University of Lucknow Courses

M.A. (English)

Course Detail

Semester - I

• Paper I :English Society, Literature & Thought (16th Century including Chaucer)
• Paper II : English Society, Literature & Thought (17th & 18th Centuries)
• Paper III : English Society, Literature and Thought(19th Century)
• Paper IV : Structure of English

Semester - II

• Paper V : English Society, Literature and Thought(20th Century)
• Paper VI : Readings in Literary Criticism
• Paper VII : English Language Teaching
• Paper VIII : Literature and Gender

Semester - III

Note: Any four of the following optional papers:

• Paper IX : American Literature
• Paper X : New Literatures in English
• Paper-XI : Forms of Popular Fiction (It replaces Literature and Gender)
• Paper XII : Stylistics and Discourse Analysis
• Paper XIII : Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature
• Paper XIV : Contemporary Literary Theories
• Paper XV : Indian Literature in English

Semester-IV

• Paper XVI : Viva-Voce (Compulsory)
• Paper XVII(A) : Dissertation (OPTIONAL)-Topics for the Dissertations of both the
• Paper-XVII(B): SAARC Literature in English (In lieu of Dissertation)

Any two of the following optional papers:

• Paper XVIII : African and Caribbean Literature
• Paper XIX : Australian Literature
• Paper XX : Translation: Theory and Practice
• Paper XXI : Canadian Literature
• Paper XXII : Indian Literature in Translation
• Paper-XXIII :Comparative Literature
• Paper XXIV : Literature and Films