The Bhopal School of Social Sciences,

Bhopal
(An Autonomous Institute Reaccredited
with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC)
Affiliated to Barkatullah University, Bhopal

Academic Year -2020-21

SYLLABUS
For

Post Graduate Program in

MASTER OF ENGLISH
Semester- III

Department of English
 The Bhopal School of Social Sciences
(Autonomous Institute, Affiliated to Barkatullah University, Bhopal)

Scheme of Examination
Department of English
Academic Year: 2020-21
MA (English) Third Semester

Subject Subject Name Theory

Code Paper CCE Total Marks

Max. Min. Max. Min.

MAEH-301 Critical 70 25 30 11 100

Theory

MAEH-302 English Language 70 25 30 11 100

Indian Writing in
MAEH-303 70 25 30 11 100
English

American
MAEH-304 70 25 30 11 100
Literature

GRAND TOTAL 400

 The Bhopal School of Social Sciences
(Autonomous Institute, Affiliated to Barkatullah University, Bhopal)

Department of English
Academic Year: 2020-21
MA (English)

Programme Objectives
PO1 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: Apply the perspective of their chosen
specialized area of study to develop fully-reasoned opinions on contemporary issues.

PO2 Research Skill: Ability to interpret and apply research literature to investigate complex
problem susing research methodologies, techniques and tools.

PO3 Lifelong Learning: An ability to engage in life-long learning to improve professional

competency.

PO4 Scholarship of knowledge: An ability to apply advanced knowledge and skills

appropriate to the discipline.

PO5 Usage of Modern Tools: An ability to use appropriate techniques, skills, and modern
Tools necessary for practice in the respective field.

PO6 Teamwork: Able to determine the effectiveness with which goals are defined and
achieved in team environments to assess the contributions made by themselves as well as by
their peers within those environments and to identify and resolve conflicts.

PO7 Leadership Skills:Able to document their participation and contribution to GOs, NGOs
or consulting projects, internship opportunities or other initiatives.

PO8 Environment and Sustainability: Understand the professional skills in managing

societal and environmental issues and demonstrate the knowledge of and need for sustainable
development.

PO9 Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities
and norms of practice.

PO10 Entrepreneurial Perspective: Able to identify, assess and shape entrepreneurial

opportunities and to evaluate their potential for initiating start-ups.

PO11 Global Perspective: Able to demonstrate their ability to assess and evaluate the
dynamic internal and external elements of the competitive global environment.

PO12 Independent and Reflective Learning: An ability to learn more independently by

being active and reflecting on their experiences.
PROGRAMME SPECIFIC OUTCOME

Our Post Graduates will have

PSO 1. Reading: Students will become accomplished, active readers who appreciate
ambiguity and complexity, and who can articulate their own interpretations with an awareness
and curiosity for other perspectives.
PSO 2. Writing skills and process: Students will be able to write effectively for a variety of
professional and social settings. They will practice writing as a process of motivated inquiry,
engaging other writers’ ideas as they explore and develop their own. They will demonstrate an
ability to revise for content and edit for grammatical and stylistic clarity. And they will develop
an awareness of and confidence in their own voice as a writer.
PSO 3. Sense of Genre: Students will develop an appreciation of how the formal elements of
language and genre shape meaning. They will recognize how writers can transgress or subvert
generic expectations, as well as fulfill them. And they will develop a facility at writing in
appropriate genres for a variety of purposes and audiences.
PSO 4. Culture and History: Students will gain a knowledge of the major traditions of
literatures written in English, and an appreciation for the diversity of literary and social voices
within–and sometimes marginalized by–those traditions. They will develop an ability to read
texts in relation to their historical and cultural contexts, in order to gain a richer understanding
of both text and context, and to become more aware of themselves as situated historically and
culturally.
PSO 5. Critical Approaches: Students will develop the ability to read works of literary,
rhetorical, and cultural criticism, and deploy ideas from these texts in their own reading and
writing. They will express their own ideas as informed opinions that are in dialogue with a
larger community of interpreters, and understand how their own approach compares to the
variety of critical and theoretical approaches.
PSO 6. Research Skills: Students will be able to identify topics and formulate questions for
productive inquiry; they will identify appropriate methods and sources for research and
evaluate critically the sources they find; and they will use their chosen sources effectively in
their own writing, citing all sources appropriately.
PSO 7. Oral communication skills: Students will demonstrate the skills needed to participate
in a conversation that builds knowledge collaboratively: listening carefully and respectfully to
others’ viewpoints; articulating their own ideas and questions clearly; and situating their own
ideas in relation to other voices and ideas. Students will be able to prepare, organize, and deliver
an engaging oral presentation.
PSO 8. Valuing literature, language, and imagination: Students will develop a passion for
literature and language. They will appreciate literature’s ability to elicit feeling, cultivate the
imagination, and call us to account as humans. They will cultivate their capacity to judge the
aesthetic and ethical value of literary texts–and be able to articulate the standards behind their
judgments. They will appreciate the expressive use of language as a fundamental and sustaining
human activity, preparing for a life of learning as readers and writers and make them ready for
ready for employability.
 Mapping of PO with PSO
PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12
PSO1 * * *

PSO2 * * *

PSO3 * * *

PSO4 * *

PSO5 * * *
PSO6 * * *
PSO7 * * *
PSO8 * * * *
 The Bhopal School of Social Sciences, Bhopal (M.P)

(An Autonomous College Reaccredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC Affiliated to

Barkatullah University, Bhopal)
Department of English
Academic Year: 2020-21
MA (English) Third Semester
Name of the Program: MA (English) Program Code: 104
Name of the Group: Arts
Name of the Course: Paper-I Critical Theory
Course Code: MAEH-301 Total Duration: 112.5 hrs Max. Marks: 100
(CCE:30+Theory:70)

Course Outcomes
CO1 Demonstrate an understanding of different approaches to literary criticism
CO2 Students will learn the theoretical foundations and research methods in advanced
literary studies, and gain expertise in specific genres, periods, and topics
CO3 Students will learn to critically analyze how written, digital, visual, and spoken texts
shape and are shaped by diverse local, national, global, historical, aesthetic, and ideological
contexts.
CO4 Students will learn to evaluate and synthesize appropriate research, scholarship, and
methodologies as demonstrated in advanced-level scholarly projects, creative work, and other
appropriate assignments.
CO5 Students will learn to participate in advanced professional activities (conferences,
publications, practicum experiences, research projects, and other activities
CO6 Demonstrable ability to use the terms, categories, and concepts of critical or “close”
reading. A student of MA English should gain the ability to read, understand, analyze,
interpret, and extrapolate from the complex texts that are at the heart of the diverse traditions
of the English language by using the disciplinary vocabulary for studying English (including
such concepts and terms relating to genre, style, tropes, conceits, forms, narratives and
theories of literature.
 Mapping of PSO with Course outcome
Programm Course PSO PSO2 PSO3 PSO4 PSO5 PSO6 PSO7 PSO8
e Outcom 1
e
CO1 * * *

CO2 * * * *
P-I
CRITICA CO3 * * * * *
L
THEORY CO4 * * * *

CO5 * * * *
CO6 * * * * *
 SYLLABUS

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
Bharat Muni: Natya Shastra “Rasa Theory”
Aristotle - Poetics (Butcher’s Translations)
I
Plato- Literary Criticism (Republic and Ion): 22.5
Theory of Ideas and Views on Poetry 20

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
Longinus- “On the Sublime”
II 22.5
Philip Sydney- “An Apology for Poetry” 20

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
John Dryden – “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”
III 22.5
Dr Johnson- “Preface to Shakespeare” 20

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
Wordsworth – “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads”
IV
Coleridge- Biographia Literaria “Ch. XIII, XIV &
XVII” 22.5 20

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
Mathew Arnold: “Essays in Criticism” (Second
Series) Detailed Study: “Chapter I Study of
Poetry”
V TS Eliot - “Tradition and the Individual Talent”,
“Hamlet and his Problems” 22.5 20
Non-Detailed Study - Mathew Arnold:
Essays in Criticism (Second series) - Entire work

Recommended Text Books:

• Aristotle, Poetics, Fingerprint! Publishing 2017.
• Plato, Literary Criticism (Republic and Ion): Theory of Ideas and Views on Poetry,
Atlantic 2017.
• Longinus, On the Sublime, Createspace Independent Publication, 2017.
 • Philip Sydney, An Apology for Poetry, Anmol 2009.
• John Dryden, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, Hardpress Publishing, 2013.

Recommended Reference Books:

• Scott James, The Making of Literature, Booksway, 2014.
• Guerin, Labor, Morgan, Reesman, Willingham: A Handbook of Critical Approaches
to Literature, Oxford University Press 1994
• B Prasad: An Introduction to English Criticism, Misra & Company 1967.
• David Daiches: Modern Criticism & Theory, Supeernova Publications, 2014.
• H Adams and L Searle: Critical Theory since 1965, University Press of Florida 1989.

Recommended Web Reference:

• https://libguides.uwf.edu/c.php?g=215176&p=1420365
• https://guides.lib.byu.edu/c.php?g=216549&p=1429448
 The Bhopal School of Social Sciences, Bhopal (M.P)

(An Autonomous College Reaccredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC Affiliated to

Barkatullah University, Bhopal)
Department of English
Academic Year: 2020-21
MA (English) Third Semester
Name of the Program: MA (English) Program Code: 104
Name of the Group: Arts
Name of the Course: Paper-II English Language
Course Code: MAEH-302 Total Duration: 112.5 hrs Max. Marks: 100
(CCE:30+Theory:70)

Course Outcomes
CO1 The students studied the nature of language and tried to establish a theory of language
and describe languages in the light of the theory established.
CO2 They examined all the forms of language in general and sought a scientific
understanding of the ways in which it is organized to fulfil the needs it serves and the
functions it performs in human life.
CO3 They explored the syntactic rules of sentence formation, which specify how to form
sentences, semantic rules of sentence interpretation, which specify how to interpret the
meaning of sentences and phonological rules of sentence-pronunciation, which specify how
to pronounce sentences
CO4 Are able to Distinguish, evaluate and interpret the methodologies and their results in the
context of the overall aim of understanding the nature of language. Provide a broad
interdisciplinary perspective on working language to emphasize the connectedness and
relevance of work to other fields.
CO5 To prepare students to master the linguistic, technological, and scientific aspects of
different areas in the English Language program
Students are equipped with good knowledge and skills to enable them to pursue their
postgraduate studies and careers in Linguistics, translation of literature, and teaching English
as a foreign language.
 Mapping of PSO with Course outcome

Program Course PSO PSO2 PSO3 PSO4 PSO5 PSO6 PSO7 PSO8
me Outcome 1
CO1 * *

CO2 * * * *
P-II
English CO3 * * * * *
Language
CO4 * * *

CO5 * * * *
 SYLLABUS
Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
Definition, Functions, Characteristics of Language
Development of English Language, Classification of
Language
I
Indo- European Family of Language, the 22.5 20
Teutonic Languages, Grimm’s Law, Verner’s
law, the Stress shift

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
Language Varieties: Register, Style and Dialect,

II Approaches to the Study of Language: Synchronic 22.5

and Diachronic 20
Formal and Informal English, Code Switching
and Code Mixing

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
Phonetics & Phonology, Difference between
Phonetics and Phonology
III
Organs of Speech, Articulatory Phonetics, Acoustic 22.5
Phonetics, Auditory Phonetics 20

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
Phonemes, Allophones, Phonetic Symbols for 22.5
IV
Sounds in RP 20

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
Basics of Transformational Generative Grammar; 22.5
V Nature and Characteristics 20

Recommended Text Books:

• Martinet, André (1960). Elements of General Linguistics. Studies in General
Linguistics, vol. i. Translated by Elisabeth Palmer Rubbert. London: Faber.
• Jakobson, Roman (1937). Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning. MIT Press,
Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 978-0-262-60010-1.
 • Campbell, Lyle (1998). Historical Linguistics: An Introduction. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press. p. 391. ISBN 978-0-7486-4601-2

Recommended Reference Books:

• Verma and Krishnaswamy: Modern Linguistics: An Introduction, Oxford University
Press 1997.
• David Crystal: Linguistics, Penguin Books, 1972
• Pushpinder Syal, DV Jindal: An Introduction to Linguistics, PHI Learning Pvt Ltd.,
2019.
• AC Gimson: An Introduction to Pronunciation of English, Hodder Arnold 1980.
• T. Balasubramanian: A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students, Lakshmi
Publications 2017.

Recommended Web Reference:

• Lingthusiasmlingthusiasm.com
• www.concentric-linguistics.url.tw
 The Bhopal School of Social Sciences, Bhopal (M.P)

(An Autonomous College Reaccredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC Affiliated to

Barkatullah University, Bhopal)
Department of English
Academic Year: 2020-21
MA (English) Third Semester
Name of the Program: MA (English) Program Code: 104
Name of the Group: Arts
Name of the Course: Paper-III-Option B – Indian Writing in English
Course Code: MAEH-303 Total Duration: 112.5 hrs Max. Marks: 100
(CCE:30+Theory:70)

Course Outcomes
Co1 To evaluate course material with specific reference to cultural and political
developments in India's colonial and post-colonial history.
CO2 To evaluate course texts both in terms of their place within the cultural and political
history of the Indian subcontinent, and also within a wider global context.
CO3 To analyze literary texts or their equivalents and to critically respond to them.
CO4 To explore a variety of Indian literature in English, poetry, drama and fiction writing.
CO5 To understand the history of Indian literature in English and native dialects.
Mapping of PSO with Course outcome
Progra Course PSO1 PSO2 PSO3 PSO4 PSO5 PSO6 PSO7 PSO8
mme Outcom
e
CO1 * * * *

CO2 * * * *
Paper
III CO3 * * *
Option
A- CO4 * * * *
INDIAN
WRITI CO5 * * * * *
NG IN
ENGLI
SH
 SYLLABUS

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
Annotations; Early Indo-Anglian poetry,
Romantic poetry, Mysticism, Metaphysics, The
rise of the Indian Novel in English, Impact of
Freedom Movement, the Gandhian ethos, post –
I
Independence poetry, Indian drama in English, 22.5
Novel of propaganda, Social realism, Myth and 20
folklore, the Philosophical novel, the Psychological
novel

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
Tagore: Gitanjali (Poems 1 to 15)

II Sri Aurobindo: Savitri Book I Canto I 22.5

Sri Aurobindo: “Ascent, Because Thou Art”, 20
“Bliss of Identity”, “Descent”, “Despair”.

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
APJ Abdul Kalam: Wings of Fire
III
Amartya Sen: The Argumentative Indian (Ch-1) 22.5 20

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
Girish Karnad: The Fire and the Rain
IV
Badal Sircar: Evam Indrajit 22.5 20

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
Anita Desai: Fire on the Mountain 22.5
V Nondetailed: Anita Desai: Cry the Peacock 20
Arun Joshi: The City and the River

Recommended Text Books:

• Tagore, Gitanjali, Fingerprints! Publishing, 2017.
• Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Sri Aurobindo Asharam Publications Department, 1993.
• APJ Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire, University’s Press, 1999.
• Amartya Sen: The Argumentative Indian, Penguin UK, 2006.
Recommended Reference Books:
• K. R. Shrinivas Iyengar: Indian Writing in English, Sterling Publications Pvt Ltd.
2019.
• Mallikarjun Patil: Studies in Indian English Literature, Sarup & Son, 2010.
• MK Naik: History of Indian English Literature, Sahitya Akademi 2009.
• PCK Prem: English Poetry in India: A Comprehensive Survey of Trends and Thought
Patterns, Author’s Press 2013
• Meenakshi Mukherjee: The Twice-Born Fiction, Pencraft International 2001.

Recommended Web Reference:

• www.skips.in › indian-writing-in-english
• https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137
 The Bhopal School of Social Sciences, Bhopal (M.P)

(An Autonomous College Reaccredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC Affiliated to

Barkatullah University, Bhopal)
Department of English
Academic Year: 2020-21
MA (English) Third Semester
Name of the Program: MA (English) Program Code: 104
Name of the Group: Arts
Name of the Course: Paper-IV-Option B- American Literature
Course Code: MAEH-304 Total Duration: 112.5 hrs Max. Marks: 100
(CCE:30+Theory:70)

Course Outcomes
CO1 Exposing the students to the canonical texts of American literature along with its
political, social, cultural, economic, and intellectual backgrounds
CO2 Understanding and tracing the contribution of American literature in the emergence of
American identity
CO3 Identifying and exploring the emergence of American English and the use of its dialects
in different contexts
CO4 Tracing the rise of various literary and cultural movements that define American
literature
CO5 Understanding and evaluating the role of different texts and authors in creating the
American literary tradition
 Mapping of PSO with Course outcome

Programme Course PSO1 PSO2 PSO3 PSO4 PSO5 PSO PSO7 PS

Outcome 6 O8
CO1 * * * *

CO2 * * * *
Paper IV Option
B AMERICAN CO3 * * * * *
LITERATURE
CO4 * * * * *

CO5 * * * * *
 SYLLABUS
Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)

History and Background of American Literature 22.5

I
20

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)

Prose
II Emerson: “Self-Reliance” 22.5
Martin Luther King Jr. : “I Have a Dream” 20

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
Poetry
Walt Whitman: “O Captain, My Captain”, “Song
of Myself”, “Grass”, “When Lilacs Last in the
III Dooryard Bloomed”, “I Celebrate Myself” 22.5
Robert Frost: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy 20
Evening”, “After Apple Picking”, “Birches”, “The
Road not Taken”

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
Drama
IV
Eugene O’Neil: Mourning becomes Electra 22.5 20

Duration (In
Unit Topics Marks
Hours)
Fiction
Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 22.5
V
20
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Recommended Text Books:

• Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, Maple Press India, 2017.
• Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Penguin Classics, 1994.
• Eugene O’Neil: Mourning becomes Electra, Jonathan Cape 1966.
• Emerson: Self Reliance, Dober Publications Inc.1994
Recommended Reference Books:
• Stella Mary George: History of American Literature Commonwealth Publishers (1
January 2011)
• W. R Goodman: History of American Literature, Generic, 2015
• Robert Spiller: Cycle of American Literature, Free Press,1967
• Richard Chase: The American Novel and its Tradition, Gordian Press Inc, 1957

Recommended Web Reference:

• databases.library.jhu.edu
• guides.tricolib.brynmawr.edu