American Literature and English Language Teaching Essay

M. A. Course in English will involve 4 semesters. Every semester will have 4 courses. Taking all things together, there will be 16 courses of 5 credits each. Each course will convey 100 imprints. Of these, 70 imprints will be held for hypothesis (end-Semester assessment) and 30 imprints for instructional exercises/workshops (inner evaluation). Be that as it may, in course 5, titled â€Å"Linguistics and English Language Teaching†, just 50 imprints will be saved for hypothesis (end-Semester assessment), 20 imprints for Practical/Viva-voce test and 30 imprints for instructional exercise/workshops (inward appraisal). Of these courses, Course Nos. 1 to 11, 13 and 14 will be treated as Core Courses, Course nos. 12 and 15 as Elective Courses and Course No. 16 as Allied Elective Course open even to the understudies of different offices/resources. The featured things are intended for point by point study. The hypothesis part of each paper will be of three hours’ length. Example of Question Papers 1]The example of inquiry paper in regard obviously nos. 1,8,11,13,14,15,16 (Indian Literature in Translation, Women Writing and European Literature in Translation) will be as per the following: Section An (a) Two Long-Answer-Type Questions (500 words each) with inward decision †2ãâ€"12=24 Section B. (b) Six Short-Answer-Type Questions (200 words each) out of nine questions†6ãâ€"6=36 Section (c) Ten Objective-Type Questions to be replied in a word or sentence each †10ãâ€"1=10 2]The example of inquiry paper in regard obviously nos. 2,3,4,6,7,9,10,12,16 (New Literatures in English) will be as per the following: Section An (a) Two Long-Answer-Type Questions (500 words each) with interior decision †2ãâ€"12 =24 Section (b) Three entries for clarification out of 5 sections from the featured things to be replied in 200 words each †â€3ãâ€"6 = 18 Section (c) Three Short-Answer-Type Questions out of 5 inquiries to be replied in 200 words each ††3ãâ€"6 = 18. Segment d) Ten Objective-Type Questions to be replied in a word or sentence each †10ãâ€"1=10 3]The example of inquiry paper in regard of Course No. 5 (Linguistics and English Language Teaching) will be as per the following: Section An (a) Two Long-Answer-Type Questions (500 words each) with inner decision †2ãâ€"10=20 Section (b) Four Short-Answer-Type Questions (200 words each) out of six inquiries †4ãâ€"5=20 Section (c) Ten Objective-Type Questions to be replied in a word or sentence each †10ãâ€"1=10 SEMESTER I Course 1: Introduction to Linguistics †ENG †101 1. (a)Key properties of Language b) Language assortments. 2. (a)Major worries of Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics b) Historical methodology, Descriptive methodology 3. Significant ideas in Linguistics: a) Syntagmatic and Paradigmetic tomahawks b) Differential Calculous c) Constituent Structure d) Transformations and Deep Structure 4. Stylistics, its techniques and constraints. Course 2: Poetry I (Chaucer to Blake) †ENG †102 Chaucer:Prologue to Canterbury Tales (Modern rendition) *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-blossom Course 3: Drama I (Marlowe to Wilde barring 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 Theater Course 4: Prose†ENG †104 *Bacon:Of Truth; Of Death; Of Adversity; Of Great Place; Of Parents and Children Addison and Steele:Of the Club; The Coverley Household; Labor and Exercise; Sir Roger at the Theater (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 component 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. Examination and its cutoff points (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 abilities of Language: tuning in, talking, perusing, composing. (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, if you don't mind 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 and Theory 1†ENG †303 Aristotle:On the Art of Poetry Bharatamuni:On Natya and Rasa: Esthetics 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 and 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 unending; Leave this reciting and singing; I resemble a leftover of a cloud; In one greeting to thee (Gitanjali) *Sri Aurobindo:Savitri Book I Canto I (Passages for clarification to be set from the initial 64 lines) *Girish Karnad:Nag-Mandala The accompanying writers 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 accompanying 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†ENGâ€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 and 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. Helpful and Westbrook) The accompanying pundits from David Lodge, ed. Present day analysis and Theory : A Reader (London : Longman, 1988) The accompanying pundits from David Lodge, ed. Present day Criticism and Theory: A Reader (London: Longman, 1988) Saussure:Nature of the Linguistic Sign Derrida:Structure, Sign and Play in the talk of the human Sciences Said:Crisis (in Orientialism) Showalter:Feminist analysis 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 accompanying writers from Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry eds. Vinay Dharwadker and 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 accompanying writers from An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry ed. C D Narasimhaiah, Macmillan: *A. D.