Syllabus M.A. English (Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot University)

                                                             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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