NEW SYLLABUS

COURSE OF STUDY

For

POSTGRADUATE

ENGLISH

RAVENSHAW UNIVERSITY

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 P.G. Syllabus

ENGLISH

Aims of the Syllabus

The aims of this course in literature are to:

a) Disseminate among the students both the historical and contemporary aspects of
literary texts;
b) Create a bridge between local and global knowledge systems;
c) Reorient them through literature in such a way that they become empowered to
understand different cultures, and respect the variety each presents;
d) Develop their communication skills both written and oral;
e) Equip them with an aptitude for research
f) To make significant intellectual connections between the texts of the course and the
larger literary and theatrical tradition that engendered them.
g) To examine the way that various plays are translated and interpreted through in the
process of collaborative production.
h) To encourage the development of critical close reading and writing.
i) To foster enthusiastic classroom debate.

At the end of the course, a student should develop:

a) Humanitarian values and perspectives available in literary texts that embody the
essence of multiple societies and cultures;
b) A comprehensive knowledge of major literary texts, movements and concepts in
literature;
c) Written and oral communication essential to participate in a global community;

A student should acquire the following skills in particular:

a) Critical reading and interpretation of texts

b) A variety of writing skills as required by the syllabus
c) Conducting research and presenting the findings through seminar papers
d) The students have to make themselves aware of the ways in which British literature
was used as an instrument of conquest and the ways by which literary studies can be
used for decolonization of the minds

M.A. ENGLISH

The course in M.A. English carries 1000 marks spread over four semesters in two years -
Semesters I and II in the first year and semesters III and IV in the second year. There are five
papers each in semesters I and II, each paper of 4 credits. In semester III, there are three
papers, again each equal to 4 credits. Two of these are special papers. In addition to these,
there is one seminar paper of 4 credits and another paper having two term papers of 2
credits each. In semester IV there are three papers of four credits each out of which two are
special papers. In addition, there are two dissertation papers (for oral and written
presentation) of eight credits.

Students have to choose one group from the three groups of special papers. A student, in
order to get an M.A. degree, must have 80 credits. Each four hour credit will carry 50 marks.
Each paper carries 50 marks out of which 40 marks are set in the university examination and
10 marks in the internal assessment test. However, papers 2.3.14 and 2.3.15 (Semester III)
and 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 (Semester IV) will carry 50 marks each.

P.G. Department of English

Consolidated Chart of Courses of Study (M. A.)

Semester I
Paper Paper Title Marks Credit
Code hours

1 1.1.1 Introductory Linguistics, Stylistics and Indian 50 4

Aesthetics

2 1.1.2 British Poetry I 50 4

3 1.1.3 British Drama I 50 4

4 1.1.4 British Novel I 50 4

5 1.1.5 Essays 50 4

Semester II
Paper Paper Code Title Marks Credit hours

6 1.2.6 British Poetry II 50 4

7 1.2.7 British Drama II 50 4

8 1.2.8 British Novel II 50 4

9 1.2.9 American Literature 50 4

10 1.2.10 Readings in Critical Theory 50 4

Semester III
Paper Paper Code Title Marks Credit hours

11 2.3.11 Introduction to World Literature 50 4

 (Interdisciplinary course)

12 2.3.12 (Special paper) Group A/B/C 50 4

13 2.3.13 (Special paper) Group A/B/C 50 4

14 2.3.14 Seminar presentation 50 4

15 2.3.15 Two term papers 50 4

Semester IV
Paper Paper Code Title Marks Credit hours

16 2.4.16 50 4

17 2.4.17 (Special paper) Group A/B/C 50 4

18 2.4.18 (Special paper) Group A/B/C 50 4

19 2.4.19 Dissertation (Oral presentation) 50 4

20 2.4.20 Dissertation (Written presentation) 50 4

F.M. – 1000; Total Credits - 80

Special Papers:
Group A: Indian Writings in English
Group B: American Literature
Group C: Professional Writing

Assessment
Internal Assessment 10 marks

Term paper: 01 5 marks

Attendance: 5 marks

End Semester University Examination 40 marks

Unit I One long-type answer question (10 marks)

One short-type answer question/annotation (5 marks)

Unit II One long-type answer question (10 marks)

Unit III One long-type answer question (10 marks)

One short-type answer question/annotation (5 marks)

 PG I: ENGLISH
SEMESTER – I

Paper 1 - Introductory Linguistics, Stylistics and Indian Aesthetics

Paper code - 1.1.1

Full marks: 10+40 Time: 3

hours

Unit – I 20 teaching hours

(a) Language – Definitions, Theories of origin of language, Characteristics of human
language, Using language; Origins of Linguistic Science
(b) Sounds of English – The speech mechanism, passive and active articulators,
description and classification of consonants and vowels, consonant clusters, the
syllable.
(c) Phonetic transcription and Phonology – IPA, phonemes and allophones, phonemic
system, phonemic sequences, syllable structure, suprasegmental phonology – word
accent and stress, intonation, rhythm in connected speech.
(d) The study of words – Word formation in English – Inflectional morphology,
derivational morphology.
(e) Syntax and Structural Linguistics – Introduction to structuralism in Linguistics –
Saussurean concepts – langue, parole, arbitrariness of sign, diachrony, synchrony
and syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations; American and European Structuralism –
Sapir and Bloomfield; Generative linguistics – Chomsky; Identification of syntactic
constituent.

Unit – II 12 teaching hours

(a) Language variation: Dialect, style, register
(b) Style – Monist, Dualist and Pluralist views; Literal versus figurative meaning;
Foregrounding – Parallelism, Deviant structures
(c) Analysing extracts from fiction/poetry

Unit – III 16 teaching hours

(a) Theory of Rasa by Bharata
(b) Theory of Dhvani by Abhinavgupta

Recommended Reading:
Unit I
David Abercrombie. Studies in Phonetics and Linguistics. Oxford University Press, 1965. J.
Aitchison. Linguistics. NTC Publishing House, 1999..
Harold B Allen. Applied English Linguistics. 1964.
Noam Chomsky. Reflections on Language. Random House, 1975.
David Crystal. Linguistics. Penguin Books, 1971---. Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics.
Blackwell, 1991
Andrew Radford, et al. Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
D. Thakur. Syntax. Patna: Bharati Bhavan, 1998
Peter Trudgill. Sociolinguistics. Penguin, 1994
Terence Hawkes. Structuralism and Semiotics. Methuen and Co., 1977
Irene Heim and A. Craben. Semantics in Generative Grammar. Blackwell, 1998
Sharad Rajimwale. Introduction to English Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology. Rawat
Publications, 1997
Winfred P Lehmann. Historical Linguistics: An Introduction. Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
1962. Rpt. 1966.
Robert D King. Historical Linguistics and Generative Grammar. Prentice Hall, 1969
John Lyons. Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, 1971.
Stanlaw Salzmann and Adachi. Language, Culture and Society. Westview Press, 2012.
William Rutherford. A Workbook in the Structure of English. Blackwell Publishing, 1998.
Daniel Jones. An Outline of English Phonetics. Kalyani Publishers, 1979
G Yule. The Study of Language. Cambridge University Press, 2006
R. H. Robins. H. General Linguistics – An Introductory Survey. 1964
H. R. Gleason. An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics. Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1955
F. C. Stork & Widdowson, J. D. A. Learning about Linguistics. Hutchinson Educational Ltd,
1974

Unit II
Richard Bradford. Stylistics. Tf, 1997
Roger Fowler. Linguistics and the Novel. Methuen, 1976
Carl A Lefevre. Linguistics and the Teaching of Reading. McGraw-Hill, 1964.
Partha Sarathi Mishra. Stylistics: Theory and Practice. Orient Blackswan, 2009

Paper 2 – British Poetry I

Paper code - 1.1.2

Unit – I
John Milton: Paradise Lost Book IX 20 teaching hrs

Unit – II
Samuel Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes 16 teaching hrs

Unit – III 12 teaching hrs

1) William Wordsworth: “Tintern Abbey”

2) John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
3) P. B. Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind”
4) S. T. Coleridge: “Kubla Khan”
Recommended Reading:
T S Eliot: “Milton I”, “Milton II” in On Poetry and Poets. Faber and Faber, 1947
Hobbes: Leviathan – Chapter 1, Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1651
John Milton: “The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce”.
http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/milton-the-prose-works-of-john-milton
K G Hamilton: Paradise Lost: A Humanist Approach, University of Queensland Press, 1983
Stuart Curran: Poetic Form and British Romanticism, Oxford University Press, 1986
B. Ifor Ivans, A Brief History of English Literature, Penguin Books. 1990

Paper 3 – British Drama I

Paper code – 1.1.3

Unit – I 16 teaching hrs

William Shakespeare - Othello

Unit – II 16 teaching hrs

William Shakespeare - The Tempest

Unit – III 16 teaching hrs

William Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra

Recommended Reading:
Sukanta Chaudhuri and Chee Seng Lim eds. Shakespeare Without English: The Reception of
Shakespeare in Non-anglophone Countries. Longman, 2006
Poonam Trivedi and Dennis Bartholomeusz, Ed. “Shakespeare on the Stages of Asia.”
CambridgeCompanion to Shakespeare on Stage. Cambridge, 2002
William Hazlitt. Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth and Characters of
Shakespear's Plays.
J. R. Brown. Antony and Cleopatra, Case Book Series, Macmillan, 1972.
E.M.W. Tilliyard. Shakespeare’s Histories. New Statesman, 1984
S Viswanathan. Exploring Shakespeare . Orient Longman, 2005
Stephen Greenblat. Renaissance Self-fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. University of
Chicago Press, 1980.
S.M.Deats, Antony and Cleopatra, routledge, 2005.
N.Potter, Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra, Palgrave, 2007.

Paper 4 – British Novel I

Paper code - 1.1.4

Unit – I 16 teaching hrs

Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton CANCELLED

Unit - II 16 teaching hrs

Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews

EMMA BY JANE AUSTEN

Unit – III 16 teaching hrs
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’ Urbervilles

Recommended reading:
Trevelyn. A Shortened History of England, Penguin Books, 2011
Thomas Recchio, Mary Barton. W.W. Norton & Company, 2008
James Gibson. Thomas Hardy: A Literary Life. Macmillan, 1996.
Gatrell, Simon. Hardy the Creator: A Textual Biography. Clarendon, 1988.

Paper 5 – Essays
Paper code - 1.1.5

Unit – I 16 teaching hrs

1) Richard Steele (2 essays)
“Recollections”
“The Spectator Club”
2) Charles Lamb (2 essays)
“Oxford in the Vacation”
“The Two Races of Men”
3) cancelled A G Gardiner (2 essays)
“On Courage”
“On Letter Writing”
4) R L Stevenson (2 essays)
“Davos in Winter”
“Health and Mountains”

Unit – II 16 teaching hrs

1) Robert Lynd (3 essays)
“On Being an Alien” THERE
“A Disappointed Man” CANCELLED
“On Telling the Truth” THERE
2) A.G. Gardiner (3 essays)
“On Superstition”
“On Saying Please”
“On Letter Writing” CANCELLED
3) William Hazlitt (3 essays)
“On Going a Journey”
“Table-talk” CANCELLED
“On People with One Idea” CANCELLED
ON THE PICARESQUE AND IDEAL

Unit – III 16 teaching hrs

1) Aldous Huxley (3 essays)
“Heaven and Hell”CANCELLED
“Music at Night”
“Form and Spirit in Art”
 2) George Orwell (3 essays)
“Bookshop Memories”
“Poetry and the Microphone”
“Good Bad Books” CANCELLED
3) Oscar Wilde (3 essays)
“House Decoration” CANCELLED
“London Models”
“Art and the Handicraftsman”

Recommended reading:
K Deighton, Ed. Addison and Coverley’s Papers. Macmillan and Company, 1957.
E. V. Lucas. Life of Charles Lamb. G.P. Putman & Sons, 1905.
Edmund Blunden. Charles Lamb and His Contemporaries. Cambridge University Press, 1933.
Graham Balfour. The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. Methuen, 1901.
Philip Bounds. Orwell and Marxism: The Political and Cultural Thinking of George Orwell. I.B.
Tauris. 2009.
Gordon Bowker. George Orwell. Little Brown. 2003.
Bernard Crick. George Orwell: A Life. Penguin. 1982.
Merlin Holland, ed. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Harper Collins. 2003.
H. M. Hyde. Oscar Wilde: The Aftermath. Farrar Straus ltd. 1964.
Reda Bensmaïa. The Barthes Effect: The Essay as Reflective Text. Trans. Pat Fedkiew. Univ. of
Minnesota Press, 1987.
Nigel Warburton. The Basics of Essay writing. Routledge, 2006.

SEMESTER – II
Paper 6 – British Poetry II
Paper code - 1.2.6

Unit I 16 teaching hrs

W. B. Yeats (10 poems)
“The Second Coming”
“When You Are Old”
“Sailing to Byzantium”
“Among School Children”
“Easter 1916”
“September 1913”
“A Prayer for My Daughter”
“Leda and the Swan”
“The Wild Swans at Coolie”
“The Indian Upon God”

Unit II 16 teaching hrs

Rupert Brooke: “The Soldier”
Siegfried Sassoon: “Everyone Sang”
Ted Hughes: “The Thought Fox”
Philip Larkin: “Church Going”
W H Auden: “The Unknown Citizen”
Thomas Nashe: “A Litany in Time of Plague”
Wilfred Owen: “Apologia Pro Poemate Meo”

Unit III 16 teaching hrs

T S Eliot: The Wasteland

Recommended reading:
Peter Child. Modernism. Routledge, 2007
George Walter. The Penguin Book of the First World War Poetry. Penguin Books, 2006
Harold Bloom. T S Eliot (Bloom’s Modern critical Views)
T. S. Eliot. The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticis, Faber, 1964
Allen Austin. T S Eliot: The Literary and Social Criticism, Hamilton 1984
Cleanth Brooks. Modern Poetry and Tradition. University of Carolina Press, 1979
George, Mills, ed. Yeats and the Occult. Macmillan of Canada and Maclean-Hunter Press,
1975.
William H Pritchard. W. B. Yeats: A Critical Anthology. Penguin, 1972.
Helen Vendler. Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form, Harvard University Press, 2007.

Paper 7 – British Drama II

Paper code - 1.2.7

Unit – I 16 teaching hrs

T. S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral

Unit – II 16 teaching hrs

John Osborne: Look Back in Anger

Unit – III 16 teaching hrs

Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party

Recommended reading:
John Smart. Twentieth-Century British Drama, Cambridge University Press, 2001
Martin Esslin. The Theatre of the Absurd. Knopf, 2009
Subhas Sarkar. T.S. Eliot The Dramatist. Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 01-Jan-2006.
J. Styan. Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 2, Symbolism, Surrealism and the
Absurd. Cambridge University Press, 1981.
James Francis Hinchey. John Osborne as Social Critic and Dramatic Artist: The Theme of
Isolation and Estrangement in His Works. University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972.
Pieter Jan Van Niel. The Plays of John Osborne: The Experiments and the Results. Stanford
University, 1972.
Neil Cornwell. The Absurd in Literature. Manchester University Press, 2006.
Michael Y Bennett. Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet,
and Pinter. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Jonathan Culpeper, Mick Short & Peter Verdonk. Exploring the Language of Drama: From
Text to Context. Routledge, 2002.
Peter Raby. The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter. Cambridge University Press, 19-
Mar-2009.

Paper 8 – British novel II

Paper code - 1.2.8

Unit – I 16 teaching hrs

D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love

Unit – II 16 teaching hrs

James Joyce: The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Unit – III 16 teaching hrs

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse

Recommended reading:
Robert Humphrey. Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel. University of California
Press, 1954.
Doo-Sun Ryu. D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and Women in Love: A Critical Study. Peter Lang,
2005.
Tony Pinkney. D.H. Lawrence and Modernism. University of Iowa Press, 1990.
Len Platt. James Joyce: Texts and Contexts. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011.
William York, Tindall. A Reader's Guide to James Joyce. Syracuse University Press, 1995.
Julia Briggs. Reading Virginia Woolf. Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
Harold Bloom. Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse. Chelsea House, 1988.
Lisa Cole Ruddick. The Seen and the Unseen: Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse
Harvard University Press, 1977.

Paper 9 – American literature

Paper code - 1.2.9

Unit – I 16 teaching hrs

1) Walt Whitman: Song of Myself
2) Emily Dickinson: Inebriate of Air Am I…
3) Robert Frost: Mending Wall
4) Wallace Stevens: Sunday Morning
5) William Carlos Williams: Red Wheelbarrow
6) Carl Sandburg: Chicago
7) Langston Hughes: The Negro Speaks of Rivers
8) Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Unit – II 16 teaching hrs

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Unit – III 16 teaching hrs

Eugene O’ Neill: Desire Under the Elms

Recommended reading:
Ruland Richard and Malcom Bradbury. From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of
American Literature (Part I and II), Penguin Books, 1991
Emerson: “The American Scholar”. Laurentian Press, 1901
H. D. Thoreau: Walden, Houghton, 1892
Frederick Crews. The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1966; reprinted 1989.
James R Mellow. Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,
1980.
Brenda Wineapple. Hawthorne: A Life. Random House: New York, 2003.
Stephen A Black. Eugene O'Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy. Yale University press. 2002.
Virginia Floyd, ed. Eugene O'Neill: A World View. Frederick Unger. 1979.
Virginia Floyd. The Plays of Eugene O'Neill: A New Assessment. Frederick Unger. 1985.

Paper 10 – Readings in Critical Theory

Paper code - 1.2.10

Unit – I 16 teaching hrs

Roland Barthes: “Death of the Author”

Unit – II 16 teaching hrs

Louis Althusser: “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus”

Unit – III 16 teaching hrs

Critical terms:
1) Parole
2) Langue
3) Trace
4) Differánce
5) Ecriture
6) Cultural Poetics
7) Discourse
8) Hybridization
 9) Orientalism
10) Gynocriticism
11) Heteroglossia
12) Subalternism

• Unit III will have five short answer type

questions 15 marks

Recommended reading:
Yvor Winters: The Function of Criticism: Problems and Exercises, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967
Terry Eagleton: The Significance of Theory, Wiley, 1991
Paul Ricoeur. The Conflict of Interpretations: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation
Graham Allen. Roland Barthes. London: Routledge, 2003.
Jonathan Culler. Roland Barthes: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2001.
Michael Moriarty. Roland Barthes, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.
Gregory Elliot, ed. Althusser: A Critical Reader.
Alex Callinicos. Althusser's Marxism. London: Pluto Press, 1976.
William Lewis. Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism. Lexington books, 2005.
Warren Montag. Louis Althusser, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003.
M. H Abrams and Geoffery Galt Harpham. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning,
2012

P.G. II: ENGLISH

SEMESTER – III

Paper 11 –
Introduction to World Literature
Paper code - 2.3.11
(Interdisciplinary Course)

Unit – I 16 teaching hrs

Homer: The Iliad (Book I) (Trans. Alexander Pope)

Unit – II 16 teaching hrs

Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote

Unit – III 16 teaching hrs

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

Recommended reading:
David Damrosch: “What is World Literature?”, Princeton University Press, 2003
H.D.F. Kitto, Greek Drama. Roputledge, 2002
Sarah Lawall, ed.: Reading World Literature: Theory, History, Practice. University of Texas
Press, 1994
Harold Bloom. Homer. Chelsea House Publishers, 2006.
Nagy Gregory. Homer the Preclassic. University of California Press, 2010.
Louden Bruce. The Iliad: Structure, Myth, and Meaning. JHU Press, 2006.
Harold Bloom. Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2007.
Griffith Drew. Theatre of Apollo: Divine Justice and Sophocles' Oedipus the King. McGill-
Queen's Press - MQUP, 1996.
Girard Renem. Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire. Stanford
University Press, 2004.
Ormand Kirk. A Companion to Sophocles. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
Frederick A. De Armas. Quixotic Frescoes: Cervantes and Italian Renaissance Art. University
of Toronto Press, 2006.
J. A. G. Ardila. The Cervantean Heritage: Reception and Influence of Cervantes in Britain.
MHRA, 2009.
Michael Armstrong-Roche. Cervantes' Epic Novel: Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of
Heroes in Persiles. University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Harold Bloom. Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote. InfoBase Publishing, 2010.

Paper 12 (Special Paper)

Paper code - 2.3.12

Students are required to opt for only one special paper, choosing from one of the following
three groups: Group A, Group B and Group C.

Group A
Writing the Nation: Indian Writing in English in the Colonial and Postcolonial Period

Unit I 16 teaching hrs

Ramachandra Guha: Makers of Modern India (Ten Chapters)

Unit II 16 teaching hrs

Ramachandra Guha: Makers of Modern India (Ten Chapters)

Unit III 16 teaching hrs

Partha Chatterjee: The Nation and Its Fragments -

Recommended Readings:

Gauri Viswanathan. Masks and Conquests: Literary Studies and British Rule. Columbia
University Press, 1989

________________ . ‘Beyond Orientalism: Syncretism and Politics of Knowledge’ Stanford

Electronic Humanities Review, 5:1, 1995. www.stanford.edu/grpup/SHR/5-

1/viswanathan.html
 Group B
American Literature

The Emergence of a Nation

Unit – I 16 teaching hrs

M. G. Jean de Creveceour: Letters from a Farmer

Unit – II 16 teaching hrs

Thomas Paine: Common Sense

Unit – III 16 teaching hrs

F. J. Turner: The Significance of the Frontier in American History

Suggested Reading:

George Santyana. The Genteel Tradition. Harvard University press, 1967.

Michael Kammen. People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American

Civilization. Alfred A. Knopf, 1972

2.3.12
Group C - Professional Writing

Unit I 16 teaching hrs

1) History of Writing
2) a) Mechanics of Writing: How to Write a Sentence; Plain and Simple English; Levels
of Style: Communicative, Academic and Grand; Persuasive Writing
b) Stages of Writing; Basic Writing skills: Description, Exposition, Narration; Higher
Level Skills: Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking.
c) Characteristics of Good Writing: Clarity, Precision, Tightness, Focus, Vigour, Voice

Unit II 16 teaching hrs

Working Writing:

a) The Daily Bread (of Drafting): Application, Memo, Notices and

Minutes
b) Writing for business: Proposal, Review and Report
c) Academic Writing: Essay, Review Essay

Unit – III 16 teaching hrs

Writing for Mass Media:
a) Writing for print journalism
b) Writing for broadcast journalism
 Recommended Readings:

Steven Roger Fischer. A History of Writing. Reaktion Books, 2001

Ray Bradbury. Zen in the Art of Writing. Joshua Odell Editions, 1994
Stanley Fish. How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One. Harper Collins, 2012.
Maxine Keene & Hairston, Michael. Successful Writing. 5th ed. Norton & Co., 2003.
E.H. McGrath. Basic Managerial Skills for All. 9th ed. PHI Learning.McLaren, Stephen.
Easy Writer: Student's Guide to Writing Essays and Report. Pascal Educational
Services. 2007.

Group C - Professional Writing

PAPER 13 - (Special paper)
Paper code - 2.3.13

GROUP A - Writing the Nation: Indian Writing in English in the Colonial and Postcolonial
Period
The Emergence of the Indian Novel

Unit I 16 teaching hrs

E M Forster: Passage to India

Unit II 16 teaching hrs

Arundhati Roy. God of Small Things

Unit III 16 teaching hrs

Amitav Ghosh: Shadow Lines

Recommended Reading:
Brinda Bose, ed. Amitav Ghosh. Pencraft International, 2003
Amitav Mondal. Amitav Ghosh. Manchester University Press, 2007
K. V. Surendran. The God of Small Things: A Saga of Lost Dreams. Atlantic, 2007
Amitabh Roy. The God of Small Things: A Novel of Social Commitment. Atlantic 2005
Lauwrence Brander. E.M. Forster. A critical study Brander. Bucknell University Press, 1970
Norman Page. E.M. Forster. Macmillan, 1987

Group B – American Literature

The Emergence of Modern America

Unit – I 16 teaching hrs

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Unit – II 16 teaching hrs

Ernest Hemingway: Farewell to Arms
Unit – III 16 teaching hrs
Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Recommended reading:
John McCormick. American Literature 1919–1932. Routledge and Kegan OPress, 1971
G K Hall and Company, 1994
Henry Serrano Villard & Nagel, James. Hemingway in Love and War: The Lost Diary of Agnes
von Kurowsky: Her letters, and Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway. Hyperion,
1996
Hazel Arnett Ervin, ed. African American Literary Criticism. Tawyne, 1999
R. Kent Rasmussen. Critical Companion to mark Twain.
Houston Baker. Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of harlem and Black Aesthetic. University
of Wisconsin Press, 1980.
Henry Louis Gates. Race, Writing and Press, University of Chicago Press, 1986
D H Lawrence. Studies in Classical American Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2003

2.3.13
Group C - Professional Writing

Unit I 16 teaching hrs

Journalistic writing (Part I):
a) Copy Writing: Tracking Down Sources; Accessing bottom-line
information; story construction; copy preparation ; Writing press releases, news
reports
b) Copyediting - Micro and Macro Editing, Proofreading, rewriting,
newspaper style sheet

Unit II 16 teaching hrs

Journalistic writing (Part II)
Writing Features:
a) Informative: News Stories
b) Interpretative: Column, Leader, Editorial
c) Imaginative: Middle, Profile

Unit III 16 teaching hrs

New media:
a) Advertising – Copywriting: Writing for Commercials, Writing for Infomercials, Use of
rhetoric in advertorials; Promotional writing: Research, Branding and Positioning
b) Freelancing, Magazine Writing.
c) Writing for the web: Blogging
Recommended reading:

Judith Butcher, Caroline Drake, & Maureen Leach eds. Butcher's Copy-editing. The
Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Copy-editors and Proofreaders. Cambridge University
Press, 2007
Sarah Freeman. Written Communication in English. Orient Blackswan, 2008
Stanley Fish. How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One. Harper Collins, 2012.Keene,
Maxine & Hairston, Michael. Successful Writing. 5th ed. Norton & Co., 2003.
David Shipley. “What We Talk About When We Talk About Editing.” The New York Times. 31
July 2005. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/opinion/31shipley.html.
Ralph L Wahlstrom. The Tao of Writing. USA: Adams Media, 2006.
Colson Whitehead. "How to Write." 26 July 2012. The New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/books/review/colson-whiteheads-rules-for-
writing.html?_r=0

PAPER 14 – Seminar presentation

Paper code - 2.3.14

This paper carries 50 marks.

Unit – I: Teaching Academic writing 10 teaching hrs

Unit – II: Teaching presentation skills 10 teaching hrs
Unit – III: Reviewing literature 12 teaching hrs
Unit – IV: Writing and presenting seminar paper 16 teaching hrs

Paper 15 – Term paper

Paper code - 2.3.15

- First term paper (based on General Paper): 25 marks

- Second term paper (based on Special Paper): 25 marks

SEMESTER – IV

Paper 16
Indian Literature in English and in Translation
Paper code - 2.4.16

Unit I 16 teaching hours

 (i) Ezekiel: Night of the Scorpion
(ii) Kamala Das: My Grandmother’s House
(iii) Ramanujan: Obituary
(iv) Jayanta Mahapatra: Of a Questionable Conviction

Unit II Gopinath Mohanty: Paraja (Translated by Bikram Das) 16 teaching hrs

Unit III
Girish Karnad: Tuglaq 16 teaching hrs

Suggested Reading:
B King. Modern Indian Poetry in English. Princeton University Press, 2001
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, ed. A History of Indian Literature in English. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2003.
Kaiser Haq, ed. Contemporary Indian Poetry. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990.
Preston A Taylor. Ezekiel: God's Prophet and His Puzzling Book. Xulon Press, 2006.
N. V. Raveendran. The Aesthetics of Sensuality: A Stylistic Study of the Poetry of Kamala Das.
Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 2000.
Shirish Chindhade. Five Indian English Poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan, Arun Kolatkar,
Dilip Chitre, R. Parthasarathy. Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 1996.
Amar Nath Dwivedi. Poetic Art of A.K.Ramanujan. B.R. Publishing Corporation. 1995.
Rajuladevi Shankar. Jayanta Mahapatra the poet: quest for identity. Prestige Books, 2003.
Neeru Tandon. Perspectives and Challenges in Indian-English Drama. Atlantic Publishers &
Dist, 2006.
Sitakant Mahapatra. Reaching the Other Shore: The World of Gopinath Mohanty's Fiction.
B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1992.

PAPER 17 (Special paper)

Paper code - 2.4.17

Group A - Writing the Nation: Indian Writing in English in the Colonial and
Postcolonial Period
Poetry

Unit I 16 teaching hrs

Toru Dutt: “The Lotus”; “Our Casuarina Tree”, “Lakshman”

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio: “To the Pupils of the Hindu College”; “The Harp of India”,
“Chorus of Brahmins”, “Song of the Hindustanee Minstrel”

Madhusudan Dutt: “Satan”; “The Captive Ladie”, “King Porus - A Legend of Old”

Sarojini Naidu: “Village Song”; “Awake!”, “The Soul’s Prayer”, “The Bird Sanctuary”
Unit II 16 teaching hrs
Jayant Mahapatra: “Relationship”
Nissim Ezekiel : “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher”, “Case study”, “The Wild
Bougainville”

Unit III 16 teaching hrs

A K Ramanujan: ‘History’, ‘Of Mother Among Others’, ‘Love Poem for a Wife-1’
Kamala Das: “Jaisurya”, “The Freaks”, “The Wild Bougainville”

Recommended reading:

W. Walsh. R.K.Narayan: A Critical Appreciation. London,1982.

Angelie Multani. Mahesh Dattani’s Plays: Critical Perspectives. Pencraft International, 2007
Brinda Bose, ed. Amitav Ghosh: Critical Perspectives ed. Brinda Bose Pencraft, 2005
Gokak, V.K., The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry. Sahitya Akademi, 2006.

Group B – American Literature

American Diversity

Unit I 16 teaching hrs

Toni Morrison: Beloved

Unit II 16 teaching hrs

Saul Bellow: The Victim

Unit III 16 teaching hrs

James Welch: Winter in the Blood

Suggested Reading:
John Hutchinson and Anthony Smith. Ethnicity. Oxford University Press, 1996
Nathan Glazer and Daniel P Moynihan. Ethnicity Theory and Experience. Harvard University
Press, 1975
Boudreau, Kristen. "Pain and the Unmaking of Self in Toni Morrison's Beloved".
Contemporary Literature JSTOR 1208829
La Vinia Delois Jennings. Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa. Cambridge University Press:
2010.

2.4.17
Group C - Professional Writing

Production of two pieces of professional writing (50 marks)

E. H. McGrath. Basic Managerial Skills for All. 9th ed. PHI Learning.
Stephen, McLaren. Easy Writer: Student's Guide to Writing Essays and Report. Pascal
Educational Services. 2007.

Roslyn Petelin, Roslyn & Marsha Durham. The Professional Writing Guide. Australia:
Woodslane, 1992.

David Graddol. English India Next. http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-english-next-

india-2010-book.pdf

Paper 18 (Special paper)

Paper code – 2.4.18

Group A - Writing the Nation: Indian Writing in English in the Colonial and Postcolonial
Period
Drama / Non-fiction / Autobiography

Unit I 16 teaching hrs

Girish Karnad: Nagamandala

Unit II 18 teaching hrs

Fakir Mohan Senapati: Atma carita

Unit III 14 teaching hrs

The Speaking Tree - 7 chapters

Recommended Reading
V Rangan. “Myth and Roman in Naga-Mandala or their Subversion” Girish Karnad’s Plays:
Performance and Critical Perspectives. Ed. Tutun Mukherjee. Pencraft International,
2006
Praful D Kulkarni. The Dramatic World of Girish karnad. Creative Books, 2010

Group B – American Literature

Contemporary American Writing

Unit I 20 teaching hrs

John Ashberry: “Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror”

Unit II
Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49 12 teaching hrs

Unit III 16 teaching hrs

Sam Shepherd: The Tooth of Crime

Recommended Reading:
Laura Quinney, The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery. The University Press
of Virginia, 1999
Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, trans. Geoff
Bennington and Brian Massumi. University of Minnesota Press, 1984
Christopher Butler. Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction.
Charles Altieri. ‘John Ashberry and Challenge of Postmodernism in Visual Arts.’
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1343673?uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=211
04268850633
Stephen J Bottoms. Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway
Movement. The University of Michigan Press, 2006
Leonard Wilcox. “Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Shepard’s The Tooth of Crime and the
Discourses of Popular Culture,” Modern Drama 30/4 (1987): 560-573
ThomasPynchon.com, a web-based exploration of Pynchon's fiction.

2.4.18
Group C - Professional Writing
Production of two pieces of professional writing (50 marks)

Recommended reading:
Jyoti Sanyal. Indlish: The Book for Every English-speaking Indian. Viva Books, 2007.
Robert Scholes. “So Happy a Skill”. The Rise and Fall of English Schools. Yale University Press,
1998.

Paper 19
Dissertation (Oral presentation)
Paper code - 2.4.19
Dissertation (Oral Presentation): 50 marks

Paper 20 - Dissertation (Written Presentation)

Paper code - 2.4.20
Dissertation (Written Presentation): 50 marks