FACULTY OF LANGUAGES

SYLLABUS
FOR

M.A. (English)
(Semester: III & IV Only)
EXAMINATION: 2011-12

GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY AMRITSAR

Price:

40-00

1 M.A. (ENGLISH) SEMESTER SYSTEM

SCHEME OF COURSE

Semester-III
Paper IX: Drama-II (Modern Drama) Paper X: Introduction to Literary Studies Paper XI: General Linguistics Paper XII: (opt-i): American Novel and Prose (opt-ii): Irish Literature

Semester-IV
Paper XIII: Poetry-II (Victorian and Modern) Paper XIV: Modern Critical Theory Paper XV: Novel-II (Modern Novel) Paper XVI: Project Work / Short Dissertation

2 M.A. (ENGLISH) SEMESTER-III Paper-IX: Drama-II (Modern Drama) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100

The question paper shall consist of Parts-A and B having 36 and 64 marks respectively. Part-A: Eight (8) short questions (two from each unit) will be set. Students will be required to answer six (6) of them. The short questions are aimed at examining the first hand reading of prescribed Texts. These shall relate to particular themes, actions, characters, setting, literary / linguistic significance of selected scenes / stanzas etc. The narrower the question, the better it is. The students shall answer these questions within 150 words. Each question will carry 6 marks (6x6=36) Part-B: Four (4) questions (one from each Unit) will be set. The students will be required to attempt all. Each question will have internal choice. One of the two choices should preferably deal with literary and social background of the author / text. If required, the examiner may also have sub-parts of a question. The students shall answer these questions in not more than 800 words. Each question will carry 16 marks. (16x4=64). Unit-I: Ibsen: Ghosts Unit-II: Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party Unit-III: Tennesse Williams: The Glass Managerie Unit-IV: John Beckett: Waiting for Godot

3 M.A. (ENGLISH) SEMESTER-III Paper-X: Introduction to Literary Studies Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100

The question paper shall consist of parts-A and B having 36 and 64 marks respectively. Part-A: Eight (8) short questions (two from each unit) will be set. Students will be required to answer six (6) of them. The short questions are aimed at examining the basic awareness and understanding of the prescribed topics. These shall relate to factual information and keypoints. The narrower the question, the better it is. The students shall answer these questions within 150 words. Each question will carry 6 marks. (6x6=36) Part-B: Four (4) questions (one from each Unit) will be set. The students will be required to attempt all. Each question will have internal choice. If required, the examiner may also have sub-parts of a question. The questions in this part are aimed at examining the general and preliminary understanding of the prescribed topics. For Unit-IV the examiner shall set one question on critical approaches and the other on research methodology. The question about research methodology may further be divided into sub parts. The examiner shall set questions on the aims and types of research, plagiarism; students may also be asked to make corrections in incorrect bibliographic/footnote/reference entries. The students shall answer these questions in not more than 800 words. Each question will carry 16 marks Unit-I: General Background to British, American, and European Literature 1. Classical Literature and its Influence 2. Religion and Literature 3. Medieval Literature and Medieval World 4. The Renaissance 5. Enlightenment, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism 6. Nineteenth Century 7. Modernism 8. Postmodernism (16x4=64)

4 M.A. (ENGLISH) SEMESTER-III Unit-II: General Survey of British, American, and European Literature 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Renaissance and Neoclassical Drama Modern Drama Poetry upto 1900 Modern Poetry Rise of the Novel upto 1900 Modern Fiction The Short Story Non Fictional Prose

Unit-III: General Overview of the Expanding Canon 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Unit-IV: Preliminary Introduction to Critical Approaches and Research Methodology 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Ways of Studying Literature Traditional Critical Approaches Modern Critical Approaches Contemporary Critical Approaches Aims, Types and Ethics of Research Sources and Tools of Research Basic MLA Format Documentation New Literatures in English New Literatures in English Translation South Asian Writing in English South Asian Writing in English Translation Punjabi Literature in English Translation Classical and Medieval Literatures of the East Postcolonial and Diasporic Literature Folklore, Culture, and Popular Culture

5 M.A. (ENGLISH) SEMESTER-III Paper-XI: General Linguistics Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100

The question paper shall consist of Parts-A and B having 36 and 64 marks respectively. Part-A: Eight (8) short questions (two from each unit) will be set. Students will be required to answer six (6) of them. As for as possible, the questions should be direct and pointed. Questions may relate both to theory and Language in use. The narrower the question, the better it is. The students shall answer these questions within 150 words. Each question will carry 6 marks (6x6=36) Part-B: Four (4) questions (one from each Unit) will be set. The students will be required to attempt all. Each question will have internal choice. At least a couple of choice questions in this section must require students to do linguistic analysis of language. Theoretical questions may also ask for illustrative answers. If required, the examiner may also have sub-parts of a question. The students shall answer these questions in not more than 800 words. Each question will carry 16 marks. (16x4=64). Unit-I: Structural Theory: Saussure : The nature of Linguistic sign, Signifier and Signified ; Syntagmatic and paradigmatic Relations ; Synchrony and Diachrony; Langue and Parole etc. Bloomfield: Scientific Study of Language; Corpus based analysis; Discovery Procedures: minimal pairs, pattern congruity, complementary distribution, IC analysis. Unit-II: Transformational Generative Theory: Chomsky: Competence and Performance, Syntactic Structures, Phrase Structure rules, Basic transformational rules e.g. negative, question, passive, Deep Structure and Surface Structure. Unit-III: Functional Theory: Halliday : Functions of Language Ideational, Interpersonal Textual Field, Tesor and Mode of Discourse Clause as message, exchange and representation.

6 M.A. (ENGLISH) SEMESTER-III Unit-IV: Applied Linguistics: i. Stylistics: Text and discourse; Cohesion, Deviation, Foregrounding, etc. ii. Methods and Approaches to language Teaching: GrammarTranslation, Direct and Audio-Lingual Methods; Structural and Communicative Approaches. Recommended Readings: 1. Bloomfield, L. Language, Allen and Unwin, 1933. 2. De Saussure, Ferdinand, Course in General Linguistics. (Tr. Wade Baskin), Ny : McGraw Hill, 1959. 3. Chomsky, N. Syntactic Structures. The Hague : Mouton, 1957 4. Chomsky, N. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge : MIT Press, 1965. 5. Halliday, M.A.K. Explorations in the Functions of Language, London : Edward Arnold, 1973. 6. Halliday, M.A.K. An introduction to the Functional Grammar, London : Edward Arnold, 1985. 7. Halliday, M.A.K. and Hasan, Ruquiya, Language, Context and Text, OUP, 1985. 8. Crystal David, Linguistics, Penguin, 1985. 9. Lyons, John, Language and Linguistics, CUP, 1981. 10. Verma, S.K.and Krishnaswami, N.Modern Linguistics : An Introduction, Delhi : OUP, 1989. 11. Traugott, Elizabeth C. and Bratt, L. Bratt, Linguistics for the students of Literature, London : Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1980. 12. Morley, G.D. An Introduction to Systemic Grammar. 13. Krishnaswami, N., Verma S.K. and Nagarajan, M. Modern Applied Linguistics, Delhi : McMillan, 1992. 14. Leech, G.N. and Short, M. Style in Fiction, London : Longman, 1981.

7 M.A. (ENGLISH) SEMESTER-III Paper-XII: (option-i): American Novel and Prose Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100

The question paper shall consist of Parts-A and B having 36 and 64 marks respectively. Part-A: Eight (8) short questions (two from each unit) will be set. Students will be required to answer six (6) of them. The short questions are aimed at examining the first hand reading of prescribed Texts. These shall relate to particular themes, actions, characters, setting, literary / linguistic significance of selected scenes / stanzas etc. The narrower the question, the better it is. The students shall answer these questions within 150 words. Each question will carry 6 marks (6x6=36) Part-B: Four (4) questions (one from each Unit) will be set. The students will be required to attempt all. Each question will have internal choice. One of the two choices should preferably deal with literary and social background of the author / text. If required, the examiner may also have sub-parts of a question. The students shall answer these questions in not more than 800 words. Each question will carry 16 marks. (16x4=64). Unit-I: a) Melville: Billybudd b) Emerson: Self-Reliance Unit-II: William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury Unit-III: Scott F. Fitgerald: The Great Gatsby Unit-IV: Saul Bellow: The Victim

8 M.A. (ENGLISH) SEMESTER-III Paper-XII: (option-ii): Irish Literature Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100

The question paper shall consist of Parts-A and B having 36 and 64 marks respectively. Part-A: Eight (8) short questions (two from each unit) will be set. Students will be required to answer six (6) of them. The short questions are aimed at examining the first hand reading of prescribed Texts. These shall relate to particular themes, actions, characters, setting, literary / linguistic significance of selected scenes / stanzas etc. The narrower the question, the better it is. The students shall answer these questions within 150 words. Each question will carry 6 marks (6x6=36) Part-B: Four (4) questions (one from each Unit) will be set. The students will be required to attempt all. Each question will have internal choice. One of the two choices should preferably deal with literary and social background of the author / text. If required, the examiner may also have sub-parts of a question. The students shall answer these questions in not more than 800 words. Each question will carry 16 marks. (16x4=64). Unit-I: Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest Unit-II: J.M.Synge: The Playboy of the Western World Unit-III: James Joyce: Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man Unit-IV: a) W.B.Yeats - September 1913 - Easter 1916 - In Memory of Major Gregory - Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen - The Municipal Gallery Revisited

9 M.A. (ENGLISH) SEMESTER-III b) Seamus Heaney - Digging - Death of a Naturalist - Sunlight - Mid-Term Break - Personal Helicon - The Grauballe Man

10 M.A. (ENGLISH) SEMESTER-IV Paper-XIII: Poetry-II (Victorian and Modern) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100

The question paper shall consist of Parts-A and B having 36 and 64 marks respectively. Part-A: Eight (8) short questions (two from each unit) will be set. Students will be required to answer six (6) of them. The short questions are aimed at examining the first hand reading of prescribed Texts. These shall relate to particular themes, actions, characters, setting, literary / linguistic significance of selected scenes / stanzas etc. The narrower the question, the better it is. The students shall answer these questions within 150 words. Each question will carry 6 marks (6x6=36) Part-B: Four (4) questions (one from each Unit) will be set. The students will be required to attempt all. Each question will have internal choice. One of the two choices should preferably deal with literary and social background of the author / text. If required, the examiner may also have sub-parts of a question. The students shall answer these questions in not more than 800 words. Each question will carry 16 marks. (16x4=64). Unit-I: ROBERT BROWNING -The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church -A Grammarian's Funeral -On Word More -Andrea del Sarto -Two in the Campagna -My Last Duchess Unit-II: W.B.YEATS -A Prayer for my Daughter -Among School Children -Leda and the Swan -Sailing to Byzantium -The Second Coming -After Long Silence -Words

11 M.A. (ENGLISH) SEMESTER-IV Unit-III: T.S.ELIOT -The Waste Land -The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Unit-IV: ROBERT FROST -Mowing -After Apple Picking -Good By and Keep Cold -The Tuft of Flowers -Mending Wall -Two Tramps in Mud Time -Home Burial -Birches -Design -The Figure a Poem Makes (Essay)

12 M.A. (ENGLISH) SEMESTER-IV Paper-XIV : MODERN CRITICAL THEORY Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 The question paper shall consist of Parts-A and B having 36 and 64 marks respectively. Part-A: Eight (8) short questions (two from each unit) will be set. Students will be required to answer six (6) of them. The short questions are aimed at examining the first hand reading of prescribed texts. These shall relate to critical movements, terms, and concepts. The narrower the question, the better it is. The students shall answer these questions within 150 words. Each question will carry 6 marks (6x6=36) Part-B: Four (4) questions (one from each Unit) will be set. The students will be required to attempt all. Each question will have internal choice. One of the two choices should preferably deal with literary and social background of the author / text. If required, the examiner may also have sub-parts of a question. The students shall answer these questions in not more than 800 words. Each question will carry 16 marks. (16x4=64). Unit-I: a) Northrop Frye: The Archetypes of Literature b) Lionel Trilling: Freud and Literature Unit-II: a) Terry Eagleton: Form and Content b) Edward Said: Crisis (in Orientalism) Unit-III: a) Roman Jakobson: Linguistics and Poetics b) Roland Barthes: Introduction to Structural Analysis of Narratives Unit-IV: a) Christopher Norris: Jacques Derrida: Language against Itself b) Toril Moi: Feminist Literary Criticism

13 M.A. (ENGLISH) SEMESTER-IV Paper-XV: Novel-II (Modern Novel) Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100 The question paper shall consist of Parts-A and B having 36 and 64 marks respectively. Part-A : Eight (8) short questions (two from each unit) will be set. Students will be required to answer six (6) of them. The short questions are aimed at examining the first hand reading of prescribed Texts. These shall relate to particular themes, actions, characters, setting, literary / linguistic significance of selected scenes / stanzas etc. The narrower the question, the better it is. The students shall answer these questions within 150 words. Each question will carry 6 marks (6x6=36) Part-B: Four (4) questions (one from each Unit) will be set. The students will be required to attempt all. Each question will have internal choice. One of the two choices should preferably deal with literary and social background of the author / text. If required, the examiner may also have sub-parts of a question. The students shall answer these questions in not more than 800 words. Each question will carry 16 marks. (16x4=64). Unit-I: Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady Unit-II: Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness Unit-III: D.H.Lawrence: Women in Love Unit-IV: Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway

14 M.A. (ENGLISH) SEMESTER-IV PAPER-XVI : PROJECT WORK / SHORT DISSERTATION 1. Students will be allocated equitably to all teachers with a provision that no teacher will have less than 3 students. 2. The teacher shall provide a reading list on the proposed area of study of not less than 4 critical articles. 3. The students would be instructed to make use of those articles and write a project/dissertation of not less than 8,000 words (excluding bibliography and footnotes). 4. The text/s selected for critical analysis shall be from outside the prescribed M.A. syllabus. 5. Submission date for the project/dissertation shall be as per datesheet for Paper XVI. 6. The name of the teacher or the student shall not be indicated on the project/dissertation (for the sake of secrecy).