English M.A Sem IV Resource Linked Syllabus

Semester IV

Course 401: American Literature  50 marks (6 credits)

Unit I:

Unit 02:

  • Miller: Death of a Salesman
  • Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
  • Hansberry: Raisin in the Sun (Any two)

Unit 03:

  • Whitman
  • Frost
  • Plath. (Selections) [Any two]

Recommended reading:

  • Handlin, Oscar: The Americans: A New History of the People of the United States (two Vols.)
  • Lewis, Richard W.: The American Adam
  • Persons, Stow: American Minds: A History of Ideas
  • Horton. Rod W. & Herbert W. Edwards: Backgrounds of American Literary Thought
  • Cunliffe, Marcus: The Literature of the United States
  • Richard Ruland and Malcolm Bradbury:  From Puritanism rto Postmodernism: A History of American Literature.

 

Option B: New Literatures  50 marks (6 credits)

Unit I: (African)

Unit 02: (Australian)

  • Kim Scott: Benang
  • Sally Morgan: My Place
  • Ooedgeroo (Selections) [any two]

Unit 03: (Canadian, Caribbean)

Recommended Reading:

  • Simon Gikandi: Encyclopedia of African Literature
  • Abiola Irele (ed): The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature
  • Ashcroft, Griffith, Tiffin (ed): The Postcolonial Studies Reader
  • Davis Jack & Bob Hodge (ed): Aboriginal Writings Today
  • Bruce Bennett & Strauss (ed): The Oxford Literary History of Australia
  • William Toye: The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
  • James Arnold: A History of the Literature in the Caribbean

Course 403: Special Paper — II 50 MARKS (6 CREDITS)

Option B: American Literature                                               

Unit I:

Unit 02:

  • Langston Hughes
  • Wallace Stevens
  • Allen Ginsberg (Selections) [Any two]

Unit 03:

  • Emerson: The American Scholar
  • Thoreau: Selections from Walden
  • Tony Morrison: Playing in the Dark [Any two]

Recommended Reading:

  • Handlin, Oscar: The Americans: A New History of the People of the United States (two Vols.)
  • Lewis, Richard W.: The American Adam
  • Persons, Stow: American Minds: A History of Ideas
  • Horton. Rod W. & Herbert W. Edwards: Backgrounds of American Literary Thought
  • Cunliffe, Marcus: The Literature of the United States

 

Course 404: Special Paper — III  50 MARKS (6 CREDITS)

Option A: Diasporic Literature

Unit I:

  • Rohinton Mistry: Such a Long Journey
  • Bharati Mukherjee: Jasmine
  • Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines  [any two]

Unit 02:

  • Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
  • Bapsi Sidhwa: Ice Candy Man
  • Jhumpa Lahiri: Namesake (selections) [any two]

Unit 03:

  • Salman Rushdie: Imaginary Homelands (selections)
  • Stuart Hall: Cultural Identity and Diaspora
  • William Saffran: “The Jewish Diaspora in a Comparative and Theoretical Perspective” (Selections) (Any two)

Recommended Reading:

  • A.K. Mehrotra: An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English
  • Maleolm Bradbury: The Atlas of Literature
  • Avtar Brah: Cartographies of Diaspora: Contested Identities
  • Robin Cohen:  Global Diasporas: An Introduction.
  • Michelle Keown, David Murphy and ames Procter (ed.): Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas.
  • Kim Knott and Sean McLoughlin (ed.):  Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities.
  • Joel Kuorti and Om Prakash Dwivedi (ed.) :  Changing Worlds Changing Nations: The Concept of Nation in the Transnational Era.
  • Robin Cohen: Global Diasporas: An Introduction.
  • Michelle Keown, David Murphy and James Procter (ed.): Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas.
  • Kim Knott and Sean McLoughlin (ed.): Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities.
  • Joel Kuorti and Om Prakash Dwivedi (ed.): Changing Worlds Changing Nations: The Concept of Nation in the Transnational Era

 

Course No: 405: Students’ Seminar  50 marks (6 credits)

The students will select topics from across the courses offered as part of their post-graduate syllabus. The students will also verify the feasibility of their topics with the faculty members of the department. After verifying, the students will then start writing their papers consisting of around 1500 words. Each student will be given 10 minutes for presenting his/her paper followed by an interaction session. They will be marked on the basis of the content of the paper, their presentation skill and argument. Participation in the interaction process will also be considered for evaluation.”