1 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE - I ENG- 901 Semester I Credit: 5 Lectures: 5 External Marks: 100 Internal Marks: 50 OBJECTIVE To offer students a critical and historical insight into salient literary trends and movements from Anglo-Saxon to Eighteen Century COURSE CONTENT UNIT I Anglo-Saxon Literature Chaucer and his time The end of the Middle Age and early Tudor Scene Spenser and his time UNIT II Drama from the miracle plays to Marlow Shakespeare and his time Drama from Johnson to closing of the theatres UNIT III
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HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE - I
ENG- 901
Semester I
Credit: 5
Lectures: 5
External Marks: 100
Internal Marks: 50
OBJECTIVE
To offer students a critical and historical insight into salient literary trends and movements from
Anglo-Saxon to Eighteen Century
COURSE CONTENT
UNIT I
Anglo-Saxon Literature
Chaucer and his time
The end of the Middle Age and early Tudor Scene
Spenser and his time
UNIT II
Drama from the miracle plays to Marlow
Shakespeare and his time
Drama from Johnson to closing of the theatres
UNIT III
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Prose in sixteenth & seventeenth century
Poetry after Spenser (Metaphysical traditions)
Milton and his milieu
Restoration Age (prose, poetry & drama)
UNIT IV
The Augustan Age (Defoe, Swift, Pope)
Novel from Richardson to Jane Austen
Eighteenth Century Prose and Miscellaneous Writings
RECOMMENDED READING
1. Bowden, M. A. Readers Guide to Geoffrey Chaucer. London: Thames and Hudson, 1965.
2. Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. New York: Ronald Press Co.,1960.
3. Hudson, W.H. An Outline History of English Literature. London: Bell, 1932.
4. Ford, Borris. A Pelican Guide to English Literature, New York: Penguin Books, 1968.
5. Hawkins-Dady. Mark. Reader s Guide to Literature in English, London: Taylor & Francis, 1996.
6. Sanders Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature (3rd ed ition). New Delhi: OUP, 2005.
REFERENCE BOOKS
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1. Baugh, A.C. Ed. A Literary History of England (2nd ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967.
2. Sphere History of English Literature. London: Sphere, 1971. Rev. ed . 1986. Rpt. as Penguin
History of Literature. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993.
3. Ford , Boris Ed . The new Pelican Guide to English Literature Series. Harmondsworth,
Middlesex, England, New York, N.Y: Penguin Publications, 1982.
4. Simon, J. Education and Society in Tudor England. Cambridge: University Press,1966.
SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)
Theory
1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours.
2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.
3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions.
4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type
questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the
syllabus. The question will constitu te various sub-parts with enough choice.
The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of
students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.
5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all
the four units of the syllabus. These questions will be essay type questions
with internal choice. In other words, each unit will have one question (essay
type) with internal choice.
Note: No question exclusively based on individual author/text will be set.
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CRITICAL FOUNDATION
ENG- 903
Semester I
Credit: 5
Lectures: 5
External Marks: 100
Internal Marks: 50
OBJECTIVE
To equip students with literary, critical and cultural concepts with a view to nurture an informed
response to an appreciation of literature.
UNIT I
Introduction to Literary Genres:
Romance, Epic, Poetry, Drama, Fiction, Biography, Travelogues etc along with their sub-
genres
UNIT II
Critical and Cultural Idiom:
Figures of Speech (imagery, metaphor, metonymy, Paradox, Irony, Pun, Satire),
UNIT IV A Critical Texts: Plato s Republic, Book X
Aristotle s Poetics
B Assignments: Application of critical, cultural idiom through text based assignments.
RECOMMENDED READING
1. Atkins, J.W.H. English Literary Criticism I The medieval Phase, Cambridge: CUP, 1943; II The Renaissance, London: Methuen & Co.1947; III The Seventeenth and eighteenth Centuries, London: Methuen & Co., 1951.
2. Peck, John & Martin Coyle. Literray Terms and Criticism. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 1984, III edition 2002.
3. Ramaswami, S. & V.S. Sethuraman. eds.The English Critical Trad ition. Vol.1, Delhi: Macmillan, 1977, rpt. 2007
4. Rees, R.J. English Literature: An introduction for Foreign Readers. New Delhi: Macmillan India, 2004.
5. Mikula, Maja. Key Concepts in Cultural studies. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
6. Butcher, S.H. Aristotle s Theory of Poetry and Fine Art. New York: Dover Publishers, 1951.
7. Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
8. Enright, D. J. & Earnest de Chickera. English Critical Texts. Oxford: OUP, 1999
9. Plato. Tr. Benjamin Jowett. The Republic, Book X. New York: Random House, 1957.
10. Prasad, B. A Short History of Literary Criticism. New Delhi: Macmillan, 1986.
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11. Rivkin, Ju lie & Michael Ryan, eds. Literary Theory: An Anthology (II ed). Malden, M.A.: Wiley-Blackwelll, 2004.
12. Waugh, P. Literary Theory and Criticism. New Delhi: OUP, 2007.
13. Wimsatt & Brooks. Literray Criticism: A Short history. London: Routledge, 1970.
14. Washburn, Phil.. The Vocabulary of Critical Thinking, OUP
SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)
Theory
1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours.
2. The Question paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.
3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions.
4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of
basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitu te
various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic
conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.
5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all the four units
of the syllabus. Each question will have two parts of 10 marks each with enough internal
choice, covering various components of the unit. V. In other words, each unit will have
one question (essay type) with internal choice.
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PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY
ENG- 905
Semester I
Credit: 5
Lectures: 5
External Marks: 100
Internal Marks: 50
OBJECTIVE
To help students to develop proficiency in oral communication in English. For this, it focuses on
honing up their basics of speaking i.e. pronunciation, rhythm of language etc. in order to improve
their oral interface
both in formal and informal situation
in professional, interpersonal or
social surroundings.
COURSE CONTENT
UNIT I
Introduction:
Speech Mechanism: Articulation above the larynx; Accent and d ialect in English:
RP/MRP; World Englishes
UNIT II
Phonetics:
Card inal Vowels; English Speech Sounds: Description of Speech Sounds; Phonemes;
Allophones; Phonemic Transcription of words
UNIT III Phonology: Syllable: Syllable structure, syllabic consonants, consonant clusters; Prosodic Features:
Stress and Rhythm, Word Accent; Intonation: Form and functions of intonation
UNIT IV
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Features of Connected Speech:
Assimilation, Ellison, Liaison, Glottalling; Phonemic Transcription of sentences and paragraphs
RECOMMENDED READING
1. Ashby, Patricia. Speech Sounds. London: Routledge, Second edition, 2005.
2. Balasubramanian, T. A Textbook of English Phonetics. New Delhi: MacMillan, 1981 (rpt 2007).
4. **# Arnold, Matthew. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold >Release Date: June 15, 2004 [EBook #12628]
5. *## Chesterton, G. K. All Things Considered Release Date: March 7, 2004 [EBook #11505]
6. ### Lamb, Charles. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume. Release Date: November 30, 2003 [eBook #10343]
7. #### Hazlitt, William Table-Talk: Essays on Men and Manners. Release Date: November 2, 2009 [EBook #3020]
8. *# Macaulay, Thomas Babington The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 1 (of 4) Contibutions to Knight's Quarterly Magazine]
Release Date: June 14, 2008 [EBook #2167]
9. ## Bacon, Francis. The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld.
Verulam Viscount St. Albans. Release Date: November 25, 2009 [EBook #575]
11.*^ Available on Net
12. Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1989.
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SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)
Theory
1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours.
2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.
3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions.
4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of
basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitu te
various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic
conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.
5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all the four units
of the syllabus. These questions will be essay type questions with internal choice. In other
words, each unit will have one question (essay type) with internal choice. In other words,
each unit will have one question (essay type) with internal choice.
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LITERATURE & COMMUNICATION
ENG-915
(Elective I: Group B)
Semester I
Credit: 5
Lectures: 5
External Marks: 100
Internal Marks: 50
OBJECTIVE
To give learners exposure to literature with a sound base in language and communication.
Learners will acquire critical abilities and linguistic competence.
COURSE CONTENT
UNIT I
Basic concepts:
Literature
what and why; Origin and Evolution; Formal elements and Literary genres; Language of literature; Literature as cognitive, ideological and aesthetic medium; Production, communication and consumption of literature
UNIT II
Poetry and Communication:
(A) Poetry and poetic trad ition with special reference to Classical, Romantic and Modern poetic sensibility across cu ltures; the scope and significance of poetry as communicative medium
(B) Detailed study of the following texts as case studies:
1. Sonnet 18 and 73/ Shakespeare
2. Daffod ils / William Wordsworth
3. Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold
4. My Last Duchess / Robert Browning
5. Two Tramps in Mud / Robert Frost
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6. Introduction / Kamala Das
7. Dil Hi To Hai / Mirza Ghalib; Bol Ke Lab Azaad Hein Tere / Faiz Ahmed Faiz
UNIT III
Fiction and Communication:
(A) Short Stories and Novels as Communicative Media; Fiction as Social and Political Narrative
(B) Detailed Study of the following texts as case studies:
7. **Ramaswami, S. & V.S. Sethuraman. The English Critical Tradition. Vol 1. Delhi: Macmillan, 2007.
8. *** ... The English Critical Tradition. Vol 2. Delhi: Macmillan, 2007.
9. Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today: A User Friendly Guide. New York: garland, 1999.
10. Wimsatt, W.K. & Cleanth Brooks. Literary Criticism: A Short History. London: Routledge, 1970.
11. Wellek, Rene. A History of Modern Criticism. New Heaven: Yale University Press,1955.
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SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)
Theory
1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours.
2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry
equal marks.
3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions.
4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type
questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the
syllabus. The question will constitu te various sub-parts with enough choice.
The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of
students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.
5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all
the four units of the syllabus. These questions will be essay type questions
with internal choice. In other words, each unit will have one question (essay
type) with internal choice.
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ENGLISH NOVEL
ENG-906
Semester II
Credit: 5
Lectures: 5
External Marks: 100
Internal Marks: 50
OBJECTIVE
To familiarise students with major English novels to inculcate in them an appreciation of the texts
and contexts of English novel.
COURSE CONTENT
UNIT I
1. Joseph Andrews/Henry Fielding
2. Hard Times/ Charles Dickens
UNIT II
1. Pride and Prejudice/ Jane Austen
2. Jude the Obscure/ Thomas Hardy
UNIT III
1. The Rainbow/ D.H. Lawrence
2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man/James Joyce
UNIT IV
1. The Heart of the Matter/ Graham Greene
2. Prime of Miss Jean Brodie/ Muriel Spark
RECOMMENDED READING
1. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. London: Random House, 2008.
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2. Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Height. London: Random House, 2008.
3. Dickens, Charles. Hard Times. New Delhi: Rupa & Co., 2007
4. Fielding, Henry. Joseph Andrews. London, Penguin, 1977.
5. Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. New York: Penguin Books, 1971.
6. Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure/. London: Penguin Classics, 1895.
7. Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: Barnes and Nobel classics, 2004.
8. Lawrence, D.H. The Rainbow. Digireads.com Publishing, 2008.
9. Sage, Lorna. The Cambridge Guide to Women s Writing in English. Cambridge: CUP, 1999.
10. Spark, Muriel. Prime of Ms Jean Brodie. London: Macmillan, 1961.
11. Taylor, Harriet. The Enfranchisement of Women in John Taylor Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill, Essays on Sex Inequality. ed. Alice Rossi . Chicago: Chicago UP, 1970.
12. Wilson, Keith, Ed. Companion to Thomas Hardy. Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)
Theory
1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours.
2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.
3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions.
4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type
questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the
syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice.
5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all
the four units of the syllabus. These questions will be essay type questions
with internal choice. In other words, each unit will have one question (essay
type) with internal choice. In other words, each unit will have one question
(essay type) with internal choice.
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TRANSLATION
ENG-908
Semester II
Credit: 5
Lectures: 5
External Marks: 100
Internal Marks: 50
OBJECTIVE
To expose students to translation, its dynamics and its role as a communicative tool across
cultures and languages.
COURSE CONTENT
UNIT I
Initiation:
Understanding the Concept: Types of Translation; Problems of Translation: Loss and
Gain, translating poetry, prose and drama; History of Translation Theory: A Brief
Historical and Theoretical Overview from Early theories to the Present.
UNIT II
Perspectives: Detailed study of the following essays:
1. Translation as New Writing by Sujit Mukherjee (From: Mukherjee Sujit,
Translation as Discovery. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1981(rpt. 2006): 77-85.
2. Translation and Comparative Literature by Abhai Maurya (From: Gargesh
Ravinder and Krishan Kumar Goswami, eds. Translation and Interpreting:
Reader and Workbook. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2007: 65-86.
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3. The Politics of Post-Colonial Translation by Harish Trived i (From: Singh,
Avadhesh K, ed . Translation: Its Theory and Practice. New Delhi: Creative
Books, 1996: 46-55.
UNIT III
Case Studies:
Analysis of the following woks in original and their translation across languages and
genres:
1. Shakespeare s Othello and its *textual translations and **cinematic rendering in Hindi
10. Mesthrie, Rajend and Rakesh M Bhatt. World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistic
Varieties. Cambridge: CUP, 2008. ( Ch.1 Spread of English for unit I)
11. Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994. ( Ch1 An
Instinct to Acquire an Art , ch 2 Chatterboxes , ch3 Mentalese for unit I)
12. Quirk, R. and S. Greenbaum. A University Grammar of English. London: Longman and
ELBS, 1982.
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SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)
Theory
1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours.
2. The Question Paper for each theory course shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.
3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions.
4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitu te various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.
5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all the four units of the syllabus. Each question will have two/ three parts with enough internal choice, covering various components of the unit. In other words, each unit will have one question (essay type) with internal choice.
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INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION & PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
ENG-916
(Elective-II, Group- B)
Semester II
Credit: 5
Lectures: 5
External Marks: 100
Internal Marks: 50
OBJECTIVE
To offer learner a relevant and systematic approach for developing self understanding and
promoting socially sensitive personal growth through commensurate communication skills and
personality
COURSE CONTENT
UNIT I
Interpersonal Effectiveness:
Means of Contact, Dealing with Others (Techniques on how to talk, listen, criticize, compliment, thank and converse effectively), Perception of Self and Others, Barriers in communication, Relationship Management, Conflict Resolution, Ethical and Moral Responsibilities
UNIT II
Personality Enhancement:
Self Esteem, Self-Improvement, Positive Attitudes, Communication Channels, Self and Time Management, Standards of Conduct, Negotiating Diversity, Social and Personal Ethics
UNIT III
Communication in Groups:
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Understanding Groups, Group Dynamics and Types, Group Formation, Key Factors in Groups, Communicating in Groups, Intra Group Relationships, Problem Solving and Conflict Management, Leadership , Small Group Communication: Presentations on social & critical topics, small activities like role play, case study etc
UNIT IV
Literature and Media as Case Studies in Interpersonal Communication & Personality Development: A detailed study and analysis of the following texts*:
1. My Experiments with Truth/ M.K. Gandhi
2. #Selected Tales from Panchtantra / Vishnu Sharma
# The Ungrateful Man , The Result of Education (Book I
The Loss of Friends), The Bharunda Birds , Self-Defeating Forethought ( Book-II The Winning of Friends)
3. Chak-De India - A movie
* A text each from Literature, Personality Development and movies/ visual may be chosen by the
teacher concerned after due approval from the competent authority.
RECOMMENDED READING
1. Amin, Shimit. Director. Hindi Movie Chak De India
2. Dimbleby, Richard and Graeme Burton. More than Words: An Introduction to
Communication. London and New York: Routledge, 2001 (rpt, third edition).
3. Gandhi, M.K. An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Ahmedabad:
Navjivan publishing House, 1927.
4. # Ryder, Arthur W. Trans. Panchantantra Delhi: Jaico Publishing House, 1949, rpt.1998.
5. Wallace, Harold R. and L. Ann Masters. Personal Development for Life and Work. Singapore:
Thompson, 2006.
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SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)
Theory
1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours.
2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question
will carry equal marks.
3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions.
4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type
questions/explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of
the syllabus. The question will constitu te various sub-parts with
enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic
conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of
the course.
5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each
from all the four units of the syllabus. These questions will be essay
type questions with internal choice. In other words, each unit will
have one question (essay type) with internal choice. In other words,
each unit will have one question (essay type) with internal choice.
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LANGUAGE CHANGE & CONTEMPORARY LANGUAGE USE
ENG-918
(Elective-II, Group- B)
Semester II
Credit: 5
Lectures: 5
External Marks: 100
Internal Marks: 50
OBJECTIVE
To make students appreciate and analyze many changes wrought in English language over a
passage of time and its use. All languages change with time. They adapt to, adopt and absorb the
pressures and fashions of the time. These changes manifest in the form of new jargon, vocabulary,
register etc and are rooted in socio-historical dynamics of the times, i.e., cross-cultural interactions.
The change in language brings about a corresponding change in the communicative behaviour.
COURSE CONTENT
UNIT I
Social Change and its Effect on Language/Communication:
Analysis of the cause and consequences of cultural, technological, attitud inal, socio-
psychological changes on language and communication; Attitudes to Language: From
English to Englishes
UNIT II
Mass Media and Language:
Language of Bollywood, Newspapers, Tabloids, and Gen X ; Language Politics and
Language Ethics.
UNIT III
Globalization, ICT and Language:
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Language of/ in the Electronic Media
SMSs, E-mails, Web Communication, Chats, TV
Shows etc.; Neologism
UNIT IV
(A) Field Assignments and Presentations: Survey and collection of data samples of
language Use from various sections of the Society; Report and Presentation
(B) Study and Analysis of Language Use: Samples from Various Literary and Non-
literary Texts; Profession Specific Registers and Jargons; Socio-Psychological
Attitudes to Language
RECOMMENDED READING
1. Beard, Adrian. Language Change. London: Routledge, 2004.
3. Croft, William. Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Approach. Harlow: Longman, 2000.
4. Graddol, David , Dick Leith and Joan Swan. English: History, Diversity and Change London: Routledge, 1996.
5. Macaulay, Ronald. The Social Art: Language and its Usage. New York: OUP, 1994.
6. Nambisan, Vijay. Language as an Ethic. New Delhi: Penguin, 2003.
7. Rai, Alok, Hindi Nationalism. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2000.
8. Smith, Jeremy. A Historical Study of English. London: Routledge, 1996.
SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)
Theory
1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours.
2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.
3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions.
4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of
basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitu te
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various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic
conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.
5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all the four units
of the syllabus. Each question will have two/ three parts with enough internal choice,
covering various components of the unit. In other words, each unit will have one
question (essay type) with internal choice.
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
ENG-920
(Elective-II, Group- B)
Semester II
Credit: 5
Lectures: 5
External Marks: 100
Internal Marks: 50
OBJECTIVE
To equip students with the domains and intricacies of English language teaching.
COURSE CONTENT
UNIT I
Principles of English language Teaching; Introductory Approach to Second Language Learning; Methods of Teaching English: Direct Method, Bilingual Method, Translation method
UNIT II
Linguistic Devices: Meter, Rhythm, Schemes and tropes, Neologism, Tautology, Synthesis, Symmetric and Asymmetric, Contrastive, Euphemism
UNIT III
The Oral Approach and Situational Language teaching; the structural Approach; Communicative language teaching
Teaching of prose, poetry and fiction; Language of Literature: Figurative Language ; Teaching Communication Skills in English;
UNIT IV
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Practice of teaching in real classrooms; Analysis and review of self and others teaching skills.
RECOMMENDED READING
1. Allen, H.B. ed. Teaching English as a Second Language. NY: Mcgraw-Hill, 1972.
2. Brumfit, C.J. Communicative Methodology in Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP, 1984.
3. Brumfit, C.J. and Carter R. (eds). Language and Literature Teaching. London: Routledge, 1986.
4. Collie, J. & S. Slater.. Literature in the Classroom: A Resource Book of Ideas and Activities. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 1987.
5. Doff, Adrian. Teach English 2 Sets. Cambridge: CUP, 1988.
6. Harmer, J. The Practice of ELT. London: Longman, 1983.
7. Celce-Murcia, M. & L. Mcintosh, eds. Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. Rowley, Mass: Newbury, 1979.
8. Lazar, Gillian. Literature and Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP, 1997.
9. Mackey, W.F. Language Teaching Analysis. London: Longmans 1965.
10. Prabhu, N.S. Second Language pedagogy. Oxford: OUP, 1987.
11. Quirk, R. & H. Widdowson, eds. English in the world: Teaching and Learning the Language and Literatures. Cambridge: CUP, 1985.
12. Richards and Rogers. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP, 2001.
13. Smith, L. ed. English for Cross Cultural Communication. London: Macmillan, 1981.
14. Widdowson, H. Stylistics and Teaching of Literature. London: Longman, 1975.
15. Yardi, V.V. Teaching English in India.Today. Aurngabad: Parimal Prakashan, 1977.
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SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)
Theory
1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours.
2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry
equal marks.
3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions.
4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type
questions/explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the
syllabus. The question will constitu te various sub-parts with enough choice.
The emphasis would be on testing the basic conceptual understanding of
students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.
5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all
the four units of the syllabus. Each question will have two/ three parts with
enough internal choice, covering various components of the unit. In other
words, each unit will have one question (essay type) with internal choice.
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ORAL PRESENTATION SKILLS LAB
ENG-952
Semester II
Credits: 4
LAB: 4hrs.
External Marks: 50
Internal Marks: 50
OBJECTIVE
To train students to learn how to make effective oral presentation skills at personal and
professional forum.
COURSE CONTENT
Oral Presentation: Seminar, Presentation using Visuals and graphics, Power Point Presentation, Group Discussion; Meetings: Meeting Etiquettes, Press-conference; Mock Interviews and Mock situations
NOTE:
Students will be tested for their presentation skills through a practical test/ viva conducted by an external examiner.
SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)
Practical
Practical exam for the course will be conducted by an external examiner appointed by the university.
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INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
ENG-921
Semester III
Credit: 5
Lectures: 5
External Marks: 100
Internal Marks: 50
OBJECTIVE
To introduce students to the issues and concerns in the area of Indian writing in English; to teach
them to debate and engage with variety of texts and to examine the various nuances of Ind ian
Writing in English.
COURSE CONTENT
UNIT I
Essays:
1. Preamble & The Literary Landscape from Twice Born Fiction/.Meenakshi Mukherji *#
2. Introduction to Women Writing in India. Vol. II / Susie Tharu and K Lalitha**
3. Indian Literature: Notes Towards the Definition of a Category / Aijaz Ahmad*
UNIT II
Poetry:
1. Nissim Ezekiel: Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher ; Very Very Ind ian Poem in English . ##
2. A.K.Ramanujan: Small-scale Reflections on a Great House ; Love Poem for Wife I ; At Zero ; The Difference (From Collected Poems OUP)
3. Arun Kolatkar: An Old Bicycle Tyre; Meera (Kala Ghoda Poems OUP)
4. Imtiaz Dharkar: Pardah I ; Pardah II ; The Word ; The Mask ; Image ( From Pardah and Other Poems)
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UNIT III
Fiction:
1. Kanthapura/ Raja Rao
2. The God of Small Things/Arundhati Roy
UNIT IV
Drama:
1. Meera/ Gurcharan Das
2. The Final Solution /Mahesh Dattani
Note: Different signs such as *, # etc. indicate source of the essays, i.e. books enlisted in the
RECOMMENDED READING
RECOMMENDED READING
1. *Ahmad, Aijaz . In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, New Delhi: OUP, 1992.
2. Das, Gurcharan. Three English Plays. New Delhi: OUP, 2001.
3. Dallmayr, Fred and G.N. Devy, Between Tradition and Modernity: India s Search for Identity, New Delhi: Sage, 1998.
4. Dattani, Mahesh . Final Solutions and Other Plays, Madras: Manas, 1994.
5. Dharkar, Imtiaz .Purdah and Other Poems, Delhi: OUP, 1989/90.
6. Gandhi, M.K. Hind Swaraj, (* What is Swaraj, Civilisation, What is True Civilisation, Education) New Delhi: Foundation books, 1997
7. Kolatkar, Arun. Kala Ghoda Poems, Mumbai: Pras Prakashan, 2004.
8. Mehrotra, Arvind Krishan, ed., An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English, New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001/06.
9. *#Mukherji, Meenakshi . The Twice Born Fiction. London: Heinemann: 1971.
10. Padmanabhan, Manjula. Harvest, New Delhi: Kali, 1997.
11. Rao, Raj . Kanthapura, Madras: OUP, 1974/89
12. Ramanjun, A.K. Collected Poems, Delhi: OUP, 1995.
13. Roy, Arundhati . The God of Small Things, New Delhi: India Ink, 1997
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14. ## Available on Net
15. **Tharu, Susie & K.Lalitha, eds.Women Writing in India, 2 Vols. Delhi: OUP, 1991
SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)
Theory
1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours.
2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question
will carry equal marks.
3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions.
4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type
questions/explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of
the syllabus. The question will constitu te various sub-parts with
enough choice.
5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each
from all the four units of the syllabus. These questions will be essay
type questions with internal choice. In other words, each unit will
have one question (essay type) with internal choice.
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AMERICAN LITERATURE
ENG-923
Semester III
Credit: 5
Lectures: 5
External Marks: 100
Internal Marks: 50
OBJECTIVE
To expose students to the polyphonic voices those constitu te American literary imagination; to
study the characteristic features of Modern American Literature, its Prose, Poetry, Drama and
Fiction.
COURSE CONTENT
UNIT I
Poetry:
1. Song of Myself ( No. 1,5,10,16,24)/ Walt Whitman
2. Mending Walls, Design, The Road Not Taken and
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening / Robert Frost
3. The Snowman, Sunday Morning
/ Wallace Stevens
4. Supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg
UNIT II
Drama:
1. Death of a Salesman/ Arthur Miller
2. Desire Under the Elms/ Eugene O Neil
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UNIT III
American Novel:
1. The Scarlet Letter/ Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. Old Man and the Sea/ Ernest Hemingway
3. Of Mice and Men/ John Steinbeck
UNIT IV
Black American Novel:
1. Invisible Man/ Ralph Ellison
2. Sula/ Toni Morrison
RECOMMENDED READING
1. Frost, Robert. Poems. New York: Washington Square Press, 1946/69
2. *Available on net
3. Gascoigne, Bamber..Twentieth Century Drama, London: Huthinson University Library, 1962/74.
4. Hemingway, Ernest. Old Man and the Sea New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1952
6. Knippling, Alpana Sharma. New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
7. Miller, Arthur .Collected Plays, Bombay: Allied Publishers, 1957/73
8. Morrison, Toni . Sula, Badford: Triad, 1973/80
9. O Neil, Eugene Desire Under the Elms & Great God Brown, Great Britain: Jonathon Cape, 1925
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10. Peck, David R. American Ethnic Literatures: Native American, African American,
Chicano/ Latino, and Asian American Writers and Their Backgrounds. Pasadena, CA:
Salem Press, 1992.
11. Peck, John & Martin Coyle, Literary Terms and Criitcism, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
12. Phil. Washburn. The Vocabulary of Critical Thinking USA: OUP, 2009.
13. Steinbeck, John .Of Mice and Men, New York: The Modern Library, 1938/65.
14. Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mother s Garden, New York: Harvest/HBJ Book 1983
SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)
Theory
1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours.
2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry
equal marks.
3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions.
4. Question no.1 will be in the form of short notes/objective type questions/explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the
syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice. 5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all the
four units of the syllabus. These questions will be essay type questions with internal choice. In other words, each unit w ill have one question (essay type) with internal choice.
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MODERN WORLD LITERATURE
ENG-925
Semester III
Credit: 5
Lectures: 5
External Marks: 100
Internal Marks: 50
OBJECTIVE
To give students an exposure to a wide range of literatures with a sound base in language and
culture. Learners will acquire critical abilities, linguistic competence and communicative insights.
COURSE CONTENT
UNIT I
Poetry:
1. Pablo Neruda: Poem Twenty (from Twenty Poems of Love and A Song of Despair)
2. Aga Sahid Ali: The Country Without a Post Office , (from The Country Without a Post Office); Summers of Translation (from Rooms are Never Finished); Beyond English and In Arabic (from Call Me Ishmael Tonight)
3. Chris Wallace Crabb: In the Scent of Eucalyptus; We Live in Time so Little Time
UNIT II
Fiction:
1. Hundred Years of Solitude/Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. July s People/Nadine Gordimer
UNIT III
Drama:
1. Accidental Death of an Anarchist/ Dario Fo
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2. Six Characters in Search of an Author /Luigi Pirandello
UNIT IV
Essays and Criticism:
1. # Introduction: Literature Among the Signs of Our Times /Aijaz Ahmed
2. Introduction to Orientalism/ Edward Said
3. The Imam and the Indian (from The Imam and the Indian)/ Amitav Ghosh
Note: Different signs such as # etc. indicate source of the essays, i.e. books enlisted in the
2. Antor, Heinz, and Kevin L. Cope, eds. Intercultural Encounters: Studies in English Literatures. Heidelberg, Ger.: Carl Winter U, 1999.
3. Ashcroft, William D., Gareth Griffith, and Helen Tiffin, eds. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. London: Routledge, 1989.
4. Brians, Paul. Modern South Asian Literature in English (Literature as Windows to World Cultures) Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003.
5. Eisner, Mark. ed. The Essential Neruda, intro by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (City Lights), 2004
6. Fo, Dario. Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Turin: Einaudi, 1970 .
7. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solititude. Trans from Spanish Gregory Rabassa, New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1996
8. Ghosh, Amitav .The Imam and the Indian. New Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publishers,2002.
9. Gordimer, Nadine. July s People. London: Penguin, 1981/82
10. Peck, David R. American Ethnic Literatures: Native American, African American, Chicano/Latino, and Asian American Writers and Their Backgrounds. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1992.
11. Pelayo, Ruben. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Critical Companion. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001.
12. Pirandello, Luigi Six Characters in Search of an Author, London: Nick Hern Books, 2003
13. Said, Edward W. Orientalism, New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1978/2001.
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14. Sahid Ali, Aga . Rooms are Never Finished, New York : Norton, 2002.
15. ., Call Me Ishmael Tonight, New York : Norton, 2002.
16. The Golden Apples of the Sun: Twentieth Century Australian Poetry, Melbourne: M.U.P., 1980
17. Recreating Ourselves : African Women and Critical Transformations. Trenton: Africa World P, 1994.
SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)
Theory
1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours.
2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry
equal marks.
3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions.
4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type
questions/ explanation of basic concepts covering all the four units of the
syllabus. The question will constitute various sub-parts with enough choice.
5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all
the four units of the syllabus. These questions will be essay type questions
with internal choice. In other words, each unit will have one question (essay
type) with internal choice.
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LITERATURE & CINEMA
ENG-927
(Elective-III)
Semester III
Credit: 5
Lectures: 5
External Marks: 100
Internal Marks: 50
OBJECTIVE
To ground students within the context, scope and significance of cinema as a communicative
tool/text through a study of Indian and World cinema
COURSE CONTENT
UNIT I
Contexts:
Scope and Significance of Film Studies: Literature and Films; Films as Communicative
Text; Language of Films; Concept/ Story; Screenplay; Dialogue; Shot Division; Lighting;
Camera Angle; Panning/ Zoom; Editing: Flashback and Flash-forward; Fade-in and Fade
out; Sound; Recording; Theme and Background Music; Lyrics.
UNIT II
World Cinema and Literature:
1. Grapes of Wrath /John Ford; Grapes of Wrath/ John Steinbeck
2. All Quite on the Western Front/ Lewis Milestone; All Quite on the Western Front/Eric Maria Remarque
3. Shakespeare s Macbeth and its cinematic rendering in Hindi and English
Gold, Jack. Director. Macbeth (a BBC Movie )
Kurosava, Akira. Director. Throne of Blood ( Movie)
Bhardwaj, Vishal. Director. Macqbool ( Movie)
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4. Color Purple/ Speilberg; The Color Purple/ Alice Walker
(B) Literature and philosophy: Existentialism, Determinism, Modernism, Post-modernism
UNIT II
Philosophy and Everyday Life:
1. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance/ Robert M. Pirsig
2. The Prophet/Khalil Gibran
UNIT III
Philosophy in Popular Fiction:
1. Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead
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2. Jostein Gaarder, Trans., Paulette Moller: Sophies s World
UNIT IV
Philosophy in Literature:
1. Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus
2. Raja Rao: The Serpent and the Rope
RECOMMENDED READING
1. Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus in The Kingdom and Selected Essays, New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 2004.
2. Gaarder, Jostein. Sophies s World. Trans. Paulette Moller H. London: Macmillan
Paperback, 2007.
3. Gibran, Khalil. The Prophet. Calcutta: Rupa & Co., 1992.
4. Raja Rao, The Serpent and the Rope, New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1960/68.
5. Rand, Ayn .The Fountainhead, New York: Signet, 1971
6. Richard E Creel, Thinking Philosophically: An Introduction to Critical Reflection and Rational
Dialogue, London: Blackwell, 2001.
7. R.N. Kiran, Philosophies of Communication and Media Ethics: Theory, Concept and Empirical
Issues, New Delhi: BR Publishing Corporation, 2000.
8. Pirsig, Robert M.. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Enquiry into Vlaues. USA:
1974. William Morrow and Company,
SCHEME OF END SEMESTER EXAMINATION (MAJOR TEST)
Theory
1. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours.
2. The Question Paper shall have five questions in all. Each question will carry equal marks.
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3. The student is required to attempt all the five questions.
4. Question no. 1 will be in the form of short notes/ objective type questions/ explanation of
basic concepts covering all the four units of the syllabus. The question will constitu te
various sub-parts with enough choice. The emphasis would be on testing the basic
conceptual understanding of students regarding theoretical inputs of the course.
5. There shall be four more questions (Questions no.2 to 5), one each from all the four units
of the syllabus. These questions will be essay type questions with internal choice. In other
words, each unit will have one question (essay type) with internal choice
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DALIT WRITING IN INDIA
ENG-933
(Elective-IV)
Semester III
Credit: 5
Lectures: 5
External Marks: 100
Internal Marks: 50
OBJECTIVE
To introduce students to the literature of Dalits in India so as to bring them and their sensibility
to the mainstream.
UNIT I
Literary Perspecvtives:
1. Sharankumar Limbale s Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit literature
2. Kancha Ilaiah s Why I am not a Hindu ( Excerpts)
Excerpts: Childhood Formations , Dalitisation not Hiduisation , Contemporary Hinduism
UNIT II
Biographies:
1. Changiya Rukh/ Balbir Madhopuri
2. Akramashi/ Limbale
UNIT III
Fiction:
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1. Kurukku/ Bama s 2. Jhoothan/ Om Prakash Valmiki
UNIT IV
Potery:
1. Namdeo Dhasal s Man You should Explode , Kamatipura , Hunger ** 2. Hira bansode s Yashodhara , Bosom Friend , Slave , O Graet Man * 3. Jyoti lanjewal s Caves , Mother , The nameless One *
RECOMMENDED READING
1. Anand, Mulk Raj. & Eleanor Zelliot, eds. An Anthology of Dalit Literature. Delhi: Gyan Publications, 1992.
2. Bama. Trans. Lakshmi Holmstrom. Sangati. New Delhi: OUP, 2005
9. ##- Lodge, David and Nigel Wood, eds, Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, Delhi: Pearson Education, 2003.
10. ** Ramaswami, S and V. S. Seturaman, ed , The English Critical Tradition: An Anthology of English Literary Criticism Vol. II, Delhi: Macmillan, 1978/2007.
11. Selden, Raman. A Reader s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory, Harvester Wheatsheaf: 1985/1989.