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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

M.A. DEGREE COURSE- STRUCTURE

2011-2014

Sem Course Sub.

Code

Sub

Title Hrs Credit

Marks

I.A

Marks

E.A Total

I

CCI

CCII

CCIII

CCIV

CCV

11KP1E01

11KP1E02

11KP1E03

11KP1E04

11KP1E05

The Age of Chaucer to

the Jacobean

The Puritan to the

Neo- Classical

The Romantic Age

Indian Writing in

English

Literary Criticism- I

Total

6

6

6

6

6

30

5

5

5

5

5

25

25

25

25

25

25

125

75

75

75

75

75

375

100

100

100

100

100

500

II

CCVI

CCVII

CCVII

I

CCIX

NME 1

11KP2E06

11KP2E07

11KP2E08

11KP2E09

11KP2EE

LO1

Victorian Literature

The Modern Age

English Language

Teaching

Literary Criticism- II

English For Mass

Media-I

Total

6

6

6

6

6

30

5

5

5

4

5

24

25

25

25

25

25

125

75

75

75

75

75

375

100

100

100

100

100

500

III

CCX

CCXI

CCXII

NME 2

Electiv

e-I

11KP3E10

11KP3E11

11KP3E12

11KP3EE

LO2

11KP3EE

LE1

Language and

Linguistics

New Literatures

Shakespeare

Intro. To Comparative

Literature

English for Mass

Media-II

Total

6

6

6

6

6

30

4

4

4

5

5

22

25

25

25

25

25

125

75

75

75

75

75

375

100

100

100

100

100

500

2

Sem Course Sub.

Code

Sub

Title Hrs Credit

Marks

I.A

Marks

E.A Total

IV

CCXII

I

CCXI

V

Electiv

e-II

11KP4E13

11KP4E14

11KP4EE

LE2

11KP4E15

PW

Research Methodology

American Literature

Classics in

Translation:

Eastern and Western

Project

Total

6

6

6

12

30

4

4

5

6

19

25

25

25

--

75

75

75

75

--

225

100

100

100

100

400

Grand Total 120 90 1900

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M.A. DEGREE COURSE- STRUCTURE

2011-2014

PG Abstract

SNO SEM HRS CDTS NO OF CORE

PAPERS

OPEN

ELECTIVE

ELECTIVE

PAPERS

MARKS

1 I 30 25 5 * * 500

2 II 30 24 4 1 * 500

3 III 30 22 3 1 1 500

4 IV 30 19 2 * 1 300

Project- I 100

120 90 14 2 2 1900

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I MA ENGLISH

THE AGE OF CHAUCER TO JACOBEAN

Semester-I Hours: 6

Core Course-I Credits: 5

Code:11KP1E01

UNIT-I

POETRY

a. Chaucer : Prologue to Canterbury Tales.

UNIT-II

POETRY

b. Spenser : Prothalamion.

c. John Donne : Valediction Forbidding Mourning

Canonization.

The Sun Rising

d. Andrew Marvell : To His Coy Mistress.

e. George Herbert : Pulley.

UNIT-III

PROSE

Francis Bacon : Of Friendship

Of Adversity

Of Truth

Of Love

Of Studies

UNIT-IV

DRAMA

Marlowe : Dr. Faustus.

UNIT-V

DRAMA

Ben Jonson : The Alchemist

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I MA ENGLISH

THE PURITAN TO THE NEO- CLASSICAL AGE

Semester-I Hours: 6

Core Course-II Credits: 5

Code:11KP1E02

UNIT-I

POETRY

John Milton : Paradise Lost- Book IV

UNIT-II

POETRY

Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock

John Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel ( 1-200 lines)

Thomas Gray : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

William Collins : Ode to Evening

UNIT-III

PROSE

Joseph Addison and : Sir Roger and the widow.

Richard Steele Sir Roger at Church.

UNIT-IV

DRAMA

Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer

Sheridan : The Rivals

UNIT-V

FICTION

Jonathan Swift : Gulliver’s Travels

Bunyan : Pilgrim’s Progress.

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I MA ENGLISH

THE ROMANTIC AGE

Semester-I Hours: 6

Core Course-III Credits: 5

Code: 11KP1E03

UNIT-I

POETRY

William Wordsworth : Ode on the Intimations of Immortality

Upon Westminster Bridge.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : The Rime of Ancient Mariner.

John Keats : Ode to a Nightingale

Ode on a Grecian Urn.

UNIT-II

POETRY

Percy Bysshe Shelley : Ode to the West Wind.

Lord Byron : Don Juan.

UNIT-III

PROSE

Charles Lamb : Christ’s Hospital

Dream Children : A Reverie

William Hazlitt : My First Acquaintance with Poets.

UNIT-IV

DRAMA

Jonathan Swift : The Battle of the Books.

UNIT-V

FICTION

Sir Walter Scott : Ivanhoe.

Jane Austen : Emma.

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I MA ENGLISH

INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

Semester-I Hours: 6

Core Course-IV Credits: 5

Code:11KP1E04

UNIT-I

POETRY

Nissim Ezekiel : Professor

Good Bye Party to Miss Pushpa T.S

A. K. Ramanujan : Smallscale Reflections in a Great House.

UNIT-II

POETRY

Sarojini Naidu : Bird Sanctuary

Toru Dutt : Laxman

Kamala Das : Freak.

UNIT-III

PROSE

Rabindranath Tagore : Personality : My School, Woman.

UNIT-IV

DRAMA

Mahesh Datani : Dance Like a Man.

Girish Karnard : Tughlaq.

UNIT-V

FICTION

Sashi Deshpande : Roots and Shadows

Amitav Ghosh : Shadow Line.

Reference

1. V. K. Gokak. The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Treasury. New Delhi:

Sahitya Academy,1970.

2. C. D. Narasimhaiah. An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry. Chennai :

Macmillan, 1990

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I MA ENGLISH

LITERARY CRITICISM – I

Semester-I Hours: 6

Core Course-V Credits: 5

Code:11KP1E05

UNIT-I

An Introduction to Literary Theory and Literary Criticism ( pages 1-12)

UNIT-II

Aristotle : Poetics

Sir Philip Sidney : An Apology For Poetry

UNIT-III

John Dryden : An Essay on Dramatic Poesie.

UNIT-IV

William Wordsworth : Preface to Lyrical Ballads.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Biographia Literaria.

UNIT-V

Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-Response Theory,

Postmodernism, Post colonialism.

Reference

1. Birjadish Prasad. An Introduction to English Criticism. India: Macmillan,

1965.

2. R. A. Scott James . The Making of Literature. Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd,

1946.

3. M. H. Abrahams. Glossary of Literary Terms.6th

edition. Fort Worth : Harcourt

Brace College Pub, 1993.

4. Peter Barry. Beginning Theory : An Introduction to Literary and Cultural

Theory. UK: Manchester University Press, 1995.

5. Ramaswamy and Sethuraman. The English Critical Tradition : Vol. 1 & 2.

India: Macmillan, 1977.

6. Jeremy Hawthorn. A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory. London:

Edward Arnold, 1992.

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I MA ENGLISH

THE VICTORIAN LITERATURE

Semester-II Hours: 6

Core Course-VI Credits: 5

Code:11KP2E06

UNIT-I

POETRY

Alfred Tennyson : Ulysses

Robert Browning : Andrea Del Sarto

My Last Duchess

Mathew Arnold : The Scholar Gipsy.

UNIT-II

POETRY

D. G. Rossetti : The Blessed Damozel

A. C. Swinburne : The Chorus from the Atlanta.

UNIT-III

PROSE

John Ruskin : Sesame and Lillies ( Book – II – Queen’s Garden)

UNIT-IV

DRAMA

Oscar Wilde : The Importance of Being Ernest

George Bernard Shaw : Apple Cart.

UNIT-V

FICTION

Charles Dickens : A Tale of Two Cities

Thomas Hardy : Tess of the D’ubervilles.

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I MA ENGLISH

THE MODERN AGE


Core Course-VII Credits: 5

Code: 11KP2E07

UNIT-I

POETRY

William Butler Yeats : Sailing to Byzantium

T.S. Eliot : The Waste Land.

W. H. Auden : Shield of Achilles

UNIT-II

POETRY

Philip Larkin : Church Going

Wilfred Owen : Strange Meeting

Ted Hughes : Hawk Roosting.

UNIT-III

PROSE

E. M Forster : Notes on the English Character

My Wood

Tolerance

A Book that influenced me.

UNIT-IV

DRAMA

John Osborne : Look Back in Anger

Harold Pinter : The Caretaker.

UNIT-V

FICTION

James Joyce : The Portrait of the Artist as a Young

Man.

Graham Greene : The Power and the Glory.

Reference

1. Michael Roberts. Faber Book of Modern Verse, Faber and Faber, 1936.

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I MA ENGLISH

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING


Core Course-VIII Credits: 5

Code:11KP2E08

UNIT-I

Skills of LSRW

UNIT-II

Language Theories

S.R. Theories of learning or Behaviourist Theories of Learning

Present Day Cognitive Theories.

UNIT-III

Teaching of Prose

Teaching of Poetry

Teaching of Grammar

UNIT-IV

Teaching of Spelling

Teaching of Pronunciation

Teaching by Traditional method.

Approaches and method.

New Methods of Teaching English

UNIT-V

Error Analysis

Evaluation

Lesson Plan.

Prescribed Text

1. Meenatchisundaram. Teaching English.

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I MA ENGLISH

LITERARY CRITICISM – II


Core Course-IX Credits: 5

Code:11KP2E09

UNIT-I

Percy Byssche Shelley : Defence of Poetry

Sigmund Freud : Creative Writers and Day Dreaming

UNIT-II

Raymond Williams : Realism and Contemporary Novel

Claude Levi Strauss : Incest and Myth

UNIT-III

Mathew Arnold : The Study of Poetry

T. S. Eliot : Religion and Literature.

UNIT- IV

Elaine Showalter : Towards Feminist Poetics

Edmund Fuller : The New Compassion in the American Novel.

UNIT- V

Realism, Naturalism, Imagism, Transcendentalism, Surrealism, Expresssionism,

Euphemism, Objective Co-relative, Negative Capability.

Reference

1. Birjadish Prasad. An Introduction to English Criticism. India: Macmillan

Publishers, 1965.

2. R. A. Scott James. The Making of Literature. Martin Secker and Warburg

Ltd, 1946.

3. M. H. Abrahams. Glossary of Literary Terms.6th

edition. Fort Worth :

Harcourt Brace College Pub, 1993.

4. Peter Barry. Beginning Theory : An Introduction to Literary and

Cultural Theory. UK : Manchester University Press, 1995.

5. Ramaswamy and Sethuraman. The English Critical Tradition : Vol. 1 & 2.

India: Macmillan, 1977.

6. Jeremy Hawthorn. A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory. London:

Edward Arnold, 1992.

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I MA ENGLISH

ENGLISH FOR MASS MEDIA- I


NME -I Credits: 5

Code:11KP2EEL01

UNIT- I

Understanding Mass media- importance of media literacy- types of media- print media-

book industry- news paper industry- magazine industry.- (Chap :Part-I&III*)

UNIT-II

Introduction to Creative writing- creative writing in the world ( Chap-1)** - composition

and creative writing( Chap-4)**- writing as art- personal narrative- poetry, drama, fiction

and children’s fiction- making time to write- writing aurally and visually- drawing on

one’s experience or relating one’s life.(Chap 1)***

UNIT-III

Introduction to visual writing- writing not to be read, but to be made- difference between

visual writing and that of stage plays ( Chapter- Part-I-3-15)****- writing with dialogue-

describing sight and sound \(Chap-Part II)****

UNIT-IV

Introduction to Script writing(Chap-23)*****- writing as a therapy( Chap-30)*****-

writing as experimental practice ( Chap29)*****- writing for stage (Chap-24)*****-

writing for television( Cahp-26)*****

UNIT-V

Film and literature- cinema as institution- cinema, audience and society-cinema, media

and globalization (Chap-1)******- Critical approaches to film- authorship and genre

(Chap-3)******

Prescribed Texts

1.* Joseph Turow. Media Today: An Introduction to Mass Communication. New York:

Routledge, 2009

2. **David Morley. The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing. New York:

Cambridge University Press, 2007.

3. *** Adele Ramet. Creative Writing : How to unlock your imagination, develop

your writing skills and get published. Oxford: How to Books Ltd, 1997.

4.****Anthony Friedmann. Writing for the Visual Media. New York: Focal Press,

2006.

5. ***** Steven Earnshaw. The Handbook of Creative Writing. Edinburgh: Edinburgh

University Press, 2007.

6. ******Nathan Abrams, Ian Bess, Jaa Udris. Studying Films. New York: Oxford


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II MA ENGLISH

LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

Semester-III Hours: 6

Core Course-X Credits: 4

Code:11KP3E10

UNIT-I

Place of English in the Indo-European Family

Grimm’s Law, Verner’s Law, i-Mutation

The rise and Growth of Standard English.

UNIT-II

Classification of speech sounds

The Description of vowels and consonants

Syllable

Word Stress and Sentence Stress.

Intonation

Strong and Weak Forms.

UNIT-III

The Change of Meaning

The Growth of Vocabulary.

UNIT-IV

TG Grammar

IC Analysis

Morpheme

UNIT-V

Transcription

Prescribed Text

1. F.T. Wood. History of English Language.

2. J.D O’Connor. Better English Pronunciation. New Delhi: OUP,

3. P. C Wren and H. Martin. High School English Grammar and Composition. S.

Chand Publisher, 1995.

4. A.C.Baugh. History of English Language. Bombay: Allied Publishers. Pvt. Ltd.,

1968.

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II MA ENGLISH

NEW LITERATURES


Core Course-XI Credits: 4

Code:11KP3E11

UNIT-I

POETRY

Margaret Atwood : Journey to the Interior.

Judith Wright : A Fire at Murdering Hut

Dereck Walcott : Ruins of a Great House

UNIT-II

POETRY

Michael- Dei Anang : Africa Speaks.

A. D. Hope : Australia

F. R. Scott : The Canadian Authors Meet

UNIT-III

PROSE

Margaret Atwood : Survival

V. S Naipaul : A Wounded Civilization

UNIT-IV

DRAMA

George Ryga : The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

Douglas Stewart : Ned Kelley.

UNIT-V

FICTION

Patrick White : Voss

Thomas Audrey : Intertidal Life.

Prescribed Text

1. C. D. Narasimhaiah. An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry. Chennai:

Macmillan India Press, 1990.

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II MA ENGLISH

SHAKESPEARE


Core Course-XII Credits: 4

Code:11KP3E12

UNIT – I

Life of Shakespeare and his works, Elizabethan theatre and Critics on

Shakespeare

UNIT-II

As You Like It.

UNIT-III

Hamlet

UNIT-IV

Antony and Cleopatra.

UNIT-V

Shakespeare’s poems and Sonnets.

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II MA ENGLISH

INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE LITERATURE


Elective : I Credits: 4

Code:11KP3EELE1

UNIT-I

French and American Schools

Comparative Literature : Definition and Scope

Influence study in Reception

UNIT-II

Study of Genre and Forms

Thematology

Periodisation & Influence Study.

UNIT-III

Literature and Other Arts

The Study of translation.

A Theory of literary translatin

Adaptation

Abridgement

Literal VS

Literary rendering

UNIT-IV

Literature and Other Studies

Philosophy

Biography

Psychology

UNIT-V

Theory of Translation

Scripture Translation

Scientific Translation

Technical Translation

Translating for the Media.

Machine Translation ( problems, principles, methods and procedures)

Reference

1. Dr. A. Nihamuthullah. Procedures of Translating. Thirunelveli: Shameem

Publication, 2009.

2. Susan Bassnett. Translation Studies. New York: Routledge, 1988.

3. Rene Wellek and Austin Warren. Theory of Literature. New York: Harcourt

Brace, 1942.

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II MA ENGLISH

ENGLISH FOR MASS MEDIA- II


NME: II Credits: 5

Code :11KP3EEL02

UNIT-I

Types of Media- Electronic Media- Recording Radio industry- *Motion Picture industry-

Television Industry- Internet- Advertising Industry.*

UNIT-II

Creative Writing-visualizing background-** creating fictional characters- writing about

setting and atmosphere- writing realistic dialogue.***

UNIT-III

Visual Writing- writing without dialogue- describing time and place- describing action-

describing scene/ sequence of events.****

UNIT-IV

Script Writing- writing for film- writing for web.*****

UNIT-V

Film and literature- film as text- film technology- the language of film and early

cinema.- film literature and social discourse- visualizing voice/time etc.******

Prescribed Texts

1.* Joseph Turow. Media Today: An Introduction to Mass Communication. New

York: Routledge, 2009.

2. **David Morley. The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing. New York:

Cambridge University Press, 2007.

3. *** Adele Ramet. Creative Writing : How to unlock your imagination, develop

your writing skills and get published. Oxford: How to Books Ltd, 1997.

4.****Anthony Friedmann. Writing for the Visual Media. New York: Focal Press,

2006.

5. ***** Steven Earnshaw. The Handbook of Creative Writing. Edinburgh: Edinburgh

University Press,2007.

6. ******Nathan Abrams, Ian Bess, Jaa Udris. Studying Films. New York: Oxford


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II MA ENGLISH

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND PRESENTATION SKILLS

Semester-IV Hours: 6

Elective : XIII Credits: 4

Code: 11KP4E13

UNIT-I

Definition of Research- literary research- nature of inquiry in Physical Science-

Philosophy and meaning of Research.

UNIT-II

Choosing the topic – mechanics of writing- punctuation- the colon- the dash- the

parenthesis- square brackets- question marks- quotation marks- capitalization- the

apostrophe and the hyphen.

UNIT-III

Style suited for a thesis- structure and format of the thesis- acknowledging

different sources – documentation- foot notes and end notes- first draft and final

draft.

UNIT-IV

Note-taking- primary and secondary sources- library and its uses-

bibliography/works cited- works consulted.

UNIT-V

Presentation Skills

Viva-voce: Its meaning and purpose.

Body Langue- posture.

Reference

1. Modern Language Association of America (MLA). MLA Handbook for

Writers of Research Papers. 7th

edtn. USA: Modern Language Association of

America, 2009.

2. ----------------. The Chicago Manual of Style. 16th

edtn, Chicago: University of

Chicago Press, 2010.

3. C. J Parsons. Thesis and Project Work. London: George Allen and Unwin,

1976.

4. Jonathan Anderson and Millicent Poole. Assignment and Thesis Writing.

5. Presentation Skills.

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II MA ENGLISH

AMERICAN LITERATURE


Elective : XIV Credits: 4

Code:11KP4E14

UNIT- I

POETRY

Walt Whitman : When Lilacs Lost in Dooryard Bloomed

Robert Frost : Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Edgar Allan Poe : Annabel Lee

Emily Dickinson : I taste a Liquor Never Brew’d.

UNIT-II

PROSE

Ralph Waldo Emerson : Self-reliance.

UNIT-III

DRAMA

Eugene O’Neil : The Hairy Ape.

UNIT-IV

DRAMA

Tennesse Williams : The Street Car Named Desire

Edward Albee : Who is Afraid of Virginia Wolf?

UNIT-V

FICTION

Ernest Hemingway : A Farewell to Arms.

Toni Morrison : The Bluest Eye.

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II MA ENGLISH

CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION : EASTERN AND WESTERN.


Elective :II Credits: 5

Code: 11KP4EELE2

UNIT-I (Detailed)

Thirukkural - Chapters on

1. Love

2. Truth

3. Friendship

Omar Khayyam- Rubaiyat – 1st five quatrains

UNIT-II (Detailed)

Psalms : 1, 4, 23, 91, 121.

UNIT-III (Non- Detailed)

Homer : Illiad ( Book I & II )

UNIT-IV

Henrik Ibsen : The Wild Duck.

Kalidasa : Sakuntala.

UNIT-V

Herman Hesse : Siddharta.

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