B.A. / B. Com. / B. Sc. Part I Examination, 2013
FOUNDATION COURSE : GENERAL ENGLISH
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Max. Marks : 100
Duration : 3 Hours
1.
Text for detailed Reading :
R.K. Narayan : A Vendor of Sweets
2.
Text for testing comprehension and usage
Remedial Course in English, Book II
Section A:
This section will consist of 10 compulsory questions. Answer to each question shall be
limited up to 30 words. Each question carries 2 marks. The questions will be set from R.K.
Narayan: Vendor of Sweets.
(10x2=20 Marks)
Section B:
This section will have two passages. One Seen passage from Remedial Course in English,
Book II with questions on it.
(20 Marks)
One Unseen passage with questions on it.
(15 Marks)
Section C:
This section will cover Grammar in it.
I
i.
Phrasal Verbs (3 Marks)
ii
Vocabulary: Antonyms, Synonyms, Prefixes, Suffixes (3 Marks)
iii
Compound and Complex Sentences; transformation of simple,
Compound and complex sentences ( 5 Marks)
iv
Modal auxiliaries (4 Marks)
v
Common Errors involving the use of articles, prepositions and tenses
(5 Marks)
(20 Marks)
II
Paragraph Writing-Descriptive: People, places, objects, events and processes
(about 125 words) (8 Marks)
III
Letter writing: Formal and informal (8 Marks)
IV
Report writing (9 Marks)
(This section will have internal choices)
(45 Marks)
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
S. Pit. Corder : An Intermediate English Practice Book (Orient Longman)
John Seely : Writing Report (OUP)
Tickoo & Sasi Kumar : Writing with a Purpose (OUP)
B.A. PART I EXAMINATION, 2013
ELECTIVE ENGLISH
Note : There shall be two papers of three hours duration each. Each paper will carry 100
marks.
Teaching hours : 8 periods a week.
PAPER I
PROSE AND FICTION
PRESCRIBED TEXTS
Essays of Yesterday, ed. E.V. Paul (OUP);
Short Stories of Yesterday and Today, ed. Shiv K. Kumar (OUP)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Section A
This section will consist of 10 compulsory questions. There will be two questions
From each Unit and answer of each question shall be limited up to 30 words. Each
Question carries 2 marks.
Unit 1: Two lines or quotes for explanation from the non-fiction texts prescribed (Essays
& Short-Stories). (The Essays’ Matches omitted; the story of a German Student
omitted )
Unit 2: Two questions from Essays.
Unit 3 Two questions from Short-Stories,
Unit 4: Two questions from fiction,
Unit 5: Two questions from background, formal elements of short-stories, Essays and
Novel.
(10x2=20 Marks)
Section B:
This section will consist of 10 questions. Two questions from each unit. The students
will answer five questions. There will be an internal choice in each Unit. Answer to each
question shall be limited up to 250 words. Each question carries 7 marks.
Unit 1: Two references from the prescribed nonfiction texts (Essays & Short Stories for
explanation). (The Essay matches omitted & Story of a German Student omitted)
Unit 2: Two questions from Essays.
Unit 3: Two questions from short-stories.
Unit 4: Two Questions from novel.
Unit 5: Two questions from general back-ground, Elements of short-stories, Essays and
Novel.
(5x7=35 Marks)
Section C
This Section will consist of five questions.
The student is required to attempt any three questions in 500 words.
Unit 2 and Unit 3: Three questions from Essays and Short-Stories.
Unit 4: Two questions from the fiction
(15x3=45 Marks)
B.A. PART II EXAMINATION, 2013
ELECTIVE ENGLISH
Note : There shall be two papers of three hours duration, each carrying 100 marks.
Teaching hours : 8 periods a week.
PAPER I
PROSE AND FICTION
TEXTS PRESCRIBED
For Detailed Study :
Masters of English Prose ed., L.S.R. Krishna Murthy (Macmillan)
The following chapters from Masters of English Prose are not prescribed :
Chapters Not Prescribed : 2, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 17 and 21 = 9 Chapters
From Non-detailed Study :
Thomas Hardy : The Mayor of Casterbridge
Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights
Passages for explanation will be set only from the prose text.
Unit-wise distribution :
Unit 1 : Passage for explanation with reference to the context
(Passages only from Prose)
20 Marks
Unit 2 : Questions from Prose
20 Marks
Unit 3 : The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
20 Marks
Unit 4 : Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
20 Marks
Unit 5 : Questions on the socio-literary background of the
prescribed texts and the formal components of
essay and fiction
20 Marks
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Marjorie Boulton : Anatomy of Prose
Robert Scholes : Elements of Fiction
PAPER II
DRAMA
FOR DETAILED STUDY :
Shakespeare : Twelfth Night, ed., J.C. Dent, The New Clarendon Shakespeare (OUP)
Shaw : Candida, ed., A.C. Ward (Orient Longman)
FOR NON DETAILED STUDY :
Osborne : Look Back in Anger
UNITWISE DISTRIBUTION
Unit 1 : Questions on explanation with reference to context
from the texts for detailed study
20 Marks
Unit 2 : Critical questions on Twelfth Night
20 Marks
Unit 3 : Critical questions on Candida
20 Marks
Unit 4 : Critical questions on Look Back in Anger
20 Marks
Unit 5 : Questions on drama in the form of short notes
20 Marks
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Hudson : An Introduction to the Study of Literature
Marjorie Boulton : Anatomy of Drama
Robert Scholes : Elements of Drama
B.A. PART III EXAMINATION, 2013
ELECTIVE ENGLISH
Note : There shall be two papers of three hours duration carrying 100 marks each.
Teaching hours : 8 periods a week.
PAPER I
POETRY
Books prescribed: From Wordsworth to Now. Ed. C.T. Thomas (Orient Longman, 1985)
The following poems are prescribed:
William Wordsworth: The Stolen Boat; The World is Too Much with Us; Three Years She Grew
S.T. Coleridge : Christabel, Part I; Kubla Khan
P.B. Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
John Keats: To Autumn
Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses
Arnold: Shakespeare
Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
Emily Dickinson: The Chariot
Gerald Manley Hopkins: Pied Beauty; God’s Grandeur
Robert Frost: After Apple Picking
T.S. Eliot: The Journey of the Magi
W.H. Auden : Musee des Beaux Arts
Philip Larkin: Church Going
Nissim Ezekiel: Enterprise
Unit-wise distribution:
Unit 1 : Questions on explanation with reference to the context
20 Marks
Unit 2 : Questions on the poems of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley
and Keats
20 Marks
Unit 3 : Questions on the poems of Tennyson, Arnold, Browning,
Dickinson and Hopkins
20 Marks
Unit 4 : Questions on the poems of Frost, T.S. Eliot, Lawrence,
Auden, Larkin, Ezekiel
20 Marks
Unit 5 : A Question on the genre and age
20 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
Marjorie Boulton : Anatomy of Poetry
A.G. Hooper : An Introduction to Language and Literature
PAPER II
DRAMA
FOR DETAILED STUDY :
Shakespeare : Othello (The New Clarendon Shakespeare, OUP)
Miller : All My Sons. Ed. Nissim Ezekiet (Modern Plays for Students, OUP)
FOR GENERAL STUDY :
Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer
UNIT-WISE DISTRIBUTION
Unit 1 : Questions on explanation with reference to context
of passages from plays prescribed for detailed study
20 Marks
Unit 2 : Critical questions on Othello
20 Marks
Unit 3 : Critical questions on All My Sons
20 Marks
Unit 4 : Critical questions on She Stoops to Conquer
20 Marks
Unit 5 : Theoretical questions on Drama
20 Marks
RECOMMENDED READINGS
Stanley Wells : Literature and Drama (Concept of Literature Series)
Brooks and Heliman : Understanding Drama
Shakespearean Tragedy : Stratford Upon Avon Studies, No. 20.
B.A. (HONOURS) PART I EXAMINATION, 2013
There will be 4 papers, each of 3 hours’ duration.
Teaching Hours : 6 periods for each paper per week.
PAPER I
ENGLISH LANGUAGE, LITERARY TERMS AND
CRITICAL APPRECIATION
SECTION A : ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The following topics are prescribed for study.
Unit-wise distribution :
Unit 1 :
Family of Languages; Spellings; Pronunciation
20 Marks
Unit 2 :
Individuals and the making of modern English;
the English Language today, and aims and
methods of study
20 Marks
PRESCRIBED READING
C.L. Wren : The English Language (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 & 8)
RECOMMENDED READING
Simeon Potter : Our Language
Baugh and Cable : A History of English Language
Merio Pei : The Study of Our Language
SECTION B : LITERARY TERMS AND GENRES
Unit 3 :
Drama and Novel, their major types and features
Unit 4 :
Prose genres and poetic genres; metre and figurative language
20 Marks
20 Marks
PRESCRIBED TEXT
M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms (Macmillan, Indian Rep.)
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
Cox and Dyson : Practical Criticism of Poetry (Orient Longman)
Backer and Genz : Reader’s Guide to Literary Terms (Vishal)
Heather Dubrow : Genre (The Critical Idiom Series)
SECTION C : CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF PROSE AND POETRY
Unit 5 :
Critical Appreciation of a given text
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
Brooks and Warren : Understanding Poetry
Allen Warner : A Short Guide to English Style (ELBS)
20 Marks
PAPER II
POETRY
The following poems are prescribed from The Winged Word (ed.) David Green (Macmillan)
Unit 1 :
Explanation of extracts from the prescribed poems
Unit 2 :
Edmund Spenser : The Prologue to the Faerie Queene
20 Marks
20 Marks
William Shakespeare : Sonnets 60 to 116
Raleigh : The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
Unit 3 :
Milton : How Soon Hath Time ……….
20 Marks
Donne : Lycidos, Song, From Holy Sonnets’ No. 1
Marvell : To His Coy Mistress
Unit 4 :
Dryden : Mac Flecknoe
20 Marks
Pope : From Essay on Man
Unit 5 :
Wordsworth : Tintern Abbey; Three Years She Grew …..
20 Marks
Blake : Poison Tree
PAPER III
DRAMA
Unit 1 :
Explanation of extracts with reference to the context from the text for detailed
study
20 Marks
Unit 2 :
Shakespeare : Macbeth
20 Marks
Unit 3 :
Shakespeare : Twelfth Night
20 Marks
NON – DETAILED STUDY
Unit 4 :
Ben Jonson : Volpone
20 Marks
Unit 5 :
Sheridan : The Rivals
20 Marks
RECOMMENDED READING
Stanley Waxis : Literature and Drama (Concept of Literature Series)
Boris Ford (ed.) : Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. 2, The Age of Shakespeare
PAPER IV
PROSE AND FICTION
FOR DETAILED STUDY
Footprints ed. K.P.K. Menon
FOR NON DETAILED STUDY
Dickens : Great Expectations
R.K. Narayan : The Vendor of Sweets
Unit-wise distribution :
Unit 1 :
Explanation with reference to context of extracts from the
20 Marks
text prescribed for detailed study
Unit 2 :
From Phyllis Bentley to David Daiches
20 Marks
Unit 3 :
W.H. Davies to Neville Cardus
20 Marks
Unit 4 :
Charles Dickens : Great Expectations
20 Marks
(10 Marks)
R.K. Narayan : The Vendor of Sweets
(10 Marks)
Unit 5 :
General question on the form, age and genre
RECOMMENDED READING
Philip Stevick : Theory of the Novel
20 Marks
B.A. (HONOURS) PART II EXAMINATION, 2014
There will be 4 papers of 3 hours’ duration each.
Teaching Hours : 6 periods for each paper per week.
PAPER I
SOCIAL HISTORY AND TRENDS IN LITERATURE
Unit 1 :
The Renaissance, The Reformation
20 Marks
Unit 2 :
The Age of Reason, The Neo-Classical Age
20 Marks
Unit 3 :
The French Revolution, The Romantic Movement
20 Marks
Unit 4 :
The Industrial Revolution,
20 Marks
The 19th Century Working Class Movement
Unit 5 :
Social Thought, Literature in the Victorian Age
Marks
20
RECOMMENDED READING
J.B. Priestley : Literature and Western Man (Hienemann)
Boris Ford : The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. II, IV, V and VI
PAPER II
POETRY
PRESCRIBED TEXT
The Winged Word ed. David Green (Macmillan)
Unit 1 :
Explanation of extracts from prescribed poems
(as given in units 2 – 5)
20 Marks
Unit 2 :
Shelley : ‘Ode to the West Wind’
20 Marks
Keats : ‘Oad to Autumn’; ‘Grecian Urn’
Unit 3 :
Tennyson : ‘Break, Break, Break’;
20 Marks
The Epilogue from ‘In Memoriam’
Browning : ‘My Last Duchess’
Unit 4 :
Hopkins : ‘Gods’ Grandeur’; ‘Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord’
Marks
20
Yeats : ‘The Second Coming’, ‘Easter, 1916’
Unit 5 :
Eliot : ‘Preludes’
Auden : ‘The Unknown Citizen’
MacNeice : ‘Prayer Before Birth’
Spender : ‘I Think Continually…….’
RECOMMENDED READING
Marjorie Boulton : The Anatomy of Poetry
Bernard Blackstone : Practical English Prosody (Longman)
PAPER III
DRAMA
Unit 1 :
Explanation of extracts with reference to the context from the
20 Marks
Texts prescribed for detailed study
FOR DETAILED STUDY
Unit 2 :
Oscar Wilde : Lady Windermere’s Fan
20 Marks
Unit 3 :
Bernard Shaw : The Devil’s Disciple
20 Marks
(Orient Longman)
Unit 4 :
T.S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral
Marks
20
FOR NON DETAILED STUDY
Unit 5 :
Arthur Miller : All My Sons (Modern Plays for Students, Oxford)
Marks
20
Badal Sarkar : Evam Indrajit (New Drama in India)
RECOMMENDED READING
A. Nicoll : The Theory of Drama (Doaba House)
Brokes and Heilman : Understanding Drama
PAPER IV
PROSE AND FICTION
FOR DETAILED STUDY
Perspectives : S.A. Vasudevan and M. Sathya Babu
(Orient Longman)
Unit 1 :
Explanation of extracts with reference to context from the
20 Marks
text for detailed study
Unit 2 :
General question on Chapters I, II, IV, VI, VII, IX, X, XII,
Marks
20
XIII, XV, XVII (11 Chapters)
FOR NON DETAILED STUDY
Unit 3 :
Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
20 Marks
Unit 4 :
Hardy : Mayor of Casterbridge
20 Marks
Somerset Maugham : Of Human Bondage
Unit 5 :
General Question on form, age and genre
RECOMMENDED READING
Percy Lubock : The Craft of Fiction
E.M. Forster : Aspects of the Novel
20 Marks
M.A. (PREVIOUS) EXAMINATION, 2013
There will be four theory papers. Each paper will carry 100 marks and will be of three hours
duration. The contact hours for each of the four theory papers will be six periods per week of 45
minutes duration.
PAPER I
PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM AND LITERARY APPRECIATION
100 Marks
Part A
LITERARY CRITICISM
Aristotle : Aristotle’s Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, Tr. H.S. Butcher
The following essays from
English Critical Texts D.J. Enright & E.D. Chickera, Eds. (Oxford University Press)
John Dryden : An Essay on Dramatic Poesy
William Wordsworth : Preface to Lyrical Ballands
S.T. Coleridge : Biographia Literaria, Chapters XIV and XVII
Matthew Arnold : The Study of Poetry
T.S. Eliot : Tradition and the Individual Talent, Metaphysical Poets
I.A. Richard : The Imagination, The Two Uses of Language
(Ch. 32 and 34 from I.A. Richard’s Principles of Literary Criticism)
Bharat : Natyashastra
Modern Literary Theories : Introduction to Marxism, Feminism, Psycho analytic criticism.
Introduction to Deconstruction, Post-Colonialism, Eco criticism.
Section A:
This section will consist of 10 compulsory questions. Answer of each question shall
Be limited up to 30 words. Each question carries 2 marks.
Unit 1: Aristotle, John Dryden, Bharat (Two questions from this unit)
Unit 2: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Arnold (Two questions from this unit)
Unit 3: Eliot, Richards, Introduction to Feminism and Psychoanalytic Criticism.
(Three questions from this unit)
Unit 4: Introduction to Marxism, Deconstruction, Post Colonialism and Eco Criticism.
(Three questions from this unit)
(10x2=20 Marks)
Section B:
This section will consist of 10 questions. There will be an internal choice in each unit and the
student is required to attempt one question from each unit. Answer to each question shall be
limited up to 250 words. Each question carries 7 marks.
Unit 1: Aristotle, John Dryden, Bharat (Two questions from this unit)
Unit 2: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Arnold (Two questions from this unit)
Unit 3: Eliot, Richards, Introduction to Feminism and Psychoanalytic Criticism.
(Three questions from this unit)
Unit 4: Introduction to Marxism, Deconstruction Post Colonialism and Eco Criticism.
(Three questions from this unit)
(5x7=35 Marks)
RECOMMENDED READING:
Bharat : Natyashatra, Manmohan Ghosh (Tr.) Kapoor, Kapil Literary Theory, New Delhi, 1998
R.S. Tiwari : A Critical Approach to Classical Indian Poetics, Varanasi, 1984
George Watson : The Literary Critics. London Penguin, 1968.
Rene Welleck : A History of Modern Criticism, Vol. V, London; Jonathan, 1986.
Wilfred, East et.al. : A Handbook to Critical Approaches to Literature.
London : OUP, 1999.
PART B
PRACTICAL CRITICISM AND LITERARY APPRECIATION
Unit 5: (a) Essay Writing
(b) Practical Criticism and Literary Appreciation (Prose and Poetry)
Section C
This Section will have Essay writing and literary appreciation (Prose and Poetry both) with
internal choices. The student is required to attempt one Essay and one practical criticism (Prose
or Poetry)
(Essay-20 Marks and Literary appreciation - 25 Marks ( 45 Marks)
RECOMMENDED READING:
Daniel Jones : English Pronouncing Dictionary (ELBS)
Barbara, M.H. Strang : Modern English Structures (OUP)
J. Windson Lowis : A Concise Pronouncing Dictionary (OUP)
Quirk and Greenbaum : A University Grammar of English
R.A. Close : A Reference Grammar of English
Halliday and Hasan : Cohesion in English
Sarah Freeman : Written Communication in English (Orient Longman)
A.G. Hooper : An Introduction to the Study of Language and Literature
Herbert Read : English Prose Style (Lyall Book Depot)
Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren : Fundamentals of Good Writing (Dobson)
Brooks and Warren : Understanding Poetry (Hott)
PAPER II
AMERICAN LITERATURE
100 Marks
Section A:
This section will consist of 10 compulsory questions. Answer of each question shall
Be limited up to 30 words. Each question carries 2 marks.
Unit 1 :
Two references (Lines/quotes) to contexts from prescribed poems & Plays. (Note: No
passage for Explanation will be set from fiction)
Unit 2 :
Two questions from prescribed poems of Walt Whitman : ‘Song of ‘Myself’:
Poetry
Sections 1 – 10; ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’; ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard
Bloomed’
Robert Frost : ‘Mending Wall’; ‘Home Burial’; ‘After Apple Picking’; ‘Birches’;
‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’; ‘Onset’; ‘Fire and Ice’
Emily Dickinson:
‘I taste a liquor never brewed’; ‘I heard a fly buzz – when I died—‘; ‘There came a
Day at Summer’s full’; ‘The Soul Selects her own Society’; ‘The last Night that She
lived’; ‘Because I could not stop for Death’;
PRESCRIBED BOOKS:
William J. Fisher et. al. Eds. : American Literature of the Nineteenth Century (Eurasia,
1970)
Egbert S. Oliver, Ed. : American Literature, 1890 – 1965 (Eurasia, 1970)
Unit 3 :
Two questions from prescribed Fiction
Fiction
Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Emerson : The American Scholar (Essay)
Autobiography: Chapter 1 from The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Unit 4 :
Two questions from prescribed Plays.
Plays
Arthur Miller : Death of a Salesman
Edward Albee : Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Tennessee Williams : The Glass Menagerie
Unit 5 :
Two questions from Social, historical background of the prescribed genre
(10x2=20 Marks)
Section B:
This section will consist of 10 questions. There will be an internal choice and the student is
required to attempt one question from each unit. Answer to each question shall be limited up to
250 words. Each question carries 7 marks.
Unit 1: Two reference to Contexts from the prescribed poems and plays.
Unit 2: Two questions from the prescribed poems of: Walt Whitman, Roberts Frost and
Emily Dickinson.
Unit 3: Two questions from the prescribed fiction:
Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Emerson, Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Unit 4 :
Two questions from the prescribed Plays:
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman.
Edward Albee: Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
Unit 5: Two questions on social, historical background of the prescribed genre
(5x7=35 Marks)
Section C:
This section will consist of 5 questions, from prescribed poems (Unit 2), fiction(Unit 3) and
plays(Unit 4.). The student is required to attempt three questions out of five in about 500
words.
(3x15=45 Marks)
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Robert, E. Spiller : Cycle of American Literature
Marcus Cunliffe : The Literature of the United States : The American Tradition in Literature
(Shorter edition), Bradely and Beatty (ed.) Random House
Richard Chase : The American Novel and Its Tradition, Indian Edition (S. Chand & Co.)
Parrington : Main Currents in American Literature, Vol. II
Curti : The Growth of the American Mind
PAPER III
FROM SHAKESPEARE TO RESTORATION
Plays Prescribed for Detailed Study
W. Shakespeare : Hamlet, King Lear, As You Like It
Congreve : The Way of the World
Marlowe : Dr. Faustus
Plays Prescribed for Non - Detailed Study:
Webster : The Duchess of Malfi
Ben Jonson : Volpone
W. Shakespeare : Julius Caesar
Section A:
This Section will consist of 10 compulsory questions. Answer of each question shall
Be limited up to 30 words. Each question carries 2 marks.
Unit 1:
Two reference to contexts (Lines or quotes or one word) from the plays prescribed for
Detailed Study.
Unit 2:
Two questions from King Lear, Dr. Faustus, The Duchess of Malfi.
Unit 3:
Two questions from Hamlet, Julius Ceasar.
Unit 4:
Two questions from: As you Like it, Volpone, The Way of the World.
Unit 5:
Two questions from the Literary and historical background of the prescribed genre.
(10x2=20 Marks)
Section B
This Section will consist of 10 questions. There will be an internal choice in each unit.
Answer to each question shall be limited up to 250 words. Each question carries
7 Marks.
Unit 1:
Two reference to contexts from the plays prescribed for Detailed Study.
Unit 2:
Two questions from King Lear, Dr. Faustus, The Duchess of Malfi.
Unit 3:
Two questions from Hamlet, Julius Caesar.
Unit 4:
Two questions from: As you Like it, Volpone, The Way of the World.
Unit 5:
Two questions from the Literary and historical background of the prescribed genre.
(5x7=35 Marks)
Section C
This Section will consist of 5 questions from the plays prescribed for detailed and non detailed study(Unit 2,3,4). The student is required to attempt any three questions in 500
words.
(3x15=45 Marks)
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Bradely, A.C. : Shakespearean Tragedy
Charlton, H.B. : Shakespearean Tragedy
Charlton, H.B. : Shakespearean Comedy
Bonamy Dobree : Restoration Tragedy
Bonamy Dobree : Restoration Comedy
Boris Ford : The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. 2
Una M. Ellis : - Fermer : Jecobean Drama
G. Gregory Smith : Ben Jonson
L.C. Knight : Background to Elizabethan Drama
G. Wilson Knight : Wheel of Fire
Stanley Wells : The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Studies
PAPER IV
ENGLISH POETRY FROM CHAUCER TO 1797
Section A:
This section will consist of 10 compulsory questions. Answer of each question shall
Be limited up to 30 words. Each question carries 2 marks.
Unit 1 :
One line or quote references from prescribed poems (explanations not be set from
Dryden and Wyatt.)
Unit 2 :
Two questions from: Geoffrey Chaucer : ‘The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales’
Sir Thomas Wyatt: ‘I Find No Peace’, ‘My Lute Awake’. Edmund Spenser: The
Faerie Queen. Book I
Unit 3 :
Two questions from: William Shakespeare : ‘They That Have Power to Hurt’; ‘When
in Disgrace with Fortune’; ‘Why is My Verse So Barren of New Pride’, ‘That Time
of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold’; My Mistress’s Eyes are Nothing like the Sun’
John Donne : ‘The Canonization’; ‘A Lecture upon the Shadow’; ‘The Good
Morrow’; ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’; ‘A Valediction of Weeping’; ‘At the
Round Earth’s Imagined Corners’; Batter My Heart, Three Person’d God’.
Andrew Marvell : ‘The Definition of Love’; ‘The Garden’; ‘To His Coy Mistress’.
John Milton : Paradise Lost, Books I and II; Lycidas.
Unit 4 :
Two questions from: John Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel
Thomas Gray : ‘Elegy Written in the Country Churchyard’
William Collins : ‘Ode to Passion’; ‘Ode to Evening’
Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock
Unit 5 :
Two questions from the literary and historical background of the prescribed genre
(10x2 Marks)
Section B
This Section will consist of 10 questions. There will be an internal choice in each unit.
Answer to each question shall be limited up to 250 words. Each question carries
7 Marks.
Unit 1 :
Two reference to contexts from prescribed poems (References should not be set from
Dryden and Thomas Wyatt)
Unit 2 :
Two questions from: Geoffrey Chaucer : ‘The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales’
Sir Thomas Wyatt: ‘I Find No Peace’, ‘My Lute Awake’.
Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queen.
Unit 3 :
Two questions from: William Shakespeare : ‘They That Have Power to Hurt’; ‘When
in Disgrace with Fortune’; ‘Why is My Verse So Barren of New Pride’, ‘That Time
of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold’; My Mistress’s Eyes are Nothing like the Sun’
John Donne : ‘The Canonization’; ‘A Lecture upon the Shadow’; ‘The Good
Morrow’; ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’; ‘A Valediction of Weeping’; ‘At the
Round Earth’s Imagined Corners’; Batter My Heart, Three Person’d God’.
Andrew Marvell : ‘The Definition of Love’; ‘The Garden’; ‘To His Coy Mistress’.
John Milton : Paradise Lost, Books I and II; Lycidas.
Unit 4 :
Two questions from: John Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel
Thomas Gray : ‘Elegy Written in the Country Churchyard’
William Collins : ‘Ode to Passion’; ‘Ode to Evening’
Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock
Unit 5 :
Two questions from the literary and historical background of the prescribed genre
(5x7=35 Marks)
Section C
This Section will consist of 5 questions from (Unit 2,3,4) prescribed poems. The
Student is required to attempt any three questions out of five in 500 words.
(3x15=45 Marks)
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Marjorie Boulton : The Anatomy of Poetry
E.K. Chambers : Geoffrey Chaucer, London, OUP
C.S. Lewis : Allegory of Love
H.S. Bennet : Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century
Helen Gardner : Metaphysical poetry
Boris Ford : The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. I, II, III & IV
M. A. (FINAL) EXAMINATION, 2013
There will be four theory papers. Each paper will carry 100 marks and will be of three hours
duration. The contact hours for each of the four theory papers will be six periods per week of 45
minutes duration. There will be viva-voce examination of 100 marks. Total maximum marks
will be 500.
PAPER I
MODERN DRAMA
Plays Prescribed for Detailed Study
Ibsen : A Doll’s House
Shaw : Pygmalion
S. Beckett : Waiting for Godot
W. Synge : Playboy of the Western World
T.S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral
H. Pinter : The Caretaker
Plays Prescribed for Non Detailed Study
Sean O’ Casey : Cock-a-doodle Dandy
O’ Neill : Emperor Jones
T. Rattigan : The Winslow Boy
Unit 1 : Passages for explanation with reference to the context from the texts prescribed for
detailed study
20 Marks
Unit 2 : A Doll’s House, Cock-a-doodle Dandy and Pygmalion
20 Marks
Unit 3 : Waiting for Godot, The Caretaker, Emperor Jones
20 Marks
Unit 4 : Playboy of the Western World, Murder in the Cathedral, The Winslow Boy
20 Marks
Unit 5 : One general question with internal choice on the prescribed genre and its social and
historical background
20 Marks
RECOMMENDED READINGS
Brooks and Warren : Understanding Drama
Marjorie Boulton : The Anatomy of Drama
Brown, John Russell : Modern British Dramatists : A Collection of Critical Essays
New Delhi : Prentice-Hall India Pvt. Ltd., 1980
PAPER II
ENGLISH POETRY FROM 1798 TO THE PRESENT
100 Marks
Unit 1 : Passages for explanation with reference to the context from the texts prescribed for
detailed study
20 Marks
Unit 2 : William Blake : Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience from The Penguin Poets,
Ed. J. Bronowski; Wordsworth : ‘The French Revolution’; ‘Lines Composed a Few
Miles above Tintern Abbey’ : ‘It is a Beauteous Evening’; ‘London 1892’; Intimations
of Immortality’; ‘One Summer Evening’; ‘Winander Lake’
John Keats : ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’; ‘Ode to Nightingale’; ‘Ode on Melancholy’; ‘To
Autumn’
Shelley : ‘Ozymandias’; ‘Ode to the Westwind’; ‘To Skylark’
(one question with internal choice)
20 Marks
Unit 3 : Alfred Lord Tennyson : ‘The Lady of Shalott’; ‘In Memoriam’ (Stanza 1-12); ‘The
Lotus Eaters’; ‘Ulysses’; ‘Crossing the Bar’
Robert Browning : ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’; ‘Home Thoughts from the Sea’;
‘The Last Ride Together’; ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’; ‘Prospice’; ‘My Last Duchess’
Matthew Arnold : ‘The Scholar Gipsy’; ‘Dover Beach’; ‘To Marguerite’; In Memorian
(Stanza 1-12)
(one question with internal choice)
20 Marks
Unit 4 : Hopkins : ‘Felix Randal’; ‘Pied Beauty’; ‘The Windhover’; ‘The Wreck of the
Deutchland’; ‘Inversald’
Yeats : ‘Easter 1916’; ‘The Second Coming’; ‘The Tower’; ‘Sailing to Byzantium’
Eliot : ‘The Waste Land’; ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’
Auden : ‘In Memory of Sigmund Freud’; ‘Shield of Achilles’; ‘Petition’; ‘In Praise of
Limestone’; ‘Sept. 1939’
Sylvia Plath : Cut; You’re; Edge (from Ariel)
(one question with internal choice)
20 Marks
Unit 5 : One general question with internal choice on the social and historical background of the
prescribed genre
20 Marks
Note :
Blake, Hopkins, Tennyson and Arnold are for general study.
explanation will be set from them.
No passages for
RECOMMENDED READINGS
M.H. Abrams : The English Romatic Poets
M.H. Abrams : Mirror and the Lamp
Graham Hough : The Romantic Poets
Frank Kermode : The Romatic Image, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London
Mario Praz : The Romantic Agony
Ford, Boris : Pelican Guide, Vol. 5, From Blake to Byron
C.M. Bowra : The Romantic Imagination
Pandey, S.N. : Sylvia Plath as a Poet
Fifteen Poets, [ELBS]
The Faber Book of Modern Verse : ed. By Michael Roberts, revised by Donald Hall, Faber &
Faber, 1965
Jennifer Breea & Macy Noble : Romantic Literature, New Delhi, Atlantic, 2002
PAPER III
FICTION
100 Marks
Unit 1 : Henry Fielding : Joseph Andrews
Jane Austen : Emma
Defoe : Moll Flanders
(One question with internal choice)
20 Marks
Unit 2 : Charles Dickens : Great Expectations
Henry James : The Portrait of a Lady
E.M. Forster : A Passage to India
(One question with internal choice)
20 Marks
Unit 3 : James Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Graham Greene : The Power and the Glory
Hemingway : Old Man and the Sea
(One question with internal choice)
20 Marks
Unit 4 : D.H. Lawrence : The Rainbow
Virginia Woolf : A Room of One’s Own
Alice Walker : The Color Purple
(One question with internal choice)
20 Marks
Unit 5 : One question with internal choice on the general, social and historical background of
the prescribed genre
20 Marks
RECOMMENDED READINGS
Percy Lubbock : The Craft of Fiction
E.M. Forster : Aspects of the Novel
Philip Stevick, Ed. : Theory of the Novel
Edwin Muir : Structure of the Novel
Arnold Kettle : Introduction to English Novel
Walter Allen : The Rise of English Novel
Ernest Baker : Origin and Growth of Fiction
Keith Sagar : D.H. Lawrence
Frank Kermode : D.H. Lawrence
PAPER IV
POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
100 Marks
Unit 1 : Caribbean
V.S. Naipaul : A House for Mr. Biswas
George Lamming : In the Castle of My Skin
Derek Walcott : Nobel Lecture (1992)
20 Marks
Unit 2 : African
James Ngugi Wa Thiongo : De Colonizing the Mind
Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart
Wole Soyinka : A Dance of the Forests
(A Play)
20 Marks
Unit 3 : Judith Wright : ‘Woman to Man’; ‘From Australia’; ‘To a Child’;
‘The Cry for the Dead’
Les Murray : ‘Noonday Axeman’; ‘An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow’;
‘The Returnees’
From Harry Heseltine (ed.) The Penguin Book of Australian Verse,
Penguin, 1976
Patrick White : The Tree of Man
20 Marks
Unit 4 : Canadian
Sharon Pollock : Walsh (Play)
Atwood : ‘If you can’t say something nice; Don’t say anything at all’ (essay)
From The Language in Her Eye, Coach House Press, 1990
Poems : Atwood : ‘This a photograph of me’, ‘Tricks with Mirrors’, ‘Progressive
Insanities of a Pioneer’
Ondatejee : The Cinnamon Peeler, To a Sad Daughter
From A New Anthology of Canadian Literature in English (Eds.)
Donaa Benaett & Russell Brown, Toronto : OUP, 2002
Vassanji : No New Land
20 Marks
Unit 5 : South Asian
Bapsi Sidhwa : Ice-Candy Man
Mistry : Such a Long Journey
Essays : ‘The Vocabulary of the ‘Universal’ : ‘Ironies of Colour in the Great
White North’
From Arun Mukherjee : Oppositional Aesthetics : Readings from a
20 Marks
Hyphenated Space
RECOMMENDED READINGS
John Theime, Ed. : The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literature, University of Hull, U.K.
Edward Said : Orientalism (Peregrine Books)
G.N. Devy : After Anmesia (Orient Longman)
Aijaz Ahmed : In Theory (Oxford University Press, 1994)
Harish Trivedi : Colonial Transactions : English Literature in India, Papyrus & Manchester
University Press
Frantz Fanon : The Wretched of the Earth
Homi K. Bhabha : Location of Culture, Routledge, London
Jaan Mohammed : Manichean Aesthetics
Ashcroft, Tiffin, Griffiths : The Empire Writes Back
M. Genson & C. Wake : African Theatre Today
Baugh, Ed. : Critics on Caribbean Literature
Lessing : The Golden Notebook
Naipaul : Literary Occassions Essays. Routledge
Hutecheon, Linda : The Canadian Post Modern : A Study of Contemporary English Canadian
Fiction, Toronto : OUP, 1988
McLaren, John. Australian Literature : An Historical Introduction, Melbourne : Longman
Cheshire, 1989
C.T. Indira & Meenakshi Shivram : Post Coloniality : Reading Literature. Vikas, 1999.
Perry Benita, Post Colonial Readings. OUP.
OR
INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
100 Marks
Unit 1 :
Passages for explanation with reference to the context from the prescribed poems
20 Marks
Unit 2 :
Poetry :
20 Marks
Toru Dutt : The Lotus : Our Casuarina Tree; My Vocation; Baugmoree
Rabindra Nath Tagore : Poems III, XI, XIII, XX, XXI, XLV, LXI, LXIX, LXXXII,
LXVIII from Geetanjali
Sarojini Naidu : To my Fairy Fancies; Awake; If You Call Me; Bangle Sellers; The
Soul’s Prayer; Palanquin Bearers; Guerdon
Nissim, Ezekiel : Enterprise; Marriage; Night of the Scorpion; Very Indian Poem in
Indian English; My Cat
Jayant Mahapatra : The Moon Moments; A Kind of Happiness; Of That Love; The
Vase; Indian Summer Days
Kamla Das : The Dance of the Eunuchs; In Love; An Introduction; The Fancy Dress
Show
From The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry, Ed. V.K. Gokak (Sahitya
Academy, New Delhi)
Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets, Ed. A.K. Mehrotra, 1995, The Oxford
India
Anthology of Indo-Anglian Poetry (Arnold Heinemann) Ed. A.N. Dwivedi
Unit 3 :
Fiction : Mulk Raj Anand, The Coolie
R.K. Narayan : The Guide
Anita Desai : Fire on the Mountain
Rama Mehtra : Inside the Haveli
Unit 4 :
Drama : Girish Karnad : Tughlaq; M. Dattani : The Final
Solutions
Unit 5 :
20 Marks
20 Marks
Prose : D. Ramakrishna, Ed., Indian English Prose (New Delhi : Arnold Heinemann)
The following authors in the above anthology are prescribed : Ram Mohan Roy,
Gandhi, Nehru, Radhakrishnan, Ved Mehta.
(One question with internal choice)
Ambedkar : Castes in India
Bhisham Sahni : “The Accident” from Best Indian Short Stories edited by Khushwant
Singh, Vol. II, New Delhi : Harper Collins; 2003.
“My Literary Career : For Love of Rajasthan” by Laxmi Kumari
Chundawat From Purdah to the People edited by Fraces Taff,
Jaipur and New Delhi, Rawat Publication, 2002.
20 Marks
RECOMMENDED READINGS
K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar : Indian Writing in English, Bombay, Asia Publishing House, 1973
David McCutchion : Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English, Writers Workshop, Calcutta,
1969
M.K. Naik, Ed. : Perspectives on Indian Poetry in English, Abhinav Publication, 1984
M.K. Naik, Ed. : Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English, 1977
M.K. Naik, S.K. Desai, G.S. Amur : Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English, Macmillan,
Madras, 1972
Meenakshi Mukherji : Consideration, Applied Publishers, New Delhi, 1976
OR
ENGLISH PROSE
Unit 1 :
Passages for explanation
Unit 2 :
16th and 17th Century Prose :
20 Marks
R. Holinshed : From The Chronicles of England, Scotland and
Ireland : Elizabeth becomes Queen, 1558
John Lyly : From Euphues and His England
Thomas Nashe : From the Unfortunate Traveller or the Life of Jack Wilton
Robert Greene : Pandosto : The Truimpth of Time
Bacon : Of Friendship, Of Truth, Of Death, Of Studies,
Youth and Age
Cowley : Of Myself, Of Solitude
Unit 3 :
th
20 Marks
th
18 and 19 Century Prose :
Addison : Sir Roger in Church; Sir Roger at Home;
Meditations on the Westminster Abbey
Steele : The Trumpet Club
Swift : On Style
Defoe : A Balance Sheet of Robinson Crusoe
Lamb : Superannuated Man; Dream Children : A Reverie;
Christ’s Hospital; Five and Thirty Years Ago
R.L. Stevenson : An Old Scotch Gardener; El Dorado
Hazlitt : Indian Jugglers
Unit 4 :
Modern Prose :
A.C. Benson : The Art of the Essayist
A. Huxley : Pleasures
B. Russel : Fear of Public Opinion
Herbert Read : The Poet and the Film
E.V. Lucas : Third Thoughts
20 Marks
J.B. Priestley : In Crimson Silk
Chesterton : On the Pleasures of No Longer Being Young
C.P. Snow : The Two Cultures
E.M. Forster : What I Believe
B. Shaw : Freedom
H. Nicolson : On Being Polite
G. Orewell : Shooting an Elephant
Unit 5 :
20 Marks
One question with internal choice on the literary and historical background of the
prescribed genre
20 Marks
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
James Sutherland : On English Prose, OUP
Kenneth Allot : Pelican Book of English Prose, General Introduction
Richard Garnett Hugg : English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria
Walker : English Essays and Essayists, S. Chand & Co.
William Hazlitt : English Comic Writers
A.H. Upham : The Typical Forms of English Literature, Cambridge History, Vol. IV, Chapter
16 : Character of English Literature’ Essay
Kulkarni : The English Essay
R.J. Rees : An Introduction to English Literature (Chapter X)
D. Daiches : A Critical History of English Literature
R. Scholes : Elements of Literature, OUP
PRESCRIBED TEXT
J.B. Skinner & David Rintoul : English Essays, OUP
C.H. Lockitt : The Art of the Essayist, Orient Longman
Harry, T. Moore (Ed.) : Laurel Masterpiece of World Literature : Elizabethan Age, Delhi
Publication.
M. Phil. English Examination, 2013
PAPER I
STUDIES IN MODERN LITERARY THEORY AND
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
100 Marks
Prescribed Text
William J. Handy and Max Westbrook : Twentieth Century Criticism : The Major Statements
SECTION A
The following essays only :
Unit 1 :
I.A. Richards : ‘Pseuo-Statements’
John Crowe Ransom : ‘Poetry : A Note on Ontology’
Mark Schorer : ‘Technique as Discovery’
Unit 2 :
Robert B. Heilman : ‘The Sight Pattern in King Lear’
Wayne C. Booth : ‘Telling and Showing’
R.S. Crane : ‘Towards a More Adequate Criticism of Poetic Structure : ‘Macbeth’
Kenneth Burke : ‘Psychology and Form’
Unit 3 :
Lionel Trilling : ‘Thar Sense of the Past’
Richard Ellman : ‘The Background of the Dead’
Herbert Reed : ‘Psycho-analysis and Criticism’
Ernest Jones : ‘Hamlet – The Psychoanalytical Solution’
Note : Questions will be set on critical approaches.
SECTION B
Unit 4 :
Types of Research, Bibliography and Reference Skills, Documentation
Unit 5 :
Note-taking and Scholarly writing
RECOMMENDED READINGS
Wimsatt, W.K. : The Verbal Icon, The University of Kentucky Press
Frye, Northrop : The Anatomy of Criticism, Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press
Altick, Richard, D. : The Art of Literary Research, New York, Vintage Books
Daiches, David : Critical Approaches to Literature
Thorpe, James : Research in Modern Language and Literature, ASRC, Hyderabad
Gibaldi, Joseph and Achtert, Walter : Hand Book for Writers of Research Paper, Wiley Eastern
Limited, 3rd Ed. Rep., 2004
Altick, Richard : The Scholar Adventures
Bond, Donald F. : A Reference Guide to English Studies
PAPER II
MODERN POETRY AND DRAMA
100 Marks
Unit 1 :
Wesker : Roots
John Arden : Sergeant Musgrave’s Dance
Robert Bolt : A Man for all Seasons
Unit 2 :
John Osborne : Look Back in Anger; Inadmissible Evidence; Luther
Unit 3 :
W.H. Auden : ‘In Memory of W.B. Yeats’; ‘Unknown Citizen’; ‘September 1,
1939’; ‘The Shield of Achilles’; ‘Sea Scape’ : ‘Musee des Beaus Arts’; ‘In Praise of
Limestone’; ‘Epilogue from ‘The Orator’
Stephen Spender : ‘Missing My Daughter’; ‘The Prisoners’; ‘Ice’; ‘An Elementary
School Class Room’; ‘After They have Tired’
Unit 4 :
Dylan Thomas : ‘The Force that through the Green Fuse’; ‘In My Craft on Sullen
Art’; ‘Fern Hill’; ‘Light Breaks Where no Sun Shines’; ‘A Refusal……….’
Philip Larkin : ‘Church Going’; ‘Wants’; ‘Deception’; ‘Afternoon’; ‘Next Phase’;
‘Wedding Wind’
Ted Hughes : ‘Hawk Roosting’; ‘November’; ‘Thrushes’; ‘Snow-drop’; ‘Vampire’; ‘To
Point a Water Lily’
Unit 5 :
A question on genre and trends
RECOMMENDED READINGS
J.L. Styan (OUP) : The Element of Drama
Eric Bently : The Playwright as Thinker
R. Hayman (OUP) : British Theatre Since 1995 : A Reassessment
John Russel Taylor : Anger and After
J.L. Styan : Modern Drama in Theory and Practice, 3 Vols. (OUP)
John Press : A Map of Modern Poetry
Edmund Wilson : Axel’s Castle
A. Alvarez : The Shaping Spirit
David Daiches : Poetry and the Modern World
F. R. Leavis : New Bearings in English Poetry
Herbert Read : Form in Modern Poetry
M.L. Rosenthal : The Modern Poetry
C.K. Stead : The New Poetics (Penguin)
ELECTIVE
COMMONWEALTH FICTION
100 Marks
Unit 1 :
Salman Rushdie : Midnight’s Children, Avon Books, New York
Khushwant Singh : Train to Pakistan, India Book House, Bombay
Unit 2 :
V.S. Naipaul : A House for Mr. Biswas (Penguin)
Unit 3 :
Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart (Heinemann)
Unit 4 :
Patrick White : The Time of Man (Penguine)
Unit 5 :
A question on genre and trends
RECOMMENDED READINGS
Irving Howe : The Critical Point : On Literature and Culture, New York, Horizon Press
William Walsh : Commonwealth Literature, OUP
Awakened Conscience : Studies in Commonwealth Literature, New Delhi, 1978
R.S. Singh : Indian Novel Today, Heinemann
David Daiches : The Novel and the Modern World, Chicago University Press
Charles B. Larsen : The Emergence of African Fiction, Indian Univ. Press, London
OR
PAPER III
BRITISH FICTION
100 Marks
Unit 1 :
Henry James : Daisy Miller : The Ambassadors
Unit 2 :
D.H. Lawrence : Women in Love; The Lost Girl
Unit 3 :
Joseph Conard : The Heart of Darkness; Nostromo
Unit 4 :
Graham Greene : The Power and the Glory
Iris Murdoch : The Severed Head
Anthony Burgess : The Clock-work Orange
Unit 5 :
A question on genre and trends
RECOMMENDED READINGS
Lubbock, Percy : The Craft of Fiction
Forster, E.M. : Aspects of the Novel (Penguin)
Stevik, Philip : The Theory of the Novel
Harvey, W.J. : Character and the Novel
Booth, Wayne C. : The Rhetoric of Fiction
Lodge David : The Language of Fiction
OR
PAPER III
AMERICAN FICTION
100 Marks
Unit 1 :
Richard Wright : Native Son
Jean Toomer : Cane
Ralph Ellison : Invisible Man
Unit 2 :
James Baldwin : Go Tell It on the Mountain; Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been
Gone
Unit 3 :
Saul Bellow : Herzog : Mr. Sammle’s Planet
Unit 4 :
Bernard Malamud : The Assistant; The Tenant
Unit 5 :
A question on genre and trends
RECOMMENDED READINGS
Crevecoeur : Letters from an American Former
Tocqueville : Democracy in America, 2 Vols.
Chase : American Novel and Its Tradition
R. Ellison : Shadow and Act
J. Baldwin : No Body Knows My Name
V.L. Parrington : Main Currents in American Thought
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PAPER IV
DISSERTATION AND AUDIT COURSE
History and Trends in Modern English Literature
Legouis and Cazamian : History of English
J.B. Ward : Twentieth Century Literature
J.B. Priestley : Literature and Western Man
FACULTY OF ARTS, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
CERTIFICATE COURSE IN FRENCH
AND DIPLOMA COURSE IN FRENCH
General Information for Students
Duration of the Course
(a) The course of study for French Certificate Course Examination will extend over
a period of one year
(b) The Course of study for the French Diploma Course Examination will extend
over a period of one year.
Eligibility
(a) Graduates will be eligible to apply for admission to the French certificate course.
Preference will be given to those for whom a knowledge of French is, or will be of
functional use. Applications will be interviewed to assess their suitability for
admission (Ref.JU/ENG/85/1270)
(b) The students will be eligible to offer the French Diploma Course only after
successfully completing the French Certificate Course.
(c) Those already studying for a Degree at the J.N.V. University, Jodhpur will be
eligible to apply for admission to the Certificate Course, but those who are
enrolled for any other Certificate or Diploma Course run by the J.N.V. University,
Jodhpur will not be eligible for admission to the Certificate Course.
Number of Seats
(A) The total number of seats available for the French Certificate class is 60.
(B) The total number of seats available for the French Diploma class is 30.
For a Pass
(a) In each Paper
36%
(b) In the aggregate
40%
(c) Candidates scoring marks over 40% but less than 60% may be declared Pass
class.(40-59)
(d) Candidates scoring marks over 60% but less than 75% may be declared Passed
with Credit.(60-74)
(e) Candidates scoring 75% or more may be declared Passed with Honours.(75-100)
Marks written within a circle denote failure in the paper.
Attendance
(a) For all regular candidates in the faculties of Arts, Education and Social Science &
Science, Law, Commerce and Engineering, the minimum attendance requirement
shall be that a candidate should have attended at least 75% of the lectures
delivered and tutorials held taken together as well as 75% of the practical and
sessional from the date of his/her admission.
(b) Condonation of shortage attendance
(c) The shortage of attendance up to the limit specified below may be condoned on
valid reasons:
(i)
(ii)
Upto 6% in each subject plus 5 attendance in all the aggregate of
subjects/papers may be condoned by the Vice-Chancellor on the
recommendation of the Dean/Director/Principal for under-graduate students
and on the recommendation of the Head of the Department for the Postgraduate classes.
The N.C.C./N.S.S. cadets sent out of parades and camps and such students
who are deputed by the University to take part in games, athletic or cultural
activities may, for purpose of attendance, be treated as present for the days
of their absence in connection with the aforesaid activities and that period
shall be added to their subject wise attendance.
CERTIFICATE COURSE IN FRENCH
PAPER I
TRANSLATION AND DICTATION
(A)
(B)
(C)
Translation from French to English
Translation from English to French
Dictation (15-20 Lines)
Max. Marks:100
30
30
40
Note: A,B and C will be based on the prescribed text Lessons 1-25
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
PAPER II
GRAMMAR AND COMPREHENSION
Grammar: Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions,
Conjunction and Articles-Lesson 1-25
Questions from the prescribed text – Lesson 1-25
Reading Comprehension based on a short simple unseen passage.
A composition of about 150 words on topics from every day life i.e.
your class room, your University, your town, a letter to friend etc.
30
30
20
20
PAPER III
VIVA-VOCE
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Max. Marks:50
Reading aloud
30
Questions based on the text – read (Conjugation – tenses, gender of nouns,
singular and plural numbers)
10
Questions on manner and formalities
10
Conversation on every day topics
10
PRESCRIBED TEXT
Course de Langue et be Civilization Franchises, Volume I, Lessons 1-25
Modern French Course-Dondo
SCHEME OF EXAMINATION
THE DURATION OF THE EXAMINATION FOR Paper I will be 2 hours and for Paper II 2 hrs.
DIPLOMA COURSE IN FRENCH
PAPER I
GRAMMAR AND COMPRHENSION
Max. Marks: 70
(A)
(B)
Questions from the prescribed text (the choice will be given from 20 questions out of
which the candidate will be attempt 15 questions) from Lessons 26-50.
30
Grammar – Lessons
PAPER II
TRANSLATION
Max. Marks: 70
(A)
(B)
Translation from French in English
Translation from English to French (From Prescribed Text)
(Candidates may be permitted to use their dictionaries for this paper)
40
30
PAPER III
ESSAY AND COMPREHENSION
(A)
(B)
Essay on a Subject of general interest
1. Your Town
2. An outing with your friends
3. An interesting movie that you have seen
Compression questions based on the prescribed text lessons 26-50
Max. Marks: 60
30
PAPER IV
VIVA-VOCE
Max. Marks: 100
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Reading Comprehension
Questions related to the text read
General conversation on every day topic
Applied Grammar