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Following is a broad list of areas; these are not specific, but only indicators.
Research: What is research? Research as a problem solving activity; Airn of
research; the idea of hypothesis and research question, the role of
theory
Scientifrc Method: Logical inference; deductive and inductive methods: making
logical and empirical distinctions; thesis as an ar_qunent. data
collection, quantitative and qualitative methods, etc
ReSearch Ethics: Plaeiarism and ethos of research culture
Research
Skills:
Cognitive; Research writing, and reading fbr research; Editing
Skills; Discourse Analysis; Citation styles, Reference,
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The following syllabus is to be taken as a broad indicator rather than a specific
prescription. The aim is to test the familiarity of candidates with canonical texts,
themes, genres, concepts, theories and isms covered broadly in English Studies.
1. ENGLTSH LTTERATURE UPTO 1900 (PART
UNIT
1
Chaucer
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sir Philip Sydney
Edniund Spenser
Shakespeare
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Mary Sidney
Aemelia Lanyer
Elizabeth I.
Shakespeare
: General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
"Whoso list to hunt"
: "Stella oft sees the very face of woe"
"One day I wrote her name"
"Let me not the marriage of true minds"
"Two loves I have of comfort and despair"
Dedicatory verses to Queen Elizebeth.
Extract from Salve Deux Rex Judaeomm
(Eve's apology in defence of Women)
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
Othello
UNIT II
Donne
Herrick
Herbert
Vaughn
Andrew Marvell
Aphra Behn.
"Lecture upon a Shadow", "The Canonisation"
"Batter my heart, three person'd God"
"Delight in Disorder"
"The Collar"
"The Dwelling Place"
"To his Coy Mistress"
"The Garden"
Oroonoko
LINIT III
Johnson
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"Letter to Chester field"
"In Westminster Abbey"
"A Modest Proposal"
Addison
Swift
Dryden
MacFlecknoe
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Extract : "Atticus and
Sporus"
Pope
2: ENGLISH LITERATURE UPTO 1900 (PART
II)
UNIT I
Gray
Blak
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Byron
Shelley
Keat
Jane Austen
MaryWollestonecraft:
"Elegy written in a Country Churchyard"
"The Lost Boy", "Tiger"
"Tintern Abbey"
"Dejection : An Ode"
"When we Two Parted"
"Ode to the West Wind"
"Ode on a Grecian IJrn"
Pride and Prejudice
Introduction to a Vindication of the Rights of Women
UNIT II
Amold
"Dover Beach" "The Function of Criticism at the
Present Time"
Browning
"Andrea Del Sarto"
Tennyson
"The Ladv of Shallot"
Elizabeth Barret Browning :"How do I love Thee"
Christina Rossetti :"Goblin Market"
Hopkins
:
"The Windhover", "Pied Beaufr"
Matthew
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LINIT III
Lewis Carroll
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Alice in Wonderland
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
3 : ENGLISH LITERATURE 1900 AND AFTER (PART 1)
UNIT
1
Hardy
E.M. Forster
Kate Chopin
Thomas
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
A Passage to India
Awakening
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LINIT II
James Joyee
A Portrait of the Artist as a young Man
Virginia Woolf
D.H. Lawrence
To The Lighthouse
Odour of Chrysanthemums (Two stories to be selected)
Mister Johnson
Animal Farm
Joyce Cary
George Orwell
LINIT III
W.B. Yeats
"Easter 7916, "The Second Comins".
"Sailing to Byzantium"
"The Wasteland"
"Whitsun Weddinss"
T.S. Eliot
Larkin
UNIT IV
J.M. Synge
John Osborne
Riders to the Sea
Look Back in Anger
4 : ENGLISH LITERATURE
19OO
UNIT
1 : POST-WAR
Beckett :
Stoppard :
AND AFTER (PART II)
WRITING
Waiting for Godot
Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead
UNIT II : POST-WAR POETRY
Ted Hughes
:
"Hawk Roosting"
Seamus Heaney
"Digging", "Churning Day"
Sylvia plath
"Daddy", "Lady Lazarus"
Thomas
Gunn
:
"Considering the Snail"
UNIT III : NEW WRITINGS IN ENGLIGH
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John Fowles
Chinua Achebe
Jean Rhys
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Anthills of the Savannah
A.S Byatt
Possession
Wide Sargasso Sea
5 : GENDER STUDTES (PART 1)
TINIT I
: Introduction
LDefinition and significance of Gender Studies
2.Key concepts : Patriarchy, Sex and Gender, Subjectivify; Production
Reproduction, Sexuality, Pornography,etc.
3.Kate Millet, Theory of Sexual Politics (Extract from the title essay)
4.Susie Tharu and Tejaswini Niranjana, "Problems for a Contemporary Theory of
Gender"
UNIT II : Women, Writing and Representation
"The Stone Woman"
Shashi Deshpande
"The Veil"
Ismat Chugtai
Devdas
"Chauthi Bhint"
"The Yellow Wall Paper"
Serat Chandra Chatterjee
Urmila Pawar
Charlotte Oerkins Gilman
L|NIT III : Gender Roles
Lauretta Ngbo
Marianne Hirsch
Uma Chakravarthy
Lata Mani
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and Preeti Gill
"African Motherhood: Fact and Fiction."
"Pictures of a Displaced Girlhood"
: Shadow Lives : Writings on
Widowhood.(selections : Cases -Personal
Narratives)
: "The Female subject and the colonial
gaze".
Natraj Huliyar
: "Magic Nymph"
Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid (Eds)
:"Whatever Happened to the
Vedic Dasi? In Recastins
Women
Film Text
: Rudali
6 : GENDER STUDTES (PART 2)
Unit 1 : Patriarchy in the Context of Family, Caste, Community and Nation
l.Julict Mitchell, Women's Estate, Chapter 5
2.Ambedkar, "The Hindu Code Bill"
3.Kumkum Roy, "Where Women are Worshipped There the Gods Rejoice"
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The Voice of
4.Tanika Sarkar, "Aspects of ContemporaryHindutva Theology"
SadhviRithambara" in Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Aspects of Contemporary
Hindutva.
5.,,Father, Son and The Holy war" a Film text by Anand Patwardhan
The Other Side of
6.,.Ranam ama,, and.,subhdra Bu.. lia" in Urvashi Butalia's
Silence.
LrNIT
II : Sexuality
"Fire" (Film Text)
from
RuthVanita and Saleem Kidwai (Ed). Same sex Love In India: Readings
Literature and History, PP 3t- 35:294- 97.
LrNIT III : Gender, Civil Society And The State
Kumar. The History of Doing (Chapter 6,7,8, and 9)
B: Gender Violence
l."Bandit Queen" (Film Text)
2.,,Centrality of Sexual Violence" (Chapter 3) in A Feminist Analysis of the
Genocide in Gujarat
3.The Supreme court Judgment on sexual Harassment (1992).
(3-12),
4.,,Dowry" Some Growing Reflections" In Speaking Tree, women Speak
(Vimochana).
5.Jaya Prabha, "ChuPulu".
6.Anupama Niranjana, "The Incident and Afte
7 : TEXTUAL ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
Unit I
Terms and concepts for textual analysis : Literary and non -literary texts,written
and non -writteniexts, including TV, newspapers' advertising, film, and
photographY.
Unit II
A Rhetoric of the text
Narrative modes
Figurative language
.:
Generic conventions and codes]
Language varieties
llnir III
Texts in various media -Literature and Film; Visual Texts: Advertisements and
Photography
Ijnit IV
Texts and their contexts -history, culture, class, gender, and ethnicity; contexts
production and reception; ideology; intersexuality
List of terms for the Literary critical terminology section in unit I of paper 1.4
analysis
& interpretation.
l.Realism
2. Stream of consciousness
3.Post colonialigender studies
4.Post modernism
5.Point of view
6.New criticism
T.Metofiction
8.Magic realism
9.Inter texuality
1 0.Intentional fallacy
l l.Implied Author / Reader
l2.Deconstruction
l3.Bildungs roman
l4.Auxiety of influence
15.Anti -Hero
l6.Alination Effect
lT.Literature of the Abroad
l8.Symbol
l9.Satire
20.Metaphor
21.Myth
22.Imagery
23.Connotation / Denotation
24.Catharsis
25.Archetype
26.Dystopia / utopia
2T.Metonymy
28.Parody
8 : MODERN ENGLISH GRAMMAR
.Basic Sentence Patterns
2.The Noun Phrase
a)Countable, uncountable and proper nouns
b)Determiners
c)Gender
d)Number
e)Pronouns
f)Par1s of a noun phrase
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3.The verb phrase
a)Tense
b)Aspect
c)Auxiliaries and modals
of
d)Structure of the verb Phrase
4.Adverbials
structure
5.'Ihe clause and elements of clause
6.Finite and non -finite clauses
const
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TYP
7'Passive
B.Co
g.Sentence
atroln of clauses
e Functions
9 : INDIAN WRITING IN BNGLISH
TINIT
1
BACKGROI.IND
M.K.Naik|-*TheLiteraryLandscape.,,InAHistoryofIndianEnglish
Literature
MeenakshiMukherjee:IntroductiontothePerishableEmpire
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"Love-foel for a.wife I'"
"The WaY it Went"
"An Introduction"
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Kamala Das,
Jayanta MahaPatra: "Hunger"
R.ParthasarathY :"Exile"
Poor"
Eunice D' Souza :"Feeding the
Rukmini BhaYa Nair :"Kali"
LINIT
III : FICTION
Raja Rao
Mulk Raj Anand
Attia Hussian
Amitav Ghosh
KanthaPura
Untouchable
Sunlight on a Broken Column
Shadow Lines
10 : SPOKEN AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION
l.Speech and Writing
a.Characteristics
b.Differences
2.Speaking
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a.The sounds and sound system of English'
b.Using a Pronouncing dictionary
c.Stress and intonation
d.Strong and weak forms
e.Reading aloud
f.Presentation skills
3.Writing
A.Discourse TYPes
a.Narrative
b.Description
c.Exposition
d.Argument
B.Discourse Organi zation
a.Organizing information within a clause
b. Organizing information between clauses
C.Abstracting and summarizing
D.Note taking
E.Writing Process
I .Planning and Research
--------brainstorming
a.Listing
b.Clustering
c.Spidergram
d.Free writinge.
e.Getting ideas through reading
; f.Getting ideas through discussion
------Purpose
------Audience
2.Writing, crafting and editing
a. Why edit ?
b. Steps in editing
c. Editing Checklist
d. Editing on a word processor
11 CRITTCAL THEORY (PART 1)
Johnson, "Preface to Shakespeare."
T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and Individual Talent."
Mathew Arnold, "The Study of Poetry."
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
F.R. Leavis, "Reality and Sincerity.,,
Cleanth Brooks, '.The Language of paradox."
Northrop Fry., .'Myth, Fiction and Displacement.,,
Herbert Read, "The Nature of Criticism.',
LA. Richards,'.Imagination.
12 : Critical theory (part
II)
a. Structuralism and Semiotics
b. Deconstruction and Post -Strucfuralism
c. Marxism and Marxist theorv
d. Post -colonial criticism
e. Cultural criticism
f. Feminist theory and criticism
TEXTS
l.Roland Barthes, "From Work to Text"
2.Mikhail Bakhtin, "Discourse in the Novel,,(extract)
3'Gayathri Spivak, "Three women's Texts and a critique of Impericalism',
4'J' Hillis Miller, "Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida, and the 'Dislocation
of Souls,',
5.Helene Cixous, "Laugh of the Medusa',
6.Michel Foucault, "scientia Sexualis',
7 'Aijaz Ahmad, "Introduction" Literature among the
Sings of our Time,, (extract)
in theory.
13: INDIAN LITERATU.RES IN TRANSLATION (PART
1)
LINIT 1 : RE READING TRADITIONAL TEXTS
1. Translation of vachanas, Kabir, women Tamil poets,
Meera and Kabir
i' Basavanna- In a Brahmin house; How can I feel night ?
ii' Mahadeviyakka -
I have Maya for mother -in -lawPeople: male and female
Other men are thorns
(Selections are from A. K. Ramanujan's Speaking of
Shiva)
iii. Andai
Unite me with my lord O Kamadeva
iv.
Anger of the little minded
v. Karaikal Ammaiyar -Sagging breasts and swollen veins
vi. Meera
My loveis reserved for Giridhar Gopal
vii' Kabir
The Maker himself becomes thePotter While in mother,s
womb
Avvaiyar-
2'A.K. Ramanujan
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Introduction to speaking of Shiva
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LJNIT
II
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l.Bankim Chandra
2.Tagore
l.ChanduMenon
4.Poetry
i. Faiz
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iv. Iqbal
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5.Manto
6.M. Mukherjee
T.Partha Chatterjee
S.Bisham Shani
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ii. Sri Sri
iii. Bharathi
Anandmath
Home and the world
\ndu\ekha
Faiz, Sri Sri, Bharathi, Iqbal (Selections)
The morning of freedom of August 1947 Look
at the city from here
The brave new world Forward March
Vande Mataram Thirst for Freedom
In the midst of raging battle
Reason and Heart
The Exchange of Lunatics
From Purana to Nuthan (in Realism and Reality)
Nation and its Fragments (Selections)
Tamas
I4 : INDIAN LITERATURES IN TRANSLATION (PART
TT)
IMAGING TFIE NATION, THE EMERGENT IDE,NTITY
- Mother of 1084
1. Mahasweta Devi
Samskara
2. U.R. Anantha Murthy Silence : The court is in session
3. Tendulkar
Ek Chadder Maili Si
4. Rajender Kaur
Siri Sampige
5.I(ambara
6. ShoLt Stories
i. Abburi Chaya Devi
"srimati Udyogini" (From Women Writing
India Vol 2)
"Death is getting CheaPer"
iii. Bhahendra Nath Saikia
-"Rats) (From Another India)
"The Mist" (From Indian Literature
iv. Ved Rahi
-sahitya Academy-No. 103 -Sept -Oct 1984)
The eighteenth Parallel
7. Ashoka Mitran -
ii. Baurro Dagal
B. Selections Poems
i. Popati Hiranandani "Husband"
ii. Amrita Pritam "The creative process
iii. Sunil Gangopadhyay "Calcutta & I"
iv. Chemmanam Chacko "Rice"
v. Joythi Hanjewar "I never saw you"
(From Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian
Poetry)
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vi. Jagannath Rosad Das
"For some morning (From Another India Ed.
Meenakshi, Mukherj ee, Ezekiel)
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"Karukku"
9. Bharna
10. Critical Essays
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15: AMERICAN
G.N. Devy -"Indian Literature in English
Translation" From In Another Tongue
Trivedi -Colonial Transactions (Selections)
"Panchdatu"
Sujit Mukherjee:
a. "The Craft not Sullen art of Translation"
b. "Transcreating Translations" from Translation
as Recovery
LITERATURE (PART
T)
POETRY AND DRAMA
A. Poetry
Poe
Dickinson
Whitrnan
Frost
Stevens
Williams
Millay
Ginsberg
Hughes
Dunbar
"Bells", "The Raven"
"I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed", "Some Keep the
Sabbath"
"A Noiseless, Patient Spider""When Lilacs last in the
Dooryard Bloomed"
"Mending Wall"
"The Emperor of Ice Cream", "Modert Poetry"
"The Forgotten City", "Tract" Crane "To the Brooklyn
Bride"
"Ishall be Back"
"A Super Market in California"
"Montage of a Dream Deferred"
"We wear the Mask"
B. Drama
O'Neill
Williams
Hannberry
Miller
Albee
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Emperor Jones
A Street Car Named Desire
A Raisin in the Sun
The Crucible
Who's Afraid of Vireinia Woolf
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16 : AMERICAN
LITERATURE (PART TI)
FICTION AND PROSE
1.The Chief s Daughters (an Otoe Legend)
2."The Life of Frederick Douglas" (an excerpt)
3.Irving"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (Short Story)
4.Hawtholne "The Scariet Letter"
5.Melville "Bartleby the Scrivener" (Short Story)
6.Emerson "Nature" (Chapter I)Self Reliance
T.Thoreau"On Economy" (from Walden)
S.Hemingway "The cat in the Rain" (Short Story)
g.Steinbeek "The Grapes of Wiath
I0.Cather' "Neighbour Rossicky" (Short Story)
1 l.Faulkner"A Rose for Emily" (Short Story)
12.Lee "To Kill a Mockingbird"
l3.Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"
I4.Heller "Catch -22"
l5.Malamud "ldiots First"
16."The German Refugee" (Short Stories)
I T.Carver"Cathedral" (Short Story)
18.Shaw "Girls in their Summer Dresses" (Short Story)
I g.Morrism"Beloved"
17: EUROPEAN
LITERATURE (PART r)
:
Homer
Sopohocles :
Euripides :
The lliad
Oedipus Rex
Medea
Commended Reading :
I . Finley, The World of Odysseus
2. H.D.F. Kitto The Greeks
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Kafka
Mann
Singer
Gide
Camus
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Koestler
Metamorphosis
"The Black Swar"
"Gimpel the fool"
Madeleine
The Outsider / Stranger
The Myth of Sisyphus
Arrival and Departure
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18 : EUROPEAN
LINIT
LITERATURE PART
II
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Pushkin
1. "The Bronze horseman"
2."The station master"
3. "Queen of SPades"
.,The Nose"
"The Brothers Karamazov", "Cloud, castle, lake"
"The Return of Chorb"
.,The
Gogol
DostoyevskY
Nabokov
I.]NIT
Ibsen
Breeht
Overcoat,'
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The Ghosts
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
19. : MODERN LINGUISTICS (PART 1)
Language
Human Language and other systems of communication
Language Variation:
i.Dialect and Idiolect
ii.Style
C. Speech and Writing
1.
A.
B.
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2. Microlinguistics:
A. Prescripiiu. and Descriptive approaches to language study'
B. Saussure:
I.Signifier and Signifie
ii.Diachronic and Synchronic approaches
iii.Langue and Parole
iv.Paradi gmatic and Syntagmatic relations'
.
.
C. Structuralist Linguistics
l. PhonologY
a.Phonemes and alloPhones b.Distinctive features
c. Suprasegmental PhonologY
Derivation
2. Morphology: a.Morphemes and Allomorphs b.Infl ection and
3. Immediate Constituent analysis
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MODEN LINGUISTICS (PART IT)
1
2.
Phrase Structure Grammar
Chomsky Transformational
Generative Grammar
A. Competence and Perfornance
B. Gramnraticality
C. Generative Grammar
D.X-BarSyntax
E. S-Structure and D -Structure
F. Transformations
3.Halliday
A. Scale Category Grammar
1. Levels of Language
2.lJnit, Structule, Class and System
Rank, Delicacy and Exponence
3. Sentence and clause
a. Elements of clause structure
b. Nominal, Verbal and Adverbial groups
B. Systenric Grammar
C. Functions of Language
1. Ideational
2. Interpersonal
3. Textual
4. Sen-rantics
A.Reference and Sense
. B.Sentences, Utterances and Propositions
C.Synonymy, Antonymy, Hyponymy and polysemy
5. Macrolinguistics
A.Cohesion and Coherence -Text and Discourse
B.Discor-rrse structure -Relations and functions
C.Speech Act Theory
D.Conversation Analysis(Discourse analysis )
E.Pragrnatics(Language use & communication )
I .Presupposition
? .Conversational Implicature
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