Manonmaniam Sundaranar University I and II semester PG

MANONMANIAM SUNDARANAR UNIVERSITY

TIRUNELVELI-12

M.A. ENGLISH

(CBCS)

(FOR AFFILIATED COLLEGES)

(Effective from the academic year 2012 -2013)

1. Objectives

   The P.G. Course in English Literature and Language aims to equip students with an indepth knowledge of a wide spectrum of genres and writers to help them acquire communicative skills and a global perspective of English Language to enable them to understand the multicultural context of English language and literature

2. Conditions for Admission

• A candidate who has passed B.A. Degree Examination of M.S. University with Branch XII English as the Main subject of study A graduate in B.A or B.Sc with Part II English A candidate who has acquired any other Bachelor Degree of this university or any other university accepted by the Syndicate as equivalent thereto shall be permitted to appear and qualify for M.A Degree Examination of this university in English in the affliated colleges of this university.

3. Eligibility for the award of the Degree

A candidate shall be eligible for the award of the degree only if he/she has undergone the prescribed course of study for a period of not less than two academic years and passed the examinations of all the four semesters prescribed, earning 90 credits.

4. Duration of the Course

The duration of the course is for two academic years consisting of four semesters each semester consisting of 90 working days. The course of study shall comprise instruction in the following subjects according to the syllabus and books prescribed from time to time.

I Semester

Core Subjects: Hrs Credits

1. British Literature - Paper I 6 4

2. British Literature - Paper II 6 4

3. Indian Writing in English - Paper I 6 4

4. American Literature 6 4

5. Mass Communication (Elective I) 6 5

Total (5 courses) 30 21

II Semester

Core Subjects: Hrs Credits

1. British Literature - Paper III 6 5

2. British Literature - Paper IV 6 5

3. Indian Writing in English - Paper II 6 5

4. Critical Theory - Paper I 6 5

5. Developing Communication Skills (Elective II) 6 4

Total (5 courses) 30 24

5. Examinations:

The examinations shall be of 3 hours duration for each paper at the end of each

semester. The candidate failing in any subject will be permitted to appear for each

failed subject in the subsequent examinations.

6. Scheme of Examinations:

Each paper contains an internal component. There is a pass minimum of 50%

for external and overall components. The External Examination is for 75 marks and the

Internal Assessment carries 25 marks. The Examination paper consists of three

sections- the first consisting of 5 questions each of 2 marks each; the second 5

questions of 5 marks each and the third 5 questions of 8 marks each with a total of 75

marks.

Section A 5 x 2 = 10

Section B 5 x 5 = 25

Section C 5 x 8 = 40

Each question offers an internal choice, set in an ‘either or pattern’. The

questions will cover all 5 units of each paper.

Recommendations of the Core Committee

1. Internal assessment:

Regarding the Internal assessment, the 25 marks is allocated in the following manner:

PG

The Average of the best two tests from three

compulsory Tests

15 Marks

Assignment 04 Marks

Seminar 06 Marks

Total 25 Marks

Note: Each test is of one hour duration.

M. A. English Syllabus

I Semester Hrs Credits

Core Subjects (4T Courses) – British Literature – Paper I 6 4

Unit - I Poetry

Geoffrey Chaucer - The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales:

          The Knight

           The Friar

           The Oxford Clerk

           The Shipman

           The Poor Parson

             Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene Book -I

Unit - II Poetry

       Sir Thomas Wyatt - A Renouncing of Love

          Surrey - The Fancy of a Wearied Lover

            Shakespeare - Sonnets No. 6, 11, 55 & 65

Unit - III Prose I

           Bacon - Of Discourse, Of Revenge, Of Ambition & Of Friendship

         The Bible - The Book of Job

Unit - IV Prose II

          Sir Thomas More - Of Their Towns (From The Book Utopia)

          Sir Philip Sidney - Apologie for Poetry

Unit - V Drama

           Christopher Marlowe - Edward II

          Thomas Kyd - The Spanish Tragedy

British Literature – Paper II

Unit - I Poetry - I

Milton - Paradise Lost Book II- Select lines (1- 389)

Pope - The Rape of the Lock

Unit - II Poetry - II

John Donne - Ecstasie

Herbert - Affliction

Marvell - To His Coy Mistress

WilliamCollins - The Passions

William Blake - The Night

Unit - III Prose

Goldsmith - Beau Tibbs & Mrs. Tibbs (The Citizen of the World

Letters XV &XVI)

Swift - A Tale of a Tub

Unit - IV Prose

Joseph Addison - Sir Roger at Home &

A Hunting Scene with Sir Roger

Unit - V Drama

Sheridan - The School for Scandal

Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer

Indian Writing in English – Paper I 

Unit I - Poetry

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio - Sonnet : To The Moon & Poetry

Rabindranath Tagore - Gitanjali Songs-1, 2, 4, 12 & 24

Sarojini Naidu - The Soul’s Prayer & Songs of Radha – The Quest

Toru Dutt - The Lotus & Lakshman

Unit II - Poetry

Sri Aurobindo - Savithri

Unit III - Drama

Rabindranath Tagore - Chitra

Srinivasa Iyengar - Surgeon General’s Prescription

Unit IV - Prose

Rabindranath Tagore - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Swami Vivekananda - Chicago Address

Ananda Koomaraswamy - Dance of Shiva

Unit V - Fiction

Kamala Markandeya - Nectar in a Sieve

R.K. Narayan - The Vendor of Sweets

Books for Reference

1. Contemporary Indian Poetry in English, ed. by Saleem Peeradina, Macmillan

Press.

2. Indian Poetry in English, ed. by Hari Mohan Prasad, Macmillan Press.

American Literature – Paper I 

Unit - I Poetry

Walt Whitman - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

Edgar Allan Poe - The Sleeper

Robert Frost - After Apple - Picking

Emily Dickinson - Some keep the Sabbath going to Church

Unit - II Poetry

Wallace Stevens - The Emperor of Icecreams & Anecdote of the Jar

Langston Hughes - Harlem Night - Club

E.E Cummings - In Just Spring & The Cambridge Ladies

Sylvia Plath - To Daddy & Mary’s song

Unit - III Prose

Emerson - Self - Reliance

William Faulkner - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Unit - IV Drama

Eugene O’Neil - The Emperor Jones

Arthur Miller - All my Sons

Unit - V Fiction

Bernard Malamud - The Assistant

Henry James - The Turn of the Screw

Text books

1. American Literature of the Nineteenth Century - Vol I & Vol II.

2. The Faber Book of Modern American Verse Ed. W.H. Auden.

English for Mass Communication – Elective I 

Unit - I Introduction to writing for Media

What is Media?

What is Mass Communication?

What is Journalism? History of Journalism in India.

Unit - II Writing for Print Media

News Writing-Kinds of News.

Report Writing, How to Review a Book, Novel, Film etc.

Editorial Writing-Newspaper, Journals, Periodicals.

Interviews.

Unit - III Writing for Electronic Media

Writing for Radio- Script Writing, Play Writing.

Writing for TV-Short Films, Documentary, Films, Script for TV Play

Writing for Serials.

TV Interviews.

Unit - IV Advertisement-Writing for Print/Electronic Media.

What is Advertisement?

Kinds of Advertisements.

Copy Writing-Theory & Pratice.

Selected List of Journalistic Jargons (List will be provided).

Unit - V e-writing

What is e-Writing?

e-Journal Writing?

What is a Blog?

Creating Blogs on a Variety of Subjects.

Books for Reference:

1. Roy,Barua. Beginners’ Guide to Journalism & Mass Communication.

Pushpak Mahal, New Delhi, 2008. ISBN: 978-81-223-0684-2

2. Thomas, Sunny. Writing for Media. Viscon Books Private Ltd, New Delhi 2008.

ISBN: 81-7094-299-3

II Semester

Core Subjects (4T Courses) – British Literature – Paper III

Unit - I Poetry

Wordsworth - Tintern Abbey

Coleridge - Ode to Dejection

Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn

Shelley - The Cloud

Unit - II Poetry

Tennyson - Tithonus

Browning - The Last Ride Together

Arnold - Dover Beach

D.G.Rossetti - A Death-Parting

Unit - III Prose

Charles Lamb - Valentine’s Day, Oxford in the Vacation & A Bachelor’s

Complaint.

Hazlitt - My First Acquaintance with Poets.

On Coffee House Politicians.

Unit - IV Fiction

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Unit V Drama

Bernard Shaw - The Apple Cart

Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest

British Literature – Paper IV 

Unit I - Poetry

Hopkins - God’s Grandeur

W.B.Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innis Free

T.S.Eliot - The Hollow Men

W.H.Auden - The Fall of Rome

Unit II - Poetry

Dylan Thomas - Light Breaks where No Sun Shines

Philip Larkin - Ambulances & Church Going

Ted Hughes - The Jaguar & Hawk Roosting

Seamus Heaney - Digging & Bog Oak

Unit III - Prose

E.M.Forster - Does Culture Matter?

George Orwell - The Prevention of Literature

J.B. Priestley - Student Mobs

Bertrand Russell - Can We Afford to Keep Open Minds?

Unit IV - Drama

Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot

Harold Pinter - The Caretaker

Unit V - Fiction

Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim

George Orwell - Animal Farm

Indian Writing in English – Paper II 

Unit - I Poetry

A K Ramanujan - Small Scale Reflections upon a Great House

Obituary

Nissim Ezekiel - In India & Philosophy

R Parthasarathy - Lines for a Photograph & Homecoming

Unit - II Poetry

Kamala Das - A Hot Noon in Malabar

Jayanta Mahapathra - Grass

Meena Alexander - House of Mist

Meena Alexander - Muse-2

K N Daruwalla - Death of a Bird

Gauri Deshpande - The Female of Species

Unit - III Drama

Girish Karnad - The Fire and the Rain

Vijay Tendulkar - Kanyadhan

Unit - IV Fiction

Anita Desai - In Custody

Rohinton Mistry - Family Matters

Unit - V Fiction

Amitav Ghosh - The Shadow Lines

Gita Hariharan - Thousand Faces of Night

Critical Theory – Paper I 

Unit - I

a) Plato - Theory of Imitation

b) Horace - Ars Poetica - Poetic Theory

Unit - II

a) Ben Jonson - Discoveries - Classical Theory

b) Dryden - Preface to the Fables

Unit - III

a) Wordsworth - Poetry and Poetic Diction

b) Coleridge - Biographia Literaria - Chapter XIV

Unit - IV

a) Matthew Arnold - Wordsworth

b) T.S. Eliot - The Metaphysical Poets

Unit - V

a) I.A. Richards - The Four Kinds of Meaning

b) Allen Tate - Tension in Poetry

Developing Communication Skills – Elective II

Unit - I Functional Grammar

Parts of Speech PP.21 - 56

Concord PP.58 - 61

Determiners PP.64 - 70

Tenses PP.73 - 88

Unit - II

Reported Speech PP.89 - 99

Active and Passive Voice PP.100 - 106

Conditionals PP.107 - 112

Modals PP.113 - 126

Unit - III

Common Errors and their Rectification PP.129 - 145

Vocabulary Enrichment PP.149 - 157

Synonyms and Antonyms PP.158 - 171

Prefixes and Suffixes PP.172 - 178

Unit - IV

Composition PP.215 - 226

Types of Essays PP.215 - 226

Mechanics of Writing PP.229 - 250

Unit - V

Creative Writing PP.339 - 353

Text Book

A Practical Course for Developing Writing Skills in English – J.K. Gangal, PHI Learning

Private Limited, New Delhi. 2011.

Books for Reference

1. English for Effective Writing –eds.S.Ravindranathan & S.Nagarajan.(Emerald

Publishers)

2. Contemporary English Grammar Structures and Composition. David Green,

Macmillan Edition.

3. Easy English Grammar for Indian Learners, Dr. P. Iyadurai, Jones Publications,

2011

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