Approved Syllabus of M.A.

in English

Department of English

Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)

With effect from 2023-24

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 RAICHUR UNIVERSITY RAICHUR
DEPARTMENT OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH
COURSE OUTLINE AND SYLLABUS FOR MASTER OF ARTS(M.A)IN ENGLISH FOR ALL SEMESTERS UNDER CBCS
AND CAGP FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2023-24 ONWARDS
SEMEST CODE TITLE OF THE COURSE SEMEST IA TOTAL L T P CREDIT
ER ER VALUES
EXAM
FIRST HARD CORE
HC 1.1 ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 80 20 100 04 - - 04
CHAUCER TO MILTON
HC 1.2 ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 80 20 100 04 - - 04
RESTORATION TO THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURE
HC 1.3 INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH 80 20 100 04 - - 04
SOFT CORE
SC 1.1 ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC 80 20 100 04 - - 04
PURPOSE
SC 1.2 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 80 20 100 04 - - 04

SECOND HARDCORE
HC 2.1 NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITISH 80 20 100 04 - - 04
LITERATURE
HC 2.2 LITERARY CRITICISM 80 20 100 04 - - 04
HC 2.3 INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 80 20 100 04 - - 04
TRANBSLATION
SOFTCORE
SC 2.1 AMERICAN AND AFRO 80 20 100 04 - - 04
AMERICAN LITERATURE
SC 2.2 INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS 80 20 100 04 - - 04
AND PHONETICS
OPEN ELECTIVE
OE 2.1 ENGLISH FOR COMMUNICATION-I 40 10 50 02 - - 02

THIRD HARDCORE
HC 3.1 TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH 80 20 100 04 - - 04
LITAERTURE
HC 3.2 LITERARY THEORY 80 20 100 04 - - 04
HC 3.3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 80 20 100 04 - - 04
SOFTCORE
SC 3.1 DALIT LITERATURE 80 20 100 04 - - 04
SC 3.2 TRANSLATION STUDIES 80 20 100 04 - - 04
OPEN ELECTIVE
OE 3.1 ENGLISH FOR COMMUNICATION- 40 10 50 02 - - 02
II

FOURTH HARDCORE
HC 4.1 CULTURAL STUDIES 80 20 100 04 - - 04
HC 4.2 POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE 80 20 100 04 - - 04
HC 4.3 WORLD LITAERTURE 80 20 100 04 - - 04
SOFT CORE
SC 4.1 AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN 80 20 100 04 - - 04
LITERATURE
SC 4.2 DISSERTATION/MAJOR PROJECT 80 20 100 01 - 03 04
L=LECTURE,T= TUTORIAL,P=PRACTICAL
4 CREDITS FOR THEORY=4 HOURS OF TEACHING/WEEK

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 SECOND SEMESTER
PAPER I: –MAEN 2. 1 (HC): NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITISH
LITERATURE
Objectiv Objectives
 To provide the students with an overview of the Romantic and Victorian age.
 To introduce the students to the works of the Romantic and Victorian period.

Course Outcomes (COs):

CO1: The program guides the realism and rise of materialism make the pupils to recreate reality in their
life.
CO 2: The study makes them to gain self-social fluidity and individual self determination to make their
future bright in multi-dimensional sphere.
CO3: The rapid growth of industrialization teaches them to develop non-agrarian life and give
importance to scientific way of life.
CO4: It makes the students to aware about the beauty of rural and pastoral life through the good poetry
and cultivates the habit of writing on the wide variety themes on the life.
CO5: The program guides the pupils to write the poetry in common language on romantic themes.

UNIT–I
Wordsworth: “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”
Concepts: Romanticism, Victorian Morality

UNIT– II
William Wordsworth: Lucy Poems (all five),
S.T. Coleridge: Kubla Khan
P.B. Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
Tennyson: Ulysses
Robert Browning: Love among the Ruins

UNIT– III
[Link]: On Liberty
Charles Lamb: Personal Essays (On the Sick Bed)

UNIT–IV (texts)
Jane Austin-Pride and Prejudice
Dickens: Hard Times

Suggested Reading:
F R Leavis – New Bearings in English Poetry
CM Bowra–The Romantic Imagination
The Norton Anthology of English Literature
David Daiches – A Critical History of English Literature –Four volumes
Arnold Kettle-The English Novel-Two volumes
E M Foster–Aspects of the Novel
Vijayshree C–Victorian Poetry –An Anthology(Orient Blackswan)

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PAPER II: –MAEN 2.2 (HC): LITERARY CRITICISM
Objectives:
 To provide the students with an overview of European Critical trends
 To introduce the students to the critical texts of the period

Course Outcomes (COs):

CO1: The students will understand the basics of Literary Criticism.

CO 2: Students will learn the beginnings of literary criticism from ancient Grecian Criticism and its
journey through Modern Criticism.
CO3: Students will learn to study the literary texts from a critical perspective.
CO4: Students will understand treatment of literary works through centuries
CO5: Students will study the various theories and critical views of prominent critics and writers

UNIT–I
“Introduction to Theory and Criticism” (page no. 1-13) in Norton
Anthology of Theory and Criticism.

UNIT–II (Texts)
Plato’s objections to poetry (selections from Republic)
Aristotle: Poetics (On tragedy)

UNIT–III (Texts)
Shelly:“A Defence of Poetry”
Matthew Arnold: “The Study of Poetry”

UNIT–IV (texts)
T.S. Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent
F.R. Leavis: Great Tradition (Introduction)

Suggested Reading:
Ramaswamy and Sethuraman: The English Critical Tradition (Vol. I and II) Macmillan,

2009
M. S. Nagarajan: English Literary Criticism, Orient Blackswan, 2009
Plato: Republic

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 SECOND SEMESTER
PAPER III: - MAEN 2.3 (HC): INDIAN LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
TRANSLATION
Objectives:
 To provide the students with an over view of literature of regional languages
 To introduce the students to the critical texts of the period

Course Outcomes (COs):

CO1: The students will have a first hand knowledge of literary and cultural texts that were written in
various Indian languages from 1st Century to the present.
CO 2: The student will get familiarized with the regional and language specific features of Indian
literature.
CO3: The student will know the cultural and the political contexts within which these texts were
written.
CO4: The student will have developed his/her theoretical perspective to analyse the translated texts.

UNIT–I
1. Meenakshi Mukherjee: Introduction to Perishable Empire
2. G.N. Devy, “Indian Literature in English Translation: An Introduction

UNIT– II
1. Amrita Pritam, “I Call Upon Waris Shaw Today”
2. [Link]: Poems of Love and War (Sangam poetry: four poems)
3. Sule Sankavva: “My Harlets Trade”
4. Janabai (Marathi): “Cast off all Shame” and “Jahani Sweeps the Floor”
5. Jagannath Prasad Das (Oriya): “My World”
6. AshokVajpeyi (Hindi): “Apocalypse”
7. Satchidanandan K (Malayalam): “How Love Dies These Days”
8. Sunil Bandopadhyaya (Bengali): “A Truth Bound Sentiment”
9. Daya Pawar (Marathi): “The Buddha”
10. Arjun Dangle: “Revolution”

UNIT– III
Vijay Tendulkar: Ghashiram Kotwal
Girish Karnad: Taledanda

UNIT– IV
Chandu Menon: Indulekha
Shivaram Karanth: Choma’s Drum

Suggested Reading:
1. Parthasarathy, [Link]., Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets. Delhi, OUP 1976.
[Link], Bruce. Modern Indian Poetry in English. New Delhi, OUP 1987.
3. Ananda Lal, The Oxford Companion to Indian Drama.
4. P.K. Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore’s Home and the World: A Critical Companion. New Delhi:
Permanent Black, 2003
5. Tapan Basu, ed. Translating Caste.
6. Charles E May, ed. Short Story Theories.
7. G.N. Devy, In Another Tongue: Essays on Indian English Literature. V.4
8. Susie Tharu: Women Writings in India.

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 SECOND SEMESTER
PAPER IV:- MAEN 2.4 (SC): AMERICAN AND AFRO-AMERICAN
LITERATURE

Objectives:
 To provide the students with a historical perspective on American and Afro-American literature
 To familiarize the students with the representative texts of the period.

Course Outcomes (COs):

CO1: Instills the background of American Depression, Ethnic–voices post-war and cold war scenario.
CO2: Students will have an awareness of the social, historical, literary and cultural elements of the
changes in American and Afro-American literature.
CO3: Kindles to compare American and Afro-American writings with Indian writing in English.
CO4: A critical understanding of ethnic identity and racial identity and how it is constructed.
CO5: To understand how racial and ethnic groups have resisted and struggled to recreate their own
cultural identities in relations to each other and dominant white groups, leading to both conflict and
community empowerment.

UNIT-I
Literary representation of race, American Depression, Ethnic voices, American modernism, The novel
and the making of Americans, Post-war America, cold war, Postmodernity in American culture,
American empire

UNIT– II: Fiction

Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlett Letter
Mark Twain-Huckleberry Finn

UNIT–III: Drama
Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman
Edward Albee-Zoo’s Story

UNIT–IV (texts): Prose and Poetry

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-Relienace
Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
Alice Walker: “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens”
Emily Dickenson – Because I could not Stop for Death
Walt Whitman: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Robert Frost- Fire and Ice
Wallace Stevens –Emperor of Ice-cream
Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

References:
1. M. Saltzman. ‘Lost Generation. World Book Online Reference Center. 2006. World Book, Inc. 2 Mar. 2006.
2. [Link].S. “An Abthology American Literature 1890-1965”.
3. Henry Louis Gates and Valerie A. Smith. “The Norton Anthology of African American Literature”, 3rd Ed.,
Vol. I. Ed. New York: Norton, 2014.
4. Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. (8th Edition) New Delhi: Akash Press, 2007.
5. Baldick, Chris. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
6. Arthur, John W. After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Wars. Freeport: Books for
Libraries Press, 1971.
7. Campbell, Donna M. “Realism in American Literature, 1860- 1890.” Literary Movements. Dept. of English,
Washington State University. 07/04/2013.
8. Reuben, Paul P. “Chapter 5: Late Nineteenth Century - American Realism - A Brief Introduction.” PAL:
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 Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide.
9. Bloom, Harold, ed. Short Story Writers and Short Stories. New York: Chelsea House, 2005.
10. Phyllis Wheatley, selections from Norton Anthology of African American Literature Vol. I
11. Pauline Hopkins: “Famous Men of the Negro Race.” and “Famous Women of the Negro Race.”
12. Langston Hughes: “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.”
13. Dangarembga, Tsitsi. This Mournable Body. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2018
14. Diop, Boubacar Boris. Murambi: The Book of Bones. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006
15. Forna, Aminata. The Memory of Love. London: Bloomsburry Publishing, 2010
16. Makumbi, Jennifer. Kintu. Oakland, CA: Transit Books, 2017 Mda, Zakes. Ways of Dying. New York: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 199
17. Felman, Shoshana. “Education and Crisis, or the Vicissitudes of Teaching”
18. Felman, Shoshana and Laub Dory. Testimony: Crisis of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History
19. McCann, I. Lisa and Pearlman, Laurie Ann. Psychological Trauma and the Adult Survivor: Theory, Therapy,
and Transformation
20. Remre, C. Mariane. “Introduction” Out of War
21. Ramadanovic, Petar. Forgetting Futures: On Memory, Trauma and Identity.
22. Tal, Kali. Worlds of Hurt: Reading the Literatures of Trauma
23. Transformative South Africa: A Gender Perspective on the Dynamic and Integrative Potentials of “Healing” in
African Religion”
24. Woods, Tim. African Pasts: Memory and History in African Literatures. Manchester: Manchester University
Press, 2007.

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 SECOND SEMESTER
PAPERV: MAEN 2.5 (SC): INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS AND PHONETICS

Objectives:

 To develop fluency
 To guide and enable the students to study certain aspects of Linguistics and focus on correct
use of English language.

Course Outcomes (COs):

CO 1: To understand how racial and ethnic groups have resisted and struggled to recreate their own
cultural identities in relations to each other and dominant white groups, leading to both conflict and
community empowerment.
CO 2: Full course for one semester provides the foundation for the development of a student’s
knowledge on Linguistics and Phonetics along with basic understanding of structuralism, sentence and
utterance as well as cohesion and coherence.
CO 3: It will provide a detailed overview of phonetic properties, articulatory and acoustic descriptions
and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription of the sounds in English and languages of the
world.
CO 4: From sounds and words to how language is used in different societies and cultures, linguistics is
the study of language and communication.
Recognize differences and similarities between English and other languages of the world
Better understand the structure and components of language.

UNIT– I
Language: Human and animal communication; Features of language; Theories of the origin
of language
Language variations: dialect; idiolect; social dialects; register; bilingualism; pidgin and
creoles
UNIT– II
Branches of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics
Brief introduction to Structuralism: synchronic/diachronic; langue/parole; syntagmatic/
paradigmatic, and sign.
UNIT– III:
Organs of speech: phone, phoneme, and all ophones
The sound systems of English: Consonants and vowels; three term description of consonants
and vowels; IPA and transcription

UNIT– IV:
Sentence and utterance; text and discourse
Cohesion – anaphoric and cataphoric cohesion, reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction
and lexical cohesion
Coherence: different levels at which coherence operates
Suggested Reading:
1. Partha Sarathi Misra: An Introduction to Stylistic, Orient Blackswan
2. R. Gupta: A Course in Academic Writing,OrientBlackswan2010
3. T. Balasubramanian: A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students, Macmillan.
4. NarayanaSwamiVR:StrengthenyourWriting,OrientBlackswan,2005
5. Daniel Jones: English Pronouncing Dictionary

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PAPER VI: - MAEN 2.6: (OE): ENGLISH FOR COMMUNICATION-I
Objectives:
-To train the students to communicate in English fluently.
-To guide and enable the students to study certain aspects of Linguistics and focus on correct use of
English language.
- To develop the communicative competence of students through the teaching of grammar

Course Outcomes (COs):

CO1: The students will study the various aspects included in learning English language.
CO 2: Students will learn the techniques involved in enhancing the quality of spoken language.
CO 3: Since the lectures are drawn from NTPEL Courses, the students will have access and experience
to digital technology enhanced learning
CO 4: Students will have an opportunity to listen to the lectures of renowned speakers of English
language
CO5. Upon the completion of the paper students will have developed grammatical competence

Unit I:
Parts of Speech
Articles
Prepositions

Unit-II
Tense forms (Present, Past and Future)
Verbs (Main verbs, auxiliaries, modals)
Subject -verb agreement

References:
Swan, Michael. Practical English [Link] Edi. Oxford University Press (OUP).

Murphy, Raymond. Intermediate English Grammar. Cambridge University Press.

Murphy, Raymond. Essential English Grammar. Cambridge University Press.

Hewings, Martin. Advanced English Gramma. Cambridge University Press.

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