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SYLLABUS

M.A. (ENGLISH) PART-I
SEMESTER-I & II, (Sessions 2011-2012 and 2012-2013)


(SEMESTER-I)

Course-I Chaucer to Renaissance
Course-II Jacobean to Restoration Age
Course-III Neo-Classicism & the Rise of the Novel
Course-IV Any one the following options:
(i) English Phonetics and Phonology
(ii) Shakespeare
(iii) European Drama

(SEMESTER-II)

Course-V The Romantic Age
Course-VI Victorian Poetry & Prose
Course-VII 19th Century British and European Fiction
Course-VIII Any one the following options:
(i) Indian Writing in English
(ii) Modern Indian Literature in Translation
(iii) Modern English Grammar and usage



Course-I CHAUCER TO RENAISSANCE

Time: 3 hours Max. Marks : 80
Pass Marks : 28

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER-SETTER
(i) The paper-setter shall set five questions in all. All questions are compulsory. The questions in Sections A, B, C and D shall be of 12 marks each. The question in Section E shall be of 32 marks.
(ii) In Question Nos. I, II, III and IV pertaining to Sections A, B, C and D respectively, the paper setter shall set one question with an internal alternative on each of the prescribed texts. Each of these four questions shall be of 12 marks.
(iii) Question No. V pertaining to Section-E shall cover the entire syllabus, carrying a weightage of 32 marks. This question shall comprise ten short-answer questions of about 150 words each - two on each prescribed text and the remaining two on history/movement/genre that forms the subject of the given course. The text-based questions shall be set to test the candidates' close reading of the prescribed texts. The paper setter shall set ten questions in all out of which candidates shall attempt any eight. Each question shall be of 4 marks.

SECTION A
Chaucer - Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
SECTION B
Marlowe - Dr. Faustus
SECTION C
Shakespeare - King Lear
SECTION D
Bacon - Essays:
Of Studies
Of Friendship
Of Marriage and Single Life
Of Great Place
Of Truth
Of Simulation and Dissimulation

RECOMMENDED READINGS
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer, Wyatt-J., ed., Chaucer, The Prologue, University Tutorial Press, London 1997
Bowden, Muriel: A Commentary on the General Prologue, Macmillan: London, 1948
Chesterton, G.K.: Chaucer Faber, London.
Coghill, N.: The Poet Chaucer, London, 1961.

Christopher Marlowe
1. Christopher Marlowe: Jump John etc. Dr. Faustus B.I. Publications, Bombay.

William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare: King Lear
Adelman, J: King Lear: Twentieth Century Interpretations, Prentice Hall Inc, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1978.
Bradley, A.C. Shakespearean Tragedy, 1904.
Hellman, R., Image and Structure in King Lear, 1948.
Muir, Kenneth, Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence, 1972.

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