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It outlines dissertation and supervisor allotment procedures through the Board of Studies, and details compulsory and optional paper groupings for Semesters III and IV. The curriculum lists core subjects on English society, literature and thought by century, plus linguistics, phonetics, literary criticism readings, language teaching, gender, popular literature, theories, stylistics, discourse analysis, post-colonial works, translation and films, and literary options leading to viva-voce and dissertation.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":20,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/exam/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/lucknow-university-ma-syllabus-english-ma-english/301142/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/lucknow-university-ma-syllabus-english-ma-english/301142.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Asher","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-11-05","2026-09-19",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":56},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"How many semesters and papers are required in the M.A. English programme?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"The programme runs for four semesters, with four papers in each semester. 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Allotment of Supervisors will also be done by Board of Studies.  \nSEMESTER I  \nPaper I : English Society, Literature & Thought  \n(Chaucer to 16th Century)  \nPaper II : English Society, Literature & Thought  \n( 17th & 18th Centuries)  \nPaper III : English Society, Literature and Thought  \n( 19th Century)  \nPaper IV : Introduction to Linguistics and Phonetics SEMESTER II  \nPaper V : English Society, Literature and Thought  \n(20th Century)  \nPaper VI : Readings in Literary Criticism  \nPaper VII : English Language Teaching  \nPaper VIII : Literature and Gender  \nSEMESTER III  \nNote: Students will have to offer 4 papers in all one from each of the following groups:  \nOptional Papers will be functional only when minimum five students offer that paper.  \nGroup A  \nPaper IX(A) : American Literature  \nPaper IX(B) : New Literatures in English  \nGroup B  \nPaper X(A) : Forms of Popular Literature  \nPaper X(B) : Indian Literature in English  \nGroup C  \nPaper XI(A) : Contemporary Literary Theories  \nPaper XI(B) : Stylistics and Discourse Analysis  \nGroup D  \nPaper XII(A) : Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature  \nPaper XII(B) : 4 Term papers : (Three on each paper offered by the student and one of his/her choice under the supervision of the teacher responsible for teaching that particular paper. Each term paper should be approx 5000-7000 words. Topics for the term papers (both the University & all the colleges who run Post Graduate in English) will be decided by the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow.  \nSEMESTER IV  \nNote: Students will have to offer 3 papers in all one from each of the following groups:  \nOptional Papers will be functional only when minimum five students offer that paper.  \nPaper XIII : Viva-Voce (Compulsory)  \nGroup A  \nPaper XIV(A) : African and Caribbean Literature  \nPaper XIV(B) : Canadian Literature  \nPaper XIV(C) : Comparative Literature  \nGroup B  \nPaper XV(A) : Translation: Theory and Practice  \nPaper XV(B) : Literature and Films  \nPaper XV(C) : Indian Literature in Translation  \nGroup C  \nPaper XVI (A) : Australian Literature  \nPaper XVI (B) : SAARC Literature in English  \nPaper XVI(C) : Dissertation  \nTopics for the Dissertations of both the University & all the colleges who run Post Graduate in English will have to be approved by the Board of Studies in the beginning of the IV Semester. Allotment of Supervisors will also be done by Board of Studies.  \nSEMESTER I  \nPaper I : English Society, Literature & Thought  \n(Chaucer to 16th Century)  \nUnit I : (a) Social and Intellectual Background  \n(b) Prose:  \nThomas More : Excerpts from Utopia   \n Francis Bacon : ‘Of Ambition’*   \n ‘Of Revenge’*   \n ‘Of Travel ’*   \nUnit II : Poetry   \n Geoffrey Chaucer : The General Prologue To   \n The Canterbury Tales*   \n Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene (Book I)   \n Philip Sidney : Astrophel and Stella   \nUnit III : Drama: Elizabethan   \n Thomas Kyd : The Spanish Tragedy   \n Christopher Marlowe : Doctor Faustus*   \n Thomas Dekker : The Shoemaker’s Holiday   \n Ben Jonson : The Alchemist*   \nUnit IV : Drama: William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew   \n Hamlet*   \n The Tempest*  \nStructure of the Question paper (End of Term Examination)= 70 marks  \n1. There will be four passages for explanation from the starred texts of three marks each 4x3= 12 marks  \n2. There will be six short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of three marks each 6x3= 18 marks  \n3. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices often marks each.  \n10x4= 40 marks  \nInternal ","cbCaioEttEOT15sb","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioEttEOT15sb","pdf",347437,27,"English","# Mode of Evaluation\n# Semester I\n## Paper I: Chaucer to 16th Century\n## Paper II: 17th & 18th Centuries\n## Paper III: 19th Century\n## Paper IV: Introduction to Linguistics and Phonetics\n# Semester II\n## Paper V: 20th Century\n## Paper VI: Readings in Literary Criticism\n## Paper VII: English Language Teaching\n## Paper VIII: Literature and Gender\n# Semester III\n## Group A and Optional Papers\n## Group B and Optional Papers\n## Group C and Optional Papers\n# Semester IV\n## Viva-Voce (Compulsory)\n## Group A, B, and C Optional Papers\n## Dissertation","[{\"question\":\"How many semesters and papers are required in the M.A. English programme?\",\"answer\":\"The programme runs for four semesters, with four papers in each semester. 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