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English – Optional (Main Examination)
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The syllabus
consists of two papers, designed to test a first-hand and critical reading
of texts prescribed from the following periods in English Leterature :
Paper I : 1600-1900 and Paper II : 1900-1990.
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There will
be two compulsory questions in each paper : a) A short-notes question
related to the topics for general study, and b) A critical analysis of
UNSEEN passages both in prose and verse.
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Paper-I
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Answers must be written in English.
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Texts for
detailed study are listed below. Candidates will also be required to show
adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements :
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The
Renaissance : Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; Metaphysical Poetry; The
Epic and the Mock-epic; Neo-classicism; Satire; The Romantic Movement; The
Rise of the Novel; The Victorian Age.
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Section-A
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1.
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William
Shakespeare : King Lear and The Tempest.
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2.
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John Donne. The
following poems :
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- Canonization;
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- Death be not proud;
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- The Good Morrow;
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- On his Mistress going
to bed;
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- The Relic;
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3.
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John Milton :
Paradise
Lost, I, II, IV, IX
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4.
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Alexander Pope.
The
Rape of the Lock.
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5.
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William Wordsworth.
The following poems:
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- Ode on Intimations of Immortality.
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- Tintern Abbey.
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- Three years she grew.
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- She dwelt among
untrodden ways.
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- Michael.
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- Resolution and
Independence
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- The World is too much
with us.
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-
Milton
, thou shouldst be living at this hour.
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- Upon
Westminster
Bridge
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6.
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Alfred Tennyson :
In
Memoriam.
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7.
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Henrik Ibsen :
A
Doll’s House.
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Section-B
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1.
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Jonathan Swift.
Gulliver’s
Travels.
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2.
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Jane
Austen. Pride
and Prejudice.
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3.
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Henry Fielding.
Tom
Jones.
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4.
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Charles Dickens.
Hard
Times.
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5.
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George Eliot.
The
Mill on the Floss.
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6.
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Thomas Hardy.
Tess
of the d’Urbervilles.
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7.
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Mark Twain.
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Paper-II
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Answers must be written in English.
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Texts for
detailed study are listed below. Candidates will also be required to show
adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements :
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Modernism;
Poets of the Thirties; The stream-of-consciousness Novel; Absurd Drama;
Colonialism and Post-Colonialism; Indian Writing in English; Marxist,
Psychoanalytical and Feminist approaches to literature; Post-Modernism.
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Section-A
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1.
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William
Butler
Yeats. The following poems:
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- Easter 1916
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- The Second Coming
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- A Prayer for my daughter.
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- Sailing to
Byzantium
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- The Tower.
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- Among School Children.
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- Leda and the Swan.
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- Meru
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- Lapis Lazuli
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- The Second Coming
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-
Byzantium
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T.S. Eliot. The
following poems :
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- The Love Song of
J.Alfred Prufrock
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- Journey of the Magi.
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- Burnt Norton.
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W.H.
Auden.
The following poems :
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- Partition
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- Musee des Beaux Arts
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- in Memory of W.B. Yeats
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- Lay your sleeping head, my love
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- The Unknown Citizen
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- Consider
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- Mundus Et Infans
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- The Shield of Achilles
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- September 1, 1939
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- Petition.
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4.
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John
Osborne : Look Back in Anger.
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5.
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Samuel
Beckett. Waiting for Godot.
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Philip
Larkin. The following poems :
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- Next
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- Please
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- Deceptions
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- Afternoons
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- Days
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- Mr. Bleaney
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A.K.
Ramanujan. The following poems :
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- Looking for a Causim on a Swing
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- A River
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- Of Mothers, among other Things
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- Love Poem for a Wife 1
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-
Samll-Scale Reflections on a Great House
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- Obituary
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(All these
poems are available in the anthology Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets,
edited by R. Parthasarthy, published by Oxford University Press,
New Delhi
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Section-B
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1.
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Joseph Conrad.
Lord
Jim
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2.
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James Joyce.
Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man.
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3.
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D.H. Lawrence.
Sons
and Lovers.
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4.
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E.M. Forster.
A
Passage to
India
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5.
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Virginia Woolf.
Mrs
Dalloway.
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6.
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Raja
Rao. Kanthapura.
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7.
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V.S.
Naipal. A
House for Mr. Biswas.
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