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Syllabus for MA English in JNU

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Here I am giving you syllabus for MA English examination of Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi in a PDF file attached with it

Semester 1
Paper Eng 0101 English Poetry from Chaucer to Milton
Paper Eng 0102 Eighteenth Century English Literature
Paper Eng 0103 Literary Criticism 1
Paper Eng 0104 Optional Paper (One of the following):
Paper Eng 0104 (i) Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Drama
Paper Eng 0104 (ii) European Comedy
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Semester 2
Paper Eng 0201 Shakespeare
Paper Eng 0202 Language and Linguistics
Paper Eng 0203 Optional Paper (One of the following):*
Paper Eng 0203 (i) Literature and Gender
Paper Eng 0203 (ii) New Literatures in English
Paper Eng 0203 (iii) Romantic Poetry
Paper Eng 0204 A course in another discipline. #

Semester 3
Paper Eng 0301 Nineteenth Century Novel
Paper Eng 0302 Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama
Paper Eng 0303 Indian Literature 1
Paper Eng 0304 Optional Paper (One of the following):
Paper Eng 0304 (i) American Literature
Paper Eng 0304 (ii) Literature and the Visual Arts in Europe

Semester 4
Paper Eng 0401 Twentieth Century Novel
Paper Eng 0402 Literary Criticism 2
Paper Eng 0403 Optional Paper (One of the following): *
Paper Eng 0403(i) Ancient Greek and Latin Literature
Paper Eng 0403(ii) Indian Literature 2
Paper Eng 0403(iii) The Novel in India
Paper Eng 0404 A course in another discipline. #

Semester-I
101: English Poetry from Chaucer to Milton
Unit I :
Geoffery Chaucer: „The General Prologue‟ from The Canterbury Tales

Unit II :
The English Sonnet:
Sir Thomas Wyatt, “I find no Peace, and all my War is done”;
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, “The fraility and Hurtfulness of Beauty”
Sir Philip Sidney, “My mouth doth water, and my breast do swell”;
Spenser, “One day I wrote her name upon the sand”;
William Shakespeare, “When to sessions of sweet silent thought” “That time of the year thou mayst in me behold”; “My mistress‟s eyes are nothing like the sun”

Unit III:
Metaphysical Poetry:
John Donne, “A Valediction forbidding Mourning”; “The Flea” and “The Anniversarie”

George Herbert, “Virtue”; “The Pulley”;
Andrew Marvell, “To his Coy Mistress”; “ The Garden”.
Unit IV:
John Milton: Paradise Lost Book 1
Books Recommended:
E.T. Donaldson, Speaking of Chaucer (London,1970)
Elizabethan, Poetry: Lyrical and Narrative ed. G. Hammond (London, 1984, Casebook series
Basil Willey, The Seventeenth Century Background (London, 1934)
J. Summers, The Muse’s Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost (London, 1962)
David Daiches, The History of English Literature,(volumes 1-4; for extensive background reading for all sections)

102: Eighteenth Century English Literature

Unit I:
John Dryden: Absalom & Achitophel
Unit II:
Pope: The Rape of the Lock
Unit III:
Swift: Gullivers Travels (Books I & IV)
Unit IV:
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Thomas Gray: “Elegy written in a Country Churchyard”
Books Recommended:
A. R. Humphreys, The Augustan World (London, 1954)

J. Sutherland, A Preface to Eighteenth Century Poetry, ()xford,1948)

P. Rogers, An Introduction to Pope (London, 1975)
R. Alter, Fielding and the Nature of the Novel (Cambridge,Mass, 1968)
A,R, Humphreys, The Augustan World (London, 1964)
W.J. Bate, The Achievement of Samuel Johnson (New York, 1955)

103 (A): Indian Writing in English-I
Unit I :
Nissim Ezekiel: „Case Study‟, „Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher‟.
Kamala Das: „The Freaks‟, „The Wild Bougainville‟, „Jaisurya‟
A.K. Ramanujan : „Obituary‟, „Anxiety‟. „Chicago Zen‟
Unit II:
Arun Kolatkar: From Jejuri „Heart of Ruin‟ „The Priest‟s Son‟ , “Yeshwant Rao‟, „The Railway Station‟
All the above poems to be found in Indian English Poetry ed.Vilas Sarang (Orient Longman)
Imtiaz Dharkar; „Purdah 1‟; „8 January 1993‟
Unit III:
Mahesh Dattani: Dance Like a Man
Unit IV:
Amitav Ghosh: Hungry Tide
Books for further Reading
An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English ed. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2003)
B King, Modern Indian Poetry in English (New Delhi, 1987)
____,Three Indian Poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan, Dom Moraes ( New Delhi, 1991)
A L McLeod, (ed.) R.K. Narayan: Critical Perspectives (New Delhi, 1994)

W. Walsh, R.K.Narayan: A Critical Appreciation (London,1982)
Mahesh Dattani’s Plays: Critical Perspectives ed. Angelie Multani (Delhi: Pencraft, 2007)
Amitav Ghosh: Critical Perspectives ed. Brinda Bose (Delhi: Pencraft, 2005)
103 (B) Indian Literary Criticism
Unit I:
Bharat Muni On Natya and Rasa: Easthetics of Dramatic Experience
Unit II:
Bhartrhari : On Syntax and Meaning
Unit III:
Dandin: Sarga-Bandha: Epic Poetry
Abhinav Gupta: On Santarasa: Aesthetic Equipoise
Unit IV:
Anandavardhana: Dhvani: Structure of Poetic Meaning
Books Recommended
G. N. Devy, Indian Literary Criticism (Orient Longman, 2002)
V.S. Seturaman, Indian Aesthetics: An Introduction (Macmillan, rpt. 2005)
P. V. Kane, History of Sanskrit Poetics.
EV Ramakrishnan ,Locating Indian Literature, Orientblackswan pvt. Ltd
103 ( C ) Indian Diasporic Fiction:
Unit I:
V.S. Naipaul A House for Mr. Biswas

Unit II:
Jhumpa Lahiri The Interpreter of Maladies
Bharati Mukherjee Desirable Daughters
Unit III:
Kiran Desai Inheritance of loss
Unit IV:
Amitav Ghosh The Shadow Lines
104(A): English Drama-I
Unit I:
Anonymous: Everyman
Ben Jonson: Volpone
Unit II:
Christopher Marlowe: Dr.Faustus
Unit III:
John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
Unit IV:
Congreve: The Way of the World
Books Recommended:
Barton, Ben Jonson, Dramatist (Cambridge, 1984)
M. Doran, Endeavours of Art (Madison,,Wis 1954)
H. Levin, Christopher Marlowe: The Over-reacher (Cambridge, Mass.,1952)
Jacobean Theatre, ed. B. Harris and J.R, Brown (London,1966)

J.Loftis, Comedy and Society from Congreve to Fielding (Stanford: Calif. 1959)
104 (B): Shakespearean Drama
Unit I:
King Lear
Unit II:
The Tempest
Unit III:
Henry 1V (Part I)
Unit IV:
As You Like It
Books Recommended
For the Texts use the Arden Annotated editions of the individual works
C.L. Barber: Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy
A.C. Bradley: Shakespearean Tragedy
E.M.W. Tilliyard: Shakespeare’s Histories
A. Righter, Shakespeare and the Idea of Play (London, 1962)
S Viswanathan ,Exploring Shakespeare , Orientblackswan pvt. Ltd
104 ( C ) The English Essay :I
Unit I:
Francis Bacon Of Truth; Of Friendship; Of Ambition; Of Travel

Unit II:
Addison and Steele Coverley Papers
Unit III:
Charles Lamb Christ Hospital; Dream Children; Bachelor‟s Complaint
Unit IV:
William Hazlitt My First Acquaintance with the poets; Going on a Journey
Books Recommended
The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Lamb. New York , London: Putnam,
Bacon’s Essays, ed. F.G. Selby. Macmillan: 1889
Adison and Steel’s Coverley Papers, ed. K. Deighton
Semester II
201: The English Novel- I
Unit I:
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Unit II:
Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
Unit III:
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Unit IV:
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist
Books Recommended
I.Watt, The Rise of the Novel, Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding (London,1957)
J.M.S. Tomkins, The Popular Novel in England (London, 1932)

A. Kettle, An Introduction to the English Novel: Volume 1(London: Hutchinson University Library,1951)
J. Sutherland, Daniel Defoe: a Critical Study (Cambridge,Mass,1971)
M. Kirkham, Jane Austen, Feminism and Fiction (Brighton, 1983)
K. Tillotson, Novels of the Eighteen Forties (London, 1954)
202: Romantic Poetry
Unit I:
William Blake: The Lamb, The Tiger, The Chimney Sweeper
Unit II:
William Wordsworth: „Tintern Abbey‟
Unit III:
Coleridge: „Kubla Khan‟, „Dejection an Ode‟
Unit IV:
Shelley: „Ode to the West Wind‟, Ozymandis
Keats: „Ode to a Nightingale‟, „Ode to Autumn‟
Books Recommended
M Butler, Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background (Oxford,1981)
S.D Palwekar, Literature and Environment:A Select Study of British, American and Indian Writings, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, 2012.
M Praz, The Romantic Agony (London 1933)
K Raine, William Blake (London, 1970)
S. Prickett, Coleridge and Wordsworth and the Poetry of Growth (Cambridge, 1970)
S.M. Sperry, Keats, the Poet (Princeton, 1973)
D. King-Hele, Shelley, His Thought and Work (London, 1960)

203 (A) English Drama-II
Unit I:
Shaw, Arms and the Man
Unit II:
T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
Unit III:
Osborne, Look Back in Anger
Unit IV:
Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Pinter Home Coming
203 (B) Nineteenth Century American Literature
Unit I
Emerson: Self Reliance
Thoreau (Selections from Walden): Where I lived and What I lived for
Unit II:
Walt Whitman (Selections from Song of Myself) Sections: 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 30,32
Emily Dickinson 1078, 1100, 1732,
Unit III:
Melville: Moby Dick
Unit IV:
Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
Books Recommended:

Robert Spiller: Literary History of the United States, (Amerind Publishing Co.)
Marcus Cunliffe : American Literature to 1900, (Sphere Reference)
F.O.Matthiessen. American Renaissance
George McMichel : Concise Anthology of American Literature.
SD Palwekar, Literature and Environment:A Select Study of British, American and Indian Writings, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, 2012.
203 ( C ) The English Essay-II
Unit I:
Thomas Carlyle Hero as a Poet
Unit II:
John Ruskin Sesame and Lilies
Unit III:
R.L. Stevenson Walking Tour, El Dorado
Unit IV:
A.G. Gardiner On a Case of Conscience; On a Painted Face, On Catching the
Train ( selection from Pebbles on the Shore)
G. K Chesterton An Accident; The Anarchist; The Advantages of Having One |
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204 (A): Indian Writing in English - II
Unit I:
Rabindranath Tagore Songs from Gitanjali (I; XI; XXXV, LXXIV)

Toru Dutt Our Old Casurina Tree
Unit II:
Sarojini Naidu A Love Song From the North; Autumn song; Coromandel
Fishers
Jayant Mahapatr Dawn at Puri; Lines Written in a British cemetery
Unit III:
Girish Karnad Hayavadhan
Raja Rao Kanthapura
Unit IV:
Arun Joshi The Strange Case of Billy Bishwas
Arvind Adiga The White Tiger

Books Recommended:
1. Poems of Rabindranath Tagore, UBS publishers , New Delhi.
2. Rabindranath Tagore and the Nation by Swati Ganguli. Punaschat Publisher, 2012
3. Gitanjali. Embassy book, 2011
4. Sarojini Naidu, Selected Poems, ed. Dr S.Sen. Unique Publisher
5. Sarojini, Naidu , by Makarand Paranjape. Rupa and Co. 2010
6. Arun Joshi: A Critical Study by S.K. Mittal, Omega Publication, 2011.
7. Anita Desai: A Critical Study by A. Das, Omega Publication, 2011
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