V.B.

S Purvanchal University, Jaunpur

Syllabus
M.A.-English Literature
(Effective from the session 2014-15)
M.A.-1
Sr. Name of the Theoretical /Practical Maximum Duration
Paper Viva-voce/Assignment Marks (hour)
1 English Literature: Chaucer Theoretical 100 3.00
to 1660
2 English Literature: Theoretical 100 3.00
1660-1798
3 English Literature: Theoretical 100 3.00
1798-1914
4 English Literature: Theoretical 100 3.00
1914-2000
Total Marks= 400

M.A-2
Sr. Name of the Theoretical/Practical Maximum Duration
Paper Viva-voce/Assignment Marks (hour)
5 Structure of Modern English Theoretical 100 3.00
6 Critical Theory Theoretical 100 3.00
7 Shakespeare Theoretical 100 3.00
8 Literary and Social History of Theoretical 100 3.00
England
9 Optional Theoretical 100 3.00
(Select anyone of the f0llowing
groups)
Group-A
American Literature
Group-B
Indian Writing in English
Group-C
English Language Teaching
Group-D
Study of a Genre: Fiction

10 Viva-voce Viva-voce 100

Total Marks = 600

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  The question paper shall be divided into three sections.
Section-A: One question consisting of ten parts to be answered in about 50 words each.
(10×2=20 marks)
Section-B: Five short answer questions including at least two passages for explanation with
internal choice. Each question shall be answered in about 200 words.
(5×10=50 marks)
Section-C: This section will have five long answer questions. Candidates will have to answer
any two of them in about 500 words each. (2×15=30 marks)

M.A.-1
English Literature
Note: There shall be four papers in M.A-1 (English) each carrying 100 marks. The authors
marked with asterisk are meant for detailed study.
Paper-I
English Literature: Chaucer to 1660
M.M.: 100 Duration:-3.00 hours
 Geoffrey Chaucer* - The Prologue
 Edmund Spenser - Faerie Queene, Book I
 John Donne* - The Canonization, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
 Andrew Marvell* - To His Coy Mistress
 William Shakespeare* - Sonnets XVIII, XXIX, XXX, LV, LXIII
 Ben Johnson - The Alchemist
 Christopher Marlowe* - Doctor Faustus
 John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi
 Francis Bacon* - Of Truth, Of Great Place, Of Delays, Of Empire, Of Friendship

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 M.A.-1
English Literature
Paper-II
English Literature: 1660-1789
M.M.: 100 Duration:-3.00 hours
 John Dryden* - Absalom and Achitophel
 Alexander Pope* - The Rape of the Lock
 Thomas Gray* - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
 Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews
 Laurence Sterne - Tristramn Shandy
 William Congreve* - The Way of the World
 R. B. Sheridan* - The School for Scandal
 Joseph Addison and Richard Steele* - The Spectator’s Account of Himself, Popular
Superstitions, Remarks on the English by Indian Kings, Sir Roger at the Assizes, The
Coverley Household
M.A.-1
English Literature
Paper-III
English Literature : 1789-1914
M.M.: 100 Duration:-3.00 hours

 William Wordsworth* - Tintern Abbey, Ode on the Intimations of Immortality

 P.B. Shelley* - Adonais
 John Keats* - Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Psyche, Ode to Melancholy
 Charles Lamb*- Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago, The Old and New
Schoolmaster, A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People
 Lord Alfred Tennyson*- Morted’ Arthur, The Lady of Shallot
 Matthew Arnold - The Scholar Gypsy
 Jane Austen - Emma
 Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
 Thomas Hardy - Tess of D’Urbervilles
 G.M. Hopkins* - The Carrion Comfort, The Sea And the Skylark

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 M.A.-1
English Literature
Paper-IV
English Literature : 1914-2000
M.M.: 100 Duration:-3.00 hours
 W.B. Yeats* - Coole Park and Balylee, Sailing to Byzantium, Byzantium
 T.S. Eliot* - The Waste Land
 W.H. Auden* - In Memory of W. B. Yeats, Song for the New Year, Witnesses
 Philip Larkin* - Whistsun Weddings
 Ted Hughes* - Wodwo, The Jaguar
 D. H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
 Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory
 James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Youngman
 Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot

M.A.-2
English Literature
Paper-I
Structure of Modern English
M.M.: 100 Duration:-3.00 hours
 Part-I
English Grammar - Word classes and their functions. Grammatical relation in sentences
and phrases: Subject, Object, Indirect Object etc. Subject-predicate, head-modifier etc. Basic
sentence patterns in ‘Kernel Sentences’ (i.e. simple sentences). Main verb and auxiliaries.
Modification: adjective and adjective phrases, adverbs and adverb phrases. Embedding:
Clauses in Subject/Object/ Prepositional Object Position, Clauses with a modifier function
etc. Relations between structures: 1- active-passive, 2- dative shift (i.e. the relation between
ditransitive complementation and the V-NP-to-NP Structure), 3- particle movement (i.e.
transitive phrasal verbs with the particle following the direct object), 4- alternation of
tensed and infinitival complements, 5- extraposition from ‘It’(i.e. extraposition of clausal
subject or clausal object ). Movement to clause initial position : (i) question-formation,
(ii) relativization, (iii) topicalization (thematic fronting). Rules of ellipsis: verb phrase

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 deletion (i.e. ellipsis of the predication), gapping (i.e. ellipsis of the verb) conjunction
reduction etc. Rules of ‘Focus’: Clefts, Pseudo-Clefts etc.
 Part-II
Phonetics and Spoken English - The use of spoken English in India. The need for a widely
intelligible and generally acceptable form of spoken English. Speech mechanism; organs of
speech; respiratory system; phonatory system and articulatory system. Description and
classification of speech sounds: Description and classification of vowel and consonant.
Phoneme, Syllable. Various accents of English: Native and non-native accents of English,
consonants of English, consonant-clusters. Word-accent. Accent and rhythm in connected
speech and rhythm in verse.

M.A.-2
English Literature
Paper-II
Critical Theory
M.M.: 100 Duration:-3.00 hours
 Aristotle – Poetics
 John Dryden - An Essay of Dramatic Poesie
 William Wordsworth- Preface to Lyrical Ballads
 S.T. Coleridge - Biographia Literaria, Chapters XIII,XVII& XVIII
 Matthew Arnold - The Study of Poetry
 T.S. Eliot- Tradition and the Individual Talent, Hamlet and His Problems, Metaphysical
Poets
 I.A. Richards - Principles of Literary Criticism, Chapter-I
 J.C. Ranson – Poetry : A Note on Ontology
 Ferdinand de Sassure - Nature of the Linguistic Sign
 Georg Lukacs - The Ideology of Modernism
 Jacques Derrida - Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences
 Elaine Showalter - Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness
 Northrop Fry - The Archetypes of Literature
 Edward Said - Crisis in Orientalism (from Orientalism)

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 M.A.-2
English Literature
Paper-III
Shakespeare
M.M.: 100 Duration:-3.00 hours
 Henry IV Part I*
 Hamlet*
 The Tempest*
 As you like it
 All’s Well That Ends Well
 Antony and Cleopatra*

 Shakespeare Criticism from 18th to 20th century with special reference to the following
critics:
Samuel Johnson, S.T. Coleridge, A.C. Bradley, G. Wilson Knight, H. Granville Barker,
E. M. W. Tillyard, H.B. Charlton

M.A.-2
English Literature
Paper-IV
Literary and Social History of England
(From the Age of Chaucer to the Present Day)
M.M.: 100 Duration:-3.00 hours
 Factual questions on authors and their works.
 Social history of various ages
 Literary characteristics of various periods
 Study of literary trends
 Detailed study of individual authors.

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 M.A.-2
English Literature
Paper-V
Optional Group-A
American Literature

M.M.: 100 Duration:-3.00 hours

 R.W. Emerson*- The American Scholar; Self-Reliance; The Over-soul
 H.D. Thoreau - Civil Disobedience; When I Lived and What I Lived (from Walden)
 Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
 Edger Alan Poe*- The Fall of the House of Usher; The Poetic Principle
 Walt Whitman*- Song of Myself; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry; When Lilacs Last in the
Dooryard Bloomed
 Mark Twain- Huckleburry Finn
 William Faulkner- Light in August
 Ernest Hemingway- A Farewell to Arms
 Tennesse William- The Glass Menagerie
 Arthur Miller- Death of a Salesman
 Emily Dickinson*- After Great Pain A Formal Feeling comes; I Heard A Fly Buzz When
I Died; The Soul Selects Her Own Society, I Felt A Funeral in My Brain
 Wallace Stevens*- The Emperor of Ice-cream; Sunday Morning

Optional- Group-B
Indian Writing in English
M.M.: 100 Duration:-3.00 hours
 Aurobrindo* - Savitri, Book I
 R.N. Tagore* - Gitanjali
 Nissim Ezekiel*- Case Study; Virginal; Poet, Lover, Bird- Watcher; Women Observed; The
Railway clerk
 A.K. Ramanujan* - A River; Obituary; Anxiety; Routine Day Sonnet; The Striders; Black
Hen
 Kamala Das* - An Introduction; The Dance of the Eunuchs; The Freaks; In Love; The
Looking Glass
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  Raja Rao -The Serpent and the Rope
 R.K. Narayan - The Guide
 R.P. Jhabvala - Heat and Dust
 Anita Desai - The Fire on the Mountain
 Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children
 Girish Karnad*- Hayavadana
 J.L. Nehru - Autobiography (Chapters- 45, 47&51)
 S. Radhakrishnan - East and West in Religion (Lectures II &V)

Optional Group-C
English Language Teaching
M.M.: 100 Duration:-3.00 hours
 Grammar - Translation Method
 Oral approach and Situational Language Teaching
 Audio - Lingual Method
 Communicative Language Teaching
 Total Physical Response
 The Silent Way
 Community Language Teaching
 The Natural Approach
 Suggestopedia
 Techniques of teaching Language skills
 Teaching Aids

Optional Group-D
Study of a Genre: Fiction
M.M.: 100 Duration:-3.00 hours
 Daniel Defoe- Moll Flanders
 John Bunyan - The Pilgrim’s Progress
 W.M. Thackeray - The Vanity Fair
 Emile Bronte - Wuthering Heights
 Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment

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  Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
 Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
 Maxim Gorky - Mother
 V.S. Naipaul - A House for Mr. Biswas
 Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

M.A.-2
English Literature
Paper-VI
Viva-voce
M.M. : 100

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