DOE-PU-2017-NEW

Revised Syllabus
HARD CORE COURSES
I SEMESTER
ENGL 401: Language through Literature
ENGL 402: Poetry from Chaucer to Milton
ENGL 403: Elizabethan Drama
ENGL 404: Augustan and Eighteenth-Century Literature
ENGL 405: Romantic and Victorian Poetry

II SEMESTER
ENGL 411: Shakespeare
ENGL 412: 19th Century British Fiction
ENGL 413:20th Century British Poetry
ENGL 414: Introduction to Linguistics
ENGL: 415: Theory of Comparative Literature

III SEMESTER
ENGL 501: American Poetry
ENGL 502: Modern British Fiction
ENGL 503: Postcolonial Literatures
ENGL 504: Literary Theory
ENGL 505: Project (or) ENGL 506: Non-fictional Writings

IV SEMESTER
ENGL 511: Modern Drama
ENGL 512: American Fiction
ENGL: 513: Indian Writing in English
ENGL 514: European Literatures
ENGL 515: Translation: Theory and Practice

All Courses are three credit courses. Total: 60 credits

*****

1
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

SEMESTER I COURSES:

ENGL 401: LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE

Credits: 03

Introduction:
The learning of English literature has always been considered as a means to develop proficiency
in that language, as far as the second language situations in India are taken into account. English
is still a library language, though it occupies the position of the co-official language. The
inadequacy of exposure to the spoken variety of the target language must be compensated by
reading—both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Aims and Objectives:

The overall aim of the course is to enable learners to improve their proficiency in English.
The specific objectives are as follows:
(i) Develop habits of effective reading
(ii) Develop effective writing skills especially for academic purposes

Course contents:

Unit I
Introduction to reading; reading strategies based on purpose—skimming, scanning, intensive and
extensive reading; grammar—forms of tense

Unit II
Various levels of reading comprehension such as local–global, factual–ideational, implicit–
explicit, critical, summative and evaluative; grammar—subject-verb agreement

Unit III
Introduction to writing; different types of writing such as narrative, descriptive, expository and
argumentative; critical, appreciative, and evaluative writing; grammar—adjectives & prepositions

Unit IV
Literature and language; aspects of literary analysis; feminism; modernism; post-modernism;
literature of the absurd; grammar—quantifiers

2
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

Unit V
Soft skills; oral presentation; pair work; small group work; seminar presentation; group discussion;
debate; extempore; grammar—subjunctive

Instructional materials:
(a) Language: The functional-communicative aspect of language will be taken care of through a
series of real life tasks both in the spoken and the written forms.
(b) Literature: Extracts from different sources belonging to various genres (other than those
prescribed for hard core courses) in English, as well as translations into English.

References:

Collie, Joanne & Stephen Slater. Literature in the Language Classroom. New Delhi: CUP, 2009.
Kurien, Anna. Texts and Their Worlds I. New Delhi: CUP, 2016.
Lazar, Gillian. Literature and Language Teaching. New Delhi: CUP, 2012.
Mahanand. Anand. Literature for Language Skills. Chennai: Yes Dee Publications, 2017.
Mishra, Gauri, et al. Language through Literature. New Delhi: Primus Books, 2016.
Murphy, Raymond. Advanced Grammar in Use. New Delhi: CUP, 2012.
Nair, Bhaskaran. P. Reading for Recreating. Calicut: Calicut University Press, 2009.

*****

3
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

ENGL-402: POETRY FROM CHAUCER TO MILTON

CREDITS-3
OBJECTIVE:
The growth of English Language and literature over the centuries from a totally different
state-more in the condition of a dialect in the earliest periods-to what it is in the present
century should form the background knowledge of every student of English literature. The
quaint systems and structures of the medieval English developed rather quickly during the
16th centuries. The objective of this course is to introduce the music and quaintness of the
English sounds and vocabulary of the earliest period in English literary history to the
students to enable them to have a historical perspective of the development over the
centuries. The course also introduces the great masters of the early period such as Chaucer,
Spenser and Donne.

LEARNING OUTCOME:
This course will make the students familiar with the history and beginning of English Literature.
It will also enable them to understand and enjoy the relevance and beauty of medieval English
Literature-its language, style and lyrics, the structure and the various literary forms used by the
writers of the time. The students will become familiar with the well-known literary figures of the
time like Chaucer, Milton, Spencer and Donne whose works have enriched English Literature.

SYLLABUS:
UNIT-I
Geoffrey Chaucer: ‘The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.
John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book 9
UNIT-II
Edmund Spenser: Prothalamion
Sonnets: “One Day I wrote her name upon the Strand”, “Happy ye leaves! Whenas those lily
hands”, “Fair is my love, when her fair golden hairs”.

UNIT-III
John Donne:“The Extasie, ‘Twicknam Garden”, “A Valediction: Forbidding mourning”.
Andrew Marvell: “The Garden”, “To His Coy Mistress”.
UNIT-IV
William Shakespeare: “The Phoenix and the Turtle”.
Henry Vaughan: “The world”, “The Waterfall”.
George Herbert: “The Collar”, “The Flower”.
UNIT-V
Sir John Suckling: “Song”.
Abraham Cowley: “The Change”.
Richard Crashaw: “Hymn to St. Teresa”.

4
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

Reading List:
David Daiches: A Critical History of English Literature. (Revised) Vol-1-4.
Brooke, T: Literary History of England: Vol-2 The Renaissance (1500-1600).
David Wright.”Introduction”The Canterbury Tales (Macmillan Indian Edition) or the verse
Translation.( Oxford University Press)
The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (ed) by Harold Bloom.
Helen Gardner: The Metaphysical Poets, (ed)by. Penguin Publication
C Helen White: The Metaphysical Poets: A Study in religious Experience, Macmillan,1936.
Izaak Walton: Life of Donne
C.S Leavis: Donne and Love Poetry in the Seventeen Century.
P.Legouise: Donne the Craftsman.
John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book 9(Edited by J. Martin Evans, Cambridge Publication).
Katharine Breen: Imagining an English Reading Public,1150-1400 (Cambridge Studies in
Medieval Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Samuel Johnson: From Life of Cowley (Metaphysical Wit).
Marvell-‘Modern Judgments’-(ed) Michael Wilding.( Articles by T.S Eliot, William Empson,
Cleanth Brook.
Amy M Charles: Life of George Herbert. Cornell University Press,1977.
L.C Knights: ‘George Herbert’ in Explorations, Chatto&Windus,1946.
Harry Blamires: A History of Literary Criticism. Macmillan publication, 2000.

*****

5
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

ENGL 403: ELIZABETHAN DRAMA

Credits: 3
Objectives:

This course is designed to familiarize the postgraduate student to the tradition of drama in English
literature in the Elizabethan age. Since Western drama takes its origin from the classical Greek
play, the course will necessarily begin from the latter component. This means both a study of the
relevant portions of Aristotle s Poetics, as well as the reading of one Greek tragedy. The nature of
the differences between the English play and its Greek precedent will be next taken into account.

This of course will be followed by a detailed analysis of the texts prescribed. The accent will not
be on the literal understanding of the text, but on its context in terms of its genre, its style, its
structure, its themes and its specific place in the dramatic tradition of its period. As such
representative texts of the period have been selected. Standard editions must be used in class by
the students. As there is an exclusive paper on Shakespeare, only one representative text has been
recommended for this paper.
Prescribed Texts:

Unit I
Treatise on Drama
Aristotle: Poetics
Greek Model Text
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

Unit II
Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus

Unit III
William Shakespeare: Macbeth

Unit IV
Thomas Dekker: The Shoe maker's Holiday
Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy

Unit V
John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
Ben Jonson: The Alchemist

6
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

Reference Books:

Beadle, Richard, ed.. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Bradley, AC Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear,
Macbeth, London: Macmillan, 1905.
Bloom, Harold, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, New York: Reerhead,
1998.
Chambers, E.K.. The Elizabethan Stage. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951. 4 vols.
Hartnoll, Phyllis. A Concise History of the Theatre. Rev. ed. London: Thames and Hudson,
1985.
Wells, Stanely (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Leech, Clifford (ed.) Marlowe: A Collection of Critical Essays (New
Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1964).
Levin, Harry. The Overreacher: A Study of Christopher Marlowe
(London: Faber & Faber, 1953).
Lukas, Erne. Beyond the Spanish Tragedy: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd,
Manchester University Press 2002
Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Drama. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
London. 1960. Print.

*****

7
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

ENGL 404: AUGUSTAN AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE

Objectives:
This course aims at an intensive study of some of the master pieces of Augustan Literature. This
selection will be also beneficial to those students aspiring for SLET/JRF examinations where
Augustan Literature forms a major part of the syllabus. An attempt has been made to include the
indescribably complex variations of the satiric spirit in Addison, Johnson, Swift, Dryden and
Pope who are the masters of “our excellent and indispensable eighteenth century” spirit.

Syllabus
Unit 1
Poetry: Detailed Study
Pope: An Essay on Criticism
Dryden: Mac Flecknoe
Unit 2
From The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Third Edition)
Thomas Gray:
1. “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
2. “Ode (On the Death of a Favorite Cat)”
William Collins:
1. “Ode Written in the Beginning of the year 1746”
2. “Ode to Evening”
William Blake:
1. “The Garden of Love”
2. “A Poison Tree”
Unit 3
Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare
Unit 4
Addison and Steele: Coverley Papers from the Spectator, Ed. By Deighton (Macmillan)
Swift: Gulliver’s Travels Part IV
Fieldings: Joseph Andrews

Unit 5
Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
Congreve: The Way of the World
Bibliography:

General history
• Rogers, Pat The Augustan Vision (London: Methuen, 1974) ISBN 0416709702 (pbk.) An
overview of the literary milieu, major authors, and literary forms.

8
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

Literary criticism
• Nokes, David Raillery and Rage: a Study of Eighteenth-Century Satire (Brighton:
Harvester, 1987) ISBN 9780710812315. A detailed exploration of one of the period's
most important literary forms.
• Watt, Ian The Rise of the Novel (London: Pimlico, 2000) ISBN 9780712664271. A major
scholarly work, examining the socio-economic conditions that gave rise to the Augustan
novel form.
Anthologies
• Price, Martin (ed.) The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Restoration and
Eighteenth Century (London: Oxford University Press, 1973) ISBN 0-19-501614-9
(pbk.) 4,500 pages of Restoration and Augustan literature. Major works like Pope's An
Essay on Criticism and Swift's A Tale of a Tub are merely excerpted. Annotated with a
bibliography.
• Greenblatt, Stephen; Lipking, Lawrence and James Noggle (eds.) The Norton Anthology
of English Literature, Volume C: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (New
York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2006) ISBN 0393927199 (pbk.) Offers a more
comprehensive selection than the Oxford Anthology, and likewise annotated with a
bibliography.

*****

9
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

ENGL 405: ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN POETRY

Credits: 3
Objectives:
The aim of the course is to develop a critical knowledge of the major literary innovations and
cultural issues of the period 1780-1830 through an exploration of writings characterized by the
term ‘Romanticism’ as well as note the development of Victorian sensibility during 1830-1901.
The study would focus on renowned poets of the times enabling discussions of the way the idea of
‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’ has been addressed in recent criticism such as-
Exploration of the traits of Romanticism and Victorianism in English literature with emphasis on
concepts of self, imagination, and the unconscious. Consideration of various developments,
namely historical, social, philosophical, and political contexts which informed romanticism.
Introduction of poetic forms, and the different movements Evaluation of the impact of
Romanticism and Victorianism on the development of English literature, with emphasis on
development of literary form and literary modes of expression. An understanding of concepts of
gender and women during these periods.

Unit I
I. Introduction to Romanticism and Victorianism
• Traits of Romanticism- Revolutionary optimism/ Individual and Spiritual
Freedom/Self/Imagination/Nature
• Traits of Victorianism-Reactionary/Social anomalies and injustice/ Industrialization/
Realism/ Individual transformation
• Literary Writers/Critics/

Unit II
William Blake: “Lamb” and “Tyger”
William Wordsworth: “Tintern Abbey”
Coleridge: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind”
Keats: “Ode to the Nightingale” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

Unit III
Tennyson: “Ulysses” and “Tithonus”
Mathew Arnold: “Scholar Gypsy” & “Dover Beach”
Browning: “My Last Duchess”

Unit IV
D.G.Rossetti: “The Blessed Damozel”
G. M. Hopkins: “The Windhover”

10
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

Unit V
Elizabeth Barret Browning: “How Do I love Thee?”
Christina Rossetti: “After Death”
Amy Levy: “The Two Terrors”

References:
Cronin, Richard & et al Ed. A Companion to Victorian Poetry USA. Blackwell Publishers Ltd,
2002.
Charles, Mahoney. Ed. Companion to Romantic Poetry. USA. Blackwell Publishers, 2011.
Chandler, James & N. McLane, Maureen. Ed. Cambridge Companion to British Romantic
Poetry. UK. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

*****

11
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

SEMESTER II COURSES
ENGL 411: SHAKESPEARE

Many consider William Shakespeare the greatest dramatist—even the greatest writer—of all
time. His impact on Western culture and language is unmistakable.But if Shakespeare’s plays and
sonnets are the monuments of a remarkable genius, they are also the monuments of a remarkable
age.

Objectives:
The course attempts a thorough study of the Elizabethan theatre, language, and culture—the world
in which Shakespeare lived and breathed. It will make a close reading of a number of
Shakespeare’s most acclaimed plays. An attempt has been made to include a study of his
poetry. By the end of this course, students would develop a strong understanding of Shakespeare’s
works—their style, their linguistic accomplishments, their hallmarks—as well as a working
knowledge of the Elizabethan Period in which he wrote.

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
• Identify, compare, and contrast the major dramas and poems produced by William
Shakespeare.
• Describe Elizabethan England in social and historical context.
• List the major figures who likely shaped the work of Shakespeare.
• Explain the origins of Shakespearean drama in Greek theater.
• Define a variety of Shakespearean dramatic forms, including Shakespearean tragedy,
history, and comedy plays.
• Identify and describe the major themes of Shakespearean tragedy, comedy, and history
plays.
• Explain the roots of the Shakespearean sonnet in earlier sonnet traditions.

UNIT 1
1. Hamlet
2. King Lear

UNIT 2
3. Macbeth
4. Richard III

UNIT 3
5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

12
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

6. As You Like it

UNIT 4
7. Sonnets (A select Study)

UNIT 5

Greenblatt, Stephen et al.: 2007, The Norton Shakespeare, Norton, New York,
Kermode, Frank: 2006, Shakespeare's Language, Oxford University Press, Oxford,

Bibliography:
Barker, Deborah E. and Ivo Kamps, eds.: 1995, Shakespeare and Gender: A History,
Verso, London,
Bloom, H.: 1999, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, New York,
Bradley, A. C.: 1992, Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear,
Macbeth, 3rd, London,
Dusinberre, J.: 1996, Shakespeare and the Nature of Women, Macmillan, London.
John Dover Wilson, The Fortunes of Falstaff, Macmillan, 1943
Leggatt, Alexander, ed.: 2006, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy,
Cambridge UP, Cambridge
McEachern, Claire: 2002, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy,
Cambridge UP, Cambridge
Jackson, Russell, ed.: 2000, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film,
Cambridge UP, Cambridge
Wilson Knight, The Wheel of Fire, London, Routledge, 2001

13
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

ENGL 412: NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITISH FICTION

Credits: 3

Course Description: Study of Major British Fiction of the Nineteenth Century. This is a course
exploring the literature written between 1815 and 1930. It will introduce you to the texts that reflect
a range of historical, cultural and aesthetic values. The course also reflects on the aspects of
instruction, entertainment, society, class and gender as perceived in nineteenth century England.
The outcome of the course is to initiate critical thinking on the following topics:
1. The development of fiction in England from the close of the eighteenth century.
2. The relationship between fiction and popular taste especially during the Victorian period
3. The relevant social and political contexts.
4. Evaluation of various constructions of identity, such as age, sexuality, class and region.

Course Objectives: The aim of the course is:

• to foster historical perspective, especially on how nineteenth century writers viewed
their own time
• to comprehend the wide stylistic variety in the nineteenth century fiction
• to develop an understanding of the main issues which preoccupied nineteenth century
writers, and the general context in which these ideas were considered
• to increase analytical skills through the writing of course assignments and classroom
presentations; and
• to make further explorations of the era and its imaginative literature.
Syllabus:
UNIT 1: Introduction: The Novel and its Strategies:
Introduction to the English Novel and themes
Review of the different sub-genres of the novel.
Brief introduction to different writers such as Richardson, Thackeray and so on

UNIT 2: Novel and Society:

Jane Austen (1775-1817) — Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens (1812-70)—Great Expectations

UNIT 3: Novel and Women:

Emily Bronte (1818-48)—Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Bronte (1816-54)—Jane Eyre

UNIT 4: Novel and Tragedy:

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) — Return of the Native
George Eliot (1819 – 1880) – Mill on the Floss

14
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

UNIT 5: Novel and Mystery:

Wilkie Collins (1824 –1889) Woman in White
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 –1930) Sign of Four

Further Reading and References:

• Ann Cvetkovich, Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, And Victorian
Sensationalism 1993
• Avrom Fleishman, The English Historical Novel 1971
• Carol L. Bernstein, The Celebration of Scandal: Toward the Sublime in Victorian Urban
Fiction 1991
• Christina Crosby, The Ends of History: Victorians and "the Woman Question" 1991
• Christine van Boheemen, The Novel as Family Romance: Language, Gender, and
Authority from Fielding to Joyce 1987
• Julia Prewitt Brown, A Reader's Guide to the Nineteenth Century English Novel 1986
• Christopher Craft, Another Kind Of Love: Male Homosexual Desire In English
Discourse, 1850-1920 1994
• Dennis W. Allen, Sexuality in Victorian Fiction 1993
• Elizabeth Ermarth, Realism and Consensus in the English Novel 1983
• F. R. Leavis, The Great Tradition 1948
• Franco Moretti, Signs Taken for Wonders; The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in
European Culture. 2000
• Geoffrey Tillotson, A View of Victorian Literature 1978
• Georg Lukacs, The Historical Novel; The Theory of the Novel
• Gillian Beer, Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and
Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1983
• Ian Baucom, Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity
Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999
• Ian Duncan, Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott,
Dickens 1992
• Ian Watt ed.), The Victorian Novel: Modern Essays in Criticism 1971
• Joseph Wiesenfarth, Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel 1988
• J. E. Baker, The Novel and the Oxford Movement 1932
• Jay Clayton, Romantic Vision and the Novel Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987
• John Kucich, Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and
Charles Dickens 1987
• John Sutherland, Victorian Fiction: Writers, Publishers, Readers 1995

15
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

• John Sutherland, Victorian Novelists and Publishers 1976 John Sutherland, The
Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction 1989
• Julian Wolfreys, Being English: Narratives, Idioms, and Performances of National
Identity from Coleridge to Trollope 1994
• Kathleen Tillotson, Novels of the Eighteen-Forties 1954
• Katie Trumpener, Bardic Nationalism: the Romantic Novel and the British Empire
• Louis Cazamian, The Social Novel in England, 1830-50: Dickens, Disraeli, Mrs. Gaskell,
Kingsley, trans. Martin Fido 1903
• Merryn Williams, Women in the English Novel, 1800-1900 1984
• Michal Peled Ginsburg, Economies of Change: Form and Transformation in the
Nineteenth-Century Novel 1996
• Nancy Armstrong, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the British Novel
• Nancy Armstrong, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel 1987
• Nina Auerbach, Communities of Women: An Idea In Fiction 1978
• Patricia Beer, Reader, I Married Him: A Study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen,
Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot 1974
• Patricia Stubbs, Women and Fiction: Feminism and the Novel, 1800-1920 1981
• Raymond Williams, Culture and Society, 1780-1950 1958
• Raymond Williams, The Country and the City; Culture and Society, 1780 1950
• Richard Barickman, Susan MacDonald, and Myra Stark, Corrupt Relations: Dickens,
Thackeray, Trollope, Collins and the Victorian Sexual System 1982
• Robert Kiely, Reverse Tradition: Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth-
• Robert Lee Wolff, Gains and Losses: Novels of Faith and Doubt in Victorian England
1977
• Robin Gilmour, The Novel in the Victorian Age 1986
• Ruth B. Yeazell, Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel 1991)
• Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and
the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination 1979
• Robin Gilmour, The Idea of the Gentleman in the Victorian Novel 1981
• Tess Cosslett, Woman To Woman: Female Friendship in Victorian Fiction 1988
Web References:
• http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/Clayton/231bib.htm
• http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/harris/19CBritNov_Links.htm
• Jane Austen Information Page Indispensable resource. Numerous other sites devoted to
Austen are available from this page. Maintained by Henry Churchill.)
• Victorian Web Sites The most comprehensive list of web sites on Victorian literature.
Maintained by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University, Japan.)

16
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

• Voice of the Shuttle: Victorian The model for all academic resource pages--rigorous
conceptual organization of links. Maintained by Alan Liu, University of California, Santa
Barbara.)
• Victorian Web Elegant web-based hypertext on Victorian literature and culture, covering
topics such as Social Context, Economics, Science, Technology, Politics, Literature, and
the Visual Arts. Maintained by George P. Landow, Brown University.)
• Literary Resources - Victorian British Easy-to-use list of Victorian web sites. Maintained
by Jack Lynch, Rutgers University, Newark.)
• Victoria Research Web Web site for the VICTORIA listserve; contains search engine for
the VICTORIA list archive and other valuable resources. Maintained by Patrick Leary,
Indiana University, Dept. of History.)
• New Books in Nineteenth-Century British Studies " This site offers complete publication
information for scholarly works on the British Romantic and Victorian periods. Here you
can find authors, titles, publishers, prices, ISBN numbers and publishers’ descriptions for
new and forthcoming critical works, anthologies, and critical editions of nineteenth-
century British materials. In addition, original reviews are available for selected
works." Maintained by Kirsten L. Parkinson, University of Southern California.)
• LITIR Database on Victorian Studies Bibliography of current and forthcoming books and
articles on the period. Maintained by Brahma Chaudhuri, University of Alberta.)
• The Modern English Collection Part of the Electronic Text Center--one of the largest and
most scholarly archives of E-texts on the web. Maintained by Jerome McGann,
University of Virginia.)
• British Poetry 1780-1910 Part of the Electronic Text Center.)
• Victorian Women Writers Project Scholarly transcriptions of numerous hard-to-find
texts. Maintained by Perry Willett, Indiana University.)

*****

17
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

ENGL 413: TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH POETRY

Credits: 3

Objectives

1. To expose students to major 20th century British poets and their texts
2. To develop the aesthetic and critical skills of the learners by facilitating them to understand,
appreciate and analyse these poems.
3. To make learners comprehend the major trends and movements in 20th century literature,
which influenced and shaped the poetry of that period.
4. To interpret the poems based on various theoretical tools.

Learning Outcome

At the end of the course, the students are expected to gain a thorough knowledge of 20th century
British Poetry, its influences, trends and themes. They will be able to appreciate these poems
based on its thematic, stylistic and philosophical aspects and also interpret these texts from
different theoretical perspectives.

Unit I
Introduction: A comprehensive introduction to 20th Century British Poetry which includes the
historical and cultural background, literary and critical terms closely related to the poetry of this
period, major poets, trends and themes.

Poetry during the Transition Period

1. Thomas Hardy - “After a Journey”
2. Walter de la Mare - “The Listeners”
3. Edward Thomas - “The Sign-Post”

Unit II: World War Poetry

4. Wilfred Owen - “Futility”
5. Rupert Brooke - “The Soldier”
6. Edith Sitwell - “Still Falls the Rain”

Unit III: Modernism in Poetry

7. W.B. Yeats - “Easter 1916”
8. T.S. Eliot - “The Hollow Men”
9. D.H. Lawrence - “Bavarian Gentians”

18
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

Unit IV: Poets of the ‘Left Wing’ and “The Movement’

10. Stephen Spender - “The Landscape near an Aerodrome”
11. W.H. Auden - “Miss Gee”
12. C. Day Lewis - “O Dreams, O Destinations”
13. Philip Larkin - “At Grass”
14. Thom Gunn - “Considering the Snail”
15. D.J. Enright - “The Rebel”

Unit V: Independent Voices and The Experimental Phase

16.Ted Huges - “Hawk in the Rain”
17. Seamus Heaney - “ The Otter”
18. Stevie Smith - “I Do Not Speak”
19. Elizabeth Jennings - “Accepted”
20. Adrian Mitchell - “A Poem for Space: Human Beings”
21. Tom Leonard - “100 Differences Between Poetry and Prose

Reading List
Atridge, Derek. The Rhythm of English Poetry. London: Longman, 1993.
Corcoran, Neil. English Poetry since1940. London: Longman, 1993.
Day, Gray & Briam Docherty, eds. British Poetry from the 1950s to the 1999s:Politics and
Art. London: Macmillan, 1996.
Gregson, Ian. Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism. London: Macmillan, 1996.
Heaney, Seamus. The Redress of Poetry. London :Faber and Faber, 1995.
Hulse, Michael, David Kennedy & David Morley, eds The New Poetry, Newcastle Upon-
Tyne:Bloodaxe ,1993.
Kennedy, David. New Relations: The Refashioning of British Poetry 1980-94
Bridgend:Seren ,1996.
Ricks, Christopher. The Force of Poetry. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1984.
Childs, Peter. The Twentieth Century in Poetry: A Critical Survey. London: Routledge,1999.
Perkins, David. A History of Modern Poetry England. Harvard University Press,1987.
Shires, M. Linda. British Poetry of the Second World War. London: Macmillan,1985.
Jeffries, Lesley. The Language of Twentieth-Century Poetry. London: Macmillan,1993.
Morrison, Blake. English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s. London: Oxford University
Press,1980.
King, P.R. Nine Contemporary Poets: A Critical Introduction. London: Methuen& C. Ltd,1979.

*****

19
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

ENGL 414: INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS

Credits: 03

Objectives of the Course:

The course is introductory in nature and intends to familiarize students with some of the
fundamental concepts in Linguistics. Linguistics which is a scientific study of language looks at
the formal properties of language and the ways in which they are studied by Linguists. The
course also seeks to seeks to acquaint students with the major components of linguistic analysis:
phonetics (sounds of language), phonology (sound patterns), morphology (word structure),
syntax (sentence structure), and semantics (meaning), as well as some areas on the interfaces.

Objectives and learning outcomes of the Course

By the end of the course, the students will:

• be able to develop an understanding about the structural and functional aspects of
language
• have a good understanding of the basic concepts in the six core areas of linguistics,
pragmatics, semantics, syntax, morphology, phonetics, and phonology and the interaction
between them.
• be aware of the extent and limit of variation between languages and of some of the
principles governing it.
• develop a critical and analytical base for understanding how and why language varies
across speakers, cultures, geography and over time,
• develop the ability to appreciate literary texts better with your sound knowledge of
linguistics

COURSE CONTENT

UNIT I: THE FUNDAMENTALS OF LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Definition of Language; Origin of Language; Language and communication; Design features of
Language; Structural levels of Language; Language Variation and Change; Language and
Linguistics; Synchronic and Diachronic approach in linguistics; Linguistic Units and their
distribution; Some important concepts: Contrast and Complementation, Langue and Parole,
Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic relation, Competence and Performance, etc; Writing system etc.

20
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

UNIT II: PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY

Air stream mechanisms, Organs of Speech, Classification and Description of Speech Sounds,
what is Phonology? The Phoneme, Minimal Pairs, Allophones, Free Variation, Distribution,
Supra-segmental features, Word Stress, Sentence Stress, Pitch and Intonation.

UNIT III: MORPHOLOGY

Morph, Allomorph, Morpheme and word. Morpheme as a meaningful unit and as a grammatical
unit. Types of morphs, Sandhi, Word formation processes; Inflection, Derivation, Compound
formation, Reduplication etc., Grammatical Categories and Parts of Speech.

UNIT IV: SYNTAX & SEMANTICS

Sentence structure – nature of linguistic knowledge; Competence and Performance. Syntactic
Categories – Lexical and Phrasal. Phrase markers and tree diagrams. Generative Grammar and
adequacies of grammar. Definition of Semantics, Some Terms and distinctions in Semantics
Theories of Semantics,

UNIT V: A STUDY OF LANGUAGE VARIATION

Introduction, Diachronic Variations in Language, Synchronic Variations,

READING LIST

Adrian Akmajian, Richard A. Demers, Ann K. Farmer, and Robert M. Harnish. 6 edition (2015)
Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication Prentice Hall India Learning
Private Limited
Balasubramanian T.2013. A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students 2nd Edition.
Laxmi Publications
Bauer, L. 2007. The linguistics student’s handbook. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Bhaskararao, Peri. 1977. Practical Phonetics. Pune: Deccan College.
Burridge, Kate and Tonya N. Stebbins. 2016. For the Love of Language: An Introduction to
Linguistics. Cambridge University Press
Crystal, David.2006. How language works. Penguin Books
Verma, S.K., and N. Krishnaswamy. 1993. Introduction to Modern Linguistics. Delhi: Oxford
University Press
Yule, G. 1987. The Study of Language Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

*****

21
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

ENGL: 415: THEORY OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Credits- 3

Objective of the course: The task inculcating a comparative awareness in the minds of the
participants to realize its cultural significance in the globe as well as multilingual states like India
is central to the goal of this course. The first part of the course will acquaint the participants with
the major issues in various theories of Comparative literature as detailed in 2.0. And the second
part will deal with the methodological problems in the practice of Comparative literature imparting
training by way of seminars and assignments.

Unit I
Introduction: An Overview
Comparative literature: Definition and Scope
French and American Schools
European and American Schools

Unit II
National literature, General literature, World literature etc
New Comparative literature-Crisis
Reception, Influence,
Analogy
Modes and Conventions
Doxologie/mesologie/Crenologie

Unit III
Genres
Thematology
Epoch, Period, Movements
Universal themes, Thematological Concepts and Typology
Epoch, Period, Movements

Unit IV
Literature and Psychology/Sociiology
Mutual Illumination of the Arts
Music/Fine arts/Sculpture

Unit V
New Comparative literature-Crisis
Comparative Methodology-Practice

22
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

Seminars and Assignments

References:
Bassnet, Susan. Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction. New Jersey. Wiley Blackwell,
1993
Guillen, Claudio. The challenge of Comparative Literature. USA. Harvard University Press,
1993.
Prawar, SS. Comparative Literary Studies: An Introduction. London. Gerald Duckworth & Co
Ltd, 1973
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Death of a Discipline. New York. Columbia University Press,
2005.
Stalknett NP et al. Editors. Comparative Literature. Carbondolle. 1951.
Weisstein,Ulrich. Comparative Literature and Literary Theory. Bloomington. Indiana University
Press, 1974.
Wellek, Rene & Warren, Austin. Theory of Literature. Harmondsworth. 1963.

*****

23
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

SEMESTER III COURSES

ENGL 501: AMERICAN POETRY
Credits: 3

Course Description: This course will be an introduction as well as an evaluation of poetry that
emerged in the Unites States. The course will attempt to view how poetry has evolved from the
19th century onwards. The course will cover besides a fairly extended background
of American literary forms and techniques, a wide variety of poetry from various theoretical
backgrounds such as modernism and new criticism to varied ethnic voices such as
Native American, African American and so on.

Course Objective: The aim of the course is as follows:

▪ To provide an overview of the social and literary background of United States
▪ To enrich your awareness of how US poetry may be reflecting nationalism
▪ To increase your fluency in the critical vocabulary
▪ To know how to close-read a poem, developing an independent, well-reasoned
interpretation
▪ To develop your tools of analysis and research.

Syllabus:

UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE:

Overview of early literary beginnings

Mapping the trends that influenced Poetry: Puritanism, Transcendentalism, Romanticism,
Modernism and Avant Garde
Briefing of concepts by influential thinkers.

UNIT 2: THE 19th C and EARLY MODERNISM

Walt Whitman (1819-1992)
“One’s Self I sing”
“I Hear America Singing”
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”/Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
“Success is Counted Sweetest”
“I taste a Liquor Never Brewed”
“The Soul d\selects her own majesty”
“A bird came down the walk”

24
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

“Because I could not stop for death

Robert Frost, (1874-1963)
“Stopping by Woods”
“Design”
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955):
“Anecdote of the Jar”
“The Emperor of Ice-cream
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
“The yachts/The Red Wheelbarrow”
UNIT 3: LATER MODERNISM
Ezra Pound: (1885-1972):
“Canto 1”
“In a Station of the Metro”
T.S. Elot (1888-1965):
The Wasteland
E.E. Cummings (1894-1962):
“My Sweet Old Etcetra”
Theodore Roethke: (1908 –1963)
“My Papa’s waltz”
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963):
“Mirror”
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
“Skunk Hour”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
“One Art/The Armadillo”
UNIT 4: BLACK MOUNTAIN, NEW CRITICISM & AVANT-GARDE POETRY
Charles Olson (1910-1970): “The Songs of Maximus”
Robert Creeley: (1926-2005)
“I Know a man”
“The Crisis”
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974):
“Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter”
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989):
“Evening Hawk”
Allen Ginsberg: (1926-1997)
“America”
Adrienne Rich (1929-):
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”

25
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

UNIT 5: ETHNIC VOICES:

Claude McKay (1889-1948):
“America”
“The Negro’s Tragedy”
Langston Hughes (1902-1967):
“Dream Deferred”
“I too sing America”
“Let America Be America Again”
Amiri Baraka (1934-):
“Somebody Blew Up America”
“Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note”
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-):
“A Sunset of the City”
Sherman Alexie (1966-)
“Evolution”
“How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”
Angel Island Poetry:
http://www.cetel.org/angel_poetry.html
Jimmy Santiago Baca (1952-)
“Tire Shop”
Marilyn Chin (1955-)
“The Survivor”
Martin Espada (1957-)
“Coca Cola and Coco Frio”
Lawson FusonImada (1938-)
“Eatin with Sticks”
Further Reading and References:
Alex Preminger. The New Princeton of Poetry and Poetics. 2006
Christopher MacGowan. Twentieth-century American Poetry 2004
David Lehman: The Last Avant Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets. 1998
David Perkins: A History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After. 1987.
Edward Brunner: Cold War Poetry. 2001
Eric Haralson: Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in
Twentieth-Century American Poetry. 2006
Helen Vendler: Soul Says: On Recent Poetry.1995
Jeffrey Gray. Ed. The Greenwood encyclopedia of American poets and poetry. 5 vols. 2006
Jennifer Ashton, ed: The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945. 2013
Lynn Keller: Re-Making It New: Contemporary American Poetry and the Modernist Tradition.
1987
Robert von Hallberg: American Poetry and Culture, 1945 -1980. 1985

26
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

ENGL 502: MODERN BRITISH FICTION

CREDITS: 3
Objective.
1. To familiarize students with the numerous and diverse ideas and practices prevalent in literary
modernism.
2. To expose students to some of the most representative British novels of the modern movement.
3. To provide interpretative tools and strategies to understand these works.

Learning Outcome
At the end of the course, the students are expected to
1. Comprehend the key concepts and trends in modernist movement.
2. Interpret the texts chosen for study based on various theoretical concepts.
3. Analyse how the texts represent the philosophy and world view prevalent during the modern
period in terms of themes and techniques and understand how these works bring a
revolutionary change in literary history

Background Study
Malcolm Bradbury et al – “The Name and Nature of Modernism”
John Fletcher – “The Introverted Novel”
Virginia Woolf – “Modern Fiction”
Joseph Frank – “The Spatial Form in Modern Literature”

Unit I: Sophistication in Narrative Technique

Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim (1900)

Unit II: Influence of Freudian Theories

D.H.Lawrence – Sons and Lovers (1915)

Unit III: Self Vs Society

James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

Unit IV: Feminist Voices

Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway (1925)

Unit V: Antimodernist Trend

Graham Greene – The Heart of the Matter (1948)
William Golding – Lord of the Flies (1954)

27
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

Reading List
Alter, Robert. “The Modernist Revival of Self-Conscious Novel”
Schorer, Mark. “Technique as Discovery”
Lodge, David. “Modernism, Antimodernism and Postmodernism”
Trilling, Lionell. “On the Modern Element in Modern Literature”
Connolly, Cyril. The Modern Movement: One Hundred Key Books from England, France, and
America, 1880-1950. London: 1965.
Kolocotroni, Vassiliki et al. eds. Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents.
Edinburg: Edinburg Univ. Press, 1998.
Bloomfield, Morton W. ed. The Interpretation of Narrative: Theory and Practice. Cambridge,
1970.
Edel, Leon. The Psychological Novel. New York, 1955.

*****

28
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

ENGL 503 - POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES

Credits: 3
Vision of the Course: When the Third World countries gained independence from the British
imperialism, they found that their national, cultural and individual identities had undergone a
radical change since colonization. It is in this context that postcolonial literature came up as the
voice of the “Empire that writes back” to its erstwhile colonisers. This course aims to give some
understanding of the issues and themes in Postcolonial literature and will familiarize the students
with the literary concepts of postcolonialism. This course also intendsto introduce the historical
context, the literary productions and the critical reception of postcolonial works. Probable duration
of each unit is given as a guideline.

UNIT I - INTRODUCTION TO POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES

1.Colonialism , imperialism, neo colonialism, anti- colonialism

2. Settler colonisation, Internal colonisation, Decolonisation
3. Postcolonialism - Using/Reading the word with and without the hyphen
4. Changing Critical Perspectives - Commonwealth literature, New literatures & Postcolonial
literatures

UNIT II - KEY CONCEPTS AND TERMS IN THE FIELD

1. Discourse, Discourse analysis and Discursive reading; Canon

2. Panoptican, Michel Foucault
3. Euro-centric Ideology
4.White man’s burden
5. Edward Said and Orientalism; Orient, Orientalist
6. Manichean binary
7. Homi Bhabha and Mimicry
8. Biculturalism, Multiculturalism vs 9.Cultural Essentialism/ Cultural Fundamentalism
10. Subaltern Studies
11. Appropriation & Abrogation of language
12.Reading against the grain
13. White Studies

UNIT III - ESSAYS - You can find these essays on the web.
1.’Minute on Indian Education’- Thomas Macaulay - In full
2.’Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism’- GayatriSpivak - Abridged
3. ‘An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness’- Chinua Achebe - In full
4. ‘The Race for Theory’ - Barbara Christian

29
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

UNIT IV- FICTION -

1. Wide Sargasso Sea—Jean Rhys
2. Karukku—Bama
3. Jack Maggs—Peter Carey (extended reading)

UNIT V- POEMS - (Extended Reading)

‘Stone Hammer Poem’ - Robert Kroetsch
‘Negus’ - Edward Kamau Brathwaite
‘Imperial’ - A. R. D. Fairburn
‘Colonisation in Reverse’ - Louise Bennett

References:
Postcolonial Discourses. Gregory Castle. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
The Postcolonial Studies Reader. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin,eds.
London: Routledge,1995.
Postcolonial Studies: The Key Concepts. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin.
London:Routledge, 2000.
Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986-1995 A.RanajitGuha. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P,
1997.
Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory. Peter Childs and Patrick Williams, Eds. New
York:Prentice-Hall, 1997.
New National and Post-Colonial Literatures: An Introduction. Bruce King. New York:
Clarendon P, 1996.

*****

30
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

ENGL 504: LITERARY THEORY

Credits: 3

Course Outline and Objective:

This is an introductory course mapping the history and principles of literary criticism, from early
period to present. As a survey course, it moves quickly across the centuries and among different
cultures, from ancient Greece and Rome through Romantic period in England to modern Europe
and the United States. The course is an attempt to provide a foundation, to comprehend the
philosophy of various modes of thinking within the humanities and specially the discipline of
English literature. The major objective of this course is to introduce the students to the key texts,
figuresand ideas in the field of literary theory from the classical to modern times.

Unit 1: Classical Criticism:

Aristotle, from Poetics how drama works—an early analysis

Horace, from Ars Poetica (119-133); How to Be a Good Poet
Plato, from The Republic and Phaedrusthe first attack on poetry and defense of censorship

Unit II: Early Criticism:

John Dryden: “An Essay on Dramatic Poesy”

Matthew Arnold: “The Study of Poetry”
Northrop Frye: “Criticism, Visible and Invisible”
P.B. Shelley: “A Defense of Poetry”
S.T. Coleridge: “Biographia Literarai” Chapter XIV
Wordsworth: “Poetry and Poetic Diction”

Unit III: Modern Criticism

Allen Tate: “Tension in Poetry”
Claude Levi Strauss: “Incest and Myth”
Mark Schorer: “From Technique as discovery”
T.S. Eliot: “Tradition and Individual talent”
Virginia Woolf: “Modern Fiction”
W K Wimsatt and Munroe Beardsley: “The Intentional Fallacy”

Unit IV: Contemporary Criticism:

Helen Gardner: “The Sceptre and the Torch”
Elaine Showalter: “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness”
Jacques Derrida: “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”

31
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

Stanley Fish: “Is There a Text in This Class?”

Paul de Man: “The Resistance to Theory”
Victor Shklovsky: “Art as Technique”

Unit V: Postmodern Criticism:

Jean-François Lyotard: “The Postmodern Condition”
Roland Barthes: “The Death of the Author” — Textual Analysis: Poe's 'Valdemar'.
Michel Foucault: “What is an Author?”
Frederic Jameson: “The Politics of Theory: Ideological Positions in the Postmodern Debate”.
Umberto Eco: “Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage”.
Stephen Greenblatt: “The Circulation of Social Energy”.

Texts:
David Lodge and Wood: Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. Routledge. 2017
S. Ramaswami and V. S. Sethuraman: The English Critical Tradition, Vol I and II. Macmillan
India. 1980

Further Reading and References:

Julie Rikvin, Michael Ryan. Literary Theory: An Anthology. Wiley Blackwell. 2016
Lois Tyson. Critical Theory Today. Garland publishing. 1999
M.H. Abrams. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning India Private Limited; 11
edition.2015
Peter Barry. Beginning Theory. Viva Books.2017
Terry Eagleton: Literary Theory: An Introduction. Wiley. 1993
V. S. Sethuraman: Contemporary Criticism: An Anthology. Macmillan India Limited, 1989

*****

32
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

ENGL 506: NON-FICTIONAL WRITINGS

Credits: 03

Objectives of the Course

The course intends to familiarize the students to a variety and range of the non-fictional writings
through a selection of representative sub-genres in nonfictional Prose in English and other
languages from across different countries, times and types. It also seeks to enhance the
understanding and appreciation of the prose style of these writers and the characteristics of the
prose.

Learning outcomes of the Course:

By the end of the course, the students will:

• be able to develop an understanding about the wide range and variety of the nonfictional
writings such as memoirs, letters, travelogues, diaries, reflective essays.
• be in a position to identify the literary devices, techniques, and strategies of using prose
as an effective mode of discourse
• be familiar with the individual style and mode of interpretation of the individual writers
and make a comparative study of their style through their writings.
• be able to develop their ability to read texts critically and argumentatively.

Course Content:

Unit I:
Francis Bacon: Of Nature in Men
M. Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women
E. M. Forster - What I Believe
George Orwell: Politics and the English Language

Unit 2:
Jean Paul Sartre: What is Writing?
Friedrich Schiller: On the Aesthetic Education of Man

Unit 3:
Binodini Dasi: My Story and Life as an Actress (Selection)
Amitav Ghosh: The Imam and The Indian

Unit 4:
Nelson Mandela: Freedom (from Long Walk to Freedom)
Aung San Su Kyi: Freedom from Fear

33
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

Unit 5:

Munshi Premchand: The Nature and Purpose of Literature

A.K. Ramanujan:Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?
C. D. Narasimhaiah: Towards the Formulation of a Common Poetic for Indian Literatures Today
Amartya Sen: The Argumentative Indian (Selection)

READING LIST:
Aung, San S. K. Freedom from Fear. London: Viking, 2009. Print.
Cairncross, A S. Eight Essayists. London: Macmillan, 1939. Print.
Chaudhuri, Sukanta, ed. Bacon’s Essays – A Selection. Delhi: MacMillan
India Limited, 1977.
Dasi, Binodini, and Rimli Bhattacharya. Binodini Amar Katha and Amar Abhinetri Jiban: My
Story and My Life As an Actress. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1996. Print.
Forster, E M, and Nicolas Walter. What I Believe: And Other Essays. London: G.W. Foote & Co,
1999. Print.
Ghosh, Amitav. The Imam and the Indian: Prose Pieces. New Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publ. [u.a.,
2008. Print.
Mandela, Nelson, Wyk C. Van, Paddy Bouma, and Nelson Mandela. Long Walk to Freedom. ,
2014. Print.
Narasimhaiah, C D, and C N. Srinath. A Common Poetic for Indian Literatures. Mysore:
Dhvanyaloka, 1984. Internet resource.
Orwell, George. Politics and the English Language. , 2013. Print.
Premchand, Munshi. "The Nature and Purpose of Literature." Social Scientist. 39 (2011): 82-86.
Print.
Ramanujan, A K, Vinay Dharwadker, and Stuart H. Blackburn. The Collected Essays of A.k.
Ramanujan. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. Print.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. "what Is Literature?" and Other Essays. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University
Press, 1988. Print.
Schiller, Friedrich, Reginald Snell, and Michael Martin. On the Aesthetic Education of Man.
Kettering, Ohio: Angelico Press, 2014. Print.
Sen, Amartya. The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity.
London: Penguin, 2006. Print.
Thorpe, Michael. Modern Prose: Stories, Essays and Sketches. Cape Town: Oxford University
Press, 1977. Print.
Wollstonecraft, Mary, and William Godwin. Posthumous Works of the Author of a Vindication
of the Rights of Woman. Clifton [N.J.: A.M. Kelley, 1972. Print.

*****

34
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

SEMESTER IV COURSES:

ENGL 511: MODERN DRAMA

Credits: 3

Objectives

The course examines the chief characteristics of modern drama from its inception through the post-
World War II period. The course will also survey the effects of symbolism, expressionism,
surrealism, Epic Theater, and Absurdism on modern drama. It also helps the students learn the
impact of the social and political environments on modern drama and how such a tumultuous
period created a lot of experimental and truly glorious trends in the field of drama. The course
deals with the modern canonical texts from the American, European and British Drama.

Unit I
History of Post War Theatre
Introduction to Modern British, American and European Drama.
Introduction to Epic Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd, etc.

Unit-II
T.S.Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

Unit III
Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man
Bertolt Brecht: The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Unit IV
John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman

Unit V
Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
J.M.Synge: Riders to the Sea

Reference Books:
Bentley, Eric. The Playwright as Thinker: A Study of Drama in Modern Times. Harcort, Brace &
World, Inc. NY 1967.

35
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

Bentley, Eric. The Theory of Modern Stage: An Introduction to Modern Theatre and Drama.
Kingsport Press. USA. 1968.
Cole, Toby, ed. Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from
Ibsen to Eliot. Hill & Hang. NY. n.d.
Lumley, Frederick. Trends in Twentieth Century Drama. Oxford Univ. Press. NY. 1960.
Styan, J.L. Modern Drama in Theory and Practice I: Realism and Naturalism. Cambridge Univ.
Press. 1981.
Styan, J.L. Modern Drama in Theory and Practice II: Symbolism, Surrealism, and the Absurd.
Cambridge Univ. Press. 1981.
Styan, J.L. Modern Drama in Theory and Practice III: Expressionism and Epic Theatre.
Cambridge Univ. Press. 1981.
Styan, J.L. The Elements of Drama. Cambridge. Univ. Press. 1967. Print.
Szondi, Peter. Theory of Modern Drama. Univ. of Minneapolis. Minneapolis. 1987.
Williams, Raymond. Drama From Ibsen to Eliot. Chatto &Windus Ltd. London. 1954.

*****

36
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

ENGL 512: AMERICAN FICTION

Credits: 3

This course attempts to introduce students to the study of the novel and the short story in American
literature and the various traditions that conditioned their rise and development. While issues like
politics, race, gender, religion, etc will be focused upon, the texts chosen for study will also be
analysed by looking at the cultural and social contexts surrounding their production and reception.
On the whole, the course aims to give students a broad understanding of the major writers of fiction
in American literature right from the Puritan period to post-modern times.

Unit I
Social History of America; Introduction to early American literature and culture; Selected texts by
Washington Irving (Rip Van Winkle; The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow)

Unit II
Puritanism; American Romanticism; Selected texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter),
Edgar Allan Poe (The Black Cat) and Herman Melville (Bartleby, the Scrivener)

Unit III
American Literature and Regionalism; American Realism; Selected texts by Mark Twain
(Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Kate Chopin (The Storm), Henry James (The Turn of the
Screw) and O. Henry (A Retrieved Reformation)

Unit IV
American Literature and Modernism; Renaissance in American Fiction; Selected texts by William
Faulkner (Bear) and Earnest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)

Unit V
Racism and the American Society; African American Literature; Selected text by Alice Walker
(The Color Purple)
Novels:
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Henry James The Turn of the Screw (1898)
Earnest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea (1951)
Alice Walker The Color Purple (1982)

Short Stories:
Washington Irving “Rip Van Winkle; The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow”

37
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

Edgar Allan Poe “The Black Cat”

Herman Melville “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
Kate Chopin “The Storm”
O. Henry “A Retrieved Reformation”
William Faulkner “Bear”

Texts for Self-study:

Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
J D Salinger The Catcher in the Rye

*****

38
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

ENGL-513-INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

CREDITS-3
OBJECTIVE:
The development in Indian writing in English can be traced back to the implementation of Lord
Macaulay’s Minute in 1835 under the British rule. Ever since then Indian literature in English is
an ongoing process. Today, Indian writing in English is appreciated and well received by the global
audience. The course aims to trace the development of poetry, prose and fiction in India from the
1940’s.The paper attempts to include the works of writers who have contributed to the enrichment
of literature during and after India’s Independence to the contemporary scenario.

LEARNING OUTCOME:
It will equip the readers with knowledge about the culture, history and political issues which are
reflected in the works of the writers who have immensely contributed to the field of Indian
Literature and Language. This will be beneficial to the students in understanding the historical
aspect of India’s past and present.It will also enable the readers to gain knowledge on the theme,
the pattern, the language and the style in Indian writing in English. It will also highlight the impact
and effects of India under the British rule on our language, culture and traditions. It will enable the
students to have a detail understanding of the Indian writing in English through the various phases
of development in Literature.

SYLLABUS:
UNIT-I- BRIEF INTRODUCTION OF THE BACKGROUND OF ENGLISH
EDUCATION IN INDIA
Macaulay’s Minute (1835)
Sri Aurobindo(1872-1950) Renaissance in India( Essay Chapter-1)
POETRY:
Henry Louise Vivian Derozio: (1809-1831) “The Harp of India”, “The Orphan Girl”.
Toru Dutt: ( 1856-77) “ Our Casuarina Tree”, “ Lakshman”.
Michael Madhusudhan Dutt:(1824-1873 ) The Captive Ladie
Rabindranath Tagore: (1861-1941) “ Leave this Chanting”, “Purity”.
SorojiniNaidu: (1879-1949) “Wind Blown Canopies of Crimson Gulmohars, “The Palanquin
Bearers”.
Nizzim Ezekiel: (1924-2004) “Goodbye party to Miss Pushpa T S”, “Night of the Scorpion”.
Kamala Das: (1934-2009) “Introduction”, “Someone Else Song”.
ArunKolatkar: (1932-2004) “Jejuri”
JayantaMahapatra: (1928-) “ Freedom”, “Twilight”.
UNIT II, NATIONALISM, GANDHISM AND FREEDOM MOVEMENT
Mulk Raj Anand: (1950-2004) Two Leaves and a Bud (1937)
R.K Narayan :( 1906-2001) The Guide (1958)
Raja Rao: (1908-2006) Kanthapura.(1938)

39
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

UNIT –III- SHORT STORIES

Shashi Despande: (1938-) “Intrusion”
Khushwant Singh: (1915-) “The Agnostic”
Rita Nath Keshari: (1961-) “The Transplanted Wife”
Temsula Ao: (1945- ) “Laburnum for my Head”

Unit –IV – Novels and Essays

Anita Desai (1937-)The Village by the Sea (1982)
Nayantara Sahgal: (1927-) Rich Like Us (1985)
Easterine Kire: ( 1959-) Terrible Matriarchy (2007)
Amitav Ghosh: ( 1956-) ‘Countdown’ (1999)
Arundhati Roy: ( 1961-) ‘The Greater Common Good’(1999)

UNIT- V- Drama
Manjula Padmanabam: (1953-) ‘Harvest’ ( 1998)
Girish Karnard: (1938-) ‘The Dreams of Tipu Sultan’ (2005 )

Reading List

Indian Writing in English: K.R. SrinivasaIyenger.

Indian Writing in English: (El) Anjana Neira Dev& Amrita naira Dev)
Indo-Anglian Literature: 1800-1970: A Survey, H.M. Williams.
Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English - M.K. Naik, (ed.).
Aspects of Indian Writing in English, M.K. Naik, (ed.).
The Modern Indian Novel in English, M.E. Derrett.
The Swan and the Eagle - C.D. Narsimhaiah.
New Dimensions of Indian Literature, M.K. Naik.
The Twice Born Fiction – Meenakshi Mukherji.
Indian Poetry in English -Bruce King.
Indian Literature in English - William Walsh.
Realism and Reality - The Novel and Society in India - MeenakshiMukherji.
A History of Indian Writing in English - M.K. Naik.
The Fire and the Offering: The Modern Indian Novel in English - S.C. Harrex.
An Area of Darkness - V.S. Naipaul.
The Intimate Enemy - AshisNandy.
India: A Wounded Civilization - V.S. Naipaul
The Rhetoric of English in India-Sara Suleri.
The Beginnings of English Literary Study in British India – Gauri Vishwanathan.
Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India – Gauri Vishwanathan.
Women Writers in the 20th Century Literature:( Ed) Monika Gupta. Atlantic Publishers,2008

40
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

ENGL 514: EUROPEAN LITERATURES

Credits: 3
Course Objective:
The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to a wide range of European literature.
Beginning with an introduction via classical poetics to Sophocles, it maps a lengthy literary
continuum from the ancient to the contemporary texts of literature. The texts chosen for
study in this course illustrate several major schools of literary philosophies, genres of
writing and narratological experiments by European masters of literature. The last unit will
familiarize the student with one of the richest but less studied component of world
literature, i.e. European folklore in its myriad aspects from the serious to carnivalesque, in
languages not usually taken into academic consideration. The course covers a lengthy time-
line focusing on a representative selection that will give the student not only a confident
overview of European literature, but an insight into the important literary philosophies that
characterize it.

UNIT I
Introduction:
1. An overview of the eight language matrices of European Literature in general
2. Beginnings in Greek classicism and Roman literature
3. Texts: Poetry, Drama & Poetics (Greek & Latin)
1) Extracts from Aristotle’s Poetics & Longinus’ On the Sublime
2) Sophocles’ Oedipus
3) Horace’s First Epistle to Maecenas
UNIT II
1. Chivalric and Humanistic literatures of the Medieval period up to the Renaissance
2. A survey of the Eddas (of Iceland), the sagas (of the Nibelungenlied), the
Mystery or Miracle plays (e.g. The Second Shepherd’s Play), Skaldic/Norse
verse, the minnesongs & ballads, chansons de geste, Celtic romances of chivalry
and love, the Arthurian legends, Brythonic tales & Goliardic verse, Latin hymns
& fabliaux.
3. An overview of important writers such as Dante, Ludovico Ariosto, Boccacio,
Tasso, Francois Rabelais, Giovanni Boccaccio, Francesco Petrarca, Erasmus and
Cervantes.
4. Texts: Poetry, Epistle, Autobiography (Norse/Scandinavian, Italian)
4) Examples of Skaldic/Norse poetry
5) Petrarch ‘s Letters ( to Dionisio da Borgo San Sepolcro, Boccacio &
Tommasso di Messina) & Sonnet 96 (Italian)
6) Extracts from The Book of Margery Kempe
UNIT III:
1. The Gothic and the Romantic up to the beginnings of Realism

41
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

2. Texts: Short Stories (Russian)

7) Selections from the Short Stories of Gogol, Pushkin, Andreyev &
Tolstoy
3. Modernism
4. Texts: Fiction & Autobiography (French, German)
8) Antoine de Saint Exupéry: The Little Prince as Children’s fiction,
Existential fiction and Cultural readings of the novel (French)
9) Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning (German)
UNIT IV Postmodernism: Collage and Deconstruction
1. Text: Fiction
10) Orham Pamouk’s My Name is Red
UNIT V- European Folklore
1. Folklore theories – a summary.
11) Spanish, Turkish, Bohemian, Moravian, Lusatian, Serbian, Illyrian-
Slovenish, Celtic & Romanic folktales.
References:
Texts: The Leob Classical Library and Luminarium for Units I ⅈ Thomas Seltzer’s Collection
&Standard editions for Unit III, IV& V.
A History of European Literature. Benoit Annick, Guy Fontaine &Michael Wooff.
Routledge: 2000.
Reader's Encyclopedia of Eastern European Literature. Pynsent, Robert B. with S.I. Kanikova.
New York : Harper Collins Pub., 1993.
Tables of European History, Literature, Science, and Art, from A.D. 200 to 1909. Nichol, John.
5th ed. Glasgow: Maclehose, 1909.

*****

42
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

ENGL 515: TRANSLATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Credits 3
UNIT I
1. Introduction
a. History of Translation Theory
b. Translation of Religious Text-The Bible
2. Language and Culture
c. Ancient/Modern/Postmodern views
d. Critical views
e. Culture based terms

UNIT II
3. Specialised Types of Translation
f. General translation
g. Literary translation
h. Legal translation
i. Administrative translation: i. Commercial/ ii. Economic ii. and Financial Translation

UNIT III
4.Trends in Translation
j.Machine Translation/Computer-Assisted Translation
k. Cultural Translation

UNIT IV
5. Criticism of Translation
l. Brazilian Cannibalistic Translation
m. Translation and Ideology
n. Functionalism
o. Post Structuralism
p. Postcolonial

UNIT V
5. Problems in translation
q. General problems
r. The problem of untranslatability
s. The problem of common words
References
Bassnett, Susan & Andre Lefevere. eds. Constructing Cultures. Clevedon/Philadelphia.
Multilingual Matters, 1998.

43
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

Bassnett, Susan & Harish Trivedi. eds. Postcolonial Translation. New York. Routledge, 1999.
Bassnett, S. Translation Studies 3rd edition. London. Routledge, 2002.
Cronin, M. Translation and Globalization. London. Routledge, 2004.
Nida, E. The Theory of Practice of Translation. Leiden. Brill Academic Pub, 1969.
Lefevere, A. Translation, Rewriting and the Manipulation of Literary Frame. London. Routledge,
1992.
Newmark, P. Approaches to Translation. Oxford Pergaman Press, 1982.

*****

44
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

LIST OF SOFT CORE COURSES THAT MAYBE OFFERED (CREDITS – 3)

ENGL 450 CONTEMPORARY INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

ENGL 451 MAJOR AUTHORS
ENGL 452 CANADIAN POETRY AND DRAMA
ENGL 453 SCIENCE FICTION
ENGL 454 FEMINIST STUDIES
ENGL 455 INDIAN AESTHETICS
ENGL 456 TECHNIQUES OF TRANSLATION
ENGL 457 PICARESQUE FICTION
ENGL 458 THE ENGLISH ODE
ENGL 459 INDIAN LITERATURES IN TRANSLATION
ENGL 460 INDIAN ENGLISH FICTION TODAY
ENGL 461 ABORIGINAL LITERATURE
ENGL 462 INDIAN ENGLISH AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
ENGL 463 INDIAN WOMEN FICTION IN ENGLISH
ENGL 464 MODERN ESSAYS
ENGL 465 MODERN MASTERS OF ENGLISH PROSE
ENGL 466 POSTCOLONIAL FICTION INENGLISH
ENGL 467 LITERATURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
ENGL 468 GREEN VOICES: LITERATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
ENGL 469 CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
ENGL 470 ADVANCED READING SKILLS
ENGL 471 FUNCTIONAL COMMUNICATIVE WRITING SKILLS
ENGL 472 STUDY SKILLS AND REFERENCE SKILLS
ENGL 473 APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING
ENGL 474 TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
ENGL 475 ADVANCED ACADEMIC WRITING
ENGL 476 PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
ENGL 477 ENGLISH FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ENGL 478 CURRENT ENGLISH USAGE
ENGL 479 POPULAR FICTION
ENGL 480 CANADIAN FICTION
ENGL 481 MASS COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY
ENGL 482 ADVERTISING & PUBLIC RELATIONS
ENGL 483 BASICS OF JOURNALISM
ENGL 484 ELECTRONIC MEDIA/DIGITAL HUMANITIES
ENGL 485 SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
ENGL 486 CANADIAN DETECTIVE & CRIME FICTION
ENGL 487 GENDER AND COMMUNICATION
ENGL 488 PRINT MEDIA
ENGL 489 READING AND RECEPTION
ENGL 490: COLONIAL WRITINGS
ENGL 491 CANADIAN CREATIVITY & LOCAL
ENGL 492 VISUAL CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION
ENGL 493 ENGLISH IN INDIA
ENGL 494 WOMEN’S WRITING IN INDIA

45
DOE-PU-2017-NEW

ENGL 495 CULTURAL STUDIES

ENGL 496 FILM STUDIES
ENGL 497 DETECTIVE & CRIME FICTION IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
ENGL 498 IDEA OF INDIA IN LITERATURE
ENGL 549 INTRODUCTION TO DETECTIVE FICTION
ENGL 550 DALIT LITERATURE
ENGL 551 CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
ENGL 552 INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
ENGL 553 NON FICTIONAL PROSE
ENGL 554 DIASPORA WRITINGS
ENGL 555 VISUAL ARTS & LITERATURE
ENGL 556 EUROPEAN CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION
ENGL 557 ELEMENTARY COMMUNICATIVE AND SOFT SKILLS
ENGL 558 LITERATURE FROM NORTH EAST INDIA IN ENGLISH
ENGL 559 ADVANCED COMMUNICATIVE AND SOFT SKILLS
ENGL 560 SOUTH AFRICAN INDIAN LITERATURE
ENGL 561 INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL POETICS
ENGL 562 CONTEMPORARY YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
ENGL 563: INDIAN SPORTS LITERATURE
ENGL 564: INDIAN LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY

*****

46