Hi buddy, I want to know that, what will be syllabus of MA English final year exam of Banaras Hindu University? From where can I get it, can I download MA English final year exam syllabus from Banaras Hindu university website?
Banaras Hindu University is a public central university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Established in 1916 by Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya.It is affiliated to UGC, NAAC, AIU.
Syllabus Semester-I
Course 1: Introduction to Linguistics – ENG - 101
1. (a) Key properties of Language
(b) Language varieties
2. (a) Major concerns of Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics
(b) Historical approach, Descriptive approach
3. Major concepts in Linguistics:
(a) Syntagmatic and Paradigmetic axes
(b) Differential Calculous
(c) Constituent Structure
(d) Transformations and Deep Structure
4. Stylistics, its methods and limitations.
Course 2: Poetry I (Chaucer to Blake) – ENG - 102
Chaucer : Prologue to Canterbury Tales (Modern version)
*Shakespeare’s Sonnets No. 18, 30, 63, 130
*Milton : Paradise Lost, Book I
*Donne : The Blossom, The Canonization, The Good Morrow
Marvell : To His Coy Mistress
*Pope : The Rape of the Lock
*Gray : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
*Blake : The Tiger, Ah! Sun-flower
Course 3: Drama I (Marlowe to Wilde excluding Shakespeare) – ENG - 103
*Webster : The Duchess of Malfi
*Marlowe : Dr. Faustus
*Jonson : The Alchemist
Congreve : The Way of the World
*Wilde : The Importance of Being Earnest
Origin and Growth of the British Theatre
Course 4: Prose– ENG - 104
*Bacon : Of Truth; Of Death; Of Adversity; Of Great Place; Of Parents and Children
Addison & Steele : Of the Club; The Coverley Household; Labour and Exercise; Sir Roger at the Theatre (Coverley Papers from the Spectator, ed. K. Deighton, Macmillan)
*Lamb : Christ Hospital; New Year’s Eve; Imperfect Sympathies
*Carlyle : Hero as Man of Letters
Russell : Science and War; Science and Values (from The Impact of Science on Society)
Huxley : Tragedy and the Whole Truth (from W.E.Williams, ed. A Book of English Essays)
SEMESTER II
Course 5: Linguistics and English Language Teaching– ENG - 201
1. Phonology : (a) Speech mechanism and the Organs of Speech
(b) Consonants, Vowels, Diphthongs
(c) Phoneme
(d) Stress, Intonation
2. Morphology : Morphemes: Words and Affixes
3. Syntax : (a) I.C. Analysis and its limits
(b) Transformations of Movement, Addition, Substitution,
Deletion
(c) Coordination and Subordination
4. English Language Teaching : (a) Direct Method
(b) Audiolingual Method
(c) Communicative Language Teaching
(d) Error Analysis
(e) Teaching skills of Language: listening, speaking,
reading, writing.
(f) Testing
Course 6: Poetry II (Wordsworth to Arnold) – ENG - 202
*Wordsworth : The Prelude, Book I
*Coleridge : Kubla Khan
*Shelley : Adonais
*Keats : Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn
*Tennyson : Ulysses, The Lotos Eaters
*Browning : Rabbi Ben Ezra, Porphyria’s Lover
*Arnold : The Scholar Gypsy
Course 7: Drama II (Shakespeare) – ENG - 203
Henry IV, Part I
Twelfth Night
*Hamlet
*The Tempest
Shakespeare Criticism: Dr. Johnson, Bradley, Wilson Knight, Caroline Spurgeon, Stephen Greenblatt.
Course 8: Fiction I (Defoe to Hardy) – ENG - 204
Defoe : Moll Flanders
Fielding : Joseph Andrews
Austen : Emma
Dickens : Great Expectations
Eliot : Middlemarch
Hardy : Tess of the D’urbervilles
SEMESTER III
Course 9: Poetry III (Hopkins to Ted Hughes) – ENG - 301
*Hopkins : Pied Beauty; The Windhover; Carrion Comfort
*Yeats : Sailing to Byzantium; Byzantium; No Second Troy; Coole Park and Ballyle
*Eliot : The Waste Land
*Auden : In Memory of W.B. Yeats; The Shield of Achilles
*Larkin : Church Going; Next, please; At Grass
*Ted Hughes : The Thought-Fox; Hawk Roosting
Course 10: Drama III (Twentieth Century Drama) – ENG - 302
*Shaw : Man and Superman
*Yeats : Countess Cathleen
*Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral
*Beckett : Waiting for Godot
*Pinter : The Birthday Party
Course 11: Literary Criticism & Theory 1– ENG - 303
Aristotle : On the Art of Poetry
Bharatamuni : On Natya and Rasa: Aesthetics of Dramatic Experience
Anandavardhana : Dhvani: Structure of Poetic Meaning
Dryden : Essay on Dramatic Poesy
Wordsworth : Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Coleridge : Biographia Literaria (Chs. XIII, XVII & XVIII)
Arnold : The Study of Poetry (Essays in Criticism Book II)
Course 12: Indian Literature in English I – ENG – EL-3.1
*Tagore : Thou hast made me endless; Leave this chanting and singing; I am like a remnant of a cloud; In one salutation to thee (Gitanjali)
*Sri Aurobindo : Savitri Book I Canto I (Passages for explanation to be set from the first 64 lines)
*Girish Karnad : Nag-Mandala
The following poets from Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets ed. R. Parthasarathy (OUP):
*Nissim Ezekiel : Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher; Background, Casually; Enterprise
*Jayant Mahapatra : Grass, Lost
*A.K. Ramanujan : A River; Love Poem for a Wife I; Obituary
*Kamala Das : My Grandmother’s House; A Hot Noon in Malabar; The Invitation
OR
American Literature I– ENG – EL-3.2
The following from American Literature of the Nineteenth Century (Eurasia) and American Literature 1890-1965 (Eurasia):
Emerson : The American Scholar, Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul
Poe : *The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Philosophy of Composition
Whitman : *When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, Passage to India
*Wallace Stevens : The Emperor of Ice-cream, Sunday Morning
*Emily Dickinson : I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed, I Felt a Funeral in My Brain, The Soul Selects Her Own Society, Because I Could not Stop for Death, These Are the Days When Birds Come
*Tennessee Williams : A Streetcar Named Desire
Edward Albee : Zoo Story
SEMESTER IV
Course 13: Fiction II– ENG–401
Conrad : Heart of Darkness
Woolf : Mrs. Dalloway
Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Lawrence : Women in Love
Kingsley Amis : Lucky Jim
Course 14: Literary Criticism & Theory II – ENG – 402
Eliot : Tradition and the Individual Talent; The Function of Criticism; Hamlet (Selected Essays)
Richards : Principles of Literary Criticism (Chs.IV-XV, XXI, XXXIV, XXXV and Appendix A – On Value)
Ransom : A Note on Ontology (Twentieth Century Criticism: The Major Statements, eds. Handy and Westbrook) The following critics from David Lodge, ed. Modern criticism and Theory : A Reader (London : Longman, 1988)
The following critics from David Lodge, ed. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader (London: Longman, 1988)
Saussure : Nature of the Linguistic Sign
Derrida : Structure, Sign and Play in the discourse of the human Sciences
Said : Crisis (in Orientialism)
Showalter : Feminist criticism in the Wilderness
Eagleton : Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism
Course 15: Indian Literature in English II – ENG – EL-4.1
Mulk Raj Anand : Untouchable
R.K. Narayan : The Financial Expert
Raja Rao : The Serpent and the Rope
Anita Desai : Voices in the City
Salman Rushdie : Midnight’s Children
Amitav Ghosh : The Shadow Lines
Jawahar Lal Nehru : An Autobiography
OR
American Literature II – ENG – EL-4.2
Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter
Melville : Billy Budd
Faulkner : Light in August
Hemingway : A Farewell to Arms
Ralph Ellison : Invisible Man
Saul Bellow : Humboldt’s Gift
Course 16: Indian Literature in Translation – ENG – EL-4.3
The following poets from Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry eds. Vinay Dharwadker & A.K. Ramanujan:
Sitanshu Yashashchandra : Drought
V Indira Bhavani : Avatars
Ali Sardar Jafri : Morsel
Paresh Chandra Raut : Snake
Tagore : Homecoming; My Lord, The Baby
Shrilal Shukla : Rag Darbari
Tendulkar : Ghasiram Kotwal
Ananthamurthy : Samskara
Translation, Theory and Practice
OR
New Literatures in English – ENG – EL-4.4
The following poets from An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry ed. C D Narasimhaiah, Macmillan:
*A.D. Hope : Australia; The Death of the Bird
*Atwood : Journey to the Interior
*A.K. Ramanujan : Death and the Good Citizen; Waterfalls in a Bank (The Collected Poems of A.K. Ramanujan, OUP)
*Agha Shahid Ali : Showman; The Season of the Plains (Twelve Modern Indian Poets ed. A.K. Mehrotra, OUP)
Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart
V.S. Naipaul : A House for Mr. Biswas
Wole Soyinka : The Road
Patrick White : Voss
Nadine Gordimer : The Burger’s Daughter
OR
Women Writing– ENG – EL-4.5
The following poets from The Faber Book of 20th Century Women’s Poetry ed. Fleur Adcock:
Margaret Atwood : Siren Song
Adrienne Rich : Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
U A Fanthorpe : Not My Best Side
Sylvia Plath : Lady Lazurus
Gwendolyn Brooks : A Sunset of the City
Shashi Deshpande : That Long Silence
Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
Tony Morrison : Beloved
Mary Wollstonecraft : A Vindication of the Rights of Women
John Stuart Mill : The Subjection of Women
Virginia Woolf : A Room of One’s Own
OR
European Literature in Translation – ENG – EL-4.6
Sophocles : Oedipus the King
Dostoevsky : Crime and Punishment
Flaubert : Madam Bovary
Kafka : “Metamorphosis”
Alberto Moravia : The Woman of Rome
Brecht : Mother Courage
Baudelaire : Les Fleurs du mal (Flower of Evil)
Rilke : The Sonnets to Orpheus No. X; The First Elegy (Duino Elegies); The Poet, Remembrance (from Collected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Modern Library, New York).
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