American Literature and English Language Teaching Essay

M. A. black market in English shall comprise 4 semesters. Each semester shall have 4 courses. In all, there shall be 16 courses of 5 credits each. Each course shall carry 100 marks. Of these, 70 marks shall be reserved for theory (end-Semester examination) and 30 marks for tutorials/seminars (internal assessment). However, in course 5, titled Linguistics and English delivery Teaching, only 50 marks shall be reserved for theory (end-Semester examination), 20 marks for Practical/Viva-voce exam and 30 marks for tutorial/seminars (internal assessment). Of these courses, human body Nos.1 to 11, 13 and 14 shall be treated as snapper hunts, Course nos. 12 and 15 as Elective Courses and Course No. 16 as Allied Elective Course open even to the students of otherwise departments/faculties. The starred items are meant for detailed study. The theory component of each composition shall be of three hours duration. Pattern of Question Papers 1The pattern of question paper in respect of course nos. 1,8,11,13,14,15,16 (Indian Literature in rendering, Women Writing and European Literature in Translation) shall be as follows fraction A (a) Two Long-Answer-Type Questions (500 oral communication each) with internal choice 212=24 division B.(b) Six Short-Answer-Type Questions (200 words each) out of nine questions 66=36 Section C (c) Ten Objective-Type Questions to be answered in a word or sentence each 101=10 2The pattern of question paper in respect of course nos. 2,3,4,6,7,9,10,12,16 (New Literatures in English) shall be as follows Section A (a) Two Long-Answer-Type Questions (500 words each) with internal choice 212 =24 Section B (b) Three passages for explanation out of 5 passages from the starred items to be answered in 200 words each 36 = 18 Section C (c) Three Short-Answer-Type Questions out of 5 questions to be answered in 200 words each 36 = 18.Section D d) Ten Objective-Type Questions to be answered in a word or sentence each 101=10 3The pattern of questio n paper in respect of Course No. 5 (Linguistics and English Language Teaching) shall be as follows Section A (a) Two Long-Answer-Type Questions (500 words each) with internal choice 210=20 Section B (b) Four Short-Answer-Type Questions (200 words each) out of six questions 45=20 Section C (c) Ten Objective-Type Questions to be answered in a word or sentence each 101=10 SEMESTER I Course 1 Introduction to Linguistics ENG 101 1. (a)Key properties of Language b) Language varieties.2. (a)Major concerns of Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics b) Historical approach, Descriptive approach 3. Major concepts in Linguistics a) Syntagmatic and Paradigmetic axes b) Differential Calculous c) Constituent Structure d) Transformations and Deep Structure 4. Stylistics, its methods and limitations. Course 2 Poetry I (Chaucer to Blake) ENG 102 ChaucerPrologue to Canterbury Tales (Modern version) *Shakespeares Sonnets No. 18, 30, 63, 130 *MiltonParadise Lost, Book I *DonneThe Blossom, The Cano nization, The Good Morrow MarvellTo His Coy Mistress *PopeThe Rape of the Lock.*Gray wail Written in a Country Churchyard *BlakeThe Tiger, Ah Sun-flower Course 3 Drama I (Marlowe to Wilde excluding Shakespeare) ENG 103 *WebsterThe Duchess of Malfi *MarloweDr. Faustus *JonsonThe Alchemist CongreveThe Way of the World *WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest contrast and Growth of the British Theatre Course 4 Prose ENG 104 *BaconOf Truth Of Death Of Adversity Of Great Place Of Parents and Children Addison & SteeleOf the Club The Coverley Household Labour and Exercise Sir Roger at the Theatre (Coverley Papers from the Spectator, ed. K. Deighton, Macmillan).*LambChrist Hospital New Years Eve Imperfect Sympathies *CarlyleHero as Man of Letters Russellscience and War Science and Values (from The Impact of Science on Society) HuxleyTragedy and the Whole Truth (from W. E. Williams, ed. A Book of English Essays) SEMESTER II Course 5 Linguistics and English Language Teaching ENG 201 1. Phon ology(a) Speech mechanism and the Organs of Speech (b) Consonants, Vowels, Diphthongs (c) Phoneme (d) Stress, Intonation 2. MorphologyMorphemes Words and Affixes 3. Syntax(a) I. C. Analysis and its limits (b) Transformations of Movement, Addition, Substitution, Deletion.(c) Coordination and domination 4. English Language Teaching(a) Direct Method (b) Audiolingual Method (c) Communicative Language Teaching (d) Error Analysis (e) Teaching skills of Language listening, speaking, reading, writing. (f) Testing Course 6 Poetry II (Wordsworth to Arnold) ENG 202 *WordsworthThe Prelude, Book I *ColeridgeKubla Khan *ShelleyAdonais *KeatsOde to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn *TennysonUlysses, The Lotos Eaters *BrowningRabbi Ben Ezra, Porphyrias Lover *ArnoldThe Scholar gipsy Course 7 Drama II (Shakespeare) ENG 203 Henry IV, Part I.Twelfth Night *Hamlet *The Tempest Shakespeare Criticism Dr. Johnson, Bradley, Wilson Knight, Caroline Spurgeon, Stephen Greenblatt. Course 8 fictionaliza tion I (Defoe to Hardy) ENG 204 DefoeMoll Flanders FieldingJoseph Andrews AustenEmma DickensGreat Expectations EliotMiddlemarch HardyTess of the Durbervilles SEMESTER III Course 9 Poetry III (Hopkins to Ted Hughes) ENG 301 *HopkinsPied Beauty The Windhover Carrion still *YeatsSailing to Byzantium Byzantium No Second Troy Coole Park and Ballyle *EliotThe Waste Land *AudenIn Memory of W. B. Yeats The Shield of Achilles.*LarkinChurch Going Next, please At spy *Ted HughesThe Thought-Fox Hawk Roosting Course 10 Drama III (Twentieth Century Drama) ENG 302 *ShawMan and Superman *YeatsCountess Cathleen *EliotMurder in the Cathedral *BeckettWaiting for Godot *PinterThe Birthday Party Course 11 Literary Criticism & Theory 1 ENG 303 AristotleOn the Art of Poetry BharatamuniOn Natya and Rasa Aesthetics of Dramatic Experience AnandavardhanaDhvani Structure of Poetic meat DrydenEssay on Dramatic Poesy WordsworthPreface to Lyrical Ballads ColeridgeBiographia Literaria (Chs.XIII, XVII & X VIII) ArnoldThe Study of Poetry (Essays in Criticism Book II) Course 12 Indian Literature in English I ENG EL-3. 1 *TagoreThou hast made me endless Leave this chanting and singing I am like a remnant of a cloud In one salutation to thee (Gitanjali) *Sri AurobindoSavitri Book I Canto I (Passages for explanation to be set from the first 64 lines) *Girish KarnadNag-Mandala The avocation poets from Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets ed. R. Parthasarathy (OUP) *Nissim EzekielPoet, Lover, Birdwatcher Background, Casually Enterprise *Jayant MahapatraGrass, Lost.*A. K. RamanujanA River Love Poem for a Wife I Obituary *Kamala DasMy nannas House A Hot Noon in Malabar The Invitation OR American Literature I ENG EL-3. 2 The following from American Literature of the nineteenth Century (Eurasia) and American Literature 1890-1965 (Eurasia) EmersonThe American Scholar, Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul Poe*The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Philosophy of Composition Whitman*When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd, Passage to India *Wallace StevensThe Emperor of Ice-cream, Sunday Morning.*Emily DickinsonI Taste a Liquor Never Brewed, I Felt a Funeral in My Brain, The Soul Selects Her Own Society, Because I Could not Stop for Death, These Are the eld When Birds Come *Tennessee WilliamsA Streetcar Named Desire Edward AlbeeZoo Story SEMESTER IV Course 13 Fiction II ENG401 ConradHeart of Darkness WoolfMrs. Dalloway JoyceA portraying of the Artist as a Young Man LawrenceWomen in Love Kingsley AmisLucky Jim Course 14 Literary Criticism & Theory II ENG 402 Eliotcustom and the Individual TalentThe Function of Criticism Hamlet (Selected Essays) fatardsPrinciples of Literary Criticism (Chs.IV-XV, XXI, XXXIV, XXXV and Appendix A On Value) RansomA Note on Ontology (Twentieth Century Criticism The Major Statements, eds. Handy and Westbrook) The following critics from David Lodge, ed. Modern criticism and Theory A Reader (London Longman, 1988)The following critics from D avid Lodge, ed. Modern Criticism and Theory A Reader (London Longman, 1988) SaussureNature of the Linguistic Sign DerridaStructure, Sign and Play in the discourse of the human Sciences SaidCrisis (in Orientialism) ShowalterFeminist criticism in the natural state EagletonCapitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism.Course 15 Indian Literature in English II ENG EL-4. 1 Mulk Raj AnandUntouchable R. K. NarayanThe Financial Expert Raja RaoThe Serpent and the rope Anita DesaiVoices in the City Salman RushdieMidnights Children Amitav GhoshThe Shadow Lines Jawahar Lal NehruAn Autobiography OR American Literature II ENG EL-4. 2 HawthorneThe Scarlet Letter MelvilleBilly Budd FaulknerLight in August HemingwayA Farewell to Arms Ralph EllisonInvisible Man Saul BellowHumboldts Gift Course 16 Indian Literature in Translation ENG EL-4. 3 The following poets from Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry eds.Vinay Dharwadker & A. K. Ramanujan Sitanshu YashashchandraDrought V Indira BhavaniAvatars Ali Sardar JafriMorsel Paresh Chandra RautSnake TagoreHomecoming My Lord, The Baby Shrilal ShuklaRag Darbari TendulkarGhasiram Kotwal AnanthamurthySamskara Translation, Theory and place OR New Literatures in English ENG EL-4. 4 The following poets from An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry ed. C D Narasimhaiah, Macmillan *A. D. HopeAustralia The Death of the Bird *AtwoodJourney to the privileged *A. K. RamanujanDeath and the Good Citizen Waterfalls in a Bank (The Collected Poems of A.K. Ramanujan, OUP)*Agha Shahid AliShowman The Season of the Plains (Twelve Modern Indian Poets ed. A. K. Mehrotra, OUP) Chinua AchebeThings Fall Apart V. S. NaipaulA House for Mr. Biswas Wole SoyinkaThe passage Patrick WhiteVoss Nadine GordimerThe Burgers Daughter OR Women Writing ENG EL-4. 5 The following poets from The Faber Book of 20th Century Womens Poetry ed.Fleur Adcock Margaret AtwoodSiren Song Adrienne RichSnapshots of a Daughter-in-Law U A FanthorpeNot My Best Side Sylvia PlathLady Lazurus Gwendolyn BrooksA Sunset of the City Shashi DeshpandeThat Long SilenceCharlotte BronteJane Eyre Tony MorrisonBeloved bloody shame WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Women John Stuart MillThe Subjection of Women Virginia WoolfA Room of Ones Own OR European Literature in Translation ENG EL-4. 6 SophoclesOedipus the King DostoevskyCrime and Punishment FlaubertMadam Bovary KafkaMetamorphosis Alberto MoraviaThe Woman of Rome BrechtMother Courage BaudelaireLes Fleurs du mal (Flower of Evil) RilkeThe Sonnets to Orpheus No. X The First Elegy (Duino Elegies) The Poet, retrospect (from Collected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Modern Library, New York). l