The Banaras Hindu University Postgraduate Entrance Test is a paper-pen mode entrance test directed by Banaras Hindu University for admission to various postgraduate courses of study.

This entrance test is important for aspirant’s intent on securing PG admission in BHU.

Exam date:

Friday 03.06.2016
1st
M. A. in: - Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Persian, Pali, Sanskrit, Telugu, Urdu, Nepali, English, French, I.P.R., German

M. A. in: - Economics, History, Political Science, Sociology
2nd M.A. in Integrated Rural Development and Management

M.A. syllabus:

There shall be one Paper of 120 minutes duration carrying 450 marks containing 150 multiple-choice questions.

These questions shall be based on General Awareness, Analytical, Quantitative and Verbal Abilities and Aptitude.

The questions will be from diverse areas of experience varying from the activities of daily life to broad categories of academic interest such as Languages, Linguistics, History, AIHC, Philosophy, History of Arts, etc. The standard will be that of Bachelor’s Degree (under at least 10+2+3 pattern).

MA course syllabus for English from BHU University
SEMESTER I
Course 1: Introduction to Linguistics – ENG - 101
1. (a) Key properties of Language
(b) Language varieties
2. (a) Major concerns of Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics
(b) Historical approach, Descriptive approach
3. Major concepts in Linguistics:
(a) Syntagmatic and Paradigmetic axes
(b) Differential Calculous
(c) Constituent Structure
(d) Transformations and Deep Structure
4. Stylistics, its methods and limitations.
Course 2: Poetry I (Chaucer to Blake) – ENG - 102
Chaucer : Prologue to Canterbury Tales (Modern version)
*Shakespeare’s Sonnets No. 18, 30, 63, 130
*Milton : Paradise Lost, Book I
*Donne : The Blossom, The Canonization, The Good Morrow
Marvell : To His Coy Mistress
*Pope : The Rape of the Lock
*Gray : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
*Blake : The Tiger, Ah! Sun-flower
Course 3: Drama I (Marlowe to Wilde excluding Shakespeare) – ENG - 103
*Webster : The Duchess of Malfi
*Marlowe : Dr. Faustus
*Jonson : The Alchemist
Congreve : The Way of the World
*Wilde : The Importance of Being Earnest
Origin and Growth of the British Theatre
Course 4: Prose– ENG - 104
*Bacon : Of Truth; Of Death; Of Adversity; Of Great Place; Of Parents and Children
Addison & Steele : Of the Club; The Coverley Household; Labour and Exercise; Sir Roger at the Theatre (Coverley Papers from the Spectator, ed. K. Deighton, Macmillan)
*Lamb : Christ Hospital; New Year’s Eve; Imperfect Sympathies
*Carlyle : Hero as Man of Letters
Russell : Science and War; Science and Values (from The Impact of Science on Society)
Huxley : Tragedy and the Whole Truth (from W.E.Williams, ed. A Book of English Essays)

SEMESTER II
Course 5: Linguistics and English Language Teaching– ENG - 201
1. Phonology : (a) Speech mechanism and the Organs of Speech
(b) Consonants, Vowels, Diphthongs
(c) Phoneme
(d) Stress, Intonation
2. Morphology : Morphemes: Words and Affixes
3. Syntax : (a) I.C. Analysis and its limits
(b) Transformations of Movement, Addition, Substitution,
Deletion
(c) Coordination and Subordination
4. English Language Teaching : (a) Direct Method
(b) Audiolingual Method
(c) Communicative Language Teaching
(d) Error Analysis
(e) Teaching skills of Language: listening, speaking,
reading, writing.
(f) Testing
Course 6: Poetry II (Wordsworth to Arnold) – ENG - 202
*Wordsworth : The Prelude, Book I
*Coleridge : Kubla Khan
*Shelley : Adonais
*Keats : Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn
*Tennyson : Ulysses, The Lotos Eaters
*Browning : Rabbi Ben Ezra, Porphyria’s Lover
*Arnold : The Scholar Gypsy
Course 7: Drama II (Shakespeare) – ENG - 203
Henry IV, Part I
Twelfth Night
*Hamlet
*The Tempest
Shakespeare Criticism: Dr. Johnson, Bradley, Wilson Knight, Caroline Spurgeon, Stephen Greenblatt.
Course 8: Fiction I (Defoe to Hardy) – ENG - 204
Defoe : Moll Flanders
Fielding : Joseph Andrews
Austen : Emma
Dickens : Great Expectations
Eliot : Middlemarch
Hardy : Tess of the D’urbervilles

SEMESTER III
Course 9: Poetry III (Hopkins to Ted Hughes) – ENG - 301
*Hopkins : Pied Beauty; The Windhover; Carrion Comfort
*Yeats : Sailing to Byzantium; Byzantium; No Second Troy; Coole Park and Ballyle
*Eliot : The Waste Land
*Auden : In Memory of W.B. Yeats; The Shield of Achilles
*Larkin : Church Going; Next, please; At Grass
*Ted Hughes : The Thought-Fox; Hawk Roosting
Course 10: Drama III (Twentieth Century Drama) – ENG - 302
*Shaw : Man and Superman
*Yeats : Countess Cathleen
*Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral
*Beckett : Waiting for Godot
*Pinter : The Birthday Party
Course 11: Literary Criticism & Theory 1– ENG - 303
Aristotle : On the Art of Poetry
Bharatamuni : On Natya and Rasa: Aesthetics of Dramatic Experience
Anandavardhana : Dhvani: Structure of Poetic Meaning
Dryden : Essay on Dramatic Poesy
Wordsworth : Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Coleridge : Biographia Literaria (Chs. XIII, XVII & XVIII)
Arnold : The Study of Poetry (Essays in Criticism Book II)
Course 12: Indian Literature in English I – ENG – EL-3.1
*Tagore : Thou hast made me endless; Leave this chanting and singing; I am like a remnant of a cloud; In one salutation to thee (Gitanjali)
*Sri Aurobindo : Savitri Book I Canto I (Passages for explanation to be set from the first 64 lines)
*Girish Karnad : Nag-Mandala
The following poets from Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets ed. R. Parthasarathy (OUP):
*Nissim Ezekiel : Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher; Background, Casually; Enterprise
*Jayant Mahapatra : Grass, Lost
*A.K. Ramanujan : A River; Love Poem for a Wife I; Obituary
*Kamala Das : My Grandmother’s House; A Hot Noon in Malabar; The Invitation
OR
American Literature I– ENG – EL-3.2
The following from American Literature of the Nineteenth Century (Eurasia) and American Literature 1890-1965 (Eurasia):
Emerson : The American Scholar, Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul
Poe : *The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Philosophy of Composition
Whitman : *When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, Passage to India
*Wallace Stevens : The Emperor of Ice-cream, Sunday Morning
*Emily Dickinson : I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed, I Felt a Funeral in My Brain, The Soul Selects Her Own Society, Because I Could not Stop for Death, These Are the Days When Birds Come
*Tennessee Williams : A Streetcar Named Desire
Edward Albee : Zoo Story

SEMESTER IV
Course 13: Fiction II– ENG–401
Conrad : Heart of Darkness
Woolf : Mrs. Dalloway
Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Lawrence : Women in Love
Kingsley Amis : Lucky Jim
Course 14: Literary Criticism & Theory II – ENG – 402
Eliot : Tradition and the Individual Talent; The Function of Criticism; Hamlet (Selected Essays)
Richards : Principles of Literary Criticism (Chs.IV-XV, XXI, XXXIV, XXXV and Appendix A – On Value)
Ransom : A Note on Ontology (Twentieth Century Criticism: The Major Statements, eds. Handy and Westbrook) The following critics from David Lodge, ed. Modern criticism and Theory : A Reader (London : Longman, 1988)
The following critics from David Lodge, ed. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader (London: Longman, 1988)
Saussure : Nature of the Linguistic Sign
Derrida : Structure, Sign and Play in the discourse of the human Sciences
Said : Crisis (in Orientialism)
Showalter : Feminist criticism in the Wilderness
Eagleton : Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism
Course 15: Indian Literature in English II – ENG – EL-4.1
Mulk Raj Anand : Untouchable
R.K. Narayan : The Financial Expert
Raja Rao : The Serpent and the Rope
Anita Desai : Voices in the City
Salman Rushdie : Midnight’s Children
Amitav Ghosh : The Shadow Lines
Jawahar Lal Nehru : An Autobiography
OR
American Literature II – ENG – EL-4.2
Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter
Melville : Billy Budd
Faulkner : Light in August
Hemingway : A Farewell to Arms
Ralph Ellison : Invisible Man
Saul Bellow : Humboldt’s Gift
Course 16: Indian Literature in Translation – ENG – EL-4.3
The following poets from Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry eds. Vinay Dharwadker & A.K. Ramanujan:
Sitanshu Yashashchandra : Drought
V Indira Bhavani : Avatars
Ali Sardar Jafri : Morsel
Paresh Chandra Raut : Snake
Tagore : Homecoming; My Lord, The Baby
Shrilal Shukla : Rag Darbari
Tendulkar : Ghasiram Kotwal
Ananthamurthy : Samskara
Translation, Theory and Practice
OR
New Literatures in English – ENG – EL-4.4
The following poets from An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry ed. C D Narasimhaiah, Macmillan:
*A.D. Hope : Australia; The Death of the Bird
*Atwood : Journey to the Interior
*A.K. Ramanujan : Death and the Good Citizen; Waterfalls in a Bank (The Collected Poems of A.K. Ramanujan, OUP)
*Agha Shahid Ali : Showman; The Season of the Plains (Twelve Modern Indian Poets ed. A.K. Mehrotra, OUP

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