M.A. Previous
Paper 1st
Chaucer to Restoration Period
Unit
1st
Chaucer : Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Marlowe : Dr. Faustus Milton : Paradise Lost, Book 1
Unit
2nd
John Donne : The Lollorvirg Poems
A
Lecture upon the Shadow, Love’s Deity, The Good Morrow,
Death, Be not Proud, The
Blossom
Unit
3rd Bacon : Essays
Of
Truth, Of Great Place, Of Studies,
Of Delay, Of Friendship
John Dryden : Mac
Flecknoe
UNIT
4th Spenser : The
Faerie Queene, Book I
Milton
: Samson Agonistes
UNIT
5th Webster : The
Duchess of Malfi
Brorme : Urn Burial Chapter IV and \-
Congreve
: The Way of rhe World
PAPER
II
SHAKESPEARE
UNIT
I : Hamlet
UNIT
II : Twelfth Night, The Tempest
UNIT
III : Henry IV, Part I
UNIT
IV : A Midsummer Night's Dream
UNIT
V: Sonnets in Peacock's edn. English verse, Vol. I Shakespearean Criticism
PAPER
III
Eighteenth-Century
Literature
UNIT
I : Thomas Gray : Elegy, Hymn to Adversity
Collin
: Ode to Evening, The Passions
UNIT
II : Pope : The Rape of the Lock
UNIT
III: Addison : Coverly Papers, ed. Myers (O.U.P.) Essay Nos. l, 112,:
117,130, 196 and 518.
Richard Steele : The Spectator : Essay Nos. 2, 107, 113, 117.
UNIT
IV: Fielding : Joseph Andt'etrs
UNIT
V: James Thomson : 'Seasons' 2.
Blake: Songs of innocence Songs of Experience
Dr.
Johnson : Preface to Shakespeare
PAPER
IV
EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE
UNIT
I: Wordsworth : a. Tintern Abbey b.
Immortality, Ode c. Ode to Duty
Coleridge
: a. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
UNIT
II: PB Shelley: Adonais, Ode to the west
Wind
John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to Autumn
UNIT
III: Charles Lamb : Christ's Hospital, Imperfect Sympathies, The Old and the
New School Master, Poor Relation. UNIT IV: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Walter Scott:
Kenilworth
UNIT
V: Byron: Childe
Harold, Book IV
Hazlitt: Essays (Ed.) G. Sampson
M.A. Final Year
PAPER I
Victorian Literature (1 832-1890)
Unit I. Tennyson : Ulysses, Epilogue to In memoriam
Browning : My Last Duchess; The Last Ride Together;
Rabbi Ben Ezra
UNIT II Matthew Arnold : Thyrsis, Dover Beach
Carlyle : The Hero as Poet.
UNIT III
D.G. Rossetti : The Blessed Damozel.
UNIT IV
Dickens : Great Expectations
Thackeray: Vanity Fair
UNIT V
Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Natives
John Ruskin Unto This Last
PAPER II
Twentieth -Century Literature
UNIT I G.M. Hopkins : The Wind Hover, pied Beauty, God's
Grandeur
G.B. Shaw : Candida
UNIT II
W.B. Yeats : A Prayer for My Daughter, Sailing to
Byzantium.
UNIT III
T.S. Eliot : The Waste Land U
UNIT IV
D.H. Lawrence : The Rainbow
VirginiaWoolf : To the Light House
UNIT V
T.S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral
E.M. Forster : A passage to India
PAPER III
Critical theory
UNIT I
Classical European Theory
Aristotle :
Poetics
Selected Texts from Plato, Cicero, Florence and Longinus from DA Russell
and M. Winder Bottom (eds.) Ancient Literary Criticism (Oxford university
Press, 1972)
Classical Indian Theory :
Selected Text from Bharata's Natyashastra, Abhinav Gupta's Dhawanyaloka,
Visvanath's Sahitya Darpan and Rajshekhar's Kavyamimansa.
UNIT II
Renaissance and Neoclassical Theory :
Selections from Minturno, Castlevetro, Cinthio and Tasso as found in A.H.
Gilber (ed.) Literary Criticism : Plato to Dryden (Wayne State U.P. Detroit,
1962)
Samuel Johnson : Preface to Shakespeare Romantic and Post Romantic Theory :
Wordsworth : Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Coleridge : Biographia literaria
Arnold : Essay on Criticism
Pater : Appreciations
UNIT III
Modern and post-Modern Theory:
Theory of Fiction:
Henry James : Selection from the Art of Fiction
Virginia Woolf Selections from modem Fiction
T. S. Eliot : Tradition and the Individual talent.
American New Criticism:
Selections from J. C. Ransom's The New Criticism.
1* essay from The Well-Wrought Urn by Cleanth Brooks.
UNIT IV
Allied British Criticism :
Selections from principres ofliterary criticism by I. A. Richards.
F. R. Leavis : 1* essay from Revaluations.
W. Empsonc : Chapter I from some versions of pastoral
Structuralism and post Structuralism :
Saussure : part I from Course in General Linguistics.
Derrida: "On Difference From Margins of Philosophy.
UNIT V
Psychoanalytical Criticism :
Sigmund Freud : The Nature of Dreams
Lacan : The Mirror Stace.
Feminist Criticism:
E. Showwalter (ed.) The New.Ferlinist Criticisms (Pantheon, New,York.
1985).
Post-Colonial Theory
E. Said : Orientalism Homi J. Bhabha : Signs Taken for Wonders.
PAPER IV
Indian Writing in English
Unit I Poetry :
Tagore : Gitanjali 11 to 20
Nissim Ezekiel : Night of the Scorpion , Background , Casually.
AK Ramanujan : A River; of Mother, Among other things
(Relations), Obituary (Relations)
Kamala Das : The Looking Glass; My Grand Mothers' House,
The Invitation.
UNIT II
Drama
Girish Karnad : Hayavadan.
Mahesh Dattani : Final Solution
UNIT III
Non-Fictional Prose:
Nehru: The Discover of India.
Gandhi: My Experiments with Truth.
UNIT IV
Fiction:
R K Narayan: The Guide.
Anita Desai: Fire on the Mountain.
Kamala Markandaya: Nectar in a Sieve.
UNIT V
Literature of Indo-European Encounter:
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala : Heat and D
Rust'
Ruskin Bond : Room on the Roof.
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