FOURTH YEAR | 850 Marks (2011 – 2015)
| Course Code | Course Titles | Credits | Marks | |||
| E 401 | 20th Century Poetry | 4 | 100 | |||
| E 402 | 20th Century European Drama | 4 | 100 | |||
| E 403 | 20th Century European Fiction | 4 | 100 | |||
| E 404 | 20th Century American Literature: Cather to Hemingway | 4 | 100 | |||
| E 405 | Introduction to Critical Theory | 4 | 100 | |||
| Concentration on Literature and Cultural Studies | ||||||
| E 406 | 20th Century American Literature: Bellow to Plath | 4 | 100 | |||
| E 407 | Australian, South Asian, and Trans-cultural Literature in English | 4 | 100 | |||
| E 408 | Research Methods in Literature and Cultural Studies | 4 | 100 | |||
OR
| Concentration on Applied Linguistics and ELT | |||
| E 409 | Psycholinguistics | 4 | 100 |
| E 410 | Sociolinguistics | 4 | 100 |
| E 411 | Research Methods in Applied Linguistics and ELT | 4 | 100 |
| Viva-Voce | 2 | 50 | |
| 34 | 850 | ||
E 401 20th Century British Poetry
4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
This course samples some major works of seven major British poets of the 20th century. Including Irish and Welsh as well as contemporary black poets, the course offers a panoramic view of the wonderful diversity of British poetry. Knowledge of the socio-political background of the 20th century UK as well as significant literary movements, for example, modernism, surrealism, regionalism, postcolonialism, and postmodernism, is required.
- William Butler Yeats “The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland”, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”, “No Second Troy”, “Easter 1916”, “The Second Coming”, “Leda and the Swan”, “Byzantium”
- Thomas Stearns Eliot “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”, “Preludes,” The Waste Land
- Wystan Hugh Auden “Musée des Beaus Arts”, “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”, “Spain 1937”, “The Shield of Achilles”
- Dylan Thomas “After the Funeral,” “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” “Fern Hill”
- Philip Larkin “Church Going,” “Talking to Bed,” “High Windows”
- Ted Hughes Crow (selection)
- Benjamin Zephaniah “Dis Poetry,” “De Rong Song,” “Talking Turkeys!”
E 402 20th Century European Drama
4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
This course offers an eclectic array of European drama produced in the 20th century. Sampling plays from England, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Spain and Sweden, the course offers seven plays in English and in English translation as well. Knowledge of relevant ethnographic information, the art and politics of dramaturgy, and modernist and postmodernist ideas, ranging from Brechtian ‘alienation effect’ to the theatre of the ‘absurd,’ is required.
- Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s House
- August Strindberg Miss Julie
- Bertolt Brecht The Good Women of Setzuan
- Federico Garcia Lorca Blood Wedding
- Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
- Harold Pinter The Birthday Party
- George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan
E 403 20th Century British Fiction
4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
This course offers five seminal novels written by five modernist luminaries of the 20th century British literature. The objective is to introduce students to the dominant trends in the narrative technique, structure, style, and theme of modern fiction. Students require being familiar with modernism and relevant theoretical development of the 20th century.
- Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
- E M Forster A Passage to India
- Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
- James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- D H Lawrence Sons and Lovers
E 404 20th Century American Literature: Cather to Hemingway
4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
This course samples seven major American writers from Willa Cather to Ernest Hemingway. The course incorporates novels, short stories, and plays with a view to cover a wide range of stylistic, structural, and narrative trends that dominated the early 20th century American literature. Students require having knowledge of the dominant literary modes and movements as well as socio-political scenario of the early 20th century USA, ranging from the ‘Roaring Twenties’ to the ‘Lost Generation.’
- Willa Cather My Mortal Enemy
- Robert Frost “Mending Wall”, “Home Burial”, “The Road Not Taken”, “Birches”, “Stopping by the Woods on Snowy Evening”, “Out, Out—“,“Design”
- William Carlos Williams “The Portrait of a Lady”, “The Red Wheelbarrow”, “This is Just to Say”, “A Sort of a Song,” “To Elsie”
- Eugene O’Neill Long Day’s Journey into Night
- F Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
- William Faulkner As I Lay Dying
- Ernest Hemingway “Cat in the Rain”, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” “A Clean, Well-lighted Place”
E 405 Introduction to Critical Theory
4 Credits | 100 Marks (35 Final Examination+35 Seminar+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
This course introduces students to the vibrant field of contemporary critical theory. Offering nine critical schools and theories as diverse as formalism and poststructuralism, the course samples seminal writings that have shaped the development of different critical theories. The course is intended both to study the basic tenets of select theories but also to learn how these theories are applied to read literary, popular and other discourses.
FORMALISMS
- Major focus ‘literariness’; ostranenie (Shklovsky) ‘baring the device’; foregrounding (Mayakovsky); fabula and syuzhet
STRUCTURALISM AND SEMIOTICS
- Major focus – sign and signification; connotation; paradigm and syntagm; binary oppositions; mythoi; archetypal criticism (Frye); narratology (Todorov); ‘mythology’ (Barthes)
MARXIST LITERARY THEORY
- Karl Marx “Grundrisse”
Major focus – base and superstructure; modes of production; ideology; ISA (Althusser); hegemony (Gramsci); Cultural Materialism (Williams)
FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY
- Simone de Beauvoir “Myth and Reality” (from The Second Sex)
Major focus androgyny (Woolf); Other (Beauvoir); ‘Images of Women’ criticism (Millett); gynocriticism (Showalter); binary oppositions (Cixous); l’écriture féminine (Cixous); black feminist criticism (Smith); postcolonial feminism (Spivak)
PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM
- Lionel Trilling “Freud and Literature”
Major focus the unconscious; drives; defenses; Oedipus complex; object relations theory; Imaginary, Symbolic and Real; Name-of-the-Father; trauma
POST-STRUCTURALISM & DECONSTRUCTION
- Jacques Derrida “Différance”
Major focus logocentrism; différance; jouissance; aporia; the death of the author; heteroglossia; carnivalesque; rhizome; territorialization; disciplinarity
POSTMDOERNISM
- Ihab Hassan “Postmodernism and Paracritical Bibliography”
Major focus capitalism (Eagleton); grand narrative (Lyotard); intertextuality (Kristeva); simulacrum and hyperreality (Baudrillard); pastiche (Jameson)
POSTCOLONIALISM
- Homi K Bhabha “Remembering Fanon”
Major focus Orientalism (Said); ambivalence (Bhabha); diaspora (Hall)
CULTURAL STUDIES
- Stuart Hall “The Work of Representation”
Major focus culture; consumption; representation; ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture; popular culture; media and mass communication
Required Reading
- Leitch, Vincent B. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.London and New York: W W Norton & Company, 2001.
- Lodge, David with Nigel Wood. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. Pearson, Education: India, 2005.
- Rivkin, Julie and Michael Ryan. Literary Theory: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
Recommended Reading
- Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory. Manchester: ManchesterUniversity Press, 1995.
- Brooker, Peter. A Concise Glossary of Cultural Theory. London: Arnold, 1999.
- Brooker, Peter, Raman Selden and Peter Widdowson, A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. London: Prentice Hall, 1997.
- Childs, Peter and Patrick Williams, An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory. Essex: Longman-Pearson Education, 1997.
- Eagleton, Terry. (1983) Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minnesota: UMP, 2008.
- Ryan, Michael. Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
- Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today, 2nd Edition, New York and London: Routledge, 2008.
- Waugh, Patricia (Ed.). Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide. Oxford: OUP, 2006.
- Wolfreys, Julian (Ed.). Introducing Literary Theories: A Guide and Glossary. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2005.
CONCENTRATION ON LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES
E 406 20th Century American Literature: Bellow to Plath
4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
This course samples seven major American writers from Saul Bellow to Sylvia Plath. Incorporating novels and poems, the course covers a wide range of stylistic, structural, and narrative trends that dominated the later parts of the 20th century American literature. Students require having knowledge of the dominant literary modes and movements as well as socio-political scenario of the 20th century USA, ranging from the black rights and feminist movements to the ‘Beat Generation.’
- Saul Bellow Seize the Day
- Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman
- Robert Lowell “…”
- J D Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
- Allen Ginsberg Howl, “September on Jessore Road”
- Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye
- Sylvia Plath “Daddy,” “Lady Lazarus,” “Ariel”
E 407 Australian, Canadian, and South Asian Literatures in English
4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
This course introduces students to the rich variety of the Australian, Canadian and South Asian literatures in English in the 20th century. Addressing a panoramic array of contemporary experiences, ranging from diaspora and hybridity to history and nationalism, the select texts provide a window to the complicated play of domination and resistance that informs contemporary humanity. Knowledge of the socio-political and cultural background of the modern day Australia, Canada and India, the history of the European colonization, and anti-colonial resistance movements is required.
- Patrick White A Fringe of Leaves
- Philip Michael Ondatje The English Patient
- R K Narayan The Guide
- Nissim Ezekiel “Background, Casually,” “Night of the Scorpion,” “The Visitor,” “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.”
- Kamala Das “The Old Playhouse,” “An Introduction,” “The Invitation,” “The Freaks,” “The Looking-Glass”
- Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children
- Amitav Ghosh The Shadow Lines
E 408 Research Methods in Literature and Cultural Studies
4 Credits | 100 Marks (40 Final Examination+30 Research Paper+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
The objective of this course is to familiarize students to the theory and practice of research in literary and cultural studies. It will help students gets acquainted with and practice different stages of doing research: planning, finalizing research questions, data collection, data analysis, writing the dissertation, and citation and documentation. Class lectures will be followed by a short research paper of around 5000 words.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
- Research: definition; classification; research methods and methodology; statement of the problem; research questions/hypotheses; objectives and justification of a study; research design; literature review, etc.
- Planning: sampling; preparing proposal; writing an abstract, etc.
- Data collection: using library and Internet; summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting; interview; questionnaire; opinionnaire; survey
- Data analysis: operational framework; theoretical framework; inferencing, etc.
- Writing: structure of a research paper/thesis; formal style; editing and proofreading
- Documentation: citations; bibliography; MLA and APA stylesheets
RESEARCH PAPER
A short research paper of around 5000 words has to be submitted at the end of the course. The topic of the dissertation must relate to literature or Cultural Studies and be chosen by the student in consultation with the supervisor. The Academic Committee of the department may nominate the supervisors.
Recommended Reading
- Correa, Delia da Sousa and W. R. Owens. The Handbook to Literary Research. London and New York: Routledge, 2009.
- Eliot, Simon and W R Owens. (Eds.) A Handbook of Literary Research. London: The Open University, 1998.
- Kothari, C R. Research Methodology: Methods & Techniques. 2nd Edition. New Delhi: New Age International, 2009.
- Lenburg, Jeff. Guide to Research. New Delhi: Viva Books, 2007.
- Swetnam, Derek. Writing Your Dissertation. 3rd Edition. Oxford: How To Books, 2001.
CONCENTRATION ON APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND ELT
E 409 Sociolinguistics
4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
The objective of this course is to provide students a better understanding of languages in relation to society. It is expected that this knowledge will equip students with the practical issues concerning the mutual relationship between language and society. Finally, the students will be able to apply the knowledge to second/foreign language teaching.
- Definition and scope of sociolinguistics
- Sociolinguistics and Sociology of language
- Language and dialect: Standard Language, Dialect Language standardization; Speech communities
- Pidgin and creole
- Language and geography; Isogloss
- Diglossia and Bilingualism; Bilingual Foreign Language Acquisition (BFLA)
- Multilingualism
- Code-switching; Code mixing
- Language planning and policy: Theories, ideologies and case studies
- Language and culture; Linguistic relativity/Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
- Language and gender
- Language identity
- Language shift and maintenance
- Language variation; Case studies
- Sociolinguistics and Education
Recommender Reading
- Holmes, J. (2001). An introduction to sociolinguistics (2nd ed.). Essex: Pearson Education.
- Kramsch, C. (1998). Language and culture. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.
- Spolsky, B. (1998). Sociolinguistics. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.
- Trudgill, P. (2000). Sociolinguistics: An introduction to language and society (4th ed.). London: Penguin Books.
- Wardhaugh, R. (2010). An introduction to sociolinguistics (6th ed.). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Yule, G. (2006). The study of language (3rd ed.). Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.
E 410 Psycholinguistics
4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
This course includes varied aspects of child language acquisition as well as second/foreign language learning and acquisition. It intends to help students have insignts into how L1 and L2 are learned/acqired and what affects learning/acquiring them:
- Child language acquisition: pre-linguistic stage, babbling stage, sensori-motor stage, holophrastic stage, two-word stage and telegraphic stage
- L1 acquisition theories: bebaviourist theory, mentalist theory, biological theory, and cognitive theory
- L2 learning theories: monitor model, interlanguage theory, linguistic universals, acculturation theory, and cognitive theory
- Individual factors in L2 learning: age, aptitude, attitude, motivation, personality, cognitive style, memory, etc
Recommended reading
- Brown, H. D. Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. London: Longman.2000.
- Carter, R. and Nunan, D. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Cambridge: CUP. 2001.Clark, H. and Clark, E. Psychology and Language: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1977.
- Ellis, R. Understanding Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: OUP. 1986.
- —. Instructed Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: OUP. 1990.
- —. The Study of Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: OUP. 1994.
- McLaughlin, B. Theories of Second Language Learning. London: Edward Arnold. 1987.
- Skehan, P. Individual Differences in Second Language Learning. London: Edward Arnold. 1989.
E 411 Research Methods in Applied Linguistics and ELT
4 Credits | 100 Marks (40 Final Examination+30 Research Paper+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
This course is meant to familiarize students with different theoretical and practical facets of research methods in applied linguistics and English language teaching (ELT), equip them to critically read research articles and reports, and hence help them be prepared for writing research papers and theses/dissertations.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
- Research on applied linguistics and ELT: concept, nature and classification
- Key to Research: research problems, research objectives, research significance and research questions/hypotheses
- Theoretical framework and literature review
- Research design: quantitative, qualitative, or both
- Research methodology: sampling, instrumentation, data collection and data analysis
- Research findings: presentation, interpretation and inference
- Documentation: APA style (latest edition)
- Sample structures of research papers and theses/dissertations
RESEARCH PAPER
A short research paper of around 5000 words has to be submitted at the end of the course. The topic of the dissertation must relate to applied linguistics and ELT and be chosen by the student in consultation with the supervisor. The Academic Committee of the department may nominate the supervisors.
Recommended Reading
- Hatch, E. and Farhady, H. Rowley, Research Design and Statistics for Applied Linguistics. Mass.: Newbury House, 1982.
- Litosseliti, L. (Ed.). Research Methods in Linguistics. London, New york: Continuum, 2010.
- Nunan, D. Research Methods in Language Learning. Cambridge: CUP, 1992.
- Paltridge, B. and Phakiti, A. (Eds.).Continuum Companion to Research methods in Applied Linguistics. London, New york: Continuum, 2010.
- Seliger, H. W. and Shohamy, E. Second Language Research Methods. Oxford: OUP, 1989.