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Welcome to the page dedicated to the texts I studied in the Master of Arts curriculum during the 2019-21 academic year. All the book titles are classified by semester. Each semester carried four papers, which covered almost all the aspects of English studies.
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M.A. Semester 1 - Texts
Paper 1: Renaissance Literature
Unit 1: Hamlet: William Shakespeare (1603-04)
Unit 2: Doctor Faustus: Christopher Marlowe (1592)
Unit 3: The Metaphysical Poetry: John Donne (1572-1631): Death be not Proud, Sweetest Love, The Dream, The Flea, The Ecstasy
Unit 4: Paradise Lost Book IX: John Milton (1667) The History of the Renaissance Age / Background reading – The Age of Renaissance
Paper 2: Neo-Classical Literature
Unit 1: Gulliver’s Travels: Swift (1726)
Unit 2: Robinson Crusoe: Defoe (1719)
Unit 3: Tom Jones: Henry Fielding (1749)
Unit 4: The Anti-sentimental Comedy: Sheridan and Goldsmith | The History of the Age / Background Reading
Paper 3: Literary Theory & Criticism
Unit 1: Poetics: Aristotle
Unit 2: Essay on Dramatic Poesy: Dryden
Unit 3: Preface: Wordsworth Biographia Literaria Ch. 14: Coleridge
Unit 4: A Glossary of Selected Literary Terms: Criticism, Practical Criticism / applied criticism, Impressionistic, Criticism, Mimetic Criticism, Pragmatic Criticism, Expressive Criticism, Objective Criticism, Deus Ex Machina, Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Song/Melody, Spectacle, Chorus, Tragedy, Three Unities, Tragic Hero, Hamartia, Catharsis
Paper 4: Indian Writing in English - 1
Unit 1: The Fakeer of Jungheera: Henry Derozio (1828)
Unit 2: Kanthapura – Raja Rao (1938)
Unit 3: The Purpose: T.P. Kailasam (1944)
Unit 4: Renaissance in India – Sri Aurobindo (1918) The Background Reading – KRS Iyengar’s Indian Writing in English
M.A. Semester 2 - Texts
Paper 5: Romantic Literature
Unit 1: Grecian Urn, Nightingale, Psyche, Autumn: John Keats (1810-1821)
Unit 2: Frankenstein: Mary Shelly (1818)
Unit 3: Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen (1811)
Unit 4: Wordsworth and Coleridge: A study of Poets (1798-1850) | The History of the Age / Background Reading
Paper 6: Victorian Literature
Unit 1: Oliver Twist: Charles Dickens (1838)
Unit 2: Middle March: George Eliot (1871-72)
Unit 3: Culture and Anarchy: Mathew Arnold (1867-68)
Unit 4: Tennyson and Browning: A Study of Poets (1850-1890) | The History of the Age / Background Reading
Paper 7: Literary Theory & Criticism: The 20th Century Western & Indian Poetics - 2
Unit 1: New Criticism: T.S. Eliot’s Tradition & Individual Talent, I.A. Richards’s A
Figurative Language
Unit 2: A New Computer-assisted Literary Criticism? Raymond G. Siemens & Archetypal Criticism: Northrop Frye
Unit 3: Structuralism and Post-Structuralism – Gerard Genette’s Structuralism and
Literary Criticism & Derrida’s Structure, Sign & Play
Unit 4: Indian Poetics: Rasa Theory & Natya Shastra, Alamkara School – Bhamaha,
Udbhata & Rudrata, Riti School – Dandin and Vamana, Vakrokti School –
Kuntaka, Dhavani School – Ananda Vardhan, Auchitya School
A Glossary of Selected Literary Terms: Modernism, Postmodernism, New Criticism, Diaspora, Postcolonial, Feminist Criticism, Psychoanalytical Criticism, New Historicism, Eco-Criticism, Queer Theory, Structuralism
Paper 8 C: The Cultural Studies
Unit 1: Cultural Studies: What is Cultural Studies | British Cultural Materialism | New Historicism
Unit 2: Types of Cultural Studies:
American Multiculturalism
Postmodernism and Popular Culture
Postcolonial Studies
Limitations of Cultural Studies
Unit 3: Cultural Studies in Practice: Study of Hamlet | Study of ‘To His Coy Mistress’
Unit 4: Cultural Studies in Practice: Study of Frankenstein | Hawthorne and his market
M.A. Semester 3 - Texts
Paper 9: The Modernist English Literature
Unit 1: The Waste Land: T.S. Eliot (1922)
Unit 2: To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf (1927)
Unit 3: Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett (1949)
Unit 4: The Birthday Party: Harold Pinter (1957)
The History of the Age / Background Reading – A C Ward’s ‘Twentieth Century Literature 1901-1940
Paper 10: American Literature
Unit 1: Stopping by Woods, Fire & Ice, The Gift Outright, Design, Mending Wall, Home Burial: Robert Frost (1874-1963)
The Fall of the House of Usher, The Purloined Letter, The Gold Bug, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado: E.A. Poe (1809-1849)
Unit 2: The Scarlet Letter: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
Unit 3: The Old Man and the Sea: Earnest Hemingway (1952)
Unit 4: Mourning Becomes Electra: Eugene O’Neill (1931)
Paper 11: The Post-Colonial Literature
Unit 1: Black Skin, White Mask: Frantz Fanon (1952)
Unit 2: Imaginary Homelands: Salman Rushdie (1981-91)
Unit 3: A Tempest: AimeCesaire (1969) Tr. Richard Miller
Unit 4: Orientalism: Edward Said (1977): Introduction
A background reading from Ania Loomba’s colonialism/postcolonialism
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin’s The Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge 2007)
Paper 12: English Language Teaching-1
Unit 1: The role of English in India
Unit 2: The Nature of Second language acquisition and learning.The nature of language teaching
Unit 3: Various Approaches (structural, situational, functional, communicative, etc.)
Unit 4: Teaching of language skills
M.A. Semester 4 - Texts
Paper 13: The New Literatures
Unit 1: Chetan Bhagat: One night @ the Call Centre (2005) | J.K Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)
Unit 2: Julian Barnes: The Sense of an Ending (2011)
Unit 3: Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008)
Unit 4: Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code, Doubleday (USA) and Bantam (UK), 2003
Paper 14: The African Literature
Unit 1: Wole Soyinka’s The Swamp Dweller (1958)
Unit 2: Ngugi WaThiongo, A Grain of Wheat(1987). Select Poems: Senghor’s New York; Gabriel Okara’s Once Upon a Time, Were I to Choose, Mystic Drum; Chinua Achebe’s Refugee Mother &
Child; Wole Soyinka’s Telephone Conversation & Dedication. (From: Anthology of Commonwealth Literature Ed. C. D. Narasimhaiah)
Unit 3: Coetzee, J M., Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
Unit 4: Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart (1958)
Paper 15: Mass Communication and Media Studies
Unit 1: Meaning of Mass Media and its Importance | Journalism
Unit 2: Television, Radio, E-media
Unit 3: Cinema
Unit 4: Advertising
Paper 16: English Language Teaching - 2
Unit 1: The teaching of language through literature
Unit 2: Language Testing and Evaluation
Unit 3: CALL – Computer-Assisted Language Learning | Web Tools and ELT
Unit 4: Language Lab and ELT
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