Eng.(M.A.), Sem-III (Syllabus) | BURDWAN UNIVERSITY

English (M.A) - Semester III (Syllabus) | Burdwan University

👉 Paper 301: Modern English Literature till 1950

Unit I (Any two playwrights and two poets)

G. B. Shaw: Man and Superman/Pygmalion,

Sean O’Casey: Juno and the Paycock,

W. B.Yeats : Purgatory,

T.S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral/Family Reunion,

John Osborne: Look Back in Anger,

Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

W. B. Yeats : ‘Easter 1916’, ‘Leda and the Swan, ‘Among the School Children’;

T. S. Eliot: ‘The Waste Land’/ ‘Four Quartets’;

Ezra Pound: ‘In a Station of the Metro’;

Wilfred Owen: ‘Spring Offensive’, ‘Arms and the Boy’;

Douglas: ‘Cairo Jig’, ‘How to Kill’;

Dylan Thomas: ‘And Death Shall Have No Dominion’;

Stephen Spender: ‘A Childhood’, ‘I Think Continually’

Unit II (Any three)

Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway/ To the Lighthouse,

D. H. Lawrence: Rainbow/Women in Love,

E. M. Forster: A Passage to India/Howard’s End,

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness/ Lord Jim,

James Joyce: The Dubliners/Ulysses

👉 Paper 302: Post-1950s English Literature

Unit I (Any two plays & two poets)

Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party / The Homecoming;

Arnold Wesker: The Merchant /Roots;

Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead / Travesties;

Caryl Churchill:Top Girls/ Cloud Nine;

Philip Larkin: ‘Ambulances’, ‘Church Going’;

Ted Hughes: ‘Crow’s Fall’, ‘Pike’;

Seamus Heaney: ‘Death of a Naturalist’, ‘Exposure’;

Thom Gunn: ‘A Map of the City’, ‘Street Song’

Unit II (Any three)

Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim / The Old Devils,

John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman /A Maggot,

Martin Amis: Money / London Fields,

Doris Lessing: The Grass is Singing / The Golden Notebook,

Anthony Burgess: Time for a Tiger / One Hand Clapping;

Margaret Drabble: The Gates of Ivory / The Seven Sisters;

Iris Murdoch: Jackson’s Dilemma /The Unicorn

👉 Paper 303: Literary Theory and Contemporary Thoughts - I

Unit I

New Criticism, Russian Formalism, Dialogic Criticism, Psychoanalytic Criticism and Archetypal Criticism

Unit II

Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-Response Criticism, Marxist Criticism, Feminisms and Gender Studies

Essays/Chapters for Detailed Studies (Any four/three):

Althusser: “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”,

Frye: Anatomy of Criticism (Selections),

Derrida: “Structure, Sign and Play”,

Bakhtin: Rabelais and His World (Selections),

Cixous: “Sortis”,

Barthes: “Death of the Author”

👉 Paper 304: Literary Theory and Contemporary Thoughts - II

Unit I

New Historicism, Postmodernism, Postcolonialism, Culture Studies and Narratology

Unit II

Nationalism, Subaltern Studies, Race and Caste Studies, Ethnicity, Diaspora Theories, Ecocriticism

Essays/Chapters for Detail Studies (Any four/three):

Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (Selections),

Edward Said: Orientalism (Selections),

Greenblatt : “Invisible Bullets”,

Lyotard : The Postmodern Condition (Selections),

Ashis Nandy :“Nationalism : Genuine and Spurious”,

Partha Chatterjee: “More on Modes of Power and Peasantry”,

Stuart Hall: “New Ethnicities”,

Tololyan: “Diaspora Studies: Past, Present and Promise”,

Cheryl Glotfelty: “Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis”,

Rabindranath Tagore: “Nationalism in India”,

B. R. Ambedkar: “The Annihilation of Caste” (edited, introduced Arundhati Roy) ,

Gandhi: Hind Swaraj (translated, edited by Tridip Shurhud, Selections)

👉 305.i: Popular Culture

Unit I

Popular Culture: Politics of Representation; Consumerism and Culture; Technology: The Position of the Individual; Cultural Theories: Contemporary Thoughts; Subculture: Conformity and Resistance

Unit II - Section A (Any two)

Amatory fictions -

Eliza Haywood: Love in Excess,

Aphra Behn: Unfortunate Bride

Crime fictions -

Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone,

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, “A Scandal in Bohemia”,

Edgar Allan Poe: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “The Purloined Letter”,

Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Unit II - Section B (Any two)

Chick Lit -

Sophie Kinsella: Mini Shopaholic,

Rajashree: Trust Me

Graphic / Comic novels -

Joseph Heller: Catch 22,

David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest,

Chetan Bhagat: Five Point Someone,

Gene Luen Yang: American Born Chinese,

Art Spiegelman: Maus

Popular songs -

Bob Dylan songs: “Blowing in the Wind”, “Forever Young”,

Beatles: “Love Me Do”, “Come Together”,

Mohiner Ghoraguli: “Ghare Pherar Gaan”, “Bheshe Ashe Kolkata”

Popular Hollywood films: Spider Man, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, The Lord of the Rings

👉 305. ii: Indian Literature in English Translation

Unit I (Any three)

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaya: Anandamath;

Rabindranath Tagore: Gora; Fakir Mohan

Senapati: Six Acres and a Third;

Premchand: Godan;

U.R. Anantha Murthy: Samskara;

Ashapurna Devi: Pratham Pratishruti;

Mahashweta Devi: Mother of 1084;

Sunil Gangopadhyay: The First Light;

Saadat Hasan Manto: “Toba Tek Singh”, “The Return”, “Colder than Ice”;

Ismat Chughtai: The Quilt and Other Stories (Selections)

Unit II: (Two plays and two poets)

Vijay Tendulkar: Kanyadaan,

Girish Karnad: Hayavadhana (Self translation) ;

BadalSircar: Ebam Indrajit,

Manoranjan Das: The Wild Harvest

Mirza Ghalib: Complete Mirza Ghalib Shairi Collection in English (Selections);

K. Ayyappa Paniker: ‘The Itch’, “Passage to America”;

K. Satchidanandan: “The Mad”, “Stammer”;

Kaa Naa Subramanyam: ‘Situation,’ ‘Temple Danceuse’ (From Signatures: One Hundred Indian Poets, ed. K.Sachitanandan),

Nirendranath Chakraborty: The Naked King and Other Poems (Tr. Sujit Mukherjee, Selections), Shakti Chattopadhyay: Poems of a Rebel (Tr. Pinaki Poddar, Selections)

Sitakanta Mahapatra: “The Election”, “The Ruined Temple”;

Jagannath Prasad Das: ‘The Corpse’ and “My World

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