UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT
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M A English IInd,IIIrd and IVth Semester Syllabus- Choice Based Credit Semester
System- Revised with effect from 2011 admission- Implemented in the University
Department- Approved-Orders issued
GENERAL AND ACADEMIC BRANCH-IV-I3' SECTION
No: GAIV/B2/2140/06
Dated, Calicut University. P.O; o ci 03 .2-0 I (2Read: 1. U.0 GAI/JI/1373/08 dated 01-07-2008
2. U.O of even no dated 22-12-2008
3. U.O of even no dated 17-08-2011
4. Minutes of the meeting of the Board of Studies in English(P.G) held on
29.02.2012 (item nol)
5. Letter dated 01.03.2012 from the Chairman Board of Studies English(P.G)
& Letter dated 03.03.2012 from the Head of the Department English(P.G)
6. Orders of the Vice-Chancellor in file of even no dated 08.03.2012
ORDER
Vide University Order read first above orders were issued implementing the
Choice based Credit Semester System in the teaching Departments/School of the
University with effect from 2008 admission onwards.
Vide University Order read second above the syllabus of MA English Programme
under Choice based Credit Semester System was implemented in the University
Teaching Department with effect from 2008 admission.
Vide University Order read third above the syllabus of first semester MA
English Programme under Choice based credit semester system was revised with effect
from 2011 admission.
Vide paper read as fourth above the Board of Studies in English(P.G) at its
meeting held on 29.02.2012 vide item no 1 discussed and approved the modifed
syllabus of 'Ind, IIIrd and IVth semester of MA English under Choice based Credit
Semester System submitted by the Department of English University of Calicut to be
implemented in the University Department with effect from 2011 admission.
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Vide paper read as fifth above the modified syllabus of MA English Programme
under Choice based credit Semester System Hind, IIIrd and IVth semesters, 2011
admissions endorsed by the Board of Studies was submitted by the Head of Department
English(P.G).
The Vice Chancellor after having considered the urgency and exercising the
powers of the Academic Council has approved item no 1 of the minutes of the meeting of
the Board of Studies in English(P.G) held on 29.02.2012 subject to ratification by the
Academic Council vide paper read as sixth above.
Sanction has therefore been accorded for implementing the revised scheme and
syllabus of IInd, Illrd and IVth semester MA English Programme under Choice based
Credit Semester System in the University Teaching Department with effect from 2011
admission.
Orders are issued accordingly.
The syllabus is appended herewith.
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MA English Language & Literature Programme
Syllabus (2011 admission)
Core Courses
I Semester (4 credits each course)
ENG 1 COI
ENG 1 CO2
ENG 1 CO3
ENG I C04
ENG 1 CO5
British Literature 14th Century to the Elizabethan Age
Indian Writing in English
History of English Language
Literary Criticism and Theory — Part I
Postcolonial Writings
II Semester (4 credits each course)
ENG 2 CO6
ENG 2 C07
ENG 2 C08
British Literature 17th & 18th Century
American Literature -I
Literary Criticism and Theory -2
III Semester (4 credits each course)
ENG 3 C09
ENG 3 CIO
ENG3 C11
Introduction to Linguistics
American Literature -II
British Literature 19th Century
IV Semester
ENG 4 C12 20th Century and Contemporary British Literature (4 credit)
ENG 4 C13 Dissertation / Project (8 credits)
Elective Courses
II Semester (4 credits each course)
ENG 2 E01
ENG 2 E02
ENG 2 E03
ENG 2 E04
World Drama
Indian Writing in English Translation
Canadian Literature
Literature of the Marginalized
III Semester (4 credits each course)
ENG 3 E05
ENG 3 E06
ENG 3 E07
ENG 3 E08
ENG 3 E09
Translation Theory & Practice
Century Arabic Literature in English Translation
20th
Introduction to Cultural Studies
Women's Writing
Post 1980 Indian Writings in English
IV Semester (4 credits each course)
ENG 4 E10
ENG 4 Ell
ENG 4 E12
ENG 4 E13
Malayalam Literature in English Translation
Literary Theory — An In-depth Study
Ecology and Literature
Teaching of English
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II Semester MA English
ENG 2 C06: 17'1' & 18'h Century British Literature
Course Description:
The course is intended to familiarize the students with various trends and
movements in literature during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
Course Content
Metaphysical school of poetry- Donne, Marvell, Herbert, Cowley, Crashaw, Vaughan,
Carew, Lovelace - Age of Puritans- John Milton.
Restoration Period- Neoclassical poets-Dryden, Pope Restoration Drama- Congreve,
Etherage, Wycherly, Farquhar, Vanburgh, Shadwell, Goldsmith, Sherriden - FictionBunyan, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding- Rise of Journalism and Periodical literatureAddison, Steele.
Graveyard school of poetry-Precursors of Romantic Movement-Grey, Percy, Cowper,
Collins.
Texts For Study
A. Poetry
Canonization
To His Coy Mistress
Paradise Lost - Book IX
Mac Flecknoe
- The Rape of the Lock - Canto I
- Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
John Donne
Andrew Marvell
John Milton
John Dryden
Alexander Pope
Thomas Gray
B. Fiction
Pilgrim's Progress
Robinson Crusoe
The Battle of Books
Pamela
John Bunyan
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
Samuel Richardson
C. Prose
- "Recollections of Childhood"
Richard Steel
Samuel Johnson - "Preface to A Dictionary of English Language"
D. Drama
The Rivals
Sheridan -
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Model question paper
Second Semester MA Degree Examination
English Language and Literature
British Literature 17th&18th Century
Time: 3 hours
Marks: 80
I.
Write an essay on any three
of the following choosing one question each
from all the three sections
Section A
I. Discuss "Canonization" as a parody of Christian sainthood.
2.
Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" is an illustration of the theme of Carpe-diem.
Explain.
3. Enumerate the mock heroic elements in Pope's
Rape of the Lock
4. Comment on Milton's use of grand style in
Paradise Lost.
(I x 20=20)
Section B
1. Explain the use of allegory in
Pilgrim's Progress.
2.
Discuss the role of Dr. Johnson's dictionary in the development of English
language.
3. The Battle of Books
is a satire on the famous controversy regarding the relative
merits of ancient and modern literature. Elaborate.
4. Sheridan's play The rivals
reflects the contemporary social changes of England.
Explain
(I x 20=20)
Section C
1.
Enumerate the features of metaphysical poetry.
The poets and dramatists of the Restoration period looked back to the ancient
classical poets and dramatists for inspiration. Explain.
2.
3.
4.
Comment on the general characteristics of Restoration drama.
Elaborate on the role of periodical literature in the development of prose during
the Augustan age.
(1 x 20=20)
Section D
Write short notes on any four of the following
I. Treatment of religion in Robinson Crusoe
2. Epistolatory novel
3. Malapropism
4. Richard Steele's Prose style.
5. Spectator Club
6. Neo-classicism
7. Comedy of manners
8. Mac Flecknoe as a personal satire
(4 x 5 =- 20)
CC o 1 CC SS)
ENGO...-tri7American Literature - 1
Course Description:
The Course is intended to familiarize the students with the trends and movements in American
literature from the early colonial period to the beginning of the Twentieth Century.
Course Content
Colonial literature 1607 to 1776 — The social context of American colonial literature — Early
American Poetry — Religious and secular prose — slave poetry and slave narratives — major authors and
texts
Early American Literature after Independence
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with native culture — major authors and
76-1820 — early novels, poetry — encounters
texts.
Romanticism and Transcendentalism (1820-1860)— Romanticism in America — The
American Nation - The impact of Transcendentalism — Individualism in religion and politics rise of the
Abolitionism as an influence on literature — Major authors and texts.
The age of realism(1860-1910) — realism and regionalism — early social realism — literature in the
new Industrial nation — major authors and texts
Texts for Detailed Study
Anne Bradstreet
Olaudah Equiano
Benjamin Franklin
Washington Irving
- The Flesh and the Spirit
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
(Chapter 3)
- Autobiography
- "Rip Van Winkle."
Whitman
"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
Hawthorne
- The House of the Seven Gables
Emerson
Chief Seattle
- Self-Reliance
- Speech on Treaty
Emily Dickinson
- "Because I Could not Stop for Death"
"I Felt a Funeral in My Brain"
"There is a Certain Slant of Light"
Mark Twain
- Huckleberry Finn
- Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
- The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Reading
American Literature Outline - htt
www.amenca
ublications book outline-of-american-
literature.html
Brucoli Clark-Layman — Colonial Literature (1616-1776)
Angelo Vietto — Early American Literature: 1776-1820. Research Guide to American Literature
Jerry Phillips and Andrew Ladd —Romanticism and Transcendentalism (1800-1860)
60-1910)
.
Roger Lathbury — Realism and Regionalism (18
Scheme of Questions and Model Question Paper
Scheme of Questions
One essay covering authors and texts from the first two sections (Colonial and Early
American Literature) with three choices carrying 15 marks
One essay on authors and texts from the third section (Romanticism and
Transcendentalisrn) with three choices carrying 15 marks
One essay on authors and texts from the fourth section (Realism and Regionalism) with
three choices carrying 15 marks
One essay on literary history (trends and movements) covering all the literary periods
IV.
chosen for study.
Four short answer questions (with 8 choices) each carrying 5 marks in the following
V.
proportion:
a)
Two questions; from section 1 and 2
b) Two questions from section 3
c) Two questions from section 4
d)
Two questions on literary history
Model Question Paper
SECOND SEMESTER MA DEGREE EXAMINATION j...a.11: cast" essio to_D
English Language and Literature
ENG*ColArnerican Literature — 1
Time: 3 hours
Marks: 80
I Write an essay on any one of the following (about 3 pages):
1) Discuss Olaudah Equiano's autobiography as a 'slave narrative.'
2)
Discuss
3)
Assess
how Benjamin Franklin's autobiography represents a nation in the making.
the story of Rip Van Winkle as both an allegory and a myth.
II Write an essay on any one of the following (about 3 pages):
(1x15=15 marks)
4) Discuss how Whitman's poetry cohfigures the American nation.
5)
Discuss how the themes and idiom of Emily Dickinson's poetry takes it beyond its times.
6) Discuss how The House of the Seven Gables
society's reckoning with its past.
III
7) Discuss how Huckleberry Finn
represents Nineteenth Century American
serves as a model for much of American
x
(115=15
marks)
fi ctional narratives in
. .
the Twentieth Century.
8) Discuss Portrait of a Lady
as a typical realistic novel.
- - - -9) Discuss Jungle
as an early manifestation of social realism in American fiction.
IV
(1x15=15
10) Discuss briefly the chief trends in American Literature upto the end of the Eighteenth marks)
Century.
11)
Discuss how American Romanticism developed a distinct identity of its own.
12)
Discuss how Transcendentalism became a pervasive influence in American literature in
The Nineteenth Century.
(1x15=15 marks)
V
Attempt any four of the following questions (about one page):
13) Colonial American poetry
14) American landscape in "Rip Van Winkle"
15) Death and Love in Whitman's poetry
14) Emily Dickinson's imagery
Huckleberry Finn
15) Colloquial language in
16) Jungle as a committed novel.
17) Imitation of British models in early American literature
18)
Thematic concerns of American novel in the Nineteenth Century.
(4x5=20)
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ENG 2 CO8 Literary Criticism and Theory-2
Syllabus
Course description and objective
This course is structured to provide an introduction to modem critical
strategies/approaches to literary texts and to familiarize students with basic theoretical
concepts underlying contemporary approaches to literature and the major differences
between them.
Since the course is an introduction/orieniation, we have to cover a substantial amount
of materials and schools of thought within the time limit of one semester. Therefore
we will not be able to spend much tfireattempting to penetrate dense theoretical texts.
Instead, after brief introductions that will provide overviews of the various schools of
literary theory, we will read and discuss representative pieces from practitioners of
various schools. At the end of the course, the student should be able to read literary
and critical texts with judicious appreciation and build up the competence to generate
and articulate personal responses to literary and critical texts, as well to explain the
premises and assumptions underlying such personal response.
Syllabus in detail
1.
Overview
Discussion
:New Criticism/Formalism
::Cleanth Books — "Language of paradox"
2.
Overview
Discussion
:Structuralism/Semiotics
: Roland Barthes, "On Wrestling" from Mythologies
3.
Overview
Discussion
:Marxist Criticism
: Terry Eagleton, "Literature and History" from Marxism and
Literary Criticism
4.
Overview
Discussion
:Reader Response
: Wolfgang Iser, "Role of the Reader"
5.
Overview
Discussion
:Post Structuralism/ Deconstruction
: Jacques Denide "Structure sign and Play in the discourse of
Human. Science"
6.
Overview
Discussion
:Psychoanalytic Criticism
: Jacques Lecan :"The Mirror Stage"
7.
Overview
Discussion
: Post Modernism
Fredric Jameson, "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"
8.
Overview
Discussion
:Feminism
: Helen Cixous "The Laugh of the Medusa"
9.
Overview
Discussion
:New Historicism/Cultural Materialism
: Louis A Montrose "Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics
Politics of Culture"
10.
Overview
Discussion
:Cultural Studies
: Walter Benjamin, "Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction"
11.
Overview
Discussion
:Ecocriticism
: Cheryll Glotfelty: Introduction to The Ecocriticism Reader:
Landmarks in Literary Ecology
and
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Second Semester MA Degree Examination (2011 admission)
CCSS
ENGLISH
ENG 2 C08 Literary Criticism and Theory-2
Time: 3 Ins
Max.: 80 marks
Write an essay of about 350 words on any one
of the following:
1. Examine how Cleanth Broolcs argues for centrality of ambiguity and
paradox as a way of understanding poetry.
2. Discuss how Wolfgang Iser decontextualize and dehistoricize the text
and the reader
3. Examine how Barthes presents wrestling as a staged spectacle
portraying the moral concept of justice.
(1x15- -15 marks)
Write an essay of about 350 words on any one
of the following:
4. Discuss in detail the concept of 'Mirror Stage'- in Lacan's work.
5. How do you respond to Jameson's idea that the postmodernism replicates,
reproduces or reinforces the logic of consumer capitalism?
6.
Examine how Cixous advocates the freeing of female self through writing.
(1x15=15 marks)
III.
Write an essay of about 350 words on any one
7.
of the following:
Texts not only represent culturally constructed pattern but also reproduce cultural
construction. Discuss in connection with Louis Montrose's prescribed essay.
8.
Examine how Walter Benjamin explores the interrelation of political,
technological and artistical development under capitalism.
9.
Discuss how Cheryl] Glotfelty brings in an environmental perspective to literary
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IV.
Write an essay of about 350 words on any one of the following:
10.Contrary to new critical insistence on autonomy of literary texts, New
Historicism refigures the relationship between text and culture. Discuss.
11.Examine post-structuralism as a linguistic arm of postmodernism.
12.Critically examine the major points of convergence and the points of departure
between New Critical persuasions and later developments in literary theory.
(1x15---15 marks)
Write short notes on any four of the following:
a. Notion of Centre in Derrida's analysis of structure of language
b. Author as producer
c. Ecriture feniinine
d. Cultural poetics
e. Loss of aura through mechanical reproduction
f The fundamentals of ecocriticism
g. Critical approaches to interpretation of meaning
h. Post modernism and Marxism
(4x5=20)
ENG 3 C09 Introduction to Linguistics
The course will help students have a general idea about the nature and organization of
language. The course is of an introductory nature intended to familiarize students with the history and
key concepts of the discipline.
Course Content
Unit I
Aspects of Language: The origin of Language — Language families - features of
language — language in the communicative system — language typology
Unit II
History of Linguistics- a brief outline — Comparative Philology — Sassure's theories Structuralist Linguistics — Sociolinguistics — Psycholinguistics — Applied Linguistics Computational Linguistics
Unit III
Organization of Language — Introduction to Phonology (Phoneme, allophones,
classification of sounds, stress, intonation) - Introduction to Morphology (Morpheme, allomorph,
word-formation, affixation, compounding) - Introduction to Semantics (sound and meaning,
synonymy, hyponymy, semantic fields, semantic change) — Introduction to Syntax (word classes
— case - word order— Morphophonemics - )
Unit IV
Introduction to Chomskyan Linguistics: Transformational Generative Grammar—Deep
Structure and Surface Structure - Language as a biological endowment — Universal Grammar rationalist theory of language acquisition.
Recommended Reading
1. A Short History of Linguistics
2. Jean Aitchison — General Linguistics
3.
Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Andrea Deumert & William L Leap — Introducing
Sociolinguistics.
4. Vivien J Cook and Mark Newson — Chomsky's Universal Grammar
5. Andrew Radford et al — Linguistics — An Introduction.
6. Laurie Bauer — Linguistics Students' Handbook.
7.
Igor Bolshakov, Alexander Gelbukh — Introduction to Computational Lingustics
8. Susan J Behrens and Judith A Parker — Language in the Real World
9. A H Gleason—An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics
10. R H Robin —A Short History of Linguistics
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Scheme of Question Paper
The course is intended to be a brief, but comprehensive introduction to Linguistics. The
questions are, therefore, expected to test the students' awareness about concepts and categories
rather than an indepth understanding of any area or topic. Only short questions in the nature of
brief write-ups need be set relating to units III and IV
L Two essays (with three choices each), one each on topics from Unit I and Unit II,
carrying 15 marks each.
2.
Seven short answer questions (with fourteen choices) each carrying 5 marks,
distributed over the four units.
3.
Five very short answer questions (with ten choices) distributed over the four units.
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Model Question Paper
MA III Semester Examinations - English
ENG 3 C09 Linguistics
Marks: 80
Time: 3 hours
I. Write an essay on any one of the following (about three pages):
1) Discuss the various theories about the origin of language.
2) Discuss some of the salient features of Language
3) Discuss how the world's languages are divided into families and types.
(1x15=15 marks)
II
Write an essay on any one of the following (about 3 pages):
4)Give a brief outline of the history of Linguistics in the Twentieth Century.
5)Briefly discuss the important principles of sociolinguistics and
psycholinguistics.
6)Briefly describe the various branches of Applied Linguistics.
(1x15= 15 marks)
III
Write short notes on any seven of the following (200 words):
7) Language families
8) Criteria for classifying languages
9) Dialects
10) The beginnings of Linguistics
11) Social Class and Language
12) Immediate Constituents
13) Language Teaching
14) Classification of Sounds
15) Aspects of Semantic change
16) Phonological rules
17) Word Classes
18) Transformational Generative Grammar
19) Universal Grammar
20) Deep Structure and Surface Structure
(7x5=35 marks)
IV
Write short notes on any five of the following (100 words)
21) Pooh-pooh theory
22) Stress-timed languages
23) Post-editing in Machine Translation
24) Slang
25) Allophones
26) Intonation
27) Suffixation
28) Syntagmatic paradigm
29) Synonymy
30) Kernel Sentences
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(5x3=15 marks)
Panel of Question Paper Setters
1. Prof. N Rajendran, Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, Kerala University,
Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Phone — 94447653970.
2. Dr S A Shanavas, Associate Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, Kerala University,
Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Phone — 9495074811.
3. Dr Sreenadhan K, Associate Professor, Department of Dravidian and Computational
Linguistics, Dravidian University, Srinivasa Varam, Kuppam — 517425, AP., Phone —
09959172551.
4. Dr S Radhakrishnan Nair, Associate Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, Kerala University,
Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Phone — 9496662547.
5. Prof. Bala Subrahmaniam, Head, Department of Dravidian and Computational
Linguistics, Dravidian University, Srinivasa Varam, Kuppam — 517425, AP
6. Dr L Rama Moorthy, Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages, CIIL,
Manasagangotri, Mysore.
7. Dr Panachanan Mohanty, Associate Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, Hyderbad Central
University, Gachibowla, Hyderabad, AP.
8. Dr Kesava Murthy, Asst. Professor, Department of Dravidian and Computational
Linguistics, Dravidian University, Srinivasa Varam, Kuppam — 517425, AP
9. Dr Arul Mozhi, Asst. Professor, Department of Dravidian and Computational Linguistics,
Dravidian University, Srinivasa Varam, Kuppam — 517425, AP.
Panel of Examiners
1. Dr P K Prabha , Associate Professor, Dept, of English, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan
College, Kozhikode — 673013, Phone: 9447132496
2. Dr A Rose Mary, Dept. of Linguistics, Kerala University, Kariavattom,
Thiruvananthapuram, phone — 9400514982.
3. Dr S Kunjamma, Dept. of Linguistics, Kerala University, Kariavattom,
Thiruvananthapuram, Phone — 9995129664.
4. Dr Sreenadhan K, Associate Professor, Department of Dravidian and Computational
Linguistics, Dravidian University, Srinivasa Varam, Kuppam — 517425, AP., Phone —
09959172551.
5. Dr S Radhakrishnan Nair, Associate Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, Kerala University,
Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Phone — 9496662547.
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ENG 3 COT American Literature - II
Course Description
The course is intended to familiarize the students with the chief movements and trends in
American Literature from the Second decade of the Twentieth Century to the first decade of the
Twenty First Century. Some of the key authors and texts in the period will be discussed in detail.
Course Content
The rise of modernism —The Harlem renaissance — Literature on the Left — Postmodernist trends
— The Beat Generation - Second Generation African American writing — Native American Renaissance —
Women Writing — The Assertion of Sexual Minorities — Representations of postmodernity
Texts for Study
Poetry
William Carlos Williams
"Spring and All (By the Road to the Contagious Hospital)"
Ezra Pound
"Ballad of the Goodly Fere"
Langston Hughes
"I, too, Sing America"
Allen Ginsberg
"America"
Sylvia Plath
"Tulips"
Chrystos
"Song for a Lakota Woman"
Joy Harjo
Kevin Young
"To the Confederate Dead"
Fiction
Ernest Hemingway
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro
William Faulkner
Light in August
Phillip Roth
Portnoy's Complaint
Toni Morrison
Tar Baby
Barbara Kingsolver
Animal Dreams
Don Delillo
Falling Man
Prose
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Martin Luther King
"I Have a Dream"
Drama
Eugene O'Neil
Tennesee Williams
Edward Albee
Amiri Baraka
William S Yellow Robe
Emperor Jones
The Glass Menagerie
Zoo Story
Dutchman
Rez Politics
Reference
American Modernism.
George Parker Anderson
Contemporary Literature — 1970 to the Present
Linda Trinh Moser & Kathryn West
From Modernism to Postmodernism
Jennifer Ashton
Michael Hinds & Stephen Mattersen
The American Poetry Book
http://www.america.gov/publications/book s/
American Literature Outline ,
outline-of-american-literature.html
Scheme of Questions
1. Four essays (with three choices each, carrying 15 marks each) as follows.
Ra-
a)
One related to prescribed authors/texts in poetry
b)
One related to prescribed authors/texts in fiction
c)
One related to prescribed authors/texts in drama and prose
d)
One related to literary history in general
II Four short answers (Out of a
choice of eight, each carrying 5 marks) as follows:
a)
One related to prescribed authors/texts in poetry
b)
One related to prescribed authors/texts in fiction
c)
One related to prescribed authors/texts in drama and prose
d)
One related to literary history in general
Model Question Paper
MA (English) Ill Semester
3c_ ND
ENG-667 American Literature —II
Time: 3 hours
Marks: 80
Write essays on four of the following choosing one from each section.
Section A
1)
2)
3)
Compare and Contrast Pound and Williams as American modernist poets.
Trace the trajectory of African American poetry from Langston Hughes to
Kevin Young.
Discuss the configurations of identity in the poems of Joy Harjo and
Chrystos.
Secton B
4)
Attempt a critical reading of
Snows of Kilimanjaro, discussing the
configuration of the hero and his environment in Hemingway's fiction.
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5)
as a statement on identity politics.
Discuss Tar Baby
6)
Discuss Falling Man
as a novel of survival and disillusionment.
Section C
"Emperor Jones
7)
is a typical White reaction to the rising tide of African
American assertion." Discuss.
as an allegory of a consumerist society at work.
8)
Discuss Zoo Story
9)
Discuss Rez Politics
as a statement on the politics of American
multiculturalism.
Section D
10)
Compare and Contrast Harlem Renaissance with the second wave of African
American writing after the 1960s.
11)
Discuss how native American writing registers a strong presence in
Twentieth Century American literature.
12)
Discuss how American fiction engages history at the turn of the Twenty First
Century.
(15x4=60 marks)
ll
Write short notes on any four of the following:
America
13) Violent subversion in
14) Imagery in "Tulips"
Portnoy's Complaint
15) Carnivalesque in
as a 'green dream'
16) Animal Dreams
Have a Dream
17) The use of religious imagery in I
18) Seduction motif in Dutchman
19) Assertion of sexual minorities in American literature
20) Contemporariness of contemporary American fiction
(4x5=20)
Panel of Question Paper Setters
1.
Dr K M Krishnan, Associate Professor, School of Letters, M G University, Kottayam, Phone:
9447179486
2.
Dr M Dasan, Professor and Head, Dept. of Studies in English, Kannur Univers y
Phone: 9447157268
3.
Dr Saji Mathew, Associate Professor, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam. Phone:
9847237570
4.
Dr Meena T Pillai, Associate Professor, Institute of English, Kerala University, Phone:
9495919749.
5.
DrJamuna S, Associate Professor, Institute of English, Kerala University. Phone: 9497621662
6.
Dr Sherine Upot, Professor, School of Distance Education, MG University, Phone: 9447558619.
7.
Dr Prasad Pannian, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Central University of Kerala, Kasargod,
Phone: 9445460202
Panel of Examiners
1.
Dr Saji Mathew, Associate Professor, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam. Phone:
9847237570
2.
Dr K M Krishnan, Associate Professor, School of Letters, M G University, Kottayam. Phone:
9447179486
3.
Dr Sherine Upot, Professor, School of Distance Education, MG University, Phone: 9447558619.
4.
Dr Prasad Pannian, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Central University of Kerala, Kasargod,
Phone: 9445460202
5.
Dr Anitha Ramesh, Associate Professor, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Kozhikode, Phone —
9388431553,
6.
Dr Meena T Pillai, Associate Professor, Institute of English, Kerala University, Phone:
9495919749.
7.
Anvar N K, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Govt. College, Mokeri, Kozhikode Dt., Phone 9846051604
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MA English
ENG 3C11: British Literature- 19th Century
Course Description:
The Course is intended to familiarize the students with the trends and movements in English
Literature during the Nineteenth Century.
Course Content
English literature in the 19th Century — Romantic Revival — Publication of Lyrical Ballads — Poets
— Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats- Odes-features, Essays of Lamb, Hazlitt and Strachey.
Victorian Compromise — Dramatic Monologue — Browning, Tennyson, Arnold - Gothic
Literature—Pre-Raphaelite Movement — Theatre —Novels - Major authors and texts.
Tats for Study
A. Poetry
William Blake
"The Poison Tree"
William Wordsworth
"Lucy Gray"
ST Coleridge
"Kublakhan"
PB Shelley
"Ode To The West wind"
John Keats
"Ode on A Grecian Urn"
Tennyson
"Ulysses"
Robert Browning
"Fra Lippo Lippi"
Mathew Arnold
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"Dover Beach"
"The Wind hover"
G.M. Hopkins
B. Drama
Oscar Wilde
-
The Importance Of Being Earnest
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C. Prose
" Dream Children"
Charles Lamb
"On Familiar Style"
Hazlitt
- "Dr. Arnold"
Strachey
D: Fiction
Wuthering Heights
Emile Bronte •
Hard Times
Charles Dickens
Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Scheme of Questions and Model Question Paper
Scheme of Questions
Section. A (15 x4 -=-60)
Essays
I.
11.
III.
One out of four Choices( Essays based on Poetry)
One out of four Choices( Essays based on Drama and Prose)
One out of four Choices( Essays based on Fiction)
One out of four Choices( Essays based on literary back ground of 19th Century)
Section. B (4x5=20)
Short note Questions
Four out of Eight Choices on specific themes, concepts, theoretical terms, etc. prescribed.
Model Question Paper
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t-SEMESTER MA DEGREE EXAMINATION
English Language and Literature
ENG 3C11: British Literature- 19th Century
Time: 3 hours
Marks: 80
Answer four questions from the following choosing one question each from all the four sections
Section I
I) Discuss the features of ode based on the odes you have studied.
2) Dover Beach depicts the dilemma of the Victorian age. Explain
3) Compare and contrast the conception of dramatic monologue in "Ulysses" and "Fra Lippo
Lippi".
4) Elaborate on the concept of poetic imagination in "Kublakhan"
Section II
5) How does Hazlitt advocate a genuine familiar English Style of writing in "On Familiar
Style"?
6)
Comment on the influence of Lamb's autobiography and psyche in " The Dream Children".
7) Describe Strachey's attitude towards Arnold's Public School System.
8) Importance of Being Earnest
is a serious comedy for trivial people. Comment.
Section III
9) Consider Emile Bronte's Wuthering Heights as a Gothic Novel.
10) Hard Times is a true record of the heartfelt miseries brought about by industrialization in
Europe. Elaborate.
I I) Reveal the structural pattern of coincidence in Hardy's
The Mayor Of Caster bridge.
12) Discuss the importance of social class and its impact on the relationship between the
characters in Pride and Prejudice.
MA English IV semester Examination (2010 admissions)
ENG 4 C12: 20th Century and Contemporary British Literature
Time: 3 Ms
Max. Marks: 50
Course description
The course is intended to familiarize the students with various trends in literature
from the early twentieth century upto the present.
Course content
Modernism and Post modernism-shift in literary and aesthetic sensibilities of the ageThinkers associated-Neitzche, Freud, Marx, Frazer-Movements associatedexpressionism, imagism, surrealism, cubism
Poets-Yeats, Eliot-Movement poetry-Robert Bridges-Bloomsbury group-Virginia
Woolf- Stream of consciousness-James Joyce Angry Young Men-Allam SillitoeGeorge Orwell Graham Green, Ian Mc Ewan, Lessing, Drabble, Jeanette, Absurd
Theatre-Beckett, Pinter-Wesker- Synge and Winterson
Poetry
Yeats
Eliot
Auden
Larkin
Ted Hughes
Carol Ann Duffy
: "Second Coming"
: "Love Song of Alfred Prufrock"
: "In Memory of WB Yeats"
: "Church going"
: "Second Glance at a Jaguar"
: "History"
Drama
G.B. Shaw
Samuel Beckett
Wesker
David Greig
: Doctor 's Dilemma
: Waiting for Godot
: Kitchen
: Dunsinane
Fiction
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
Allam Sillitoe
Jeanette Winterson
Ian Mc Ewan
:To the Light House
: The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
: The Lonliness of a Long Distance Runner
:Oranges are not the only Fruit
:Amsterdam
Scheme of questions
Essay questions
1. One out of three choices from the poetry section
2. One out of three choices from the drama section
3. One out of three choices from the fiction part
4. One out of three choices from the literary background.
(4 x 15 = 60)
Short questions
Four out of eight questions giving due weightage to all the texts prescribed and
literary background
(4 x 5 = 20)
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Model question paper
MA (English) IV Semester Examination
ENG 4 C12: 20th Century and Contemporary British Literature
Attempt any, our of the following selecting one question from each
section
(4x 15 = 60)
Section A
1. Discuss the modernist techniques employed by Eliot in "Love Song of Alfred
Prufrock"
2. Bring out the complexities of images in Yeats' "Second Coming"
3. Elaborate on the British attitude to religion in "Church going"
Section B
4. Bring out the existential elements in Waiting for Godot
5. Elaborate on the dramatic vision of Wesker in terms of social consciousness
6. Discuss Dunsinane as a political play
Section C
7. Consider To the Light house as a feminist novel
8. Comment on the structure of The Golden Note Book
9. Consider Lonliness of a Long Distance Runner
as an anti-establishment novel.
Section D
10. Examine the various experimentations and innovations in modern poetry.
11. Discuss various factors that contributed to the revival of drama in the
twentieth century
12. Bring out the salient features of post modern fiction
II Write short notes on any four of the following
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
(4 x 5 = 20)
Proletarian ethos in Kitchen
Oranges are not the only Fruit as a testimony of sexual minorities
"History" as "Her story"
The title Doctors Dilemma
Yeats death in "In memory of W.B. Yeats"
Depiction of 'monstrous' forces in Ted Hughes's poetry
Religion in Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
Euthanasia as murder in Amsterdam.
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ENG 2E01 World Drama
The course is intended to introduce students to important ages and movements in world
drama and to make them aware of the great diversity of theatre in different parts of the
world. A major focus of the course is the alternative traditions of drama present in the
non-western world.
A. General To 'es:
1.The Origins of Drama (Greek, Indian and English contexts)
2. Major ages/movements in world drama/theatre (topics to be studied irrms of the
plays prescribed for detuled study):
f. Realist theatre'
a. Classical Greek Theatre
g. Epic 'Theatre
b. Classical Indian/Sanskrit theatre
,
h.
Postcolomal
Drama & Theatre
c.Classical Japanese Theatre
d. Classical Chinese Theatre
B. Texts for detailed sit
Sophoeles
ICalidasa
Oedipus The King .
Sakuntala (Acts One & Five for detailed study, general
familiarity Withlthe whole play expected.)
Zeami Metoltiyo
thiknowitauttier
men
Brecht
NS9YiPlc.a' •
Sitoufeen AbFlaq
TsunernasaVapaneselsioh)
Twice .aBilde,(Chinese Opera)
Ghosts
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Lion and the Jewel
The River of Madness
3I
Model Question Paper 1:
Second Semester M.A. Degree Examination
English Language and Literature
Choice Based Credit Semester Scystem
ECG 2E01 World Drania
Time: 3 hours
Maximum: 80 marks
L Write essays on any three of following, choosing at least one question from each
section.
Section A
1. Discuss how the symbols of blindness / vision are connected with the themes of
ignorance / lmowledge in Oedipus The King. 2. Critically evaluate the statement that `the story of Sokurunla
is about male
betrayal of love and how one woman deals with it"
3. Do you agree that Twice a Bride is a play about middle class ambition and the
corruption of the human spirit that accompanies it. Discuss.
4. Discuss the significant features of the narrative structure of Japanese Nob theatre
with reference to Tsunenrasa.
Section B
5. In Ghosts Ibsen "uses the problem of congenital venereal diseases as a metaphor
for moral ills inherited from the past which thrive in the dark and kill the present."
Discuss. '
6. With reference to The Caucasian Chalk Circle,
review how Brecht uses themes
and dramatic elements to alert the audience of the need for historical and social
change.
7. "Wole Soyinka does not use the culture of his ancestors as a gimmick to sell or as
an export commodity, but an inborn material for expansion and liberation."
Consider this statement with reference to The Lion and the Jewel.
8. Are you in agreement with the opinion that Tawfici el-Hakim's
The River of Madness is
a dramatic statement of the principle that "truth is determined by the masskis or the
public rather than individuals in the last instance." Discuss
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Section
C are the major thematic and dramatic features of realist theatre? Discuss with
9. What
reference to the plays prescribed.
ois 10. Critically comment on the prominent features of eine theatre and how they relate
to specific political aims.
and The River of Madness as postcolonial plays.
The
Lion
and
the
Jewel
11. Compare
and Sakuntala in order to bring out
12. Compare the prologues of Oedipus The King
their dramatic functions and the salient differences among them.
(3 x 15 = 45 marks)
II. Write notes of about hundred and fifty words on any four of the following:
Oedipus The King.
1. The plight ofJocasta in
The
role
of
the
Vidushaka
in Sanskrit drama.
2.
Twice a Bride.
3. The character of the Beggar King in
The thematic significance of the appearance of the ghost in Tsunemasa.
4.
5 The origins of drama in Greece. Ghosts.
6. The mother as central preSenee in Caucasian Chalk Circle.
7 The eccentric justice of Azdakin the
The Lion and Jewel.
8. The play within the play in
The River of adness.
9. The motif of sanity/insanity in
10.The role of dance in theatm
(4x5= 20 marks)
Ill. Write short notes on any five of the following in a paragraph not exceeding fifty
words:
1. ILamartia
2. Amagnorisis
3. The waki in Noh Theatre
4. Surrealism in theatre
5. Alienation effect
6. Simile in Kalidasa
7. Yoruba rituals in Lion and the Jewel
8. Initial critical responses tb Ghosts
the River of Madness
9. Pan-Arabian features of
10.Operatic features of Twice a Bride
• (5 x 3 = 15 marks)
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Second Semester MA Degree Examination
English Language and Literature
Choice Based Credit Semester System
ENG 2E01 World Drama
Panel of Question Paper Setters / External Examiners
1. Dr. B. Hariharan
Institute of English
University of Kerala
Trivandrum
Phone: 9446203008
2. Dr. K.K.Kunhammed
Dept. of Studies in English
Kannur University
Thalassery
Phone: 9946665444
3. Dr. K.M. Krishnan
School of Letters
M.G. University
Kottayam
Phone: 9447179486
4. Dr. Ramesh Varma
Dept. of Theatre Arts
Sree Sankara Sanskrit University
Kalady
Phone: 9349296159
5. Dr. V.C. Harris
School of Letters
M.G. University
Kottayam
Phone: 9447113218
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MA English II Semester (2011 Admissions)
ENG 2 E02 Indian Writing in English Translation
Section —A
1. Sujit Mulcherjee
2. Rita Kothari
3. Mini Krishnan
: "The Making of Indo-English Literature" Translation
As Discovery
: "Outside the Discipline Machine" Translating India
: "Introduction" Short Fiction from South India
Section-B
Poetry
1.
2.
3.
4.
N.Pichamurti : National Bird
Vinda Karandikar : The Traitor
: A city, an evening and an Old Man
Dhoomil
: Mahabalipuram
G.M. Sheikh
Section-C
Drama
1.
2.
3.
4.
Vijay Tendulkar
Girish Karnad
Habib Tanvir
Mahasweta Devi
: Silence; the Court is in Session
: Tughlak
: Charan Das Chor
: Bayen
Section D
Fiction- Short Stories
a. Paul Zacharia
b. C.S.Ambai
c.Ismat Chughtai
: The Last Show (tr. Gita Krishnankutty)
: Squirrel (tr. From Tamil)
: Lihaaf
Novels
: S amskara
: Pathumma's goat
: Godan
a. U.R.Ananta Murthy
b. Vaikom Mohammed Basheer
c. Prem Chand
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Model Question Paper
Second Semester MA Degree Examination (2011 admission)
English Language and Literature
ENG 2 E02: Indian Writing in English Translation
Time: Three Hours
Maximum marks: 80
I Write essays on any Four of the following choosing at least one question from each
section:Section A
1. Comment on the impact of colonialism on the practice of translation in India.
2. Discuss Sujit Mukherjee's critique of the role of the translator in the making of
Indo-English Literature.
3. If the colonial generations submitted to the power of English the postcolonial
generations bend it and use it for their own purpose. Elaborate.
Section B
4. Discuss how the Indian poetry of the 60s became a scathing critique of the postindependence Indian society.
5. Comment on the poetic devices used to communicate the experiences of alienation,
loss and anonymity in the poems prescribed for study.
6. How does Indian poetry engage with the experiences of war, violence and regional
chauvinism?
Section C
7. How does Chandi Dasi epitomize the tragic contradictions within the subaltern
consciousness?
8. Attempt an essay on the post-independence developments in Indian theatre with
specific reference to the plays prescribed for study.
9. Discuss the importance of the play Charan Das Chor
in Indian theatre-history.
Section D
10.Discuss how the novel Samskara
challenges the brahminical orthodoxy and social
conservatism?
11.Critically examine the political overtones in the novel
Godan by Premchand.
12.How effectively does Basheer use humour to depict the pathos
and misery of rural poverty?
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(15x4=60 marks)
III Write short notes of about 150 words on any
Four of the following-
/
/
13. Representation of power and authority in 'Tughlaq'.
Art and Reality in 'The Last Show' by Paul Zacharia.
14.
Inter-generational dialogue in Ambai's 'Squirrel'.
15.
Play within a play in 'Silence, the Court is in Session'.
16.
17.Motherhood in 'Bayen.
Significance of 'Lihaaf' in Indian literary history.
18.Role of Sahitya Akademi in the making of Indo-English Literature.
19.
Middle class and English in India after liberalization.
20.
(4x5=20 marks)
Panel of Examiners
First Semester MA English
ENG 2 E02: Indian Writing in English Translation
1.Dr.Meena Pillai
Reader
Institute of English
University of Kerala.
Ph: 9495919749
2. Dr. Saji Mathew
Lecturer
School of Letters
Mahatma Gandhi University
Kottayam
Ph: 9847237570
3 Dr.Salil Varma
Reader
Dept.of English
Devagiri College
Calicut.
Ph: 9447333380
4. Dr.Anitha Ramesh
Reader
Dept.of English
Sree Guruvayurappan College
Calicut
Ph: 9388431553
a,
Panel of Question Paper Setters
First
Semester MA English
ENG 2 E02: Indian Writing in English Translation
I.Dr.13.S.Hariharan
Lecturer
Institute of English
University of Kerala.
Ph: 9446203008
2. Dr. Saji Mathew
Lecturer
School of Letters
Mahatma Gandhi University .
Kottayam
Ph: 9847237570
3. Dr.Meena Pillai
Reader
Institute of English
University of Kerala.
Ph: 9495919749
4.Dr.K.M.Krishnan
Reader
School of Letters
Mahatma Gandhi University
Kottayam
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II Semester MA English (CCSS) 2011 Admission
ENG2E03 :Canadian Literature
Credits: 4
In an age of multiculturalism it becomes imperative to introduce into our range of
inquiry a refocusing of disciplines away from a nation based approach to a cross-cultural
approach and an understanding of Communicative equivalence among contemporaneous
civilizations around. The course in Canadian Literature is designed to help students achieve
the following objectives:
(1)
To gain perspectives of the diversity of Canada, its people, its literature and to
develop an understanding of Canada's mosaic culture.
(2)
To encourage interdisciplinary nature of the field of literature across national
borders, across genres and across boundaries-To enable students to integrate
literary experience with other cultural phenomenas such as historical,
philosophical concepts and social movements.
(3)
To facilitate exchange of ideas and information among students by providing a
space for interdisciplinary dialogue about culture, literature and literary studies.
(4)
(5)
To interrogate the connection between literature, place, gender and identity.
To examine how writers use varieties of genres to illuminate questions
surrounding national identity, race, gender, language, history and culture in a
country whose bilingual identity, colonial past, postcolonial present, immigrant
experience etc have all left distinctive traces in its literature.
(6)
To acquire critical knowledge of literary themes, motifs, structure, narratives
points of view and values that are typical of various regions of Canada. To enable
the students to combine theoretical angles with the close study of a wide range of
texts from different cultural, geographic, linguistic backgrounds.
Faculty who offers the Course: Dr.V. Prathiba
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Poetry:
Sue Deranger
Eli Mandel
Rita Joe
Lee Maracle
Robin Skelton
Jay Macpherson
"The Untitled"
"Ventriloquists"
"I am the Indian"
"My Box of Letters"
Viator Poems
"The Boatman"
Beth Brant
" Her name is Helen"
Jeannette Armstrong
"Reclaiming Earth"
Fiction :
Temptation of Big Bear
The Vanishing Point
Half breed
As for Me and My House
Carried Away Selected Stories
No New Land
In the Skin of a Lion
The Double Hook
Mauve Desert
The Self
The Tin Flute
Monkey Beach
Obasan
Rudy Weibe
W.O. Mitchelle
Maria Campbell
Sindair Ross
Alice Munroe
Vassanji.M.G
Ondatge
Sheila Watson
Nicole Brossard
Yann Martel
Gabrielle Roy
Eden Robinson
Joy Kogawa
Drama:
James Reaney
Sharon Pollock
Tomson Highway
George Ryga
Alice through the Looking Glass
Blood Relations
The Rez Sisters
The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
Book for Reference
William.H.New
Sharron Smith (Sr
Maurinnne Oconnor
A History of Canadian Literature
Canadian Fiction: A Guide to Reading
Interest
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Syllabus
Section A: General Introduction to Canadian Literature
Geography and History of Canada-Diversity of Canada and Mosaic CultureBilingual Identity of Canada and multiculturalism-Literary tradition of Colonial past and
post colonial present-Major authors, works, forms, periods, movements and concerns in
Canadian literature- National Identity, Race, gender and language questions Immigrant Literature -First Nations Ethnic minority writings - Place of Canadian
Literature in World Context.
Section B: Texts prescribed for study
(1) Poetry:
Pauline Johnson
"The Cattle Thief"
Irving Layton
"The Search"
Al Purdy
" The Cariboo Horses"
Margaret Atwood
" First Neighbours"
Connie Fife
" Resistance"
(2) Fiction:
Michael Ondatge
The English Patient
Margaret Laurence
The Stone Angel
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaids Tale
Beatrice Culleton
In Search of April Rain Tree
Shyam Selvadurai
Funny Boy
(3)Drama
(1)Drew Hayden Taylor
(2)Annie Marie Macdonald
Someday
Goodnight Desdemona, Good morning Juliet
Further Reading Recommended
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Canadian Literature
Question Paper Pattern
Time: Three hours
Maximum: 80 marks
I
Essay Question from poetry
(one out of three choices)
(1x20 = 20 marks)
II
Essay Question from Fiction
(one out of three choices)
((1x20 = 20 marks)
III Essay question from Drama
(one out of three choices)
(1x20 = 20 marks)
IV Short Notes on any four out of a choice of
12 questions covering the entire texts for study
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(4x5 =20 marks)
Canadian Literature
Panel of Question Paper Sellers
(1) Dr.M. Dasan
Professor and Head
Dept. of Studies in English
Palayad, Karmur University
Phone: 9447157268
(2) Dr.B. Hariharan
Institute of English.
University of Kerala
Phone: 9446203008
(3) Dr. B. S. Jamuna
Reader, Institute of English University of Kerala
Phone: 9446502873
Panel of Examiners
(1) Dr. B. Hariharan
Institute of English, Trivandrum
Phone: 9446203008
(2) Dr. B.S. Jamuna
Institute of English
University of Kerala
Phone: 9446502873
(3) Dr. P.K. Prabha
Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College
Calicut
Phone: 9447132496
(4) Dr. K.P. Asha
KMM Govt. Womens College
Kannur
Phone: 9447007515
(5) Dr. Rajini. B
Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College
Calicut
Phone: 8893730001
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Course Description:
This course aims to familiarise students with the contemporary discourses related to the experiences of
marginalization in the current global and local political contexts. It intends to discuss the linkages between the
social experiences of exclusion and marginality on the bases of gender, class, caste, ethnicity and sexuality and
their literary manifestations which in turn raise certain fundamental questions regarding aesthetics and politics.
Sectiion A: Essays
1.Karl Marx & Frederick Engels
:The Communist Manifesto Section I
2.Eleanor Zelliott
: "Dalit Sahitya :A Historical Background"
3. Gloria Anzaldua
: "La Conciencia de la Mestiza• Towards a New
Consciousness" (The Essential Feminist Reader)
4. Larry Neale
: "Black Arts Movement" Section 1, (text available online)
5. Adrienne Rich
: "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" (text
available online)
6. Eve Kosofsy Sedgwick
: "Epistemology of the Closet" (text available online)
7. Chief Seattle's Speech
Section B:Poetry
1. Bertolt Brecht
2. Namdeo Dhasal
: "A Worker Reads History" (www.poemhunter.com)
"Hunger" (The Poisoned Bread)
3. Hira Bansode
: "Yashodhara" (The Poisoned Bread)
4. S.Joseph
: "The Identity Card" (No Alphabet in Sight)
5. Langston Hughes
6. Muriel Rukeyser
"Theme for English B"
• "Despisals"
Section C: Fiction and Autobiography
1. Bama
: "Ponnuthayi"(No Alphabet in Sight)
2.C.Ayyappan
: "Madness"The Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit
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: "Draupadi(Ln Other worlds by Gayatry Chalcravorthy Spivak)
Mahasweta Devi
: 'By the River,The Lesson and Troglodyte(Fennnist Fables)
Suniti Narnj o shi
: "Lihaf' (Women Writing in India ed Susie Tharu and K.Lalitha)
Ismat Chughtai
Autobiography:
: "My Life"
Kandal Poklcudan
(The Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit
Writing)
: Mother Forest
Janu
: "Scoundrel:You Polluted the Parsi Inn"
.B.R. Ambedkar
Ambedkar:Autobiographical Notes
: Chapter 1V, Autobiography of A Sex Worker
I. Nalini Jameela
: The Truth About Me: A Hijra Lifestory.
10. A.Revathy
Section D: Drama
1. A.Santhakumar
: "Dreamhunt"
(The Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit
Writing)
: "Bravely Fought the Queen"(Final Solutions and other Plays)
2. Mahesh Dattani
3. Israel Zangwill
: The Melting Pot (text available online)
Recommended Reading:1. The Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit Writing ed
2.No Alphabet in Sight ed Satyanarayana and Susie Than'
M.Dasan,V.Prathiba et al.
3. Why I ant not a Hindu. Kancha Ilaiah _
Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature.Sharan Kumar Limbale
4.
ed. Arjun Kamble
5 .Gender Trouble : Judith Butler
The Poisoned Bread: translations from modern Marathi Dalit literature
6.
7 Race Matters edited volume
8. Facing the Mirror ed. Aswini Sukhthankar
John
9.Womens Studies in India: A Reader ed. Mary
: The Indigeneous women Network:Our future Our
10 Winona Laduke
11. Maxine Hong Kingston
12. Mulk Raj Anand
13. K.J.Baby
responsibility" (The Essential Feminist Reader)
: The Woman Warrior
: Untouchable
: Nadugaddika
Ny
Second Semester M. A Degree Examination
CCSS
ENGLISH
ENG2E04 Literature of the Marginalized
/ Time: 3 hours
Max Marks: 80
I Write an essay of about 350 words on any four of the following choosing one from each section:..
Section A
1.Trace the development of Dalit literature in India as mapped out by Eleanor Zelliott.
2. Critically examine how Adrienne Rich and Eve Kosofsky interrogate and counter the notions of
heteronormativity that inform dominant patterns of western thought and sensibility.
3. How does Larry Neale chart out the necessity for redrawing the connections between a
revolutionary consciousness and emancipatory writing?
Section B
4. How does Dalit poetry enter into a critical engagement with the accepted norms of writing and
reading poetry? Discuss in the light of the poems prescribed for study
5. Discuss the dynamics of the consciousness of the marginalised as explored in the poems of
Bertolt Brecht and Langston Hughes.
6. How does the poem "Despisals" become an incisive critique of a phallocentric culture?
Section C
7. Writing an autobiography is itself a political act. Comment.
8. How do C. Ayyappan and Mahasweta Devi complicate the subject ivities of the marginalized in
their short stories?
9.The significance of "Lihaf' "lies in its attention to the intricately layered sexual politics of the
domestic sphere and the complicated emotional lives of its denizens" Discuss.
Section D
10. Examine the political significance of dreams in the play "Drearnhunt".
11. How does Mahesh Dattani's play bring out the duplicity and hypocrisy of the Indian middle
class in matters of gender and sexuality?
12. Critically comment on the significance of the adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" in
The Melting
Pot in its dramatizaton of the ethnic_questionin early 20th
century America.
(15x4=-60 marks)
II. Write short notes of about 100 words on any four of the following:
13. Class struggle
14. Politics of Reservation in "The Identity Card"
15.The Mestiza consciousness.
16.Ecology.spirituality and survival in aboriginal thought.
17.Counterdiscourse in Suniti Namjoshi's fables.
18.Struggle between two genders in A.Revathy's autobiography
19.Ponnuthayi's struggle for freedon.
20.Politicization of Nalini Jameela.
(4x5=20marks)
ENG 2E04 Literature of the Marginalized
Panel of question paper setters/examiners
1. Dr.Saji Mathew
School of Letters
M.G.University, Kottayam
Mob: 9847237570
2. Dr.Meena Pillai
Reader
Institute of English
University of Kerala
Mob:9495919749
3. Dr.Krishnan.K.M
School of Letters
M.G.University, Kottayam
Mob: 9447179486
4. Dr. Muraleedharan.T.,
St. Aloysius College, Elthuruthi, Trissur Dt.
Phone : 9447350091
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ENG 3E05 - Translation Theory and Practice
Course Description
The course aims at familiarizing the students with the core of translation theory and some of the
current theoretical positions, and at offering training in translation of literary and non-literary texts and
interpreting. The students can also obtain a general understanding of the current debates in the
discipline.
Eligibility
Ability to translate from Malayalam or Hindi into English and from English to Malayalam/Hindi
UNIT I — Theoretical and Descriptive translation studies
Types of translation — equivalence in translation — process of translation — language and culture
in translation — translatability - Audiovisual Translation — Translation in Journalism - basic features of
interpreting — introduction to Machine Translation - historicity and politics in literary translation — Indian
tradition in translation theory.
Prescribed texts
Susan Bassnett — Translation Studies. Chapter I, "Central Issues."
Ayyappa Pa nikker —"Towards an Indian Theory of Literary Translation."
Translation: From Periphery to Centrestage (Ed. Tutun Mukherjee).
K M Sherrif — Kunhupaathumma's Tryst with Destiny. Section IV.
Jorge Diaz Cintas - "Audio-Visual Translation: An Overview of its Potential"
New Trends in Audio Visual Translation (Ed. Jorge Diaz Cintas
Sara Bani — "An Analysis of Press Translation Process" Translation in Global News (Ed. Kyle
Conway and Susan Bassnett)
W John Hutchins & Harold L Somers —An Introduction to Machine Translation (Chapter 1)
S Sushant — "Interpretation." Translation and Interpreting: Reader and
Workbook (Orient Longman).
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John Milton — "Translation Studies and Adaptation Studies"
UNIT II — Translation Practice
Practice in translation and interpretation
The direction of translation/interpreting will be from Malayalam or Hindi into English and from
English into Malayalam/Hindi
Note: Tamil and Gujarati may be considered as additional source/target languages for translation
practice on demand by students registered for the course.
Recommended Reading
J C Catford. A Linguistic Theory of Translation: An Essay in Applied Linguistics.
London: Oxford University Press, 1965.
Susan Bassnett. Translation Studies. Rev.ed. London and New York: Routledge, 1991.
Peter Newmark. Approaches to Translation. New York: Pergamon, 1981.
New York and London:
Jeremy Munday. Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications.
Routledge, 2008.
Mona Baker and Kirsten Malmkjaer, eds. Routledge Encyclopaedia of Translation Studies.
London: Routledge, 2006
Ravinder Gargesh and Krishna Kumar Goswami (Ed.) Translation and
Interpreting: Reader and Workbook. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2007.
Clavedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd.,
Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown . A Practical Guide for Translators.
2004.
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Scheme of Questions
1. One essay (out of three choices) for 15 marks.
2. Five short answers (out of ten) for 25 marks.
3. Two passages in Malayalam/Hindi for translation, one from literature (prose, fiction or drama)
and one from another discourse (each with two choices. One of the choices in the second
question should be a news item) for 20 marks.
4. Two passages in English for translation into Malayalam/Hindi, one from literature (prose, fiction
or drama) and one from another discourse (each with two choices. One of the choices from the
second question should be a news item) for 20 marks
Model Question Paper
MA(English) II Semester
ENG 3E05 - Translation Theory and Practice
Time: 3 hours
Marks: 80.
I. Write an essay on any one of the following:
1) Discuss some the central issues of translation described by Susan Bassnett.
2) Discuss the potential and current trends of audio-visual translation.
3) Discuss the conceptualization of translation in India.
II. Write short notes on any five of the following:
(1x15=15 marks)
4) Nida's three-stage process of translation.
5) Loss in translation
6) Ur-texts and translation
7) Domesticating translation
8) Audiovisual translation modes
9) Speed in press translation
10) Adaptation and appropriation
11) Intertextuality in translation
12) Interpreter's basic skills
13) Pre-editing and interactive mode in machine translation.
(6x5= 30 marks)
III. Attempt Section A or B:
Section A
14) Translate one of the following passages into English:
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rnsmlastaff
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vbiear6 030014,0612 alCMODGITY
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CIMIZIMMICRQ0S
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(1x10= 10 marks)
15) Translate one of the following passages into English:
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czeicao. s1rcolasoa.)0 acEb(ogotonanp)20 nJm1LCmmoroltoa a10601 MI18.1
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aJObeli Parmout calory aisrmo-avairo'i ssrordim5 mlacaeolm) aJsrmomilom dEnimikraa.goco-roi mThrnasni DJatmomoi
nismicaomacoAos amanyousacsa nioactuthms am1qM30.300D)645 0084 onJedfrahoi. slemlanocrA 06)CMCDSCIV r0066I31
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ax-fica,scrri no14'mpsrlai
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mirOaoua6ay30 mtie1s102rtn2. n2JCIAGCLI 211Z n.g)nidlecoon
manaumeoo, strap& wrapirolaQ0 arannuanmpa
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acasuos2(nai20 raibC1J6)0ENCIDOOmi cargcthrajos2cmasilcri ap2auni2na2omcm2q00 2:109D02aneo2saat
(1x10=10 marks)
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Section B
16.Translate one of the following passages into English:
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( 1 xl0=10marks)
17.Translate one of the following passages into English:
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( lx10=1 Ornarks)
IV 000018) Translate one of the following passages into Malayalam or Hindi:
When the Washington correspondent fell ill, Vernon was ordered to stand in for him. In
this third month, at a dinner for the German Ambassador, a congressman mistook Vernon for a
writer on the Washington Post and tipped him off about a presidential indiscretion — a radical
hair implant procured at taxpayers' expense. It was generally accepted that Tategate'- a story
that dominated American domestic politics for almost a week — had been broken by Vernon
Halliday of The Judge.
Or
Some hours before dawn Henry Perowne, a neurosurgeon, wakes to find himself already
in motion, pushing back the covers from a sitting position, and then rising to his feet. It's not
clear to him when exactly he became conscious, nor does it seem relevant. He's never done
such a thing before, but he isn't alarmed or even faintly surprised, for the movement is easy,
and pleasurable in his limbs, and his back and legs feel unusually strong. He stands there, naked
by the bed—he always sleeps naked—feeling his full height, aware of his wife's patient
breathing and of the wintry bedroom air on his skin. That too is a pleasurable sensation.
(1x10=10)
19) Translate one the following passages into Malayalam or Hindi:
A top Iranian oil official has described as irrelevant the bill passed on Tuesday by the
U.S. House of Representatives that seeks to impose sanctions on global companies selling
refined petroleum to Iran.
"We can receive the amount of gasoline we need," Hojjatollah Ghanimifard, a top official at
the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
5S
"We do not even bother about these kind of sanctions," he observed. In a parallel show of
defiance, Iran fired a two-stage solid fuelled missile, Sejl-2, which Iranian Defence Minister
Ahmad Vahidi said would be used "to defend peace, security and stability both in Iran and in
the entire region."
Or
Ragging can be in any form, the mildest being the practice of asking freshers to introduce
themselves. There is nothing particularly insulting in introducing oneself But the queries
often verge on the obscene and the young students are at a loss to give the answers expected
of them by the 'big brothers.' It is not uncommon for the seniors to fish into the pockets of
the juniors for money, or to ask them to buy cigarettes for them. The more harrowing
experiences include the measuring of the length of a football field with matchsticks, doing
suiya namaskar in the blazing sun at noon and cleaning the closets in the seniors' rooms with
bare hands. It has also been observed that senior students from the disadvantaged sections of
society are also subjected to ragging by their more privileged peers.
(Ix10=10)
5-'
Panel of Question Paper Setters
1. Dr Meena T Pillai, Associate Professor, Institute of English, Kerala University, Phone:
9495919749.
2. Dr Saji Mathew, Associate Professor, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam. Phone:
9847237570
3. Dr K M Krishnan, Associate Professor, School of Letters, M G University, Kottayam. Phone:
9447179486
4. Dr V C Harris, Professor, School of Letters, M G University, Phone — 9447113218.
5. Dr Prasad Pannian, Associate Professor, Central University of Kerala, Kasargod,
Phone — 9445460202.
Panel of Examiners
1. Dr Saji Mathew, Associate Professor, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam. Phone:
9847237570
2. Dr K M Krishnan, Associate Professor, School of Letters, M G University, Kottayam. Phone:
9447179486
3. Anvar N K, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Govt. College, Mokeri, Kozhikode Dt., Phone 9846051604.
4. Dr Anitha Ramesh, Associate Professor, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Kozhikode, Phone —
9388431553
Dr
Sherine Upot, Professor, School of Distance Education, MG University, Phone: 9447558619.
5.
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ENG 3 E06 Twentieth Century Arabic Literature in English Translation
Course Description
The course is designed to introduce students to a cross section of Twentieth Century and
Contemporary Arabic Writing in English Translation. The course is introductory in nature and is
intended only to offer glimpses of lives and world views of Arabic speaking cultures which are
constructed in literature. The students are also expected to acquire basic background information about
the social and political history of Arabic-speaking peoples during the period
Texts for Study
Poetry
Adonis
"Elegy for Al-Hajjaj"
Badr-Shakir Al-Sayyab "Rain Song."
Salah Abd 'al-Saleh
"Expectation: Night and Day."
Nazik al-Malaika
"Love Song for Words."
Muhammad al'Ali
"When I Write of Love"
Mahmoud Darweish
"Edward Said: A Contrapuntal Reading."
Suad Al-Sabah
"Mad Woman."
Mohammed Bennis
"Seven Birds"
Sail AI-Rahbi
"Our Old House"
Qassim Haddad
"'Stone"
Fatima Naoot
"Cock's Crest"
Fawziyya Abu Khalid
"Two Little Girls"
Fiction
Muhammed Hussain Haykal
Zainab
Naguib Mahfouz
The Thief and the Dogs
Najad Khayyat
"One Day the Sun will Rise"
SG
Zakaria Tamir
"What Took Place in the City that was Asleep"
Ghassan Kanafani
"If You'd been a Horse"
Was Khouri
"City Gates"
Emile Habiby
"The Mandelbaum Gate"
Mahmoud Shaheen
"Ordeal by Fire"
Drama
Abdallah Abd-al Jabbar
The Dumb Devils
Reference
Roger Allen
An Introduction to Arabic Literature
Muhsin J al-Musawi
Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition
Munir Mezyed
Abdul-Sattar Abdul-Lathif
The Gateway to Modern Arabic Poetry
Pierre Cachia
Arabic Literature: An Overview
Salma K Jayyusi (ed.)
"Introduction", Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology
Salma K Jayyusi et al (ed.)
"Introduction", An Anthology of Modern Saudi Literature
Anasthasia Valossopoulos
Contemporary Arab Women Writers
Scheme of Questions
1. Three Essays, each carrying 15 marks (with three choices for each) on the following:
a) Poetry
b) Fiction and Drama
c) Cultural and Literary History
5,
2. Seven short answer questions, each carrying 5 marks (out of a choice of 14) set as
follows:
a) Five questions from poetry
b) Five Questions from fiction and drama
c) Four questions from literary and cultural history
Model Question Paper
Ill Semester MA (English)
ENG 3 E06 Arabic Literature in English Translation
Time: 3 hours
Marks: 80
I Write an essay on any one of the following:
a) Discuss how Arabic speaking cultures are represented in contemporary
Arabic poetry
b) Discuss how history is reconstructed in contemporary Arabic poetry
c) Attempt a brief analysis of the thematic concerns of Arabic women poetry.
(15x1=15)
II Write an essay on any one of the following:
a) Discuss the play of tradition and modernity in Contemporary Arabic fiction
b) Compare and contrast Haykal and Mahfouz as modern fictionists
c) Discuss how Arabic fiction represents Arab multiculturalism
(15x1=15)
Ill Write an essay on any one of the following:
a) Discuss the role of the formative political events in the Arab world in the
shaping of contemporary Arabic literature
b) Discuss the level of perceptible Western influence in contemporary Arabic
literature.
Co
c) Discuss the formal innovations in Arabic poetry in the Twentieth Century.
(15x1=15)
IV Write short notes on any seven of the following:
1. Adonis' imagery
2. Nostalgia in "Rain Song"
3. Malaika as a modernist
4. Edward Said's portrait in "Edward Said: A Contrapuntal Reading"
5. Feminist assertion in Arabic poetry
6. Zainab as a love story in the Arabic Tradition
7. Naguib's depiction of the underworld in The Thief and the Dogs
8. Palestinian politics in "If You'd been a Horse"
9. Narrative technique in "What Happened to the City that was Asleep."
10. The Dumb Devils as political satire
11. Modernism in Arabic poetry
12. Use of traditional poetic forms in Contemporary Arabic poetry
13. Liberation Movements and Arabic literature
14. Religious impulses in contemporary Arabic literature
(7x5=35)
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Panel of Question Paper Setters
1. Dr K M Krishnan, Associate Professor, School of Letters, M G University, Kottayam.
Phone: 9447179486
2. Dr Saji Mathew, Associate Professor, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam.
Phone: 9847237570
3. Dr M Dasan, Professor and Head, Dept. of Studies in English, Kannur University,
Phone: 9447157268
4. Dr P P Raveendran, Professor, School of Letters, MG University, Phone- 9447120845
5. Dr Prasad Pannian, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Central University of Kerala,
Kasargod, Phone: 9445460202.
Panel of Examiners
1. Dr Anitha Ramesh, Associate Professor, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Kozhikode, Phone —
9388431553.
2. Anvar N K, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Govt. College, Mokeri, Kozhikode Dt., Phone —
9846051604.
3. Dr Saji Mathew, Associate Professor, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam. Phone:
9847237570
4. Dr K M Krishnan, Associate Professor, School of Letters, M G University, Kottayam. Phone:
9447179486.
5. Dr Sherine Upot, Professor, School of Distance Education, MG University, Phone: 9447558619.
6. Dr Prasad Pannian, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Central University of Kerala, Kasargod,
Phone: 9445460202.
'M. A. English Language and Literature
Choice Based Credit Semester System
Semester 4
Syllabus
ENG 3E07 Introduction to Cultural Studies
Credits: 4
Course Description
This course provides a general introduction to cultural studies, emphasizing its history,
theoretical foundations and (inter)disciplinary attributes. Along with an overview of the
methods and strategies used in cultural studies, the course takes an interdisciplinary approach
to analyzing how culture acts on individuals in a society, how it is produced, where it is
located, and how it engenders consensus/resistance.
1. Toby Miller, "What it is and what it isn't: Introducing. . Cultural Studies," A
Companion to Cultural Studies, Ed. Toby Miller (Blackwell, 2001).
2. Roland Barthes, "Myth as a Semiological System," "The form and the Concept,"
Mythologies, (Noonday Press, 1991).
3. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment As
Mass Deception," Cultural Studies Reader, Ed. Simon During (Routledge, 1999).
4. Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,"
Illuminations, Trans. Harry Zola]: (Schocken, 1969).
5. Raymond Williams, "Culture is Ordinary," The Everyday Life Reader, Ed. Ben
Highmore, (Routledg,e, 2002).
6. Stuart Hall, "Encoding/Decoding," Culture, Media, Language (Routledge, 1980).
7. Edward Soja, "History: Geography: Modernity," Cultural Studies Reader, Ed. Simon
During (Routledge, 1999).
8. Judith Butler, "Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire," Cultural Studies Reader, Ed. Simon
During (Routledge, 1999).
9. Mark Gibson and Alec McHoul, "Interdisciplinarity," A Companion to Cultural
Studies, Ed. Toby Miller (Blackwell, 2001).
10. Toby Miller and Geoffrey Lawrence, "Globalization and Culture,"A Companion to
Cultural Studies, Ed. Toby Miller (Blackwell, 2001).
11. Sarah Berry, "Fashion," A Companion to Cultural Studies, Ed. Toby Miller
(Blackwell, 2001).
12. Alastair Pennycook, "Beyond Homogeny and Heterogeny: English as a Global and
Worldly Language," The Politics of English as a World Language, Ed. Christian Mair
(Rodopi, 2003).
Further Reading:
Ziauddin Sardar & Ziauddin Sardar and Bonin Van Loon Introducing Cultural
Studies, (Icon, 1999).
Michael Ryan, Cultural Studies: A Practical Introduction, (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
Anthony Easthope, Literary Into Cultural Studies, (Routledge, 1991).
John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture, (Routledge, 1989).
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SECOND SEMESTER (CCSS) MA DEGREE EXAMINATION
EngIlsh Language and Literature
3E cg
ENG2010/H -'Women's Writing- Syllabus
Section A
'Theoretical Contexts:
1. Virginia Woolf • "'Judith Shakespeare" A Room Of One's thS11 Norton Anthology
2. Alice Walker
Search of MyMother"s clan-fens" The Norton Anthology:
3. Susie Thant and IC.Lalitic, Section I Introduction,'
Women Writing hi India Vol.'
Section B
1.Thpri ClathaR
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„pgikagg- thp..11w=...,
a) Mutta (So free an I, SO gloriously free) p.68
Women Writing In India Vol.I
h) Sumangalamata (A woman Well Set Free) P.68 Women Writing In
India V01.1
cyvtettika(Though't am Weialrialtilli-edilow) p.69 Wonien Writinith inch
Vol.l
2. Oriva Folksong—You Nurtured WI
Vol. 1p.135
e to be a carefree bird 0 Mother. _Women Writing'In India
ir 9;
✓ . Anne Bradstreet – The Author to Her Book The
Norton Anthology: Literature bv Women
A. Phyllis Wheatley On Being Bought from Africa to America The Norton Anthology:
Literature by Wotnen
/5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning –To George Sand :the Norton Anthology:
16 Mary Coleridge —the-Other side of a Mirror. The Norton
7 Sylvia Plath
Literature by Women
Anthology Literature hy. Women
-- Mirror. The Norton Anthology: Literature by Women
,j8. Adrienne Rich -- Aunt Jennifer's Tigers. The Norton Antholog_y_: Literaturek_ women
9. Denise Levertov --The Goddess. The Norton Anthology: Literature, by
Women
0 Maya Angel ou -- The Phenomenal Woman
I Margaret. Atwood --- This is a Photograph of me. The Norton_Antholosy:
Wom en
Section C — Autobiographicth Sketchei and Short Fiction
1. Autobiographical Sketches:
ja) Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman'? 'The NortonAnthology: Literiture byyllonieg
b)
Hamsa Wadkar I'm Telling eon Listen Warren Writing In India V61.1
Baby Kamble: Our Wretched Live`s_Worneri Ws-Ali:410114a Vol.)
c)
d) Kmnala Das: "The AnCient Hungers that once tormented me That
i
Excerpt from My Sion.
11 Short Fictions:
a) Charlotte Perkins Oilman: The Yellow Wallpaper Norton Anthology
Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour
lj)b)Lalitambika
Antadanam Prathikariide
Women Writing In India Vol.1
Section D: Fiction.and Drama
Fiction
a) Charlotte Bronte
:Jane Eyre
h) Alice Walker
: The Colour Puiple
j c) Shashi Deshpande
i
d) AnwitaPritam
:'That Long Silence
A Line in Water
Drama:
A Raisin In
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MA English Language and Literature
CCSS (2011 admission)
ENG 3E09 : Post 1980 Indian Writings in English
(4 credits)
Course description and objective:
The post 1980 Indian writings in English reflect the fast changing elements in the
social structure of India. It indeed is a contest over the nature, identity and ultimately
the destiny of modern India. These writings have gained a new viability, vitality and
vibrancy; they are in the global spotlight via wide readership home and abroad and
through winning major literary awards. In the present literary scenario, the realistic,
modernistic pessimistic mode of post independence writings have given way to a nonrepresentational, experimental self-conscious and optimistic writings. There writers
also create a new Indian English idiom by taking recourse to code mixing in their
writings.
This course is structured to orient students towards the latest and the most
contemporary in IWE, to acquaint and familiarize them with the diverse contribution
of these new writers of repute and to sensitize them to the real challenge
contemporary IWE is facing by way of enforced homogenization and standardization
of culture in the wake of globalization and neo-liberalism.
Syllabus
Module 1: Poetry
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Kamala Das
Shiv. K Kumar
Vikram Seth
Niranjan Mohanty
Gauri Deshpande
Meena Alexander
Meena Kandasamy
: Next to Indira Gandhi
: Thus spake the Buddha
: From California
: A House of Rains
: A Lunch on the Train
: Illiterate Heart
: Mulligatawny Dreams
Module 2: Fiction
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Aravind Adiga
: The White Tiger
Rukun Advani
: Beethoven Among the Cows
Tarun Tejpal
: The Alchemy of Desire
Manju Kapur
: Difficult Daughters
Chetan Bagath
: Revolution 2020
Manjula Padmanabhan
: Kleptomania (Short Fiction)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni : One Amazing Thing
Module 3: Drama and Prose
1.
2.
3.
4.
Girish Karnad
Mahesh Dattani
Anupama Chandrasekhar
Arundhathi Roy
Wedding Album
Bravely Fought the Queen
Free outgoing call
The Ladies have feelings, so...shall we leave it
to the experts?
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ENG 3E09 : Post 1980 Indian Writings in English
Question Paper pattern
Max: 80 Marks
Time: 3 Hrs.
I.
IV.
III
IV.
Essay from Poetry
One out of a choice of 3
Essay from Fiction
One out of a choice of 3
'(1x15= 15 marks)
(1x15= 15 marks)
Essay from Prose and Drama
'(1x15= 15 marks)
One out of a choice of 3
Short notes covering the entire syllabus
(7x5= 35 marks)
Seven out of a choice of 12
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ENG 3E09 : Post 1980 Indian Writings in English
Model Question Paper
Time: 3 Hrs
I.
Max: 80 marks
Write an essay on one of the following
1. Post 1980 Indian English poetry has a wide range of contents and
perceptions. Discuss its strength and variety as reflected in the
prescribed poems
2. Discuss Kamala Das's love-hate relationship with her father in the
poem "Next to Indira Gandhi"
3. Both Meena Alexander and Meena Kandasamy articulate some of the
linguistic dilemmas confronting Indian writers in English. Discuss.
(1 x 15 = 15 marks)
II.
Write an essay on one of the following
1. Difficult Daughters is a novel about female desire and entrapment;
about compromise and compliance. Discuss
2. Examine Alchemy of Desire as a fascinating analysis of 20 th Century
India.
3. One Amazing Thing affirms that life, for all its pain, is miraculous.
Discuss..
(1 x 15 = 15 marks)
III.
Write an essay on one of the following
1. Examine the contemporary concerns of Urban middle class Indians
portrayed in Wedding Album.
2. Arundhathi Roy ponders on the ill effects of globalization and the role
of the artist in combating these effects in her essay "The Ladies have
feelings, so...shall we leave it to the experts?". Discuss.
3. Analyse how Anupama Chandrasekher's play Free Outgoing raises
valid questions about sensational media stories voyeurism.
(1 x 15 = 15 marks)
G
IV.
Write an short notes on any seven of the following:
Nuances of the word "Kleptomania" in ManjuM. Padmanabhan's story.
The significance of the title Bravely Fought the Queen
Love, corruption and ambition in Revolution 2020
Polyphonic voices of India in Alchemy of Desire.
Adiga's portrait of India in The White Tiger
Forays into recesses of self and the nation's history in Beethoven
Among The Cows
7. Theme of renunciation and detachment in "Thus spake the Buddha"
8. The voices of Rain in "A House of Rains"
9. Gauri Deshpande's views on middle class Indian woman in "A Lunch
on the Train"
10. Experiences of exile in Meena Alexander
11. Meena Kandasamy and counter poetic speech of emancipatory energy.
12. Presence of past in "From California"
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
(7 x 5 = 35 marks)
Gel
Panel of question Paper Setters
1. Dr. Saji Mathew, Lecturer, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam
Phone : 9847237570
2. Dr. Meena. S.Pillai, Reader, Institute of English, Kerala University, Tvm.
Phone : 9495919749
3. Dr. K.M. Krishnan, ., Lecturer, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam
Phone : 9447179486
4. Dr. Raghavan, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragode Phone: 9496419986
Panel of Examiners
1 Dr. Anitha Ramesh, Reader, Dept. of English, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan
College, Calicut -- Phone 9388431553
2. Dr. P.K. Prabha, Dept. of English, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan
College, Calicut -- Phone 9447132496
3. Dr. Saji Mathew, Lecturer, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam
Phone : 9847237570
4. Dr. Raghavan, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragode Phone: 9496419986
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-
ENG4 LW Malayalam Literature in English Translation (CCSS)
Objectives of the Course: To introduce the movements and trends in Malayalam
literature since the 1970s to the students and to familiarize them with some of the
important authors and texts of the period.
Course Content: Modernism, political modernism and postmodernism — Women writing
from the 1970s — Dal it and Environmentalist concerns — Resurgence of political theatre.
Texts for Study
Poetry
Ayyappa Panikker
N N Kakkad
K Satchidanandan
K G Sankarappillai
Balachandran Chu llikkad
V M Girija
Rose Mary
Vijayalakshmi
Raghavan Atholi
Veerankutty
Hey, Gagarin
Death of a Rogue Elephant
Testament
The Dhobhi and the Dhoti
Approver
Baptised by the Waves
The Mourning Man — A Sketch
In Hiding
Kandathi
In the Sanatorium for Trees
Fiction
Sethu
0 V Vijayan
Zachariah
Anand
Pattathuvila Karunakaran
M Sukumaran
Sarah Joseph
Gracy
C Ayyappan
Narayan
-
-
Pandavapuram
Legends of Khasak
Some Recent Unnatural Deaths
The Last Laugh
Akbar's Upanishad
Broken Glasses
Inside Every Woman Writer
Panchali
Spectral Speech
Footprints of the Predator
Drama
G Sankarappillai
K J Baby
Bharatavakyam
Nadugaddika
The texts for study will be supplemented by handouts of specially prepared
material on the history of Malayalam literature post-1970 which outline the chief trends
and movements.
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Panel of Question Paper Setters
1. Dr P P Raveendran, Professor, School of Letters, MG University.
Phone: 9447120845.
2. Dr V C Harris, Professor, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam.
Phone: 94447113218.
3. Dr Meena S Pillai, Reader, Institute of English, Kerala University,
Thiruvanathapuram. Phone: 9495919749.
4. Dr B Hariharan, Reader, Institute of English, Kerala University,
Thiruvananthapuram. Phone: 9446203008.
Dr
Saji Mathew, Lecturer, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam
5.
Phone: 9847237570
Panel of Examiners
1. Dr K M Krishnan, Reader, School of Letters, M G University, Kottayam
Phone: 9447179486
2. Dr Sherine Upot, Professor, School of Distance Education, MG University,
Kottayam. Phone: 9447558619.
3. Dr Saji Mathew, Lecturer, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam
Phone: 9847237570.
4. Dr B Hariharan, Reader, Institute of English, Kerala University,
Thiruvananthapuram. Phone: 9446203008.
5. Dr Meena S Pillai, Reader, Institute of English, Kerala University,
Thiruvanathapuram. Phone: 9495919749.
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Scheme of Question Paper
Time: 3 hours, Marks: 80.
I.
II
Three essays of 15 marks each:
a) Essay I (1 out of 3 choices) — On trends, movements and
characteristics of post-1970 Malayalam literature
b) Essay 2 (1 out of 3) — relating to the prescribed texts in poetry
c) Essay 3 (1 out of 3) — relating to the prescribed texts in fiction
Seven short notes (out of a choice of 14) of 5 marks each:
a) Poetry: 5 topics
b) Fiction: 5 topics
c) Drama: 4 topics
Model Question Paper
MA IV Semester Examination (CCSS)
ENG4 El0Malayalam Literature in English Translation
Time: 3 hours
I.
Marks: 80
1) Write an essay on any one of the following in about 4 pages:
Briefly discuss the changes in sensibility that modernism effected in Malayalam
Literature
OR
Examine how political modernism emerged as a powerful force in Malayalam
Literature.
OR
Discuss the impact of feminist, dalit and environmentalist writing in Malayalam.
2) Write an essay on any one of the following in about 4 pages:
Attempt a comparative study of the poetry of Satchidanandan and
K G Sankarappillai.
OR
Discuss the thematic and stylistic features of Balachandran Chullikkad's poetry.
OR
Examine whether feminist poetry in Malayalam represents a break with modernism.
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3) Write an essay on any one of the following in about 4 pages:
Is Pandavapurani modernist in its theme and idiom? Discuss.
OR
Discuss Legends of Khasak as a multi-voiced text
OR
Discuss "Spectral Speech" and 'Footprints of the Predator'' as political fiction.
(15x3=45 marks)
H. Write short notes in about a page each on seven of the following:
1) "Hey, Gagarin" as a manifesto of modernism.
2) The alienated self in"Death of a Rogue Elephant."
3) "The Mourning Man — A Sketch" as an "anti-confessional" poem.
4) The mother figure in "Kandathi."
5) Imagery in "In the Sanatorium for Trees."
6) "The Last Laugh" as a parable.
7) "Broken Glasses" as a political statement.
8) "Inside Every Woman Writer" as the testament of a woman writer.
9) The play of social realism and fantasy in "Some Recent Unnatural Deaths."
10) "Panchali" as feminist deconstruction of a classical myth.
11) Modernist techniques in Malayalam drama.
12) Questions of life and art in Bharatavakyam
13) Political theatre in Malayalam.
14) Re-invention of ritual in Nadugaddika.
(7x5=35 marks)
M.. A. English Language and Literature
Choice Based Credit Semester System
Semester 4 (2011)
Syllabus
ENG 4E11 Literary Theory—An In-depth Study
Credits: 4
Course Description
This course aims at providing an in-depth understanding of four major schools of
contemporary theory that have had significant bearing on the study and analysis of
literature— viz, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies. The
course is designed in such a way that the students can, on the one hand, form a general
understanding of the the issues and concerns of each school, and on the other, learn in
depth one or two major theoretical contributions in each school.
Section 1
General Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theory — Major movements and figures
Section 2: Post-structuralism
1. Hans Bertens, "The Poststructuralist Revolution: Derrida, Deconstruction and
Postmodernism," Literal)) Theoy: The Basics, New York: Roudedge, 2001.
2. Jacques Derrida, "Differance" Literag Theog: An Anthology, Julie Rivkin and Michael
Ryan (Eds), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, 278-299.
Section 3: Postmodernism
3. Gregory Castle, "Postmodernism," The Blackwell Guide to Literag Theory, Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing, 2007, 144-153.
4. Jean-Frangois Lyotard, "Defining the Postmodern," Norton Anthology of Theog and
Criticism, Vincent B. Leitch (Gen. Ed.), Norton, 2001, 1609-1615.
5. Jean-Frangois Lyotard, "The Postmodern Condition," Literary Timmy: An Anthology,
Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan (Eds), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, 355-364.
Section 4: Psychoanalysis
6. David Wilburn, "Reading After Freud," Contemporary Literag Meaty, Douglas Atkins
and Laura Morrow (Eds), Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989,
158-179.
7. Jacques Lacan, "The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since
Freud," Literag Theog: An Anthology, ulie Rivkin and Michael Ryan (Eds), Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing, 2004, 447-461.
Section 5: Cultural Studies
8. Gregory Castle, "Cultural Studies," The Blackwell Guide to Literag Theog, Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing, 2007, 144-153.
9. Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer, "The Culture Industry. Enlightenment as
Mass Deception," The Cultural Studies Reader, Simon During (Ed.), London:
Roudedge, 2001, 31-41.
10. Mikhail Bakhdn, "Rabelais and his World," Literati, Theo!" An Anthology, Julie Rivkin
and Michael Ryan (Eds), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, 686-692.
For further reading:
Terry Eagleton, Literary Theog: An Introduction, London: Blackwell Publishing, 1983.
Gregory Castle, The Blackwell Guide to Literaty Theog, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007.
Hans Bertens, Literag Theogn The Basics, New York: Routledge, 2001.
Douglas Atkins & Laura Morrow, Contemporaty Literaty Theory, Amherst: University of
Massachusets Press, 1989.
M. A. English Language and Literature
Choice Based Credit Semester System
Semester 4 (2011)
ENG 4E11 Literary Theory — An In-depth Study
Credits: 4
Scheme of Questions:
The following scheme is aimed at a fair representation of all areas of the course in the
examination and to ensure an equitable distribution of questions addressing the different
topics and areas. The question paper setter is requested to kindly adhere to this scheme.
Essay 1: One out of three choices on Essays No. 1, 3, 6 and 8 (general essays introducing
each school) in the syllabus, addressing specific issues in individual essays— 15 marks.
Essay 2: One out of three choices on Essays No. 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 10 (major theoretical
contributions) in the syllabus, addressing specific issues in individual essays— 15 marks.
Essay 3: One out of three choices addressing larger areas/issues figuring in more than one
essay included in the syllabus — 15 marks.
Essay 4: One out of three choices of a comparative nature or bringing up issues of mutual
influence/impact, in order to test the student's overall understanding of the relative
positions of different theoreticians and approaches represented in the syllabus — 15
marks.
Short Notes Questions: Five out of ten choices, on specific concepts, theoretical terms,
etc, figuring in the essays included in the syllabus — 4 X 5 = 20
Note: In order to ensure fair distribution of questions, it is most important that no essay is
left unrepresented in the paper and that no essay(s) is given undue weightage.
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Panel of Question Paper Setters
M. A. English Language and Literature
Choice Based Credit Semester System
Semester 4 (2011)
ENG 4E11 Literary Theory — An In-depth Study
1. Dr. K. K. Kunhammad
Department of Studies in English
Kannur University
Tel: 9946665444
2. Dr. B. Hariharan
Institute of English
University of Kerala
Trivandrum
Tel: 9446203008
3. Dr. K. M. Krishnan
School of Letters
Mahatma Gandhi University
Kottayam
Tel: 9447179486
4. Dr, Meena Pillai
Institute of English
University of Kerala
Trivandrum
Tel: 9495919749
5. Dr. P. P. Raveendran
School of Letters
Mahatma Gandhi University
Kottayam
Tel: 9447120845
6. Dr. V. C. Harris
School of Letters
Mahatma Gandhi University
Kottayam
Tel: 9447113218
Panel of Examiners
M. A. English Language and Literature
Choice Based Credit Semester System
Semester 4 (2011)
ENG 4E11 Literary Theory — An In-depth Study
1. Dr. K. K. Kunhammad
Department of Studies in English
Kannur University
Tel: 9946665444
2. Dr. B. Hariharan
Institute of English
University of Kerala
Trivandrum
Tel: 9446203008
3. Dr. K. M. Krishnan
School of Letters
Mahatma Gandhi University
Kottayam
Tel: 9447179486
4. Dr, Meena Pillai
Institute of English
University of Kerala
Trivandrum
Tel: 9495919749
5. Dr. P. P. Raveendran
School of Letters
Mahatma Gandhi University
Kottayam
Tel: 9447120845
6. Dr. V. C. Harris
School of Letters
Mahatma Gandhi University
Kottayam
Tel: 9447113218
MA English Language and Literature
CCSS (2011 admission)
ENG 4 Ell Ecology and Literature
( 4 credits)
Course description and objectives
This course will explore human connection to environment and especially its nature in
various literary works. Ecology has come to play a central intellectual role in our
present age and here we are introducing students to one of the newest most vibrant
and relevant method of reading literary texts, whereby literary and cultural
productions are examined in relation to environmental impact, ecological models and
the social, political, ontological and epistemological implication of the categories of
`human' and `nature'. Our focus would be on the role of language and literature in
understanding and expressing our connection to the world around us.
Students will develop abilities to experience literary works and the social and natural
worlds in critical and creative ways. It will create an openness to thinking critically
and creatively about the human world and the environment and develop aesthetics of
nature and literary texts.
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Module I
General Introduction to Environmental Literature
Books for reference
1. Cheryll Glotfelty
2. Timothy Clark
: Ecocriticism Reader
: The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and
Environment
Module II
Literary texts for Reading and Discussion
Section A
Wangari Maathai
Peter Mathiessen
Jamaica Kincaid
bell hooks
: Replenishing the Earth
: The Snow Leopard
: In History
: Touching the Earth
Section B
Nadine Gordimer
Rachel Carson
Amitav Ghosh
Ruskin Bond
: The conservationist
: Silent Spring
: The Hungry Tide
: The Kitemaker
Section C
Robert Frost
Langston Hughes
Seamus Heaney
Ted Hughes
Gordon JL Ramel
: A Brook in the City
: The Negro Speaks of Rivers
: Death of a Naturalist
: Thistles
: Tiger Tiger Revisited; Daffodils no More
MA English Language and Literature
CCSS (2011 admission)
ENG 4 E12 Ecology and Literature
Question Paper pattern.
Max: 80 marks
Time: 3 hrs
I.
Essay from Module 1
One out of 3
(1x20--- 20 )
II.
Essay from Module 2 Section A
(1x20= 20 )
One out of 3
III.
Essay from Module 2 Section B
(1x20= 20 )
One out of 3
IV.
Essay from Module 2 Section C
(1x20= 20 )
One out of 3
MA English Language and Literature
CCSS (2011 admission)
ENG 4 E12 Ecology and Literature
Model question paper
Time: 3 Hrs
I.
Max. Marks: 80
Write an essay on any one of the following:
1. The ability to practice unconditional love towards nature and its beings
can surely change the world into a better place. Discuss
2. Examine how literary studies play a major role in dealing with
menacing environmental issues
3. The most important function of literature today is to redirect human
consciousness to full consideration of its place in a threatened natural
world. Elaborate
(I x 20 = 20 marks)
II.
Write an essay on any one of the following:
1. Examine in detail how Wangari Maathai makes an impassioned call to
heal the wounds of our planet and ourselves.
2. The Snow Leopard describes different aspects, conviction and
tradition of culture with which the author is interacting. Substantiate
3. Explain how bell hooks explores the relationship between farming and
race in Touching the Earth.
(1 x 20 = 20 marks)
III.
Write an essay on any one of the following:
1. Death is an obsessive theme in conservationist. Discuss
2. Examine how Carson creates awareness regarding the toxicity of
pesticide and warns against recklessness with which they are used.
3. Amitav Ghosh places on record the conceptnal question as to how
humans share a complex and dangerous ecosystem with animals.
Discuss with reference to The Hungry Tide.
(1 x 20 = 20 marks)
IV.
Write an essay on any one of the following:
1. Analyse the immortal force of the brook as portrayed by Robert Frost
2. Write about the image of death and idea of deathlessness portrayed by
Langston Hughes in A Negro Speaks of River
3. Examine how Gordon J L Ramel makes use of parodies to convey a
timely message by focusing on the spiritual crisis of the human species
and the loss of local biodiversity
(1 x 20 =- 20 marks)
Panel of question Paper Setters
1. Dr. Saji Mathew, Lecturer, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam
Phone : 9847237570
2. Dr. Meena. S.Pillai, Reader, Institute of English, Kerala University, Tvm.
Phone : 9495919749
3. Dr. K.M. Krishnan, ., Lecturer, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam
Phone : 9447179486
4. Dr. Raghavan, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragode Phone: 9496419986
Panel of Examiners
1 Dr. Anitha Ramesh, Reader, Dept. of English, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan
College, Calicut — Phone 9388431553
2. Dr. P.K. Prabha, Dept. of English, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan
College, Calicut — Phone 9447132496
3. Dr. Saji Mathew, Lecturer, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam
Phone : 9847237570
4. Dr. Raghavan, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragode Phone: 9496419986
MA English Language and Literature
CCSS (2011 admission)
Course Title: ENG 4E13 TEACHING OF ENGLISH
Marks: 80
Time: 3 hours
The course aims to introduce students to the basic concepts and the current developments in
English Language Teaching. Linguistic theories and its impact on language teaching; different
teaching methods and their pedagogical implications will be taken up for study. Students will be
introduced to the various classroom strategies, techniques and teaching aids; lesson plan for
teaching effectively the different genres and language skills; and the process and procedure for
testing and evaluation.
Module I
Basic Terms and Concepts: ESL and EFL; LI and L2; Bilingualism and multilingualism;
Teaching/Learning, Acquisition/Learning distinction; Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics
Psychological Approaches to Language Learning: The role of psychology in language
learning; Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism, Social Constructivism, Critical Pedagogy;
Learner factors- age, aptitude, learning conditions and environment
Module 2
Methods of Language Teaching: Grammar Translation method, Direct method, Audio-lingual
method, Silent way, suggestopaedia, CLT, the Concept of Comprehensible Input
Classroom Procedures: Literature and Language teaching; Lesson Plan for teaching of poetry,
prose, Grammar, and fiction. Teaching of oral and written communication. Teaching aids- audiovisual, CALL
Module 3
Testing and Evaluation: Internal and External evaluation; Summative and Formative assessment,
Continuous and comprehensive evaluation, Assessment of Learning and Assessment for learning,
Types of tests; criteria for a good achievement test; tools of evaluation-types of questions
Books for Reference
H.H. Stern - Fundamentals of Language Teaching (OUP)
Wilga Rivers — Teaching Foreign Language Skills
Harold V. Allen - Teaching English as a Second Language
Rosamond Mitchell and Florence Myle — Second Language Learning Theories
George Yule - The Study of Language
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Stephen Krashen - Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition. English
Language Teaching series. London: Prentice-Hall International (UK) Ltd.
Jack C Richards & Theodore Rodgers - Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching
Kincheloe, Joe L - Critical Pedagogy
Scheme of questions
Essay questions
1. One out of three choices from Module I
2. One out of three choices from Module 2
3. One out of three choices from Module 3
(3 x 15 = 45)
or
4
sentences)
Short questions (to be answered in 3
Five out of ten choices giving due weightage to all the areas prescribed
(5 x 2 = 10)
Short notes :
Five out of ten choices giving due weightage to all the areas prescribed
(5 x 5 = 25)
MA English Language and Literature
CCSS (2011 admission)
ENG 4E13 TEACHING OF ENGLISH
Model question paper
Time: 3 Hrs
I.
Max. Marks: 80
Attempt any three questions from the following selecting one from each
section:
(3 x 15 = 45)
Section A
Elaborate on I) Behaviourist theory of language learning
2) Cognitive Theories
3) Social Constructivism
Section B
I. Enumerate the different methods of teaching English
2. Differentiate between structural and communicate approach to language teaching
3. What are the different steps involved in teaching a prose lesson?
Section C
1. Explain the concept of Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation
2. What are the different criteria for conducting a good Achievement Test?
3. Prepare a model English question paper for the X standard students giving due
weightage to all the language skills.
Rg
IT.
Answer any five questions (in three or four sentences)
1. L I and L2
2. Bilingualism
3. Difference between acquisition and learning of a language
4. Differentiate approach and method
5. Multiple Intelligence
6. CALL
7. Summative evaluation
8. Aims and objectives of teaching in English
9. Principles of selection of vocabulary items
10. Podcasting
(5 x 2 = 10 )
III.
Write short notes on any five of the following
I. Deductive and inductive method of teaching grammar
2. Direct method of teaching English
3. Remedial teaching
4. Substitution tables
5. Blogs
6. Language laboratory
7. Teaching aids
8. Teaching of vocabulary
9. Supra segmental features
(5 x 5 = 25)
10. Receptive skills
Panel of question Paper Setters
1. Dr. Saji Mathew, Lecturer, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam
Phone : 9847237570
2. Dr. Meena. S.Pillai, Reader, Institute of English, Kerala University, Tvm.
Phone : 9495919749
3. Dr. K.M. Krishnan, ., Lecturer, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam
Phone : 9447179486
4. Dr. Raghavan, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragode Phone: 9496419986
Panel of Examiners
1 Dr. Anitha Ramesh, Reader, Dept. of English, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan
College, Calicut — Phone 9388431553.
2. Dr. P.K. Prabha, Dept. of English, Zamorin's Guruvayurappan
College, Calicut — Phone 9447132496
3. Dr. Saji Mathew, Lecturer, School of Letters, MG University, Kottayam
Phone : 9847237570
4. Dr. Raghavan, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragode Phone: 9496419986
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