English Literature and Background Essay

MA (Previous) Semester I stem I wallpaper II Paper III Paper IV Paper V Semester II Paper I Paper II Paper III Paper IV Paper V Semester III Paper I Paper II Paper III Paper IV Paper V History, Structure and exposition of position I side lit up to the Early ordinal centuryI side belles-lettres up to the Early Seventeenth CenturyII English belles-lettres of the Seventeenth & 18th CenturyI English themes of the Seventeenth & Eighteenth CenturyII History, Structure and Description of English II English publications of the Nineteenth CenturyI English Literature of the Nineteenth CenturyII English Literature of the Twentieth CenturyI English Literature of the Twentieth CenturyII MA (Final) American LiteratureI Indian piece of music in EnglishI Postcolonial Literature English row Teaching Inter-Disciplinary (ID-I) Writing for Academic and Professional Purposes SeminarSemester IV Paper I American LiteratureII Paper II Indian Writing in EnglishII Paper III Specializations 1) Wo mens Writing 2) Indian Literatures in Translation 3) unexampled Classics in Translation one limitedization to be offered in each college Paper IV Project Work Paper V Inter-Disciplinary (ID-II) Literature and Film SeminarDepartment of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad MA (Previous) Semester I(Papers I to V) Semester I(Papers I to V) Paper I whole 1 History, Structure and Description of English-I a) Indo-European Family of Languages b) Descent of English superannuated English, plaza English and Modern English a) Language as a System of Communication b) Levels of Language Description Phonology and Morphology a) phonetic Description of Consonants b) Phonetic Description of Vowels a) Noun Phrase Structure (Determiners, pre and post modifiers, number, and gender) b) The Simple Sentence in English a) Verb Phrase Structure (Verb types, tense, aspect, concord phrasal verbs) b) Coordination and Subordination (Semantic Implications)Look to a greater extentexample of satire in huckleberry finnwhole 2 building block 3 building block 4 unit 5Paper II social unit 1English Literature up to the Early Seventeenth CenturyI Background Renaissance Reformation Development of British dramatic event University Wits rime Geoffrey Chaucer Edmund Spenser General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Sonnets 34 (Lyke as a Ship) Sonnet 54 (Of the Worlds Theatre) Sonnet 68 (Most Glorious professional of Life) Everyman in His Humour The Duchess of Malfi The Spanish Tragedie Doctor Faustus unit of measurement 2 social unit 3 gambling Ben Jonson John Webster Drama Thomas Kyd Christopher Marlowe building block 42Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad social unit 5 Prose Francis Bacon Sir Philip SidneyEssays (Of Truth, Of Death, Of Revenge) An Apologie for PoetriePaper III unit 1 social unit 2English Literature up to the Early Seventeenth CenturyII Background Translation of the Bib le Utopia Tragedy Comedy Drama William Shakespeare Drama William Shakespeare verse John Donne George Herbert Poetry AndrewMarvell Richard Lovelace King Lear Henry IV Part I Twelfth Night The Tempest A Valediction, The canonization The Good-Morrow Virtue, Pulley, Collar To His Coy Mistress, Garden To Althea From Prison To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas unit 3 Unit 4Unit 5Paper IV Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4English Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesI Background Allegory Neo-Classicism Epic Rise of the English Novel Poetry John Milton Paradise Lost (Bks I & IX) Poetry John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel mack Flecknoe Fiction Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews Prose John Dryden Essay of Dramatic Poesy (Up to Examen of The Silent adult female) Preface to Shakespeare (Up to the paragraph Samuel Johnson beginning So negligent was this great poet 3Unit 5Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyder abadPaper V Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3English Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesII Background Pastoral Poetry Restoration Comedy Satire Sentimental Comedy Poetry Alexander Pope Poetry William Blake The Rape of the Lock (Canto I) An Essay on Criticism (Part I) Songs of Innocence (The dearest, Holy Thursday, The Chimney Sweeper) Songs of receive (The Tyger, Holy Thursday, The Chimney Sweeper, London, A Poison Tree) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard The mood of the World The Rivals Sir Roger in Church The Aims of the Spectator Mr. Bickerstaff on Himself The Spectator ClubUnit 4Unit 5Thomas Gray Drama William Congreve R B Sheridan Prose Joseph Addison Richard Steele4Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad MA (Previous) Semester II(Papers I to V) Paper I Unit 1 History, Structure and Description of EnglishII a) Word Formation in English b) Change of Meaning a) Levels of Language Description Syntax b) Varieties of Language Dialect, Idiolect, Register, and Style a) Word melody in English b) Properties of Connected Speech Weak forms/Elision and Intonation a) Behaviourist and Cognitivist Approaches to Language Learning/Teaching Differences between First Language encyclopedism and Second Language Learning b) Role of English in India and the Objectives of Teaching English at the College Level a) Techniques of Teaching Prose, Poetry, Grammar, and Vocabulary b) Language TestingUnit 2Unit 3Unit 4Unit 5Paper II Unit 1 Unit 2English Literature of the Nineteenth CenturyI Background Romanticism Fancy and Imagination Gothic Historical Novel Poetry William Wordsworth S T Coleridge Poetry P B Shelley John Keats Intimations Ode, Tintern AbbeyRime of the Ancient Mariner Ode to the western Wind, To a Skylark Odes On a Grecian Urn, To Autumn, To a Nightingale Emma Wuthering highUnit 3Unit 4Fiction Jane Austen Emily Bront5Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania Universit y, Hyderabad Unit 5 Prose Charles Lamb William Hazlitt Dream Children, Old China The Indian Juggler, The FightPaper III Unit 1English Literature of the Nineteenth CenturyII Background Science and godliness Pre-Raphaelites Dramatic Monologue Realism and Naturalism Poetry Alfred Lord Tennyson Robert Browning Poetry Elizabeth Barrett Browning Ulysses, Lotos Eaters My Last Duchess, Andrea Del SartoUnit 2Unit 3G M Hopkins Matthew Arnold Unit 4 Fiction Charles Dickens Thomas Hardy Prose Matthew Arnold John RuskinSonnets from the Portuguese 21 (Say over Again ) 32 (The eldest time that ) 43 (How do I love thee ) Pied Beauty, Gods Grandeur, Windhover Dover Beach Hard Times Tess of the dUrbervilles The Study of Poetry Unto This Last (Section I)Unit 5Paper IV Unit 1 Unit 2English Literature of the Twentieth CenturyI Background Modernism Dada and Surrealism Symbolism Stream of Consciousness Poetry W B Yeats T S Eliot Easter 1916, Second approaching, Byzantium The Waste Land6Department of En glish University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad Unit 3 Fiction D H Lawrence Joseph Conrad Prose Virginia Woolf E M Forster Drama G B Shaw J M Synge Sons and Lovers Heart of Darkness A Room of Ones Own Art for Arts interest group (from Two Cheers for Democracy) Saint Joan Riders to the SeaUnit 4Unit 5Paper V Unit 1 Unit 2English Literature of the Twentieth CenturyII Background Postmodernism Impressionism Existentialism relocation Poetry Poetry Ted Hughes Phillip Larkin Seamus Heaney Fiction William Golding Graham Greene Drama Samuel Beckett Tom Stoppard Short bosh Roald catjang pea A S Byatt Thought Fox, Hawk Roosting Churchgoing, Toads Digging, Punishment Lord of the Flies The Power and the Glory Waiting for Godot Indian Ink Lamb to the Slaughter The Umbrella globe Sugar (from Sugar and Other Stories)Unit 3Unit 4Unit 57Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad Syllabus of M A (English) (With effect from 2009-10) MA (Final) Semester III(Papers I-V) Paper I Unit 1 American LiteratureI Background American Frontier American Renaissance American Transcendentalism American Puritanism Poetry Phyllis Wheatley Walt Whitman On Being Brought from Africa to America When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard bloomd, Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry I taste a liquor never brewed, She sweeps with many-colored brooms, After great pain a formal feeling comes The Scarlet Letter The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Hairy Ape Death of a Salesman The American Scholar Civil DisobedienceUnit 2Emily DickinsonUnit 3Fiction Nathaniel Hawthorne Mark Twain Drama Eugene ONeill Arthur Miller Prose Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David ThoreauUnit 4Unit 58Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad Paper II Unit 1 Indian Writing in EnglishI Background Indian Nationalist Movement Use of English for political awakening Reform Mov ements Rise of the Indian Novel Poetry (Selections from Indian Poetry in English. Ed Makarand Paranjape. Macmillan, 1993) Sri Aurobindo I make a hundred lives The Golden Light Thought the Paraclete Toru Dutt Sita,Our Casuarina Tree Sarojini Naidu The Pardah Nashin, Ghanashyam Fiction Krupabai Satthianandhan Mulk Raj Anand Fiction Raja Rao R K Narayan Prose Rabindranath Tagore B R Ambedkar Kamala a Story of Hindu life Untouchable Kanthapura The Man-Eater of Malgudi Nationalism in India (from Nationalism) The Annihilation of Caste (Collected Works of B R Ambedkar, Vol III)Unit 2Unit 3Unit 4 Unit 5Paper III Unit 1 Unit 2Postcolonial Literatures Background Colonialism-Imperialism Postcolonialism Nationalism Diaspora Poetry Christopher Okigbo Edward Brathwaite Judith Wright Heavens Gate, Death lay in Ambush Didnt He Ramble, Calypso Eve to Her Daughters, Bullocky Things Fall Apart The Edible WomanUnit 3Fiction Chinua Achebe Margaret Atwood9Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad Unit 4 Drama Wole Soyinka Derek Walcott Prose V S Naipaul Ngugi wa Thiongo Kongis Harvest Dream on Monkey MountainUnit 5Indian Autobiographies (from Literary Occasions Essays) The Language of African Literature (from Decolonizing the Mind)Paper IV ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Unit I History of English Language Teaching in India Some important landmarks a) Critique of Macaulays Minute b) Landmarks of English Education in India after Independence Kunzru Committee, the three language formula and Kothari commission. c) Ramamurthy Commission Report d) Curriculum and its components Syllabus/ Paper figure materials development Major Approaches, Methods and Syllabi a. Traditional methods Use of the Grammar Translation method, Direct method, Reading method b. Structural Approach Audio-Lingual Method, Types of syllabi structuraloral-situational, notional-functional linguistic competence and communicative competence Error analysis and Remedial t eaching c. Communicative approach, Krashens Monitor Model (Natural method) task based syllabus d. Humanistic Approaches Community Language Learning, Suggestopaedia schoolroom Techniques a. Lecture mode classroom discussion Peer and pair work b. Role play Team teaching Teaching large classes. c. Teaching back up Use of the Blackboard, flip charts, , OHP, audio visual tools, Television, d. Traditional and digital Language Lab the Computer and the Internet. Teaching of Language skills a. The teaching of listening, speaking, reading, writing and related written report skills b. Teaching of literature c. Stylistic approach to the teaching of literature (norm, deviation, and foregrounding) d. Teaching of language through literature. 10Unit IIUnit IIIUnit IVDepartment of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad Unit V Testing and Evaluation a. Importance of Testing, traditional testing methods Different types of tests b. Group word of honor (GD ) c. Interview d. Course EvaluationPaper V Inter Disciplinary ID-I Writing for Academic and Professional Purposes Unit 1 Language CompetenceA. Communicative Grammar Nouns, articles, prepositional phrases, tenses subject verb agreement, modal verbs,difference between spoken & written language B. Sentence structure, kinds of sentences-statements, interrogatives, question tags passive constructions, reported speech use of conditionals, compound & abstruse sentences C. Academic Reading read to write- focus on the gist, idiom, rhetoric, style and genre specific features in different texts intensive & critical reading, note making Unit 2 Organization of writing A. Guided writing, expansion, use of connectives, sequencing, writing a paragraph free writing, mind mapping. Paraphrasing, summarizing, writing an abstract Writing letters, resume and email ( e-mail etiquette)B. C.Unit 3 Academic Writing A. B. C. proposals, SOPs ( statement of purpose) structure of a report, report writing W riting an essay (descriptive, argumentative and scientific)Unit 4 Professional Writing A. Inter office memos, professional reports( business, survey, minutes of a meeting) B. Editing, writing a review, creative writing (Ad writing, slogan writing and writing headlines). C. Technical writing product and process writing, writing a user manual SEMINAR PRESENTATION11Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad MA (Final) Semester IV(Papers I-V) Paper I Unit 1 Unit 2 American LiteratureII Background American Dream Multiculturalism Lost contemporaries American Comedy Poetry Robert Frost Wallace Stevens Robert Lowell Unit 3 Fiction Ernest Hemingway Saul Bellow Drama Lorraine Hansberry Neil Simon Short Fiction Henry James William Faulkner Issac Asimov West Running Brook, Home Burial Sunday Morning The Emperor of Ice-Cream For the Union Dead At a Bible House The Old Man and the Sea Seize the Day Raisin in the Sun Sunshine Boys The Middle Y ears Go Down Moses The Bicentennial ManUnit 4Unit 512Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad Paper II Unit 1 Indian Writing in EnglishII Background Decolonization Counter DisPapers Partition Literature Myth and Literature Poetry (Selections from Indian Poetry in English. Ed Makarand Paranjape. Macmillan, 1993) Nissim Ezekiel Kamala rock rabbit A K Ramanujan Unit 3 Fiction Salman Rushdie Shashi Deshpande Drama Girish Karnad Mahesh Dattani Short Fiction Bharati Mukherjee Enterprise Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher An Introduction The Old Playhouse A River, Love Poem for a Wife-IUnit 2Midnights Children The Binding Vine Hayavadana Final Solutions A Wifes Story, Management of Grief (both from The Middleman and Other Stories, 1989) The Accompanist A attached Son (both from Games at Twilight, 1978)Unit 4Unit 5Anita Desai13Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad Paper III (Specializa tions) A) Womens Writing B) Indian Literatures in Translation C) Modern Classics in Translation Paper III A) Womens Writing Unit 1 Background The Woman wonder New Woman Womens Liberation Movement Feminism Re-reading the Canon Prose Mary WollstonecraftUnit 2Vindication of the Rights of Women (Introduction and Chapter 2) The Second Sex (Essay on Biology)Simon de Beauvour Unit 3 Poetry Elizabeth Barret Browing Sylvia Plath Margaret Atwood Grace Nichols Anne Stevenson Fiction Virginia Woolf Nadine Gordimer Drama Carly Churchill Alima Ata AidooA Curse for a Nation Lady Lazarus Circle Mud Poems Making Poetry, The timbre is too Blunt an InstrumentUnit 4Mrs Dalloway July PeopleUnit 5Top Girls AnowaPaper III (B) INDIAN LITERATURES IN TRANSLATION Unit 1 i) ii) Background Types of Natya (Nataka, Prakarana, and Prahasana) and Theory of Rasa and Kavya Indian Concept of Translation (from Translation as Discovery by Sujit Mukherjee, Chapter 2 & 3) Scope of comparative Literature (Comparative L iterature in India A Perspective by Bijay Kumar Das from Comparative Indian Literature ed. Rao & Dhawan) 14iii)Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad iv) Dalit esthetics (Dalit Literature and Aesthetics from Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature by Sharavan Kumar Limbale) Poetry Sangam Poety from Poems of Love and War Trans by AK. Ramanujan, Akam Poems Kurinci (page 15), Neytal (page 41),Palai(page 53), Mullai (page 81), Marutam (page 97), Puram Poems King Killi in Combat (page 123) Gurram Joshua I was one of them, The flitter Messenger (From Twentieth Century Telugu Poetry. An Anthology ed. By Velcheru Narayan Rao, OUP 2002) Jibananda Das Banalata Sen, The Naked Solitary Hand (From Signatures ed by Satchidanandan, Sahitya Academi, New Delhi) Drama KalidasUnit 2 i)ii)iii)Unit 3 i)Abhgnana Shakuntalam from The Plays of Kalidasa by Barbara Stoller Miller, Ed Columbia University Press, 1984 Silence the Court is in Sess ion (OUP)ii) Unit 4 i)Vijay Tendulkar Fiction PremchandGodan a novel of peasant India Tans by Jai Ratan and P. Lal Bombay Jaico, 1979ii)U.R Anantha Murthy Smakara A Rite of Dead Man Trans by A.K. Ramanujan (OUP) Short FictionUnit 5 i) mobtales Bopoluchi (A Punjabi Folk Tale), Why the Fish Laughed (A Kashmiri Folk Tale), Folktales from India selected and ed. By A.K. Ramanujan, Penguin handwritings India, 1994. Ismat Chugtai Chauti Ka Jowra fromInner Courtyard. Ed Lakshmi Holmstrom, Rupa, 2002. Mahasweta Devi Shishu from Womens Writing, Vol II Ed by Tharu & Lalitha, OUP, 1991.ii)iii)15Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, Hyderabad Paper III (C) Modern Classics in Translation Unit 1 Background Enlightenment Bourgeois Experience Epic Theatre Magic Realism. Poetry Charles Baudelaire The Sick muse, Even She was called Bautrice By Many Who knew Not Wherefore, The Remorse of the Dead Pablo Neruda What Spain was Like, The Heavenly Poet s, Opium in the East Joseph Brodsky Odysseus to Telemachus, Nune Dimmittis, Nature Morte Unit 3 Fiction Gustav Flaubert Milan Kundera Drama Anton Chekhov Betrolt BrechtUnite 2Madame Bovary Book of Laughter ForgettingUnit 4The Cherry Orchard Mother CourageUnit 5Short Fiction Franz Kafka Gabriel Garcia Marquez PROJECT WORKMetamorphosis No one Writes to the ColonelPAPER IVPaper V Inter-Disciplinary (ID-II) Literature and Film Unit1 Background a)Elements of a narrative Theme, Plot, Structure, Setting, Character, Point of View b) Narrative devices genres, montage, film noir, flashback, special effects Unit 2 Drama and Film a) George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion (1913) b) George Cukor (Director) My Fair Lady (1964) Unit 3 Novel and Film a) EM Forster A Passage to India (1924) b) David joust (Director) A Passage to India (1984). Unit 4 Short Fiction and Film a) Ruskin Bond The Blue Umbrella b) Vishal Bhardwaj (Director) The Blue Umbrella (2007)16Department of English University College of Arts & Social Sciences Osmania University, HyderabadSuggested Reading Beja, Morris. Film & Literature, an introduction, Longman, 1979. Bluestone, George. Novels into film, Johns Hopkins Press, 1957. Boyum, Joy Gould. Double Exposure Fiction into Film, Seagull Books, 1989. Corrigan, Timothy, ed Film and Literature An Introduction and Reader. Prentice Hall, 1999. Das Gupta, Chidananda. Talking about films. Orient Longman, 1981 Deborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan, eds. Adaptations from text to screen, screen to text. Routledge, 1999. Elliott, Kamilla. Rethinking the novel/film debate. CUP, 2003. Literature Film Quarterly. McFarlane, Brian. Novel to film an introduction to the theory of adaptation. OUP, 1996. Ray, Satyajit. Our Films, Their Films. Orient Longman, 1976. Reberge, Gaston. The egress of Cinema, Seagull Books, 1987. Stam, Robert and Alessandra Raengo, eds. A Companion to literature and film. Blackwell Pub., 2004.SEMINAR PRESENTATION