SYLLABUS M.A.

(ENGLISH) PART-I (ANNUAL) 2013 and 2014 EXAMINATIONS OUTLINE OF TESTS There are four Papers in M.A. Part-I (English). Each paper carries 100 marks and is of three hours duration. PAPER-I English Literature from Chaucer to Milton PAPER-II Poetry and Drama from the Restoration to the Victorian Age PAPER-III Prose and Fiction PAPER-IV Any one of the following options: OPTION (i) Language and Linguistics (ii) Indian Writing in English (iii) Shakespeare PAPER-I : Time : 3 Hours ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM CHAUCER TO MILTON Max. Marks : 100 Pass Marks : 35 INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES Students are required to attempt five questions in all, choosing one question from each of the first four Sections A, B, C, and D and the entire Section E. Each question in Sections A, B, C and D will have a weightage of 15 marks. In Section E have a weightage of 40 marks, candidates shall attempt 10 out of the given 12 short-answer questions. Each short-answer question shall be of 4 marks. INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PAPER-SETTER In Section A, the examiner shall set two questions relating to the literary history of the period under study and will focus on the major trends/movements/genres/authors. In Section B, the examiner shall set two questions, one each on any two of the three prescribed authors/texts. In Section C, the examiner shall set two questions, one each on the two prescribed authors/texts. In Section D, the examiner shall set two questions, one each on the two prescribed authors/texts. In Section E, the examiner shall set twelve short-answer questions. These short-answer questions shall be set in the following manner: Four short-answer questions shall cover Section A. Four short-answer questions shall cover Section B, with at least one short-answer question each on the three prescribed texts/authors. Four short-answer questions shall cover Section C and D with one short-answer question each on the prescribed texts/authors. 1. SECTION-A History of English Literature. The Age of Chaucer (1340-1400) and the Renaissance (1500-1660) covering major works/authors/literary movements/ trends/genres, etc. : : SECTION-B Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Poems : The Flea, The Good Morrow, The Sun Rising, The Canonization, The Anniversary, Valediction : Forbidding Mourning

Geoffrey Chaucer John Donne

Francis Bacon

2 The Relic Elegies : Elegy V : His Picture Elegy XVI : On His Mistress Holy Sonnets : Oh My Black Soul ! This is My Play's Last Scene Batter My Heart, Three-person'd God. At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners. Essays : Of Studies Of Friendship Of Marriage and Single Life Of Great Place Of Truth Of Simulation and Dissimulation Of Love SECTION-C Dr. Faustus Paradise Lost Book-I SECTION-D King Lear Volpone

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Christopher Marlowe John Milton William Shakespeare Ben Jonson

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SECTION-E As mentioned in the Instructions. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. RECOMMENDED READINGS Geoffrey Chaucer, Wyatt A.J., ed., Chaucer : The Prologue, University Tutorial Press, London, 1971. John Donne, Smith A.J., ed., Donne : Songs and Sonnets, Edward Arnold, 1978. Christopher Marlowe, Jump, John. ed., Dr. Faustus, B.I. Publications, Bombay, 1967. John Milton, Macmillan, M., ed., Paradise Lost, Book-I, Macmillan, N.Y., 1967. CRITICAL STUDIES Blamires, Harry, A Short History of English Literature, ELBS and Methuen & Co., Ltd., London, 1979. Evans, Ifor, A Short History of English Literature, Penguin Books, England, 1986. Ford, Boris, ed., The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. I, Penguin Books, England, 1982. GEOFFREY CHAUCER Bowden, Muriel, A Commentary on the General Prologue, London : Macmillan, 1948. Chesterton, G.K., Chaucer, London : Faber. Coghill, N., The Poet Chaucer, London, 1960. JOHN DONNE Gardener, Helen, ed., John Donne : A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice-Hall, 1982. Hammond, Gerald., The Metaphysical Poets, Macmillan, 1974. Lovelock, Julian., Songs & Sonnets, Macmillan, 1973.

3 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. FRANCIS BACON Bush, Douglas, English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1962. Smeaton, Oliphant, ed., Francis Bacon's Essays, London., Dant, 1968. Walker, Hugh, English Essay and Essayists, Delhi : S. Chand & Co., 1960. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Brockbank, J.P., Studies in English Literature. Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd., London, 1968. Cole, Douglas, Suffering and Evil in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe. Princeton University Press, N.J., 1962. Levin, Harry, The Overreacher, Faber : London, 1962. JOHN MILTON Martz, Louis, L. ed,. Milton : A Collection of Critical Essays , Prentice Hall, N.J., 1966. Waldock, A. J., Paradise Lost and its Critics, Cambridge University Press, 1966. Pattison, Mark, Milton, Lyall Book Depot, Chandigarh, 1966. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (King Lear) Adolman, J. King Lear : Twentieth Century Interpretations. Prentice Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1978. Bradley, A.C. Shakespearean Tragedy, 1904. Hellman. R, Image and Structure in King Lear, 1948. Muir, Kenneth, Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence, 1972. BEN JONSON Ben Jonson, Volpone, Ed. David Cook. Ben Jonson, Volpone, Ed. Aluin B. Kernan. Knights, L.C., Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson, 1937. Partridge, E. B., The Broken Compass, 1958. Barish, J. A., Ben Jonson and the Language of Prose Comedy, 1960. PAPER-II : Time : 3 Hours POETRY AND DRAMA FROM THE RESTORATION TO THE VICTORIAN AGE Max. Marks : 100 Pass Marks : 35

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES Students are required to attempt five questions in all, choosing one question from each of the first four Sections A, B, C, and D and the entire Section E. Each question in Sections A, B, C and D will have a weightage of 15 marks. In Section E have a weightage of 40 marks, candidates shall attempt 10 out of the given 12 short-answer questions. Each short-answer question shall be of 4 marks. INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PAPER-SETTER In Section A, the examiner shall set two questions relating to the literary history of the period under study and will focus on the major trends/movements/genres/authors. In Section B, the examiner shall set two questions, one each on any two of the three prescribed authors/texts. In Section C, the examiner shall set two questions, one each on the two prescribed authors/texts. In Section D, the examiner shall set two questions, one each on the two prescribed authors/texts. In Section E, the examiner shall set twelve short-answer questions. These short-answer questions shall be set in the following manner: Four short-answer questions shall cover Section A. Four short-answer questions shall cover Section B, with at least one short-answer question each on the three prescribed texts/authors.

4 Four short-answer questions shall cover Section C and D with one short-answer question each on the prescribed texts/authors. SECTION-A History of English Literature covering major works, authors, literary movements and trends that are specially related to the prescribed authors and genres taken up in the paper. Restoration of monarchy; public theatres in England; Restoration comedy; Restoration tragedy; attack on immorality of the English stage; satire in verse; mock-heroic writing; writing of the Lyrical Ballads; reactions to French Revolution-enthusiasm and revulsion; Reaction to 18th century literary tradition; the Renaissance of Wonder; the Return to Nature; Idealism, introversion and the attitude to science and Industrialism; popularity of Lyric and Ode; the theory of poetic diction; faith and doubt in Pre-Raphaelitism; interest in Psychology; the achievements of the Victorian temper and Compromise. Dryden Congreve Pope William Blake : : : : SECTION-B Absalom and Achitophel The Way of the World The Rape of the Lock SECTION-C Songs of Innocence and Experience. Songs of Innocence : Introduction; The Echoing Green, The Lamb, Nurse's Song, The Divine Image. Songs of Experience : Introduction, Nurse's Song, The Tyger, The Sick Rose, Ah ! Sunflower, London, The Chimney Sweeper, The Human Abstract. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Dejection : An Ode, Kubla Khan. SECTION-D Odes : Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Melancholy, Ode to Autumn, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Psyche. Porphyria's Lover, My Last Duchess, The Bishop Orders His Tomb, The Last Ride Together, Rabbi Ben Ezra, Andrea Del Sarto, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, Fra Lippo Lippi, Cleon.

S.T. Coleridge

John Keats Robert Browning

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SECTION-E As mentioned in the Instructions. Legouis and Cazamian K. Young D. Nicol Smith Boris Ford, ed., Kajol Sengupta, ed. Brian Morris, ed. Patrick Lyons, ed. R.K. Kaul, ed. G. Wilson Knight Ian Jack Maynard Mack Cleanth Brooks RECOMMENDED READINGS : A History of English Literature. : John Dryden : John Dryden : From Dryden to Johnson (The Pelican Guide to English Literature) : The Way of the World (CULT series) : William Congreve : Congreve's Comedies (Case Book Series) : The Rape of the Lock (CULT series) : The Laureate of Peace : Augustan Satire : Wit and Poetry and Pope, Eighteenth Century English Literature : The Case of Miss Arabella Fermer, The Well-

H.M. Reichard R.W. Brower 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 1. 2 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

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5 Wrought Urn The Love Affairs in Pope's The Rape of the Lock, PMLA, LXIX-1954. Alexander Pope : The Poetry of Illusion.

CRITICAL STUDIES Volume-X : English Literature, ed. Ian Jack 1815-1832 (O. U. P., 1963). A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. IV, David Daiches. The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. V., Blake to Byron edited by Boris Ford. English Romantic Poets, ed., M. H. Abrams, New York, O. U. P. 1960. The Mirror and the Lamp, M. H. Abrams, New York, O. U. P. 1953. A Concise Cambridge History of English Literature, George Sampson. WILLIAM BLAKE Selected Poems of William Blake, ed. by F.M. Bateson, Published by Heinemann, London. Songs of Innocence and Experience, ed. by A.M.M. Wilkinson. The Visionary Company by Harold Bloom, (N. Y., 1961). Fearful Symmetry., Northrop Frye (Princeton, N. J., 1947). Innocence and Experience : An Introduction to Blake, E. D. Hirsch (London, 1970). Hazard Adams, A Reading of Shorter Poems of William Blake (Seattle, 1963). William Blake and the Age of Revolution by J. Bronowski (N. Y., 1965). S. T. COLERIDGE Selected Poems, ed., James Reeves (Heinemann, 1966). Humphrey House, S. T. Coleridge, 1952. Geoffrey Yarlott, Coleridge and the Abyssinian Maid, 1967. J. B. Beer, Coleridge the Visionary, 1959. J. L. Lowes, The Road to Xanadu, 1931. Kathleen Coburn, ed., Coleridge (20th Century Views). JOHN KEATS Selected Poems & Letters of John Keats, ed. by Robert Gittings, Heinemann, 1966. F. R. Leavis, 'Keats' in Revaluations : Tradition & Development in English Poetry (London, 1936). K. Muir (ed.,) John Keats, A Reassessment (Liverpool, 1958). E. R. Wasserman, The Finer Tone : Keats's Major Poems (Baltimore, 1956). Fred Inglis, Keats (Lit. in Perspective Series, London, 1968). W. J. Bate, John Keats (20th Century views). W. J. Bate, John Keats (Cambridge Mass, 1963). Evert Walter, H. Aesthetic & Myth in the Poetry of Keats (Princeton University Press, 1965). Bhabatosh Chatterjee, The Mind and Art of John Keats (Orient Longman). ROBERT BROWNING Favorty, F. E., The Victorian Poets : Guide to Research, (2nd Ed.), Cambridge. Johnson, E. D. H., The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry, Princeton, 1982. Miller, J. M., The Disappearance of God, University Press, 1963. Young, G. M., Portrait of an Age : Victorian England, O.U.P., 1960. Devane, W. C., A Browning Handbook. Flower Betty S., Browning and the Modern Tradition. Drew, Philip, ed., A Collection of Critical Essays on Browning. Tracy, Clarence, Browning's Mind and Art : Essays.

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6 Chesterton, G. K., The Victorian Age in Literature, O.U.P., 1966. Ford, Boris, The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. V.

Casebook series and Twentieth Century views are also available on all the prescribed authors. PAPER-III : Time : 3 Hours PROSE AND FICTION Max. Marks : 100 Pass Marks : 35

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES Students are required to attempt five questions in all, choosing one question from each of the first four Sections A, B, C, and D and the entire Section E. Each question in Sections A, B, C and D will have a weightage of 15 marks. In Section E have a weightage of 40 marks, candidates shall attempt 10 out of the given 12 short-answer questions. Each short-answer question shall be of 4 marks. INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PAPER-SETTER In Section A, the examiner shall set two questions relating to the literary history of the period under study and will focus on the major trends/movements/genres/authors. In Section B, the examiner shall set two questions, one each on any two of the three prescribed authors/texts. In Section C, the examiner shall set two questions, one each on the two prescribed authors/texts. In Section D, the examiner shall set two questions, one each on the two prescribed authors/texts. In Section E, the examiner shall set twelve short-answer questions. These short-answer questions shall be set in the following manner: Four short-answer questions shall cover Section A. Four short-answer questions shall cover Section B, with at least one short-answer question each on the three prescribed texts/authors. Four short-answer questions shall cover Section C and D with one short-answer question each on the prescribed texts/authors. SECTION-A History of English Literature covering major works, authors, literary movements, trends related specially to the genres and authors prescribed in the paper. Satire in prose; Neo-classicism and the Enlightenment; the Battle of the Books; the periodical essay; women's liberation in the eighteenth century; literary criticism; the art of biography; the rise of the English Novel; the novel of sentiments; the Gothic Novel; the Novel of Ideas; women's writings; periodicals; growth of socialist realism, naturalism, Prose writers; the Victorian Temper; establishment of empire; the Oxford Movement; Evangelical Movement; Factory Acts; Urbanization; Chartism; the belief in progress; the Suffragette Movement; Decadence; Realism; Naturalism; the spread of education. Addison : Prescribed Essays : SECTION -B (i) The Aim of the Spectator (ii) Meditations in the Abbey (iii) The Scope of Satire (iv) Stage Realism (v) On Friendship (vi) Sir Roger in Church (vii) Ladies Head Dresses (viii) Wit and Wisdom (ix) Female Orators (x) Wealth and Poverty

Henry Fielding Jane Austen Charles Dickens Thomas Hardy George Eliot John Ruskin

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7 Joseph Andrews Emma SECTION -C Hard Times Tess of d' Urbervilles SECTION -D The Mill on the Floss Unto this Last

SECTION-E As mentioned in the instructions. Samuel Johnson C. S. Lewis P. Smithers M. C. Battesin Elizabeth Jenkins Ian Watt 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. RECOMMENDED READINGS : The Lives of the Poets (Addison) : "Addison" in Essays on the Eighteenth Century Presented to David Nicol Smith : The Life of Joseph Addison : The Moral Basis of Fielding's Art : A Study of Joseph Andrews : Henry Fielding : The Rise of the English Novel

JANE AUSTEN Emma in Case Book Series ed., by David Lodge (Macmillan 1968). Robert Liddle, The Novels of Jane Austen (Longmans, 1963). Arthure Walton Litz., Jane Austen : A Study of Her Artistic Development (O.U.P. 1965). Foster, Shirley, Victorian Woman's Fiction : Marriage, Freedom and the Individual, London : Creom Heln, 1985. Lerner, Laurence, The Victorians, Penguin Books. Young, G.M., Portrait of an Age : Victorian England, O.U.P., 1960. Chesterton, G. K., The Victorian Age in Literature, O.U.P., 1966. Ford, Boris, The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. V. Hardy Barbara, The Novels of George Eliot; Critical Essays on George Eliot. Dyson, A. E., Dickens : Modern Judgements. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS Max. Marks : 100 Pass Marks : 35

Paper IV Opt. (i) Time : 3 hours

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES AND PAPER-SETTER The course content will be divided in three sectionsSection 'A', Section 'B' and Section 'C'. Candidate will be required to attempt five questions in all, choosing one question at least from each section. The scope of the content will strictly be defined by the prescribed texts. SECTION-A Prescribed Texts 1. Lyons, J: Language and Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, 1981, Chapters 1 & 2. 2. Lyons, J: Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, 1968. Chapters 1, 2 and 4.

8 Supplementary Text Ferdinand de Saussure : Course in General Linguistics, tr. W. Baskin. Fontana Collins, 1971. SECTION-B Prescribed Text 1. Roach, Peter : English Phonetics and Phonology, 3rd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2000 (Chapter 2 to 11 and 14). Supplementary Texts 1. Gimson, A.C., and Ramsaran, S : An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English, ELBS, 1992. 2. Jones, Daniel : Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary, 17th Edition. Edited by Peter Roach, James Hartman & Jane Setter. Cambridge University Press. SECTION-C Prescribed Texts 1. Yule, George : The Study of Language. 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 1977. Chapters 8 to 11, 13, 19 and 21. 2. Verma, S., and Krishnaswamy, N. Modern Linguistics-An Introduction, Oxford University Press, 1989. Chapter : Section VII (Units 42-45) SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS: 1. Corder, Pit S. Introducing Applied Linguistics. Penguin, 1973. 2. Sebeok, T.A. (ed.), Style in Language, MIT Press, 1961. 3. Catford, J.C. : A Linguistic Theory of Translation. Cambridge University Press, 1965. 4. Stageberg, N.C. : An Introductory English Grammar, 4th ed., Holt Saunders, International Edns., 1981. 5. Brown, G and Yule, G : Discourse Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 1983. 6. Aitchison J : Language Change : Progress or Decay, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 1991. 7. Holmes, J : An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Longman, 1992. Testing SECTION-A There shall be two questions. Question No.1 shall have eight short-answer questions from the two texts prescribed for this section. The candidates shall attempt any five in about 150 words each. Each answer shall carry 4 marks. 5x4=20 Question No. 2 shall be of descriptive kind, carrying 20 marks. SECTION-B Section B shall have two questions. Question No. 3 (a) shall pertain to phonetic transcription. The examiner shall set twenty five words and candidate shall be asked to transcribe and mark primary stress on any twenty words. Each correct answer shall carry half mark each. This question shall be of ten marks. In Question No. 3 (b) the examiner shall set 15 words for minimal pairs. The candidates shall be asked to attempt any ten words carrying 10 marks. Question No. 4 shall pertain to the prescribed chapters from the prescribed text. The question shall be of descriptive nature and worth 20 marks. SECTION-C There shall be three questions. Question No. 5 and 6 shall be set from the prescribed chapters of the two prescribed texts. The questions shall be descriptive in nature. Each question shall carry 20 marks.

9 Question No. 7 shall have short answer questions from the prescribed chapters of the prescribed texts. The examiner shall set eight questions. The candidates shall attempt any five in about 150 words each, each carrying 4 marks and thus a total of 20 marks. SUGGESTED READINGS Akmajian : An Introduction to Language and Communication, 4th ed., New York, Prentice Hall, 1996. Bloomfield, L : Language, New York : Hort Rinehart and Winston, 1993. Chomsky, N : Reflections on Language, New York : Pantheon, 1976. Chomsky, N : Syntactic Structures. Chomsky, N. & Halle, M. The Sound Pattern of English, New York, Harper & Row, 1991. Crystal, D. : Linguistics, Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1971. Davis, S. (ed.) : Pragmatics, A Reader. Dineen, P.P. : An Introduction to General Linguistics, New York : Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1967. Fox, B. : Discourse Structure and Anaphora. Gleason, H.A. : An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics. Halle, M. and Jakobson, R : Fundamentals of Language, The Hague : Mouton, 1956. Halliday, M.A.K. : Cohesion in English. Hockett, C.F. : A Course in Modern Linguistics, New York : Macmillan, 1958. Hudson, R.A. : Sociolinguistics. Laver, J. Principles of Phonetics, Cambridge University Press, 1994. Leech, G. A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry. OConnor., J.D. : Phonetics, London, Penguin, 1991. OConnor., J.D. : Better English Pronunciation, Cambridge University Press, 2000. Palmer : F.R. : Grammar. Quirk, R.L.; Greenbaum, S : A University Grammar of English. Robins, R.H. : General Linguistics, 3rd. ed., London : Longman, 1980. Sapir, E. : Language. Spitzer, L.: Linguistics and Literary History; Essays in Stylistics. Widdowson, H.G. : Aspects of Language Teaching. Yule, G. : Pragmatics. PAPER IV : Option (ii) INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH Time : 3 Hours Max. Marks : 100 Pass Marks : 35

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES Students are required to attempt five questions in all, choosing one question from each of the first four Sections A, B, C, and D and the entire Section E. Each question in Sections A, B, C and D will have a weightage of 15 marks. In Section E have a weightage of 40 marks, candidates shall attempt 10 out of the given 12 short-answer questions. Each short-answer question shall be of 4 marks. INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PAPER-SETTER In Section A, the examiner shall set two questions relating to the literary history of the period under study and will focus on the major trends/movements/genres/authors. In Section B, the examiner shall set two questions on any of the three prescribed texts. In Section C, the examiner shall set two questions, one each on the two prescribed authors/texts. In Section D, the examiner shall set two questions on any of the three prescribed texts. In Section E, the examiner shall set twelve short-answer questions. These short-answer questions shall be set in the following manner: Four short-answer questions shall cover Section A. Four short-answer questions shall cover Section B, with at least one short-answer question each on the three prescribed texts/authors.

10 Four short-answer questions shall cover Section C and D with one short-answer question each on the prescribed texts/authors. SECTION-A Section A will cover the History of Indian Writing in English including authors/texts/trends/movements/Critical developments during the period 1900-1980. Raja Rao Arundhati Roy Githa Hariharan Nissim Ezekiel : : : : SECTION-B Kanthapura The God of Small Things In Times of Siege SECTION-C 'Enterprise', 'Philosophy', 'Night of the Scorpion', 'Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher', 'The Visitor', 'The Double Horror', 'Nothingness', 'Transmutation', 'Lamentation', 'What Frightens Me'. (From Nissim Ezekiel Collected Poems. Second Edition. Oxford India Paperback, 2005)

Imtiaz Dharker

'Purdah I', 'Purdah II', 'The Word', 'The Mask'. (From Purdah and other Poems, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989). 'Honour Killing', Battle-line' 'They'll Say: She Must be From Another Country', 'The djinn in Auntie', 'Lines of Control', 'The Devil to the Poet', 'Greater Glory', 'Exorcism' and 'Last House-full show'. (From I Speak for the Devil, Bloodaxe, 2001; New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2003) SECTION-D Mahesh Dattani : Tara Susie Tharu and K. Lalitha : Introduction to Women Writing in India. Vol. II Aijaz Ahmad : "Indian Literature: Notes Towards the Definition of a Category". SECTION-E As mentioned in the Instructions. SUGGESTED READINGS Indian Writing in English- K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar. Indo-Anglian Literature :18001970 : A Survey-H. M. Williams. Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English-M. K. Naik, (ed.) Aspects of Indian Writing in English-M. K. Naik (ed.) Perspective in Indian Prose in English-M. K. Naik (ed.) The Modern Indian Novel in English-M. E. Derrett. The Twice Born Fiction-Meenakshi Mukherji. The Swan and the Eagle-C. D. Narsimhaiah. New Dimensions of Indian Literature-M. K. Naik. Indian Poetry in English-Bruce King. Indian Literature in English-William Walsh. Commonwealth Fiction Vol. I-R.K. Dhawan (ed.) Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English -M. K. Naik, S. K. Desai and G. S. Amur(eds.) Considerations-Meenakshi Mukherji. Realism and Reality : The Novel and Society in India-Meenakshi Mukherji. A History of Indian Writing in English-M. K. Naik

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.

11 17. Dimensions of Indian-English Literature-M. K. Naik 18. The Fire and the Offering. The Modern Indian Novel in English-S. C. Harrex. 19. An Area of Darkness-V. S. Naipaul 20. The Intimate Enemy-Ashish Nandy 21. India : A Wounded Civilization-V. S. Naipaul 22. A Study of Representative Indo-English Novelists-Uma Parmeshwaran. 23. The Rhetoric of English in India-Sara Suleri. 24. "The Beginnings of English Literature Study in British India" -Gauri Vishwanathan (Oxford Literary Review 9 (1-2). 25. Masks of Conquest : Literary Study and British rule in India-Gauri Vishwanathan. 26. The Empire Writes Back : Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures-Gareth Griffiths, Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin (eds). 27. Arundhati Roy : A Collection of Critical Essays-ed. R. K. Dhawan. 28. Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things : Critique and Commentary -ed. R. S. Sharma and Shashi Bala Talwar. 29. Bruce King : Modern Indian Poetry in English. 30. Eunice de Souza (ed.) : Nine Indian Women Poets. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. 31. Jasbir Jain (ed.) : Women's Writing-Text and Context. 2nd Edition. New Delhi & Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2004. 32. P. Siyaramakrishana and V.A. Shahane : Indian Poetry in English. PAPER IV : Option (iii) Time : 3 Hours SHAKESPEARE Max. Marks : 100 Pass Marks : 35

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES Students are required to attempt five questions in all, choosing one question from each of the first four Sections A, B, C, and D and the entire Section E. Each question in Sections A, B, C and D will have a weightage of 15 marks. In Section E have a weightage of 40 marks, candidates shall attempt 10 out of the given 12 short-answer questions. Each short-answer question shall be of 4 marks. INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PAPER-SETTER In Section A, the examiner shall set two questions, one each on prescribed authors/texts. In Section B, the examiner shall set two questions, one each on the prescribed authors/texts, In Section C, the examiner shall set two questions, one each on the two prescribed authors/texts. In Section D, the examiner shall set two questions, one each in the two prescribed authors/texts. In Section E, the examiner shall set ten short answer-questions, at least one each on the prescribed authors/texts. Section A Section B Section C 1. 2. 3. : : : Hamlet, Macbeth The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream Measure for Measure, Sonnets.

The following sonnets are prescribed: Sonnet No.IV Unthrifty Loveliness, Why dost thou spend... No.XVI But wherefore do not you a mightier way... No.XVII Who will believe my verse in time to come....

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No.XIX No.XXVII No.XXX No.XL No.L No.LV No.CVI Section D Section E

12 Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws.... Weary with toil, I haste me to my.... When to the sessions of sweet silent thought.... Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; How heavy do I journey on the way.... Not marble, nor the gilded monuments.... When in the chronicle of wasted time.... : : Antony and Cleopatra, Henry IV Part I 10 short questions covering the whole syllabus uniformly.

1. 2. 1972. 3. Halliday, F.E.(ed.): Shakespeare and His Critics, London, Duckworth, 1972. 4. Harbage, Alfred(ed.): Twentieth Century Views on Shakespeare: The Trgedies , Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall. 5. Harrison, G.B.: Shakespeare's Treadedies, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951. 6. Knight, G. Wilson: The Wheel of Fire, London, Methuen, 1965. 7. Lerner, Lawrence D.(ed.): Shakespeare's Tragedies: An Anthology of Modern Criticism, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1970. 8. Muir, Kenneth: Shakespeare: The Great Tragedies, London, The British Council, 1961. (Writers and Their Work Series.). ON ROMAN AND HISTORY PLAYS 1. 2. 3. 4.

SUGGESTED READING (On Tragedies) Bradley, A.C.: Shakespearean Tragedy, London, Macmillan, 1905. Chadley, H.B.: Shakespearean Tragedy (1948), Cambridge, CUP,

Knight, G. Wilson: The Imperial Theme, London, Methuen, 1965. Knights, L.C.: Shakespeare: The Histories, London, The British Council, 1962 (Writers and Their Work Series). Spencer, Terence and John Dew: Shakespeare: The Roman Play, London, The British Council, 1962. (Writers and Their Work Series). Waith, Eugene M.: Shakespeare: The Histories: A Collection of Critical Essays , Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1965.

COMEDIES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Barber, C.L.: Shakespeare's Festive Comedy (1959), Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1972. Brown, John Russel: Shakespeare and His Comedies, London Methuen, 1957. Charlton H.B.: Shakespearean Comedy, London, Methuen, 1966. Knight, G. Wilson: The Crown of Life: Essays in Interpretation of Shakespeare's Final Plays, London, Methuen, 1961. Leech, Clifford (ed.): Shakespeare's Comedies, Harmonds-worth, Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1967.