COURSE STRUCTURE

FIRST SEMESTER
Course No. Title of the Paper
MAE-101 Introductionto Languageand Linguistics (Core)
MAE-102 English Drama (Core)
MAE-103 English Poetry (Core)
MAE-104 Literature and Culture (Elective)
MAE-105 American Literature- I (Elective)
MAE-106 Literary Theory and Criticism-I (Elective)_
MAE-107 Literature (Open Elective Course)
SECONDSEMESTER
MAE-201 English Language Teaching/ELT (Core)
MAE-202 Introduction to Translation Studies (Core)
MAE-203 Postcolonial Studies (Core)
MAE-204 Literaturce and Gender (Elective
MAE-205 American Literature-I1 (Elective
MAE-206 Literary Theory and Criticism-1l(Elective)
THIRD SEMESTER
MAE-3011 Indian Writingin English (Corc)
MAE-302 Research Methodology (Core)_
MAE-303 English Fiction (Core)
MAE-304 Semantics and Lexicography (Elective)
MAE-305 American Literature-IlI (Elective)
MAE-306 Literary Theory and Criticism-II (Elective)
FOURTH SEMESTER
MAE-401 Introduction to Academic Writing (Core)
MAE402 Seminar (Corc)_
MAE-403 Literature in Translation (Core)_
MAE-404 The Structure of Modern English (Elective)
MAE-405 American Literature-IV(Elective)
MAE-406 Literary Theory and Criticism-IV(Elective)
MAE-407 Dissertation (Open Elcetire) C
 SCHEME OF EXAMINATION

At the end of each semester, the performance of the students will be evaluated on the written
examination and internal assessment for each course during the semester. Maximum marks for
each paper will be 70. The internal assessment for each course will be for 30 marks.

Note: The Department may change the prescribed materials or reference books, publications and
other bibliographical details depending upon the availability and in the light of new publications.

MASTER OF ARTS (ENGLISH)

SEMESTERI

Marks 70 (External) + 30 (Internal) =100 (each paper) Duration: 50-60 Hrs.

CORE COURSES:
MAE- 101: INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (R)
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
T o make the students able to learn the new approaches to the study of language
To impart the knowledge of linguistic perspective to the students of English.
To understand and analyze both the social and formal aspects of language in
general and English in particular.
To make the students able to learn the basic tools essential for a systematic study of
an illustrative
language. While the course will include, under various topies,
discussion of the specific features of English language, the multilingual context of
the classroom will also be kept in mind.

Human and animal

Unit-I, Language- Design of Language; Language and Communication;
communication; Origin and development of Language; Characteristic features of Language; Key
Properties of Language; Language families in India; Genetic, Typological and Areal
classification of language; Types of Language change; Language Structure.

and
Unit-II, The concept of Linguistic sign; Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relation; langue
and substance.
parole; competence and performance; form
Unit-I1I, Linguistics- Definition and Scope of Linguistics; The main branches of Linguistics
Historical Linguistics,
Descriptive Linguistics; Comparative and Contrastive Linguistics: Psycholinguistics:
Sociolinguistics; Ethno linguistics; Anthropological Linguistics
Unit-IV. Applied Linguistics- Definitions and Scope; Foreign Language Leaming & Teaching:
Translation; Multilingualism; Language Policy & Planning: Lexicography.

Suggested Reading:
 ) Akmajian, A., R.A. Farmor, & R.M. Harnish (eds.). Linguistics: An niroduction to
Language and Communication, Cambridge, Massaclhuscts: The MIT Press, 2001.
2Asher.R.(cd), 1994. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Elsevier-Pargamon. 1994.
3) Bauer L. The Linguistics Student's andbook. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
4) James Simpson. 7he Routledge Hanlbook of Applied Linguistics, New York: Routledge.
2011.
S) Radhey L. Varshney. An ntroductory Text Book of Linguistics and Phonetics, Bareilly:
Students Store, Suncet Printers, 1995.
6) Lecch Svartvik, Quirk and Greenbaum. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English
Language. London: Longman, 1988.
7) Quirk and Greenbaum. University Grammar of English, London: Longman.
8) Allen, J.P.B. and Corder, S.Pit (eds.), Readings for Applied Linguistics, London: OUP,
1973.
9) .
*** Edinburgh Course in Applied Linguistics, Vol. 14, London: OUP, 1973-1977.
10) Palmer, F. Grammar, Cambridge: CUP, 1983.
Lyon. Language and Linguistics, Cambridge: CUP.
12) Aiteinson, Jean. Linguistics: An Introduction, Hodder & Stoughton, 1995.
13) Krishnaswamy,N. et al. Modern Applied Linguistics, New Delhi: Macmillan.
14) R.A. Close. A Reference Grammar for Students of English, 1975.

MAE-102: ENGLISH DRAMA

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

The purpose of this paper is to acquaint the students with the varied forms of drama
from the Elizabethan Age to the 20th Century. Selective texts will be examined in detail. This
paper will also highlight the adaptations-of some of these plays into films. Attempt will be made
to locate the play in a socio-cultural context, with a touch of historicity.

UNIT 1: William Shakespeare: Anthony and Cleopatra Sa

UNIT II: Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer ('Sa)

UNIT III: G.B. Shaw: Pygmalion(nda

UNIT IV: John Osborne: Look Back in Anger 1 Y

Suggested Reading:
T) Christopher Innes (ed.), Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shavw. Cambridge:
CUP, 2006.
2) Elsic Bonita Adams (ed.), Critieal Essays on G.B. Shaw, New York: Maxwell Macmillan
International. 1991.
3) GJV Prasad. The Lost Temper: Critical Essays on Look Back in Anger. Delhi: Macmillan.
2004.
4) Neeraj Malik (ed.), Jon Osborne: Look Back in Anger. Delhi: Worldwide, 2015.
5) Mehr Fatima. G.B. Shaw's Dramu: Unfoldling Revolutionary C'oncept of Evolution. New
Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2015.
6) Christopher Innes. Modern British Drama: The Tventieth Cenmury. 2nd Edition.
Cambridge: CUP. 2002.
 MAE- 103: ENGLISH POETRY

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

The purpose of this paper is to acquaint the students the trends and movements
from Metaphysical poctry to the Victorian period. The chronological order of the poets give the
students n concrete understanding of the growth and development of English poetry from the
Metaphysical to the Vietorian age. These pocms can be read as discourses of the times,
celebrated in language and giving reflections of the prcoccupations of the age.

UNIT 1: John Donne: (jala)

i) The Sume Rising'
The Canonisation'

UNIT I1: Alexander Pope: 7he Rape oftheLock da)

UNIT I1: a) William Blake: From
i) The Chimney Sweeper"
Songs of Innocence (SwG)
From Songs of Experience
ii) The Chimney Sweeper"

b) William Wordsworth: "Lines Composed A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

UNIT IV: a) Robert Browning

i) Porphyria's Lover
i) My Last Duchess
b) Lord Alfred Tennyson
i) 'Crossing the Bar

Suggested Reading:
1) Rita Sachdev. Critical ierpretation of Alfred Temyson. New Delhi: Wisdom Press.
2016.
2) Suroopa Mukherjee (cd.), Victorian Pocts, Delhi: Worldview Publications, 2010.
3) Th. Ratankumar Singh. Golden Lawels: An Anthology of Poetry. Cambridge Universy
Press: New Delhi, 2009.
4) Helen Gardner (ed.). John Dome: A Collection of Critical Essays, New Delhi: Prentice
Hall India Ltd., 1979.
5) Cieorge Williamson. A Reader's Ciuide to the Metaphysical Poets. Yugoslavia: Thomas &
lludson, 1988.
6) CGrauham lHough. 7he Romantic P'ocets, London: 11ulchinson & Co. 1967.
7) Joun Benett. Five Metaylhysical Pots, London: Cambridge University Press. 196.
8) C.T. Thomas (ed.). Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock. London: Orient Longnman.
1977.
ELECTIVE COURSES:
(The students have to opt for two papers in SEM I, II & II and I paper in SEM IV)

MAE-104: LITERATURE AND CULTURE

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

This course is intended to study literature in varied culture(s). It is a foundational course

to familiarize students with the basic principles of literature and culture. This course will discuss
on conceptual writings on other disciplines such as history, religion and culture in order to
understand the systematic composition of 'colonial' and 'subaltern' writings. It will engage the
current theorization of literature and culture through prescribed readings, classroom discussions
and presentation.

UNIT 1: N. Khagendra: Land ofGods amd Goddesses > n a a )

UNIT I1: Dr. Jodhachandra Sanasam: Khamba Thoibi Sheireng(excerpts) (
UNIT III: Saroj Nalini Parratt: Pleasing of Gods Soud)
UNIT IV: Sir James Frazer: The GoldenBough(excerpts)( stu
4)
Suggested Reading:
Bhaduri and Amar Basu (eds.), Perspectives on Comparative Literature and
1) Saugata
Cullure in the Age of Globalization, London, New York, New Delhi: Anthem Press,
2010.
2) James Clifford and George E. Marcus (eds.), Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of
University California Press, 1986.
Ethnography, Berkeley: of
Neil and Julia Thomas (eds.), The Routledge Critical and Cultural
Badmington Theory
3)
Reader, London and New York: Routledge, 2008.

Literature and
4) Saugata Bhaduri (ed.), Negotiating 'Glocalization': Viewsfrom Language,
Culture Studies, London, New York, New Delhi: Anthem Press, 2008.

John Parratt (eds.), The History and Culture of

5) Saroj Nalini Arambam Parratt and
Manipur, Cumbria: Hayloft Publishing Ltd., 2011.

6) T.S. Eliot, Three Senses of Culture',

in Notes Towards the Definition of Culure.
London: Faber and Faber, 1948.

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 MAE- 105: AMERICAN LITERATURE- I

COURSE OBJECTIVE:
T o develop the students to understand the making of American Literature (Historical and
social- cultural aspects.)
T o develop the students the ability to understand the social and the personal
responsibility and to engage effectively in regional, national and global communities
T o include the ability to understand the action and consequences; and the reconciliation

UNIT I: 1) Background of American Literature

a) Enlightenment in the Colonies (uisid
b) Imperialism and Isolation
c) The Sense of Tragedy: Patterns of Southern Experience

UNIT I1: Drama -Arthur Miller: 4 Viewfrom the Bridge (Suhale)

UNIT I1: Poetry: Emily Dickinson's 'A Bird came down the Walk OndaP
Robert Frost: "The Road not Taken'
Edgar Alan Poe: "The Raven'

UNIT IV: Essay: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-Reliance (SandaP)

Suggested Reading:
1) Edward Martin, Arthur Miller: New Perspectives.
2) Elizabeth Jennings, Robert Frost.
3) F.O. Matthieson, The American Renaissance
4) Frederick J. Hofiman. The 20th American Writing inthe post-war decade.
5) Robert Corrigan, ed. Arthur Miller: A Collect ion of Critical Essays.
6) Roy Harvey Pearce, The Contimity of American Poeity.
7) R. W. Horton and H. W. Edwards, Backgroumd ofAmerican Literary Thoughu.
8) Spiller Robert, The C)yele of American Literature.

Or
MAE- 106: LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM-I ( P t t V s
cOURSE OBJECTIVE
This course intends to equip students with basic readings in contemporary cultural and literary
theory. The objective being introductory, the focus of the course will be on familiarizing the
student with as many theoretical positions as possible, rather than engage in an intensive study of
a particular theoretical position or thinker.

UNIT- I: Introduction to Marxism

i) Antonio Gramsci, The Formation of Intellectuals", in Gramsci, The Modern Prince ad

Other Writings, ed. & trans. Louis Marks, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1957, pp. 90-132.

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ii) Louis Althusser, "ldeology and
Investigation), in Lenin and PhilosophyIdeological Essays.Apparatuses"
and Other State (Notes towards
trans. Ben Brewster, an
New York:
Monthly Review Press, 1971, pp. 127-86.

iii) Michel Foucault, "Two Lectures", in Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Oher
Writings 1972-1977, Hertfordshire: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1980, pp. 78-108.
UNIT-II: Introduetion to Gender
i) Elaine Showalter, "The Female Tradition". Chapter 1 in A Literature of their Own:
Brilish Women Novelists from Bronte to
Press, 1977.
Lessing, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
ii) Luce Irigaray, "This Sex which is not one" and "When the
Goods get together"******
ii) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Introduction: Axiomatic" in Epistemology of the Closet, Berkeley:
Univ. of California Press, 1990, pp.1-63.
UNIT II: Introduetion to Postcolonialism
i) Edward W. Said, 'Introduction' in Orientalism, London and Henley: Routledge and Kegan
Paul, 1978.

ii) Vijay Mishra and Bob Hodge, "What is Post (-) colonialism? Textual Practice, Vol. 5, no. 3,
1991.

iii) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Can the Subaltern Speak?", in C. Nelson and L. Grossberg
eds., Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988.

UNIT IV: Introduction to Psychoanalysis

i) Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the ld (1923), trans. Joan Riviere (1927), ed. James Strachey,
London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-analysis, 1962.

ii) Jacques Lacan, "The Mirror stage as formative of the function of the 1" (Lecture delivered at
the 16th International Congress of Psychoanalysis, Zurich, July 17, 1949), in Ecrits (Selections
from Ecrits, Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1966), trans. Alan Sheridan (1977), London:
1992. pp. 1-7.
Routledge.

ii)Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, "The Desiring- Machines", Chapter I in Anti- Oedipus:
Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and Helen R. Lane (1977).
London: The Athlone Press, 1984, pp. 1-50.

Suggested Reading:
1) Peter Berry. Beginning Theory, Manchester and New York: Manchester
University Press, 1995.
2) David Lodge (ed.), Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, London and New
York: Long an, 1988.
3) Bill Ashcroft et al. (eds.), The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, London and New
York: Routledge, 2017.
4) Saugata Bhaduri & Simi Malhotra (eds.). Literary Theory: An ntroductor
Reader, Delhi: Anthem Press, 2010.
5) John Mcleod. Beginning Postcolonialism, New Delhi: Viva Books Pvt. Ltd..
2010.

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 6) Patricia Waugh. Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide, Delhi: UP.
2006.
7) Raman Selden. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. New
Prentice Hall. 1985. Jersey
8) Terry Eagleton. Literary Thecory: An nlroduction. Minncapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1983.
9) M.S. Nagarajan. English Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introductory Ifistory
Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2006.
10) M.A.R, Habib. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory. New Delhi: Blackwell
Publishing Ltd., 2008.
11) Krishnaswamy et al.
Contemporary Literary Theory: A Student's
New Delhi: Companion,
Macmillan, 2000.
12) Jeremy Hawthorn. A Concise Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theor,
London: Edward Arnold, 1992.

OPEN ELECTIVE COURSE-I:

MAE- 107: LITERATURE

cOURSE OBJECTIVE:

This paper is an Open Elective Course open for all disciplines. This
course is intended to give a general idea about the major works of Literature in a very lucid
manner. This paper will give an overview about Literature in general. enmeshed in its broader
socio- cultural relations.

UNIT I: (Sufol
) William Wordsworth: "The Solitary Reaper
in) S.T. Coleridge: 'Kubla Khan'

UNIT I1:
i)
(R)
William Shakespeare: Othello

UNIT Il1: (Sandeep

O. Henry: "The Last Lear"
i) Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper"
ii)
UNIT IV: ( a'nala
i) Virginia Woolf: To The Lighthouse

Suggested Reading:
Oxtord and New York:
) John Kerrigan. Shukespeare's Binding Langiage.
Ox ford University Press, 2016. Protile Books
2) Andrew Dickson. The Glohe Gtuide o Shakespeare
2016.
and Senen S25 Woris
3) Thomas S. Hischak. American Literuture on Stage
und their Adaptutions, North Carolina: McFarland, 2012.
) Norman Sanders (ed.). uhello, Cambridge: New Cambridge Shakespeare.
2003.
5) Suzanne Raitt. Virginia Woolffs To the Lighthouse, New York: Harvester
Wheatsheaf, 1990.
6) Stevie Davies. Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Great Britain: Penguin
Books, 1989.
7) Michael Neill (ed.), Othello, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2006.
8) O. Henry. The 7rimmed Lamp and Other Stories, LLC: Creative Meda
Partners, 2015.

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 SEMESTER II

Marks-100

CORECOURSES:
MAE-201: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING (ELT)

COURSE OBJECTIVE:
DTo familiarize the students with the different methods of English language & literature
teaching
D To acquaint the students the approaches and skills and human behavior of teaching English
language & Literature.

Unit-l: Types of Language Teaching methods and approaches

The Grammar- Translation method.
The Direct Method
The Reading Method
The Audio-lingual Method
The Audio Visual Method
Communicative Language Teaching Method
Bilingual Method
The Structural Approach
Deductive Approach
Inductive Approach

Unit-I1
Language and Brain;
Behaviorism and Cognitivism

Unit-1l:
Teaching of Language principles/skills
Exercises to improve the skills/principles;

Unit-IV:
Literature:
Approaches to teaching of Drama; Fiction:
of Poctry:
Thematic and Linguistic Approach; Teaching
Reading with clear pronunciation:
Question and answer drills;
Figures of Speech:
Presentation:
Dramatization;
Role Play and
Group Discussion:
Character analysis;
Discussing about the theme and contents:
Narrative Techniques

Suggested Reading:
Brumfit, C &R Carler (eds.), Literature & Language Teaching, Oxford: OUP, 1986.
2) Brumlit, C & K Johnson (eds.), The Commnicative dpproach to Language Teaching:
Oxford: OUP, 1979.
) Bassnet. S &P. Groundy (eds.), Language
through Literature, 1993.
4) Carter R & M.N. Long (eds.), Teaching Literature, 1991.
5) Nobert Schmitt. An Introduction lo Applied Linguistics. UK: Hodder Foundation, 201.
6) Lourdes Orlega. Understanding Second Language Acquisition, UK: Hodder Foundation,
2011.
7) Richards, J.C. Approaches and methods in language Teaching, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2010.
8) Richards J.C. Meihodology in Language Teaching, Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres5,
2010.
9) Tickoo, M.L. Teaching and Learning English, 2002.

MAE 202: INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION STUDIES

cOURSE OBJECTIVE
The course aims at introducing the theory and practice of translation. It focuses on the
translation scenario of multilingual and multicultural situation of India, a land where
translation is an everyday activity. Keeping in mind the multilingual situation of ndia
and the corpus of literary and non- literary writings produced in here, the course
intends to encourage students to take up translation activities between English and
Indian languages. The course is expected to add theoretical knowledge of translation
and will be acquainted with the challenges and strategies while dealing the translation
process. The course will also equip the students to take up translation of literary as
well as non-literary writings.

UNIT 1: Theory of Translation Studies

UNIT I1: Translation: Significance, Relevance and Challenges

UNIT II: Translation via English: Problems and Strategies

UNIT IV: Translation and Culture

Suggested Reading:
1) GJV Prasad. Translation and Culture: ndian Perspectives, New Delhi: Pencratt
International, 2010
2) GJV Prasad. Writing Translation', in Post- Colonial Translation, 2002.
3) N. Kamala and GV Prasad. "Trans-Creating India () The Nation in English
Translation". in Meta: Translators' Journal. Les Presses de I' Universite de Montreal.
1997.
4) Susan Bassnett and Harish Trivedi (eds.). Posteolonial Translation: Theory and Practice
(Translation Studies), London & New York: Routledge, 1999
5) ilarish Trivedi, Meenakshi Mukherjee. C. Vijuyasrec. T, Vijay Kumar (eds.). The Nation
ucross the World: Postcolonial Literary Representations. Oxford: OUP, 2007.

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 6) Lawrence Venuti.
1995, revised 2008.lrunslator Invisibiliny:
's
A listory of
Translatio, L.ondon: Rout lcdgc.
7) Ravinder Gargesh & Krishna Kumar
Reader and Workbook, Goswami (ed.), Transtation and
Ilyderabad: Orient Black Swan, 2007
Interpretiig
MAE-203: POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
cOURSE OBJECTIVE
Students will get a critical
postcolonial iteratures and theory.introduction to
They will be
the fascinating yet highly
taught about diverse formscontested ield o
resistance: the power and limits of anti-colonial of
anti-colonial
discourse: the gendering of nations, and the nationalisms; the exclusions of nationalist
nation. This patriarchal construction of women as emblems
paper will also gear up the students to ot the
read the different colonial experience
replicated by the texts across different
cultural matrix.
Unit I: i) Edward Said: Cullure and
ii)Robert Young: Imperialism
Post colonialism: An Historical
Introduction
Unit 1I: Rabindranath Tagore: i) The Home and the World
ii) Nationalism
Unit Il1: i) Ania Loomba:
Challenging Colonialism: Nationalisms and Pun- Nationalisms.
Colonisation/Post Colonialisnm
ii) Vijay Mishra: The Literatnure of the Indian
Imaginary Diaspora: Theorizing the Diuspora

Unit IV: i) Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart

ii)Rohinton Mistry: Such a Long Journey

Suggested Reading:
) Bill Ashcroft. et al (eds.). 7he Post-Colonial Studies Reader. London & New York:
Routledge. 2006.
2) Homi Bhabha. Nation and Narration, London & New York: Routledge, 1990.
3) John McLeod. Beginning Postcolonialisn, Manchester & New York: Manchester
University Press, 2000.
4) Leela Gandhi. Postcolonial Theory, Oxford: OUP. 1988.
5) Pramod K. Nayar. Postcolonial Literture: dn lntroduction. New York: Pearson. 2008.
6) Rumina Sethi. Myths of the Nation: National ldentity and Lierary Representation
Oxford: Clarendon. 1999.
ELECTIVE COURSES;

MAE-204: LITERATURE AND

GENDER
COURSE OBJECTIVE:

This
course Vill familiarize students with theorizing about gender, be it feminism, queer
studies or masculinity studies, This course will introduce students to literary texts that priorities
jssues of gender. Ihe sludent will betaught to interpret a textand read social change through the
lens of gender theory, its evolution from feminism to queer theory, and masculinity studies wil
be strengthened.

Unit-1: i) Virginia Woolf:Mrs. Dalloway

ii) Mahasweta Devi: Draupadi

Unit-11: Gayatrí Spivak: i) "Canthere be a Feminist World?"

i) "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialisn1

Unit -II1: Poetry: Amrita Pritam's Selected Poems

Aga Shahid Ali: 'The Veiled Suite

Unit -IV: i) Judith Butler: Gender Trouble

i) Eve K Sedgwick: "Queer and Now" from Tendencies

Suggested Reading:
Gender:
Saugata
1) Studies Bhaduri and-Indrani Mukherjee (eds.), Transcultural Negotiations of
in (Be) longing, New Delhi, Heidelberg. Dordrecht, New York. London:
Springer, 2015.
2) Simone De Beauvoir. The Second Sex, London: Vintage Books, 1949.
London & New York:
3) Anu Aneja. Women 's amd Gender Studies in India: Crossings,
Routledge, 2019.
York: W.W.Norton & Company. 1963.
4) Betty Friedan. The Feminine Mystique, New Press, 2016.
5) Kate Millett. Sexual Politics, New York: Columbia University
6) Virginia Woolf. A Room of One's Own, England: Hogarth Press, 1929.
Feminist History Reader, London & New York: Routledge. 2006.
7) Sue Morgan (ed.), The

OR

II
MAE-205: AMERICAN LITERATURE-

COURSE OB.JECTIVE:
the making of American Literature ( Historical and
T o develop the students to understand
social- cultural aspects, ctc)
the ability to understand the social and the personal
To develop the students
in regional, national and global communities
responsibility and to engage effeclively
understand the action ind consequences; and the reconciliation
T o include the ability to

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UNIT-I: T.S.Eliot: 'Preludes

IT-1l1: Robert Frost: i)

UNIT
"Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
ii) Mending Wall

INIT -Il1: Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letler

INIT-IV: John Steinberg: 0f Mice and Men

Suggested Reading:

) Elizabeth Jennings, Robert Frost.

2) J. M. Elder, Nathaniel Hawthorne
3) Lesley Fielder, Love and Death in the American Novel
4) Richard Chase, The American Novel and ius Tradition.
5) T.J. Martin, Nathaniel I Hawthorne

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MAE-206: LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM - II

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

This course will have extensive readings in theoretical positions and thinkers and

engaging the class in discussions the broad themes that have informed and
concerning
transformed theory. This course will unveil major themes of power, identity, subjectivity,
gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity.

UNIT- I: Structuralism/ Poststructuralism/ Deconstruction

i) Ferdinand de Saussure, Excerpts from A Course
in General Linguistics (Geneva.
trans. Wade Baskin, London: Peter Owen, 1960.
1915),
of Narratives" in Barthes,
ii)Roland Barthes: "Introduction to the Structural Analysis
London: Fontana, 1977.
Image Music Text trans. Stephen Heath,
and Play in the discourse of the Human Sciences".
ii) Jacques Derrida, "Structure, Sign
Chapter Ten in Writing and Diference, trans. A. Bass, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press,
1978.

UNIT-II: Post-Feminism
What is Postleminism?', and Chapter 1, 'Consensus
i) Ann Brooks, 'Introduction:
Diversity and "Difference" in
and Conflict in Second Wave Feminism: Issues of Cultural
Feminist Theorising', Postfeminismis:
in Feminism, Theory and Cultural
York: Routledge, 1997. pp. 1-25.
Forms, London and New
Gamble (ed.), The Routledve
Sarah Gamble, Postfeminism, in SarahLondon
ii) amd PoStJemimism, und New York: Routledge.
Companion to Feminism
2001, pp. 43-54.

Sehizounalysis
UNTT-I11: Psychoun:alysis to

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 ) Sigmund Freud, The Method of Dream Interpretation' and The Dream as WiIsh
Fulfilment', Chapters 2 and 3 of Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams(00)
trans. A.A. Brill (1932), Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth, 1997, pp. 10-44.

ii) Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Introduction: Rhizome', in 4 Thousand

Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Paris: Editions des Minuit, 1980. trans.
Brian Massumi, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987, pp. 3-25.

UNIT-IV: Subjectivization and Technologies of the Self

Michel Foucault, Introduction', in The Use of Pleasure:The History of Sexuality
Vol. 2, trans. Robert Hurley (1986), London: Penguin, 1992, Pp. 3-32.

ii) Michel Foucault, 'Technologies of the Self; and The Political Technology of
of the Self,
Individuals' (presentations at a faculty seminar on Technologies
Huck Gutman and
University of Vermont, fall 1982), in Luther H. Martin,
Patrick H. Hutton (eds.), Technologies of the Self: A Seminar wilh Michel
Foucaul, London: Tavistock, 1988, pp. 16-49 and l45-62.

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 SEMESTER III
Marks 100

CORECOURSES:
MAE-301: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

In this paper, the students will be shown how the concept of Indian
Writing in English was invigorated and given a shape and structure. We will be dealing with
some key words in Poem, Play, Short-story and Novel genre. Attempt will be made to weave a
rich tapestry of works of Indian Writing in English, examining the features, trajectories and
narratives enmeshed in its socio- cultural consciousness.

UNIT I: i) Nissim Ezekiel: 'Night of the Scorpion'

i) Kamala Das: The Dance of the Eunuchs'

UNIT II: Mahesh Dattani: Final Solutions SN

UNIT I1:i) R.K. Narayan: "An Astrologer's Day"

ii) Jhumpa Lahiri: "Interpreter of Maladies" (Selected Stories)

UNIT IV: Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children SN

Suggested Reading:
Localion, New Delhi:
1) GJV Prasad. Writing India, Writing English: Literature, Language,
Routledge, 2014.
Makarand R Paranjape, GJV Prasad (ed.), Indian English and Vernacular' India. New
2)
Delhi: Pearson Longman, 2010.
Orient Black Swan, 2018.
3) Avishek Parui. Postmodern Literatures, Hyderabad:
New Delhi:
4) GJV Prasad. 'New Challenges for Indian English Poetry', Indian Literature,
Sahitya Akademi, 2005.
5) GJV Prasad. 'Always in the Poet's Eye: Nissim Ezekiel's India', in Writing India
Writing English, India: Routledge, 2014.
6) Meenakshi Mukherjee. The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian Writing in English.
New Delhi: OUP, 2000.
7) Makarand R Paranjape. Towards a Poetics of the Indian English Novel. Shimla: Indian
Institute of Advanced Study (lIAS), 2000.
8) Natesan Sharda lyer. Musings on Indian Writing in English: Drama. Sarup & Sons. 2007.
9) Santosh K. Sareen, Makarand Paranjape (ed.). Text and Interpretation in Indian Thought.
New Delhi: Mantra Books, 2004
10) Harish Trivedi. Colonial Transactions: English Lierature and ndia. Manchester
Manchester UP. 1995.

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 11)Makarand R Paranjape. Debating the post' condition in India: Critical vernaculars.
unauthorized modernities. post-colonial contetions, New York: Routledge, 2018.
12) Sisir Kumar Das. A History of Indian Literature 1800-1910, Delhi: Sahitya Akademi.
1991.
13) Makarand R. Paranjape. Making India: Colonialism, National Culure, and the Aflerlife
ofIndian English Authority, New York & London: Springer. 2013.
14) GJV Prasad. Contimuities in ndian English Poetry: Nation Language Form. New Delhi:
Pencraft International, 1999.
15) G.N. Devy. Afer Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism, Bombay:
Orient Longman, 1992.

MAE-302: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

level
To familiarize students with the basic concepts of research on the post-graduale
before heading towards higher dimensions of research.
its tools, ethics and
To enable students to understand various paradigms of research,
creative and academic skills
challenges related to English studies and related fields and develop
in them.

Studies: Gabriele Griffin)

UNIT-I RA
i) Textual Analysis as a Research Method (Catherine Belsey)
ii) Archival Methods (Carolyn Steedman)
iii) Discourse Analysis (Gabriele Griffin)
iv) Creative Writing as a Research (Jon Cook)
UNIT- II: Introduction to Research Methodology
(Research, Hypothesis, Analysis of Data and Interpretation)
i) Research Question
ii) Review of Literature
ii) Data Collection- Primary and Secondary Sources

UNIT-III: Components and Requirements

i) Research Proposal/ Synopsis
ii) Research Paper
i) Thesis/ Dissertation Research Tools
iv) MLA Style (Latest Edition)
v) Chicago Manual of Style (Latest Edition)
vi) Ethies in Research and Plagiarism

UNIT-IV: i) Workshop and Presentation 1

ii) Workshop and Presentation 2
Suggested Readings:
Rescarch Methods in English Studies: Grabriele Grillin
Research Methodology: Methodsand Techniques: C. R. Kothari
Rescarch Methods in English: M.P. Sinha
 MAE-303: ENGLISH FICTION

COURSE OB.JECTIVE
This paper is intended to familiarize the students with fiction writers
who have carved out a niche with their seminal works. Students will be acquainted with the
development of the Novel form.

UNIT I: Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels

UNIT I1: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
UNIT I11: Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
UNIT IV: D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers

Suggested Reading:
D.H. Lavrence, Cambridge: CUP,
1) Anne Fernihough. The Cambridge Companion to

2001.
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Delhi: Worldview Publications,
2) B. Mangalam (ed.),
2010.
Viva Books Pvt.
3) Harold Bloom (ed.), Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, New Delhi:
Ltd., 2007.
4) Richard Adams. Heart of Darkness, London: Penguin, 1991.
Atlantic Publishers &
5) Sunita Sinha (ed.), Critical Essays on D.H. Lawrence, New Delhi:
Distributors, 2016.
Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Delhi: Worldview Publication.
6) Sumanya Satpathy. Joseph
2004.
7he English Novel: An Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
7) Terry Eagleton.

ELECTIVE COURSES
MAE- 304: SEMANTICS AND LEXICOGRAPHY

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

This course is intended to make the students aware of the basics of

Lexicography, its types, Definitions and scope of Lexicography, lexicography

as
Semantics and
Semanties.
Linguistics.
Appliedand This paper will also acquaint the students wvith the basics of
causes factors of Semantic changes, differenttypes of Semantic changes and consequences

of those ehanges. '

UNIT-1: BASICS OF SEMANTICS AND LEXICOGRAPHY: Semantics and Linguistics.

Types of semantics, Lexicography as Applied Linguistics, Lexicology and Lexicography,

Practical dictionary. Structure of
Lexicon and Grammar- Theoretical dictionary (lexicon) and
lexeme-Simple and Composite lexemes.