MA

Syllabus—MA English

Semester I

Study Skills: The course develops practical skills and strategies to improve academic performances such as: note-taking strategies, presentation skills, formal writing, critical thinking. It will give an introduction to the history of English literature

Classical Poetry

Chaucer: General Prologue.

Wyatt: The Long Love that in my Thought doth Harbour, Whoso List to Hunt, They Flee From Me, I Know where is an Hind, Madam, withouten many Words,

Surrey: My Friend the things that do attain love, Love that doth reign and live within my thought, Wyatt Resteth Here

Elizabethan Drama

William Shakespeare: Othello, The Winter’s Tale

Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus

Greek/Classical Literature

Aristotle: Poetics

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

Seventeenth Century Poetry

John Donne: Love and Divine Poems

John Milton: Paradise Lost (Books I/IX)

Eighteen Century Novel

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

Anthony Trollope: Barchester Towers

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Semester II

Sixteenth Century Prose

Francis Bacon: Of Truth, Of Death, Of Revenge, Of Adversity, Of Simulation and Dissimulation, Of Parents and Children, Of Great Place, Of Nobility, Of Superstition, Of Friendship, Of Ambition, Of Studies

Eighteenth Century Satire

Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock

Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels

Nineteenth Century Romantic Poetry

William Blake: Auguries of Innocence, The Sick Rose, London, A Poison Tree, A Divine Image, From Milton: And Did those Feet, Holy Thursday (I), Holy Thursday (II), The Tyger, Ah Sun-flower

S.T. Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Dejection: An Ode

John Keats: Hyperion Book—I, Ode to Autumn, Ode to Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn,

Nineteenth Century Drama

Anton Chekov: The Cherry Orchard

Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler

Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

Twentieth Century Novel

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

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

Victorian Novel

George Eliot: Adam Bede

Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities

Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native

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Semester III

Twentieth Century Criticism & Critical Theory

Raymond Williams: Modern Tragedy

Catherine Belsey: Critical Practice, Practical Application of Critical Theory

Twentieth Century Prose

Bertrand Russell: Unpopular Essays

Edward Said: Introduction to Culture and Imperialism

Seamus Heaney: The Redress of Poetry

American poetry

Adrienne Rich: Diving into the Wreck, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers, Final Notation, Gabriel

Sylvia Plath: Ariel, Morning Song, Poppies in October, The Bee Meeting, The Arrival of the Bee Box

Richard Wilbur: Still Citizen Sparrow, After The Last Bulletin, Marginalia

John Ashbery: Melodic Train, The Painter

American Drama

Eugene O’Neil: Mourning Becomes Electra

Arthur Miller: The Crucible

American Fiction

Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Toni Morrison: Jazz

Research Methodology: MLA Formatting, Documentation styles, Avoiding Plagiarism, Research Paper Writing Techniques

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Semester IV

Twentieth Century Poetry

Philip Larkin: Mr. Bleaney, Church Going, Ambulances, MCMXIV 1914

Seamus Heaney: Personal Helicon, The Tollund Man, A Constable Calls, Toome Road, Casting and Gathering

Ted Hughes: The Thought-fox, Chances, That Morning, Full Moon and Little Frieda

Postcolonial Fiction

Ahmed Ali: Twilight in Delhi

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart

Modern drama

Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

Bertolt Bretch: Life of Galileo

Edward Bond: The Sea

Specialization Courses:

Linguistics: Phonology, Morphology, Semantics, Stylistics

Literature Around the World: An Anthology of Poetry

Brian Friel: Translations

Frederico Garcia Lorca: The House of Bernarda Alba

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Research Paper

(Approximately 10,000 words)