• SYLLABUS FOR M.A. IN ENGLISH To he effective/rom the session 20/0-// Number of academic year s : Two Numbe r of Semesters in a year : Two Number of papers in a semes ter : Five Number of marks in a paper : 50 (Fifty) Total number of papers : Twenty - Tot al Marks : 1000 (one thollsand) Papers ill the First Semeste r : Papers I to V Papers ill the Second Semester : Papers VI to X Papers in the Third Semester : Papers XI to XV Papers in the FOllrth Se me ster : Papers XVI to XX ThL' lirst two semesters constitute Part I Jnd the last two Part II w ith each part having tcn papers carrying 500 marks. Time allotted j(x answering a paper : 03 Hours (except l'3p;r XX of Fourlh Semeste r)
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SYLLABUS FOR M.A. IN ENGLISH
To he effective/rom the session 20/0-//
Number of academic years : Two
Number of Semesters in a year : Two
Number of papers in a semes ter : Five
Number of marks in a paper : 50 (Fifty)
Total num ber of papers : Twenty
-Total Marks : 1000 (one thollsand)
Papers ill the First Semester : Papers I to V
Papers ill the Second Semester : Papers VI to X
Papers in the Third Semester : Papers XI to XV
Papers in the FOllrth Semester : Papers XVI to XX
ThL' lirst two semesters constitute Part I Jnd the last two Part II w ith each part having tcn papers carrying 500 marks.
Time allotted j(x answering a paper : 03 Hours (except l'3p;r XX of Fourlh Semester)
M.A ENGLISH
FIRST SEMESTER
PAPER - 1 (POETRY) Full Marks: 50 Time: 3 Hours
t:ssuy Iype qllesliullS wilh aliel'l1l.1lives Il'ill be sel Fum each ullhe Ihree Unils. Unil-} and II will carry 15 marks each & Unit-Ill 20 marks.
Unit- I : The Prologue to Canterbury Tales-by G. Chaucer
Unit-II : W. Shakespeare's Sonnets : No 1, 15,20,65,7 1, 11 6, 127 &131 (Total 08)
Unit-III: Book Prescribed : The Metaphysical Poets- edited by Helen Gardner
Poems Prescibed:
Jolm Donne : I) The Good Morrow 2) Sunne Rising 3) Canonization 4) The Extasie 5) Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 6) The Anniversarie.
Andrew Marvell: I LTo His Coy Mistress 2) The Garden 3) Dialogue between Soul and Body 4) Definition of Love.
M.A ENGLISH
FIRST SEMESTER
PAPER - II (POETRY) I •
Full Marks : 50 Time: 3 Hours
Unit - I : William Worusworth : Preluue (Book I & II)
Unit-II : John Keats : Odes (4 odes)
I) On a Grecian Urn 2) On Indolence 3) On Melanchol y 4) To Psyche
Unit- III : Mathew Arnold : Scholar Gipsy
Essay Iype qlle.l'liul1s wilh allernalives will he sel/i-om each q/lhe Ihree Units. Unil-} will cm'rr' 20 marks (lnd (/nil rr & Ifl 15 f1I(lI'ks e((ch.
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M.A ENGLISH
FIRST SEMESTER
PAPER - 111 (DRAMA) Full Marks: 50 Time: 3 Hours
Essay type questions with alternatives will be set from each 0/the three Units. Unit- J will carry 20 marks and Unit II &I!I 15 marks each.
Unit- I : Chr istopher Marlowe Dr Faustus
Unit-II : William Congreve The Way of the World
Unit- III : William Shakespeare : Hamlet.
M.A ENGLISH
FIRST SEMESTER
PAPER - IV (DRAMA) Full Marks : 50 Ti ll1e : ) 1·lours
Essay type questions with alternatives will be set/rom each o/the three Units. Unit- I&II will cony 15 marks each and Unit III 20 marks.
Unit- I : John Osborne : Look Back in Anger
Unit- II Eugene 0' Neill Desire Under the Elms
Unit-III Samuel Beckett Waiting For Godot.
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M.A ENGLISH
FIRST SEMESTER
PAPER - V (FICTION) Full Marks: 50 Time: 3 Hours
Essay type questions with alternatives will be set /ram each a/the three Units. Unit - 1&11 will cany 15 marks each and Unit III 20 marks.
Unit- I : Daniel Defoe : Moll Flanders
Ullit- II Em ile 7.ol~ : Nnnn
Unit- III Henry Fielding : Tom Jones.
-M.A ENGLISH
SECOND SEMESTER
PAPER - VI (FICTION) Fun Marks : 50 Time: 3 Hours
Essay type questions with alternatives will he set/i'am each a/the three Units. Unit- 1&11 will cany ]5 murks each und Unit II] 20ll/urks.
Unit- I : Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights
Unit- II : Thomas'Hardy : The Return of the Native
Unit- III : .I ames Joyce : A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.
M.A ENGLISH
SECOND SEMESTER PAPER - VII (NON-FICTIONAL PROSE)
Full Marks: 50 Time: 3 l·lours
Essay type queslions with alternatives will be set from each ofthe Ihree Units. Unil-1&11 will • carry 15 marks each and Un it III 20 marks.
Unit-I- Francis Bacon: 'Essays'
Essays Prescribed: Of Truth, Of Studies, Of Love, Of Death, Of youth and Age, ur Marriag~ and Single Lil~
Unit-Jl- Coverl ey I'apcrs- From 'The Spectator ', Edited by K,\)eigilton
Essays Prescribed: Sir Roger at Home, Sir Roger at Church, Vi sit to Westminster Abbey, Rural Manners, Death of Sir Roger
Unit-III- Charles Lamb- 'Essays ofElia'
Essays Prescribed: Dream Children: A Reverie, Modern Gallantry, Witches and other Night Fears, Mackery End in Hertfordshire, The Superannuated Man
M.A ENGLISH
SECOND SEMESTER
PAPER - VIII (NON-FICTIONAL PROSE) Full Marks: 50 Ti me : 3 Hours
Essay type questions with allernatives will be set from each ofthe three Unils. Unit-1&11 will carry 15 marks each and Unil III 20 marks.
Unit-I - Henry David Thoreau-WALDEN
•Unit-II - E.M.Forster --' Selections from E.M.Forster' - Edited by R.Krishnamurty
Essays Prescribed: What 1 Believe; The Duty of Society to the Arti st; Tolerance; ERst Rild West; The Story.
Unit-III- Bertrand Russell - "Unpopular essays"
Essays Prescribed: I. An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish, 2. The Functions of a Teacher 3.1deas that have helped Mankind, 4. Ideas that have harmed mankind 5.Eminent Men I Have known
M.A. ENGLISH
SECOND SEMESTER
PAPER-IX (Modern Poetry) Full Marks- 50 Time-3 Hours
essay type (jllestiolls will, u/terl/olives will be set ji'ol/1 each oIthe three units,' While ullit-II alld Un it-Ill will carry 15 marks each. Unil-l will carry 2 0 marks
Unit-I - T. S.Eliot- Four Quartets
Unit-ll- W.B.Yeats - The Tower, Sailing to Byzantium, Leda and the Swan , Among Schoolchildr~n, The Second Coming
Unit-III - Charles Baudelaire- Edited by Carol Clark Poems prescribed: The Albatross, The Seven Old Men, Hymn to Beauty, To the Reader
A Carcass, The Swan
- M.A. ENGLISH
SECOND SEMESTER
PAPER-X (Twentieth century Novel & the phoneti cs of English)
Full Marks- 50 Time-3 Hours
Essay (1'1)(' qllest ion.\' with alternatives will/H! set from each o.f the three unils: W/lile ullif-I! and UI/if- III rvill Clll '/~Y 15 Ilwrks each , UniJ-/ wi1/ cany 20 marks
Unit-I - EM.Fors ter : A Passage to India
Verginia Woolf: The Waves.
Unit-II - D.H.Lawrence : Women in Love.
Earnest Hemingway: For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Unit-I1I- The Pho netics of English: The Organs of Speech; Description and Classification of the sounds of English; Consonants and Vowels; Phonetic transcription ; Stress and Intonation in English.
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MA ENGLISH THIRD SEMESTER
PAPER-XI (Critical Theory) Full Marks-50 Tirne-3 Hours
Essay type questions with alternatives wili be set from each q(the three units: While Unit-l and Unir-f/ will carry 15 marks each &, Unit-Ill wil! carry 20 marks
Unit-I - T.S.Eliot The Function of Criticism•
LA.Richards Imagination
F .R.Leavis Keats
Unit-II - Cleantll Brooks Tile Language of Paradox
Ronald Barthes Criticism as Language.
Jacques De rrida Structure, Sign and Play in the Di scourse of the I-Iuman Sciences.
Unit-III- New Criticism, Structuralism, Post Structuralism, feminism ,
MA ENGLISH THIRD SEMESTER
PAPER-XII (Critical Theory) Full Marks-50 Tirne-3 Hours
Essay type questions with al1erna/;lIes will he sCI/ rom each of the three units: While Unit-I will carry 20 marks and Un it-f/ &11.1 15 marks each.
Unit-I - Aristotle : Poetics ( Chapter I, III, V & VIII)
Indian Poetics and Aesthetics : Rasa, Dhwani, Vakrokti, Lakshana, Akhandapaksha
Horace : A rs Poe tica
Unit-II - Elaine Showalter: Feminist Critici sm in the Wilderness •
Terry Eagleton : Capitalism, Modernism and Post Modernism
Unit-III- Michael Foucault: What is an author?
Wolfgang Iser : The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach.
Books Recommended: I. Twentieth Century Criticism and Theory: David Lodge 2. Contemporary Criticism : V.S. Seturaman 3. India n Aesthetics : V.S. Seturaman 4. Ari stotle' s Theory o f Poetry and ['inc Arts: Ed- S.11.l1utcher.
MA ENGLISH
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THIRD SEMESTER PAPER-XIII (Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies)
Full Marks-50 Time-3 Hours
Essay type questions with alternatives will be set from each of the three units; While Unil-I will carry 20 lIlarks and Unil-II &III J5 marks each.
Unit-I - Edward Said : Oriental ism ( Chapters I, II& III)
Harish Trivedi : Colonial Transactions
Unit-II - Leela Gandhi : Post-Colonial Theory ( Chapters I, IV, V)
Salman Rushdie : Imaginary Homelands
Unit-Ill- Roland Barthes : From Work to Text.
Homi Bhabha : Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse.
Book, Recommended: I. Modern Literal Theory : Philip Rice& Patricia Waugh
2. Literary Criticism: A Reading - S.Das & lM.Mohanty
M.A. ENGLISH
THIRD SEMESTER PAPER-XIV (Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature)
Full Marks-50 Time-3 Hours
Essay type questions with alternutives wil/ be set from each of the three units; While Unit -I will carry 20 marks and Unit-II &lII I5 marks each.
Unit-l - Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apal1
Raj a Rao : Kanthapura
Unit-II - Margaret Atwood: Surfacing
Salman Rushdie : Midnight's Children.
Unit-IIl- Anita Desai : Five On The Mountain.
Wole Soyinka : The Dance of Forests.
M.A. ENGLISH·
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M.A. ENGLISH
THIRD SEMESTER
PAPER-XV (Research Methodology) Full Marks·50 Time-3 Hours
Unit-I: Three short answer type questions are to be set. (5x3= 15 marks)
J. Mechanics of Writing 2. Framing a H ypothesis 3. Collection and classification of source material s 4. Background study S. Tools of Research.
Unit-II: Three short answer type questions are to be set. (5x3= 15 marks)
Quoting from Sources.
I . Quoting from a Text ( Word, Phrase, Sentences & Pmagraph) 2. Quoting from external sources( Journals, Newspapers, interviews. Manuscripts. Public
Documents, Non-Book material s) 3. Footnotes and Endnotes.
Unit-III: Four short answer type questions are to be set. (5x4= 20 marks)
Preparation of the Manuscript:
I. Synopsis, Chapterisation, Conclusion. 2. Appendices. 3. Copyecliting. 4. Indexing. S. Preparing Bibliography.
Books Prescribed: J. Chicago Manuel of Style- 14th Edition. 2. M.L.A. Style-6th Edition.
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M.A. ENGLISH
FOURTH SEMESTER PAPER-XVI
GROUP A- AMERlCAN LITERATURE: POETRY Full Marks-SO Time-3 Hours
Essay type questions with alternatives will be set from each ofthe three units; While Unit-! will carry 20 marks and Unit-II &lJI 15 marks each.
Unit-I: Walt Whitman : Leaves of Grass:
Poems prescribed- Song of myself, Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, When lil~cs Inst in the dooryard bloomed. Passage to India.
Unit-II: Rob~rt Frost : Mending Wall. After Apple picking, Road not taken, Stopping by the
woods on a snowy evening, Birches, Come in.
Unit-III: El11ily Dickinson : Success is counted sweetest; I never lost as much but twice; just lost,
when I was saved; Safe in their Alabastor Chamber; Because I could not stop for death.
M.A. ENGLISH
FOURTH SEMESTER PAPER-XVll
GROUP A- AMERlCAN DRAMA Fu II Marks-SO Time-3 Hours
t:ssay type ljlles/ ions with a/lerl/ulives will he selinJln each (~flhe three units: While Un if-! will carry 20 marks and Unit-II &111 15 marks each.
GROUP A- AMERICAN FICTION Full Marks-50 Tirne-3 Hours
Essay Iype questions with allernatives will be selfram each of the three 1IlIilS; While Unil-l will carry 20 ",arkl' and Unit-II & III 15 marh each.
Unit-I. Hennan Melville : Moby Dick
Mark Twain : Huckleburry Finn
Unit-II : Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls
William Faulkner : The Sounu anu the I:ury.
Unit-III: Saul Bellow : Adventures of Augie March
Alice Walker : The Color Purple
M.A. ENGLISH
FOURTH SEMESTER PAP ER-XIX
GROUP A- AMERICAN PROSE & C~RJTl CISM Full Marks-50 Time-3 Hours
Essay type questions with alternatives will be sel from each of the three units; While Un it-I will carry 20 marks and Un it-II &l!! 15 marks each.
Unit-I. R.W.Emerson : The American Scholar
Henry James- : The Art of Fiction
Unit-II: John Crowe Ransom: Poetry: A Note on Ontology
J.W.Krutch : The Tragic Fallacy
Unit-III: Lionel Trilling : A Sense of the Past
Northrop Frye : Myth, Fiction and Displacement.
lJook Recommellded: Lilerary Criticism: A Renciing- Edited by n .Dns & .1 .M.l'v1<,hnnty.
M.A. ENGLISH
FOURTH SEMESTER PAPER-XVI
GROUP B- Indian Writing in Engli sh: Poetry PlIll Marb-50 Tillle-3 "Iours
Essay type queslions with allernalives will be selfrom each oflhe three units; While Unil-/ will carry 20 marks and Unil-I! &1/1/5 marks each.
Unit-I: R.Parthasarath y : Rough Passage
A.K.Ramanujan : Seco nd Sight
Unit-II : Nissim Ezekiel : Liller Day Psalms
Arlin Kolatk;,,· : ,k~ i lII'j
Unit-Ill: Kamala Das : Collected Poems
Jayanta Mohapa tra : The Rain of Rites.
M.A . ENGLISH FOURTH SEMESTER
PAPER-XVII GROUP B- Indian Writing in English: Fiction
Full Marks-50 Time-3 Hours
Essay type 'luesliolls wilh allernalives will be selfi'om each of the lhree unils; I· Wh ile Unit-/ will carry 20 marks and Ullil-II &11115 marks <'({ch.
Unit-I: Mulk Raj Anand : The Village
R.K.Narayan • : The Man Eater of Malgudi.
Unit-II : Raja Rao : The Serpent and the Rope
Khuswant Singh : Train to Pakistan •
Unit-lIl : Amitav Ghosh : The Hungry Tide
Upamanyu Chatterjee: English August.
M.A. ENGLISTT FOURTH SEMESTER
PAPER-XVlll GROUP B- Indian Writing in English: Drama
Full Marks-50 Time-3 Hours
Essay Iype questions with alternatives will be set,fi'om each ofthe 'hree IIlIifS:
While Unil-1 11';11 corry 20 marks alld UI7;t-ll &11115 marks each.
Unit-T : Rabindranath Tagore : The Red Oleander(ln Translation)
Sri Aurobindo : Vasavadutta
Unit-IT : Girish Kamad : Tughlaq
Mahesh Dattana : Final Solutions
i, Unit-Ill: l3adal Sirkar : [vam lnclraj it
I Vijay Tendulkar : The Vultures(ln Translation)
I MA ENGLISH
FOURTH SEMESTER PAPER-XIX
GROUP B- Indian Writing in English: Prose&Criticism Full Marks-50 ~ Time-3 Hours
Essay type questions with alternatives w;/1 be set from each oIthe three units; While Unit-I will carry 20 marks and Unit-ll &111 15 marks each.
Unit-T : I. Intellectual Background of India
2. The RCllaissi lllCC ill Illdi~1
Unit-II : S.K.Desai & G.N.Devy : Critical Thought: An Anthology
M.K.Naik : Prescribed Topics( 1,3,8,9,10,11)
Unit-III: M.Mukhe~jee : The Perishable Empire
Sri Aurobindo : Foundation oj' Indian Culture
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M.A. ENGLISH FOURTH SEMESTER
PAPER-XVI GROUP C- Linguistics & EL T
Full Marks-50 Time-3 Hours Essay type questions with alternatives will be set from each ofthe three units; While Unit-II will carry 20 IIwrks and Ul1il-J &111 15 marks each.
Unit-I: 1. Introduc ti on to Linguis ti cs 2. Linguistics as Scientific Study of Language
3. Some Character isti cs of Language 4. An Outl ine History of Language
3. T.G.Analysis, Constituent and Structural Analysis of Basic Structures of English .
• linil-l1I: t .P.S. and T.G.Grallln",r, Syntact ic Structures , Models orT.G.Grammar
2. TransfoJ'lllut ionutDerivati yes and Passi ve , Negati ve and Interrogati Yes.
M.A. ENGLISH FOURTH SEMESTER
PAPER-XVII GROUP C- Linguistics &Sociolinguistics
Full Marks-50 Time-3 Hours
Essay type questions with aliernalives will be setfrom each ofthe three units; Whil" Ullil -III IFill corry 20 //larks alld Ullil- I &11 15 marks each.
Unii-l : I . Theories of language learning, l3ehaviourism and Cogni tivism
2.Attitude and Motivation in Language Learning
~. Imll1ersion Theory 01' Langua ge l.cal'lling
Unit-II : 1. Language in Social Context, Language Variation, Dialects , Idiolect, Register, Status, Situation
2. Social Style of non-Native Languages; Diaglossia, Pidgin , Creole.
Unit-Ill: I. Semantics , Synonymy,Hyponomy,antonomy'polysemy, lncompatibility,Complementality and
Converse ness: Componential analys is
2. Ambiguity, Chunge in Meaning; Logical and Emotive factors in Meaning .
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M.A. ENGLISH FOURTH SEMESTER
P APER-XVllI GROUP C- English Language Teaching
c ull Marks-SO
Essay type queslions wilh alternatives will be setfrom each of the three lin its: Wh ih· IllI it -m lI'il1 ClTrr.\' 20 II/arks and Unit-! &[[ 15 marks eac h.
Unit-l : I. Aims and Obj ect ives of Teaching English in India.
2.Problems of teaching and learning English at the college level in Orissa.
3. Framing a Lesson plan for teaching English at the + 2 and +3 level .
Unit-II: I.First Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning.
2.Grammar: Translation Method
3. Direct Method and Struc tural Approach
4 . Multi ,ki ll: Si ltl <l1 iollo l I\ pproach nllel Bi lingli nii sill .
Unit-III:
Time-3 Hours
I . Teachillg a Prose text: Comprehension, expanding Vocabulary and Rapid Reading
2. Teaching of Poetry : Comprehension and Appreciation.
3. Teaching Writing; Guided and Free Composition.
4.Teaching Grammar; Overt and Covert Grammar Teaching
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I M.A. ENGLISH I
J IOUlnl1 SI-:MESTUZ PA PER-XTX
(jRO LJ P C- Engl ish Language Teaching Fu ll Marks-50 Tilll ~ -3 Hours
Essay type questions with alternatives will be set from each of the three lInits: While Unit- Iff will carry 20 marks and Unil- I &II 15 marks each.
Unit-I: I. Principles of Course Design
2.Syllabus types- St ructu ral, Notional , Need-based, Communicative English for special purposes .
3. Evaluation of Text Book
lIn il -1l : I .S ck,\:ti llll \)r TI.: al.:liillg Il l.: III S.
2.('r:ldi ng orVoeabulary, Structures. Content and Intcrest Value.
3. Rridge Courses.
Unit-III: '1. Principles of Testing, Qualities of a Good Test
2. Validity, Reliability, Discrimination and Administration.
3. Types of Tests and Techniques of Testing.
M.A. ENGLISH FOURTH SEMESTER PAPER-XX - Seminar
Ful l Marks-50 -Students are required to write a term paper of 4000 words on any topic related to the prescribed
books or authors. The topic can be a new field of research on new authors, genres and li terary movements also. The divi sioll of'marks for thi s paper is as follows.
I'rq':l ralioll or the Thes is 15 marks
I' rC$cl\talion of the Thesis: 15 marks
Viva Voce : 20 marks.
The paper should be prepared and presented in a seminar before the final examination.