MANONMANIAM SUNDARANAR UNIVERSITY

TIRUNELVELI
PG - COURSES – AFFILIATED COLLEGES
Course Structure for M.A. ( English )
(Choice Based Credit System)
(With effect from the academic year 2017-2018 onwards)

Sem. Sub Subject status Subject Title Hrs/ Credits

‘Pr.No. week

III 13 Core – 9 Literary Theory and Criticism II 6 4

14 Core – 10 World Literature in English 6 4
Translation
15 Core – 11 Shakespeare 6 4
16 Core – 12 Research Methodology 4 4
17 Elective -5 Commonwealth Literature 4 3

18 Elective – 6 History of English Language and 4 3

Linguistics (Elective VI)
Sub Total 30 22
IV 19 Core – 13 Literature and Ecology 5 4
20 Core – 14 Diasporic Women’s Writing 5 4
21 Core – 15 Postcolonial Writings 4 4
22 Core – 16 English Language Teaching 4 4
23 Project Dissertation 12+ 8
Sub Total 30 24

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MSU / 2017-18 / PG –Colleges / M.A.(English) / Semester -III /Ppr.no.13 / Core -9

Literary Theory and Criticism –II

Hrs Credits
6 4

OBJECTIVES
1. To impart knowledge on new theories and the consequent association of ideas
generated thereof.
2. To make the students understand the concepts and applications of theories.
OUTCOME
This course deals with the various strategic points involved with a new
directionality in learning.

Unit – I
Mark Schorer - from Technique as Discovery
Roman Jakobson - “Two Aspects of Language and Two
Types of Aphasic Disturbances”
(20L)
Unit – II
Jonathan Culler - “Structuralism and Literature”
Roland Barthes - “The Death of the Author”
(20L)
Unit – III
Terry Eagleton -“Introduction” inLiterary Theory: An
Introduction
Stephen Greenblatt - “Resonance and Wonder”
(20L)
Unit – IV
Edward Said - “Introduction” in Orientalism
HomiBhabha - “Introduction” in Location of Culture
(15L)
Unit – V
Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar – excerpts from The Madwoman in the
Attic
Simone de Beauvoir - “Woman as the Other” from The Second Sex
(15L)

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Source Texts
1. S. Ramaswami& V.S. Sethuraman. The English Critical Tradition: An Anthology
of English Literary Criticism. Vol 2 Chennai: Trinity Press
2. Modern Literary Theory: a Reader Eds. Philip Rice & Patricia Waugh. London:
Bloomsbury
3. RohanSavarimuthu.Literary Theory and Criticism since 1930. Chennai: New
Century Book House.
4. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 2nd Edition. Eds. Cincent B.
Leitch et al. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Recommended Reading
1. Elaine Showalter. The New Feminist Criticism
2. Jonathan Culler. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
3. Peter Barry. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
4. Terry Eagleton. Literary Theory: An Introduction

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MSU / 2017-18 / PG –Colleges / M.A.(English) / Semester -III /Ppr.no.14 / Core - 10

World Literatures in English Translation

Hrs Credits
6 4

OBJECTIVES
1. To introduce the students to new areas of literature.
2. To make the students understand the cultural and the moral precepts of various
nations.
OUTCOME
This course deals with the various genres that demonstrate an overall view of
nations.

Unit – I Poetry

Virgil - The Aenied (Book I Lines 1 – 222)

(15L)
Unit – II Prose

St. Augustine - The Confessions (Book I Chapter 1 – 19)

(15L)
Unit – III Drama
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex

Bertolt Brecht - Mother Courage and Her Three Children

(20L)
Unit – IV Short Stories

Anton Chekov - The Lady with the dog

SaadatHasanManto - The Price of Freedom
Guy de Maupassant - The Diamond Necklace
Leo Tolstoy - God Sees the Truth but Waits
(20L)
Unit – V Fiction
Albert Camus - The Stranger
OrhanPamuk - My Name is Red
(20L)

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Shakespeare
Hrs Credits
6 4

OBJECTIVES
1. To introduce the students to the fundamentals of drama as enunciated by
Shakespeare.
2. To make the students understand the technical nuances of Elizabethan Drama.
OUTCOME
This course deals with the various plays that demonstrate an overall comprehension
of the Elizabethan Age.

Unit – I
Midsummer Night’s Dream
(18L)
Unit – II
Hamlet
(18L)
Unit – III
Measure for Measure
(18L)
Unit – IV
Antony and Cleopatra
(18L)
Unit – V
Quartos and Folios
Textual Criticism
Shakespearean Criticism
Historical Plays
Narrative Poems
Reference: (18L)
A.C. Bradley – Shakespearean Tragedy
G. Wilson Knight – The Wheel of Fire , The Imperial Theme
A.W. Pollard – Shakespeare Folios and Quartos
Britannica Encyclopaedia on Shakespeare

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Research Methodology--
Hrs Credits

4 4

OBJECTIVES
1. To introduce the students to the research methodology associated with future
courses in literature.
2. To make the students understand the methodology of research.
OUTCOME
This course deals with the various strategies involved in the preparation of
dissertation/thesis/journal papers.

Unit – I
Research and Writing
Plagiarism and Academic Integrity
(12L)
Unit – II

The Mechanics of Writing

(12L)
Unit – III
The Format of the Research Paper
Abbreviations
(12L)
Unit – IV
Documentation: Preparing the list of Works Cited
(12L)
Unit – V Novel

Documentation: Citing Sources in the text

(12L)

Reference:

MLA Hand Book for Writers of Research Papers – 8thEdition

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MSU / 2017-18 / PG –Colleges / M.A.(English) / Semester -III /Ppr.no.17 / Elective - 5

Commonwealth Literature
Hrs Credits

4 3

OBJECTIVES
1. To impart the knowledge of colonial expansions enacted by the British regime.
2. To make the students understand the East-West cultural conflicts.
OUTCOME
This course deals with the literatures of various countries as having been impacted
upon by colonialism.

Unit – I Poetry

Derek Walcott - “Ruins of a Great House”

“A Far Cry from Africa”
Mervyn Morris - “Judas”
Razia Khan - “My Daughter’s Boyfriend”
Judith Wright - “The Harp and the King”
(12L)
Unit – II Drama

George Ryga - Indian

(12L)
Unit – III Fiction

BapsiSidhwa - Ice Candy Man

(12L)
Unit – IV Fiction

Margaret Laurence - Diviners

(12L)
Unit – VNon-fiction

Arundhati Roy- Walking with Comrades

(12L)

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MSU / 2017-18 / PG –Colleges / M.A.(English) / Semester -III /Ppr.no.18 / Elective - 6

History of English Language and Linguistics

Hrs Credits
4 3
OBJECTIVES
1. To impart the knowledge of the science of language.
2. To make the students understand the evolution of the English language.
OUTCOME
This course deals with the impact factors of ancient languages.

Unit – I English Language

Place of English in the Indo-European Family of Languages
Old English, Middle English, Modern English, Global English,
Grimm’s Law, Verner’s Law
(12L)
Unit – II Influences

Latin, French, Greek, Scandinavian

(12L)
Unit – III Linguistics

What is Linguistics?
Modern Linguistics: A Historical Survey
(12L)
Unit – IV
I C Analysis
TG Grammar
(12L)
Unit – V Phonetics

Phonetics: Classification of English Vowels and Consonants

Stress and Intonation
Transcription
(12L)

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Reference:
F.T. Wood – An Outline History of English Language
Phonetics: Macmillan Publication
Peter Roach – English Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge University Press.
LalithaRamamoorthy – A History of English Language and Elements
Baugh, A.C. A History of the English Language (1973)
George Yule. The Study of Language Fifth Edition

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MSU / 2017-18 / PG –Colleges / M.A.(English) / Semester -IV /Ppr.no.19 / Core - 13

Literature and Ecology

Hrs Credits
5 4

OBJECTIVES
1. To direct the students into a new focus of literature.
2. To make the students understand the relationship of literature with issues of nature.
OUTCOME
This course deals with nature issues and the writers’ concern for Nature.

Unit – I Introduction
Ecology, Literature and Language
Peter Barry – Beginning Theory3rd Edition (Chapter 13 “Eco Criticism”)
(15L)
Unit – II Poetry
S.T. Coleridge - To Nature
Emily Dickinson - Summer Shower
Toru Dutt - Our Casuarina Tree
MuhammedIqbal - A Mountain and a Squirrel
(15L)
Unit – III Prose
Terry Tempest William - Refugee: An Unnatural History of Family
and Place
Margaret Atwood - Survival – Chapter I Nature the Monster
(15L)
Unit – IV Fiction
AmitavGhosh - The Hungry Tide
Margaret Atwood - Surfacing
(15L)
Unit – V Drama
William Shakespeare - As You Like It
(15L)

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Reference:
1. The Eco Criticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology by Harold
Fromm and CheryllGlotfelty
2. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau Nature Writing and the
Formation of American Culture by Lawrence Buell
3. Bloomsbury by N. Krishnaswamy

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Diasporic Women’s Writing

Hrs Credits
5 4
OBJECTIVES
1. To impart the knowledge of the feminine/feminist perceptions of life.
2. To make the students understand the universal feminine issues.
OUTCOME
This course deals with the women writers of various countries whose writings are
expressions of the feminine dilemma.

Unit I Poetry
ChitraBanerjee Divakaruni - Cutting the Sun
My Mother Combs My Hair
DebjaniChatterjee - All Whom I Welcome Leave
Just Middling
(15L)
Unit II Prose
ChimamandaNgoziAdichie - We Should All Be Feminists
MeenaAlexander - MigrantPoetics(from
Poetics of Dislocation)
(15L)
Unit III Drama
Uma Parameshwaran - Sons Must Die
Julia Cho - 99 Histories
(15L)
Unit IV Fiction
Gita Hariharan - Fugitive Histories
JhumpaLahiri - The Lowland
(15L)
Unit V Fiction
ZadieSmith - White Devil
MeeraSyal - Anita and Me
(15L)

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Reference:

MeenaAlexnader,Poetics of Dislocation ,University of Michigan Press,2009.

Esther Kim Lee(Editor), Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the
Americas, Duke of University Press,2012.
ChimamandaNgoziAdichie, We Should All BeFeminists, Vintage Books 2012.
Joel Kurotti, Writing Imagined Diasporas: South Asian Women Reshaping North
American Idnentity, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 2007.
MukeshYadev, The Panorama of South-Asian Diaspora Literature, Yking Press,
Jaipur, 2012.
Arvind Kumar Jha and Ram Kumar Naik, Indian Diaspora Literature in English, Raj
Publication, New Delhi, 2014.
Uma Parameshwaran, Sons Must Die and Other Plays, (South Asian and Canadian
Literature Series), Prestige, New Delhi 1998.

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Postcolonial Writings
Hrs Credits
4 4

OBJECTIVES
1. To impart the knowledge of colonial expansions enacted by the British regime.
2. To make the students understand the East-West cultural conflicts.
OUTCOME
This course deals with the literatures of various countries as having been impacted
upon by colonialism.

Unit I -- Poetry
Gabriel Okara - “Once Upon a Time”
ArunKolhatkar - “Woman”
Kamala Wjratne -“To a Student”
(12L)
Unit II --Prose
A.K Ramanujan - “ Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?”
(An Informal Essay in The Collected Essays of A.K.Ramanujan)
Chinua Achebe - Thoughts on the African Novel
(12L)
Unit III-- Drama
GirishKarnard - Tughlaq
Wole Soyinka - Lion and the Jewel
(12L)
Unit IV --Fiction
J. M Coetze - Disgrace
Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children
(12L)
Unit V-- Fiction
Patrick White - The Tree of Man
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
(12L)

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MSU / 2017-18 / PG –Colleges / M.A.(English) / Semester -IV /Ppr.no.22 / Core – 16

English Language Teaching –

Hrs Credits
4 4

OBJECTIVES
1. To make the students aware of the new trends in English Language Teaching.
2. To make the students understand the new communicative patterns.
OUTCOME
This course deals with various skills associated with English Language Teaching.

Unit I -- Listening Skills

 Introduction and Definition

 Listening Process
 Listening in Language Teaching
 Teaching Listening
(12L)

Unit II-- Speaking Skills

 Introduction and Definition

 Direct Method
 Situational Method
 Factors affecting Learners’ Speaking
(i) Cognitive Factors
(ii) Linguistic Factors
(iii) Affective Factors

(12L)

Unit III -- Reading Skills

 Introduction and Definition

 Silent and Loud Reading
 Learning Structures
 Pronunciation
(12L)

Unit IV-- Writing Skills

 Introduction and Definition

 Grammatical Skills

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(i) Linkers
(ii) Vocabulary
 Coherence and Cohesion
 Paragraph Writing
(12L)

Unit V-- Testing

 Introduction and Definition

 Features of a Good Test
 Types of Tests

(i) Achievement Test

(ii) Proficiency Test
(iii) Diagnostic Test
(iv) Aptitude Test
(12L)

Textbooks

1. Ray Mackay, ABasic Introduction to English Language Teaching.

2. Roger Hawkey, A Modular Approach to English Language Skills.
3. G.Ramabadracharyulu et al. ,Methods of Teaching English Language.

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MSU / 2017-18 / PG –Colleges / M.A.(English) / Semester -IV /Ppr.no.23 / Project

Dissertation Writing and Viva-Voce

Hr Credits
12+ 8

OBJECTIVES
1. To make the students apply the strategies of research so that the project work might
evolve as an illustration of all research methodologies.
2. To help the students gain a practical knowledge of research.
OUTCOME
This project helps the students with a practical knowledge and understanding of
literature.

The students are expected to submit a Dissertation of about 50 pages on preferably a

recent writer not included in the current syllabi.
The dissertation will be evaluated on the basis of the students’ understanding of the
topic, their knowledge of the fundamental aspects of research and their ability to document
and present their work in accordance with the concepts of research methodology.

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