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Ordinances, Syllabus and Courses of Reading for M.A. (English) I & II Semester Examination Session 2008-2009

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SCHEME OF EXAMINATION M.A. (ENGLISH) PART - I (SEMESTER I & II) For the session 2008-09
(SEMESTER - I 2008-09) Name of Paper Course-I Course-II Course-III Course-IV

Of Marriage and Single Life Of Truth Of Simulation and Dissimulation INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PAPER-SETTER There shall be six questions in all, five to be attempted.
Theory 80 80 80 80 Internal 20 20 20 20

Max. Marks Chaucer to the Renaissance 100 Jacobean to the Restoration Age 100 Neo- Classicism and the Rise of the 100 Novel English Phonetics and Phonology 100 Total 400

Each question carries 16 marks. Questions No.1 & 2 will be compulsory. Question No.1 will comprise six short- answer questions (in a bo ut 150 -2 00 to test the close read ing of t he prescribed texts. The candidates shall attempt any four out of these six questions. Each item of question No.1 will carry four marks.Question No. 2 shall cover literary history/ trends/ movements of the given course and it will comprise three items, two to be attempted (400 words each), carrying equal marks. Questions 3 to 6 shall comprise essay-type questions with internal choice on the prescribed texts. COURSE-II JACOBEAN TO THE RESTORATION AGE Maximum Marks : 100 Theory : 80 Internal Assessment : 20 Time : 3 Hrs. Ben Jonson John Milton John Donne : : : The Good Morrow The Sun Rising The Canonization A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning The Extasie The Alchemist Paradise ost Book I

(SEMESTER - II 2008-09) Course-V The Romantic Age Course-VI Victorian Literature Course-VII Any one of the following options (iv) Indian Novel in English (v) Indian Drama and Poetry (vi) Modern Indian Literature in Translation Course-VIII Criticism -I (Aristotle to T.S. Eliot) Total

100 100 100 100 100 100 400

80 80 80 80 80 80

20 20 20 20 20 20

COURSE-I CHAUCER TO THE RENAISSANCE Paper-X STATISTICAL METHODS-II Maximum Marks : 100 Theory : 80 Internal Assessment : 20 Time : 3 Hrs. Marlowe Shakespeare Bacon- Essays : : : Dr Faustus (i) King Lear (ii) Henry IV Part I Of Studies Of Friendship

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The Relique Holy Sonnet : Batter my heart, three persond God William Congreve : The Way of the World INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PAPER-SETTER There shall be six questions in all, five to be attempted. Each question carries 16 marks. Questions No.1 & 2 will be compulsory. Question No.1 will comprise six short- answer questions (in ab ou t 150- 20 0 to te st t he close re ad ing of t he prescribed texts. The candidates shall attempt any four out of these six questions. Each item of question No.1 will carry four marks.Question No. 2 shall cover literary history/ trends/ movements of the given course and it will comprise three items, two to be attempted (400 words each), carrying equal marks. Questions 3 to 6 shall comprise essay-type questions with internal choice on the prescribed texts. COURSE-III NEO-CLASSICISM AND THE RISE OF THE NOVEL Maximum Marks : 100 Theory : 80 Internal Assessment : 20 Time : 3 Hrs. Alexnder Pope John Dryden : : The Rape of the Lock Absalom and Achitophel (i) The Aim of the Spectator (ii) The Scope of Satire (iii) On friendship (iv) Sir Roger in Church Henry fielding : Joseph Andrews

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PAPER-SETTER There shall be six questions in all, five to be attempted. Each question carries 16 marks. Questions No.1 & 2 will be compulsory. Question No.1 will comprise six short- answer questions (in a bo ut 150 -2 00 to test the close read ing of t he prescribed texts. The candidates shall attempt any four out of these six questions. Each item of question No.1 will carry four marks.Question No. 2 shall cover literary history/ trends/ movements of the given course and it will comprise three items, two to be attempted (400 words each), carrying equal marks. Questions 3 to 6 shall comprise essay-type questions with internal choice on the prescribed texts. COURSE-IV PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY Maximum Marks : 100 Theory : 80 Internal Assessment : 20 Time : 3 Hrs. Unit-I 1. The Organs of Speech 2. Speech Mechanism with refernce to the role of different organs speech in the articulation of the British R.P. speech sounds. 3. Basic Concepts : Phonemes, Consonants, Allophones, Vowels, Diphthongs, Triphthongs, Minimal pairs diagram and the basic concept of Cardinal vowels. Unit-II 4. Criteria for Classification and Description of Consonants (on the basis of initiation, direction of air stream, phonation, position of velum, place of articulation and manner of articulation).

Joseph Addison-Essays :

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5. Criteria for Classification and Description of Vowels. (on the basis ofthe part of the tongue raised, the height to which the tongue is raised and the position of the lips). 6. Three- term label and Detailed description of R.P. Vowels and Consonants. Unit-III 7. a) Allophonic Variants of Plosives & Lateral b) Pronuniciation of Inflections of -s/es and - d/ed c) Pronuniciation of orthographic - ng. d) Linking and Intrusive - r 8. The syllabus, Syllabus Structure, Syllabic Conosonants, Consonant Cluster. 9. Phonemic transcription of common English words using current IPA symbols as given in Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, 6th edition, OUP. Unit-IV 10.Word Stress : Broad guidelines for marking primary stress. 11.Marketing Primary stress on common place English words. 12.Features of Connected Speech : Stress, Rhythm and Weak Forms. Unit-V 13.Introduction : uses of Tune I (Falling Tone) and II(Rising Tone) 14.Marketing Intonation (including marketing stress, tone group, finding the nucleus etc. ) with reference to simple and short sentences. 15.Common place problems of Indian Speakers with references to RP sounds and suggestions to overcome these problems.

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PAPER-SETTER Each unit carries 16 marks. Every question will have internal choice. A question may have one or more parts. So far as possible emphasis will be on performance type questions. IPA Symbols as used in English Pronouncing Dictionary by Daniel Jones, 16th edition are to be used for this course. There will be Compulsory questions on the following four(4) items:1. In Unit II for Three Term Label description the candidates shall describe 12 sounds out of 18, ech carrying 1/2 mark. This question shall carry 6 marks. 2. In Unit III for Phonemic Transcription the candidates shall transcribe 12 words out of 18, each carrying 1/2 mark. This question shall carry 6 marks. 3. In Unit IV for marking Primary Stress, the candidates shall mark stress on 12 words out of 18, each carrying 1/2 mark. This question shall carry 6 marks. 4. In Unit V for Intonation, the candidates shall mark Intontion on sentencs out of 8, each carrying one (1) mark. This question shall carry 6 marks. Note : The scope of the content will strictly be defined by the prescribed texts. COURSE-V THE ROMANTIC AGE Maximum Marks : 100 Theory : 80 Internal Assessment : 20 Time : 3 Hrs. Wordsworth : Tinetern Abbey, Immortality Ode

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Coleridge Keats

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Ode to Psyche Ode to a Nightingale Ode on Melancholy Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to Autumn

Matthew Arnold

: The Forsaken Marman Dover Beach Scholar Gypsy Thyrsis

Dickens Emily Bronte

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Bleak House Wuthering Heights

Jane Auten

Pride and Prejudice

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PAPER-SETTER There shall be six questions in all, five to be attempted. Each question carries 16 marks. Questions No.1 & 2 will be compulsory. Question No.1 will comprise six short- answer questions (in ab ou t 150- 20 0 to te st t he close re ad ing of t he prescribed texts. The candidates shall attempt any four out of these six questions. Each item of question No.1 will carry four marks.Question No. 2 shall cover literary history/ trends/ movements of the given course and it will comprise three items, two to be attempted (400 words each), carrying equal marks. Questions 3 to 6 shall comprise essay-type questions with internal choice on the prescribed texts. COURSE-VI VICTORIAN AGE Maximum Marks : 100 Theory : 80 Internal Assessment : 20 Time : 3 Hrs. Robert Browning : The Bishop Orders His Tomb A Grammarians Funeral Rabbi Ben Ezra My Last Duchess Andrea Del Sarto

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PAPER-SETTER There shall be six questions in all, five to be attempted. Each question carries 16 marks. Questions No.1 & 2 will be compulsory. Question No.1 will comprise six short- answer questions (in ab out 150-200 to test the clo se read ing of t he prescribed texts. The candidates shall attempt any four out of these six questions. Each item of question No.1 will carry four marks.Question No. 2 shall cover literary history/ trends/ movements of the given course and it will comprise three items, two to be attempted (400 words each), carrying equal marks. Questions 3 to 6 shall comprise essay-type questions with internal choice on the prescribed texts. COURSE-VII (OPTION-I) INDIAN NOVEL IN ENGLISH Maximum Marks : 100 Theory : 80 Internal Assessment : 20 Time : 3 Hrs. Mulak Raj Anand Anita Desai Amitav Ghosh Arundhati Roy : : : : Coolie Voices in the City The Shadow Lines The God of Small Things

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PAPER-SETTER There shall be six questions in all, five to be attempted.

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Each question carries 16 marks. Questions No.1 & 2 will be compulsory. Question No.1 will comprise six short- answer questions (in a bo ut 150 -2 00 to test the close read ing of t he prescribed texts. The candidates shall attempt any four out of these six questions. Each item of question No.1 will carry four marks.Question No. 2 shall cover literary history/ trends/ movements of the given course and it will comprise three items, two to be attempted (400 words each), carrying equal marks. Questions 3 to 6 shall comprise essay-type questions with internal choice on the prescribed texts. COURSE-VII (OPTION-II) INDIAN DRAMA AND POETRY Maximum Marks : 100 Theory : 80 Internal Assessment : 20 Time : 3 Hrs. (i) Nissim Exekeil : Time to Change Island Urban The Visitor Patriot Night of the Scorpion (ii) A.K. Ramanujan : Extended Family The Difference Fear The Striders Hindoo to His Body The Last of the Princes (iii) Girish Karnard (iv) Mahesh Dattani : : Tughlaq Final Solutions 1. Kabir

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PAPER-SETTER There shall be six questions in all, five to be attempted. Each question carries 16 marks. Questions No.1 & 2 will be compulsory. Question No.1 will comprise six short- answer questions (in a bo ut 150 -2 00 to test the close read ing of t he prescribed texts. The candidates shall attempt any four out of these six questions. Each item of question No.1 will carry four marks.Question No. 2 shall cover literary history/ trends/ movements of the given course and it will comprise three items, two to be attempted (400 words each), carrying equal marks. Questions 3 to 6 shall comprise essay-type questions with internal choice on the prescribed texts. COURSE-VII (OPTION-III) INDIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION Maximum Marks : 100 Theory : 80 Internal Assessment : 20 Time : 3 Hrs. : The following experts from The Weavers song Tr. Vinay Dharwadkar Penguin, 2003 :1. Maya 2. Sheet 3. fish 4. Swan 5. The Mystery of Maya 2. Om Parkash Valmiki 3. Krishna Sobti : : Jhoothan, Saumya Publications. To Hell with You Mitro. Tr. Rajan and Narisihman Katha. 207.

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4. Tendulkar

Silence ! The Court is in Session.

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PAPER-SETTER There shall be six questions in all, five to be attempted. Each question carries 16 marks. Questions No.1 & 2 will be compulsory. Question No.1 will comprise six short- answer questions (in a bo ut 150 -2 00 to test the close read ing of t he prescribed texts. The candidates shall attempt any four out of these six questions. Each item of question No.1 will carry four marks.Question No. 2 shall cover literary history/ trends/ movements of the given course and it will comprise three items, two to be attempted (400 words each), carrying equal marks. Questions 3 to 6 shall comprise essay-type questions with internal choice on the prescribed texts. COURSE-VIII CRITICISM-I ARISTOTLE T.S. ELIOT Maximum Marks : 100 Theory : 80 Internal Assessment : 20 Time : 3 Hrs. 1. Aristotle : Poetics 2. John Dryden : An essay on Dramatic Poesy 3. William Wordworth : Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802) 4. T.S. Eliot : Tradition and the Indiviual Talent Function of Criticism INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PAPER-SETTER There shall be 5 questions, all to be attempted. Each question carries 16 marks. Questions No.1 will be compulsory. Question No.1 will comprise six short- answer questions (in about 150-200 to test the close reading of the prescribed texts. The candidates shall attempt any four out of these six questions. Each item of question No.1 will carry four marks.Question No. 2 to 5 shall comprise essay-type questions with internal choice on the prescribed texts.