1 INDUS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Syllabus For M.Phil. in English (2013-14) DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH SCHOOL OF ARTS, MEDIA & EDUCATION INDUS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BATHU, UNA. HIMACHAL PRADESH, PIN 174301 INDIA Syllabus for M.Phil.in English Indus International University Una. Syllabus for M.Phil. (English) Programme First Semester (Fall) Course 1: Critical Approaches and Research Methodology. (MPE111) Credits: 4 A) Critical Approaches: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Formalist Biographical Historical Psychoanalytical Feminist Structuralist B) 1. a) MM: 100 Methods: Research: Preparation: The viable subject: Limiting and defining the subject, collection of material (sources and types of material). Writing: Planning, format, documentation, use of evidence, selection, evaluation and adequacy. Stylistics: MLA style-sheet. b) 2. Course 2: Theory of Literature: (MPE112) Credits: 4 MM: 100 Candidates may choose any one of the following options: A. Theory of Fiction: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Reading fiction Plot Character Setting Point of View Style, Tone and Language Symbol and allegory Theme 2|Page Syllabus for M.Phil.in English Indus International University Una. Fiction for detailed study: 1. 2. 3. 4. George Eliot: Middlemarch Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness Muriel Spark: Driver’s Seat Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis Contextual Terms: Romance, Realism. Literary Naturalism, Primitivism, Existentialism, The Gothic Novel, The Picaresque Novel, The Novel of Ideas, Stream of Consciousness Novel, Utopian literature, Autobiographical Novel, Short-fiction/Story, Anti-Novel. B. Theory of Drama 1. Understanding Drama 2. Study of drama 3. Plot 4. Character 5. Stagecraft 6. Theme Plays for detailed study 1. Sophocles: Oedipus the King 2. Shakespeare: Hamlet 3. R. Gumey Jr: Another Antigone 4. Alice Childress: Florence Contextual Terms: Morality plays, Greek theatre, chorus, allegorical drama, arena stage, black comedy, cliché, caricature, comedy of humour, comedy of manners, low comedy, high comedy, closet drama, dues ex machine, dramatic irony, situational irony, dramatic monologue, Elizabethan theatre, denouement/ falling action, flashback, foreshadowing, interactive drama, melodrama, mystery play, New comedy, props, proscenium arch, sentimental comedy, exposition/ rising action, scenery, box set, surrealistic stage, pathos, theatre of the absurd. 3|Page Syllabus for M.Phil.in English Indus International University Una. C. Theory of Poetry: 1. Understanding poetry 2. Voice 3. Word Choice, Word Order 4. Imagery 5. Figures of Speech 6. Sound 7. Form 8. Symbol, Allegory, Allusion, Myth Poems for Detailed Study: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Nikki Giovanni: Poetry Shakespeare: That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love W. H. Auden: Stop All the Clocks, Cut off the Telephone Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Hiawatha’s Wooing Robert Southey: The Scholar John Donne: The Sun Rising A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron: She Walks in Beauty Robert Browning: The Pied Piper of Hamelin: Amy Lowell: Patterns Ann Sexton: Cinderella Suzanne E..Berger: the Meal Robert Frost: Nothing Gold Can Stay Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Constantly Risking Absurdity Gwendolyn Brooks: Sadie and Maud Alexander Pope: An Essay on Man Elizabeth Bishop: Sestina Contextual Terms: Allegory, allusion, ambiguity, archetype, assonance, aubade, beast fable, blank verse, caesura, carpe diem, classicism, closed form, conceit, common measure, feminine rhyme, foot, haiku, kinetic imagery, synesthesia, in medias res, metonymy, prose poem, pyrrhic, run- on line, spondee, Terza rima, Synchdoche, Tone, Trochee, Villanelle. 4|Page Syllabus for M.Phil.in English Indus International University Una. Second Semester ( Spring ) Course 3: Indian Writing in English (MPE121) Credits: 4 1. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan: Hindu View of Life. 2. Raja Rao: The Serpent and the Rope 3. Shashi Deshpande: The Dark Holds No Terrors 4. Poetry of: MM: 100 Kamala Das: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. The Rain. The Stone Age. The Suicide. The Testing of the Sirens. The Old Playhouse. In Love. A.K. Ramanujan: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A River. Extended Family. Elements of Composition. Self-Portrait. The Black Hen. Nissim Ezekiel: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Philosophy. Night of the Scorpion. Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher. The Hill. The Professor. 5|Page Syllabus for M.Phil.in English Indus International University Una. Course 4 (MPE122) Credits: 4 MM: 100 Candidates may choose any one of the following options: 1. American Literature 2. European Literature 3. Commonwealth Literature American Literature: 1. 2. 3. 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams: Selected Poetry Eugene O’Neil: The Iceman Cometh Lionel Trilling: Liberal Imagination European Literature: 1. 2. 3. 4. Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha Eugenio Montale: The Storm and Other Poems Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House Roland Barthes: Writing Degree Zero Commonwealth Literature: 1. Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart 2. Northrop Frye: Anatomy of Criticism 3. Patrick White: Memoirs of Many in One 4. Henry Lawson: Poetry Archive Third Semester (Fall) Dissertation : 100 TOTAL MARKS : 500 6|Page Syllabus for M.Phil.in English Indus International University Una. Note: (a) Submission of Synopsis of Dissertation along with presentation – 30th April (b) First draft of Dissertation – 30th Sept. (c) Final draft – 30th November (d) Defence of Dissertation – 20th December Board of Examination: i. Head of Department ii. Faculty iii. Subject expert 7|Page