Dalit literature Essay

Chaucer and the Elizabethan Age The Neo Classical Age The Romantic and the Victorian Ages Twentieth Century Theory and practice of comment 4 4 4 Max. label Uni. CIA Exam. 25 75 25 75 25 75 6 6 30 4 3 19 25 25 125 75 75 375 coulomb 100 500 Ins. Hrs/ Week 6 6 6 Credit Total 100 100 100 I Year II Semester briny Paper-5 briny Paper-6 MAIN Paper-7 MAIN Paper-8 COMPULSORY musical theme electoral Paper-2 incline terminology and linguistics Indian lit in face Shakespe be American books humans Rights innovative Literatures position 6 5 6 5 2 6 30 5 5 5 5 2 3 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 150 75 75 75 75 75 75 450 100 100 100 100 100.100 600 II year III Semester MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN Paper-9 Paper-10 Paper-11 Paper-12 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 25 25 25 25 75 75 75 75 100 100 100 100 ELECTIVE Paper-3 Commonwealth Literature Literary Theory and Criticism I English manner of speaking Teaching Literature, Analysis, Approaches and Applications Film Reviews and Presentation 6 30 3 23 25 125 75 375 100 500 MAIN MAIN MAIN MAIN ELECTIVE Paper-13 Paper-14 Paper-15 Paper-16 Paper-4 (or) Project 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 3 25 25 25 25 25 75 75 75 75 75 100 100 100 100 100 30 23 125 375 500 II Year IV Semester Literary Theory and Criticism II Soft Skills, Literature and Movies. creative activity Classics in displacement Womens Writing in English Anatomy of Literature Total 1 M. A. English political plat pass water (CBCS) papers Credit Total Credits Marks Total marks MAIN 16 4-5 76 100 1600 ELECTIVE 4 3 12 100 400 COMPULSORY PAPER 1 2 2 100 100 21 90 2100 Subject Total 2 M. A. English plan (CBCS) THIRUVALLUVAR UNIVERSITY M. A. ENGLISH SYLLABUS UNDER CBCS (with lay out from 2012-2013) SEMESTER I PAPER 1 CHAUCER AND THE ELIZABETHAN AGE Objectives Students are 1. exposed to early English literature with special reference to transition from middle English to the Elizabethan ethos.2. introduced to the earliest English writers through representative texts 3. to gain a deeper knowledge of the wr iters and their works UNIT-I POETRY 1. Chaucer Prologue to the Canterbury Tales The Knight, The Prioress, The Wife of Bath and the Doctor of Physic. 2. John Donne 1) The canonization 2) Valediction Forbidding Mourning 3) Go and Catch a Falling Star UNIT-II POETRY 1. Edmund Spenser Prothalamion 2. Wyatt and Surrey As Sonneteers 3. Ballads 3 M. A. English political platform (CBCS) UNIT-III PROSE 1. Bacon Of Truth, Of Adversity, Of Parents and Children, Of Ambition 2.The gospel according to St. Mark (MacMillan Annotated Classics) 3. Thomas More The Utopia UNIT-IV free rein Webster The Duchess of Malfi UNIT-V DRAMA Ben Jonson The Alchemist 4 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 2 THE NEO CLASSICAL AGE Objectives Students are 1. exposed to the shift to the Classical tradition in literary and political terms 2. to appreciate the tremendous changes in literary forms 3. trained to analyze the trends in literary expression of the period UNIT-I POETRY Milton (1608 1674) P aradise Lost Book IX UNIT-II POETRY 1. Andrew Marvell (1621 1678) To His Coy Mistress2. John Dryden (1631 1695) Absalom and Achitophel 3. Pope (1688 1744) The Essay On Man Epistle II (II. 1 92) (Know then thyself. Our greatest evil or great good) UNIT-III PROSE 1. Addison and Steele The Coverley Papers Sir Roger at Church Sir Roger at the assizes 2. Milton Areopagitica 3. Swift The Battle of the Books 5 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-IV DRAMA 1. John Dryden All for Love 2. Richard Sheridan The Rivals UNIT-V FICTION 1. Daniel Defoe (1660 1731) Robinson Crusoe 2. Swift (1667 1745) Gullivers Travels 6 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS)PAPER 3 THE ROMANTIC AND THE VICTORIAN AGES Objectives Students are 1. to appreciate the influence of ever changing trends brought about by social and scientific developments 2. to analyze divers(a) literary devices of these periods 3. to comprehend and analyze the dialectic between Neo Classicism and Romanticism 4. to gain inde pth understanding of major writers of the 19th century UNIT-I POETRY 1. Wordsworth Tintern Abbey 2. Coleridge The agree of the quaint Mariner 3. Shelley Ode to a Skylark 4. Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn 5. Tennyson Ulysses UNIT-II POETRY 1. Browning My Last Duchess2. Blake Night 3. D. G. Rossetti Infant Sorrow Blessed damozel 4. Arnold The Scholar Gypsy Ref Victorian poets, ed. V. S. Seturaman, Macmillan Annotated Classics 7 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-III PROSE 1. Charles Lamb From Essays of Elia Dissertation on a Roast Pig slimy Relations 2. Arnold From Culture and Anarchy Sweetness and Light 3. Thomas Carlyle On Shakespeare (from Victorian Prose ed. V. S. Sethuraman) UNIT-IV DRAMA Oscar Wilde Lady Windermeres Fan UNIT-V FICTION 1. Jane Austen Emma 2. Dickens Pickwick Papers 3. Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre 4. Walter Scott Ivanhoe 8 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 4 TWENTIETH CENTURY Objectives Students are 1. trained to acquire a working understanding of the war years and their literary consequences 2. exposed to dominant literary traditions and authors of the 20th Century 3. to analytically appreciate assorted emerging literary trends and forms 4. introduced to futuristic thinking through a classic science prevarication novel UNIT-I POETRY 1. W. B . Yeats 2. T. S Eliot 3. Wilfred Owen Easter 1916 Sailing to Byzantium The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Strange Meeting UNIT-II POETRY 1. 2. 3. 4. Hopkins.Seamus Heaney Thom Gunn Stephen disburser Wreck of the Deutschland The Tollund Man On the Move I think continually of those who are truly great. UNIT-III PROSE 1. Orwell 2. D. H. Lawrence 3. C. P. Snow Politics and the English Language Why the figment Matters Two Cultures UNIT-IV DRAMA 1. Beckett 2. T. S. Eliot Waiting For Godot The Family Reunion 9 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-V FICTION 1. Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 2. D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers 3. Arthur C. Clarke Childhoods End 10 M. A. Engli sh Syllabus (CBCS) ELECTIVE PAPER 1 THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TRANSLATIONObjectives Students are trained 1. to gain a working knowledge of the origin and development of translation 2. in the various theories and techniques of translation 3. to be able to translate literary and non-literary texts from English into an Indian oral communication and vice-versa UNIT-I History of rendering Origin and development of translation in the West Origin and development of translation in the Indian context UNIT-II Theories of Translation Catford Nida Newmark UNIT-III Translation of Literary Aesthetic Texts Problems and Techniques Translation of Religious Texts in India.Translation of Poetry Translation of Fiction Translation of Plays UNIT-IV Translation of Scientific Technical Texts Problems and Techniques Translation of Scientific Texts Translation of Social Sciences Texts Translation of Official Circulars, Agenda, Minutes Translation of Commercial, Financial documents and Legal texts 11 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-V New trends Assessment of Translation Computer aided Translation abduce Susan Bassnett McGuire, Translation Studies J. C. Catford, A Linguistic Theory of Translation E. A. Nida, Towards a Science of Translation (1964) E. A. Nida and C.Taber, The Theory and Practice of Translation (1974) Peter Newmark, Approaches to Translation (1981) A. Duff, The Third Language (1961) Ayyappa Panicker, ed. Indian Literature (1995) 12 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) II SEMESTER PAPER 5 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS Objectives Students are exposed to 1. the evolution of the English speech communication at a deeper level, updating what has been learnt at the UG level 2. the intricacies of articulating English sounds, enabling them to speak better 3. levels of linguistic analyses, preparing them to become effective teachers UNIT-I THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE.Descent of English language Old English Period Middle English Renaissance & After Growth of Voca bulary Change of Meaning Evolution of Standard English. Recommended Reading F. T Wood An Outline History of English Language UNIT-II PHONOLOGY Cardinal Vowels, English Vowels, Diphthongs and Consonants, Transcription, Syllable UNIT-III PHONOLOGY Received Pronunciation and the need for a model, Accent, Rhythm and Intonation, Assimilation, Elision, inter-group communication and Juncture. Recommended Reading T. Balasubramanian A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students (Chapter 3-17) 13 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS)UNIT-IV LEVELS OF LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS Morphology, Sentences and their parts, words, phrases and clauses, phrases, Semantics, Pragmatics & Discourse Analysis Recommended Reading Geroge Yule The Study of Language (Chapters 8-13) (Second Edition Cambridge University Press, 1996) Quirk & Greenbaum. A University Grammar of English UNIT-V SOCIOLINGUISTICS Language varieties language, society and culture. Recommended Reading George Yule The Study of Language (Chapter 20 &21) Second Ed. CUP, 1996) Verma and Krishnaswamy Modern Linguistics (Units 42 45). 14 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 6 INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISHObjectives Students are 1. introduced to a wider range of works in Indian Literature in English 2. exposed to a balanced textual study of established and modern writers 3. enabled to acquire a holistic perception of Indian Literature in English in preparation for a teaching or research career UNIT-I POETRY 1. Aurobindo Thought the Paraclete 2. Nissim Ezekiel Poet, Lover, chick Watcher 3. A. K. Ramanujan Anxiety (from selected poems OUP, 1995,p. 29, pp. 124-25) 4. Arun Kolatkar From Jeiury 1. The busbar 2. A Scratch 5. Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali UNIT-II POETRY 1. Daruwalla Hawk (from The Anthgology of Twelve.Modern Indian Poets ed. A. K. Mehotra, OUP (1992) 2. Sujatha Bhat The Star (from Monkey Shadows, Penguin India, 1993 pp 13-15) 3. Mamta Kalia Tribute to Papa (from Nine Indian Women 15 M. A. English Syllab us (CBCS) Poets ed. Eunice DSouza, OUP, 1997, pp. 2021) UNIT-III PROSE 1. Nehru Discovery of India (Ch. 2 and 3) 2. B. R. Ambedkar Extracts 4,5 and 6 (from Annihilation of Caste Ed. Mulk Raj Anand. Delhi Arnold Publishers, 1990, pp. 47-54) UNIT-IV DRAMA 1. Karnad Nagamandala 2. Mahashweta Devi Rudali (Calcutta Seagull, 1999) UNIT-V FICTION 1. R. K. Narayan The English Teacher 2.Chetan Bhaghat One Night the Call Centre 16 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 7 SHAKESPEARE Objectives Students are 1. enabled to establish Shakespeares contribution to development of English literature and language. 2. to gain knowledge and understanding infallible to explain his dramatic skills 3. to identify and explain meaning-making and communicative strategies in the prescribed plays 4. oriented to a concrete understanding of his universality which in this context manner his ability to communicate to a far wider spectrum of people 5. prompted to recognise and appreciate his skills as a w ordsmith 6.trained to identify passages (from the prescribed plays) that can be utilise as case studies to understand and practice soft and communicative skills. UNIT-I As You Like It UNIT-II Othello UNIT-III Richard III UNIT-IV The Winters Tale UNIT-V 1. The Elizabethan Theatre and interview 2. Trends in Shakespeare Studies 17 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 8 AMERICAN LITERATURE Objectives Students are 1. to explore the uniqueness of American literature at an modern level 2. trained to analyze the American mind in its important facets 3. enabled to appreciate mutually beneficial relationship between India and the U.S. , through the literary specialty 4. introduced to American Science Fiction through one of the most representative texts UNIT-I POETRY 1. 2. 3. 4. Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson Robert Frost Wallace Stevens Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Success is counted sweetest Home Burial legend of the Jar UNIT-II POETRY1. e. e. cummings 2. Amiri Baraka 3. Gwendolyn Bro oks Any one lived in a pretty how town An Agony as Now Kitchenette Building UNIT-III PROSE 1. R. W. Emerson 2. H. D. Thoreau 3. Allan prime quantity Self Reliance Walden (Selected Chapters 1,2 and 17) Nietzscheanization of the Left or Vice-Versa(from the Closing of the American Mind 1987) 18 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-IV DRAMA 1. Eugene ONeill 2. Arthur Miller Hairy aper The Crucible UNIT-V FICTION 1. Mark Twain 2. W. Faulkner 3. Isaac Asimov Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Sound and the Fury The Caves of Steel 19 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) HUMAN RIGHTS COMPULSORY PAPER UNIT-I Definition of homophile Rights Nature, Content, Legitimacy and Priority Theories on Human Rights Historical Development of Human Rights. UNIT-II worldwide Human Rights Prescription and Enforcement upto World War II Human Rights and the U . N . O. Universal Declaration of Human Rights internationalistic Covenant on Civil and Political Rights International Convenant on Eco nomic, Social and Cultural Rights and Optional Protocol. UNIT-III Human Rights Declarations U. N. Human Rights Declarations U. N. Human Commissioner. UNIT-IV oblivion International Human Rights and Helsinki Process Regional Developments European Human Rights System African Human Rights System International Human Rights in Domestic courts. UNIT-V Contemporary Issues on Human Rights Childrens Rights Womens Rights Dalits Rights Bonded Labour and Wages Refugees Capital Punishment.Fundamental Rights in the Indian Constitution Directive Principles of State Policy Fundamental Duties National Human Rights Commission. 20 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) Books for Reference 1. International Bill of Human Rights, Amnesty International Publication, 1988. 2. Human Rights, Questions and Answers, UNESCO, 1982 3. Mausice Cranston What is Human Rights 4. Desai, A. R. Violation of Democratic Rights in India 5. Pandey Constitutional Law. 6. Timm. R. W. Working for Justice and Human Ri ghts. 7. Human Rights, A Selected Bibliography, USIS. 8. J. C. Johari. Human Rights and New World Order. 9. G. S. Bajwa Human Rights in India. 10. Amnesty International, Human Rights in India. 11. P. C. Sinha & International Encyclopedia of Peace, Security K. Cheous (Ed) Social Justice and Human Rights (Vols 1-7). 12. Devasia, V. V. Human Rights and Victimology. Magazines 1. 2. 3. 4. The Lawyer, Bombay Human Rights Today, Columbia University International Instruments of Human Rights, UN Publication Human Rights Quarterly, John Hopkins University, U. S. A. 21 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) ELECTIVE PAPER 3 NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH ObjectivesStudents are introduced to contemporary and complex writers and their works spanning all the commonwealth countries. If selected for study, this paper will enable the student to acquire a highly comprehensive knowledge of commonwealth literature, enhancing their answer of the paper on commonwealth literature in the III semester, and also pro viding them with sufficient knowledge base for pursuing research or teaching. UNIT-I POETRY 1. Australia Judith Wright At Cooloola 2. New Zealand James Baxter The Ikons 3. Allen Curnow House and Land UNIT-II POETRY 1. Canada Al Purdy Lament for the Dorsets (EskimosExtinct in the 14th Century AD)(from Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry) 2. Africa Kofi Awoonor Song of War The Weaver Bird (from Penguin Anthology of Modern Poetry- Africa. Eds. Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier. ) 3. ace Nichols West Indies Grace Nichols Of course, when they ask for poems (from Six Women Poets. Ed. Judith Kinsman, OUP, 1992, pp. 41 -43) 22 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-III PROSE 1. Africa Achebe Colonialist Criticism (from Post Colonial Studies Reader eds. Helen tiffin, Chris Tiffin & Bill Ashcroft) 2. West Indies V. S. Naipaul-India A Wounded Civilization UNIT-IV DRAMA.Australia Louis Nowra Radiance J. P. Clarke Song of a goat UNIT-V FICTION Africa-Koetzee Disgrace Canada-Maraga ret Laurence The Stone Angel Australia-Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda 23 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) III SEMESTER PAPER 9 COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Objectives Students are 1. exposed to the literatures of the Commonwealth 2. introduced to the postcolonial perceptions of a wide range of people whose second language is English 3. trained to develop comparative perspectives 4. Trained to discuss the question of identity and dominance of landscape in Commonwealth literature UNIT-I POETRY.Australia A. D. Hope Australia New Zealand Jessie Mackay The Noosing of the sun-god Africa Abioseh Nicol The Continent that lies within us UNIT-II POETRY Africa David Rubadiri A Negro labourer in Liverpool Dereck Walcott Ruins of a Great House Canada F. R. Scott The Canadian Authors Meet (from Anthology of Commonwealth Verse ed. Margaret ODonnell & An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry ed. C. D. Narasimhaiah) UNIT-III PROSE Sri Lanka Ananda The Dance of Shiva Coomaraswami 24 M. A. Engli sh Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-IV DRAMA Nigeria Wole Soyinka The Lion and the Jewel UNIT-V FICTION.Canada Margaret Atwood ascend Australia Patrick White Voss 25 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 10 literary THEORY AND CRITICISM I Objectives Students are 1. introduced to one of the most enabling forms of literary study 2. exposed to the complexities of literary theory and criticism, which is most essential aspect of literary appreciation 3. trained to understand and analyze literary writings base on the ever evolving traditions of criticism 4. enabled to form a comparative perspective of the Eastern and Western critical traditions UNIT-I entrance to Classical Literary Criticism UNIT-II.Ancient Tamil and Sanskrit Criticism UNIT-III Johnson Preface to Shakespeare Wordsworth Preface to the Lyrical Ballads UNIT-IV Arnold Study of Poetry T. S. Eliot Tradition and Individual Talent UNIT-V N. Frye Archetypes of Literature 26 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 11 ENGLISH LANG UAGE TEACHING Objectives Students are 1. expected to acquire the essentials of teaching English as a second / foreign language 2. to attribute the various methods of English language teaching, theory as well as practice 3. trained to appreciate the area specific feature of ELT, in the Indian context, to become able teachers.4. Problems and Principles UNIT-I The role of English in India English teaching in India today UNIT-II Theories of language learning cognitive-theory behaviouristic theory. First language encyclopaedism and second language learning Attitudes to error Inter language UNIT-III Approaches and Methods Grammar Translation Audio-lingual Communicative and Current Trends UNIT-IV Classroom Management and Teacher Student fundamental interaction Materials Production 27 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-V Reading, Writing, Testimony, Speaking, Study Skills, Literature, Remediation Recommended Reading Howall A. P. R.A History of English Language Teaching, OUP, 1984. Rich ards, J and Rodgers, S. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, Cambridge University Press, 2001. Ellis, R. reasonableness Second Language Acquisition, London, OUP, 1985. Pit Corder, S. Introducing Applied Linguistics, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1973. Edinburgh Course in Appied Linguistics Vols. 1,2,3,4. Yalden, 1. The Communicative Syllabus Evolution Design & Implementations. Penguin, 1983. Oller J. W. Jr. Language Tests at School, London, Longman, 1979. David Nunan, Language Teaching Methodology, Prentice Hall, 1991. 28 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS)PAPER 12 LITERATURE, ANALYSIS, APPROACHES AND APPLICATIONS Objectives Students are 1. introduced to the methodologies of analysis, an integral part of literary appreciation 2. exposed to the expected levels of surgical process required in them 3. directed to the ever widening career options opening to a PG in English, especially in the Knowledge Processing Industry for writers, editors, instructional designers and so on UNIT-I Pra ctical Criticism UNIT-II Journalism and Mass Communication UNIT-III Report Writing and Book Review UNIT-IV Proofreading, Editing and Advertising UNIT-V TECHNICAL compositionSpecs, Manuals, Business correspondence 29 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) ELECTIVE PAPER 3 FILM REVIEWS AND PRESENTATION Objectives Students are 1. exposed to the newly emerging discipline of film studies 2. introduced to the technicalities of making and appreciation of cinema 3. trained to become reviewers, opening up another career option UNIT-I History of Cinema in India UNIT-II study Landmarks in Indian Cinema UNIT-III What is Film Reviewing? UNIT-IV Actual reviewing by showing film clips UNIT-V The script, storyline, acting, costumes, dialogue, visuals, music and dance, graphics and special effects 30 M. A.English Syllabus (CBCS) IV SEMESTER PAPER 13 LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM II Objectives In addition to the objectives for Literary Theory and Criticism I Students are 1. hypersensitised to the tra nsition from Humanistic to Modern and Postmodern critical traditions 2. enabled to comprehend the dominance of theory in the Postmodern phase 3. introduced to recent contexts, concepts and ideologies UNIT-I Lionel Trilling Sense of the retiring(a) Cleanth Brooks The Language of Paradox UNIT-II Georg Lukacs Ideology of Modernism UNIT-III Jacques Lacan Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to any Subject Whatever UNIT-IV.Barthes Death of the Author UNIT-V Simone de Beauvoir Introduction to The Second Sex 31 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 14 SOFT SKILLS, LITERATURE AND MOVIES Objectives Students are 1. trained to understand the aspects of soft skills 2. exposed to the actualities of the various skills grouped under the rubric Soft Skills 3. motivated, through this paper, to empower themselves with the expected skills for suitable employment 4. oriented to recognize and locate the role of soft skills in real life situations UNIT-I INTRAPERSONAL Self-managem ent, self-esteem, self-awareness, self-regulation, self-critique,Jane Eyre UNIT-II EMPATHY Honesty, cultural diversity, Ability to take others point of view, integrating cognitive and affective skills, Nelli in Wuthering Heights UNIT-III INTERPERSONAL aggroup work, persuasion, negotiation, conflict resolution, Reading social situations, learning to say no, active listening, Rosalind, Portia and Viola UNIT-IV COMMUNICATION Body language, facial expression, humour, eye contact, tone of voice, etiquette, 1. Antony and Cleopatra (Movie) 2. To Sir with Love (Movie) 3. Dead Poets friendship (Movie) UNIT-V LEADERSHIPCritical, lateral, strategic thinking delegation taking responsibility giving praise and appreciation giving and receiving feedback ability to motivate problem solving, Things Fall away Achebe. 32 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) References Daniel Coleman. Working with Emotional Intelligence. Dale Carnegie. How to Develop Self Confidence and Influence People by Public Spea king. 1926. rpt. 1956. Pocket Books. 33 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS)PAPER 15 WORLD CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION Objectives Enable the students to appreciate the writings for them literary values, cultural importance, philosophical and socio-political background tofacilitate the development of cross-cultural perspectives. UNIT-I Poetry Homer The Sliad Book III Virgil The Aeveid Book IV (438-563) Thiruvalluvar Thirukkural Book II UNIT-II Dante The Inferno (Canto III) Gibran The Prophet UNIT-III PROSE St. Augustine The Confessions Book I Confucius Analects 1, 2 Harace As Poetria UNIT-IV DRAMA Anton Chekov The Cherry Orchid Kalidasa Sahuntala Aristophanes The Clouds UNIT-V FICTION Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Books (1 & 2) Thomas Mann Magic Mountain 34 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) PAPER 16 WOMENS WRITING IN ENGLISH UNIT-I POETRY Elizabeth Barret Browming.Ways. How Do I Love Thee? Let me count the Sylvia Plath Lady Lazarus Maya Angelou Phenomenal Woman Kamala Das Introd uction Toru Dutt Sita UNIT-II PROSE Virginia Woolf A Room of Ones Own Arundhathi Roy The Algebra of Infinite Justice. UNIT-III DRAMA Mahashweta Devi Mother of 1084 Caryll Churchill Top Girls UNIT-IV FICTION Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake Margaret Atwood The Handmaids Tale UNIT-V GENERAL Mary Woolstone deceitfulness The Vindication of the Rights of Women Elaine Showalter Toward a Feminist Poetics 35 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) ELECTIVE PAPER 4 ANATOMY OF LITERATURE Objectives.Students are 1. enabled to acquaint themselves with the major generic divisions in English literature 2. trained in the universally acknowledged conventions of literary research and documentation UNIT-I THE ANATOMY OF PROSE The form of prose vocabulary grammar and idiom pen and spoken prose the paragraph prose rhythm individual and common style common style and cheap style simplicity and ornamentation objective and subjective snarf and concrete realism, romance and unreality special inven tions prose for its own sake the historical approach the science of rhetoric writing prose.UNIT-II THE ANATOMY OF POETRY The importance of form the physical form of poetry metre variation rhyme onomatopoeia internal pattern form in intonation repetition the main types of poetry limpid sequence the use of associations patterns of imagery traditional verse forms free verse the choice of words illustrations cautions twentieth century techniques. UNIT-III THE ANATOMY OF NOVEL The concept of fiction verisimilitude the point of view plot character character revealed conversation scene and background dominant themes the experimental novel 36.M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) UNIT-IV THE ANATOMY OF DRAMA Live literature action plots conventional divisions direct experience of characters dialogue and conversation verse and prose types of drama drama and history use of notes interpretation UNIT-V LITERARY RESEARCH Research and writing the mechanics of w riting the format of the research paper documentation preparing the list of works cited documentation citing sources in the text abbreviations Reference Marjorie Boulton, The Anatomy of Prose (1954).Marjorie Boulton, The Anatomy of Poetry (1953) Marjorie Boulton, The Anatomy of Novel Marjorie Boulton, The Anatomy of Drama (1960) Joseph Gibaldi, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th Ed. 37 M. A. English Syllabus (CBCS) PROJECT language Objective Project Work is a preparatory exercise for research writing. Students are introduced to the basics of research and trained to write academically following the material given below 1. Introduction 2. Statement of the problem 3. Review of Literature 4. Analysis 5. Summary, findings and suggestions.