MA 4th Semester English Literature Syllabus (APSU)

 

MA SEMESTER-4 SYLLABUS ENGLISH LITERATURE

PAPER-I (Critical Theory)

MA 4th semester english literature syllabus APSU
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UNIT-1

Anand Vardhman: Dhwani Theory

Ferdinand Saussure: The nature of linguistic sign

UNIT-2

I.A Richards :- Two uses of language

J.C. Ransom :- Concept of structure and texture of poetry

UNIT-3

F.R. Leavis :- Literary Criticism and Philosophy

Jacques Derrida:- Structure, Sign, and Play in the discourse of Human Sciences.

UNIT-4

Edward Said :- Crisis (The Scope of Orientalism)

Basic Trends in Feminist Criticism

UNIT-5

Practical Criticism:- Two Passages (One in verse and other in prose for practical Criticism following the technique as illustrated in I.A. Richards' book 'Practical Criticism' and David Daiches' Critical Approaches)


PAPER-II (English Language)

UNIT-1

Morphology : morpheme, allomorph, Word formation

UNIT-2

Linguistic Analysis: I.C. Analysis and ambiguities

UNIT-3 

Phonology:-
Sound Sequences: Syllable, Word Stress, Strong and Weak Forms, Stress and Intonation

UNIT-4

Grammar:-
Sentence types and their transformation relations : (a) Statement, (b) Question, (c) Negative, (d) Passive, (e) Imperative

UNIT-5

Grammar:-
Word Classes: Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjunct Phrase, Syntax Coordination, Subordination, Relative Clauses, Adverbiales, Determiners, Article Features, Concord

PAPER-III (Indian Writings in English)

UNIT-1

Annotations

UNIT-2

(a) Sarojini Naidu
(b) Kamla Das
(All poems of both poets in V.K. Gokak ed. Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry, Sahitya Academy)

UNIT-3

(a) M.R. Anand :- Untouchable
(b) R.K. Narayan:- The English Teacher

UNIT-4

(a) Vishnu Sharma:- Panchatantra (Book-1)
(b) Munshi Premchand:- The Shroud (Kafan)

UNIT-5

(a) Amitav Ghosh:- The Shadow Lines
(b) Shashi Deshpande:- That Long Silence

PAPER-IV (American Literature)

UNIT-1

Annotations

UNIT-2 (Prose)

(a) Emerson:- American Scholar
(b) Thoreau :- Civil Disobedience

UNIT-3 (Poetry)

(a) Emily Dickinson :- Because I Could Not Wait for Death, I Taste a liquor Never Brewed, A Light Exists in Spring, This is My Letter to World
(b) Sylvia Plath :- Daddy, Lady Lizarus, The Bee Meeting

UNIT-4 (Drama)

(a) Tennessee Williams :- The Glass Menagerie
(b) Edward Albee :- The Zoo Story

UNIT-5 (Fiction)

(a) Earnest Hemingway :- The Old Man and the Sea
(b) Steinbeck :- Of Mice and Men

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