3 70 30 100

THIRD SEMESTERENG :301 Indian English Literature-I 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :302 American Literature-I 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :303A

ENG. 303 B

New Literatures in English-I Or

Dalit Literature I5 4 3 70 30 100

ENG :304 Literary Criticism-I 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :305 INDIAN LITERATURE IN

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

5 4 3 70 30 100

ENG: 306 Human Values and Professional Ethics II(*)

5 -- 3 70 30 100

FOURTH SEMESTERENG: 401 Indian English Literature-II 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG: 402 American Literature-II 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG: 403 AENG:403B

New Literatures in English-IIOrSubaltern Literature II

5 4 3 70 30 100

ENG: 404 Literary Criticism-II 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG: 405 Communicative English 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG:406 Foundation Course in

Computer Applications (*)5 -- 3 70 30 100

Total No. of. Credits : 80

(*) NOTE: For I & III Semesters Human Values and Professional Ethics course is offered. Through the marks obtained in the said course are not include in the total, a pass mark in this examination is required failing which the student is deemed to have failed in the examinations.

(*) NOTE : For II & IV Semesters Foundation course in Computer Applications course is offered. Through the marks obtained in the said course are not include in the total, a pass mark in this examination is required failing which the student is deemed to have failed in the examinations.

VIKRAMA SIMHAPURI UNIVERSITY :: NELLORE::524 003M.A.(ENGLISH) SYLLABUS (Non- CBCS)

With effect from 2017-2018

Course No. English

Course Title No.of.Hours

No.of.Credits

Univ. Exam. Duration (Hrs)

Univ. Exam

Internal Assessment

Max. Marks

FIRST SEMESTERENG :101 Poetry- I 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :102 Drama –I 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :103 Fiction – I 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :104 Prose – I 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :105 English Language and

Language Teaching I5 4 3 70 30 100

SECOND SEMESTERENG :201 Poetry- II 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :202 Drama –II 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :203 Fiction – II 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :204 Prose – II 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :205 English Language and

Language Teaching – II5 4 3 70 30 100

THIRD SEMESTERENG :301 Indian English Literature-

I5 4 3 70 30 100

ENG :302 American Literature-I 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :303

ENG. 303

New Literatures in English-IOrDalit Literature _ I

5 4 3 70 30 100

ENG :304 Literary Criticism-I 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG :305 Indian Literature in

English Translations5 4 3 70 30 100

FOURTH SEMESTERENG: 401 Indian English Literature-

II5 4 3 70 30 100

ENG: 402 American Literature-II 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG: 403

ENG. 403

New Literatures in English-IIORSubaltern Literature II

5 4 3 70 30 100

ENG: 404 Literary Criticism-II 5 4 3 70 30 100ENG: 405 Communicative English 5 4 3 70 30 100

VIKRAMA SIMHAPURI UNIVERSITY :: NELLOREM.A.(ENGLISH) SYLLABUS FIRST YEAR

With effect from 2017-2018 FIRST SEMESTER

ENG 101: POETRY-I

UNIT-I

1. Background Study (Literary History – Genres – Movements – Ideas – Trends – Concepts)

2. Chaucer : The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales ( The Nun, The Wife of Bath, The Friar)

UNIT-II

3. John Donne : A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, Canonization, Batter My Heart

4. Milton : Paradise Lost, Book 1Unit III5. Alexander pope : The Rape of the Lock

UNIT – IV

6. Wordsworth : Tintern Abbey, Ode on the Intimations of Immortality7. Coleridge : The Rime of the Ancient MarinerUnit - V 8. John Keats : Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn 9. P.B. Shelley : Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark

ENG 102: DRAMA-I

UNITI-I

1. Back ground Study: (Literary History – Genres – Movements – Ideas – Trends – Concepts2. Marlow : Dr. Faustus

UNIT–II

3. Ben Jon son : Volpone

UNIT–III4. William Shakespeare: HamletUNIT IV5. William Shakespeare : The Tempest

UNIT–V

6. Congreve : The Way of the World

ENG 103: FICTION-I

UNIT- I

1. E.M. Foster : Aspects of the Novel2. Henry Fielding : Joseph AndrewsUnit II3. Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

UNIT –III

4. George Eliot : Mill on the FlossUNIT – IV

5. Charles Dickens : Hard Times

Unit V

6. Thomas Hardy : Tess of the D’ubervilles

ENG 104 : PROSE -I

UNIT- I

1. Background Study : Literary History – Genres – Movements – Ideas – Trends –

Concepts

2. Francis Bacon : Of Studies Of Truth, Of Youth and Age

UNIT – II

3. Joseph Addison : The Coverley Papers (1. Spectator Account of Himself. 2. Of the Club. 3. Sir Roger de coverly at Home. 4. A Character of Will wimble)UNIT – III

4. Jonathan Swift : Gulliver’s Travels (First Two Adventures )

Unit IV

5. Charles Lamb : Dream Children, The South – Sea House (from Essays of Elia)Unit V 6. Newman : Knowledge Its Own End (from The Idea of a University)

ENG 105 : ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LANGUAGE TEACHING– I

Unit I:

1. LANGUAGE Definition – Characteristics – Other Systems of

Communication - Features of Language – Theories

– Language Universals. UNIT -II

1. Foreign Influences: Latin, French and Scandinavian2. Word Formation

UNIT-III

3. Semantics 4. Standard English – Englishes: British and American

UNIT–IV

5. Definition and characteristics of Language Definition and scope of Linguistics Modern Linguistics vs. Traditional Approaches to Language Study

UNIT–V

6. Phonology: Phone, Phoneme, and Allophone 7. Morphology : Morpheme, Affixes, Morph, Allomorph, (Simple, Compound and

Complex words)

M.A. (ENGLISH) SYLLABUS FIRST YEAR

With effect from 2017-2018 SECOND SEMESTER

ENG 201 : POETRY–II

UNIT- I1. Background Study : Literary History – Genres – Movements – Ideas – Trends

– Concepts

2 Robert Browning : My Last Duchess UNIT – II3. W.B Yeats : Easter 1916, The Second Coming, ByzantiumUnit III 4. T.S Eliot : The Waste Land

UNIT – IV5. Hopkins : Windhover, Pied Beauty 6. W.H Auden : The Unknown Citizen, The Shield of Achilles UNIT V7. Philip Larkin : Church –going 8. Ted Hughes : The Thought –Fox, Hawk Roosting

ENG 202 : DRAMA – II

UNIT- IBackground Study 1. Literary History – Genres – Movements – Ideas – Trends – Concepts

2. GB Shaw : Pygmalion

UNIT – II 3. T.S Eliot : Murder in the CathedralUNIT III4. John Osborne : Look Back in Anger

UNIT – IV 5. Samuel Beckett : Waiting for GodotUNIT V

6. J.M. Synge : The Riders to the Sea

ENG 203 : FICTION – II

UNIT- I

Background Study 1. Literary History – Genres – Movements – Ideas – Trends – Concepts

2. Virginia Woolf : Mrs. DallowayUnit II3. James Joyce : The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

UNIT-III4. D.H. Lawrence : Sons and LoversUnit IV5. William Golding : Lord of the Flies

UNIT-V6. Graham Greene : The Power and the Glory

ENG 204 : PROSE – II

UNIT- IBackground Study 1. Literary History – Genres – Movements – Ideas – Trends – Concepts

2. Matthew Arnold : Sweetness and Light ((From Culture and Anarchy)UNIT II3. John Ruskin : Sesame and Lilies

UNIT-III4. Virginia Woolf : A Room of One’s OwnUNIT IV5. Bertrand Russell : The Role of Individuality (From Authority

and the Individual)

UNIT-V6. Sri Aurobindo : The Renaissance of India

ENG 205 : ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING – II

UNIT-IELT in India : Place – Importance – Problems and Objectives in

Teaching ESP-ESL

UNIT-II

1. English Vowels, English Consonants2. Word Accent and Intonation

UNIT-III

3. Sound Changes: Grimm’s Law Verner’s Law The Great Vowel Shift

UNIT-IV

4. Language Acquisition and Language Learning5. Problems of Teaching/ Learning English as a Second Language in the Indian Context.6. Teaching of Basic Skills- LSRW H and Testing.

UNIT-V7. P.S. Rules

Trules – Negatives, Interrogatives (simple sentences)

M.A. ENGLISH SYLLABUS SECOND YEAR(Effective from the batch of students admitted during the academic year 2017-18

THIRD SEMESTERWith effect from 2017-2018

ENG 301 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE - I

UNIT-I1. Background Study :Literary History- Genres- Movements- Ideas- Trends-

Concepts2. Sri Aurobindo : Savitri – Book IUNIT II3. Toru Dutt : Sita, Our Casuarina Tree4. Sarojini Naidu : The Temple, A Pilgrimage of Love

UNIT-III

5. Rabindranath Tagore : MukthadharaUNIT IV6. Raja Rao : Kanthapura

UNIT V7. Mulk Raj Anand : The Untouchable

ENG 302 : AMERICAN LITERATURE - I

UNIT-I

1. Background Study :Literary History- Genres- Movements- Ideas- Trends- Concepts2. Emerson : The American Scholar, Concord HymnUNIT II3. Whitman : Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking,

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

UNIT-III

4. Emily Dickinson : 76, 214, 712 (From Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson)

UNIT IV

5. Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter

UNIT-V6. H.D. Thoreau : Walden

ENG 303 : NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH- I(Excluding Indian Literature in English )

A

UNIT-I

1. Background Study:Literary History- Genres- Movements- Ideas- Trends- Concepts2. A.D.Hope : Australia, The Death of the BirdUNIT II3. Judith Wright : Fire at the Murdering Hut, Bullocky

UNIT-III

4. Wole Soyinka : The Lion and the Jewel UNIT-IV

5. Chinua Achebe : Things Fall ApartUNIT V6. V.S. Naipaul : A House for Mr.Biswas

ENG: 303 : DALIT LITERATURE B

UNIT I : CRITICAL ESSAYSArjun Dangle : Dalit Literature: Past, Present and FutureSarat Chandra Mukhti Bodh ` : What is Dalit Literature?

UNIT II POETRYEndluri Sudhakar (T.R. Shanta Gokhale) : NeelikaL.S. Rokade (T.R. Shanta Gokhale) :To Be or Not To BE Born

UNIT III : FICTIONJoseph Macqwan : The Step Child

UNIT IV: AUTOBIOGRAPHYBama : KarakkuUNIT V : DAMAK. Enoch : Munivahanudu

ENG 304 : LITERARY CRITICISM – I

UNIT-I

1. Background Study: Literary History- Genres- Movements- Ideas- Trends- Concepts2. Aristotle : PoeticsUNIT II3. Dr. Johnson : A Preface to Shakespeare

UNIT-III

4. Coleridge : Biographia Literaria, Chapter XIVUNIT IV5. Matthew Arnold : A Study of Poetry

UNIT-V

6. T.S. Eliot : Tradition and the IndividualTalent

7. Cleanth Brooks : Irony as a Principle of Structure

ENG 305 : INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

UNIT- I

1.Background Study: Literary History – Genres – Movements – Ideas – Trends – Concepts2. Sri Sri (translated by Sri Sri) : To Poesy, Rhapsody, The March of

History, Forward MarchUNIT II3. Tilak (Tr.by S.S. Prabhakar) : Ambrosia Dripped, Modernism &

PoesySong Immortal

UNIT – III

4. Gurajada Appa Rao : Kanyasulkam (Macmillan)UNIT IV5. Saratchandra : SreekanthUNIT V6. U.R. Ananta Murthy : Samskara

M.A. ENGLISH SYLLABUS SECOND YEAR

With effect from 2017-2018

FOURTH SEMESTER

ENG 401 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE–II

UNIT-I

1. Background Study: Literary History- Genres- Movements- Ideas- Trends- Concepts2. R.K. Narayan : Guide

UNIT-II

3. Nissim Ezekiel :1. Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S. 2. ` Background Casually. 2. Night of the Scorpion.

UNIT III4. Kamala Das : 1. Mu Gand Mother’s House. 2.A Hot Noon in Malabar.5. A.K. Ramanujam : 1. A River. 2. Looking for a Cousin on a Swing.3. Obituary. 4.Small Scale Reflection on a Great House. 5. Of Mother’s Among Other Things. 6. Love Poem for a Wife.

UNIT-IV

6. Salman Rushdie : Midnight’s Children7. Anita Desai : Cry the PeacockUNIT V8. Girish Karnad : Hayavadana

ENG 402 : AMERICAN LITERATURE - II

UNIT-I

1. Background Study: Literary History- Genres- Movements- Ideas- Trends- Concepts2. Robert Frost : Birches, Home Burial

After Apple PickingUNIT II3. Poe : Raven, Philosophy of Composition

UNIT-III4. Eugene O ‘Neill : The Hairy ApeUNIT IV5. Tennessee Williams : A Streetcar Named Desire

UNIT-V6. Saul Bellow : Seize the Day7. Toni Morrison : Beloved

ENG 403 : NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH – II

(Excluding Indian English Literature)

A

UNIT-I

1. Background Study: Literary History- Genres- Movements- Ideas- Trends- Concepts2. Derek Walcott : Far Cry from Africa, Ruins of a Great HouseUNIT II3. Yasmine Gooneratne : A Change of Skies

UNIT-III

4. Margaret Laurence : The Stone AngleUNIT IV5. Ray Lawler : Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

UNIT-V6. Katherine Mansfield : Garden Party, The Dolls House

ENG 403 SUBALTERN LITERATURES – IIB

UNIT I1. Background Study2. Okara : Once upon a Time, The Mystic Drum.

UNIT II3. Mahasweta Devi : DraupadiUNIT III4. Gopinatha Mohanty : ParajaUNIT IV5. Mahesh Dattani : On the Muggy Night in MumbaiUNIT V6. Ngugi : The River Between

ENG 404 : LITERARY CRITICISM – II

UNIT-I1. Edmund Wilson : Marxism and Literature2. Lionel Trilling : Freud and LiteratureUNIT II3. Northrop Frye : Archetypes of LiteratureUNIT-III4. Frantz Fanon : The Wretched of the Earth (Chapter III)5. Edward W. Said : Introduction to OrientalismUNIT IV 6. Jonathan Culler : Structuralist Poetics (Chapter 1) :7. Jacques Derrida : Sign, Structure and Play

UNIT-V

8. Elaine Showalter : Towards a Feminist Poetics9. Ananda Vardhana : Dhvanyaloka (Chapter 1: The First Flash)

Translated by K. Krishna Moorthy

ENG 405 : COMUNICATIVE ENGLISH

UNIT I: COMMUNICATION: Nature – Definition – Types – Barriers

UNIT II: ORAL COMMUNICATION: Body Language – Group Discussions – Interviewing- Debates - Presentations

UNIT III: WRITING FOR MEDIA: Functions of the Press – Reporting – News Paper Writing – Editing – Interviewing

UNIT IV: WRITING FOR ELECTRONIC MEDIA: TV and Radio – Types of Radio and TV

programmes – Impact of Radio and TV – Film and Internet- Effects of Cinema on Society – Advertisements – Advertisement Concepts –Formats – Structures – Design of an Advertisement.

UNIT V: BPO ENGLISH: Types of BPO Business – English Usage – Commonly Confused words – Errors in using the parts of speech – Errors in using punctuation – Redundancies – Style.

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATIONSBRANCH: ENGLISH

MODEL QUESTION PAPERSemester :I ,II,III,IV (For all Semesters).

Time: 3 Hrs Max.Marks: 70

SECTION-A

I). Write short notes on any FOUR of the following 4x5=20 Marks

a)b)c)d)e)f)g)h)i)j)

II). Answer the following questions. One questions from each of the following questions

has to be answered. 4x10=50 Marks

2(a).OR (b).

3. (a)OR (b) .

4. (a)OR (b)

5 (a).OR (b)

6. (a)OR (b)

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