Syllabus - M.A. III Sem. (English Literature)- Higher Education M.P.

01. M.A. ENGLISH: SEM. III
PAPER- I (Critical Theory)
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UNIT-I
Natyashastra- Rasa Theory
Aristotle: Poetics (Butcher's Translation)
UNIT-II:
Longinus: On the Sublime
Philip Sidney: Apology for Poetry
UNIT- III
John Dryden: An Essay on Dramatic Poesy
Dr. Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare
UNIT- IV
Wordsworth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Coleridge: Biographia Literaria (Ch. XIII & XIV)
UNIT-V
Matthew Arnold: Essays in Criticism (Second Series)
T.S. Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent
02. M.A. ENGLISH: SEM. III
PAPER- II (English Language)
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UNIT-I
Definition, Functions, Characteristics, Development of English Language.
UNIT-II:
Language Varieties: Register, Style and Dialect Approaches to the Study of Language: Synchronic and Diachronic
UNIT- III
Definition of Phonetics and Phonology, Difference between Phonetics and Phonology, Organs of Speech
UNIT- IV
Phonemes, Allophones, Phonetic Symbols for Sounds in RP
UNIT-V
Basics of Transformational Generic Grammar: Nature and Characteristics
03. M.A. ENGLISH: SEM. III
PAPER- III (Indian Writings in English)
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UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II
Sri Aurobindo: Savitri (Book I- Canto I)
Tagore: Geetanjali (Poems- 1 to 10), McMillan Edition
UNIT- III
APJ Abdul Kalam: Wings of Fire
UNIT- IV
Asif Currimbhoy: Valley of Assassins
Badal Sircar: Evam Indrajit
UNIT-V
Anita Desai: Cry, the Peacock
Arun Joshi: The City and the River
04. M.A. ENGLISH: SEM. III
PAPER- IV (American Literature)
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UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II: (Prose)
Emerson: Self Reliance, The Over Soul
UNIT- III (Poetry)
Walt Whitman: O Captain, My Captain, Song of Myself : Grass, When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloomed, I Celebrate Myself.
Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, After Apple Picking, Birches, The Road not Taken.
UNIT- IV (Drama)
Eugene O' Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra
UNIT-V (Fiction)
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn