M.A. I, II, III & IV Sem English- Old
MA I Sem (English)
Paper - I (Poetry)
UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II: (Epic Poetry)
John Milton: Paradise Lost Book-I
Valmiki: The Ramayana (Sundar Kand)
UNIT- III (Narrative Poetry)
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
S.T. Coleridge: The Rime of The Ancient Mariner
UNIT- IV (Renaissance Poetry)
William Shakespeare: Sonnets No.- 23, 24, 26, 27, 31, 44.
John Donne: The Extasie, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, The Good Morrow, Love's Alchemy, The Canonization, The Anniversarie.
UNIT-V (Satirical Poetry)
John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel
Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock
Paper - II (Drama)
UNIT- I
Annotations
UNIT-II: (Non-English Drama)
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
Kalidas: Abhigyan Shakuntalam (English Translation, Sahitya Academy)
UNIT- III (Shakespearean Tragedy)
Hamlet
King Lear
UNIT- IV (Other Shakespearean Plays)
Twelfth Night
The Tempest
UNIT-V (Renaissance Drama: Non Shakespearean)
Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
Ben Jonson: Every Man in His Humour
Paper -III (Fiction)
UNIT-I ( Early Prose Narrative)
Bana Bhatt: Kadambari
Cervantes: Don Quixote
UNIT-II: (Picaresque Novel)
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
UNIT- III (Historical Novel)
Walter Scott: Kenilworth
Thackeray: Henry Esmond
UNIT- IV (Fiction by Women)
George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
UNIT-V (19th Century Realistic Novel)
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
Zola: Nana
Paper -IV (Prose)
UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II: (Biography and Autobiography)
J.L. Nehru: Autobiography (Fourth Chapter)
Kamala Das: My Story (Fourth Chapter)
UNIT- III (Political and Social Writings)
Plato: The Republic, Book II (First Four Chapters)
Bacon: Of Truth, Of Studies, Of Revenge, Of Love
UNIT- IV (Philosophical Writing)
J. Krishnamurti: 1. Individual and Society 2. Action and Idea 3. What is Self ? 4. What are We Seeking?
Lala Hardayal: Intellectual Culture
UNIT-V
Bertrand Russell: True Success
William Hazlitt: 1. The Ignorance of the Learned 2. The Indian Jugglers.
MA II Sem (English)
Paper - I (Poetry)
UNIT-I (Pre Romantic Poetry)
Thomas Gray: The Bard, The Progress of Poesy
William Blake: On Another Sorrow, From 'Auguries of Innocence', The Poison Tree
UNIT-II: (Romantic Poetry)
W. Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey, Ode on the Intimations of Immortality.
P.B. Shelley: Adonais
John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn
UNIT- III (Victorian Poetry)
Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses, The Lotus Eaters
Matthew Arnold: Thyrsis, The Scholar Gipsy
UNIT- IV (Symbolist Poetry)
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
W. B. Yeats: The Second Coming, Byzantium, Sailing to Byzantium
UNIT-V (Modern Poetry)
W.H. Auden: Strange Meeting, The Shield of Achilles
Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill, A Refusal to Mourn the Death of a Child
Paper - II (Drama)
UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II: (Restoration Drama)
John Dryden: All for Love
Congreve: The Way of the World
UNIT- III (Victorian Drama)
G. B. Shaw: Man and Superman
Galsworthy: Justice
UNIT- IV (Modern Drama)
Ibsen: A Doll's House
Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children
UNIT-V (Indian Drama)
Girish Karnad: The Fire and the Rain
Mahesh Dattani: Tara
Paper - III (Fiction)
UNIT-I (19th Century Fiction)
Flaubert: Madame Bovary
George Meredith: The Egoist
UNIT-II: (Rural Novel)
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'urbervilles
Premchand : Godan
UNIT- III (Psychological Novel)
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
UNIT- IV (Naturalist Novel)
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim
Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
UNIT-V (Post Naturalist Novel)
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
Saul Bellow: Herzog
Paper - IV (Prose)
UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II:
Boswell: The Life of Dr. Johnson ( From Everyman's Edition of Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, London: J.M. Dent 1958 Vol. I, Introductory pp 5-11)
Addison: Choice of Hercules, Uses of the Spectators
Note: In P.G. College Satna - Sir Roger at Church, Sir Roger at Home
UNIT- III
Goldsmith: The Man in Black
Charles Lamb: New Year's Eve, A Bachelor's Complaint against the Behavior of Married People
UNIT- IV
A. G. Gardiner: On the Rule of the Road, In Defence of Laziness
Robert Lynd: Back to the Desk, Forgetting, The Pleasure of Ignorance, I Tremble to think
UNIT-V
G.K. Chesterton: On Running after One's Hat, Patriotism and Sport
Hilaire Belloc: On Books, On Preserving English
UNIT-I (Pre Romantic Poetry)
Thomas Gray: The Bard, The Progress of Poesy
William Blake: On Another Sorrow, From 'Auguries of Innocence', The Poison Tree
UNIT-II: (Romantic Poetry)
W. Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey, Ode on the Intimations of Immortality.
P.B. Shelley: Adonais
John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn
UNIT- III (Victorian Poetry)
Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses, The Lotus Eaters
Matthew Arnold: Thyrsis, The Scholar Gipsy
UNIT- IV (Symbolist Poetry)
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
W. B. Yeats: The Second Coming, Byzantium, Sailing to Byzantium
UNIT-V (Modern Poetry)
W.H. Auden: Strange Meeting, The Shield of Achilles
Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill, A Refusal to Mourn the Death of a Child
Paper - II (Drama)
UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II: (Restoration Drama)
John Dryden: All for Love
Congreve: The Way of the World
UNIT- III (Victorian Drama)
G. B. Shaw: Man and Superman
Galsworthy: Justice
UNIT- IV (Modern Drama)
Ibsen: A Doll's House
Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children
UNIT-V (Indian Drama)
Girish Karnad: The Fire and the Rain
Mahesh Dattani: Tara
Paper - III (Fiction)
UNIT-I (19th Century Fiction)
Flaubert: Madame Bovary
George Meredith: The Egoist
UNIT-II: (Rural Novel)
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'urbervilles
Premchand : Godan
UNIT- III (Psychological Novel)
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
UNIT- IV (Naturalist Novel)
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim
Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
UNIT-V (Post Naturalist Novel)
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
Saul Bellow: Herzog
Paper - IV (Prose)
UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II:
Boswell: The Life of Dr. Johnson ( From Everyman's Edition of Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, London: J.M. Dent 1958 Vol. I, Introductory pp 5-11)
Addison: Choice of Hercules, Uses of the Spectators
Note: In P.G. College Satna - Sir Roger at Church, Sir Roger at Home
UNIT- III
Goldsmith: The Man in Black
Charles Lamb: New Year's Eve, A Bachelor's Complaint against the Behavior of Married People
UNIT- IV
A. G. Gardiner: On the Rule of the Road, In Defence of Laziness
Robert Lynd: Back to the Desk, Forgetting, The Pleasure of Ignorance, I Tremble to think
UNIT-V
G.K. Chesterton: On Running after One's Hat, Patriotism and Sport
Hilaire Belloc: On Books, On Preserving English
MA III Sem (English)
Paper - I (Critical Theory)
UNIT-I
Definition, Functions, Characteristics, Development of English Language.
UNIT-II
Language Varieties: Register, Style and Dialect Approaches to the Study of Language: Synchronic and Diachronic
UNIT- III
Definition of Phonetics and Phonology, Difference between Phonetics and Phonology, Organs of Speech
UNIT- IV
Phonemes, Allophones, Phonetic Symbols for Sounds in RP
UNIT-V
Basics of Transformational Generic Grammar: Nature and Characteristics
Paper - III (Indian Writings in English)
UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II
Sri Aurobindo: Savitri (Book I- Canto I)
Tagore: Geetanjali (Poems- 1 to 10), McMillan Edition
UNIT- III
APJ Abdul Kalam: Wings of Fire
UNIT- IV
Asif Currimbhoy: Valley of Assassins
Badal Sircar: Evam Indrajit
UNIT-V
Anita Desai: Cry, the Peacock
Arun Joshi: The City and the River
Paper - IV (American Literature)
UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II: (Prose)
Emerson: Self Reliance, The Over Soul
UNIT- III (Poetry)
Walt Whitman: O Captain, My Captain, Song of Myself : Grass, When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloomed, I Celebrate Myself.
Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, After Apple Picking, Birches, The Road not Taken.
UNIT- IV (Drama)
Eugene O' Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra
Note: In Govt. P.G. College Satna: Hairy Ape
UNIT-V (Fiction)
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
UNIT-I
Natyashastra- Rasa Theory
Aristotle: Poetics (Butcher's Translation)
UNIT-II
Longinus: On the Sublime
Philip Sidney: Apology for Poetry
UNIT- III
John Dryden: An Essay on Dramatic Poesy
Dr. Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare
UNIT- IV
Wordsworth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Coleridge: Biographia Literaria (Ch. XIII & XIV)
UNIT-V
Matthew Arnold: Essays in Criticism (Second Series)
T.S. Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent
Paper - II (English Language)
Natyashastra- Rasa Theory
Aristotle: Poetics (Butcher's Translation)
UNIT-II
Longinus: On the Sublime
Philip Sidney: Apology for Poetry
UNIT- III
John Dryden: An Essay on Dramatic Poesy
Dr. Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare
UNIT- IV
Wordsworth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Coleridge: Biographia Literaria (Ch. XIII & XIV)
UNIT-V
Matthew Arnold: Essays in Criticism (Second Series)
T.S. Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent
Paper - II (English Language)
UNIT-I
Definition, Functions, Characteristics, Development of English Language.
UNIT-II
Language Varieties: Register, Style and Dialect Approaches to the Study of Language: Synchronic and Diachronic
UNIT- III
Definition of Phonetics and Phonology, Difference between Phonetics and Phonology, Organs of Speech
UNIT- IV
Phonemes, Allophones, Phonetic Symbols for Sounds in RP
UNIT-V
Basics of Transformational Generic Grammar: Nature and Characteristics
Paper - III (Indian Writings in English)
UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II
Sri Aurobindo: Savitri (Book I- Canto I)
Tagore: Geetanjali (Poems- 1 to 10), McMillan Edition
UNIT- III
APJ Abdul Kalam: Wings of Fire
UNIT- IV
Asif Currimbhoy: Valley of Assassins
Badal Sircar: Evam Indrajit
UNIT-V
Anita Desai: Cry, the Peacock
Arun Joshi: The City and the River
Paper - IV (American Literature)
UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II: (Prose)
Emerson: Self Reliance, The Over Soul
UNIT- III (Poetry)
Walt Whitman: O Captain, My Captain, Song of Myself : Grass, When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloomed, I Celebrate Myself.
Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, After Apple Picking, Birches, The Road not Taken.
UNIT- IV (Drama)
Eugene O' Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra
Note: In Govt. P.G. College Satna: Hairy Ape
UNIT-V (Fiction)
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
MA IV Sem (English)
Paper - I (Critical Theory)
UNIT-I
Morphology:
Morpheme, Allomorph, Word Formation
UNIT-II:
Linguistic Analysis:
I.C. Analysis and Ambiguities
UNIT- III
Phonology:
Sound Sequences: Syllable, Word Stress, Strong and Weak Forms, Stress and Intonation.
UNIT- IV
Grammar:
Sentence types and their transformation relations: (a) Statement (b) Question (c) Negative (d) Passive (e) Imperative
UNIT-V
Grammar:
Word Classes: Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjunct Phrase, Syntax Coordination, Subordination, Relative Clauses, Adverbials,, Determiners, Article Features, Concord.
Paper -III (Indian Writings in English)
UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II:
Sarojini Naidu
Kamala Das
Note: All poems of each poet in V.K. Gokak ed. Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry, Sahitya Academy.
UNIT- III
M.R. Anand: Untouchable
R. K. Narayan: The English Teacher
UNIT- IV
Vishnu Sharma: Panchatantra ( Book I)
Munshi Premchand: The Shroud (Kafan)
UNIT-V
Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines
Shashi Deshpande: That Long Silence
Paper -IV (American Literature)
UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II: (Prose)
Emerson: American Scholar
Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
UNIT- III (Poetry)
Emily Dickinson: Because I Could not Wait for Death, I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed, A Light Exists in Spring, This is My Letter to the World.
Sylvia Plath: Daddy, Lady Lizarus, The Bee Meeting
UNIT- IV (Drama)
Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
Edward Albee: The Zoo Story
UNIT-V (Fiction)
Earnest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
UNIT-I
Anand Vardhan: Dhwani Theory
Ferdinand Saussure: The Nature of Linguistic Sign
UNIT-II:
I.A. Richards: Two Uses of Language
J.C. Ransom: Concept of Structure and Texture of Poetry
UNIT- III
F.R. Leavis: Literary Criticism and Philosophy
J. Derrida: Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences
UNIT- IV
Edward Said: Crisis ( The Scope of Orientalism)
Basic Trends in Feminist Criticism
UNIT-V
Practical Criticism: It will contain two passages; One in verse and the other in prose for practical criticism following the technique as illustrated in I.A. Richards' book 'Practical Criticism' and David Daiches' 'Critical Approaches'.
Paper - II (English Language)
Anand Vardhan: Dhwani Theory
Ferdinand Saussure: The Nature of Linguistic Sign
UNIT-II:
I.A. Richards: Two Uses of Language
J.C. Ransom: Concept of Structure and Texture of Poetry
UNIT- III
F.R. Leavis: Literary Criticism and Philosophy
J. Derrida: Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences
UNIT- IV
Edward Said: Crisis ( The Scope of Orientalism)
Basic Trends in Feminist Criticism
UNIT-V
Practical Criticism: It will contain two passages; One in verse and the other in prose for practical criticism following the technique as illustrated in I.A. Richards' book 'Practical Criticism' and David Daiches' 'Critical Approaches'.
Paper - II (English Language)
UNIT-I
Morphology:
Morpheme, Allomorph, Word Formation
UNIT-II:
Linguistic Analysis:
I.C. Analysis and Ambiguities
UNIT- III
Phonology:
Sound Sequences: Syllable, Word Stress, Strong and Weak Forms, Stress and Intonation.
UNIT- IV
Grammar:
Sentence types and their transformation relations: (a) Statement (b) Question (c) Negative (d) Passive (e) Imperative
UNIT-V
Grammar:
Word Classes: Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjunct Phrase, Syntax Coordination, Subordination, Relative Clauses, Adverbials,, Determiners, Article Features, Concord.
Paper -III (Indian Writings in English)
UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II:
Sarojini Naidu
Kamala Das
Note: All poems of each poet in V.K. Gokak ed. Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry, Sahitya Academy.
UNIT- III
M.R. Anand: Untouchable
R. K. Narayan: The English Teacher
UNIT- IV
Vishnu Sharma: Panchatantra ( Book I)
Munshi Premchand: The Shroud (Kafan)
UNIT-V
Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines
Shashi Deshpande: That Long Silence
Paper -IV (American Literature)
UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II: (Prose)
Emerson: American Scholar
Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
UNIT- III (Poetry)
Emily Dickinson: Because I Could not Wait for Death, I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed, A Light Exists in Spring, This is My Letter to the World.
Sylvia Plath: Daddy, Lady Lizarus, The Bee Meeting
UNIT- IV (Drama)
Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
Edward Albee: The Zoo Story
UNIT-V (Fiction)
Earnest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men