KISAN POST GRADUATE COLLEGE, BAHRAICH (UP) 271801

(An Autonomous College)

Proposed Structure of syllabus for the

PROGRAM: M.A.

SUBJECT: English

Semester First

Core Paper I: Chaucer to Shakespeare

Unit – 1 (Prose)

Thomas Malory- Morte' D Arthur

Francis Bacon - Of Ambition*, Of Marriage and Single Life*, Of Great Place*.

Unit –2 (Poetry)

Geoffrey Chaucer: The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales*

Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene (Book I Canto I)

Unit- 3 (Elizabethan Comedy)

William Shakespeare – The Tempest*

Ben Jonson: The Alchemist

Unit –4

(Elizabethan Tragedy)

William Shakespeare: Hamlet*

 Marlowe: Doctor Faustus

Core Paper II: Donne to Fielding

Contents -
Unit -1 (Prose)
Joseph Addison: Aim Of Spectator*

Richard Steele: On Judicious Flattery*

Unit –2 (Poetry)

John Donne: A Valediction Forbidding Mourning*, The Canonization*

John Milton: Paradise Lost Book –I*

Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock*

Unit-3 (Drama)

John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi *

William Congreve: The Way of the World*

Unit- 4 (Fiction)

Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders

Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews

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Core Paper III: Wordsworth to Hardy

Contents-

Unit- 1 (Prose)
 Charles Lamb: A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behavior of Married People*

Thomas Carlyle: Heroes and Hero Worship: Chapter - The Hero as Poet

Unit- 2 (Poetry)

William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey *

S.T. Coleridge: Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner*

Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn*

Shelley: Ode to the West Wind*

Tennyson: The Lotus Eaters*

Browning: The Last Ride Together*

Arnold: The Rugby Chapel*

Unit - 3 (Fiction)

.Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility

Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urberville

Unit – 4 Drama

Oscar Wilde – The importance of Being Earnest

G.B. Shaw- Candida*

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Elective Papers (Paper IV for Semester

First)

Select Anyone:

A-: Introduction to Linguistics –

Unit 1.
1.(a) Key properties of Language (b) Language varieties

Unit 2.
(a) Major concerns of Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics (b) Historical approach,
Descriptive approach (c) Pragmatics
Unit 3.
Major concepts in Linguistics: (a) Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic axes (b) Constituent
Structure (c) Transformations and Deep Structure
Unit 4.
Stylistics, its methods and limitations.

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B-: William Shakespeare-
Unit –1 Sonnets* – 03, 18, 50, 100, 129.

Unit -2 Tragedy and History – King Lear*, King Henry the IVth part 1.

Unit-3 Comedy- Twelfth Night*, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream

Unit-4 Criticism – Samuel Johnson- preface to Shakespeare, A.C. Bradley- Shakespearean

Tragedy.

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Elective –2nd (Paper Vth for semester First)-

Select anyone-

A-Project Presentation (Assignment Writing)

B- Study Tour/ Field Visit

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Semester- Second
Core Paper I: 20th Century British Literature

Contents:

Unit I Prose
 Jean Paul Sartre: Existentialism and Human Emotions: Chapter -
Existentialism

Unit II Poetry

W. B. Yeats: Byzantium*

T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land*

Dylan Thomas: Do not go gentle into that

good night*

Ted Hughes: Hawk Roosting*

Seamus Heaney: Casualty*

Unit III Fiction

D.H. Lawrence- Women in Love

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

Unit IV Drama

Samuel Beckett- Waiting for Godot*

Harold Pinter- The Home coming

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Core Paper II: Literary Criticism

Contents -

Unit I
 Anandavardhana: ―Dhwani: Structure of Poetic Meaning‖ (from Dhvanya Loka‖).
Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation. Ed. G. N. Devy. Orient Longman,
2002. (Page 31-40).

Kuntaka: ―Language of Poetry and Metaphor‖ (from Vakrokti-Jivita). Indian Literary

Criticism: Theory and Interpretation. Ed. G. N. Devy. Orient Longman, 2002. (Page 47-
60).

Unit II

Aristotle: The Poetics, Ed & trans. Anthony Kenny. Oxford University Press, 2013.

Horace- Ars Poetics

Unit III

Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry ed. Forrest G Robinson (Macmillan, 1985).

John Dryden: An Essay on Dramatic Poesy

Unit IV

William WordsWorth – Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

Matthew Arnold: ―The Study of Poetry

Core Paper III: Women and Literature -

Unit- 1 poetry
Sylvia Plath: Lady Lazarus *

Mamta Kalia: Tribute to Papa *

Suniti Namjoshi: The Unicorn*

Maya Angelou: Phenomenal Woman *

Unit- II Prose
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
Simone de Beauvoir: Introduction to The Second Sex

Unit- III Drama

Poilie Sen Gupta - Mangalam

 Unit- IV
Bharati Mukherjee: Jasmine
Anita Desai: Fire on the Mountain
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Elective Papers (Paper IV for Semester Second)

Select Anyone:

A-: Popular European Literature

Content -

Unit- 1 Indian Popular Literature

Andher Nagri – Bhartendu Harishchandra

Unit-2 French Popular Literature

Gustav Flaubert: Madam Bovary

Unit- 3 Russian Popular Literature
Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
Unit –4 German Popular Literature
Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis

OR
B-: Indian Literature in Translation –
Unit-1
V Indira Bhavani : Avatars
Ali Sardar Jafri : Morsel
Unit-2
Paresh Chandra Raut : Snake
Tagore : Homecoming;
Unit-3
Shrilal Shukla : Rag Darbari
Tendulkar : Ghasiram Kotwal
Unit-4
Ananthamurthy : Samskara
Translation- Theory and Practice

Elective –2nd (Paper Vth for semester Second)-

Select anyone-

A-Project Presentation (Assignment Writing)

B- Study Tour/ Field Visit

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