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SYLLABUS & PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

POST-GRADUATE STUDIES
IN ENGLISH
(Choice Based Credit System)
(Effective from the Academic Session 2017-18)

MAHARAJA BIR BIKRAM UNIVERSITY

AGARTALA, TRIPURA: 799004

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❖ The M.A. Programme in English consists of Four (4) Courses in each
Semester and a total of Sixteen (16) Courses over 4 Semesters in
2(Two) years.

❖ Each Course is divided into 4 units and carries 10 marks in Internal

Assessment and a total of 40 marks in the End Semester Examination
of the University.

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 PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
M.A. ENGLISH

FIRST SEMESTER
Course Code Title of the Course Internal Semester Total Credits
Assessment End Marks
ENG-101 History of English 10 40 50 4
Literature(chaucer to Milton)
ENG-102 Poetry-I 10 40 50 4
ENG-103 Drama-I(Elizabethan and 10 40 50 4
Jacobean)
ENG-104 Literary theory and Criticism -I 10 40 50 4

SECOND SEMESTER
Course Code Title of the Course Internal Semester Total Credits
Assessment End Marks
ENG-201 History of English 10 40 50 4
Literature(Restoration period
till Present)
ENG-202 Drama-II ( Restoration till 10 40 50 4
Modern)
ENG-203 Literary theory and criticism -II 10 40 50 4

ENG-204 Poetry –II ( Neoclassical till 10 40 50 4

Victorian)

THIRD SEMESTER
Course Code Title of the Course Internal Semester Total Credits
Assessment End Marks
ENG-301 American Literature 10 40 50 4
ENG-302 Fiction-I (18th and 19th Century) 10 40 50 4

ENG-303 Poetry-III (Modern) 10 40 50 4

ENG-304 Optional: 10 40 50 4
A)World Literature in English
B)Gothic Literature

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 FOURTH SEMESTER
Course Code Title of the Course Internal Semester Total Credits
Assessment End Marks
ENG-401 Indian writing in English 10 40 50 4
ENG-402 Fiction-II (2oth Century)

10 40 50 4
ENG-403 Literary Theory and Criticism-
III
10 40 50 4
ENG-404 Optional: 10 40 50 4
A)New Literatures in English
B) Women’s Writing

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SEMESTER

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 MAHARAJA BIR BIKRAM UNIVERSITY
AGARTALA, TRIPURA
POST- GRADUATE STUDIES IN ENGLISH
SYLLABUS (ENGLISH)

SEMESTER -I 40+10

Course : ENG-101. History of English Literature I (Chaucer to Milton)

(A)History of English Literature : 1340-1564

(B)History of English Literature : 1564-1642

(C)History of English Literature: 1642- 1674

Course : ENG-102. Poetry- I

Unit I
Geoffrey Chaucer: General Prologue to Canterbury Tales

Unit II
Edmund Spenser: Faerie Queene BK 1

Unit III
John Donne: The Canonization

Andrew Marvell : To His Coy Mistress

George Herbert: The Collar

Unit IV
John Milton : Paradise Lost Book IV

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Course : ENG-103. Drama-I

Unit I
Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy
Christopher Marlowe: Edward II

Unit II
William Shakespeare: Othello/ Hamlet

Unit III
William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream/ The Tempest

Unit IV
Ben Jonson: The Alchemist
Thomas Dekker: The Shoemaker’s holiday

Course : ENG-104. Literary theory and criticism-I

Unit I
Rasa Concept in Bharata and Abhinava Gupta.(selected chapters)

Unit II
Plato: The Republic,Book X
Aristotle: Poetics

Unit III
Horace: Ars Poetica
Longinus: On the Sublime

Unit IV
Philip Sidney- Apology For Poetry

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SEMESTER

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SEMESTER-II 40+10

Course : ENG-201.History of English Literature-II

(A)History of English Literature: Restoration period

(B)History of English Literature: 1789- 1900

(C)History of English Literature: 1900-to the present

Course : ENG-202. Drama-II

Unit I
William Congreve: The Way of the World
John Dryden: All for Love

Unit II
Bernard Shaw: Man and Superman
J.M Synge : The Playboy of the Western World
T.S Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral

Unit III
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party

Unit IV
Arnold Wesker: Chicken soup with barley
John Osborne: Look back in anger

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Course : ENG- 203. Literary theory and Criticism-II

Unit I
John Dryden: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare

Unit II
William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads
S.T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria (Selected Chapters)

Unit III
Matthew Arnold : The Study of Poetry
P.B Shelley: The Defence of Poetry

Unit IV
T.S. Eliot :Tradition and Individual Talent
The Function of Criticism
To Critize the Critic

Course: ENG-204.Any Course in another Discipline

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Poetry- II

Unit I
John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel
Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

Unit II
Blake: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

Unit III
William Wordsworth: Ode on Intimations of Immortality
Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn

Unit III
Tennyson: In Memoriam (Selected from 1-18)
Browning: Andrea del Sarto
Matthew Arnold: The Scholar Gipsy

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Course : Eng- 204. Communication skill (CBCS)

(a) Types of Communication; Written communications & their types.

Vocabulary acquisition: Antonyms- Synonyms; Basic Syntax in English,
Idea
and use of tense: Transformation of Sentences: Active & Passive; Formats
of Letter- Notice-Note & Report; Drafting a communication.Critical notes;
Creative writing

(b) Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication. Theories & factors.

Adequacy of language in verbal communication. Nuances, Polite words;
Set phrases.Spoken structure-ellision & compactness. Accuracy in language
(English) : Phonetics,Stress & Intonation.Dialogue formations.

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 MAHARAJA BIR BIKRAM UNIVERSITY
AGARTALA, TRIPURA
POST- GRADUATE STUDIES IN ENGLISH
SYLLABUS (ENGLISH)

SEMESTER-III 40+10

Course : ENG-301. American Literature

Unit I
Ralph Waldo Emerson :
1. Rhodora
2. Concord Hymn.

Walt Whitman :
1. When the Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
2. Passage to India.

Emily Dickinson:
1. I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
2. Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Sylvia Plath
1. Daddy
2. Lady lazarus

Unit II
Edgar Allen Poe : 1.The Fall of the House of Usher
2.The Raven
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn.
Ralph Ellison: Invisible man

Unit III
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman.
Eugene O’Neill: Mourning becomes Electra.
Tenesse Williams: The Glass Menagerie

Unit IV
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville: Moby Dick

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Course: ENG- 302. Novel-I

Unit I
Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders
Samuel Richardson: Pamela

Unit II
Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre

Unit III
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair

Unit IV
George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Course : ENG- 303: Poetry-III

Unit I
G.M. Hopkins: The Windhover
Pied Beauty
God’s Grandeur

Wilfred Owen: Spring Offensive

The Strange Meeting

Unit II
W.B. Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium
The Second coming

Dylan Thomas: A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London

Do not go gentle into that goodnight

Unit III
T.S. Eliot : The Wasteland

Unit IV
Ted Hughes: The Thought Fox, Hawk Roosting.
Seamus Heaney: Punishment, Mid-term break.

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Course :ENG 304: Any Course in another discipline

Or

World literature in English

Unit I
Bertolt Brecht: Life of Galileo.
Henrik Ibsen: The Doll’s House.

Unit II
Seneca : Thyestes
Sophocles: Oedipus the Rex

Unit III
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karerenina

Unit IV
Albert camus: The Plague
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One hundred years of solitude
Kazou Ishiguru : The Remains of the day

Course: ENG 304: Gothic Literature(CBCS)

Unit I
Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto

Unit II
Ann Radcliffe: The mysteries of Udolpho

Unit III
Matthew Lewis: The Monk

Unit IV
Bram Stoker: Dracula

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AGARTALA, TRIPURA
POST- GRADUATE STUDIES IN ENGLISH
SYLLABUS (ENGLISH)

SEMESTER-IV. 40+10

Course: ENG- 401 Indian Writing in English:

Unit I

(a) Rabindranath Tagore : Authorship

Have you not heard his Silent Steps?

(b) Kamala Das : Evening at the Old Nalapat House

The Stone Age.

(c) Jayanta Mahapatra : Dawn at Puri

Grandfather.

Unit II
Mulk raj Anand: Coolie
Raja Rao: Kanthapura

Unit III
Anita Desai: Fasting & Feasting
Amitav Ghosh : The shadow Lines

Unit IV
Ruskin Bond: Night Train at Deoli
The Eyes are not Here
Mahesh Dattani: Tara

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Course: ENG- 402. British Novel II

Unit I
Rudyard Kipling: Kim
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

Unit II
James Joyce: A Portrait of an Artist
D.H Lawrence: Sons and Lovers

Unit III
E.M Foster: A Passage to India
Virginia Woolf: To the light house

Unit IV
George Orwell: 1984
Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter

Course: ENG- 403. Literary Theory and Criticism- III

Unit I
Modern and Post-Modern Criticism
New Criticism
(Henry James, I.A Richards, Cleanth Brooks etc)

Unit II
Marxist Criticism
Structuralism
(Raymond Williams,Saussure, Barthes, Umberto Eco,Jonathan Culler)

Unit III
Post-Structuralism
Psychoanalysis
(Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Derrida)

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 Unit IV
Feminism
Post-Colonialism
(Showalter, Irigaray, Gilbert and Gubar, Millet, Edward Said,Spivak,Bhabha)

Course : ENG- 404.Optional(any One)

A) New Literature in English

Unit I
V.S Naipaul: A house for Mr Biswas

Unit II
Salman Rushdie: Midnights children

Unit III
Chinua Achebe : Things fall apart

Unit IV
Arundhati Roy: The God of small things
Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake

(A) Women’s Writing

Unit I
Virginia Woolf: A room of one’s own

Unit II:
Toni Morrison: The Bluest eye

Unit III
Alice Walker: The color Purple

Unit IV:
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale

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