M.A. English Semester 1 Syllabus- University of Lucknow | Details | Books | Notes |

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Syllabus of Masters in English at University of Lucknow | Notes
M.A. English - University of Lucknow | Details | Books | Notes |

        

Semester 1 : 

Paper 1 : 

ENGCC- 101 : English Society, Literature and Thought (Chaucer to 16th Century)

Unit 1 : (a) Social and Intellectual Background

                      Renaissance 
                      Reformation
                      Beginning of colonialism

              (b) Prose 

                 Thomas More                       :  "Of their Slaves and of their Marriages"  from Utopia
                 Francis Bacon                      :  " Of Ambition"
                                                                   " Of Revenge"
                                                                   " Of Travel"

Unit 2 : Poetry 

              Geoffrey Chaucer                  :  The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
              Edmund Spenser                   :  The Faerie Queene (Book 1)
              Philip Sidney                          :  Astrophel and Stella (Sonnet 1 and 2)

Unit 3 : Drama : Elizabethan (1)

            Thomas Kyd                           :  The Spanish Tragedy
            Christopher Marlowe            :  Doctor Faustus

Unit 4 : Drama : Elizabethan (2)

           Thomas Dekker                      :  Shoemaker's Holiday 
           Ben Jonson                              :  The Alchemist

Unit 5 : Drama : Elizabethan ( 3)

           William Shakespeare            : Hamlet
                                                             The Tempest



Recommended Readings :


Paper 2 : 

ENGCC - 102 : English Society, Literature and Thought (17th and 18th Centuries)

Unit 1 : (a) Social and Intellectual Background

                      Restoration
                      Women's writing in the seventeenth century
                      Scientific rationalism and the Enlightenment
                      Enlightenment

               (b) Prose 

                Mary Wollstonecraft     :     A Vindication of the Rights of Woman : Chapter 1,2,3,4
                Joseph Addison              :     "Sir Roger at Church " from The De Coverley Papers
                Richard Steele                :      The Character Of an Upright Man

Unit 2 : Poetry (1)

               John Donne                     :   "A valediction Forbidding Mourning"
                                                              “The Good Morrow”
                                                               “Batter my Heart”*


              John Milton                      :      Paradise Lost, Book I


Unit 3 : Poetry (2)

                Andrew Marvell              :     "To His Coy Mistress"
                John Dryden                    :      Mac Flecknoe
                Alexander Pope               :      The Rape Of the Lock


Unit 4 : Drama 

               John Webster                   :     The White Devil
               William Congreve           :      The Way of the World

Unit 5 : Fiction 

              Daniel Defoe                     :    Moll Flanders
              Jonathan Swift                 :    Gulliver's Travels
              Samuel Richardson         :     Pamela

              

Recommended Readings :


Paper 3 :

ENGCC - 103 : English Society, Literature and Thought (19th Century)

Unit 1 : (a)  Social and Intellectual Background

                       The context of Romanticism
                       The context of the Industrial Revolution
                       Empire and Ideology
                       Victorianism and Contemporary society

              (b)  Prose 

                     Matthew Arnold                  : Culture and Anarchy
                     Thomas Carlyle                   : “Signs of the Times”

Unit 2 :  Prose

                 John Stuart Mill                      : The Subjection of Women
                 John Ruskin                             : “Unto This Last”
                                                                      “An Idealist’s Arraignment of the Age”
                 Walter Pater                             : Preface and Conclusion to The Renaissance Studies in Art                                                                                                             of Poetry

Unit 3 : Poetry (1)

                William Wordsworth                 :  “Tintern Abbey”
                 Samuel Taylor Coleridge          :  “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
                 John Keats                                 :  “Ode to Autumn”
                George Gordon Byron               :  “She Walks in Beauty”
                                                                        “Youth and Age”
                Percy Bysshe Shelley                 :  “To a Skylark”

Unit 4 : Poetry (2) 

              Elizabeth Barrett Browning        : “The Cry of the Children”
                Alfred Lord Tennyson                : “In Memoriam” 
               Robert Browning                         : “Prospice”
               Matthew Arnold                          : “The Scholar Gypsy”


 Unit 5 : Fiction 

             Jane Austen                                 : Mansfield Park
              Emily Bronte                                 : Wuthering Heights
              Thomas Hardy                              : Tess of the D'Urbervilles 
  

                           

 

Recommended Readings 

                       
                 

Paper 4 : 

ENGCC-104: Introduction to Linguistics and Phonetics

Unit 1 :      General Linguistics 

                   What is Language/ Origin and Development of Human Language

                   Properties/ Characteristics of Human Language

                   Linguistics as a Science

                      Models of Linguistic Analysis 

Unit 2 :     English Phonetics and Phonology

                     The Speech Mechanism                                                                    

                     Phonemes and Allophones                                                               

                     Description and Classification of Vowels and Consonants 

Unit 3 :     Types of Transcription

                    Strong and Weak Forms

                    Syllable
                    Word-Accent, Stress and Rhythm in Connected Speech Intonation in English 

Unit 4 :    English Morphology

                Introduction to Morphology

                Morphemes and Allomorphs

                  Processes of Word Formation

Unit 5 :  Syntax

                 Structure of the Noun Phrase and Verb Phrase

               Meaning of Auxiliary 

                 Types of Clauses and Sentences     

          

Recommended Readings :

                                      

Paper 5 : 

ENGCC-105: Indian Literature in Translation

Unit 1 :   Drama 

                Kalidasa                                            : Shakuntala
                  Mohan Rakesh                                 : Adhe Adhure
                

Unit 2 :   Fiction / Short- Fiction

                   Ban Bhatta                                      : Kadambari
                   Yashpal                                            : Divya
                   Ismat Chugtai                                 : Chauthi Ka Joda
                   Shivani                                             : Sati
                   U. R. Ananthamurthy                     : Samskara

Unit 3 :   Poetry

 General acquaintance with great Indian Epics-The Ramayan and 
        Mahabharata (Translated by C. Rajagopalachari)   
  Rabindra Nath Tagore                     : Gitanjali 
  Jaishankar Prasad                            :  Kamayani  



Unit 4 :   Poetry (Hindi)


                  Mahadevi Varma                               : “Why an Introduction, Since You are Within Me”
                  Kunwar Narayan                               : "Falcon"
                                                                               "Chakravyuh"
                                                                               "On Both Sides of the Line" 

Unit 5 :   Autobiography/ Biography

                   Amrita Pritam                                  :  Revenue Stamp
                   Amrit Rai                                         :  Premchand :His Life and Times 
                                                                              (Translated by Harish Trivedi)
                   Ismat Chughtai                                :  A Life in Words: Memoirs       
                                                                              (Translated by M. Asaduddin)     

 

Recommended Readings :



Paper 6 :

ENGVC- 101: Communicative English 


Unit 1 : Reading / Listening

                How to Read Practical Reading with comprehension of a Play, Story, Essay, Poem and                            reading on Internet, How to listen Practical Listening (Unit 1- 5)


Unit 2 : Writing

               How to write. Remedial Grammar- Parts of Speech with emphasis on Article, Preposition, and                 Verb, Phrase, Clause and Sentence, Punctuation, Writing- Paragraph, Letter Writing, Short                       Essay, Précis Writing, Report Writing, Short Proposal Writing

Unit 3 : Speaking 

                How to speak (pronunciation, accent, and vocabulary building etc., With a person- Language                  in situation, in a group, in public, in a meeting.


Unit 4 : Understanding Communication Process

                Critical thinking, speaking and writing.
                Workplace communication needs- politically correct/ gender sensitive use of language                            Creative research strategies.
                Document production and related presentation.


Unit 5 : Technical Writing

                 Technical writing and technical presentation (use of internet, power point presentations etc.)
                 Project report writing/ Academic writing/ Academic and Research writing



Recommended Readings :













      
 
               
                



                   

   
                 







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