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DEPARTMENT OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
PUNJABI UNIVERSITY, PATIALA
SYLLABUS
M.A. (ENGLISH) PART-I (ANNUAL)
2015 and 2016 EXAMINATIONS
OUTLINE OF TESTS
There are four Papers in M.A. Part-I (English). Each paper carries 80 marks and is of
three hours duration.
PAPER-I
English Literature from Chaucer to Milton
PAPER-II Poetry and Drama from the Restoration Period to the Victorian Age
PAPER-III Prose and Fiction
PAPER-IV Any one of the following options :
OPTION
(i)
Language and Linguistics
(ii)
Indian Writing in English
PAPER-I : ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM CHAUCER TO MILTON
Time Allowed : 3 Hrs.
Maximum Marks : 80
Pass Marks : 35%
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES
Students are required to attempt five questions in all, choosing one question each from
the first four sections A, B, C and D and eight questions from Section E.
Each question in Sections A, B, C & D will have a weightage of 12 marks. Section E, will
comprise of ten short-answer questions and the candidate will be required to attempt any eight,
having weightage of 32 marks, 4 marks for each short-answer question.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER SETTER
In Section A, the examiner shall set two questions relating to the literary history of the
period under study and will focus on the major trends/movements/genres/authors.
In Section B, the examiner shall set two questions, one each on any two of the three
prescribed authors/texts.
In Section C, the examiner shall set two questions, one on each of the two prescribed
authors/texts.
In Section D, the examiner shall set two questions, one on each of the two prescribed
authors/texts.
In Section E, the examiner shall set ten short answer questions and the candidate will
attempt any eight in about 150 words each. These short answer questions shall be set in the
following manner :
2 short answer questions shall cover Section A.
4 short answer questions shall cover Section B with at least one short answer question
each on the three prescribed authors/texts.
4 short answer questions shall cover Sections C and D with one short answer question
on each of the prescribed texts/authors.
SECTION-A
I.
History of English Literature. The Age of Chaucer (1340-1400) and the Renaissance
(1500-1660) covering major works/authors/literary movements/trends/genres, etc.
SECTION-B
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Donne
:
:
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Poems :
The Flea, The Good Morrow, The Sun Rising,
The Canonization, The Anniversary, Valediction :
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Francis Bacon
1.
2.
:
Forbidding Mourning
The Relic
Elegies :
Elegy V : His Picture
Elegy XVI : On His Mistress
Holy Sonnets :
Oh My Black Soul !
This is My Play's Last Scene
Batter My Heart, Three-person'd God.
At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners.
Essays :
Of Studies
Of Friendship
Of Marriage and Single Life
Of Great Place
Of Truth
Of Simulation and Dissimulation
Of Love
SECTION-C
Christopher Marlowe :
John Milton
:
Dr. Faustus
Paradise Lost Book-I
SECTION-D
1.
2.
William Shakespeare :
Ben Jonson
:
King Lear
Volpone
SECTION-E
As mentioned in the Instructions.
RECOMMENDED READINGS
1.
2.
3.
4.
Geoffrey Chaucer, Wyatt A.J., ed., Chaucer : The Prologue, University Tutorial Press,
London, 1971.
John Donne, Smith A.J., ed., Donne : Songs and Sonnets, Edward Arnold, 1978.
Christopher Marlowe, Jump, John. ed., Dr. Faustus, B.I. Publications, Bombay, 1967.
John Milton, Macmillan, M., ed., Paradise Lost, Book-I, Macmillan, N.Y., 1967.
CRITICAL STUDIES
1.
2.
3.
Blamires, Harry, A Short History of English Literature, ELBS and Methuen & Co., Ltd.,
London, 1979.
Evans, Ifor, A Short History of English Literature, Penguin Books, England, 1986.
Ford, Boris, ed., The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. I, Penguin Books, England,
1982.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
1.
2.
3.
Bowden, Muriel, A Commentary on the General Prologue, London : Macmillan, 1948.
Chesterton, G.K., Chaucer, London : Faber.
Coghill, N., The Poet Chaucer, London, 1960.
JOHN DONNE
1.
2.
3.
Gardener, Helen, ed., John Donne : A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice-Hall, 1982.
Hammond, Gerald., The Metaphysical Poets, Macmillan, 1974.
Lovelock, Julian., Songs & Sonnets, Macmillan, 1973.
FRANCIS BACON
1.
Bush, Douglas, English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660, Oxford :
Clarendon Press, 1962.
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2.
3.
1.
2.
3.
1.
2.
3.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Smeaton, Oliphant, ed., Francis Bacon's Essays, London., Dant, 1968.
Walker, Hugh, English Essay and Essayists, Delhi : S. Chand & Co., 1960.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Brockbank, J.P., Studies in English Literature. Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd., London,
1968.
Cole, Douglas, Suffering and Evil in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe. Princeton University
Press, N.J., 1962.
Levin, Harry, The Overreacher, Faber : London, 1962.
JOHN MILTON
Martz, Louis, L. ed,. Milton : A Collection of Critical Essays, Prentice Hall, N.J., 1966.
Waldock, A. J. Paradise Lost and its Critics, Cambridge University Press, 1966.
Pattison, Mark, Milton, Lyall Book Depot, Chandigarh, 1966.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (King Lear)
Adolman, J. King Lear : Twentieth Century Interpretations. Prentice Hall Inc., Englewood
Cliffs, N.J., 1978.
Bradley, A.C. Shakespearean Tragedy, 1904.
Hellman. R, Image and Structure in King Lear, 1948.
Muir, Kenneth, Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence, 1972.
BEN JONSON
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Ben Jonson, Volpone, Ed. David Cook.
Ben Jonson, Volpone, Ed. Aluin B. Kernan.
Knights, L.C., Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson, 1937.
Partridge, E. B., The Broken Compass, 1958.
Barish, J. A., Ben Jonson and the Language of Prose Comedy, 1960.
PAPER-II
:
POETRY AND DRAMA FROM THE RESTORATION PERIOD TO THE
VICTORIAN AGE
Time Allowed : 3 Hrs.
Maximum Marks : 80
Pass Marks : 35%
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES
Students are required to attempt five questions in all, choosing one question each from
the first four sections A, B, C and D and eight questions from Section E.
Each question in Sections A, B, C & D will have a weightage of 12 marks. Section E, will
comprise of ten short-answer questions and the candidate will be required to attempt any eight,
having weightage of 32 marks, 4 marks for each short-answer question.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER SETTER
In Section A, the examiner shall set two questions relating to the literary history of the
period under study and will focus on the major trends/movements/genres/authors.
In Section B, the examiner shall set two questions, one each on any two of the three
prescribed authors/texts.
In Section C, the examiner shall set two questions, one on each of the two prescribed
authors/texts.
In Section D, the examiner shall set two questions, one on each of the two prescribed
authors/texts.
In Section E, the examiner shall set ten short answer questions and the candidate will
attempt any eight in about 150 words each. These short answer questions shall be set in the
following manner :
2 short answer questions shall cover Section A.
4 short answer questions shall cover Section B with at least one short answer question
each on the three prescribed authors/texts.
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4 short answer questions shall cover Sections C and D with one short answer question
on each of the prescribed texts/authors.
SECTION-A
History of English Literature covering major works, authors, literary movements and
trends that are specially related to the prescribed authors and genres taken up in the paper.
Restoration of monarchy; public theatres in England; Restoration comedy; Restoration
tragedy; attack on immorality of the English stage; satire in verse; mock-heroic writing; writing
of the Lyrical Ballads; reactions to French Revolution-enthusiasm and revulsion; Reaction to
18th century literary tradition; the Renaissance of Wonder; the Return to Nature; Idealism,
introversion and the attitude to science and Industrialism; popularity of Lyric and Ode; the
theory of poetic diction; faith and doubt in Pre-Raphaelitism; interest in Psychology; the
achievements of the Victorian temper and Compromise.
SECTION-B
Dryden
: Absalom and Achitophel
Congreve : The Way of the World
Pope
: The Rape of the Lock
SECTION-C
William Blake : Songs of Innocence and Experience. Songs of Innocence : Introduction; The
Echoing Green, The Lamb, Nurse's Song, The Divine Image.
Songs of Experience : Introduction, Nurse's Song, The Tyger, The Sick
Rose, Ah ! Sunflower, London, The Chimney Sweeper, The Human
Abstract.
S.T. Coleridge : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Dejection : An Ode, Kubla Khan.
SECTION-D
John Keats
:
Odes : Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Melancholy, Ode to
Autumn, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Psyche.
Robert Browning
:
Porphyria's Lover, My Last Duchess, The Bishop Orders
His Tomb, The Last Ride Together, Rabbi Ben Ezra,
Andrea Del Sarto, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, Fra
Lippo Lippi, Cleon.
SECTION-E
As mentioned in the Instructions.
RECOMMENDED READINGS
Legouis and Cazamian
:
A History of English Literature.
K. Young
:
John Dryden
D. Nicol Smith
:
John Dryden
Boris Ford, ed.,
:
From Dryden to Johnson
(The Pelican Guide to English Literature)
Kajol Sengupta, ed.
:
The Way of the World (CULT series)
Brian Morris, ed.
:
William Congreve
Patrick Lyons, ed.
:
Congreve's Comedies (Case Book Series)
R.K. Kaul, ed.
:
The Rape of the Lock (CULT series)
G. Wilson Knight
:
The Laureate of Peace
Ian Jack
:
Augustan Satire
Maynard Mack
:
Wit and Poetry and Pope, Eighteenth Century
English Literature
Cleanth Brooks
:
The Case of Miss Arabella Fermer, The WellWrought Urn
H.M. Reichard
:
The Love Affairs in Pope's The Rape of the Lock,
PMLA, LXIX-1954.
R.W. Brower
:
Alexander Pope : The Poetry of Illusion.
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CRITICAL STUDIES
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
1.
2
3.
4.
5.
6.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Volume-X : English Literature, ed. Ian Jack 1815-1832 (O. U. P., 1963).
A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. IV, David Daiches.
The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. V., Blake to Byron edited by Boris Ford.
English Romantic Poets, ed., M. H. Abrams, New York, O. U. P. 1960.
The Mirror and the Lamp, M. H. Abrams, New York, O. U. P. 1953.
A Concise Cambridge History of English Literature, George Sampson.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Selected Poems of William Blake, ed. by F.M. Bateson, Published by Heinemann, London.
Songs of Innocence and Experience, ed. by A.M.M. Wilkinson.
The Visionary Company by Harold Bloom, (N. Y., 1961).
Fearful Symmetry., Northrop Frye (Princeton, N. J., 1947).
Innocence and Experience : An Introduction to Blake, E. D. Hirsch (London, 1970).
Hazard Adams, A Reading of Shorter Poems of William Blake (Seattle, 1963).
William Blake and the Age of Revolution by J. Bronowski (N. Y., 1965).
S. T. COLERIDGE
Selected Poems, ed., James Reeves (Heinemann, 1966).
Humphrey House, S. T. Coleridge, 1952.
Geoffrey Yarlott, Coleridge and the Abyssinian Maid, 1967.
J. B. Beer, Coleridge the Visionary, 1959.
J. L. Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, 1931.
Kathleen Coburn, ed., Coleridge (20th Century Views).
JOHN KEATS
Selected Poems & Letters of John Keats, ed. by Robert Gittings, Heinemann, 1966.
F. R. Leavis, 'Keats' in Revaluations : Tradition & Development in English Poetry (London,
1936).
K. Muir (ed.,) John Keats, A Reassessment (Liverpool, 1958).
E. R. Wasserman, The Finer Tone : Keats's Major Poems (Baltimore, 1956).
Fred Inglis, Keats (Lit. in Perspective Series, London, 1968).
W. J. Bate, John Keats (20th Century views).
W. J. Bate, John Keats (Cambridge Mass, 1963).
Evert Walter, H. Aesthetic & Myth in the Poetry of Keats (Princeton University Press,
1965).
Bhabatosh Chatterjee, The Mind and Art of John Keats (Orient Longman).
ROBERT BROWNING
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Favorty, F. E., The Victorian Poets : Guide to Research, (2nd Ed.), Cambridge.
Johnson, E. D. H., The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry, Princeton, 1982.
Miller, J. M., The Disappearance of God, University Press, 1963.
Young, G. M., Portrait of an Age : Victorian England, O.U.P., 1960.
Devane, W. C., A Browning Handbook.
Flower Betty S., Browning and the Modern Tradition.
Drew, Philip, ed., A Collection of Critical Essays on Browning.
Tracy, Clarence, Browning's Mind and Art : Essays.
Chesterton, G. K., The Victorian Age in Literature, O.U.P., 1966.
Ford, Boris, The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. V.
Casebook series and Twentieth Century views are also available on all the prescribed
authors.
PAPER-III :
Time Allowed : 3 Hrs.
PROSE AND FICTION
Maximum Marks : 80
Pass Marks : 35%
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES
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Students are required to attempt five questions in all, choosing one question each from
the first four sections A, B, C and D and eight questions from Section E.
Each question in Sections A, B, C & D will have a weightage of 12 marks. Section E, will
comprise of ten short-answer questions and the candidate will be required to attempt any eight,
having weightage of 32 marks, 4 marks for each short-answer question.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER SETTER
In Section A, the examiner shall set two questions relating to the literary history of the
period under study and will focus on the major trends/movements/genres/authors.
In Section B, the examiner shall set two questions, one each on any two of the three
prescribed authors/texts.
In Section C, the examiner shall set two questions, one on each of the two prescribed
authors/texts.
In Section D, the examiner shall set two questions, one on each of the two prescribed
authors/texts.
In Section E, the examiner shall set ten short answer questions and the candidate will
attempt any eight in about 150 words each. These short answer questions shall be set in the
following manner :
2 short answer questions shall cover Section A.
4 short answer questions shall cover Section B with at least one short answer question
each on the three prescribed authors/texts.
4 short answer questions shall cover Sections C and D with one short answer question
on each of the prescribed texts/authors.
SECTION-A
History of English Literature covering major works, authors, literary movements, trends
related specially to the genres and authors prescribed in the paper.
Satire in prose; Neo-classicism and the Enlightenment; the Battle of the Books; the
periodical essay; women's liberation in the eighteenth century; literary criticism; the art of
biography; the rise of the English Novel; the novel of sentiments; the Gothic Novel; the Novel of
Ideas; women's writings; periodicals; growth of socialist realism, naturalism, Prose writers; the
Victorian Temper; establishment of empire; the Oxford Movement; Evangelical Movement;
Factory Acts; Urbanization; Chartism; the belief in progress; the Suffragette Movement;
Decadence; Realism; Naturalism; the spread of education.
SECTION -B
Addison : Prescribed Essays (i)
Henry Fielding
Jane Austen
The Aim of the Spectator
(ii) Meditations in the Abbey
(iii) The Scope of Satire
(iv) Stage Realism
(v) On Friendship
(vi) Sir Roger in Church
(vii) Ladies’ Head Dresses
(viii)
Wit and Wisdom
(ix) Female Orators
(x) Wealth and Poverty
:
Joseph Andrews
:
Emma
SECTION -C
Charles Dickens
Thomas Hardy
:
:
Hard Times
Tess of d' Urbervilles
SECTION -D
George Eliot
John Ruskin
:
:
The Mill on the Floss
Unto this Last
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SECTION-E
As mentioned in the instructions.
RECOMMENDED READINGS
Samuel Johnson
C. S. Lewis
:
:
P. Smithers
M. C. Battesin
:
:
Elizabeth Jenkins
Ian Watt
:
:
The Lives of the Poets (Addison)
"Addison" in Essays on the Eighteenth Century
Presented to David Nicol Smith
The Life of Joseph Addison
The Moral Basis of Fielding's Art : A Study of
Joseph Andrews
Henry Fielding
The Rise of the English Novel
JANE AUSTEN
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Emma in Case Book Series ed., by David Lodge (Macmillan 1968).
Robert Liddle, The Novels of Jane Austen (Longmans, 1963).
Arthure Walton Litz., Jane Austen : A Study of Her Artistic Development (O.U.P. 1965).
Foster, Shirley, Victorian Woman's Fiction : Marriage, Freedom and the Individual, London :
Creom Heln, 1985.
Lerner, Laurence, The Victorians, Penguin Books.
Young, G.M., Portrait of an Age : Victorian England, O.U.P., 1960.
Chesterton, G. K., The Victorian Age in Literature, O.U.P., 1966.
Ford, Boris, The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. V.
Hardy Barbara, The Novels of George Eliot; Critical Essays on George Eliot.
Dyson, A. E., Dickens : Modern Judgements.
Paper IV Opt. (i)
Time : 3 hours
LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
Max. Marks : 80
Pass Marks : 35%
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES AND PAPER-SETTER
The course content will be divided in three sections—Section 'A', Section 'B' and Section
'C'. Candidate will be required to attempt five questions in all, choosing one question at least
from each section. The scope of the content will strictly be defined by the prescribed texts.
SECTION-A
There shall be two questions. Question No.1 shall have seven short-answer questions
from the two texts prescribed for this section. The candidates shall attempt any four in about
150 words each. Each answer shall carry 4 marks.
4x4=16
Question No. 2 shall be of descriptive kind, carrying 16 marks.
SECTION-B
Section B shall have two questions. Question No. 3 (a) shall pertain to phonetic
transcription. The examiner shall set twenty words and candidate shall be asked to transcribe
and mark primary stress on any sixteen words. Each correct answer shall carry half mark each.
This question shall be of eight marks.
In Question No. 3 (b) the examiner shall set 12 words for minimal pairs. The candidates
shall be asked to attempt any eight words carrying 08 marks.
Question No. 4 shall pertain to the prescribed chapters from the prescribed text. The
question shall be of descriptive nature and worth 16 marks.
SECTION-C
There shall be three questions. Question No. 5 and 6 shall be set from the prescribed
chapters of the two prescribed texts. The questions shall be descriptive in nature. Each
question shall carry 16 marks.
Question No. 7 shall have short answer questions from the prescribed chapters of the
prescribed texts. The examiner shall set seven questions. The candidates shall attempt any four
in about 150 words each, each carrying 4 marks and thus a total of 16 marks.
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SECTION-A
1.
Lyons, J : Language and Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, 1981, Chapters 1 & 2.
2.
Lyons, J : Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, 1968.
Chapters 1, 2 and 4.
Supplementary Text
Ferdinand de Saussure : Course in General Linguistics, tr. W. Baskin. Fontana Collins,
1971.
Prescribed Text
SECTION-B
1.
Roach, Peter : English Phonetics and Phonology, 3rd ed., Cambridge University
Press, 2000 (Chapter 2 to 11 and 14).
Supplementary Texts
1.
2.
Gimson, A.C., and Ramsaran, S : An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English,
ELBS, 1992.
Jones, Daniel : English Pronouncing Dictionary, ed. by Roach, Peter and Hartman,
James (15th Edition) O.U.P.
SECTION-C
Prescribed Texts
1.
Yule, George : The Study of Language. 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Chapters 8 to 11, 13, 19 and 21.
2.
Verma, S., and Krishnaswamy, N. Modern Linguistics-An Introduction, Oxford
University Press, 1989. Chapter : Section VII (Units 42-45)
SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS :
1.
Corder, Pit S. Introducing Applied Linguistics. Penguin, 1973.
2.
Sebeok, T.A. (ed.), Style in Language, MIT Press, 1961.
3.
Catford, J.C. : A Linguistic Theory of Translation. Cambridge University Press, 1965.
4.
Stageberg, N.C. : An Introductory English Grammar, 4th ed., Holt Saunders,
International Edns., 1981.
5.
Brown, G and Yule, G : Discourse Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 1983.
6.
Aitchison J : Language Change : Progress or Decay, 2nd ed., Cambridge University
Press, 1991.
7.
Holmes, J : An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Longman, 1992.
Testing
SECTION-A
There shall be two questions. Question No.1 shall have seven short-answer questions
from the two texts prescribed for this section. The candidates shall attempt any four in about
150 words each. Each answer shall carry 4 marks.
4x4=16
Question No. 2 shall be of descriptive kind, carrying 16 marks.
SECTION-B
Section B shall have two questions. Question No. 3 (a) shall pertain to phonetic
transcription. The examiner shall set twenty words and candidate shall be asked to transcribe
and mark primary stress on any sixteen words. Each correct answer shall carry half mark each.
This question shall be of eight marks.
In Question No. 3 (b) the examiner shall set 12 words for minimal pairs. The candidates
shall be asked to attempt any eight words carrying 08 marks.
Question No. 4 shall pertain to the prescribed chapters from the prescribed text. The
question shall be of descriptive nature and worth 16 marks.
SECTION-C
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There shall be three questions. Question No. 5 and 6 shall be set from the prescribed
chapters of the two prescribed texts. The questions shall be descriptive in nature. Each
question shall carry 16 marks.
Question No. 7 shall have short answer questions from the prescribed chapters of the
prescribed texts. The examiner shall set seven questions. The candidates shall attempt any four
in about 150 words each, each carrying 4 marks and thus a total of 16 marks.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Akmajian : An Introduction to Language and Communication, 4th ed., New York, Prentice Hall,
1996.
Bloomfield, L : Language, New York : Hort Rinehart and Winston, 1993.
Chomsky, N : Reflections on Language, New York : Pantheon, 1976.
Chomsky, N : Syntactic Structures.
Chomsky, N. & Halle, M. The Sound Pattern of English, New York, Harper & Row, 1991.
Crystal, D. : Linguistics, Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1971.
Davis, S. (ed.) : Pragmatics, A Reader.
Dineen, P.P. : An Introduction to General Linguistics, New York : Holt Rinehart and Winston,
1967.
Fox, B. : Discourse Structure and Anaphora.
Gleason, H.A. : An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics.
Halle, M. and Jakobson, R : Fundamentals of Language, The Hague : Mouton, 1956.
Halliday, M.A.K. : Cohesion in English.
Hockett, C.F. : A Course in Modern Linguistics, New York : Macmillan, 1958.
Hudson, R.A. : Sociolinguistics.
Laver, J. Principles of Phonetics, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Leech, G.A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry.
O’Connor., J.D. : Phonetics, London, Penguin, 1991.
O’Connor., J.D. : Better English Pronunciation, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Palmer : F.R. : Grammar.
Quirk, R.L.; Greenbaum, S : A University Grammar of English.
Robins, R.H. : General Linguistics, 3rd. ed., London : Longman, 1980.
Sapir, E. : Language.
Spitzer, L.: Linguistics and Literary History; Essays in Stylistics.
Widdowson, H.G. : Aspects of Language Teaching.
Yule, G. : Pragmatics.
PAPER IV : Option (ii) INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
Time Allowed : 3 Hrs.
Maximum Marks : 80
Pass Marks : 35%
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES
Students are required to attempt five questions in all, choosing one question each from
the first four sections A, B, C and D and eight questions from Section E.
Each question in Sections A, B, C & D will have a weightage of 12 marks. Section E, will
comprise of ten short-answer questions and the candidate will be required to attempt any eight,
having weightage of 32 marks, 4 marks for each short-answer question.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER SETTER
In Section A, the examiner shall set two questions relating to the literary history of the
period under study and will focus on the major trends/movements/genres/authors.
In Section B, the examiner shall set two questions, one each on any two of the three
prescribed authors/texts.
In Section C, the examiner shall set two questions, one on each of the two prescribed
authors/texts.
In Section D, the examiner shall set two questions, one on each of the two prescribed
authors/texts.
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In Section E, the examiner shall set ten short answer questions and the candidate will
attempt any eight in about 150 words each. These short answer questions shall be set in the
following manner :
2 short answer questions shall cover Section A.
4 short answer questions shall cover Section B with at least one short answer question
each on the three prescribed authors/texts.
4 short answer questions shall cover Sections C and D with one short answer question
on each of the prescribed texts/authors.
SECTION-A
Section A will cover the History of Indian Writing in English including
authors/texts/trends/movements/Critical developments during the period 1900-1980.
SECTION-B
Raja Rao
:
Kanthapura
Arundhati Roy
:
The God of Small Things
Girish Hariharan
:
In Times of Siege
SECTION-C
Nissim Ezekiel :
'Enterprise', 'Philosophy', 'Night of the Scorpion', 'Poet,
Lover, Birdwatcher', 'The Visitor', 'The Double Horror',
'Notingness', 'Transmutation', 'Lamentation', 'What
Frightens Me'. (From Nissim Ezekiel Collected Poems.
Second Edition. Oxford India Paperback, 2005)
Imtiaz Dharker :
'Purdah I', 'Purdah II', 'The Word', 'The Mask'. (From
Purdah and other Poems, New Delhi : Oxford University
Press, 1989).
'Honour Killing' 'Battle-line' 'They'll Say : She Must be
From Another Country', 'The djinn in Auntie', 'Lines of
Control', 'The Devil to the Poet', 'Greater Glory', 'Exorcism'
and 'Last House-full show'. (From I Speak for the Devil,
Bloodaxe, 2001; New Delhi : Penguin Books India, 2003)
SECTION-D
Mahesh Dattani
:
Tara
Susie Tharu and K. Lalitha
:
Introduction to Women Writing in India, Vol. II
Aijaz Ahmad
:
"Indian Literature : Notes Towards the
Definition of a Category"
SECTION-E
As mentioned in the Instructions.
SUGGESTED READINGS
1.
Indian Writing in English- K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar.
2.
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The Twice Born Fiction-Meenakshi Mukherji.
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Indian Poetry in English-Bruce King.