School of Studies in Language, Jiwaji University

MA (English) Session-2022-24
Semester-I

Course Paper Code Title of the paper Credits

Core English-T-101 Poetry 4
Core English –T-102 Drama 4
Core English –T-103 Fiction 4
Core English –T- 104 Prose 4
Seminar English-S-105 Seminar 1
Assignment English-A-106 Assignment 1
Viva- Voce English-V-107 Viva- Voce 4
Project English- P-108 Project 2

Semester-II

Course Paper Code Title of the paper Credits

Core English-T-101 Poetry 4
Core English –T-102 Drama 4
Core English –T-103 Fiction 4
Core English –T- 104 Prose 4
Seminar English-S-105 Seminar 1
Assignment English-A-106 Assignment 1
Viva- Voce English-V-107 Viva- Voce 4
Project English- P-108 Project 2
Semester-III
Course Paper Code Title of the paper Credits
Core English-T-301 Critical Theory 4
Core English –T-302 English Language 4
Elective(Centric English –T-303(A) Indian Writing in English 4
Elective(Centric English –T-304(A) American Literature 4
Seminar English-S-305 Seminar 1
Assignment English-A-306 Assignment 1
Viva- Voce English-V-307 Viva- Voce 4
Project English- P-108 Project 2
Semester-IV

Course Paper Code Title of the paper Credits

Core English-T-401 Critical Theory 4
Core English –T-402 English Language 4
Elective(Centric English –T-403A) Indian Writing in English 4
Elective(Centric English –T-404(A) American Literature 4
Seminar English-S-405 Seminar 1
Assignment English-A-406 Assignment 1
Viva- Voce English-V-4S07 Viva- Voce 4
Project English- P-108 Project 2
Class : M.A. Previous
Subject : English Literature
Semester : I, Dec-2022
Course : Poetry
Paper : I

Marks : 60+40=100
Note
1. There shall be four Compulsory Papers in each semester. In all there will be eight
compulsory papers in two semesters.
2. Two essay type - questions to be set from each unit and one to be attempted.
3. All questions are compulsory. They carry equal marks.

Unit - 1 Annotations (any two out of the four given passages. At least one from each
unit).
Unit - 2 Epic Poetry :
John Milton : Paradise Lost Book I
Valmiki : Ramayana (Sundar Kand)
Unit - 3 Narrative Poetry :
Geoffrey Chaucer : The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.
S.T. Coleridge : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Unit- 4 Renaissance Poetry :
William Shakespeare :Sonnets Nos. 23,24,26,27,31,44
John Donne : The Extasie, A Valediction Forbidden Mourning
The Good Morrow, Love's Alchemic, The
Canonization, The Anniversarie
Unit - 5 Satirical Poetry :
John Dryden : Mac Flecknoe
Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock.
Class : M.A. Previous
Subject : English Literature
Semester : I
Course : Drama
Paper : II

Marks : 60+40=100
Note
1. There shall be four Compulsory Papers in each semester. In all there will be eight
compulsory papers in two semesters.
2. Two essay type - questions to be set from each unit and one to be attempted.
3. All questions are compulsory. They carry equal marks.

Unit - 1 Annotations (any two out of the four given passages. At least one from each
unit).
Unit - 2 Non English Drama :
Sophocles : Oedipus Rex
Kalidas : Abhigyana Shankuntalam (English Translation, Sahitya
Academy)
Unit - 3 Shakespearean Tragedy:
Hamlet
Othello

Unit- 4 Other Shakespearean Plays :

Mid Summer Night's Dream
The Tempest

Unit - 5 Renaissance Drama : (Non- Shakespearean)

Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
Ben Jonson : Every Man in His Humour
Class : M.A. Previous
Subject : English Literature
Semester : I
Course : Fiction
Paper : III

Marks : 60+40=100
Note
1. There shall be four Compulsory Papers in each semester. In all there will be eight
compulsory papers in two semesters.
2. Two essay type - questions to be set from each unit and one to be attempted.
3. All questions are compulsory. They carry equal marks.

Unit - 1 Early Prose Narrative :

Bana Bhatt : Kadambari
Cervantes : Don Quixote
Unit - 2 Picaresque Novel :
Henry Fielding : Tom Jones
Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe
Unit - 3 Historical Novel :
Walter Scott : Bride of Lammermoor
Thackeray Vanity Fair
Unit- 4 Fiction by Women :
George Eliot : The Mill On the Floss
Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights
Unit - 5 Century Realistic Novel :
Charles Dickens : David Copperfield
Mulk Raj Anand: The Coolie
Class : M.A. Previous
Subject : English Literature
Semester : I
Course : Prose
Paper : IV

Marks : 60+40=100
Note
1. There shall be four Compulsory Papers in each semester. In all there will be eight
compulsory papers in two semesters.
2. Two essay type - questions to be set from each unit and one to be attempted.
3. All questions are compulsory. They carry equal marks.

Unit - 1 Annotations (any two out of four given passages selecting at least one from unit
3,4 & 5) :
Unit - 2 Biography and Autobiography : (Non Detailed study)
J.L. Nehru : Autobiography (Fourth Chapter)
Kamala Das : My Story (Fourth Chapter )
Unit - 3 Political and Social Writings
Thomas Moore: Utopia (English Translation)
Bacon: Of Truth, Of Studies, Of Revenge, Of Love
Unit- 4 Philosophical Writing:
J. Krishnamurti: 1. Individual and Society
2. Action and Idea
3. What is Self?
4. What are We Seeking?
Nirad C. Chaudhary: Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
Unit - 5 Bertrand Russell: True Success
William Hazlitt: 1. The Ignorance of the Learned
2. The Indian Jugglers
Class : M.A. Previous
Subject : English Literature
Semester : II, June-2023
Course : Poetry
Paper : I

Marks : 60+40=100
Note
1. Two essay type - questions to be sent from each unit and one to be attempted.
2. All questions are compulsory. The carry equal marks.
Unit-1 Pre-Romantic Poetry:
Thomas Gray: Elegy written in a country churchyard,
The Progress of Poesy
William Blake: One Another Sorrow, The Lamb, The Poison Tree
Unit-2 Romantic Poetry:
W. Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey, Solitary Reaper
P.B. Shelly: To a skylark
John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn
Unit-3 Victorian Poetry:
Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses, The Lotos Eaters
Robert Browning: Last Ride Together, Porphyria's Lover
Mathew Arnold: Rustam and Sohrab, Dover Beach
Unit-4 Symbolist Poetry:
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
W.B. Yeats: The Second Coming, Byzantium, Sailing to
Byzantium
Unit-5 Modern Poetry
W.H. Auden: Strange Meeting, The Shields of Achilles
Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill, A Refusal to Mourn the Death of a Child
Class : M.A. Previous
Subject : English Literature
Semester : II
Course : Drama
Paper : II

Marks : 60+40=100
Note
1. Two essay type - questions to be sent from each unit and one to be attempted.
2. All questions are compulsory. The carry equal marks.

Unit-1 Annotations: (Any two of our given passages selecting at least one from
each unit)
Unit-2 Restoration Drama:
John Dryden: All For Love
Congreve: The Way of the World
Unit-3 Victorian Drama:
G.B. Shaw: Caesar & Cleopatra
Galsworthy: Strife
Unit-4 Modern Drama:
Ibsen: A Doll's House
Samuel Backett: Waiting for Godot
Unit-5 Indian Drama:
Girish Karnad: Naga Mandala
Mahesh Dattani: Tara
Class : M.A. Previous
Subject : English Literature
Semester : II
Course : Fiction
Paper : III

Marks : 60+40=100
Note
1. There shall be four Compulsory Papers in each semester. In all there will be eight
compulsory papers in two semesters.
2. Two essay type - questions to be set from each unit and one to be attempted.
3. All questions are compulsory. They carry equal marks.
Unit-1 Century Fiction:
Flaubert: Madame Bovary
George Meredith: The Egoist
Unit-2Rural Novel:
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'urbervilles
Premchand: Godaan
Unit-3Psychological Novel:
Virginia Woolf: To the Light House
D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
Unit-4 Naturalist Novel:
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim
Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
Unit-5Post Natural Novel:
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
Saul Bellow: Her Zog
Class : M.A. Previous
Subject : English Literature
Semester : II
Course : Prose
Paper : IV

Marks : 60+40=100
Note
1. There shall be four Compulsory Papers in each semester. In all there will be eight
compulsory papers in two semesters.
2. Two essay type - questions to be set from each unit and one to be attempted.
3. All questions are compulsory. They carry equal marks.
Unit-1 Annotations: (Any two out of four given passages. At last one to be
selected at least one from each unit).
Unit-2 Boswell: The Life of Dr. Johnson (From Everyman's Edition of Boswell's Life of
Dr. Johnson, London: J.M. Dent 1958, Vol. I, Introductory pp 5-11).
Addison: Spectators Account of Himself, Sir Roger at Home
Unit-3 Goldsmith: The Man in Black
Charles Lamb: Dream Children, A Bachelor's Complaint Against the
Behavior of Married People
Unit-4 A.G. Gardiner: One the Rule of the Road, In Defence of Laziness
Robert's Lynd: Back the Desk, Forgetting, The Pleasures of
Ignorance, I Tremble to Think
Unit-5 G.K. Chesterton: On Running after One's Hat, Patriotism and Sport
Hiliary Bellock: On Books, On Preserving English
Class : M.A. Final
Subject : English Literature
Semester : III, Dec-2023
Title of Subgroup : Critical Theory
Paper No. : I
Compulsory/Optional : Compulsory

Marks : 60+40=100

Unit-1 Natyashastra - Rasa Theory, Aristotle - Poetics (Butcher's Translation)

Unit-2 Longinus - On the sublime, Philip Sydney, Apology for Poetry
Unit-3 John Dryden - An essay on Dramatic Poesy, Dr. Johnson - Preface to
Shakespeare
Unit-4 Wordsworth - Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge - Biographia
Literaria Ch. XIII & XIV
Unit-5 Matthew Arnold - Essays in Criticism (Second series), T.S. Eliot -
Tradition and Individual Talent
Class : M.A. Final
Subject : English Literature
Semester : III
Title of Subgroup : English Language
Paper No. : II
Compulsory/Optional : Compulsory

Marks : 60+40=100

Unit-1 Definition, Functions, Characteristics, Development of English

Language
Unit-2 Language Varieties : Register, Style and Dialect Approaches to the
study of language Synchronic and Diachronic
Unit-3 Definition of Phonetics & Phonology, Difference between Phonetics
and Phonology, Organs of Speech
Unit-4 Phonemes, Allophones, Phonetic Symbols for Sounds in R.P.
Unit-5 Basics of Transformational generic Grammar: Nature and
Characteristics
Class : M.A. Final
Subject : English Literature
Semester : III
Title of Subgroup : Indian Writing in English
Paper No. : III (A)
Compulsory/Optional : Optional

Marks : 60+40=100

Unit-1 Annotations: Six passages selecting at least two from Unit II, III and IV
will be given and two to be attempted.
Unit-2 Sri Aurobindo : Savitri - Book I, Canto I
Tagore : Geetanjali - poems 1 to 10 (McMillan edition)
Unit-3 APJ Abdul Kalam - Wings of Fire
Unit-4 Bhabani Bhattacharya : So Many Hungers
Manohar Malgaonkar : A Bend in the Ganges
Unit-5 Anita Desai : Cry, the Peacock
Kamla Markandaya : A Handful of Rice
Class : M.A. Final
Subject : English Literature
Semester : III
Title of Subgroup : Commonwealth Literature in English
Paper No. : III (B)
Compulsory/Optional : Optional

Marks : 60+40=100

Unit-1 Canadian Poetry

Margarette Atwod: (1) This is a Photograph of Me
(2) Tricks with Mirrors
Unit-2 Canadian Fiction
Margaratte Laurence: The Stone Angel
Unit-3 The African Novel
Doris Lessing : The Grass is Singing
Unit-4 Caribbean Novel
George Lamming : In the Castle of my Skin
Unit-5 Australian Novel:
Patrick White : A Fringe of Leaves
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Class : M.A. Final
Subject : English Literature
Semester : III
Title of Subgroup : American Literature
Paper No. : IV (A)
Compulsory/Optional : Optional

Marks : 60+40=100

Unit-1 Annotations: Six passages selecting at least two from Unit II, III and IV
will be given and two to be attempted.
Unit-2 Prose:
Emerson: Self Reliance, The Over Soul
Unit-3 Poetry:
Walt Whitman: O Captain, My Captain; Song of Myself; Gross; When
Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd; I celebrate Myself
Robert Frost: Stopping by Wood on a Snowy Evening, After Apple
Picking, Birches, The Road not taken
Unit-4 Drama:
Eugene O' Neil: Mourning Becomes Electra
Unit-5 Fiction: Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
Class : M.A. Final
Subject : English Literature
Semester : III
Title of Subgroup : Linguistics and Stylistics
Paper No. : IV (B)
Compulsory/Optional : Optional

Marks : 60+40=100

Unit-1 Definition of Linguistics, branches, nature and properties of language

Language as a system of communication
Human language and Animal Communication, Language as a system of
systems
Unit-2 Linguistics:
Language variation and sociolinguistics, Language change
Synchronic, Diachronic & historical linguistics, Minimal and non-
minimal pairs
Unit-3 Phonetics
Speech mechanism, Classification & Description of Speech Sounds,
Consonants & Vowels
International Phonetic Alphabet, The Phoneme, The Allophones, The
syllable, The Phoneme theory & Syllable Theory
Unit-4 Grammar
Determiners, Word Classes, Noun Phrase, Verbal group, Verb Phrase,
Verb Patterns, Finite & non finite forms, Article, Features, Affix Switch
Unit-5 Stylistics
Nature and scope: Figures of speech: Imagery
Class : M.A. Final
Subject : English Literature
Semester : IV, June-2024
Title of Subgroup : Critical Theory
Paper No. : I
Compulsory/Optional : Compulsory

Marks : 60+40=100

Unit-1 Anand Vardhan : Dhwani Theory

Ferdinand Sausure : The Nature of Linguistic Sign
Unit-2 I.A. Richards : Two Uses of Languages
J.C. Ranson : Concept of Structure and Texture of Poetry
Unit-3 F.R. Levis : Literary Criticism & Philosophy
J. Derrida : Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of
Human Sciences
Unit-4 Edward Said : Crisis (The Scope of Orientalism)
Basic trends in Feminist Criticism
Unit-5 Practical Criticism - It will contain two passages: One in verse and the
other in prose, Practical Criticism following the technique as illustrated
in I.A. Richard's book 'Practical Criticism' and David Daiches' 'Critical
Approaches'
Class : M.A. Final
Subject : English Literature
Semester : IV
Title of Subgroup : English Language
Paper No. : II
Compulsory/Optional : Compulsory

Marks : 60+40=100

Unit-1 Morphology:
Morpheme, Allomorph, Word formation
Unit-2 Linguistic Analysis:
I.C. Analysis & Ambiguities
Unit-3 Phonology:
Sound sequences: Syllable, Word Stress, Strong and Weak forms, Stress
and Intonation
Unit-4 Grammar:
Sentence types and their transformations relations: (a) Statement
(b) Question (c) Negative (d) Passive (e) Imperative
Unit-5 Grammar:
Word classes: Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjunct Phrase, Syntax
Coordination, Relative Clauses, Adverbials, Determiners, Article
Features, Concord
Class : M.A. Final
Subject : English Literature
Semester : IV
Title of Subgroup : Indian Writings in English
Paper No. : III (A)
Compulsory/Optional : Optional

Marks : 60+40=100

Unit-1 Annotations: Six passages selecting at least two from Unit II, III and IV
will be given and two be attempted.
Unit-2 (1) Sarojini Naidu (All poems of each poet in V.K. Gokak ed.
(2) Kamla Das Golden Treasury Indo-Anglian Poetry
Sahitya Academy)
Unit-3 (1) M.R. Anand : Untouchable
(2) R.K. Narayan : The English Teacher
Unit-4 (1) Vishnu Sharma : Panchatantra (Book I)
(2) Munshi Premchand : The Shourd (Kafan)
Unit-5 (1) Amitav Ghosh : The Shadow Lines
(2) Shashi Deshpande : That Long Silence
Class : M.A. Final
Subject : English Literature
Semester : IV
Title of Subgroup : Commonwealth Literature in English
Paper No. : III (B)
Compulsory/Optional : Optional

Marks : 60+40=100

Unit-1 Canadian Poetry

Michael Ondaatje: (1) The Cinnamon Peeler
(2) To a Sad Daughter
Unit-2 Canadian Fiction
Magarate Atwood : Surfacing
Unit-3 The African Novel
Nadime Gordimer : July's People
Chinua Achebe : Arrow of God
Unit-4 Australian and Caribbean Novel:
V.S. Naipaul : A House of Mr. Biswas
Elizabeth Jolley : My Father's Moon
Unit-5 Canadian Drama:
Sharan Pollock : Walsh
Drew Heydon Taylor : Alternatives
Class : M.A. Final
Subject : English Literature
Semester : IV
Title of Subgroup : American Literature
Paper No. : IV (A)
Compulsory/Optional : Optional

Marks : 60+40=100

Unit-1 Annotations: Six passages selecting at least two from Unit II, III and IV
will be given and two be attempted.
Unit-2 Prose:
Emerson: American Scholar
Throeau: Civil Disobedience
Unit-3 Poetry:
Emily Dickinson: Because I could not Wait for Death, I Taste a Liquor
Never Brewed, Light in Spring, This is my letter to World.
Sylvia Plath: Daddy, Lady Lizarus, The Bee Meeting
Unit-4 Drama:
Tenessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
Edward Ablee: The Zoo Story
Unit-5 Fiction:
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
Class : M.A. Final
Subject : English Literature
Semester : IV
Title of Subgroup : Linguistics and Stylistics
Paper No. : IV (B)
Compulsory/Optional : Optional

Marks : 60+40=100

Unit-1 Linguistics:
Competence and Performance, Morphology, IC Analysis, Ambiguities
Unit-2 Phonetics:
Transcriptions – Phonetic phonemic, Strong and weak forms, word Accent, the Word
stress rules, intonation and rhythm in connected speech. Difference between R.P &
G.I.E.
Unit-3 Stylistics:
Foregrounding, Repetition, Collocation, Collocational clash, Inversion, parallelism,
coupling, embedding.
Unit-4 Deviance – grammatical and conceptual
Presupposition, pragmatics, Implicature.
(Stylistic Analysis of a poem, two to be set, one to be attempted)
Unit-5 Grammar:
Sentence patterns, Syntax, Semantics, Surface structures & deep structures,
Negativisation, Passivisation, Interrogative, and Imperative Transformations.