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Guru Ghasidas University Bilaspur MA English Syllabus

SEM I
1 The English Language
2 The History of English Literature
3 British Literature from Chaucer to Augustan Age
4 A(Elective) Classical and Medieval European Literature
4 B(Elective) Masterpieces of World Literature: Ancient and Medieval Age

SEM II
5 Basics of Linguistics
6 British Literature from Romantic Age to Contemporary Times
7 Indian English Writing
8A(Elective) Modern European Literature
8B(Elective) Masterpieces of World Literature: Modern Period

Paper 1. The English Language

Unit 1. A Brief History of English Language
a) Definition Of Language, Origin of Language, Characteristics Of Human Language
b) Definition of Communication, Types Of Communication, Animal And Human
Communication, Language – A System Of Communication.
c) Indo- European Family Of Language, the Teutonic Languages, Grimm’s Law, Verner’s
law, the Stress shift

Unit 2: The Old English
a) Old English dialects, Characteristics of Old English,
b) Old English Spelling, Vocabulary, Grammar, Pronunciation

Unit 3: The Middle English
a) Middle English dialects, Characteristics of Middle English
b) Middle English Spelling, Vocabulary, Grammar, Pronunciation

Unit 4: The Modern English
a) Modern English dialects, Characteristics of Modern English
b) Modern English Spelling, Vocabulary, Grammar, Pronunciation

Unit 5: Foreign Influences
a) Latin influence, Celtic influence, Scandinavian influence
b) French influence, Greek influence, Indian and American Loan words

Unit 6: The Makers of English
a) The Bible, Chaucer, Spenser,
b) Shakespeare, Milton, Dr.Johnson

UNIT 7: Varieties of English Language
a) International varieties of English,Social varieties of English,Pidgins and creoles
b) Dialects, Registers, accent,Formal and Informal English,Code Switching and Code
Mixing

UNIT 8: The Concept of Modern English Structure: An Introduction
a) Looking at data: Structuralism-Saussure, Bloomfield, Sapir, Whorf,
Chomskian Approach – Transformational Generative Grammar
b) Levels of Linguistic Analysis: Phonological, Morphological, Lexical, Syntactic and
Semantic and pragmatic analysis

Paper 2 History of English Literature

Unit 1: Old English Period (7th Century- 1066)
a) Christian Narratives, Beowulf
b) Middle English Period (1066 – 1400)- Chaucer & Chaucerian Alliterative Revival,
Mystery, Miracle, Morality plays

Unit 2:
a) The English Renaissance, Reformation, Humanism
b) Elizabethan Poetry: Sonnet sequence , Epyllion, Verse satires, Lyric

Unit 3:
a) Elizabethan Prose: Fiction, Religious, Didactic & Critical Works
b) Elizabethan Drama: Early Drama, University Wits, Senecan Tragedies, Shakespearean
Tradition

Unit 4:
a) Jacobean Drama, Metaphysical & Cavalier Poetry
b) Jacobean Prose, Milton, Puritanism

Unit 5:
a) Restoration: Comedy, Heroic Play & Tragedy
b) Restoration Prose and Poetry

Unit 6:
a) Augustan Period: Satires, Travelogues, Prose essays and the Periodical , Graveyard Poets
b) The rise of the Novel, Age of Johnson

Unit 7:
a) Major features of the Romantic Revival, Romantic Prose & Poetry
b) Victorian Poetry, Drama, Novel & Prose, The Oxford Movement, Pre0 Raphaelite
Movement

Unit 8:
a) 20th Century Literature: Georgian Poets, Modernism, Trench Poets, Angry Young Men,
Kitchen –Sink drama
b) Stream of Consciousness, British Poetry Revival, Theatre of Absurd,Postmodernism

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