SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY

Seven Types of Ambiguity is a work of literary criticism by William Empson which was first published in 1930. It was one of the most influential critical works of the 20th century and was a key foundation work in the formation of the New Criticism school.^[1] The book is organized around seven types of ambiguity that Empson finds in the poetry he criticises. The second edition (revised) was published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1947, and there was another revised edition in 1953. The first printing in America was by New Directions in 1947.

Seven Types of Ambiguity ushered in New Criticism in the United States. The book is a guide to a style of literary criticism practiced by Empson. An ambiguity is represented as a puzzle to Empson. We have ambiguity when "alternative views might be taken without sheer misreading." Empson reads poetry as an exploration of conflicts within the author.

Seven types

1. The first type of ambiguity is the metaphor, that is, when two things are said to be alike which have different properties. This concept is similar to that of metaphysical conceit.
2. Two or more meanings are resolved into one. Empson characterizes this as using two different metaphors at once.
3. Two ideas that are connected through context can be given in one word simultaneously.
4. Two or more meanings that do not agree but combine to make clear a complicated state of mind in the author.
5. When the author discovers his idea in the act of writing. Empson describes a simile that lies halfway between two statements made by the author.
6. When a statement says nothing and the readers are forced to invent a statement of their own, most likely in conflict with that of the author.
7. Two words that within context are opposites that expose a fundamental division in the author's mind.

FOUR KINDS OF MEANING-I.A RICHARDS

FOUR KINDS OF MEANING-I.A RICHARDS 
 

I.A. Richards was the first critic to bring to English criticism a scientific precision and objectivity. He was the first to distinguish between the two uses of language – the referential and the emotive. His well articulated theory is found in his Principles of Literary Criticism. The present extract is from his Practical Criticism which speaks about the four kinds of meaning. Richards is remembered for his modern way of teaching and studying literature. New criticism and the whole of modern tensional poetics derive their strength and inspiration from the seminal writings of Richards.

            Richards begins the extract by pointing to the difficulty of all reading. The problem of making out the meaning is the starting point in criticism. The answers to ‘what is a meaning?’, ‘What are we doing when we endeavour to make it out?’ are the master keys to all the problems of criticism. The all important fact for the study of literature or any other mode of communication is that there are several kinds of meaning. Whether we speak, write, listen, read, the ‘Total meaning’ is a blend of several contributory meanings of different types. Language – and pre eminently language as it is used in poetry has several tasks to perform simultaneously. Four kinds of functions or meanings as enlisted by I.A. Richards are the following: (1) Sense, (2) Feeling, (3) Tone and (4) Intention.

(1) Sense
            ‘We speak to say something and when we listen we expect something to be said. We use words to direct our hearers’ attention upon some state of affairs, to present to them some items for consideration and to excite in them some thoughts about these items’. In short, what we speak to convey to our listeners for their consideration can be called ‘sense’. This is the most important thing in all scientific utterances where verification is possible.

(2) Feeling
            The attitude towards what we convey is known as ‘feeling’. In other words, we have bias or accentuation of interest towards what we say. We use language to express these feelings. Similarly, we have these feelings even when we receive. This happens even if the speaker is conscious of it or not. In exceptional cases, say in mathematics, no feeling enters. The speaker’s attitude to the subject is known as ‘feeling’.

(3) Tone
            The speaker has an attitude to his listener. ‘He chooses or arranges his words differently as his audience varies, in automatic or deliberate recognition of his relation to them. The tone of his utterance reflects his awareness of this relation, his sense of how he stands towards those he is addressing. Thus ‘tone’ refers to the attitude to the listener.

(4) Intention
            Finally apart from what he says (sense), his attitude to what he is talking about (feeling), and his attitude to his listener (tone), there is the speaker’s intention, his aim (conscious or unconscious) - the effect he is endeavouring to promote. The speaker’s purpose modifies his speech. Frequently, the speaker’s intention operates through and satisfies itself in a combination of other functions. ‘It may govern the stress laid upon points in an argument. It controls the ‘plot’ in the larger sense of the word. It has special importance in dramatic and semi dramatic literature. Thus the influence of his intention upon the language he uses is additional to the other three influences.

            If we survey the uses of language as a whole, predominance of one function over the other may be found. A man writing a scientific treatise will put the ‘sense’ of what he has to say first. For a writer popularising some of the results and hypotheses of science, the principles governing his language are not so simple; his intention will inevitably interfere with the other functions. In conversation, we get the clearest examples of the shifts of function, i.e. one function being taken over by another.

            Towards the end of the essay, I.A. Richards says that it is much harder to obtain statements about poetry than expressions of feelings towards it and towards the author. Very many apparent statements turn out to be the indirect expressions of Feeling, Tone and Intention.

ARCHETYPAL CRITICISM

Archetypal Criticism

Archetypal criticism argues that archetypes determine the form and function of literary works, that a text's meaning is shaped by cultural and psychological myths. Archetypes are the unknowable basic forms personified or concretized in recurring images, symbols, or patterns which may include motifs such as the quest or the heavenly ascent, recognizable character types such as the trickster or the hero, symbols such as the apple or snake, or images such as crucifixion (as in King Kong, or Bride of Frankenstein)--all laden with meaning already when employed in a particular work.

Archetypal criticism gets its impetus from psychologist Carl Jung, who postulated that humankind has a "collective unconscious," a kind of universal psyche, which is manifested in dreams and myths and which harbors themes and images that we all inherit. Literature, therefore, imitates not the world but rather the "total dream of humankind." Jung called mythology "the textbook of the archetypes"

Archetypal critics find New Criticism too atomistic in ignoring intertextual elements and in approaching the text as if it existed in a vacuum. After all, we recognize story patterns and symbolic associations at least from other texts we have read, if not innately; we know how to form assumptions and expectations from encounters with black hats, springtime settings, evil stepmothers, and so forth. So surely meaning cannot exist solely on the page of a work, nor can that work be treated as an independent entity.

Archetypal images and story patterns encourage readers (and viewers of films and advertisements) to participate ritualistically in basic beliefs, fears, and anxieties of their age. These archetypal features not only constitute the intelligibility of the text but also tap into a level of desires and anxieties of humankind.

 Archetypes and Archetypal Criticism

    

The popular saying “when they made you, they threw away the mold” hints that literally the statue or figuratively the person is singular, exceptional, unique.  With no mold or pattern to follow, a duplicate is impossible.  An archetype, however, is the mold that has not been discarded.  The archetypal mold, flexible and long-lasting, provides many close copies of the original.  Consider possibly the most popular archetype of all—the Hero.  John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones are strikingly different actors, but as heroes who overcome the obstacles in their respective paths, they are undoubtedly from the same mold, an obviously flexible one given the girth of Wayne.  The hero archetype appears in every culture; it’s a favorite mold of humanity.

     An archetype then is a pattern or prototype of character types, images, descriptive details, and plot patterns that find their way from our minds to our myths to our literature to our lives (Holman 34).  The psychologist Carl Jung, a colleague of Sigmund Freud, first popularized the use of the term archetype (pronounced ark-uh-type) when he postulated the theory that, similar to the instincts of animals, humans are born with a “collective unconscious,” a level below the conscious and subconscious, wherein the source of the archetypes or the molds exist.  He believed it was this collective unconscious that gave humans certain predispositions to specific stimuli.  In other words, we all respond to archetypes in the same way because our minds are made the same way and “preprogrammed” by thousands of years of human experience.  Some texts refer to this idea as a “racial memory,” as in human race.  A fair analogy might be the mind reacts to an archetype in the same way that the body reacts when a doctor taps the knee with a hammer—reflexively and predictably.  As a product of our collective unconscious, archetypes naturally found their way into our subconscious and our dreams.  Jung believed he could analyze his patients by focusing on the archetypal elements of their dreams.  From dreams archetypes migrated to myths, the stories we told to explain our world before science arrived to help, the stories that reveal our “deepest instinctual life,” the stories that reveal to us our inner selves (Guerin 159).  Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, believed that there was really just one universal hero story. Anthropologists like James Frazer have reinforced the universality of archetypes by finding that peoples who could never have encountered each other have the same archetypes in their myths and rituals.  From mythology archetypes made the short hop into literature.  From our minds to our myths to our literature is a natural progression that shows us that the study of literature is the study of ourselves, archetypes included.

      So what the heck does one do with archetypes?  Take note of them and use them to explain the story and its appeal to the reader. Patterns that frequent literature and have universal appeal bear watching because they help explain both story and humanity.  Use the archetypal hammer to tap your brain’s knee and watch the results.  They should help you see what the author intended on many levels. You may have never noticed these before on a conscious level, but by viewing this table you’ll see just how familiar they are.  Archetypal literary criticism can also augment other types of literary criticism.

Character Archetypes

Three sources were compiled for these tables:  www.unm.edu/~abqteach/fairytales/02-03-08.htm, www.fccps.k12.va.us/gm/faculty/archcrit.htm, and the source below.

 The Hero
 The protagonist on a literal or figurative journey often from childhood to adulthood, innocence to experience.

Death
The antagonist or character blocking the hero’s path.

Shadow
The hero’s inner evil, the dark side of his psyche that makes success difficult or impossible unless accepted.

Mother and Father
Yup, the parental units are near and dear to our hearts and especially our minds because of their nurturing or lack thereof.

The Wise Old Man
 A mentor, a teacher, a counselor

The Friendly Beast
This shows that nature is pro-hero.

The Devil
 The bad, bad person who tempts the hero
 
The Scapegoat
 A person (or animal) whose death relieves others of a sin or wrong
 
The Outcast
 A character banished because of his wrong doing; often a wanderer

The Earth Mother
 A female character, naturally, who offers spiritual and emotional comfort

The Temptress or Terrible Mother
 A female who tempts the hero and tries to bring about his end.  Synonyms include femme fatale, witch, sorceress, and siren because these suggest the magical powers of a seductive woman.

The Platonic or Perfect Woman
 The hero has primarily an intellectual love for this woman who inspires his best.

The Unfaithful Wife
 Cheater, cheater.

The Damsel in Distress
 Help me!  Help me, please!

Star-crossed Lovers
 Lovers fated to suffer a tragic end.

The Trickster
 This character has a negative nature, a character that might be a fraud, a prankster, a con man, a joker, etc. However, they might be helpful to the hero at some point.

And Many More…
 This list is by no means an exhaustive one.
 

Plot Patterns/Elements Archetypes

The Quest
The search for someone or something that will restore rightness to the hero’s world that involves hardships, monsters, or riddles.

The Task
The hero must perform a deed beyond the norm.
 
The Initiation or Transformation
The hero undergoes a hazing to pass from ignorance and immaturity to social and spiritual adulthood. It usually occurs in three stage: separation, transformation, and return and thusly may include the fall and death/rebirth

The Journey
In search of information, the hero passes into a real or figurative hell from which he may emerge after he discovers the blackest truths of himself

The Fall
The hero falls to a lower level from a comparative heaven after a loss of innocence and happiness because of a transgression, a wrong.

Death and Rebirth
Usually a metaphorical death, a spiritual or emotional death and reviving of the spirit and emotions

Nature vs. the Mechanical World
Nature good, machines bad.
 
The Unhealable Wound
A physical or psychological wound that indicates a loss of innocence

The Ritual
Weddings, baptisms, coronations—real or figurative—that mark a rite of passage to another state or level

The Magic Weapon
The Hero’s weapon that no one else can use to its full potential if at all.

Garden
Paradise, innocence, unspoiled beauty, fertility

Tree
Life of the cosmos, immortality

Desert
Spiritual aridity, death, nihilism, hopelessness

 Archetypal Images

Archetypal images are often just labeled as examples of symbolism, but they are able to symbolize because of their archetypal origin. The only source for this table of archetypes is A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature (Guerin 161-166). 

Water
Water has archetypal possibilities in every form it takes.  It can represent purification, redemption, birth-death-resurrection, sadness, etc.

The Sea
The mother of all life, spiritual mystery and infinity, death and rebirth, timelessness, eternity, and often the unconscious mind

Rivers
Death/rebirth, the flowing of time, the life cycle, gods

Sun
Creative energy, natural law, the conscious mind, the father principle; the rising sun is birth, creation, and enlightenment while the setting sun is death.

Colors
Red: blood, sacrifice, violent passion: disorder

Green: growth, sensation, hope, fertility or negatively death/decay

Blue: truth, religious feeling security, purity

Black:  chaos, mystery, the unknown, death, evil, melancholy (sadness), primal wisdom

White:  light, purity, innocence, timelessness or death, terror, the supernatural or blinding truth

Circle
A mandala, figure that represents the desire for spiritual unity and integration

The Egg
The mystery of life

Yang-yin
That funky Chinese symbol for a union of opposites: male-female, light-dark, activity-passivity, conscious-unconscious

Serpent
Symbol of energy, pure force, evil, corruption, sensuality, destruction, mystery, wisdom, the unconscious

Numbers
Three:  light, spiritual awareness, and unity, the male principle

Four:  associated with the circle, the life cycle (seasons) earth, nature (four elements)

Seven: the sum of three and four, the completion of a cycle, perfect order
 

Four Archetypal Narrative Patterns

These survive, according to Frye, “because they are fundamental structures of the human imagination, perennially useful ways of perceiving the world we experience.”

 Romance
 A world where goals are achieved and dreams fulfilled.

Irony
Goals are thwarted and nightmares become reality

Tragedy
Moving from a desirable state to an undesirable one

Comedy
From an undesirable state to a desirable one

Literature uses all these archetypes, but usually in camouflaged ways.  No literal magic weapon or damsel in a tower waiting for aid or garden appears in most stories, but figuratively they do.  A magic weapon can simply be a character’s education or skills; the damsel can be a woman with a flat tire on the roadside; the garden can be any peaceful, natural place like a park or a character’s dream world.  A journey can be a spiritual journey. When the archetypes are used literally, the stories can become more mythological and dated but no less enjoyable.  Consider The Lord of the Rings and the Star Wars trilogies.

M.A ENGLISH LITERATURE SYLLABUS

M.A (English Literature)

Table -2 : Course Details and Scheme of Examination

                                    (For those who are joining in 2016 -2017 and after)

FIRST SEMESTER
Subjects	Title of the Paper	Hrs per Week	Credit	Exam Hrs	Marks		Total
					Int	Ext
Core Subjects	British Literature I	6	5	3	25	75	100
	British Literature II	6	5	3	25	75	100
	A History of the English Language	6	5	3	25	75	100
	English Phonetics	6	4	3	25	75	100
Elective Subject	1. Translation Theory (a)  2. Diasporic Fiction (b)	6	4	3	25	75	100

SECOND  SEMESTER
Subjects	Title of the Paper	Hrs per Week	Credit	Exam Hrs	Marks		Total
					Int	Ext
Core Subjects	British literature III	6	5	3	25	75	100
	History of English Literature	6	5	3	25	75	100
	Shakespeare	6	5	3	25	75	100
	Indian Writing in English	6	4	3	25	75	100
Elective Subject	1. Computer for Effective            Communication (a)  2. Fundamentals of Information        Technology (b)	6	4	3	25	75	100

THIRD SEMESTER
Subjects	Title of the Paper	Hrs per Week	Credit	Exam Hrs	Marks		Total
					Int	Ext
Core Subjects	British Literature IV	6	5	3	25	75	100
	Postcolonial Literature	6	5	3	25	75	100
	Gender and Literature	6	4	3	25	75	100
	American Literature	6	5	3	25	75	100
Elective Subject	1. Research Methodology (a)  2. Introduction to Journalism  (b)	6	4	3	25	75	100

FOURTH  SEMESTER
Subjects	Title of the Paper	Hrs per Week	Credit	Exam Hrs	Marks		Total
					Int	Ext
Core Subjects	World Classics in Translation	6	4	3	25	75	100
	Introduction to Comparative Literature	6	5	3	25	75	100
	Literary Criticism and Theory	6	4	3	25	75	100
Elective Subject	1. English Language Teaching (a)  2. An Introduction to Linguistics  (b)	6	4	3	25	75	100
Project Work	Review	6	4	3	40	60	100

Extra Credits Paper:

Model Paper for NET/SET Examination: 3 Credits

SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE

(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)

SATTUR-626 203

Department of English

(For those are joining in 2016-17)

SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : I                                                                    No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week

Paper              : Core Subject – Paper I                               No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: BRITISH LITERATURE I

Objective:

·         To introduce students to the English literature from Geoffrey Chaucer to William Shakespeare

Unit I: Prose

            Francis Bacon      :        Of love

                                                  Of Studies

                                                  Of Friendship

                                                  Of Truth

                                                  Of Ambition

Unit II: Poetry-I

Geoffrey Chaucer       : Prologue to ‘The Canterbury Tales’ (Lines 1-100 only)

Thomas Wyatt             : I Find No Peace

Unit III: Poetry-II

Edmund Spenser         :   Epithalamion

William Shakespeare   :   Sonnets 29, 60,116 & 130

Unit IV: Drama-I

            Christopher Marlowe  :  Doctor Faustus

           

Unit V: Drama-II

John Webster              : The White Devil

Reference Books:

Green, David. The Winged Word. India: Macmillan publisher, 1974.

Abrams, M.H. Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol. I. London: W. W. Norton & Co,

1968.

        

SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE

(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)

SATTUR-626 203

Department of English

(For those are joining in 2016-17)

SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : I                                                                    No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week

Paper              : Core Subject – Paper II                             No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: BRITISH LITERATURE II

Objective:

           

·         To introduce students to the English literature of the 17^th & the 18^th Centuries

Unit I: Prose

            Jonathan Swift                        : The Battle of Books

Unit II: Poetry-I

John Donne                 : The Valediction Forbidding Mourning

            George Herbert           : The Collar

            Andrew Marvell          : To His Coy Mistress

            John Dryden               : A Song for St. Cecilia’s day

Unit III: Poetry-II

John Milton                 : Paradise Lost-Book IX

Unit IV: Drama

John Dryden               : All for Love

Unit V: Novel

Oliver Goldsmith        : The Vicar of Wakefield

            John Bunyan               : Pilgrim’s Progress

Reference Books:

Green, David. The Winged Word. India: Macmillan publisher, 1974.

Abrams, M.H. Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol. I. London: W. W. Norton & Co,

1979.

                               SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE

(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)

SATTUR-626 203

Department of English

(For those are joining in 2016-17)

SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : I                                                                    No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week

Paper              : Core Subject – Paper III                            No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Objective:

           

·         To introduce students to the historical development of English literature

·         To provide them with a basis for an understanding of present –day English

Unit I:

            1.         The Indo-European Family of Languages and the place of English in it

            2.         Old English and the Influences

            3.         Middle English and the Influences

Unit II

            1.         Latin and Greek Elements in English

            2.         French and Scandinavian Elements in English

            3.         The Impact of the Renaissance, Reformation and Bible Translations on the                                     English Language.

Unit III          

.           1.         Contributions of the Chaucer, Spenser, Milton.

            2.         Contribution of Shakespeare

            3.         Standardization of Spelling and Pronunciation

Unit IV

            1.         Word-Formation in English

            2.         Change in the Meaning of Words

            3.         Standard English

Unit V

            1.         American English

            2.         Indian English

            3.         The Impact of Modern Science and Technology on the English Language

Text Book(s):

Wood, F.T. An Outline History of English Language. II^nd Edition. Delhi: Macmillan

            Publisher, 1969.

Dr.Venkataraman, R.  A History of the English Languag. New Delhi: Rama Brother India

            PVT.Ltd, 2007.

References:

Baugh, Albert.C.  A History of the English Language. New Delhi: Allied Publisher Private

            Limited, 1978.

                       

SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE

(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)

SATTUR-626 203

Department of English

(For those are joining in 2016-17)

SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : I                                                                    No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week

Paper              : Core Subject – Paper IV                            No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper: ENGLISH PHONETICS

Objectives:

·         To expose the students to the rules of English Phonetics and to make them speak English with correct pronunciation

           

·         To help them learn phonetic transcription which will help them read and speak fluently and accurately

Unit I

            Relevance of spoken English in India

            Ignorance of Spoken English in India

            General Issues of Indian Speakers in Spoken English

Unit II

            Air stream Mechanism

            Organs of Speech

            Description and Classifications of English Sounds

Unit III

            Syllables

            Word Accent

            Accent and Rhythm in connected speech

Unit IV:

            Intonation Patterns

            Assimilation and Elision

            The concept of General Indian English and Varieties of English

Unit V:

            Practice in Phonetic Transcription (Passages/Dialogues)

References:

Balasubramanian, T. A Text Book of English Phonetics for Indian Students. New Delhi:

            Macmillan Publisher, 1981.

Jones, Daniel.  Dictionary of English Pronunciation. London: OUP,  1917.

                           

 SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE

(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)

SATTUR-626 203

Department of English

(For those are joining in 2016-17)

SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : I                                                                    No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week

Paper              : Elective Subject – Paper V(a)                    No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper: TRANSLATION THEORY

Objective:

·         To introduce students to the principles of Translation

·         To equip them with the Translation Skills

Unit I: Introduction to Translation

1.  Definition of Translation 

2.  Translation as a Science or an Art

3.  The importance of Translation

Unit II: Aspects of Translation

1.  Qualities of Good Translation

2.  Translation Studies

3.   Translation Process - Eugene Nida’s Classical Model

Unit III: Types of Translation

1.  The views of Dryden, Roman Jakobson, J.C. Catford & Theodore Savory

2.  Translation – Total & Restricted, Rank-bound & Unbounded, Free & Literal,

and Semantic & Communicative

                        3.   Transcription, Copying, Transliteration & Adaptation

Unit IV: Problems of Translation

1.  Equivalence in Translation – Eugene Nida & Popovic

2.   Translating Literary Texts (Poetry, Prose & Drama

3.   Translating Non-Literary Texts

                          4.  The Question of Loss and Gain in Translation

5.  Limits of Translatability

                       

Unit V: Translation Practice

Translating specified literary texts   (i.e., passages from prose texts, stories, novels, biographies, etc.)- English to Tamil & Tamil to English

Textbook:

Bassnett, Sussan. Translation Statics. New York: Routbdge ( 3^rd Edition ), 2002.

SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE

(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC)

SATTUR - 626 203.

Department of English

(For those who are joining in 2016- 2017 and after)

SYLLABUS

Programme : M.A English                                                          Subject Code :

Semester: I                                                                                    No. of hours allotted: 6/week

Paper: Elective Paper – V (b)                                                      No. of Credits: 4

Title of the Paper: DIASPORIC FICTION

Objectives:

·         To familiarize students with the basic principles of diasporic literature with special reference to the diasporic fiction.

UNIT I

Salman Rushdie                :        Midnight's Children

UNIT II

            Anita Desai                        :      Baumgartner's Bombay

UNIT III

            Amitav Ghosh                   :      The Glass Palace

UNIT IV

            Kiran Desai                       :     The Inheritance of Loss

UNIT V

            Bharati Mukherjee              : The Tiger’s Daughter     

                       

SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE

(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)

SATTUR-626 203

Department of English

(For those are joining in 2016-17)

SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : II                                                                   No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week

Paper              : Core Subject – Paper VI                            No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: BRITISH LITERATURE III

Objective:

·         To introduce English Romantic Literature and Victorian Literature to students.

Unit I : Prose

            Charles Lamb                          : “Dream Children: A  Reverie”

                                                              “A Dissertation upon Roast  Pig”

                                                             “The Praise of Chimney Sweepers”

Unit II : Poetry-I

            William Wordsworth              : Michael

            S.T. Coleridge                         : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

            John Keats                              : Ode on a Grecian Urn

Unit III : Poetry II

Alfred Lord Tennyson             : Ulysses

            Robert Browning                     : My Last Duchess

            Mathew Arnold                       : Dover Beach

Unit IV: Novel I

Thomas Hardy                         : The Return of the Native

            Charles Dickens                       : Oliver Twist

References:

Abrams, M.H.  et al.  Norton Anthology of English Literature (Vol. II) .New York: W.W. Norton

 & co, 1979.

                       

SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE

(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)

SATTUR-626 203

Department of English

(For those are joining in 2016-17)

SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : II                                                                   No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week

Paper              : Core Subject – Paper VII                          No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

Objectives:

·         To enable students to acquire a fair knowledge of the Literary History of England from the Age of Chaucer to the Present day

·         To help them develop an awareness of  the various Literary Movements / Trends in England

·         To expose them to the literary achievements of important English writers

·         To augment their understanding and appreciation of the English literary texts

Unit I: Chaucer to Marvell (5 Topics)        

1.      English Literature from the Age of Chaucer to the period of Tottel’s Miscellany, with special reference to the literary achievements of Chaucer, Thomas More, Wyatt and Surrey (for a Four-page answer)

2.      English Drama from its Origin to the Jacobean Age, with special reference to the Miracle Plays, the Mystery Plays,  the Moralities, the Interludes, the First English Comedy and the First English Tragedy, and the Plays of the ‘University Wits’, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and John Webster (for a Four-page answer)

3.      Elizabethan Poetry,  with special reference to the works of Spenser and Shakespeare (for a Two-page answer)

4.      English Metaphysical Poetry,  with special reference to the works of John Donne, George Herbert and Andrew Marvell (for a Two-page answer)

5.      Elizabethan Prose,  with special reference to the works of John Lyly, Sir Philip Sidney and Francis Bacon (for a Two-page answer)

Unit II: Milton to Burns (6 Topics)

1.      English Poetry and Prose in the Age of Milton, with special reference to the works of John Milton and John Bunyan (for a Two-page answer)

2.      English Restoration Poetry, Prose and Drama with special reference to the works of John Dryden and William Congreve (for a Four-page answer)

3.      English Neo-Classical Poetry and Prose, with special reference to the works of Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele ( for a Four-page answer)

4.      English Prose, Poetry and Drama in the Age of Johnson with special reference to the works of Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith  and       R.B. Sheridan (for a Two-page answer)

5.      Origin of the English Novel in the Age of Johnson, with special reference to the works of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett and Oliver Goldsmith (for a Two-page answer)

6.      Reaction against the English Neo-Classical Poetry, with special reference to the works of William Blake, Thomas Gray, Robert Burns and William Cowper (for a Two-page answer)

Unit III: The Romantic Age (3 Topics)

1.      English Romantic Poetry,  with special reference to the works of William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Lord Byron, P.B. Shelley and John Keats (for a Four-page answer)

2.      English Prose in the Romantic Age,  with special  reference to the works of William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, P.B.Shelley, Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt (for a Two-page answer)

3.      English Novel in the Romantic Age, with special reference to the works of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen (for a Two-page answer)

Unit IV: Tennyson to Hardy (4 Topics)

1.      English Poetry in the Victorian Age, with special reference to the works of Lord Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning and Matthew Arnold (for a Four-page answer)

2.      English Prose in the Victorian Age, with special reference to the works of Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Macaulay, Matthew Arnold,               R.L. Stevenson and Newman (for a Two-page answer)

3.      English Drama in the Victorian Age, with special reference to the Plays of  Oscar Wilde (for a Two-page answer)

4.      English Novel in the Victorian Age, with special reference to the works of Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, the Bronte Sisters and  Thomas Hardy (for a Four-page answer)

Unit V: The Modern Age (5 Topics)

1.       Modern English Poetry,  with special reference to the works of the Georgian Poets ( Robert Bridges, Rupert Brooke and John Masefield), Wilfred Owen, Gerard Manley Hopkins, D.H. Lawrence, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Stearns Eliot, W.H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Tom Gunn and Philip Larkin (for a Four-page answer)

2.      Modern English Prose,  with special reference to the works of T.S. Eliot, G.B. Shaw, Sir Winston Churchill, Robert Lynd, A.G. Gardiner, Lytton Strachey, Bertrand Russell, T.E .Lawrence, Hilaire  Belloc and  G.K. Chesterton (for a Two-page answer)

3.      Modern English Drama, with special reference to the Plays  of  T.S. Eliot, George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, J.M. Synge, J.M. Barrie, Samuel Beckett and John Osborne (for a Two-page answer)

4.      Modern English Novel, with special reference to the works of H.G Wells, Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and William Golding (for a Four-page answer)

5.      Modern English Short Story, with special reference to the Stories of G.K. Chesterton, Somerset Maugham, D.H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield (for a Two-page answer)

Text Book:

            Hudson, W.H. An Outline History of English Literature. Madras: B.I Publications, 1986

Reference Books:

Nair, K.R. Ramachandran. Essays on the History of English Literature.  Chennai:   

Emerald , 2000.

                       

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SATTUR-626 203

Department of English

(For those are joining in 2016-17)

SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : II                                                                   No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week

Paper              : Core Subject – Paper VIII                         No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: SHAESPEARE

Objectives: To give students knowledge of Shakespeare’s plays

Unit I Comedy

            Twelfth Night

Unit II Roman History Play

             Julius Caesar

Unit III Tragedy

Othello

Unit IV Last Play

            The Tempest

Unit V General Shakespeare

1.      Opening scenes in Shakespeare’s plays

2.      Comedies, Tragedies, Historical plays  (Roman and English), Dark Comedies

3.      Villain in Shakespeare’s plays

4.      Introduction to Shakespeare’s Sonnets

References:

Johnson, Samuel and George Steveens. (eds) The Plays of William Shakespeare. London: OUP, 

            1736.

Bradley, A.C. Shakespearian Tragedy. Delhi: Surjeet Publications, 2006.

 

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SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : II                                                                   No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week

Paper              : Core Subject – Paper IX                            No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper: INDIAN WRITING  IN ENGLISH

Objectives:

·         To introduce the students to representative pieces of Indian writing English

Unit   I

            A Study of the contribution of the following Indian writers

                        RabindranathTagore,  A.K Ramanujan, Kamaladas, Rajarao, Mulkraj Anand, R.K Narayan, Asif Currimbhoy, Vijay Tendulkar, Mahesh Dattani.

Unit II  Prose

            Sri Aurobindo           :   The Renaissance in India

  Unit III Poetry

            Rabindranath Tagor     : Heaven of Freedom

            R. Parthasarathy           : River, Once

            Nissim Ezekiel               : Poet, Lover and Bird Watcher

Unit IV DRAMA

            Mahesh Dattani           : Tara

Unit V FICTION

            Khushwant Singh                          : Train to Pakistan

            Chitra Benerajee Divakaruni      : Sister of my Heart

References:

Singh, R.P and S.K Prasad.(eds)  Anthology Of Indian English Poetry. India: Orient  

          Blackswan, 1989.

Srinivasa Iyengar, K.R. Indian Writing in English. India: Sterling Publishers

            Pvt.Ltd,1971.

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SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : II                                                                   No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week

Paper              : Elective Subject – Paper X(a)                                No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper :   Computer For Effective Communication

Objectives:

·         This  course focuses  on how  to  use computer literacy for  Interpersonal,  Mass

line and Mass communication

·         This course also aims to inculcate  the quality use of computer to improve their

knowledge and express themselves effectively.

Unit I

            Introduction to Computers  - Characteristics of Computers- Computer Generations -Types of Computers - Basic Computer Organization -Windows Operating System.

Unit II

           Microsoft  Word:-  Editing  a  Document  -   Formatting  the  Text  -   Formatting  a Paragraph -  Bulleting and Numbering List - Checking Spelling and Grammatical Errors – Table  -  Mail  Merge Microsoft  Excel:  - Formulas  and  Data  Formatting - Creating Excel Functions, Filling Cells and Printing – Charts.

Unit III

Microsoft   PowerPoint:  Creating  PowerPoint  Presentation  -  Object  and  Slide Animations - Printing the PowerPoint presentation

Unit IV

What is  internet? - Internet  services –WWW  - Search Engines - Types  of Search Engines- Investigating search engines & Directories- Search Results.

Unit V

Basic  Components  of  Web  Site- Domain  Name- services-  Blog-  How to  create  a Blog? - Book Blogging Basics – Cyberspace.

Reference Books:

1.  “Learning Computers & Microsoft Office Suite”, S.Pradeep Kumar Kenny,     KK Publications, 2012.

2.  “Web Site Basics”, SSRG Solutions, Kindle Editions, 2013.

3.  “How to Blog a Book”, Nina Amir, Writers Digest.

                       

SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE

(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC)  

SATTUR – 626 203.

Department of   English

(Those who joined in 2016-2017 and after)

SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A English                                                              Subject Code               :

Semester         :  II                                                                              No. of Hours allotted  : 6/ Week

Paper              : Elective Paper-X(b)                                                  No. of Credits             :

Title of the Paper:  Fundamentals of Information Technology

Objectives:

·         To know the basic concepts  of Information Technology

·         To know the Basic concepts of Computer System

·         To know the Concept of Multimedia and Information Technology in Buisness.

UNIT-I:

Information Technology Today : Information Technology - An Introduction- Information Systems - Software and Data - IT in Business and Industry - IT in Home and at Play - IT in Education and Training - IT in Entertainment and the Arts - IT in Science, Engineering and Math - Computers in Hiding - Picture Essay:The Global Positioning System(GPS).

UNIT-II:

The Computer System : Types of Computers: Corporate and Departmental Computers - Types of Computers: Desktop and Personal Computers - The Anatomy of a Computer - The Foundations of Modern Information Technology: Binary Numbers -0s and 1s  - The Foundations of Modern Information Techonology: Digital Signals - The Foundations of Modern Information Technology: Bits and Bytes - The Binary Code.Software-An Introduction - Software: What is it? - User Interfaces - Application Programs.

UNIT-III:

Multimedia: Multimedia: Introduction - The Tools of Multimedia: Paint and Draw Applications - The Tools of Multimedia: Graphic Effects and Techniques - The Tools of Multimedia: Sounds and Music - The Tools of Multimedia:Video - The Tools of Multimedia: Multimedia Authoring Tools - Delivering Multimedia: Presentation Devices - Multimedia on the web: Sound and Motion - - Multimedia on the web:Video and Television .

UNIT-IV:

         Information Technology in Business : Corporate Computing :Introduction - Transaction Processing - Information Tools for Management Control - Marketing, Advertising, and Sales - Design,Production and Manufacturing - Business on the Internet - Life Outside the Office - Careers - Keeping Up-to-Date.

UNIT-V:

            Personal, Social and Ethical Issues : Computers and your Health - Computers and Ethics Viruses - Intellectual Property Rights - Computer Crime - Cryptography - The Burning issues.

Text Book:

Title of the Book                 : Information Technology (The Breaking Wave)

Name(s) of the author         : Dennis P.Curtin,Kim Foley,Kunal Sen.Cathleen Morin

Publisher                             : Tata McGraw-Hill Edition

Edition / Year                      : 1999.

Unit I                     :           Chapter 2

Unit II                   :           Chapters 3 (3.1 – 3.6), Chapter 6  (6.1 -6.3)

Unit III                   :           Chapter 10(10.1 -10.10)   

Unit IV                  :           Chapter 11(11.1 - 11.10)

Unit V                    :           Chapter  13(13.1 - 13.7)

Reference Book(s):

Reference Book-1:

Title of the Book                     : Introduction to Information  Technology 

Name(s) of the author              : Turban,Rainer,Potter

Publisher                                  : Wiley

Edition / Year                          : 2000.

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SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : III                                                                 No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week

Paper              : Core Subject – Paper XI                No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: BRITISH LITERATURE IV

Objectives: To introduce students to 20^th century English literature.

Unit I – PROSE

            Bertrand Russell                   :  i) Education and Discipline

                                                               ii) Philosophy for Layman

                                                              iii)  Good and Bad

                                                              iv)  A New Approach to Peace

Unit II – POETRY- I

            T.S. Eliot                               : Hallow Men

            W.B Yeats                             : Easter 1916

           W.H. Auden                          : The Unknown Citizen

Unit III – POETRY- II

Philip Larkin                      : Church Going

            Tom Gunn                           : On the Move

            Sylvia Plath                         : Daddy

 Unit IV– DRAMA

G.B.Shaw                            : Arms and the Man

Unit  V– FICTION

D.H.Lawrence                    : Sons and Lovers

            Graham Greene                : The Power and the Glory

References:

            Russell, Bertrand. Wit and Wisdom .London: The Beacon Press, 1951.

           

Green, David. The Winged Word. India: Macmillan publisher, 1974.

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SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : III                                                                 No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week

Paper              : Core Subject – Paper XIII                         No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE

Objective:

·         To make students familiar with postcolonial literatures

·         Introduction to postcolonial literature

Unit I: Prose

           

            Ngugi  Wa Thiongo                : From Decolonizing the Mind

            Shashi Despande                   : Writing from the Margins

Unit II:Poetry

            Derek Walcott             : A far Cry from Africa

            Wole Soyinka                          : Telephone Conversation

            A.D. Hope                              : Australia

            P.K page                                 : Adolescence

            Sujatha Butt                          : A Different History

Unit III: Drama

           

Manjula Padmanabhan            : Harvest

Unit IV: Novel-I

            Chinua Achebe                     : No Longer at Ease

Unit V :

            Amitav Ghosh                      : Shadow Lines

References:

Thieme (ed).  The Arnold Anthology of Postcolonial Literature in English  London: Macmillan,

2000.

Narasimhaiah, C. D. (ed). An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry. Chennai: Macmillan India

Prese,1990.

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SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : III                                                                 No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week

Paper              : Core Subject – Paper XII                          No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper: GENDER AND LITERATURE

Objective:

·         To make students understand the relationship between literature and gender

Unit I: Prose I

            Virginia Woolf                        : A Room of One’s Own

Unit II: Poetry

Judith Wright                          : Woman to Man

            Kamala Das                             : Dance of the Eunuchs

            Mary Gilmore                          : Eve Song

            Margaret Atwood                   : This is a Photograph of Me

            Elizabeth Barrett Browning    : The Mask

Unit III: Drama

            Usha Ganguly                          : Rudali

Unit IV: Novel

            Alice Walker               : The Color Purple

            Jhumpa Lahiri             : The Namesake

Unit V: Short Stroies

             Bharati Mukherjee         : The Middle Man and Other Stories

References:

Narasimhaiah, C. D (ed).  An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry. Chennai: Macmillan India

            Prese,1990.

Rice, Philip and Patrick Waugh (ed). Modern literary Theory: A Reader (IV^thEdition).New York:

            OUP, 1989.

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SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : III                                                                 No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week

Paper              : Core Subject – Paper XIV                         No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: AMERICAN LITERATURE

Objective:

·         To make Students familiar with American Literature and its History.

Unit I:

            History of American Literature with special reference to Thoreau, Emerson, Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Arthur Miller. Hermen Melville, Ernest Hemingway.

Unit II: Prose

            Ralph Waldo Emerson                        : The American Scholar          

Unit III: Poetry

           

            Edgar Allen Poe                                  : The Raven

            Walt Whitman                                     : Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

            Robert Frost                                        : Mending Wall

Unit IV: Drama

            Arthur Miller                                       : Death of a Salesman

Unit V: Novel

            Hermen Melville                                 : Moby Dick

            Ernest Hemingway                             : The Old Man and the Sea

References:

Fisher, William J.  et al(eds). American Literature of the Nineteenth Century: An     Anthology.       New Delhi: Eurasia, 1970.

Dr. Oliver, Egbert S. (ed.).  American Literature 1890-1965: An Anthology. New   Delhi: Eurasia, 1970.

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Department of English

(For those are joining in 2016-17)

SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : III                                                                 No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week

Paper              : Elective Subject – Paper XV (a)                No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Objective:

     To enable the students learn the mechanics, formats, documentation of writing a research paper.

Unit I:

                        Research and Writing

1.  Research as a Form of Exploration

2.  Selecting a Topic

3.  Conducting Research

4.  Compiling Bibliography

5.  Language and Style

Unit II: 

                        The Mechanics of Writing

1.  Spelling

2.  Punctuation

3.  Italics

4.  Quotation

5.  Titles of the Works in the Research Paper

Unit III:

Plagiarism

1.  Definition of Plagiarism

2.  Forms of Plagiarism

3. Related Issues in Plagiarism

Unit IV:  

            The Format of the Research Paper

1.  Printing and Typing

2.  Margins

3.  Spacing

4.  Heading – Title

5.  Page Number

6.  Correction and Insertion

7.  Electronic Submission

Unit V:

            Documentation: Citing Sources in the Text

            1.  Parenthetical Documentation and the list of Works cited

            2.  Readability

            3.  Sample Reference

            4.  Using Notes with Parenthetical Documentation

Reference Book:

Gibaldi, Joseph.MLA Hand Book for Writers of Research Paper. (Book VII). New Delhi; Affiliated East-West Press Pvt. Ltd., 2004.

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SATTUR – 626 203.

Department of English

(Those who joined in 2016-2017 and after)

SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A English                                          Subject Code                       :

Semester         :  III                                                  No.of Hours allotted                 : 6/ Week

Paper              : Elective Paper-XV(b)                                       No.of Credits                      : 4

Title of the Paper: Introduction to Journalism

Objectives:

ØTo enable the students learn history of Journalism

ØTo know the ethics of Journalism

Unit - I

            Principles of Journalism

            Functions of the journalistic medium as a part of mass communication.

Unit- II

            Government and the Press

Press Laws (Simples ones) like defamation , libel, contempt of court; copyright law , Working Journalistic Act, and Press Registration Act.

Unit- III

Reporting, news value, human interest, story angle.

Unit- IV

            Writing features ,opinion - editorials, personal columns, reviews etc.

Unit - V

Editing-duties, functions, rights of the editor, editing marks, headlines, telegrams, make-up of front page and other pages, advertisements, display.

Reference Books.

Shulka, A.S. Journalism Today Concepts and Practices, New Delhi: Rajat Publications, 2010.

Choudhary.R. Journalism Ethics,. New Delhi: Centrum Press,  2010.

 Pandey, Pramod. Modern Journalism at a Glance,. Jaipur: Sublime Publications,2011.

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SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : IV                                                                 No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week

Paper              : Core Subject – Paper XVI                         No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper: World Classics in Translation

Objective:

·         To introduce students to some world classics

Unit I

            Aristophanes        :    The Frogs

Unit II

 Virgil                   :     The Aeneid

Unit III

            Tolstoy                  :    Anna Karenina

Unit IV

            Kafka                   :    The Castle

Unit V

            Thomas Mann     :   Death in Venice

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SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : IV                                                                 No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week

Paper              : Core Subject – Paper XVII                       No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Objectives:

·         To expose the students to the comparative study of literatures.

·         To acquaint them with the concept of schools of comparative literature and inculcate the idea of oneness of literature and the view that literature is one as atr and humanity are one.

Unit –I

            Definition and History of Comparative literature

Unit-II

            Schools of Comparative Literature

American, French, Russian, Indian Schools

Unit-III

            Thematology: Themes, Motifs, Genre Study

Unit-IV

            Literature and Society, Literature and Philosophy, Literature and Psychology

            Literature and other arts

Unit-V

            Comparative Literature and Postcolonial World

References:

Bassnett, Sussan. Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction. London: Macmillan Press,

            1988.

Subramanian. Introduction to the study of Comparative Literature Theory & Practice. Madurai:

TEESI publications, 2000.

SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE

(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)

SATTUR-626 203

Department of English

(For those are joining in 2016-17)

SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : IV                                                                 No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week

Paper              : Core Subject – Paper XVIII                      No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper: LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY

Objectives:

·         To expose the students to literary concepts and theories and their application to literary pieces.

Unit-I

            M.H Abrams                           :                 Orientation of Critical Theories               

                         T.S Eliot                                             :                  The Function of Criticism

Unit-II

                        John Crowe Ransom                :                  Criticism

Rene Wellek                             :                  Literary Theory, Criticism and History

Unit – III

                         L.C. Knights                          :               Restoration comedy: The Reality and The                                                                                          Myth

 George Orwell                       :               Politics and the English Language

Unit IV

                        C.G Jung                                 :             Psychology and Literature

                        Northrop Frye                         :            The Archetype of literature

Unit V

                        Sigmund Freud                       :         Creative Writing and day-dreaming

                        Lionel Trilling                         :           Freud and literature

Reference:

            Lodge, David.(ed) 20^th century Literature Criticism.London:Longman,1972.

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Department of English

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SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester         : IV                                                                 No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week

Paper              : Elective Subject – Paper XIX (a)               No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

Objectives:

·         To teach the students various aspects of English Language Teaching Theories and Skills

Unit   I

1.      Problems and Principles of English Language Teaching

2.      The role of English in India as Second Language and Foreign Language

3.      Objectives of English teaching in India

Unit II

1.      The Theories of Language Learning and their relevance to English Language Teaching

2.      Learning Versus Acquisitions, Difference between First and Second language learning

3.      Attitudes to Errors in English

Unit  III

1.      Methods: Grammar- Translation Method, Direct Method and Dr. Michael West Method

2.      Approaches: Structural, Situational and  Functional Approaches

3.      Communicative Language Teaching: Class Room Interaction and Learner center Teaching

Unit IV

1.      Teaching of Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing – Macro Skills and Micro Skills

Unit V

1.      Teaching of Grammar, Prose, Poetry and Fiction

2.      Testing and Evaluation

Text(s)

           

            Tickoo, M. L. Teaching and Learning English. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2003.

           

            Vincent, S. The Teaching of English: Madurai, Soundra Publications, 2007.

References:

           Yardi, V. V. Teaching English in India Today. Goa: Parimal Prakashan  Publishers, 1977.

           West, Michael. Teaching English in Difficult Circumstances. London: Longman,1960.

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SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A English                                                            Subject Code     :

Semester         :  IV                                                             No.of Hours allotted           : 6/ Week

Paper              : Elective Paper-XIX (b)                                    No.of Credits          : 4

Title of the Paper: An Introduction to Linguistics

Objectives:

·         To introduce students  the principles of linguistics

·         To know the Basic concepts of Linguistics

Unit- I

The Origins of Language : The divine source; The natural sounds source; The oral gesture source, Physiological adaptation; speech and writing

Unit- II

The properties of language : communicative versus information, unique properties, displacement, arbitrariness, productivity, cultural transmission, discreteness, duality.

Unit- III

            Animals and human language.

Unit- IV

The sounds of language : phonetics, voiced and voice less sounds, places of articulation, charting consonant sounds, manner of articulation, vowels. 17

Unit- V

Language history and change : family trees, family relationships, cognates, comparative reconstructions, language change, Old English, Middle English, sound changes, lexical changes, the process of change.

Text :

George Yule, The Study of Language, Cambridge University Press, Chapters 1,3,4,5,

Frank Palmer, Grammar (ELBS and Penguin) D) Transcription Words and single sentences  

            Daniel Jones, English Pronunciation

SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE

(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC)  

SATTUR – 626 203.

Department of English

(Those who joined in 2016-2017 and after)

SYLLABUS

Programme    : M.A English                                          Subject Code                       :

Semester         :  IV                                                      No.of Hours allotted              : 6/ Week

Paper              : Core Subject – Paper XX                 No.of Credits                                   : 4

Title of the Paper: Project Work

Objective:

·         To evaluate the critical competence, logical reasoning and scholarly composition of the students at the end of the M.A. Programme.

                                PROJECT

·                  To be submitted on or before the last working day of the semester. It should not be less than 30 pages. It should be a critical perspective of an author or a work or an area of interest. It may also be a translation or about an aspect in linguistics.

Allotment of Marks

Internal                                 -40 Marks

                                 

Project Proposal                    -10 Marks

Proposal Presentation            -10 Marks

Progressive Report                -10 Marks

                                      Pre- Submission Presentation-10 marks

External                                -60 marks

Evaluation Method for Project:

	Max. Marks		Credits
	Internal	External
Project Evaluation	40	40
Viva Voce		20
Total	100		4

SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE

(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC)  

SATTUR – 626 203.

Department of Computer Science

(Those who joined in 2016-2017 and after)

SYLLABUS

Programme         : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :

Semester  : IV                                                                              No. of Credits           : 3

                                                 Extra Credit paper

Title of the Paper: Model Paper for NET/SET Examination

Objectives:

·         To create an awareness of the NET/SET  Examination

·         To make the students prepared for NET / SET  Examinations

Unit- I

     Renaissance to Restoration

  Unit- II

     Augustan Age to Romantic Age

Unit- III

     Victorian Age to Contemporary period

Unit- IV

     American and other non- British Literature

Unit- V

Contemporary Theory

Literary Criticism

Rhetoric and prosody