MA English : The aim of this program is to provide learners with a sound base in language as well as exposure to a wide range of literature, with options for specialization in a particular area. The learners are expected to develop confidence in their critical and analytical abilities.
This 64-credit program has a two-tier structure: five compulsory core courses and three optional courses. Each course is worth 8 credits. Compulsory courses are MEG-01, MEG-02, MEG-03, MEG-04 and MEG-05. MEG-01 – MEG-04 are offered in the first year and MEG-05 in second year all other courses are optional.
MA English Complete Syllabus
- MEG 01: BRITISH POETRY
- Block I: Orientations for the Study of Poetry & the Medieval Poet Chaucer
- Unit 1: From the Evaluation of Portraits towards the Explication of Poems (1370 — 80)
- Unit 2: A Prelude to the Study of Poetry (Rhetoric & Prosody), Iambic, Trochaic, Anapest, Dactylic, Amphibrachic, Strong stress metres, quantitative metres, syllabis metres, rhythm, rhyme schemes, etc
- Unit 3: The Age of Chaucer
- Unit 4: Chaucer’s Poetry: A General Survey : Roman de la Rose, The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, Parliament of Fowls, Prologue to the Legend of Good Women, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, Troilus and Criseyde, The Canterbury Tales,
- Unit 5: The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
- Unit 6: ’A Study of the Name Preestes Tale’ |
- Unit 7: ’A Study of the Name Preestes Tale’ ||
- Block 2: Renaissance Poets: Undertaking a Study of Spenser
- Unit 8: The Renaissance Age
- Unit 9: Edmund Spenser
- Unit 10: Spenser’s Poetry: The AmorettiSonnets, Sonnet 34, Sonnet 67, Sonnet 77
- Unit 11: Spenser’s Poetry — ||: The Epithalamion, The Prothalamion,
- Block 3: The Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert & Marvell
- Unit 12: British Poetry in the 17th Century (pre-Restoration): Historical Background, Cultural Background, The Astronomical Revolution, Spenserians (— Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher, Wither, William Browne), the Cavalier Poets (- Robbert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, Richard Lovelace), the Metaphysical Poets (- Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Traherne), the Early Augustans (- Edmund Waller, Sir William Davenant, SirJohn Denham, Abraham Cowley)
- Unit 13: John Donne: Portrait of the Man, His Thematic and Technical Innovations and Textual Study of four Love Poems; The Flea, Twicknam Garden, The Good Morrow, The Extasie
- Unit 1 4: John Donne: Further Explorations into Poems of Love and Faith: The Canonization, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, A Nocturnal Upon 5 Lucies Day, Batter My Heart, Three Person’d God, Hymn To God The Father
- Unit 15: George Herbert: A Study of His Poems: Affliction, The Collar, Easter Wings, Love (3), The Pulley, Redemption, The Windows, Aaron
- Unit 16: Andrew Marvell: A Study of His Poems: To His Coy Mistress, The Garden, An Horation Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return From Ireland
- Block 4: Renaissance Poets: Studying Milton
- Unit 17: The Late Renaissance
- Unit 18: Milton: The Life
- Unit 19: A Survey of Milton’s Lesser Poems & Prose: 0n the Death ofAn Infant, AtA Vacation Exercise
- Unit 20: 0h The Morning of Christ’s Nativity & Lycidas
- Unit 21: L’Allegro, ll Penseroso &the Sonnets 19 & 23
- Block 5: The Neoclassical Poets: Dryden & Pope
- Unit 22: The Age of Dryden
- Unit 23: John Dryden
- Unit 24: Mac Flecknoe, (Alexander’s Feast Or The Power of Music An Ode In Honour ofSt Cecilia’s Day)
- Unit 25: Pope: A Background to An Epistle to DrArbuthnot
- Unit 26: Pope: The Study of An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
- Block 6: The Romantic Poets: Blake, Wordsworth & Coleridge
- Unit 27: Introduction to Romantic Poetry: Early Romantic Poets (- James Thomson, Mark Akenside, Joseph Warton, William Collins, Thomas Gray, William Cowper, Robert Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley & Keats)
- Unit 28: William Blake: Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience, The Lamb, The Chimney Sweeper, The Divine Image, The Sick Rose, London, The Tyger,
- Unit 29: Wordsworth’s The Prelude, Book |: A Critical Analysis
- Unit 30: Coleridge: Kubla Khan & Dejection: An Ode
- Block 7: The Second Generation Romantic Poets: Shelley & Keats
- Unit 31: The Volcanic Voice of Hope: P B Shelley
- Unit 32: A Study of The Triumph of Life
- Unit 38: Keats: Hyperion:A Fragment, I
- Unit 34: Keats: Hyperion:A Fragment, II
- Unit 35: The Romantic Age: A Review
- Block 8: The Victorian Poets: Robert Browning, D G & Christina Georgiana Rossetti, Oscar Wilde
- Unit 36: The Victorian Age: Selected Studies
- Unit 37: Robert Browning: Life & Aspirations: 50rdello in Mantua
- Unit 38: Robert Browning: Two Early Poems: Porphyria’s Lover, The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St Praxed’s Church
- Unit 39: Two Poems from Men and Women: Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came, Fra Lippo Lippi
- Unit 40: The Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood: Dante Gabriel Rossetti & Christina Georgina Rossetti: My Sister’s Sleep, The Blessed Damozel; Goblin Market
- Unit 41: Oscar Wilde: The Ballad of Reading Goal
- Block 9: The Modernist Poets
- Unit 42: Modern British Poetry: An Introduction
- Unit 43: W B Yeats: Background, System, and Poetic Career until 1910: Adam’s Curse, No Second Troy
- Unit 44: The Later Poetry of W B Yeats: Easter 1916, Sailing To Byzantium, Lapis Lazuli
- Unit 45: T S Eliot: The Waste Land (I)
- Unit 46: T S Eliot: The Waste Land (II)
- Unit 47: T S Eliot: The Waste Land (III)
- Block 10: The Modernist & Post Modernist Poets: Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, A Symposium & Essays and Evaluations
- Unit 48: Dylan Thomas: And Death Shall Have No Dominion, Poem in October, Fern Hill, A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire, of Child in London
- Unit 49: Philip Larkin: I Remember, I Remember, Toads, Toads Revisited, Mr Bleaney, Church Going, The Whitsun Weddings, At Grass
- Unit 50: Sylvia Plath & Confessional Poetry: The Colossus, Daddy, Lasy Lazrun, Purdah, Ariel, Pursuit, The Applicant, Fever 103°
- Unit 51: So! Now! What is Poetry? Once Again: A Symposium
- Unit 52: Essays & Evaluations
- Block I: Orientations for the Study of Poetry & the Medieval Poet Chaucer
- MEG 02: BRITISH DRAMA
- Block I: Christopher Marlowe : Doctor Faustus
- Unit-1 Christopher Marlowe And The Elizabethan Drama
- Unit-2 The Tragic Drama of Doctor Faustus
- Unit-3 Irony And The Tragic Dilemma In Doctor Faustus
- Unit-4 The Renaissance And Reformation In Doctor Faustus
- Unit-5 Dramatic Poetry In Doctor Faustus
- Unit-6 The Performance Of Doctor Faustus
- Block II: William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Unit-1 Background : Performance
- Unit-2 Romantic Comedy and the Language of the Play
- Unit-3 A Midsummer Night’s Dream-I
- Unit-3 A Midsummer Night’s Dream-II
- Unit-5 The Mechanicals
- Block III: William Shakespeare : Hamlet
- Unit-1 Background
- Unit-2 Interpretations
- Unit-3 Language of Literature
- Unit-4 Hamlet : Other Dimensions
- Unit-5 “The World As Stage” : Wider Perspective
- Unit-6 Current Critical Approaches to Hamlet
- Block IV: Ben Jonson: The Alchemist
- Unit-1 The Dramatic Career of Ben Jonson
- Unit-2 Jonsonian Comedy and The Alchemist
- Unit-3 The Structure of The Alchemist
- Unit-4 The Alchemist in the Theatre
- Unit-5 Characterization and Language
- Block V: John Millington Synge: The Playboy of the Western World
- Unit-1 Background to the Playboy
- Unit-2 Critical Annotations to the Playboy
- Unit-3 Close Analysis of the Playboy
- Unit-4 The Playboy: A Discussion
- Unit-5 The Playboy: A Discussion (contd.)
- Block VI: George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
- Unit-1 Background of English Drama from the Restoration Period to Bernard Shaw
- Unit-2 Pygmalion : Themes and Issues
- Unit-3 Dramatic Structure and Mingling of Genres
- Unit-4 Language and Style
- Block VII: T S Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral
- Unit-1 T.S.Eliot’s Essays And Other Works Related to the Play
- Unit-2 Background, Production and Performance History
- Unit-3 Critical Approaches to Play-I
- Unit-4 Critical Approaches to Play-II
- Unit-5 General Comments and other Reading
- Block VIII: John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
- Unit-1 Background to the Play
- Unit-2 The Characters
- Unit-3 Language and Speech in Look Back in Anger
- Unit-4 Critical Approaches in Look Back in Anger
- Unit-5 Anger and After: The Play’s Subsequent Importance
- Block IX: Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
- Unit-1 Waiting for Godot: An Avant Garde Play
- Unit-2 Godot: A Critical Analysis- I
- Unit-3 Critical Analysis- II
- Unit-4 Themes and Issues- I
- Unit-5 Themes and Issues- II
- Block I: Christopher Marlowe : Doctor Faustus
- MEG 03: BRITISH NOVEL
- Block I: Henry Fieldings: The History of Tom Jones A Foundling (1749)
- Unit-1 Some Aspects of Fiction
- Unit-2 As We First Read Tom Jones
- Unit-3 Important Thematic Areas in Tom Jones
- Unit-5 Artistic Unity or Socio-Cultural Concerns?
- Unit-6 Feminist Concerns in Fielding
- Unit-7 Some Critical Opinions on Tom Jones
- Unit-8 Narration in Fiction and Third World Preferences
- Unit-4 Characters as Characterisations
- Block II: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Unit-1 The Novel in its Context
- Unit-2 Main Themes in Pride and Prejudice-I
- Unit-3 Main Themes in Pride and Prejudice-II
- Unit-4 Characters in the Novel
- Unit-5 The Narrative of Pride and Prejudice
- Unit-6 Critical Perspectives
- Block III: Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights (1847)
- Unit-1 Background to Wuthering Heights
- Unit-2 The Problem of Narrative
- Unit-3 ‘Gift of God’ : Heathcliff
- Unit-4 ‘You Look Like A Lady Now’ : Significance of Catherine
- Unit-5 Wuthering Heights : One Hundred and Fifty Years
- Block IV: Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1860-1861, 1861, 1862)
- Unit-1 Background
- Unit-2 Great Expectations and Self-Improvement
- Unit-3 Improvement Or Disintegration?
- Unit-4 Great Expectations And The Fairytale
- Unit-5 Crime And Respectability
- Block V: George Eliot: Middlemarch (1871)
- Unit-1 Approaching The Novel
- Unit-2 Themes, Characters, Techniques
- Unit-3 Philosophical Underpinnings
- Unit-4 Eliot’s Perspectives
- Unit-5 The Finale
- Block VI: Josef Conrad: Heart of Darkness (1898-1899)
- Unit-1 His Story and History
- Unit-2 Literary Analysis-I
- Unit-3 Literary Analysis-II
- Unit-4 Race, Empire, Gender in Heart of Darkness
- Unit-5 The Lengthening Shadow
- Block VII: James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man (1916)
- Unit-1 Contexts
- Unit-2 Genre, Overall Structure and Point of View
- Unit-3 Stephen’s Growth and Personality
- Unit-4 Technique
- Unit-5 Critical Perspectives : A Brief Selective Overview
- Block VIII: Edward Morgan Forster: A Passage to India (1912-14)
- Unit-1 Passages to India
- Unit-2 Representations of India (A): Approaches to the Novel
- Unit-3 History and A Passage to India
- Unit-4 Race Class and Gender in A Passage to India
- Unit-5 Representations of India (B): Religions in the Novel
- Unit-6 Passages from India
- BBlock-IX Muriel Sprak: The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Unit-1 The English Novel: Modernism and After
- Unit-2 Muriel Spark : Her life, her Works, and the Text
- Unit-3 Analysing the Text-I
- Unit-4 Analysing the Text-II
- Unit-5 The English Novel: 1960s and After
- Block I: Henry Fieldings: The History of Tom Jones A Foundling (1749)
- MEG 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE
- Block I: What is Language?
- Unit-1 The Nature of Language
- Unit-2 Looking at Data-I
- Unit-3 Looking at Data-II
- Unit-4 Language and Thought
- Block II: A History of the English Language
- Unit-1 An Introduction
- Unit-2 Changes in Sounds and Spelling
- Unit-3 Changes in Vocabulary
- Unit-4 Changes in Grammar
- Block III: Phonetics & Phonology I
- Unit-1 The Speech Mechanism
- Unit-2 The Description and Classification of Consonants and Vowels
- Unit-3 Phonetic Transcription and Phonology
- Unit-4 The Consonants of English
- Block IV: Phonetics & Phonology II
- Unit-5 The Vowels of English (R.P)
- Unit-6 Word Accent, Stress and Rhythm in Connected Speech
- Unit-7 Intonation
- Block-V English Morphology
- Unit-1 The Study of Words
- Unit-2 Word-formation in English-I
- Unit-3 Word-formation in English-II
- Unit-4 Word-formation in English-III
- Block-VI English Syntax
- Unit-1 Basic Notions of Syntactic Constituents and Phrase Structure 5
- Unit-2 Types of Clauses and Sentences
- Unit-3 Grammatical Punctions, Cases, and Thematic Roles
- Unit-4 The Syntax of Inflectional Elements: Tense & Agreement
- Unit-5 Pronouns, Reflexives, and Other Bound Elements
- Unit-6 Syntax of Scope: Adverbs, Quantifiers, and Negation
- Block VII: Language In Use – I
- Unit-1 Introduction to Sociolinguistics
- Unit-2 Speech Community and Multilingualism
- Unit-3 Bilingualism
- Unit-4 Language Standardization
- Block-VIII Language in Use-II
- Unit-1 Multilingual Use of codes
- Unit-2 Language Planning
- Unit-3 Conversational Analysis
- Unit-4 Learner Factors in Second Language Acquisition-I
- Unit-5 Learner Factors in Second Language Acquisition-II
- Block-IX The Spread of english
- Unit-1 Variation And Varieties
- Unit-2 Consolidation and Standardization of English
- Unit-3 The Spread and Rise of Englishes
- Unit-4 Indian English
- Block X: Stylistics
- Unit-1 Language Variation- the context of Situation
- Unit-2 The Connection between Linguistics, Literary Criticism and Stylistics
- Unit-3 Style and Content
- Unit-4 Analysing Texts-I
- Unit-5 Analysing Texts-II
- Unit-6 Analysing Texts-III
- Block I: What is Language?
- MEG 05: LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM
- Block I: An Introduction
- Unit-1 Literature, Criticism and Theory
- Unit-2 Overview of Western Critical Thought
- Unit-3 Twentieth Century Developments
- Unit-4 The Function of Criticism
- Unit-5 Indian Aesthetics
- Unit-6 Resistance to Theory/How to Read a Reader
- Block II: Classical Criticism
- Unit-1 Features of Classical Criticism
- Unit-2 Plato on Imitation and Art
- Unit-3 Aristotle’s Theory of Imitation
- Unit-4 Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy-I
- Unit-5 Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy-II
- Unit-6 Criticism as Dialogue
- Block III: Romantic Criticism
- Unit-1 Romanticism
- Unit-2 Words Worth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
- Unit-3 Coleridge: Biographia Literaria
- Unit-4 P.B.Shelley: A Defiance of Poetry
- Block IV: New Criticism
- Unit-1 I.A.Richards
- Unit-2 T.S.Eliot
- Unit-3 F.R.Leavis
- Unit-4 John Crowe Ransom and Cleanth Brooks
- Unit-5 W.K.Wimsatt
- Unit-6 Conclusion
- Block V: Marxist View of Literature
- Unit-1 Marxism and Literature
- Unit-2 Society and History: Marxist View
- Unit-3 Representing and Critiquing SOCIETY: Superstructures
- Unit-4 Commitment in Literature
- Unit-5 Autonomy in Literature
- Unit-6 Literature and Ideology
- Block VI: Feminists Theories
- Unit-1 Features of Feminist Criticism
- Unit-2 Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of woman
- Unit-3 Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own
- Unit-4 Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
- Unit-5 Elaine Showalter: ‘Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness’
- Unit-6 Feminist Concerns in India Today
- Block VII: Deconstruction
- Unit-1 Roots: New Criticism and Structuralism
- Unit-2 Beginning Deconstruction
- Unit-3 Implications
- Unit-4 Deconstructing Poetry
- Unit-5 Deconstructing Drama
- Unit-6 Re-Assessing Deconstruction
- Block VIII: Contemporary Literary Theory
- Unit-1 Some Basic Issues
- Unit-2 Postmodernism : The Basics
- Unit-3 Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan
- Unit-4 Postcolonial Theory: Said, Spivak and Bhabha
- Unit-5 Beginnings of Cultural Studies and New Historicism
- Unit-6 Literary Criticism and Theory: A Summing Up
- Block I: An Introduction
- MEG 06: AMERICAN LITERATURE
- Block I: Contexts of American Literature: The Puritans & the Enlightenment
- Unit-1 The Puritan Context
- Unit-2 The Consolidation and Dispersal of the Puritan Utopia
- Unit-3 The Puritans as Literary Artists
- Unit-4 Some “Other” Contexts of American Literature
- Unit-5 Form the Colonial to the Federal: The Contexts of the American Enlightenment
- Block II: American Fiction – I
- Unit-6 Background
- Unit-7 Reading the Text
- Unit-8 Characterization
- Unit-9 Narrative technique and Structure
- Unit-10 Critical Perspective
- Block III: American Fiction – II
- Unit-11 Background to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Unit-12 Huckleberry Finn and its Narrative
- Unit-13 Themes and Characterization in Huckleberry Finn
- Unit-14 Language in Huckleberry Finn
- Unit-15 Humour and Other Issues in Huckleberry Finn
- Block IV: American Prose
- Unit-16 Revolutionary Prose in America
- Unit-17 American prose in the Period of National Consolidation
- Unit-18 The ‘Other’ Side of American Romanticism
- Unit-19 American Prose Around the Civil War
- Unit-20 American Prose in the Post-Civil War Period, 1865-1890
- Block V: American Poetry – I
- Unit-21 Background
- Unit-22 The Text 1: Walt Whitman
- Unit-23 The Text 2: Emily Dickinson
- Unit-24 Structure and Style
- Unit-25 Critical Perspective
- Block VI: American Poetry – II
- Unit-26 Robert Frost (1874-1963)
- Unit-27 Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
- Unit-28 William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
- Unit-29 Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
- Unit-30 Adrienne Rich (1929–)
- Block VII: American Short Story
- Unit-31 The American Short Story
- Unit-32 Hemingway: A Clean, Well- Lighted Place
- Unit-33 William Faulkner: The Bear
- Unit-34 Comparisons and Contrasts
- Block VIII: American Drama
- Unit-35 American Drama: An introduction
- Unit-36 The Question of Identity in the Hairy Ape
- Unit-37 Death of a Salesman as Tragedy
- Unit-38 The Novel Use of Structure in Death of a Salesman
- Unit-39 A Comparison Between Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller
- Block IX: Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye
- Unit-1 The Bluest Eye: Background
- Unit-2 A Brief View of African American Literature
- Unit-3 The Bluest Eye and its Narrative
- Unit-4 The Dangerous Idea of Physical Beauty in the Bluest eye
- Unit-5 Sex and Love in The Bluest Eye
- Unit-6 Conclusion
- Block I: Contexts of American Literature: The Puritans & the Enlightenment
- MEG 07: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
- Block I: Non-Fictional Prose
- Unit-1 Non-Fictional Prose: A Survey
- Unit-2 Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, and Ananda Coomaraswamy
- Unit-3 Gandhi
- Unit-4 Jawaharlal Nehru
- Unit-5 Nirad C. Chaudhuri
- Unit-6 Vikram Seth and Amitav Ghosh
- Block II: Mulk Raj Anand: Untouchable
- Unit-1 A Short History of the Indian English Novel
- Unit-2 Life and Work of Mulk Raj Anand
- Unit-3 Untouchable: Title, Theme, Plot and Characterisation
- Unit-4 The Picture of a Fragmented Nation in Anand’s Untouchable
- Unit-5 The Gandhian Influence
- Unit-6 Style
- Block III: Raja Rao: Kanthapura
- Unit-1 Raja Rao: Career and Works
- Unit-2 Kanthapura: Background
- Unit-3 Kanthapura: Themes
- Unit-4 Kanthapura: Structure and Techniques
- Unit-5 Kanthapura: Characters
- Block IV: Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day
- Unit-1 Anita Desai: Life, Works and the Language Issue
- Unit-2 Clear Light of Day: Themes, Techniques, Time
- Unit-3 Political Dimension, Major Characters
- Unit-4 Music, Minor Characters
- Unit-5 Anita Desai’s Contribution to Indian English Fiction
- Block V: Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
- Unit-1 Background
- Unit-2 Midnight’s Children: The De-doxified English
- Unit-3 Themes in Midnight’s Children
- Unit-4 Techniques in Midnight Children
- Unit-5 Characterization in Midnight’s Children
- Unit-6 Midnight’s Children As a Literary Event
- Block VI: The Short Story
- Unit-1 About the Short Story
- Unit-2 R.K.Narayan
- Unit-3 Arun Joshi and Manoj Das
- Unit-4 Subhadra Sen Gupta and Raji Narasimhan
- Unit-5 Shashi Deshpande and Githa Hariharan
- Unit-6 Ruskin Bond
- Block VII: Poetry
- Unit-1 Background to Indian English Poetry
- Unit-2 Henry Derozio and Toru Dutt
- Unit-3 Sri Aurobindo and Sarojini Naidu
- Unit-4 Nissim Ezekiel and Kamala Das
- Unit-5 A.K. Ramanujan, Arun Kolatkar, and Jayanta Mahapatra
- Unit-6 R.Parthasarathy and Keki N. Daruwalla
- Block VIII: Mahesh Dattani: Tara
- Unit-1 An Overview of Indian English Drama
- Unit-2 A Preview of Dattani’s Dramatic World
- Unit-3 Reading Tara
- Unit-4 Appreciating Tara
- Block I: Non-Fictional Prose
- MEG 08: NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
- Block 1: Introduction
- Unit 1: Naming the Discipline
- Unit 2: African Literature: Culture and Post – Nationalist Politics in Kenya and Nigeria
- Unit 3: Caribbean Literature: The Aesthetics of Diaspora
- Unit 4: South Asian Literature
- Unit 5: Australian Literature: Interrogating National Myths
- Unit 6: Canadian Literature: Scanning the Literary Landscape
- Block 2: A Grain of Wheat: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- Unit 1: Africa – The Dark Continent and Kenya – The Land of Gikuyu and Mumbi
- Unit 2: Literature and Politics
- Unit 3: Modern Novel in Africa
- Unit 4: A Grain of Wheat – Summary
- Unit 5: A Grain of Wheat – An Evaluation
- Block 3: A Dance of the Forests: Wole Soyinka
- Unit 1: An Introduction to Nigeria and to the Yoruba World
- Unit 2: Wole Soyinka’s Life and Works
- Unit 3: A Dance of the Forests: Summary
- Unit 4: Critical Commentary on A Dance of the Forests
- Unit 5: Wole Soyinka’s Major Dramatic Works
- Block 4: Ice-Candy – Man: Bapsi Sidhwa
- Unit 1: The Author: Background, Works, and Significance of the Title
- Unit 2: The Narrative Voice in Ice- Candy- Man
- Unit 3: Feminist Inscriptions in Ice- Candy- Man
- Unit 4: Parsi Identity in Ice- Candy- Man
- Unit 5: Ice- Candy- Man as a Novel of the Partition
- Unit 6: Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice- Candy- Man: A Postcolonial Perspective
- Block 5: A House for Mr Biswas: V S Naipaul
- Unit 1: Naipaul and his critics
- Unit 2: Mr Biswas and the Tulsis
- Unit 3: Mr Biswas and his Dream House
- Unit 4: Why did Mr Biswas want a House?
- Unit 5: Putting A House for Mr Biswas in Perspective
- Block 6: Caribbean Poetry: Derek Walcott & Edward Brathwaite
- Unit 1: Introduction to Caribbean Poetry
- Unit 2: Derek Walcott – I
- Unit 3: Derek Walcott – II
- Unit 4: (Edward) Kamau Braithwaite – I
- Unit 5: (Edward) Kamau Braithwaite – II
- Unit 6: The Theoretical Paradigms for Caribbean Literature
- Block 7: The Solid Mandala: Patrick White
- Unit 1: The Novelist and the Novel
- Unit 2: Openings and Preoccupations
- Unit 3: Denizens of the Australian Emptiness
- Unit 4: Messages in Motifs
- Unit 5: Techniques
- Unit 6: Perspectives
- Block 8: The Stone Angel: Margaret Laurence
- Unit 1: The Novelist and her Main Thematic Concerns
- Unit 2: Hagar and the Theme of Self- Alienation
- Unit 3: The Stone Angel: A Novel of Awakening
- Unit 4: Major Aspects of the Novel
- Block 1: Introduction
- MEG 09: AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE
- Block 1: An Introduction to Australian Literature
- Unit 1: Australian Literature
- Unit 2: Australia – Land and History
- Unit 3: Australia – People and Culture
- Unit 4: Literary Beginnings – Oral Literature
- Unit 5: Early Literature
- Unit 6: Themes and Trends
- Block 2: Nineteenth Century Australian Poetry
- Unit 1: 19th Century Australian Poetry: An Introduction
- Unit 2: W C Wentworth: Australasia, Wild Colonial Boy
- Unit 3: Charles Harpur: The Bush Fire, A Mid-Summer Noon in the Australian Forest
- Unit 4: Henry Kendall: Bell – Birds, After Many Years
- Unit 5: A L Gordon & A B Paterson: The Sick Stockrider; The Man From Snowy River
- Unit 6: Ada Cambridge: An Answer
- Block 3: Introduction to Short Fiction
- Unit 1: Introduction to short fiction /story
- Unit 2: Marcus Clarke: The Seizure of the Cyprus
- Unit 3: Barbara Baynton: The Chosen Vessel
- Unit 4: Henry Lawson: The Drover’s Wife; The Union Buries It’s Dead
- Unit 5: Arthur Hoey Davis: Cranky Jack
- Unit 6: Christina Stead: The Old School
- Block 4: Modern Australian Poetry (1901-1970)
- Unit 1: Introduction: An Overview
- Unit 2: Beginnings: Christopher Brennan – Each Day I See the Long Ships Coming Into Port; John Shaw Neilson – The Orange Tree
- Unit 3: The Notion of Australia: Kenneth Slessor – South Country; R D Fitzgerald – This Night’s Orbit
- Unit 4: Keepers of the Flame: Judith Wright: Legend, Bullocky; David Campbell – The Australian Dream;
- Unit 5: Coming of Age: James McAuley – Terra Australis; A D Hope – Australia, Moschus Moschiferus;
- Unit 6: The Marginalised Voice: Rosemary Dobson – Cock Crow; Oodgeroo Noonuccal – We Are Going; Rex Ingamells – History, Moorawathimeering; ‘Ern Malley’ – Durer: Innsbruck, 1495; Ania Walwicz – Australia (prose); John Farrell – From Australia; Douglas Stewart – Terra Australis; Bernard O’ Dowd-Australia, The Southern Call
- Block 5: Voss: Patrick White
- Unit 1: Rise and Development of the Australian Novel
- Unit 2: As We First Read Voss
- Unit 3: Romantic Elements in Voss
- Unit 4: Multiple Themes in Voss
- Unit 5: Modern Readings: Some Important Areas
- Block 6: Contemporary Australian Poetry (1970 Onwards)
- Unit 1: Contemporary Australia
- Unit 2: Bruce Dawe & Les Murray: At Shagger’s Funeral; The Quality of Sprawl, Blood
- Unit 3: Chris Wallace – Crabbe & Gwen Harwood: Melbourne; In The Park
- Unit 4: Ee Tiang & Kevin Gilbert: Coming To; Mister Man
- Unit 5: Mudrooroo Narogin & Gig Ryan: Harijan; If I Had A Gun
- Block 7: Remembering Babylon: David Malouf
- Unit 1: Contemporary Australian Fiction: An Overview
- Unit 2: The Author, His Creativity and Remembering Babylon
- Unit 3: Structure, Characters and Metaphors
- Unit 4: Narrative Strategies and Communication
- Unit 5: Themes
- Block 8: The Removalists: David Williamson
- Unit 1: An Overview of Austalian Drama
- Unit 2: David Williamson’s Dramatic World
- Unit 3: Reading The Removalists
- Unit 4: Themes and Techniques
- Block 1: An Introduction to Australian Literature
- MEG 10: ENGLISH STUDIES IN INDIA
- Block 1: Institutionalisation of English Studies in India
- Unit 1: Entry of English: A Historical Overview
- Unit 2: Macaulay, Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Charles E Trevelyan
- Unit 3: A View of Post Independence Debates
- Unit 4: Settling Down of English as Studies and Medium
- Block 2: Beginnings of Indian English Writing
- Unit 1: The Context of the Earliest Indian English Writings
- Unit 2: Henry Louis Vivian Deroizo and the Early Voice of Identity
- Unit 3: Michael Madhusudan Dutt and the Evolution of Modernity
- Unit 4: Toru Dutt: Assertions of Indian Life
- Block 3: Beginnings of the Indian English Novel
- Unit 1: The Contexts of Bankim
- Unit 2: Themes in Rajmohan’s Wife – I
- Unit 3: Themes in Rajmohan’s Wife – II
- Unit 4: Marriage and Transgression in Bankim’s Other Novels
- Block 4: Different Englishes
- Unit 1: Evolution of English
- Unit 2: Nativisation of English in Post Independent India (Functions of English)
- Unit 3: Nativisation of English Discourse: Syntax, Morphology, Phonology
- Unit 4: Intelligibility of Indian English Globally
- Unit 5: Debate Over Native and Non- Native Englishes
- Unit 6: Space of English in the Indian Multilingual Setting
- Block 5: Problems of Teaching and Learning English Literature
- Unit 1: Problems of Teaching and Learning English Literature
- Unit 2: The March of TELI in India
- Unit 3: Role and Function of TELI in the contemporary context
- Unit 4: English Teaching in India
- Unit 5: The Lie of the Land: English in India
- Unit 6: Publishing in India and English Studies
- Block 6: Questioning the ‘Canon’
- Unit 1: Questioning the Canon, Ideology and Assumptions of the Canon
- Unit 2: The Rise of English and Issues Concerning the Canon
- Unit 3: Possibilities of New Agreements
- Unit 4: Exploding English: Criticism, Theory, and Culture
- Unit 5: The Crisis in English Studies
- Unit 6: Resistance to Reading and the Question of Material Base
- Block 7: Evolutions of Canons in Indian English Writing
- Unit 1: Canon Making in the Era of Gandhi, Nehru, Socialism
- Unit 2: Tagore, Premchand, Mulk Raj Anand, and Raja Rao
- Unit 3: Feminism: Indian English Writers
- Unit 4: The Dalit Canon
- Block 8: Decolonising the Mind
- Unit 1: Orientalism and After
- Unit 2: Literature and Nationalism
- Unit 3: Decolonising the Mind
- Unit 4: Civilizational Conflicts in Literature
- Unit 5: Resisting Colonization and Re- colonization
- Block 1: Institutionalisation of English Studies in India
- MEG 11: AMERICAN NOVEL
- Block 1: James F Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
- Unit 1: The Beginnings
- Unit 2: The Man, The Milieu, And the Moment
- Unit 3: The Last of the Mohicans: An Analysis
- Unit 4: Perspectives on the Novel- I
- Unit 5: Perspectives on the Novel- II
- Block 2: Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
- Unit 1: The Literary Context
- Unit 2: Theodore Dreiser: The Man and the Writer
- Unit 3: Sister Carrie: A Critical Summary
- Unit 4: Sister Carrie: A Critical Study of the Major Themes
- Unit 5: Language and Art in Sister Carrie
- Block 3: F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
- Unit 1: The Man, The Milieu, And the Moment
- Unit 2: The Plot and the Self- Improving Hero
- Unit 3: The Great Gatsby and Fable, Symbol and Allegory
- Unit 4: The Great Gatsby: The Narrative Technique
- Unit 5: Critics and Criticism: An Overview
- Block 4: William Faulkner: Light in August
- Unit 1: American Fiction in 1920s and 1930s
- Unit 2: The Novel in the South
- Unit 3: Light in August: Structure and Narrative Strategies
- Unit 4: Characterisation and Critical Approaches
- Block 5: Henry Miller: Black Spring
- Unit 1: Sexual Revolution in Modern American Literature
- Unit 2: The Great Tradition
- Unit 3: The Outsider
- Unit 4: The Indelible Impact
- Unit 5: Henry Miller’s: Black Spring
- Unit 6: Critical Approaches
- Block 6: J D Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
- Unit 1: The Author and the Plot
- Unit 2: The Main Themes and Characters
- Unit 3: The Language in The Catcher in the Rye
- Unit 4: Critical Interpretations
- Block 7: John Barth: Floating Opera
- Unit 1: The Postwar American Novel
- Unit 2: The Experimental Novel
- Unit 3: The Floating Opera: An Analysis of the Text
- Unit 4: Philosophical Formulations and the Farce of Reasons
- Unit 5: From Modernity to Post Modernity
- Block 8: Scott Momaday: A House Made of Dawn
- Unit 1: Native American Literature
- Unit 2: Native American Fiction
- Unit 3: The Making of Monaday
- Unit 4: A House Made of Dawn: An Analysis
- Unit 5: Critical perspectives
- Block 9: Alice Walker: The Color Purple
- Unit 1: The Woman, the Moment, And the Milieu – I
- Unit 2: The Woman, the Moment, And the Milieu – II
- Unit 3: The Color Purple and its structure
- Unit 4: Analysis of Celie’s Letters – I
- Unit 5: Analysis of Celie’s Letters – II
- Unit 6: Themes Emerging from Celie’s Letters
- Block 1: James F Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
- MEG 12: A SURVEY COURSE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY CANADIAN LITERATURE
- Block 1: CONTEXTS OF CANADIAN WRITING
- Unit 1: Canada: Land And People
- Unit 2: Literary Beginnings
- Unit 3: English Canadian Theatre and Drama
- Unit 4: Canadian Discourse on Nature and Technology
- Block 2: RECENT CANADIAN POETRY
- Unit 5: The Growth of Canadian Poetry
- Unit 6: Recent Commonwealth Poetry and Canada’s place in it
- Unit 7: Two major Novelists as Poets: Margaret Atwood – A sibyl and Michael Ondaatje – Letters and Other Worlds
- Unit 8: Five Other Important Poets
- Block 3: SURFACING: Margaret Atwood
- Unit 9: Development of the Canadian Novel
- Unit 10: Margaret Atwood: Life and Works
- Unit 11: Surfacing: Theme, Structure, Technique and Characterization
- Unit 12: Surfacing: Language
- Block 4: THE TIN FLUTE: GABRIELLE ROY
- Unit 13: French Canadian Writing (Quebec)
- Unit 14: Gabrielle Roy: Life and Works
- Unit 15: The Tin Flute: Structure and Theme
- Unit 16: The Tin Flute: Characterization and Technique
- Block 5: The English Patient: Michael Ondaatje
- Unit 17: Canadian – South Asian Diasporic Writing
- Unit 18: Ondaatje: Life and Works
- Unit 19: The English Patient: Theme, Structure and Characterization
- Unit 20: The English Patient: Technique
- Block 6: CANADIAN SHORT STORY
- Unit 21: Short Fiction in General and the Canadian Short Story
- Unit 22: ‘A Mother in India’: Sara Jenette Duncan
- Unit 23: ‘Sunday Afternoon’: Alice Munro; ‘Where Is The Voice Coming From’: Rudy Wiebe
- Unit 24: ‘Swimming Lessons’: Rohinton Mistry; ‘The Door I Shut Behind Me’: Uma Parameswaran
- Block 7: THE ECSTASY OF RITA JOE: DRAMA: GEORGE RYGA
- Unit 25: Canadian Drama: The General Dramatic Scene
- Unit 26: Introduction to the Writer and the Structure of the Play
- Unit 27: The Ecstasy of Rita Joe: Theme and Characterization
- Unit 28: Dramatic Technique in The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and the Brechtian Angle
- BLOCK 8: DEVELOPMENT OF CANADIAN CRITICISM
- Unit 29: The recent developments of Canadian Criticism
- Unit 30: Northrop Frye
- Unit 31: Linda Hutcheon
- Unit 32: Smaro Kamboureli
- Block 1: CONTEXTS OF CANADIAN WRITING
- MEG 14: INDIAN WRITNG IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION
- Block 1: Background Studies
- Unit 1: The Concept of Indian Literature
- Unit 2: The Concept of Indian Literature: Modern Period
- Unit 3: Comparative Studies in Indian Literature
- Unit 4: English Translation of Indian Literature
- Block 2: Samskara: U R Anantha Murthy
- Unit 1: The Writer and his Literary Context
- Unit 2: Samskara: The Narrative
- Unit 3: Samskara: Form and Themes
- Unit 4: Samskara: Characters, Titles, Literary Criticism and Contemporary Relevance
- Block 3: Tamas: Bhisham Sahni
- Unit 1: The Writer and the Partition
- Unit 2: Getting to Know the Text
- Unit 3: Making Sense of the Narrative
- Unit 4: Characters and Characterisation
- Unit 5: An Overview
- Block 4: Short Story – I
- Unit 1: Mahasweta Devi: Salt [Noon: Bangla]
- Unit 2: Vaikom Muhammad Basheer: Birthday [Janmadinam: Malayalam
- Unit 3: Nirmal Verma: Birds [Parinde]
- Unit 4: Ismat Chughtai: Tiny’s Granny [Nanhi Ki Naani: Urdu]
- Unit 5: Gopinath Mohanty: Tadpa [Tadpa: Oriya]
- Block 5: Short Story – II
- Unit 1: The Empty Chest
- Unit 2: Very Lonely, She
- Unit 3: Headmaster, Prawn, Chanchur
- Unit 4: The Compromise
- Block 6: Poetry
- Unit 1: K S Nonkynrih: Requiem (Khasi); Chandra Kanta Murasingh: The Stone Speaks in the Forest (Kokborok); Yumlembam Ibocha Singh: The Last Dream
- Unit 2 : Haribhajan singh: Tree and the Sage [Rukh Te Rishi/ Punjabi]; Raghuvir Sahay: The Stare [Taktaki/ Hindi]
- Unit 3 : Dina Nath Nadim: The Moon [Zoon/ Kashmiri]; Padma Sachdev: The Moment of Courage [Dogri]
- Unit 4 : Kondepudo Nirmala: Mother Serious [Telugu]; Vimala: Kitchen [Telugu]; K Ayyappa Paniker: I Met Walt Whitman Yesterday: An Interview [Njaan Innale Walt Whitmaane Kandu – Oru Interview/ Malayalam]
- Unit 5 : Ramakanta Rath: Sri Radha [Oriya]; Shakti Chattopadhyay: Just One Try [Akbar Tumi/ Bangla]
- Unit 6 : Sitanshu Yashashchandra: Orpheus [Gujarati]; Namdeo Dhasal: A Notebook of Poems and Autobiography [Kavetechi Vahi; Atmacharithra/ Marathi]
- Block 7: TUGHLAQ: Girish Karnad
- Unit 1: Introducing Contemporary Indian Theatre
- Unit 2: Introducing the Author and the Play
- Unit 3: Tughlaq: Structure, Themes and Motifs
- Unit 4: Characters and Critical Comments on the Play
- Block 8: Non- Fictional Prose
- Unit 1: Amrita rai: Premchand: His Life and Times [Kalam Ka Sipahi: Biography/ Hindi]
- Unit 2: Bama /Faustina Mary Fatima Rani: Karukku [Karukku: Autobiography/ Tamil]
- Unit 3: Saadat Hasan Manto: On Ismat [Ismat Chugtai: Pen Sketch, Urdu]
- Unit 4: Umaprasad Mukhopadhyaya: Manimahesh [Manimahesh: Travel Writing/ Bengali
- Block 1: Background Studies