DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH OSMANIA UNIVERSITY CBCS -2010-11 Syllabus of MA (English) MA (Previous) Semester I Paper I Paper II Paper III Paper IV Paper V Semester II Paper I Paper II Paper III Paper IV Paper V Semester III Paper I Paper II Paper III Paper IV Paper V History, Structure and Description of English –I English Literature up to the Early Seventeenth Century—I English Literature up to the Early Seventeenth Century—II English Literature of the Seventeenth & Eighteenth Century—I English Literature of the Seventeenth & Eighteenth Century—II History, Structure and Description of English –II English Literature of the Nineteenth Century—I English Literature of the Nineteenth Century—II English Literature of the Twentieth Century—I English Literature of the Twentieth Century—II MA (Final) American Literature—I Indian Writing in English—I Postcolonial Literature English Language Teaching Inter-Disciplinary (ID-I) : Writing for Academic and Professional Purposes Seminar Semester IV Paper I American Literature—II Paper II Indian Writing in English—II Paper III Specializations: 1) Women’s Writing 2) Indian Literatures in Translation 3) Modern Classics in Translation one specialization to be offered in each college Paper IV Project Work Paper V Inter-Disciplinary (ID-II) : Literature and Film Seminar and gender) b) The Simple Sentence in English a) Verb Phrase Structure (Verb types. tense. Structure and Description of English-I a) Indo-European Family of Languages b) Descent of English: Old English. University Wits Poetry Geoffrey Chaucer Edmund Spenser General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Sonnets 34 (“Lyke as a Ship…”) Sonnet 54 (“Of the World’s Theatre…”) Sonnet 68 (“Most Glorious Lord of Life…”) Everyman in His Humour The Duchess of Malfi The Spanish Tragedie Doctor Faustus Unit 2 Unit 3 Drama Ben Jonson John Webster Drama Thomas Kyd Christopher Marlowe Unit 4 2 . concord. phrasal verbs) b) Coordination and Subordination (Semantic Implications) Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4 Unit 5 Paper II Unit 1 English Literature up to the Early Seventeenth Century—I Background Renaissance. Middle English and Modern English a) Language as a System of Communication b) Levels of Language Description: Phonology and Morphology a) Phonetic Description of Consonants b) Phonetic Description of Vowels a) Noun Phrase Structure (Determiners. Hyderabad MA (Previous) Semester I—(Papers I to V) Semester I—(Papers I to V) Paper I Unit 1 History. number.Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University. Development of British Drama. Reformation. aspect. pre and post modifiers. Rise of the English Novel Poetry John Milton Paradise Lost (Bks I & IX) Poetry John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel “Mac Flecknoe” Fiction Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews Prose John Dryden Essay of Dramatic Poesy (Up to “Examen of ‘The Silent Woman’”) Preface to Shakespeare (Up to the paragraph Samuel Johnson beginning “So careless was this great poet…” 3 Unit 5 . Utopia. Comedy Drama William Shakespeare Drama William Shakespeare Poetry John Donne George Herbert Poetry Andrew Marvell Richard Lovelace King Lear Henry IV: Part I Twelfth Night The Tempest “A Valediction”. Epic. “Pulley”. Tragedy. Hyderabad Unit 5 Prose Francis Bacon Sir Philip Sidney Essays (“Of Truth”. “Of Death”. “Of Revenge”) An Apologie for Poetrie Paper III Unit 1 Unit 2 English Literature up to the Early Seventeenth Century—II Background Translation of the Bible. Going Beyond the Seas” Unit 3 Unit 4 Unit 5 Paper IV Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4 English Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries—I Background Allegory. Neo-Classicism.Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University. “Garden” “To Althea From Prison” To Lucasta. “Collar” “To His Coy Mistress”. “The Canonization” “The Good-Morrow” “Virtue”. “The Chimney Sweeper”) Songs of Experience (“The Tyger”. “Holy Thursday”. “A Poison Tree”) “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” The Way of the World The Rivals “Sir Roger in Church” “The Aims of the Spectator” “Mr. Restoration Comedy. Sentimental Comedy Poetry Alexander Pope Poetry William Blake “The Rape of the Lock” (Canto I) “An Essay on Criticism” (Part I) Songs of Innocence (“The Lamb”. Bickerstaff on Himself” “The Spectator Club” Unit 4 Unit 5 Thomas Gray Drama William Congreve R B Sheridan Prose Joseph Addison Richard Steele 4 . “London”.Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University. “The Chimney Sweeper”. “Holy Thursday”. Hyderabad Paper V Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 English Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries—II Background Pastoral Poetry. Satire. Register. “Tintern Abbey” “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” “Ode to the West Wind”.Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University. and Style a) Word Stress in English b) Properties of Connected Speech: Weak forms/Elision and Intonation a) Behaviourist and Cognitivist Approaches to Language Learning/Teaching.” “To a Nightingale” Emma Wuthering Heights Unit 3 Unit 4 Fiction Jane Austen Emily Bronté 5 . Poetry. Structure and Description of English—II a) Word Formation in English b) Change of Meaning a) Levels of Language Description: Syntax b) Varieties of Language: Dialect. “To a Skylark” Odes: “On a Grecian Urn. Idiolect. Differences between First Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning b) Role of English in India and the Objectives of Teaching English at the College Level a) Techniques of Teaching Prose. Gothic.” To Autumn. Hyderabad MA (Previous) Semester II—(Papers I to V) Paper I Unit 1 History. Historical Novel Poetry William Wordsworth S T Coleridge Poetry P B Shelley John Keats “Intimations Ode”. Grammar. Fancy and Imagination. and Vocabulary b) Language Testing Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4 Unit 5 Paper II Unit 1 Unit 2 English Literature of the Nineteenth Century—I Background Romanticism. Realism and Naturalism Poetry Alfred Lord Tennyson Robert Browning Poetry Elizabeth Barrett Browning “Ulysses”. Stream of Consciousness Poetry W B Yeats T S Eliot “Easter 1916”. “Lotos Eaters” “My Last Duchess”. Hyderabad Unit 5 Prose Charles Lamb William Hazlitt “Dream Children”. Dramatic Monologue. Symbolism. “The Fight” Paper III Unit 1 English Literature of the Nineteenth Century—II Background Science and Religion. “Second Coming”. Pre-Raphaelites. “Old China” “The Indian Juggler”. “Windhover” “Dover Beach” Hard Times Tess of the d’Urbervilles “The Study of Poetry” Unto This Last (Section I) Unit 5 Paper IV Unit 1 Unit 2 English Literature of the Twentieth Century—I Background Modernism. “Byzantium” The Waste Land 6 . “God’s Grandeur”. Dada and Surrealism.Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University. “Andrea Del Sarto” Unit 2 Unit 3 G M Hopkins Matthew Arnold Unit 4 Fiction Charles Dickens Thomas Hardy Prose Matthew Arnold John Ruskin Sonnets from the Portuguese 21 (“Say over Again …”) 32 (“The first time that …”) 43 (“How do I love thee …”) “Pied Beauty”. ” “Toads” “Digging”. Existentialism.Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University. “Hawk Roosting” “Churchgoing. Hyderabad Unit 3 Fiction D H Lawrence Joseph Conrad Prose Virginia Woolf E M Forster Drama G B Shaw J M Synge Sons and Lovers Heart of Darkness A Room of One’s Own “Art for Art’s Sake” (from Two Cheers for Democracy) Saint Joan Riders to the Sea Unit 4 Unit 5 Paper V Unit 1 Unit 2 English Literature of the Twentieth Century—II Background Postmodernism. Impressionism. Movement Poetry Poetry Ted Hughes Phillip Larkin Seamus Heaney Fiction William Golding Graham Greene Drama Samuel Beckett Tom Stoppard Short Story Roald Dahl A S Byatt “Thought Fox”. “Punishment” Lord of the Flies The Power and the Glory Waiting for Godot Indian Ink “Lamb to the Slaughter” “The Umbrella Man” “Sugar” (from Sugar and Other Stories) Unit 3 Unit 4 Unit 5 7 . “Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry” “I taste a liquor never brewed”.Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University. “After great pain a formal feeling comes” The Scarlet Letter The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Hairy Ape Death of a Salesman “The American Scholar” “Civil Disobedience” Unit 2 Emily Dickinson Unit 3 Fiction Nathaniel Hawthorne Mark Twain Drama Eugene O'Neill Arthur Miller Prose Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Unit 4 Unit 5 8 . American Puritanism Poetry Phyllis Wheatley Walt Whitman “On Being Brought from Africa to America” “When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d”. American Renaissance. “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”. American Transcendentalism. Hyderabad Syllabus of M A (English) (With effect from 2009-10) MA (Final) Semester III—(Papers I-V) Paper I Unit 1 American Literature—I Background American Frontier. “She sweeps with many-colored brooms”. “Bullocky” Things Fall Apart The Edible Woman Unit 3 Fiction Chinua Achebe Margaret Atwood 9 . “Our Casuarina Tree” Sarojini Naidu “The Pardah Nashin”. Nationalism. Ed Makarand Paranjape.Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University. Hyderabad Paper II Unit 1 Indian Writing in English—I Background Indian Nationalist Movement. Rise of the Indian Novel Poetry (Selections from Indian Poetry in English. Vol III) Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4 Unit 5 Paper III Unit 1 Unit 2 Postcolonial Literatures Background Colonialism-Imperialism. Reform Movements. “Death lay in Ambush” “Didn’t He Ramble”. “Calypso” “Eve to Her Daughters”. Use of English for political awakening. Macmillan. Diaspora Poetry Christopher Okigbo Edward Brathwaite Judith Wright “Heaven's Gate”. 1993) Sri Aurobindo “I have a hundred lives” “The Golden Light” “Thought the Paraclete” Toru Dutt “Sita”. Postcolonialism. Ghanashyam” Fiction Krupabai Satthianandhan Mulk Raj Anand Fiction Raja Rao R K Narayan Prose Rabindranath Tagore B R Ambedkar Kamala: a Story of Hindu life Untouchable Kanthapura The Man-Eater of Malgudi “Nationalism in India” (from Nationalism) “The Annihilation of Caste” (Collected Works of B R Ambedkar. Communicative approach. Teaching Aids: Use of the Blackboard. reading. b. classroom discussion. the three language formula and Kothari commission. b. Traditional and digital Language Lab. the Computer and the Internet. d. Teaching large classes. Reading method.Use of the Grammar Translation method. Types of syllabi: structuraloral-situational. writing and related study skills b. Teaching of Language skills: a. c) Ramamurthy Commission Report d) Curriculum and its components. Error analysis and Remedial teaching c. Team teaching. audio visual tools. . Humanistic Approaches: Community Language Learning.Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University. Role play. Television. Methods and Syllabi: a. Teaching of language through literature. Syllabus/ Paper Design. Structural Approach: Audio-Lingual Method. Direct method. Lecture mode. Hyderabad Unit 4 Drama Wole Soyinka Derek Walcott Prose V S Naipaul Ngugi wa Thiong’o Kongi's Harvest Dream on Monkey Mountain Unit 5 “Indian Autobiographies” (from Literary Occasions: Essays) “The Language of African Literature” (from Decolonizing the Mind) Paper IV: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Unit I History of English Language Teaching in India: Some important landmarks: a) Critique of Macaulay’s Minute. The teaching of listening. Krashen’s Monitor Model (Natural method). Traditional methods . Suggestopaedia Classroom Techniques: a. materials development Major Approaches. flip charts. notional-functional. 10 Unit II Unit III: Unit IV: . OHP. linguistic competence and communicative competence. task based syllabus d. speaking. deviation. Teaching of literature c. d. c. Stylistic approach to the teaching of literature (norm. and foregrounding). Peer and pair work. b) Landmarks of English Education in India after Independence: Kunzru Committee. professional reports( business. Academic Reading : read to write. creative writing (Ad writing. Technical writing. tenses subject verb agreement. expansion. Group Discussion (GD) c. interrogatives. Interview d. minutes of a meeting) B. kinds of sentences-statements. note making Unit 2: Organization of writing A. intensive & critical reading. modal verbs. writing a review. proposals. articles. product and process writing. C. difference between spoken & written language B. C. traditional testing methods. B. Communicative Grammar: Nouns. Different types of tests b. Sentence structure. survey. C. writing a paragraph free writing. sequencing. argumentative and scientific) Unit 4: Professional Writing A. rhetoric.Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University. resume and email ( e-mail etiquette) B. writing an abstract Writing letters. writing a user manual SEMINAR PRESENTATION 11 . reported speech. report writing Writing an essay. Editing. question tags passive constructions. Importance of Testing. mind mapping. Hyderabad Unit V: Testing and Evaluation: a. Unit 3: Academic Writing A.focus on the gist. prepositional phrases. summarizing. use of conditionals. Paraphrasing. Guided writing. slogan writing and writing headlines). Inter office memos. use of connectives. idiom. SOPs ( statement of purpose) structure of a report. (descriptive. style and genre specific features in different texts . compound & complex sentences C. Course Evaluation Paper V : Inter –Disciplinary ID-I : Writing for Academic and Professional Purposes Unit 1: Language CompetenceA. American Comedy Poetry Robert Frost Wallace Stevens Robert Lowell Unit 3 Fiction Ernest Hemingway Saul Bellow Drama Lorraine Hansberry Neil Simon Short Fiction Henry James William Faulkner Issac Asimov “West Running Brook”. Multiculturalism.Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University. “Home Burial” “Sunday Morning” “The Emperor of Ice-Cream “For the Union Dead” “At a Bible House” The Old Man and the Sea Seize the Day Raisin in the Sun Sunshine Boys “The Middle Years” “Go Down Moses” “The Bicentennial Man” Unit 4 Unit 5 12 . Lost Generation. Hyderabad MA (Final) Semester IV—(Papers I-V) Paper I Unit 1 Unit 2 American Literature—II Background American Dream. “Management of Grief” (both from The Middleman and Other Stories. Ed Makarand Paranjape. 1989) “The Accompanist” “A Devoted Son” (both from Games at Twilight. Myth and Literature Poetry (Selections from Indian Poetry in English. Hyderabad Paper II Unit 1 Indian Writing in English—II Background Decolonization. Macmillan. Counter DisPapers.Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University. Partition Literature. 1993) Nissim Ezekiel Kamala Das A K Ramanujan Unit 3 Fiction Salman Rushdie Shashi Deshpande Drama Girish Karnad Mahesh Dattani Short Fiction Bharati Mukherjee “Enterprise” “Poet. “Love Poem for a Wife-I” Unit 2 Midnight’s Children The Binding Vine Hayavadana Final Solutions “A Wife’s Story”. Birdwatcher” “An Introduction” “The Old Playhouse” “A River”. Lover. 1978) Unit 4 Unit 5 Anita Desai 13 . Re-reading the Canon Prose Mary Wollstonecraft Unit 2: Vindication of the Rights of Women (Introduction and Chapter 2) The Second Sex (Essay on Biology) Simon de Beauvour Unit 3: Poetry Elizabeth Barret Browing Sylvia Plath Margaret Atwood Grace Nichols Anne Stevenson Fiction Virginia Woolf Nadine Gordimer Drama Carly Churchill Alima Ata Aidoo “A Curse for a Nation” “Lady Lazarus” “Circle” – Mud Poems “Making Poetry”. Rao & Dhawan) 14 iii) . Women’s Liberation Movement. Prakarana.Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University. Feminism. and Prahasana) and Theory of Rasa and Kavya Indian Concept of Translation (from Translation as Discovery by Sujit Mukherjee. The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument Unit 4: Mrs Dalloway July People Unit 5: Top Girls Anowa Paper III (B): INDIAN LITERATURES IN TRANSLATION Unit 1: i) ii) Background Types of Natya (Nataka. Hyderabad Paper: III: (Specializations) A) Women’s Writing B) Indian Literatures in Translation C) Modern Classics in Translation Paper III A) Women’s Writing Unit 1: Background The Woman Question: New Woman. Chapter 2 & 3) Scope of Comparative Literature (“Comparative Literature in India: A Perspective” by Bijay Kumar Das from Comparative Indian Literature ed. Ramanujan (OUP) Short Fiction Unit 5: i) Folktales – “Bopoluchi” (A Punjabi Folk Tale).Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University. Sahitya Academi. Ed Columbia University Press. a novel of peasant India Tans by Jai Ratan and P. OUP. Puram Poems – “King Killi in Combat” (page 123) Gurram Joshua – I was one of them”. Vol II Ed by Tharu & Lalitha. By Velcheru Narayan Rao. 1979 ii) U.K. “Neytal” (page 41). “Why the Fish Laughed” (A Kashmiri Folk Tale).”Palai” (page 53). An Anthology ed. The Bat Messenger” (From Twentieth Century Telugu Poetry. 1994.K. Lal Bombay: Jaico. Folktales from India selected and ed. 1984 Silence! the Court is in Session (OUP) ii) Unit 4: i) Vijay Tendulkar Fiction Premchand Godan. Ed Lakshmi Holmstrom. New Delhi) Drama Kalidas Unit 2: i) ii) iii) Unit 3 i) Abhgnana Shakuntalam from The Plays of Kalidasa by Barbara Stoller Miller.R Anantha Murthy Smakara: A Rite of Dead Man Trans by A. “Marutam” (page 97). Rupa. ii) iii) 15 . By A. “Mullai” (page 81). Ismat Chugtai – “Chauti Ka Jowra” from Inner Courtyard. Mahasweta Devi – “Shishu” from Women’s Writing. Ramanujan. Ramanujan. OUP 2002) Jibananda Das – “Banalata Sen”. Akam Poems – “Kurinci” (page 15). The Naked Solitary Hand” (From Signatures ed by Satchidanandan. Penguin Books India. 2002. Hyderabad iv) Dalit Aesthetics (“Dalit Literature and Aesthetics” from Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature by Sharavan Kumar Limbale) Poetry Sangam Poety – from Poems of Love and War Trans by AK. 1991. film noir. Epic Theatre . Bourgeois Experience. The Remorse of the Dead Pablo Neruda: What Spain was Like. special effects Unit 2: Drama and Film a) George Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion (1913) b) George Cukor (Director) – My Fair Lady (1964) Unit 3 : Novel and Film a) EM Forster – A Passage to India (1924) b) David Lean (Director) – A Passage to India (1984). Setting. Character. flashback. Point of View b) Narrative devices : genres. Nature Morte Unit 3: Fiction Gustav Flaubert: Milan Kundera: Drama Anton Chekhov Betrolt Brecht Unite 2: Madame Bovary Book of Laughter Forgetting Unit 4 The Cherry Orchard Mother Courage Unit 5: Short Fiction Franz Kafka Gabriel Garcia Marquez PROJECT WORK Metamorphosis No one Writes to the Colonel PAPER IV Paper V: Inter-Disciplinary (ID-II) Literature and Film Unit1: Background: a) Elements of a narrative: Theme. montage. Nune Dimmittis. Hyderabad Paper III (C) : Modern Classics in Translation Unit 1: Background Enlightenment.Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University. Even She was called Bautrice By Many Who knew Not Wherefore. The Heavenly Poets. Opium in the East Joseph Brodsky: Odysseus to Telemachus. Plot. Magic Realism. Poetry Charles Baudelaire : The Sick muse. Structure. Unit 4: Short Fiction and Film a) Ruskin Bond – “The Blue Umbrella” b) Vishal Bhardwaj (Director) – “The Blue Umbrella” (2007) 16 . OUP. SEMINAR PRESENTATION 17 . Reberge. 1999. 1989. Film & Literature. Seagull Books. Seagull Books. Brian. Our Films. Talking about films. Orient Longman. Ray. Routledge. Literature –Film Quarterly. 1957.. Novels into film. an introduction. Morris. ed Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader. Rethinking the novel/film debate. Bluestone. Double Exposure : Fiction into Film. 1976. Kamilla. 1981 Deborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan. 1987. 1996. Timothy. The Subject of Cinema. 2003. Chidananda. Corrigan. Joy Gould.Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University. Novel to film: an introduction to the theory of adaptation. Stam. Gaston. Longman. Prentice Hall. Orient Longman. McFarlane. Their Films. eds. A Companion to literature and film. screen to text. 1979. Robert and Alessandra Raengo. Elliott. Das Gupta. 2004. 1999. George. Satyajit. Johns Hopkins Press. Hyderabad Suggested Reading Beja. Adaptations: from text to screen. Blackwell Pub. eds. CUP. Boyum.