TUMKUR UNIVERSITY
Department of English
Post – Graduate Studies
Syllabus: Semester Scheme
SEMESTER 1
1.1 English Literature upto 1900
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Part 1
1.2 English Literature 1900 and After
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Part 1
1.3 Gender Studies
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Part 1
1.4 Textual Analysis and Interpretation
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Part 1
2.1 English Literature upto 1900
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Part II
2.2 English Literature 1900 and After
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Part II
2.3 Gender Studies
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Part II
3.1 Critical Theory
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Part III
3.2 a. Post – Colonial Studies
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Part III
3.2 b. Indian Literatures in Translation
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Part III
3.3 American Literature
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Part I
3.4 Russian Literature
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Part I
3.5 European Literature
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Part I
3.6 Translation Studies
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Part I
3.7 An Introduction to Cultural Studies
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Part I
1.5 Modern English Grammar
SEMESTER II
2.4 Indian Writing in English
2.5 Spoken and Written Communication
SEMESTER III
COMPULSORY PAPERS
OPTIONAL PAPERS
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3.8 Modern Linguistics
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Part I
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Part I
4.1 Critical Theory
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Part II
4.2 a. Post – Colonial Studies
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Part II
4.2b. Indian Literatures in Translation
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Part II
4.3 American Literature
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Part II
4.4 Russian Literature
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Part II
4.5 European Literature
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Part II
4.6 Translation Studies
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Part II
4.7 An Introduction to Cultural Studies
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Part II
4.8 Modern Linguistics
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Part II
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Part II
3.9 English language Teaching
3.10 The Short Story : A Study of the Genre
3.11 Australian Studies
SEMESTER IV
COMPULSORY PAPERS
OPTIONAL PAPERS
4.9 Re – reading Shakespeare
4.10 Contemporary Women’s Writing
4.11 Australian Studies
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SEMESTER – I
PAPER 1.1 : ENGLISH LITERATURE UPTO 1900 (PART 1)
UNIT 1
Chaucer
:
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Sir Thomas Wyatt
:
“Whoso list to hunt”
Sir Philip Sydney
:
“Stella oft sees the very face of woe”
Edmund Spenser
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“One day I wrote her name”
Shakespeare
:
“Let me not the marriage of true minds”
“Two loves I have of comfort and despair”
Mary Sidney
:
Dedicatory verses to Queen Elizebeth.
Aemelia Lanyer
:
Extract from Salve Deux Rex Judaeorum
(Eve’s apology in defence of Women)
Elizabeth I.
:
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
Shakespeare
:
Othello
:
“Lecture upon a Shadow”, “The Canonisation”
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“Batter my heart, three person’d God”
Herrick
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“Delight in Disorder”
Herbert
:
“The Collar”
Vaughn
:
“The Dwelling Place”
Andrew Marvell
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“To his Coy Mistress”
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“The Garden”
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Oroonoko
:
:
:
:
:
“Letter to Chester field”
“In Westminster Abbey”
“A Modest Proposal”
MacFlecknoe
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Extract : “Atticus and
Sporus”
UNIT II
Donne
Aphra Behn.
UNIT III
Johnson
Addison
Swift
Dryden
Pope
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PAPER 1.2 : ENGLISH LITERATURE 1900 AND AFTER (PART 1)
UNIT 1
Thomas Hardy
:
The Mayor of Casterbridge
E.M. Forster
:
A Passage to India
Kate Chopin
:
Awakening
James Joyee
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Virginia Woolf
:
To The Lighthouse
D.H. Lawrence
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Odour of Chrysanthemums (Two stories to be selected)
Joyce Cary
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Mister Johnson
George Orwell
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Animal Farm
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“Easter 1916”, “The Second Coming”
UNIT II
UNIT III
W.B. Yeats
“Sailing to Byzantium”
T.S. Eliot
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“The Wasteland”
Larkin
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“Whitsun Weddings”
J.M. Synge
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Riders to the Sea
John Osborne
:
Look Back in Anger
UNIT IV
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PAPER 1.3 : GENDER STUDIES (PART 1)
UNIT 1 : Introduction
1. Definition and significance of Gender Studies
2. Key concepts : Patriarchy, Sex and Gender, Subjectivity; Production –
Reproduction, Sexuality
3. Kate Millet, Theory of Sexual Politics (Extract from the title essay)
4. Susie Tharu and Tejaswini Niranjana, “Problems for a Contemporary Theory of
Gender”
UNIT II : Women, Writing and Representation
Shashi Deshpande
:
“The Stone Woman”
Ismat Chugtai
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“The Veil”
Serat Chandra Chatterjee
:
Devdas
Urmila Pawar
:
“Chauthi Bhint”
Charlotte Oerkins Gilman
:
“The Yellow Wall Paper”
Lauretta Ngbo
:
“African Motherhood: Fact and Fiction.”
Marianne Hirsch
:
“Pictures of a Displaced Girlhood”
:
Shadow Lives : Writings on Widowhood.
UNIT III : Gender Roles
Uma Chakravarthy and
Preeti Gill
(selections : Cases – Personal Narratives)
Lata Mani
:
“The Female subject and the colonial
gaze”.
Natraj Huliyar
:
“Magic Nymph”
:
“Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi?
Kumkum Sangari and
Sudesh Vaid (Eds)
In Recasting Women
Film Text
:
Rudali
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PAPER 1.4 : TEXTUAL ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
Objectives
1. To teach students how to read texts. Not just to help students understand the texts
(i.e. what they are supposed to say) but how texts construct and communicate
meanings.
2. To introduce issues of interpretation
3. To help students make comparisons of texts across the media
4. To read texts in their contexts.’
Unit I
Terms and concepts for textual analysis : Literary and non – literary texts, written
and non – written texts, including TV, newspapers, advertising, film, and
photography.
Unit II
A Rhetoric of the text .:
Narrative modes
Figurative language
Generic conventions and codes]
Language varieties
Unit III
Texts in various media – Literature and Film; Visual Texts: Advertisements and
Photography
Unit IV
Texts and their contexts – history, culture, class, gender, and ethnicity; contexts of
production and reception; ideology; intersexuality
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List of terms for the Literary critical terminology section in unit I of
paper 1.4 analysis & interpretation.
1.
Realism
2.
Stream of consciousness
3.
Post colonial/gender studies
4.
Post modernism
5.
Point of view
6.
New criticism
7.
Metofiction
8.
Magic realism
9.
Inter texuality
10. Intentional fallacy
11. Implied Author / Reader
12. Deconstruction
13. Bildungs roman
14. Auxiety of influence
15. Anti – Hero
16. Alination Effect
17. Literature of the Abroad
18. Symbol
19. Satire
20. Metaphor
21. Myth
22. Imagery
23. Connotation / Denotation
24. Catharsis
25. Archetype
26. Dystopia / utopia
27. Metonymy
28. Parody
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PAPER 1.5 : MODERN ENGLISH GRAMMAR
1. Basic Sentence Patterns
2. The Noun Phrase
a) Countable, uncountable and proper nouns
b) Determiners
c) Gender
d) Number
e) Pronouns
f) Parts of a noun phrase
3. The verb phrase
a) Tense
b) Aspect
c) Auxiliaries and modals
d) Structure of the verb phrase
4. Adverbials
5. The clause and elements of clause structure
6. Finite and non – finite clauses
7. Passive Constructions
8. Co – ordination and subordination of clauses
9. Sentence Types and Sentence Functions.
Bibliography
1. Leech, Geoffrey and Jan Svartvik. (1994) A Communicative Grammar of English,
London and New York: Longman.
2. Quirk, Randolph and Sidney Greenbaum. (1973) A University Grammar of
English, Longman.
3. Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik (1985) A
Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, London and New York :
Longman.
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4. Hewings, Martin. (1999) Advanced English Grammer, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
5. Crystal, David (1995) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, CUP.
6. Huddleston, Rodney (1988) English Grammar - An Outline, CUP.
7. Collins Cobuild English Grammar (1990), Harper Collins Publishers India.
8. Eastwood, John (1999) Oxford Practice Grammar, Oxford University Press.
9. Verspoor, Marjolijn and Kim Sauter (2000) English Sentence Anlysis, John
Benjamins Publishing Company.
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SEMESTER II
PAPER 2.1 : ENGLISH LITERATURE UPTO 1900 (PART II)
UNIT 1
Gray
:
“Elegy written in a Country Churchyard”
Blake
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“The Lost Boy”, “Tiger”
Wordsworth
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“Tintern Abbey”
Coleridge
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“Dejection : An Ode”
Byron
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“When we Two Parted”
Shelley
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“Ode to the West Wind”
Keats
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“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Jane Austen
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Pride and Prejudice
Mary Wollestonecraft
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Introduction to a Vindication of the Rights
of Women
UNIT II
Matthew Arnold
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“Dover Beach”
“The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”
Browning
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“Andrea Del Sarto”
Tennyson
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“The Lady of Shallot”
Elizabeth Barret Browning
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“How do I love Thee”
Christina Rossetti
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“Goblin Market”
Hopkins
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“The Windhover”, “Pied Beauty”
Lewis Carroll
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Alice in Wonderland
Charlotte Bronte
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Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte
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Wuthering Heights
UNIT III
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PAPER 2.2 : ENGLISH LITERATURE 1900 AND AFTER (PART II)
UNIT 1 : POST – WAR WRITING
Beckett
:
Waiting for Godot
Stoppard
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Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead
UNIT II : POST – WAR POETRY
Ted Hughes
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“Hawk Roosting”
Seamus Heaney
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“Digging”, “Churning Day”
Sylvia plath
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“Daddy”, “Lady Lazarus”
Thomas Gunn
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“Considering the Snail”
UNIT III : NEW WRITINGS IN ENGLIGH
John Fowles
:
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Chinua Achebe
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Anthills of the Savannah
Jean Rhys
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Wide Sargasso Sea
A.S Byatt
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Possession
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PAPER 2.3 : GENDER STUDIES (PART – 2)
Unit 1 : patriarchy in the Context of Family, Caste, Community and Nation
1. Julict Mitchell, Women’s Estate, Chapter 5
2. Ambedkar, “The Hindu Code Bill”
3. Kumkum Roy, “Where Women are Worshipped There the Gods Rejoice”
4. Tanika Sarkar, “Aspects of Contemporary Hindutva Theology” The Voice of
Sadhvi Rithambara” in Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Aspects of Contemporary
Hindutva.
5. “Father, Son and The Holy War” a Film text by Anand Patwardhan
6. “Ranamama” and “Subhdra Bu.. lia” in Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side of
Silence.
UNIT II : Sexuality
“Fire” (Film Text)
Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai (Ed). Same Sex Love In India: Readings from
Literature and History, PP 31-35:294-97.
UNIT III : Gender, Civil Society And The State
A: The Women’s Movement In India
Kumar. The History of Doing (Chapter 6, 7, 8, and 9)
B: Gender Violence
1. “Bandit Queen” (Film Text)
2. “Centrality of Sexual Violence” (Chapter 3) in A Feminist Analysis of the
Genocide in Gujarat
3. The Supreme Court Judgment On Sexual Harassment (1992).
4. “Dowry” Some Growing Reflections” In Speaking Tree, Women Speak (3-12),
(Vimochana).
5. Jaya Prabha, “Chupulu”.
6. Anupama Niranjana, “The Incident and After”
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PAPER 2.4 : INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
UNIT – 1 BACKGROUND
M.K. Naik
:
“The Literary Landscape.” In A History of Indian
English Literature
Meenakshi Mukherjee
:
Introduction to the Perishable Empire
Arabindo
:
Last Poems (Two Poems)
Toru Dutt
:
“Jogadhya Uma”, “Lakshman”, “Sita”
Tagore
:
Selections from Gitanjali XI, XXXV, XXXVI
Sarojini Naidu
:
“The Sins of Love”
K. Ramanujan
:
“Love Poem for a Wife I.”
Nissim Ezekiel
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“The Way it Went”
Kamala Das
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“An Introduction”
Jayanta Mahapatra
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“Hunger”
R. Parthasarathy
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“Exile”
Eunice D’ Souza
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“Feeding the Poor”
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
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“Kali”
Raja Rao
:
Kanthapura
Mulk Raj Anand
:
Untouchable
Attia Hussian
:
Sunlight on a Broken Column
Amitav Ghosh
:
Shadow Lines
UNIT – 2 POETRY
UNIT III : FICTION
PAPER 2.5: SPOKEN AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION
1. Speech and Writing
a. Characteristics
b. Differences
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2. Speaking
a. The sounds and sound system of English.
b. Using a pronouncing dictionary
c. Stress and intonation
d. Strong and weak forms
e. Reading aloud
f. Presentation skills
3. Writing
A. Discourse Types
a. Narrative
b. Description
c. Exposition
d. Argument
B. Discourse Organization
a. Organizing information within a clause
b. Organizing information between clauses
C. Abstracting and summarizing
D. Note taking
E. Writing Process
1. Planning and Research
-------- brainstorming
a. Listing
b. Clustering
c. Spidergram
d. Free writing
e. Getting ideas through reading
f. Getting ideas through discussion
------ Purpose
------ Audience
2. Writing, crafting and editing
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a. Why edit ?
b. Steps in editing
c. Editing Checklist
d. Editing on a word processor
Bibliography
1. Roach, Peter (2000) English Phonetics and Phonology, 3rd edn. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
2. Balasubramaniam, T (1981) A text book of English Phonetics for Indian
students, Macmillan.
3. O’Connor, J.D. (1980) Better English Pronunciation 2nd edn, CUP.
4. Jones, Daniel (1984) English Pronouncing Dictionary 14th edn. Revised by A.C. Gimson.
5. Sethi, J.P and V. Dhamija (1997) a Course in Phonetics and Spoken English
prentice hall of India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
6. Sasikumar. V,9. And V. Dhamija (1993) Spoken English – A Self Learning
Guide to Conversation Practice Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Company Ltd.,
New Delhi.
7. Bansal, R.K., Clive Brasnett (1976) An English Phonetic Reader Orient
Longman.
8. Mortimer, C. (1984) Elements of Pronunciation, CUP.
9. Sealy, John (1998) The Oxford Guide to Writing and Speaking, Oxford
University Press.
10. Axelord. B. Rise, Charles R. Cooper (1994) The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing,
St. Martin’s Press, New York.
11. White, D. Fred (1986) The Writer’s Art : A Practical Rhetoric and Handbook,
Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, California.
12. Jacobus, A. Lee (1989) Writing as thinking Macmillan Publishing Company,
New York.
13. Meyers, Allan (1997) Composing with Confidence, 4th edn, Longman.
14. Tribbble, Christopher (1996) Writing, OUP.
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15. Hancock, Mark (2004) English Pronunciation in Use, CUP..
16. Academic Writing – OUP.
17. Crystal David (1995) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English language, CUP.
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SEMESTER III
PAPER 3.1 CRITICAL THEORY (PART – 1)
1. Johnson, “Preface to Shakespeare.”
2. T.S. Eliot, “Tradition and Individual Talent.”
3. Mathew Arnold, “The Study of Poetry.”
4. F.R. Leavis, “Reality and Sincerity.”
5. Cleanth Brooks, “The Language of Paradox.”
6. Northrop Frye, “Myth, Fiction and Displacement.”
7. Herbert Read, “The Nature of Criticism.”
8. I.A. Richards, “Imagination.”
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PAPER 3.2 B : INDIAN LITERATURES IN TRANSLATION (PART 1)
UNIT 1 : RE – READING TRADITIONAL TEXTS
1. Translation of Vachanas, Kabir, Women Tamil Poets, Meera and Kabir
i. Basavanna
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In a Brahmin house
How can I feel night ?
ii. Mahadeviyakka
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I have Maya for mother – in – law
People : male and female
Other men are thorns
(Selections are from A. K. Ramanujan’s Speaking of Shiva)
iii. Andai
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Unite me with my lord O Kamadeva
Avvaiyar
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Anger of the little minded
Karaikal Ammaiyar
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Sagging breasts and swollen veins
iv. Meera
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My love is reserved for Giridhar Gopal
v. Kabir
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The Maker himself becomes the
Potter While in mother’s womb
–
Introduction to Speaking of Shiva
1. Bankim Chandra
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Anandmath
2. Tagore
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Home and the world
3. Chandu Menon
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Indulekha
4. Poetry
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Faiz, Sri Sri, Bharathi, Iqbal (Selections)
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The morning of freedom of August 1947
2. A.K. Ramanujan
UNIT II :
i.
Faiz
Look at the city from here
ii.
Sri Sri
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The brave new world
Forward March
iii.
Bharathi
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Vande Mataram
Thirst for Freedom
iv.
Iqbal
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In the midst of raging battle
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Reason and Heart
5. Manto
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The Exchange of Lunatics
6. M. Mukherjee
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From Purana to Nuthan (in Realism and
Reality)
7. Partha Chatterjee
8. Bisham Shani
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Nation and its Fragments (Selections)
Tamas
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PAPER 3.3 : AMERICAN LITERATURE (PART I)
OBJECTIVE: For convenience with regard to the semester scheme, the American
Literature paper will be in two parts : Part A will be Poetry and Drama to be taught in
the iii semester and part B will be fiction and prose to be taught in the IV semester.
POETRY AND DRAMA
A. Poetry
Poe
:
“Bells”, “The Raven”
Dickinson
:
“I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed”, “Some Keep the Sabbath”
Whitman
:
“A Noiseless, Patient Spider”
“When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloomed”
Frost
:
“Mending Wall”
Stevens
:
“The Emperor of Ice Cream”, “Modern Poetry”
Williams
:
“The Forgotten City”, “Tract”
“To the Brooklyn Bride”
Crane
Millay
:
“Ishall be Back”
Ginsberg
:
“A Super Market in California”
Hughes
:
“Montage of a Dream Deferred”
Dunbar
:
“We wear the Mask”
O’Neill
:
Emperor Jones
Williams
:
A Street Car Named Desire
Hannberry
:
A Raisin in the Sun
Miller
:
The Crucible
B. Drama
Albee
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?
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PAPER 3.5 : EUROPEAN LITERATURE (PART I)
T1
Homer
:
The lliad
Sopohocles
:
Oedipus Rex
Euripides
:
Medea
Commended Reading :
1. Finley, The World of Odysseus
2. H.D.F. Kitto The Greeks
T2
Kafka
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Metamorphosis
Mann
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“The Black Swar”
Singer
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“Gimpel the fool”
Gide
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Madeleine
Camus
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The Outsider / Stranger
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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Arrival and Departure
Koestler
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PAPER 3.8 : MODERN LINGUISTICS (PART – 1)
1. Language
A. Human Language and other systems of communication
B. Language Variation:
i. Dialect and Idiolect
ii. Style
C. Speech and Writing
2. Microlinguistics:
A. Prescriptive and Descriptive approaches to language study.
B. Saussure:
i. Signifier and Signified
ii. Diachronic and Synchronic approaches
iii. Langue and Parole
iv. Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic relations.
C. Structuralist Linguistics
1. Phonology
a. Phonemes and allophones
b. Distinctive features
c. Suprasegmental phonology
2. Morphology
a. Morphemes and Allomorphs
b. Inflection and Derivation
3. Immediate Constituent analysis
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1.
O’ Grady, William, Michael Dobrovolsky, Mark Aronoff (1997) –
Contemporary Linguistics, 3rd edition Boston, Bedford/St. Martins
2.
Fromkin, Victoria, Rodman, R (1988) – An introduction to Language, New
York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc.
3.
Yule, George (1996) – The Study of Language, 2nd edition, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press.
4.
Lyons, John, (1981 – Language and Linguistics – An Introduction, [First South
Asian edition – 2002], Cambridge, CUP.
5.
Radford, Andrew, Martin Atkinson, David Britian, Harold Clahsen, Andrew
Spencer (1999) – Linguistics – An Introduction, [First South Asian edition
2002], Cambridge, CUP.
6.
Crystal, David, (1995) – The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language,
Cambridge, CUP.
7.
Verma, S.K. N. Krishnaswamy (1989) – Modern Linguistics [11th Impression –
2001, Delhi, OUP.
8.
Roach, Peter (2000) – English Phonetics and Phonology, 3rd edition, Cambridge,
CUP.
9.
Hurford, J.R. Heasley, B (1983) – Semantics: A Course book, Cambridge, CUP
10. Palmer, F.R. (1981) – Semantics, 2nd edition, Cambridge, CUP.
11. Malmkhear, K. (1991) ed. The Linguistics Encyclopedia, London, Routledge.
12. Halliday, M.A.K. (1985) – An Introduction to Functional Grammar, London,
Edward Arnold.
13. Aitchison, Jean (1999) – Linguistics, 5th edition, London, Hodder & Stoughton.
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Press Ltd.
16. Fromkin, A.. Victoria et al (2000) – Linguistics – An Introduction to Linguistic
Theory Oxford, Blackwell.
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SEMESTER IV
Paper 4.1 : Critical theory (part – II)
OBJECTIVES
1. To introduce issues of current critical theory :
2. To study theories in context; the emphasis is on understanding how “theory
actually works”:
3. To focus on the following major critical theories:
a. Structuralism and Semiotics
b. Deconstruction and Post – Structuralism
c. Marxism and Marxist theory
d. Post – colonial criticism
e. Cultural criticism
f. Feminist theory and criticism
TEXTS
1. Roland Barthes, “From Work to Text”
2. Mikhail Bakhtin, “Discourse in the Novel” (extract)
3. Gayathri Spivak, “Three women’s Texts and a Critique of Impericalism”
4. J. Hillis Miller, “Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida, and the ‘Dislocation of Souls’”
5. Helene Cixous, “Laugh of the Medusa”
6. Michel Foucault, “Scientia Sexualis”
7. Aijaz Ahmad, “Introduction” Literature among the Sings of our Time”
(extract) in theory.
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PAPER 4.2 B : INDIAN LITERATURES IN TRANSLATION (PART II)
IMAGING THE NATION, THE EMERGENT IDENTITY
1. Mahasweta Devi
Mother of 1084
2. U.R. Anantha Murthy
Samskara
3. Tendulkar
Silence : The court is in session
4. Rajender Kaur
Ek Chadder Maili Si
5. Kambara
Siri Sampige
6. Short Stories
i. Abburi Chaya Devi – “Srimati
Udyogini” (From Women Writing India Vol 2)
ii. Baurro Dagal – “Death is getting Cheaper”
iii. Bhahendra Nath Saikia – “Rats)
(From Another India)
iv. Ved Rahi – “The Mist”
(From Indian Literature – Sahitya
Academy – No. 103 – Sept – Oct 1984)
7. Ashoka Mitran
The eighteenth Parallel
8. Selections Poems
i. Popati Hiranandani “Husband”
ii. Amrita Pritam “The creative process
iii. Sunil Gangopadhyay “Calcutta & I”
iv. Chemmanam Chacko “Rice”
v. Joythi Hanjewar “I never saw you”
(From Oxford Anthology of Modern
Indian Poetry)
vi. Jagannath Rosad Das
“For some morning (From Another India Ed.
Meenakshi, Mukherjee, Ezekiel)
9. Bhama
“Karukku”
10. Critical Essays
i. G.N. Devy – “Indian Literature in
English Translation” From In Another Tongue
ii. Trivedi – Colonial Transactions
(Selections) “Panchdatu”
iii. Sujit Mukherjee:
a. “The Craft not Sullen
art of Translation”
b. “Transcreating Translations” from
Translation as Recovery
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PAPER 4.3 : AMERICAN LITERATURE (PART – II)
FICTION AND PROSE
1.
The Chief’s Daughters (an Otoe Legend)
2.
“The Life of Frederick Douglas” (an excerpt)
3.
Irving
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (Short Story)
4.
Hawthorne
“The Scariet Letter”
5.
Melville
“Bartleby the Scrivener” (Short Story)
6.
Emerson
“Nature” (Chapter I) Self Reliance
7.
Thoreau
“On Economy” (from Walden)
8.
Hemingway
“The cat in the Rain” (Short Story)
9.
Steinbeek
“The Grapes of Wrath
10. Cather
“Neighbour Rossicky” (Short Story)
11. Faulkner
“A Rose for Emily” (Short Story)
12. Lee
“To Kill a Mockingbird”
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
Salinger
“The Catcher in the Rye”
Heller
“Catch – 22”
Malamud
“ldiots First”
“The German Refugee” (Short Stories)
Carver
“Cathedral” (Short Story)
Shaw
“Girls in their Summer Dresses” (Short Story)
Morrism
“Beloved”
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PAPER 4.5 : EUROPEAN LITERATURE PART II
UNIT – 1
Pushkin
1. “The Bronze horseman”
2. “The station master”
3. “Queen of Spades”
Gogol
“The Overcoat”
“The Nose”
Dostoyevsky
“The Brothers Karamazov”, “Cloud, castle, lake”
Nabokov
“The Return of Chorb”
UNIT – 2
Ibsen
The Ghosts
Breeht
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
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4.8 : MODEN LINGUISTICS (PART II)
1. Phrase Structure Grammar
2. Chomsky – Transformational Generative Grammar
A. Competence and Performance
B. Grammaticality
C. Generative Grammar
D. X – Bar Syntax
E. S- Structure and D – Structure
F. Transformations
3. Halliday
A. Scale Category Grammar
1. Levels of Language
2. Unit, Structure, Class and System
Rank, Delicacy and Exponence
3. Sentence and clause
a. Elements of clause structure
b. Nominal, Verbal and Adverbial groups
B. Systemic Grammar
C. Functions of Language
1. Ideational
2. Interpersonal
3. Textual
4. Semantics
A. Reference and Sense
B. Sentences, Utterances and Propositions
C. Synonymy, Antonymy, Hyponymy and Polysemy
5. Macrolinguistics
A. Cohesion and Coherence – Text and Discourse
B. Discourse structure – Relations and functions
C. Speech Act Theory
D. Conversation Analysis (Discourse analysis )
E. Pragmatics (Language use & communication )
1. Presupposition
2. Conversational Implicature
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