MA ENGLISH PLANNER 2013 TILL DATE
MA SEMESTER I: July-November
Note: Mid-term tests in Sept-end/early-October; Autumn break
in October
PAPER I: LITERARY CRITICISM
(NEHA; SUMATI)
July:
Introduction to Literary Criticism, History of English Literature, Romantic Age
History of literary criticism: Plato's Moral-philosophical approach
Aug- Sept:
Wordsworth, French Revolution, Romantic Age, Neo Classical Age, Preface to Lyrical
Ballads-- Text and Criticism
Brief discussion on Aristotle’s Poetics and Sublimity, Aristotle's Poetics: Text and
discussion
Oct-Nov:
Victorian Age, Mathew Arnold, Puritanism, The Study of Poetry--text and Criticism
Modernism, Introduction to the New Criticism, close reading, T. S. Eliot; text and
critical analysis, PowerPoint presentation/assignments
PAPER II: BRITISH POETRY (NEERAJ AGGARWAL/MRIDULA JOSHI)
July:
Introductions: Development of English Language; History of Poetry;
age of Chaucer Introduction to British Poetry
Over view of the Romantic Poets, Features of Romantic Poetry
Reading of Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Literary Terms
August
Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Keats’s development as a poet
‘Ode to Nightingale’; ‘Ode to Grecian Urn’
September
Critical appreciation of Chaucer as a Poet and his Poetry and other
Poetry of the times
‘Ode on Melancholy’; ’Ode to Autumn’; ‘Ode to Psyche’
Critical Analysis of Keats as Poet
Discussion on Questions from Examination point of view
October
Introduction to Elizabethan Age
Metaphysical Poetry
John Donne and major Metaphysical Poets
‘Satyre of Religion’; ‘The Good Morrow’
Victorian Period
An estimate of Robert Browning
‘My Last Duchess’; ‘Andrea Del Sarto’
November:
‘The Canonization’; ’At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners’
‘Batter my Heart’, ‘Three Person’s God’
Literary Terms
‘The Last Ride Together’; ’Rabbi Ben Ezra’; ‘The Grammarian Funeral’
Critical Examination of all the poems
PAPER III: BRITISH DRAMA
(VIPANJEET/ANITA K.// TARA MITTAL)
July:
History Of British Drama, Introduction To Elizabethan Drama, Christopher Marlowe,
William Shakespeare
August:
‘Doctor Faustus’: Introduction and Text
Introduction To Shakespearean Tragedy; ‘King Lear’ (Text)
Sept:
‘Doctor Faustus’: Critical Discussion, Question/Answers, Assignments
‘King Lear’: Critical Discussion, Question/Answers, Assignments
Oct:
Introduction to Comedy of Manners & R.B.Sheridan; ‘School for Scandal’: Introduction and
Text
Introduction to Comedy of Ideas and G.B. Shaw; ‘Pygmalion’: Introduction and Text
Nov:
‘School For Scandal’: Question/Answers, Critical Discussion & Assignments
‘Pygmalion’: Question/Answers, Critical Discussion & Assignments
PAPER IV: BRITISH FICTION (JASPREET/ SANDEEP)
July:
History of the Novel; Literary terms, concepts, movements
Aug.:
Introduction to Thomas Hardy
‘Jude The Obscure’ (Text)
Introduction to Henry Fielding
‘Joseph Andrews ‘(Text)
Sept.:
‘Jude The Obscure’: Ques/Ans Discussion, Assignments
Introduction to Charles Dickens;‘Hard Times’(Text)
‘Joseph Andrews’: Ques/Ans Discussion, Assignments
Introduction to Charlotte Bronte;‘Jane Eyre’(Text)
Oct.:
‘Hard Times’(contd.)
‘Jane Eyre’(contd.)
Nov.
‘Hard Times’: Ques/Ans , Discussion ,Assignments/Extension Lectures, etc.
‘Jane Eyre’: Ques/Ans ,Discussion, Assignments/Extension Lectures, etc.
SEMESTER II
January to April/May-beginning
Note: mid-term tests in March-end
(NEHA, SUMATI) PAPER I: LITERARY CRITICISM
Jan:
Introduction to literary theory, modern critical approaches
Discussion on religion, myths, culture
Feb- March:
Formalist Approach, New Criticism, Practical Criticism---concepts and practice
Introduction to Mythological and Archetypal Criticism: Freud and Jung, Frazer,
Joseph Campbell, Northrop Frye; Analysis
April-May:
Psychological Approach, Stream of consciousness, Automatic writing-- concepts
and practice
Introduction to Marxist philosophy, Marxist approach to literature, literature and
Ideology; presentations/assignments
PAPER II: BRITISH POETRY( NEERAJ //MRIDULA
January
Introduction to Modern British Poetry with special reference to 20th
century.
Introduction to W.B. Yeats
‘Easter 1916’; ‘The Second Coming
Literary Terms.
February
‘A Prayer for My Daughter’; ‘Sailing to Byzantium’; ‘The Circus Animals’
Desertion’
Introduction to T.S. Eliot and W.H.Auden
‘In memory of W.B. Yeats’; ‘Musse des Beauty Arts’;
‘September I, 1939’; ‘Shield of Achilles’ ; ‘Funeral Blues’
Discussion on questions
March
‘Waste Land’
Ted Hughes- Critical survey of his poetry
‘The Jaguar’ ;’Hawk Roosting’
April
‘The Waste Land’; ‘Ash Wednesday’
‘Thrushes’;’Crow Alights’; ‘Crow’s Last Stand’
Discussion on Questions
PAPER III: BRITISH DRAMA( VIPANJEET/ANITA K. // TARA MITTAL)
Jan.:
The Modern Period, Introduction to T.S. Eliot &‘Murder In The Cathedral’
History of Twentieth Century Drama, Theatre Of Absurd, Samuel Beckett; ‘Waiting
For Godot’
Feb:
‘Murder In The Cathedral (Text) & Waiting For Godot (Text)
March:
‘Murder In The Cathedral’: Critical Discussion, Questions/Answers, Assignments
Introduction To Tom Stoppard; ‘Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead’ (Text)
‘Waiting For Godot: Critical Discussion, Questions/Answers, Assignments
Introduction to John Osborne; ‘Look Back In Anger’ (Text)
April:
‘Look Back In Anger’: Critical Discussion, Questions/Answers, Assignments
‘Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead’: Critical Discussion, Questions/Answers,
Assignments
PAPER IV: BRITISH FICTION ( JASPREET/SANDEEP)
Jan.:
History of Twentieth Century Novel;
Literary terms, concepts, movements
Feb.:
Introduction to D.H. Lawrence; ‘Sons & Lovers’ (Text)
Introduction to Joseph Conrad; ‘Heart of Darkness’ (Text)
March:
Ques/Ans, & Assignments
Introduction to Virginia Woolf;‘Mrs. Dalloway’ (Text)
Ques/Ans, & Assignments
Introduction to William Golding; ’Lord of the Flies’ (Text)
April:
-ContinuedQues/Ans., Discussion, Assignments