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Appreciation of poetry, prose and drama passages.\u003Cbr>ESSAY AND SHORT STORY\u003Cbr>Bacon : ‘Of Friendship’ \u003Cbr>Lamb : ‘The Praise of Chimney Sweepers’\u003Cbr>Benson : ‘The Art of the Essayist’ \u003Cbr>Bernard Malamud : ‘The First Seven Years’\u003Cbr>Ruskin Bond : ‘The Night Train at Deoli’\u003Cbr>ELIZABETHAN POETRY\u003Cbr>Shakespeare : ‘Shall I compare thee….’ ‘When in the chronicles of Wasted time’ \u003Cbr>Milton : ‘On the late Massacre in Piedmount’ ‘Lycidas’\u003Cbr>Gray : ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ \u003Cbr>Blake : ‘The Tyger’ \u003Cbr>Burns : ‘O my Luve’s like a red, red rose’ \u003Cbr>ROMANTIC POETRY\u003Cbr>Wordsworth : ‘The World is too much with us’   ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’ \u003Cbr>Coleridge : ‘Kubla Khan’\u003Cbr>Byron :‘All for love’\u003Cbr>‘On the Castle of Chillon’Shelley : ‘Ode to the West Wind’\u003Cbr>Keats : ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’: ‘Ode to Autumn’\u003Cbr>LITERARY MOVEMENTS\u003Cbr>Renaissance, Augustan  Romantic, Victorian  Modern, Post Modern \u003Cbr>NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL\u003Cbr>A brief history and representative features of 19th Century British Novel  Sense and Sensibility \u003Cbr>The Return of the Native |\n\n|  | VICTORIAN AND MODERN POETRY\u003Cbr>Tennyson : ‘Ulysses’ \u003Cbr>Browning : ‘My Last Duchess’ \u003Cbr>Arnold : ‘Thyrsis’ ‘Dover Beach’ \u003Cbr>Yeats :‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’  ‘Among School Children’ Auden : ‘Seascape’ \u003Cbr>‘The Shield of Achilles’ \u003Cbr>Eliot: ‘Landscapes-New Hampshire’‘Journey of the Magi’ \u003Cbr>SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA\u003Cbr>Macbeth \u003Cbr>As You Like It \u003Cbr>POST-SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA\u003Cbr>She Stoops to Conquer  Look Back in Anger  Arms and the Man  All My Sons\u003Cbr>APPROACHES TO LITERATURE |\n| --- | --- |\n| | Biographical, Historical and Formalist Approaches to Literature  Concepts\u003Cbr>Practice texts \u003Cbr>Excerpts from Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley Excerpts from Delhi by Khushwant Singh Understanding Elizabeth Bishop through ‘One Art ’Mythological and Archetypal Approaches to Literature Concepts.\u003Cbr>Excerpts from The Golden Bough by Frazer \u003Cbr>Excerpts from Haroun and Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie Psychological, Sociological and Gender Criticism Approaches to Literature Concepts\u003Cbr>Excerpts from Death of Salesman by Arthur Miller\u003Cbr>The Great Gatsby by F. Scott. Fitzgerald‘To be or not to be’, Hamlets’ Soliloquy |\n|  | INDIAN AND AFRICAN NOVEL |\n|  | Representative Features of Indian and African Novel in English  The Voice\u003Cbr>Kanthapura |\n|  | TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH AND AMERICAN NOVEL\u003Cbr>Representative Features of Twentieth Century British and American Novel  A Passage to India \u003Cbr>A Farewell to Arms \u003Cbr>History of English Studies\u003Cbr>OLD ENGLISH  History\u003Cbr>Excerpts from Beowulf MIDDLE ENGLISH  History \u003Cbr>Excerpts from Piers Plowman by William Langland and Everyman  MODERN ENGLISH (Upto 17th Century and Early 18th Century) \u003Cbr>A: History \u003Cbr>B: Excerpts from Hamlet by William Shakespeare  |\n\n| | C. Excerpts:\u003Cbr>Donne: ‘The Sun Rising’ \u003Cbr>Milton: ‘On His Blindness’ \u003Cbr>Addison and Steele: ‘A Silent Man's Advantages in Society’ (Excerpts) \u003Cbr>Swift: Gulliver's Travels \u003Cbr>Defoe: Robinson Crusoe \u003Cbr>MODERN ENGLISH (Upto 19th Century) \u003Cbr>A: History: (18th & 19th Century) \u003Cbr>b. Excerpts: \u003Cbr>Pope: ‘Rape of The Lock’ ","cbCaiq4V71oziTHT","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiq4V71oziTHT","pdf",181423,"English","# Department of English\n## Introduction to the study and appreciation of literature\n## Essay and short story\n## Elizabethan poetry\n## Romantic poetry\n## Literary movements\n## Nineteenth century British novel\n## Victorian and modern poetry\n## Shakespearean drama\n## Post-Shakespearean drama\n## Approaches to literature\n## Indian and African novel\n## Twentieth century British and American novel\n## History of English studies\n## Old English\n## Middle English\n## Modern English (up to 17th century and early 18th century)\n## Modern English (up to 19th century)\n## Modern English (20th century)\n## World Englishes\n## English studies in translation\n## Introduction to critical theory\n## Studies: Approaches to culture and cultural studies\n## Dialogic criticism: Polyphony, Dialogism, Heteroglossia, Carnivalesque","[{\"question\":\"What topics are covered under the introduction to literature in this syllabus?\",\"answer\":\"It covers the definition, function, and scope of language and literature, the social roots of literature, and key concepts in figurative language such as simile, metaphor, allusion, personification, pun, and more.\"},{\"question\":\"Which literary forms are included in the course overview?\",\"answer\":\"The syllabus outlines major forms of poetry, prose, and drama, including lyric, sonnet, ode, elegy, epic, satire, ballad, dramatic monologue, along with major prose forms like essay and biography, and drama components like tragedy and comedy.\"},{\"question\":\"What critical approaches and theory areas are included?\",\"answer\":\"It includes biographical, historical, and formalist approaches; psychological, sociological, and gender criticism; mythological and archetypal approaches; and core critical theory areas such as reader-response, Marxist criticism, postcolonial theory, and dialogic criticism.\"}]","M.A. (English) - Syllabus for MA (English) - Introduction to the Study and Appreciation of Literature | PDF",1789770667]