University of Kalyani Courses

M.A. (English)

Course Details:-

Syllabus For Core Courses

• Renaissance To English Revolution: Plays
  • Unit I Shakespearean Plays (at least two plays from two distinct genres)
  • Unit II Non-Shakespearean Plays (at least two authors & two full length plays from two distinct genres)
• Renaissance To English Revolution: Poetry & Prose
  • Unit I Renaissance to English Revolution: Poetry (at least two authors; one considerably long poem like one book of Paradise Lost or Faerie Queene and ten short poems).
  • Unit II Renaissance to English Revolution: Prose (at least two authors, three essays and a whole book-length text or six essays).
• Restoration To 18th Century: Drama & Poetry
  • Unit I Poetry (one considerably long poem like one book of Absalom & Achitophel and three midlength poems, or ten short poems, by at least two authors).
  • Unit II Drama (at least two authors & two full length plays from two genres).
• Restoration To 18th Century: Fiction & Non-Fictional Prose
  • Unit I At least two novels by two authors
  • Unit II Non-fictional prose (at least two full length texts or one full length text and three essays by two authors or six essays).
• Romantic & Victorian: Poetry And Drama
  • Unit I Poetry (One considerably long poem like In Memoriam and three mid-length poems, or ten short poems, by at least two authors).
  • Unit II Drama (at least two authors & two full length plays or one full-length play and three one-act plays).
• Romantic & Victorian: Fiction And Non-Fictional Prose
  • Unit I Fiction (at least two authors; one novel by each).
  • Unit II Non-fictional prose (at least two authors; one full book-length text and three essays or six essays).
• Twentieth Century: Poetry And Drama
  • Unit I Poetry (at least two authors; one considerably long poem like The Waste Land and three midlength poems and ten short poems or six mid-length poems or twenty short poems).
  • Unit II Drama (at least two authors; two full length plays, or one full-length play and three one-act plays).
• Twentieth Century: Fiction And Non-Fictional Prose
  • Unit I Fiction (at least two authors and two novels or five short stories and one novel).
  • Unit II Non-fictional prose (at least two authors; two full book-length texts or one book-length text and three essays).
• Structure Of Modern English
  • Unit I Phonetics & Phonology of English
  • Unit II Linguistics & Modern English Grammar
• ELT & Stylistics
  • Unit I Principles of English Language Teaching
  • Unit II Language Variations, Stylistic Theories and Linguistic Stylistic Analysis
• Literary Criticism Up To the Nineteenth Century
  • Unit I Classical & Neo-Classical (at least two authors; two full book-length texts or one book-length text and three essays).
  • Unit II Nineteenth Century (at least two authors; two full book-length texts, three essays will beconsidered equivalent to a book-length text).
• Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
  • Unit I Up to the 1960s (at least two authors; two full book-length texts, three essays will be considered equivalent to a book-length text).
  • Unit II Russian Formalism, Structuralism, Semiotics, New Criticism, Reader Response Theory, Postmodernism, Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Gender Studies, Postcolonialism, Culture Studies, Marxist Criticism (any five of the above).

Optional Courses

Each optional course will be offered as an independent course. A total of six optional courses must be taken by each student.

i. European Drama and Fiction

ii European Poetry and Short Stories

iii American Fiction and Poetry

iv American Drama, Non-Fictional Prose & Latin American Literature

v Indian Literature in English: Fiction & Non-fiction

vi Indian Literature in English: Poetry & Drama

vii Indian Literature in Translation

viii Translation Studies

ix Film and Literature: Theory

x Film and Literature: Adaptation

xi Postcolonial Writing: African & Caribbean

xii Postcolonial Writing: Asia & the Pacific

xiii Women’s Literature: Theory & History

xiv Women’s Literature: Fiction, Poetry & Drama

xv New Gender Studies

xvi Shakespeare Criticism: Neo-Classical, Romantic & Victorian

xvii Shakespeare Criticism: Twentieth Century

xviii Politics and Literature

xix Diasporic Literature

xx Literature and Culture

xxi Science Fiction

xxii Travel writing

xxiii Children’s Literature

xxiv Literature and the Visual Arts

xxv Music and Literature

xxvi Disability in Literature

xxvii Illness in Literature

xxviii War Literature

xxix Violence in Literature

xxx The City In Literature

xxxi Academic Writing

xxxii Japanese Literature in Translation

xxxiii Literature of the Raj

xxxiv Monarchy and Literature

xxxv Autobiography as Literature

xxxvi Text and Performance

xxxvii Detective Fiction

xxxviii Sports and Literature

xxxix Special Author

xxxL A Text and its Afterlife