Maharaja Ganga Singh University - MGSU Courses

Ph.D. (English)

Course Syllabus

Unit  A

• Computer and Internet : Memory & Storage Devices (RAM, ROM, Hard Disk, Floppy Dist, CD, DVD, BD, USB, Memory Card, SSC etc.)
• Networking (LAN & WAN connection) IP Address, Hypertext, Web Browsers, Internet Service Providing, Web research Engine, Net Surfing Internet Services.
• Word Processing : MS Word (Opening, Saving, Editing, Printing, Formatting a document) Mail Merge, Converting Word Documents into text, Rich text, HTML, PDF etc. Keyboard shortcuts, MS Power Point.
• Educational and Research recourses on Net : Encyclopedia, On Line Lectures, Electronic Jounrnals, E-Book, Digital Libraries, researching Research information using J-gate & scope.

Unit B

• Research : Definition, Application, Characteristics Type of Research, Objectives, Paradigms of research, steps in research process.
• Research Ethics : Characteristics and format of research paper, article, thesis writing.
• Documentation and Bibliography.
• Prof Reading.
• Review : Review of Literature, reasons for review, procedure for review, writing of literature reviewed.

Unit C

• Medieval literary studies.
• Renaissance literature.
• 18th Century British literature.
• 9th Century British literature.
• Modern British literature.
• American Literature.
• Drama
• Ethnic and Third-World literature.
• Popular Culture & Culture studies.
• Women, Gender and Literature

Unit D

Approaches to the study of literature

• Post Modernism (Habermos, Lyotard, Baudrillard)
• Psychoanalytic Criticism (Lacan Frend, Kristeva)
• Social Discourse (Foucault, Bakhtin School)
• Post/Neo colonial Criticism (Said, Bhabha, Ashcroft)
• Narratology (Aristotle, Propp, Genette)
• Eco criticism