M.A. I ENGLISH Semester II

 Semester II

Compulsory Papers: 

Paper V 

Literary Movements –II 

      Unit I Realism

                    1.  Ian Watt, ―Realism and the Novel Form‖, The Rise of the Novel, (University of                                          California       Press, 2001) 11-36. 

                    2.George Eliot, Chapter 17, Adam Bede, Volume 3,(William Blackwood and Sons, 1859)                          223- 244.

      Unit II Modernism

                    1. Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane, ―The Name and Nature of Modernism‖ from                              Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890- 1930, ed. By Malcolm Bradbury                              and James McFarlane (Penguin, 1976), 19-35

                   2. Ezra Pound, ―A Few Don‘ts by an Imagiste‖,                                                                                           https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/58900/a-fewdonts-by-an-                             imagiste

      Unit III Postmodernism 

                    1. Linda Hutcheon, ―Theorizing the Postmodern: Toward a Poetics‖, A Poetics of                                        Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction (Routledge, London & New York, 1988) 3-21.

                   2. Ihab Hassan, ―Toward a Concept of Postmodernism‖, The Postmodern Turn (Ohio:                                Ohio State University Press, 1987) 1-10. 

                   3. Borges, Jorge Luis. "The Library of Babel", Collected Fictions. Trans. Andrew Hurley                             (New York: Penguin, 1998) 112-118.

        Unit IV Postcolonialism 

                   1. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin. Eds. ―Introduction‖ to The Empire Writes                           Back (Routledge: London & New York, 1991) 2002, 2 nd Ed. 1-13.

                   2. Ngugi wa Thiong‘o ,‖The Language of African Literature‖, Decolonizing the Mind: The                           Politics of Language in African Literature (Harare: Zimbabwe Publishing House, 1987)                           1994 rpt. 3-33. 

         Unit V Debating ‘Periodization’ in History

                    1. Ted Underwood, ―The Disciplinary Rationale for Periodization and a Forgotten                                      Challenge to It (1886–1949)‖, Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and                              the Prestige of English Studies (Stanford & California: Stanford University Press, 2013)                          114-135. 

                    2. Eric Hayot, ―Against Periodization; or, On Institutional Time‖, New Literary History,                             Vol. 42, No. 4, (Autumn 2011), 739-754

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Paper VI 

Approaches to Literary Criticism – II

           Unit I 

                    1. Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle,―The beginning,‖ ―Readers and reading,‖ ―The                           author,‖ and ―The text and the world‖, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and                                 Theory (Pearson Longman, 2004, 3 rd Edition) Chapters 1-4 (1- 33).

            Unit II 

                    1. Terry Eagleton, ―Literature and History‖, Marxism and Literary Criticism (London &                            New York: Routledge: 1976), 1-9.

             Unit III

                    1. Wilfred L. Guerin et al, eds., ―Feminism and Gender Studies (I, II, III, IVA, IVB, V)‖ A                          Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature (Oxford: OUP, 2005) 5th Ed.

                    2. Charlotte Krolokke and Ann Scott Sorensen, ―Three Waves of Feminism: From                                      Suffragettes to Grrls‖, Gender Communication Theory and Analyses: From Silence to                               Performance (Thousand Oaks, London & New Delhi: SAGE, 2006) 1-24. 

              Unit IV 

                     1. Chapter 9 of Wilfred Guerin‘s Handbook: Cultural Studies (I, II, IIIA, IIIB)

                     2. Stuart Hall, ―The Formation of Cultural Studies‖, Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical                           History (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2016) 5-24.

               Unit V  

                     1. Chapter 10 of Wilfred Guerin‘s Handbook: The Play of Meanings (I, II, III)   

                     2. Umberto Eco, ―The Open Work‖, The Open Work, trans. Anna Cancogni (Cambridge                            & Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989) 1-23.

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Paper VII

British Literature – III

             UnitI 1. 

                      1.Robert Browning, ―Grammarian‘s Funeral‖ & ―The Last Ride Together‖, The Poems                             of Robert Browning (Wordsworth, 1994). 

                      2. Alfred Lord Tennyson, ―Defense of Lucknow‖, ―The Higher Pantheism‖ [available                               online and ] 

                     3. Christina Rossetti, ―Better Resurrection‖ & ―Amor Mundi‖, Complete Poems                                       (Penguin, 2001). 

             Unit II 

                      1. Charles Dickens, Hard Times (Penguin Classics, 2003). 

            Unit III 

                      1. Mathew Arnold, ‗Barbarians, Philistines and Populace‘ (Chapter 3), Culture and                                      Anarchy (Oxford UP World‘s Classics, 2009).

                       2. John Ruskin, ―Unto this Last‖, Unto this Last and Other Writings of John Ruskin, ed.                             Clive Wilmer (Penguin Books, 1985)155-228. 

            Unit IV 

                       1. H G Wells, The Time Machine (New York: Signet Classics, 2007).

            Unit V 

                       1. Bram Stoker, Dracula (Wordsworth Classics, 2000).

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Paper VIII

British Literature – IV

           

             Unit I 

                    1. T.S. Eliot, ―The Burial of the Dead‖ Canto I, The Waste Land; ―Love Song of Alfred J                          Prufrock‖, The Complete Poems and Plays of T.S. Eliot (Faber, Main Edition, 2004).

                    2. W.B. Yeats, ―Easter 1916‖, “A Prayer for My Daughter‖ &―Sailing to Byzantium‖                                  Yeats: Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions, 2001).

                   3. W.H. Auden, ―The Shield of Achilles‖, ―September 1, 1939‖ & ―Musée des Beaux                             Arts‖, W.H. Auden: Collected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson (Vintage International,                              1991).

                   4. D. H. Lawrence, ―Mosquitoes‖ & ―Snakes‖, Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence                                   (London: Wordsworth, 1994). ]

            Unit II  

                  1. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (Pearson, 2012). 

            Unit III

                  2. James Joyce, Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man (Vintage Classics, 2012).

    

            Unit IV  

                   1. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Vintage Classics, 2004) 

             Unit V 

                   1. George Orwell, ―Notes on Nationalism‖, ―The Prevention of Literature‖ &                                             ―Reflections on Gandhi‖, George Orwell: Essays (Penguin UK, 2000), also available at                         www.orwellfoundation.com                                       

                     

                   2. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One‟s Own. London (Penguin Modern Classics, 2002)

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