MA English: 4th Semester Syllabus: Nov 2009 - April 2010

1. American Literature (Part - 2)


2. Russian Literature(Part - 2)


3. Critical Theory (Part- 2)


4. Post Colonial Studies (Part - 2 )


5. Cultural Studies (Part - 2)

Russian Literature (Part 2) 2nd MA English - Syllabus 2009 - 2010

1. Poetry : (One Peom each from the following authors)

(a) Anna Akhmatova, (2nd Test) - Poems 1 | Poems 2
(b) Vladimir Mayakovsk
(c) Boris Pasternak

2. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn : One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich (2nd Test) - Wiki |Guide 1 | Guide 2 | Guide 3
3. Yevgeny Zamyatin : We
4. Vladimir Nabokov : An Evening of Russian Poetry (2nd Test) - Text, Pnin (2nd Test) - Text | Guide 1 | Guide 2
5. Joseph Brodsky : A Room and a Half

American Literature (Part 2) 2nd MA English - Syllabus 2009 - 2010

1. The Chief's Daughters (An Otoe legend)
2. Frederick Douglas : The life of Frederick Douglas (excerpt)
3. Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Scarlett Letter (2nd Test) - Wiki | Guides: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
4. Herman Melville : Bartleby, the Scrivener
5. Ralph Waldo Emerson : Nature; Chapter-1, Self-Reliance (2nd Test) - Guides: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
6. Henry David Thoreau : On Economy (from Walden) (2nd Test) - Text | Guides: 1 | 2
7. Ernest Hemingway : The Cat in the Rain
8. Scott FitzGerald : The Great Gatsby
9. Donna Tartt : The Secret History
10. William Faulkner : A Rose for Emily (2nd Test) - Guides: 1 | 2 |3 | 4 | 5 | Wiki
11. Jerome David Salinger : Fanny and Zooey (2nd Test) - Guides: 1 | 2 |3 |4 |5
12. Jane Smiley : Moo
13. Bernard Malamud : A New Life
14. John Updike : Christian Roommates
15. Harold Brodkey : First Love and other Sorrows
16. Morrison : Beloved

REQUIRED READINGS:
1. Intro to Jewish American experience/writing (2nd Test) - Guide 1 | Guide 2 | Guide 3

Cultural Studies: Part:2 - 2nd MA English - Syllabus 2009 - 2010

UNIT I: CULTURAL THEORIES:
1. Antonio Gramsci : Intellectuals
2. Raymond Williams : Conclusion - Culture and Society
3. Walter Benjamin : The work of art in the age of Machanical production (2nd Test) - Text | Guide 1 | Guide 2 | Guide 3 | Wiki
4. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno : The culture industry - enlightenment as Mass Deception (2nd Test) - Guide 1 | Guide 2 | Guide 3 | Wiki
5. Jurgen Habermas : Modernity - An incomplete project (2nd Test) - Wiki | Guide 1 | Guide 2
6. Pierre Bourdieu : Distinction - Social critique of the Judgement of Taste
7. Clifford Geertz : Deep play - Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
8. Ajaz Ahmed : Globalization and Culture

UNIT II: CULTURAL STUDIES IN CONTEXTS:
1. Identity Politics : The cultural Politics of Hindutva
2. Cultural institutions, Power systems and the disciplines of knowledge crisis in literary studies in India
3. Cultures from the Margins

REQUIRED READINGS:
1. Contemporary cultural theory
2. Miller & Browitt : Cultural Studies and Cultural Theory
3. Partha Chatterjee : Talking about Modernity in two languages (2nd Test)
4. Sudipa Kaviraj : In Search of Civil Society
5. Steven Connor : Cultural Sociology and Cultural Sciences
6. Antonio Gramsci : Political Thought: An Introduction
7. Nicholas Mirzoeff : What is visual culture

Postcolonial Studies: Part:2 - 2nd MA English - Syllabus 2009 - 2010

UNIT I : POST COLONIAL THEORY:

1. Edward Said : Orientalism (extract) (2nd Test) - Guides: 1 | 2 | 3 | Wiki
2. Ashis Nandy : Intimate Enemy (Passage on Aurobindo)
3. Benedict Anderson : Imagined Community
4. Frederic Jameson : Third World Literature in the Age of Multinational Capitalism
5. Chandra T. Mohanty : Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourse (extract) (2nd Test) - Guides: 1 | 2 | Wiki
6. Jan Mohammed : The Economy of Manichean Allegory: The Fuction of Difference in Colonialist Literature (extract) (2nd Test)
7. Homi Bhabha : Signs taken for Wonders (extract)
8. Ranajit Guha : On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India (2nd Test) - Analysis
9. Gauri Vishwanathan : The beginnings of English literaty Study in India (extract)
(extracts fro The Post Colonial Studies Reader)

UNIT II : POSTCOLONIAL TEXTS : A SELECTION:

1. David Diop : Africa
2. Mongane Wally Serote : Poem on Black and White
3. Sipho Sepemla : On Judgement Day
4. Sipho sepemla : Civilization Aha
5. Popular Cultural texts from the Carribean :

A) Dub

(i) Mikey Smith : Mi Cyaan Believe If
(ii) EK Brainthwaite : Wings of a Dove

B) Reggae

(i) Marley and others : Get up and Stand Up
(ii) Peter Tosh : Equal Rights

C) Calypso

(i) David Rudder : Fire in de Lagger
(ii) Mighty Sparrow : Marajin

6. Selection from Male Madeshwara Kavya

REQUIRED READING:
1. Partha Chatterjee : Nationalism as a Problem
2. Breckenridge and Peter Van Deer : Orientalism and the Post-colonial Predicament
3. Gyan Prakash : Post Colonial Criticism and Indian Historiography
4. Leela Gandhi : Postcolonial Theory (esp. the selection on oprescribed texts in this section)
5. Introductory essays on Post colonial theory and criticism
6. Post Colonial Literatures(selections)

Note: More Texts may be added later.

Critical Theory (Part 2) 2nd MA English - Syllabus 2009 - 2010

OBJECTIVES:
1. To Introduce issues of current Critical Theory
2. To study theories in contect, the emphasis is on understanding how "Theory actually works"
3. To focus on the following major Critical Theories;

a) Structuralism and Semiotics
b) Deconstruction and Post-Structuralism
c) Marxism and Marxist theory
d) Post-Colonial Criticism
f) Feminist Theory and Criticism

TEXT:
1. Roland Barthes : From Work to Text
2. Mikhail Bakhtin : Discourse in the Novel (extract) (2nd Test) - Guide 1 | Guide 2
3. Gayatri Spivak : Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism (2nd Test)
4. J. Hillis Miller : "Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida and the 'Dislocation of Souls'
5. Helene Cixous : Laugh of the Medesa
6. Michel Foucault : Scientia Sexualis (2nd Test), We the Victorians (2nd Test)
7. Aijaz Ahmad : Introduction: Literature among the Signs of our Time(extract) in "In Theory"
8. Jacques Derrida : Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Science.