Indus International University School of Arts, Media & Education Department of English Curriculum & Syllabus M.A.English
Criteria for Assessment Attendance 10% Assignments 20% Quizzes 10% Mid Semester Test 20% Final Semester Test 40%
COURSE STRUCTURE MA English (SEMESTER SYSTEM) Course Codes Subjects Credits Lectures PEN101 PEN102 Semester I History of English Language & Literature upto 1800 English Poetry from Geoffrey Chaucer up to John Milton 4 4 4 4 PEN103 Elizabethan Drama 4 4 PEN104 Eighteenth Century Novel 4 4 Semester II 16 16 PEN201 PEN202 History of English Literature: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Romantic and Victorian Poetry 4 4 4 4 PEN203 Shakespeare 4 4 PEN204 Nineteenth Century Fiction 4 4 16 16 Semester III PEN301 American Literature 4 4 PEN302 Twentieth Century English Poetry 4 4 PEN303 Modern Fiction 4 4 PEN304 Modern British Drama 4 4 16 16 Semester IV PEN401 Modern Literary Theory 4 4 PEN402 Indian Writing in English 4 4 PEN403 Indian Writing in Translation 4 4 Electives PEN404 Option (i) World Fiction OR 4 4 PEN405 Option (ii) African Literature OR 4 4 PEN406 Option (iii) Australian Literature OR 4 4 PEN407 Option (iv) Canadian Literature 4 4
16 16 TOTAL CREDITS 64 Semester I Paper I: History & Growth of English Language & Literature from Old English Period to 1800. Unit I A Brief History of the English Language, Literature in General, Relation of Literature to Life, the functions of Literature & its background and development. The Anglo-Saxon or Old English Period (670-1100), Middle English or Anglo-Norman Period (1100-1500) Unit II The Renaissance period or The Age of Elizabeth (1500-1600) Unit III The Puritan Age or The Age of Milton (1600-1660), The Restoration period or The Age of Dryden (1660-1700) Unit IV Eighteenth Century Literature or The Augustan Age The Age of Pope (1700-1744), The Age of Johnson (1744-1784), Eighteenth Century Novel, Eighteenth Century Drama. Paper II: English Poetry from Geoffrey Chaucer up to John Milton Unit I An introduction to Middle English literature, Detailed study of Geoffrey Chaucer's "General Prologue", The Nun s Priest s Tale, & "Wife of Bath's Tale". Unit II History of Puritan Poetry Introduction to the Metaphysical poets & the Cavalier Poets. Unit III Detailed study of Donne s - The Sun-Rising, The Extasie, The Canonization, The Anniversary, The Flea, & A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Unit IV John Milton: Paradise Lost, Bk. I, and Lycidas, Paper III: Elizabethan Drama Unit I Origin and the development of Drama. Unit II Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus Unit III William Shakespeare: The Tempest Unit IV Ben Jonson: Volpone Paper IV: Eighteenth Century Novel Unit I Birth and Rise of the Novel
Unit II Samuel Richardson: Pamela (1740) Unit III Henry Fielding: Tom Jones (1746-1749) Unit IV Lawrence Sterne: Tristram Shandy (1760-1767) Paper V: Semester II History of English Literature: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Unit I The Romantic Age (1798-1824) Unit II The Early Victorian Period (1832-1870) Unit III The Later Victorian Period (1870-1900) Unit IV The Modern Age (1900-1961) Paper VI: Romantic and Victorian Poetry Unit I Blake: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience Unit II Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality, Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan Unit III Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Melancholy, To Autumn Tennyson: The Lady of Shalott, Ulysses, The Lotos-Eaters Unit IV Browning: Evelyn Hope, The Last Ride Together, My Last Duchess, Rabbi Ben Ezra Paper VII: Shakespeare Introduction, works of Shakespeare Twelfth Night Hamlet King Lear Paper VIII: Nineteenth Century Fiction Introduction: nineteenth century fiction.
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D Urbervilles Semester III Paper IX: American Literature Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman Henry James: The Art of Fiction Walt Whitman: Song of Myself (1, 5, 33), Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, A Passage to India. Robert Frost: Birches, Design, Mending Wall, After Apple Picking, The Road not Taken, Home Burial Edgar Allan Poe: Poems: Israfel; Ulalume Short Stories: The Fall of the House of Usher; the Cask of Amontillado Paper X: Twentieth Century English Poetry Introduction W.B. Yeats: The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, A Prayer for My Daughter, Among School Children, Leda and the Swan When you are Old, Bronze Head. T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land W.H. Auden: The Unknown Citizen, In Memory of W.B. Yeats, The Shield of Achilles, September 1, 1939 Paper XI: Modern Fiction Introduction - modern fiction. James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man E.M. Forster: A Passage to India D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers Paper XII: Modern British Drama
Introduction G.B. Shaw: Arms and the Man Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband John Osborne: Look Back in Anger Semester IV Paper XIII: Modern Literary Theory Ferdinand de Saussure: The Object of Study Jacques Derrida: Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences Roland Barthes: The Death of the Author Elaine Showalter: Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness [1-5 in Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, ed. David Lodge (London, New York: Longman, 1988)] Paper XIV: Indian Writing in English Mulk Raj Anand : Untouchable Anita Desai: Voices in the City Keki N. Daruwala: Ruminations, The Fighting Eagles, The Mistress, Boat-ride Along the Ganga Nissim Ezekiel: Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher, Enterprise, The Visitor Paper XV: Indian Writing in Translation Introduction Bhisham Sahni: Tamas Mahasweta Devi: Rudali (English translation by Anujam Katyal, pub. Seagull) Kamleshwar: Partitions
(English translation by Ameena Kazi Ansari,pub. Penguin 2006) Paper XVI: Option (i): World Fiction Introduction Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart Margaret Atwood: Surfacing Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment Option (ii): African Literature Chinua Achebe: A Man of the People Ngugi wa Thiong O: A Grain of Wheat Nadin Gordimer: My Son s Story Bessie Head: The Collector of Treasures (short stories) Patrick White: The Solid Mandala David Malouf: Remembering Babylon David Williamson: The Removalists Jack Davis: No Sugar Option (iii): Australian Literature. Option (iv): Canadian Literature Robertson Davis s: Fifth Business Sharon Pollock: The Komagata Maru Incident M.G. Vassangi: The Book of Secrets
Lee Maracle: Sundogs