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M.A. English Part-I
& II
The Appendix ‘A’ (Outlines of Tests) and Appendix ‘B’ (Syllabi & Courses of Reading for M.A. English Part-I and Part-II shall be effective from the Session 2002-2003.
The class admitted in the year 2002 will take their M.A. English Part-I Examination of 2003 according to new syllabus in the year 2003: -
M.A. (English) Part I Examination of 2003 Appendix ‘A’
(Outlines of Tests)
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Marks |
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Paper I (Classical Poetry) |
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100 |
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Paper II (Drama) |
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100 |
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Paper III (Novel) |
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100 |
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Paper IV (Prose) |
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100 |
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Paper V (American Literature) |
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100 |
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Total |
500 |
Appendix ‘B’
(SYLLABI AND COURSES
OF READING)
Paper I: (Classical Poetry)
1.
Chaucer The Prologue
2.
Milton Paradise Lost Books I & IX
3.
Donne Love/Divine Poems
4. 4.
Pope The Rape of the Lock.
5.
Wyatt The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor,
Whose List to Hunt,
Madam Withouen Many Words, They Flee from Me.
Is it Possible Forget Not Yet,
What should I say Stand who so list.
6.
Surrey My Friend
the Things That Do Attain
Love,
That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought, So Cruel Prison,
Wyatt Resteth Here.
Paper II: (Drama)
1.
Sophocles Oedipus Rex
2.
Marlowe Dr. Faustus
3.
Shakespeare Othello
The Winter’s Tale
4.
Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Paper III: (Novel)
1.
Trollope Barchester Towers
2.
Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice
3.
G. Eliot Adam Bede
4.
Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
5.
Hardy The Return
of the Native
Paper IV: (Prose)
1.
Bacon Essays:
Of Truth Of Death Of Revenge
Of Adversities
Of Simulation and Dissimulation Of Parents and Children
Of Great Place Of Nobilitie Of Superstition Of Friendship Of Ambition Of Studies
2.
Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
3.
Bertrand Russell Unpopular Essays
4.
Edward Said Only the
introduction to the book entitled “Culture and Imperialism”
5.
Seamus Heaney Only the essay
“The Redress of Poetry” from the book entitled
The Redress of Poetry
Paper V: (American
Literature)
Poetry
1.
Adrienne Rich Diving into
the Wreck Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers Final Notation
Gabriel
2.
Sylvia Plath Ariel
Morning Song Poppies in October The Bee Meeting
The Arrival of the Bee Box Your
3.
Richard Wilbur Still Citizen
Sparrow After the last Bulletin Marginalia
4.
John Ashbury Melodic Train Painter
Drama
1.
O’Neil Mourning becomes Electra (only the First of the Trilogy which
is titled ‘The Home Coming’
is included in the M.A. Syllabus)
2.
Miller The Crucible
Novel
1.
Ernest Hemingway For whom the Bell Tolls
2.
Toni Morrison Jazz
M. A. (English) Part II Examination 2004 Appendix
‘A’
(Outlines of Tests)
The first four papers are compulsory, the other four are optional. The candidates are required to opt for any one of the four optional papers.
Compulsory Papers Marks
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Paper I |
Poetry II |
100 |
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Paper II |
Drama II |
100 |
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Paper III |
Novel II |
100 |
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Paper IV |
Literary Criticism |
100 |
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Paper V |
Short Stories |
or |
100 |
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Paper VI Literature in English Around
the World 100 |
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Paper VII |
Linguistics |
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or |
100 |
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Paper VIII |
Essay |
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or |
100 |
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Total |
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500 |
Appendix ‘B’
(SYLLABI AND COURSES
OF READING)
Paper I: (Poetry
II)(Section A)
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1. |
Blake |
A Selection from
Songs of |
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Innocence
& Experience |
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i) Auguries of Innocence |
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ii) The Sick Rose |
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iii) London |
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iv) A Poison Tree |
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v) A Divine Image |
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vi) From Milton: And Did |
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Those Feet |
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vii) Holy
Thursday (I) |
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viii) The Tyger |
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ix) Ah, Sun Flower |
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x) Holy Thursday (II) |
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2.
Coleridge The Ancient
Mariner Kubla Khan Dejection: An Ode
3.
Keats Hyperion Book I
Ode to Autumn
Ode to a Nightingale
Section B
1.
Philip Larkin Mr.
Bleaney Church Going Ambulances 1914
2.
Seamus Heaney Personal
Helicon Tolland Man
A Constable Calls Toome Road
Casting and Gathering
3.
Ted Hughes Thought
Fox Chances
That Morning
Full Moon and Freida
Paper II: (Drama II)
1.
Ibsen Hedda Gabler
2.
Chekov The Cherry
Orchard
3.
Brecht Galileo Galili
4.
Beckett Waiting for Godot
5.
Edward Bond The Sea
Paper III: (Novel
II)
1.
Conrad Heart of Darkness
2.
Joyce Portrait of an Artist
as a Young Man
3.
Woolf To the Lighthouse
4.
Achebe Things Fall Apart
5.
Ahmad Ali Twilight in Delhi
Paper IV:
(Literary Criticism) Practical Criticism
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1. |
Aristotle |
Poetics |
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2. |
Raymond
William’s |
Modern Tragedy |
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3. |
Catherine
Belsey |
Critical
Practice |
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*4. |
T.S. Eliot |
Tradition
and the Individual |
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Talent |
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*5. |
Philip Sidney |
Apology for Poetry |
Reference:
Romon Seldon An Introduction to Literary Criticism
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* Added vide Notification No.D/692/Acad., dated 15-3-2005
Optional Papers
Paper V (Short Stories)
1.
Sara Suleri The Property
of Women
2.
Naguib Mahfuz The Mummy
3.
E.Allen Poe The
Man of the Crowd
4.
Doris Lessing African
Short Story
5.
Flannery O’Connor Everything
that Rises Must Converge
6.
J.Joyce The Dead
7.
Nadine Gordimer Ultimate
Safari Once upon a time
8.
Kafka The Judgement
9.
Achebe Civil Peace
10.
Okri What the Tapster Saw
11.
Hanif Qureshi My Son the Fanatic
12.
D.H.Lawrence The Man who
Loved Islands
13.
W.Trevor The Day
14.
AliceWalker Strong Horse Tea
15.
V.S. Pritchett The Voice
16.
Brian Friel The Diviner
17.
H.E. Bates The
Woman who Loved Imagination
18.
Ali Mazuri The Fort
19.
Amy Tan The Voice from the Wall
20.
A.Chekov The Man who lived in
a Shell
21.
Braithwaite Dream Hatii
22.
V.S. Naipaul The
Nightwatchman’s Occurrence Book
23.
E. Hemingway A Clean Well Lighted Place
PAPER
VI: (Literature in English Around the World) Drama
1.
Lorca House of Bernada Alba
2.
Brian Friel Translations
Novel
1.
Nugugi The River
Between
2.
Solzhynetsin A
Day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch
Poetry
1.
Taufiq Rafat Thinking
of Mohenjodaro The Stone
Chat
The Last Visit
2.
Daud Kamal Reproduction
The Street of Nightingale A Remote Beginning
3.
Maki Qureshi Air Raid
Kite Christmas
Letter to my Sister
4.
A. Hashmi Encounter with the Sirens
Autumnal
But Where is the Sky?
5.
Zulfiqar Ghose Across
India February 1952
The Mystique of Root A Memory of Asia
6.
Shirley Lim Monsoon
History Modern Secrets
7.
Vikram Seth Humble
Administrators Garden
8.
Anna Akhmatova Prologue
Epilogue
9.
Derek Walcott Far Cry From Africa
10.
Ben Okri African
Elegy
11.
Achebe Refugee
Mother & Child Mango Seed
12.
Nasim Ezekiel Night of the Scorpion
Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa
13.
Moniza Alvi The Country
at my Shoulder
Paper VII (Linguistics)
Introduction, Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Stylistics.
Paper VIII: (Essay)
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