Manonmaniam Sundaranar University M. Phil English Syllabus

Each paper will be divided into FIVE Units Question Paper Pattern


•       There will be two questions from each unit

•       Each question carries 20 marks
•       Sub - divisions may be created, if necessary, in any question
•       Choice will be “either or” in each unit
Unit                                   Question
I                                                          1        or 2
II                                                         1        or2
III                                                       1        or2
IV                                                       1        or 2
V                                                        1        or 2


Semester I
Unit-1- Meanings and objectives of research. Research in language and literature, Materials and tools of research (books, anthologies, thesauruses, encyclopaedias, conference proceedings, unpublished theses, newspaper articles, journals, govt, publications, e-journals, web references, research sites, printed and.web indexes, etc. e-mail discussions groups, special libraries. Advanced study centres, virtual libraries, web search engines, etc.)


Unit-II- The Process of researchSelecting a project; the survey of relevant literature; defining aims and objectives; designing hypothesis; scope and limitations; preparing a research proposal; planning, etc. - Mechanics of research.
Unit-III- Presentation of ResearchTitle, aims and objectives; research format; avoiding plagiarism; quoting and creating in-text citations (documentation); research findings; using standard style sheets.



Unit - IV - Language, Style and Types of DiscouteesDiction, The Style suitable for a literary Thesis, Narration, Argumentation, Explosion, Description, Affective Fallacy, Dissociation of Sensibility, Figurative: Language, Intentional Fallacy, Objective Correlative, Pathetic fallacy, Point of View, Satire.
Unit -V - Practical criticismThe use of Practical criticism, Metrics, Pragmatics and stylistics, Pragmatic Theories, Narrative Voices, Symbolism, Psychonarration, Literary genre, Theory - Genres and Modes, presentational modes - Plato and Aristotle.
Reference:
Paltridge, B. (2006). Discourse Analysis: An Introduction. London: Continuum Discourse.
Barry, Peter. 2002. Beginning Theory: an Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. New York: Manchester United Press.
Crystal, David. 1994. The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language.
London: CUP.
Madden, Frank. 2002. Exploring Poetry. London: Longman.
Verdonk, Peter. 2002. Stylistics. Oxford: OUP.
Frow, John, 2009. Genre, RoutledgePublication
V. S. Sethuramanetal. Practical Criticism, Macmillan
Black Elizabeth, 2006. Pragmatic, Stylistics, Edinburgh University Press Ltd.
Gibaldi, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th Edition)


CRITICAL THEORY- PAPER II


Unit I - Marxism and Social Realism


1)    Edmund Wilson
2)    Raymond Williams
3)    George Lucas
Marxism and Literature 
Realism and the Contemporary Novel 
The Ideology of Modernism





Unit II - Structuralism and Post structuralism


1)    Roman Jacobson
2)    Gerard Genette
3)    Ferdinand de Saussure


Linguistics and Poetics Structuralism and Literary Criticism The Object of Study



Unite Ml - Reader Response Criticism and Deconstruction
1)     Jacques Derrida                     -          Structure,•@ign and Play in the Discourse of
the Human Sciences
2)     Cleanth Brooks                        -        The Primacy of the Reader
3)     Wolfgang Iser                          -        The Reading Process of a Phenomenological
Approach
Unit IV - Feminism and Psycho Analysis
1)     GayatriChakravorthySpivak- Feminism and Critical Theory
2)     Harold Bloom                           -        Poetic Origins and Final Phases
3)     C. G. Jung                               -        Psychology and Literature
Unit V - Politics and Cultural History
1)     Frederic Jameson                    -        The Politics of Theory: Ideology
2)     Stephen Greenblatt                 -        The.Circulation of Social Energy
3)     Terry Eagleton                         -        Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism
Reference Books
Lodge, David. 20th Century Literary Criticism: A Reader. New York: Longman, 1972.
—. Nigel Wood. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. 3rd Edition. New Delhi: Pearson Education, 2008.
Rayan, Michal. Julie Rivkin. Literary Theory: An Anthology. New York: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
Sethuraman V.S. Contemporary Criticism: An Anthology. Chennai: Macmillan India Ltd, 1989.






TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE
(PAPER Sii)
(Revised Syllabus for M. Phil, 2013-14)


Unit-I
British Literature

Poetry-
T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land

Kingsley Amis
A Dream of Fair Women

Philip Larkin
The Whitsun Wedding
Drama-
Harold Pinter
The Caretaker
Fiction -
Irish Murdoch
The Bell
Unit-II
American Literature

Poetry-
Amiri Baraka
A Poem for Black Hearts

Anne Sexton
Sylvia’s Death

E E Cummings
Jehovah Buried, Satan Deed
Fiction -
Alice Walker
Suia
Drama -
Eugene O’Neil
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Unit-ill
African Literature

Poetry-
Gabriel Okara
Once Upon a Time

BiragoDiop
Breath

John Pepper Clerk -
The Casualties
Fiction -
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
Drama -
Wole Soyinka
The Strong Breed
Unit - IV
Canadian Literature

Poetry -
E, J. Pratt
Come Away, Death From Stone to Steel

Earle Birney
The Bear on the Delhi Road
Fiction -
Margaret Laurence -
The Stone Angei
Drama -
Michael Cook
Jacob’s Wake


Unit - V South Asian Literature


Poetry -               A. K. Ramanujan
Fiction -                         Monica Ali


Black Hen (first three poems) Brick Lane


Drama- GirishKarnad - Tale Danda Reference:
1.    Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry Ed. C. D. Narasimhaiah, Macmillan.
2.    Norton Anthology of American Literature. W. W. Norton & company, 1989.
3.    American Literature, Vol.2, Ed. William E. Cain. New York: Penguin Academics,


2004.



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