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Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead/ Beckett: Waiting for Godot.
Beckett: The Expelled (short fiction)

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INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE- 11

UNIT-I
Robert Burns: Selection
Keats: Selected Poems :

UNIT-II
Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Kunal Basu: The Miniaturist

UNIT-III
Sarojini Naidu: Selections
A K Ramanujan: Selections
Dom Moraes: Selected Poems
Hoshang Merchant: Selected Poems

UNIT-IV
Albert Camus: The Plague
Rushdie: Midnight’s Children

SEMESTER-III

ENGL 901C(PROJECT) CREDITS 4 CONTACTHRS 48

Literatures in English: Special Author Project

ENGL-902C CREDITS 4 CONTACT HRS 48

LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY-I

UNIT-I
Indian Aesthetics: Notions of Rasa and Dhvani: Selections from Bharata'sTheNatyashastra
Selections from Abhinavagupta'sAbhinavabharati, and Anandavardhan’sDhanyalok

UNIT-II (Formalism, Structuralism, New Criticism):

Viktor Shklovsky: “Art as Technique”
Cleanth Brooks: The Language of Paradox
Bakhtin: Selections from The Dialogic Imagination

UNIT III(Post-Structuralism):
Foucault:“The Order of Discourse”
Derrida: “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences”

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Roland Barthes: “The Death of the Author”, Selections from Mythologies

UNIT-IV (Psychoanalytic Readings and Postmodernism):

Freud: “The Uncanny”
Lacan: “The Mirror Phase” Essay
Lyotard: “The Postmodern Condition”

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INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH IN ENGLISH STUDIES

UNIT I: Introduction to Research in English Studies, Primary and Secondary Sources, Literature
Survey,Formulation of Research Design, Research Problems, Hypothesis

UNIT II – Research Methods, Methodology, Skills, Research Ethics, Style Sheets – MLA et al

UNIT III – Assignment (3000 words)

UNIT IV – Book Review (500 – 1000 words)

(30 marks would be reserved for Internal /Viva Voce Examinations based on units I & II)

SEMESTER-IV

ENGL-1002C CREDITS 4 CONTACT HRS 48

LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY-II

UNIT-I (FEMINIST CRITICISM AND QUEER THEORY):

Kate Millet: Sexual Politics
Judith Butler: Gender Trouble/Bodies That Matter

UNIT-II (MARXIST CRITICISM);

Basic Concepts: Base and Superstructure, Ideology, Hegemony, Reification, Interpellation, Culture
Readings: Raymond Williams and his notion of “Literature” from Marxism and Literature;
Terry Eagleton, Geog Lukacs

UNIT-III (Cultural Studies):

Stuart Hall: Selections
Paul Gilory: Selections

UNIT-IV (Postcolonialism):
Edward Said: Selections fromOrientalism
HomiBhabha: Signs Taken for Wonders
Aijaz Ahmad: In Theory

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From the Postmodern Era to the New Millennium-Select Author Project

The candidates may choose a Project on any Author/Authors/ Text/s from the Era
Specimen Reading:
a) Doris Lessing: The Grass is Singing
b) Salman Rushdie: Shame
c) John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman
d) Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
e) Coetzee: Waiting for the Barbarians

Selected Prose Writings:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Nobel Lecture
Amitava Ghosh: “The Diaspora in Indian Literature” from The Imam and the Indian
Salman Rushdie: Selections from Imaginary Homelands
V.S. Naipaul: Selections from An Area of Darkness

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INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE-III

UNIT I: Spivak: Can the Subaltern Speak?/ Louis Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus

UNIT II – Introduction to Visual Culture Studies: Selections from Mirzoeff, Holly, and Bal/ John Berger: Ways of
Seeing (Selections)

UNIT III – Temsula Aao: Selected Poems/ Mamang Dai: Select Poems/ Robin Ngangom: Selected Poems

UNIT IV –Naguib Mahfouz: Arabian Nights and Days

30 marks would be reserved for Internal Viva Voce Examinations based on all the above units

OPEN ELECTIVE COURSES

Elective Courses have been distributed across Semester III and IV to be offered by respective mentors to
students within and outside the department.

SEMESTER-III

EN 903E: LINGUISTICS I CONTACT HOURS 48 CREDITS: 4

Group A (Phonetics):
1. Organs of Speech
2. Air Stream Mechanism
3. Consonants
4. Vowels
5. Suprasegmentals : Stress and rhythm
6. Syllables
7. Tone and intonation

Group B (Phonology):
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8. Sound Variation
9. Sound Change
10. Phonemes, syllables and phonological processes
11. Child phonology
12. Processing sound
13. Prosodic Phonology

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(MODERN ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND USAGE)

Group – A
1. The English Language
2. The Scope and Nature of Grammar
3. An Outline of Grammar: The Grammatical Hierarchy; above the sentence and below the word; simple,
4. compound, and complex sentences; declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences;
interrogative
5. sentences; tag questions; impetrative sentences; exclamatory sentences; statements, questions, directives,
6. exclamations; speech acts;
7. 4. Positive and negative sentences; active and passive sentences; the basic sentence structures;
8. subject and verb; subject; direct object; indirect object; subject predicative; object predicative;
complements and
9. adverbials;
10. Semantic role; rearranging the basic structures; ellipsis; phrase types and word classes; verb; nouns and
pronouns;
11. adjectives and adverbs; co-ordination and apposition
12. Word Classes: Open and closed classes; criteria for word classes; characteristics of nouns; proper
13. nouns; count and non-count nouns; regular plurals; irregular plurals; non-standard plurals; gender; case;
genitive
14. and of -phrase; meanings of genitive and of-phrase;
15. Characteristics of verbs; form-types of verbs; the -s form; the -ingparticiple; the -edform in irregular
verbs;
16. irregular verbs; non-standard verb forms: present tense; non-standard verb forms: past tense and --ed
participles;
17. characteristics of adjectives; attributive and predicative adjectives; nominal adjectives; gradability and
comparison;
18. adjectives and unmarked term
Group – B
19. Characteristics of adverbs; adverb and adverbials; adverbs and complements; characteristics of
determiners and
20. pronouns; definite and indefinite articles; forms of personal, possessive, and reflexive pronouns; person,
number,
21. gender, case; generic pronouns;
22. Substitute pronoun one; it; Existential there; Primary reflexive pronouns; Emphatic reflexive pronouns;
reciprocal
23. pronouns;
24. Wh-pronouns and determiners; Indefinite pronouns and determiners; demonstratives
25. The five types; The structure of noun phrase; Functions of noun phrases; Determiners; Premodifiers of
nouns; Post

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26. modifiers of nouns; Extraposedpostmodifiers; Restrictive and non-restrictive modifiers; Restrictive and
non-restrictive
27. relative clauses; Sentential relative clauses; Appositives; The co-ordination of noun phrases;
28. The structure of verb phrase; Operators; Finite and non-finite verb phrases; Tense and aspect; Simple
present and
29. simple past; Secondary uses of the simple tenses; Future time; Modal auxiliaries; Present subjunctive;
Past subjunctive;
30. Present perfect; Past perfect; Modal perfect; Perfect in non-finite phrases; Progressive; Progressive in
non-finite
31. phrases; Auxiliary-like verbs; Phrasal and prepositional verbs; Phrasal verbs; Prepositional verbs;
Phrasal-prepositional
32. verbs; Other multi word verbs;
33. The structure of adjective phrase; Functions of adjective phrases; Premodifiers of adjectives; Post
modifiers of
34. adjectives; The structure of the adverb phrase; Functions of adverb phrases; Premodifiers of adverbs; Post
modifiers of
35. adverbs; The structure of the prepositional phrase; Functions prepositional phrases; Premodifiers of
prepositions and
36. prepositional phrases
37. Complete and incomplete sentences; co-ordination of clauses; subordination of clauses; the interplay of
coordination
38. and subordination; parataxis and hypotaxis; sentences and clause clusters; Meaning relationships in
coordination
39. and subordination; signals in co-ordination; signals in subordination;
40. Forms of subordinate clauses; Functions of subordinate clauses; Nominal clauses; Forms of adverbial
clauses;
41. Meanings of adverbial clauses; Comparative clauses; Complementation of verbs, adjectives, and nouns

EN 905E CREDIT 4 CONTACT HOURS 48

(TRANSLATION STUDIES I)
The aim of this course is to introduce the students to the theory and practice of translation. The
students are expected to acquire knowledge on various issues involving translation.
UNIT I (Theory):
Discussion on the following and related issues by referring to the texts mentioned below:
Translation, translation studies, translation theory: introduction
Translation: Nature and types

UNIT II (Discussion on the following and related issues by referring to the texts mentioned below):
Translation and transcreation
Translation: approaches: Linguistic (Eugene Nida, Jakobson) , CulturalTranslation: historical overview.

UNIT III (Discussion on the following and related issues by referring to the texts mentioned below):
Cultural and ideological issues in translation
Notions of translatability, equivalence and problems involving equivalence.

UNIT IV (Study and practice):

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The second part of the course will consist of the study of translations in relation to the
original. For this purpose, works translated from the student‟s mother tongue, or from other
languages known to him/her, will be studied alongside the originals.

Textbooks
Munday, Jeremy Introducing Translation Studies:theories and applications (Routledge, London,2001).
Bassnett, Susan Translation Studies (Routledge, London, 2002).
Venuti, Lawrence, ed. The Translation Studies Reader (Routledge, London and New York,2000).

Reference books
Baker, Mona (ed.) Critical Readings in Translation Studies ( London/New York: Routledge,
London/New York, 2010).

Bassnett, S. & A. Lefevre (eds.) Translation, History and Culture (Princeton UP, 1990).

EN 906E CREDIT 4 CONTACT HOURS 48

(POPULAR CULTURE AND LITERATURE –I)
Course content may be modified by the faculty offering the course from time to time.

UNIT I (Background and Theory/Canonicity):

John Storey: What is Popular Culture? (Selections)
Julie Rivkin and Michel Ryan: “The Politics of Culture”
Pierre Bourdieu: Selections from “Distinction”
Ray Browne: Against Academia: The History of the Popular Culture Association (1989)

UNIT II (Background and Theory Cont‟d):

Max Horkeimer and Theodor Adorno: The Culture Industry as Mass Deception
Janice Radway: Reading the Romance
John G. Cawelti: The Concept of Formula in the Study of Popular Fiction (from Journal of Popular Culture. Vol
3, 1969)
UNIT III( Television):
John Fiske: Television Culture
(Students may be asked to analyse soap operas and Relaity shows of their choice in the light of Fiske‟s
observations).

UNIT IV (Visual Culture – Theory):

John Berger: Ways of Seeing(Selections)
Laura Mulvey: Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (Selections)
Umbero Eco: Travels in Hyperreality

For Internal Assessment, a project on any One of the following may be assigned:
A Study of Popular Culture as reflected in Advertisements
A Study of Popular Culture as reflected in Women‟s Magazines/ Glossies or Youth Magazines
A Study of the Image of the „nation‟/woman/gender in popular culture as reflected in Soaps/ TV shows/
advertisements
Or
Any other relevant topic as felt necessary by the concerned teacher.
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GENDER IN LITERATURE I: (Components may be modified from time to time by the mentor offering
the course)

UNIT I (Patriarchy and Discourse, Masculinity, Femininity and Gender Stereotypes in Literature and
Cultural Practice):
Key Texts: 1. Kate Millet‟s Sexual Politics
2. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar: The Mad Woman in the Attic

UNIT II(Gender and Sexuality – Basic Concepts, “Being” and “Becoming” in the realm of Gender):
Key Texts: 1. Selections from Lacan‟s Seminars – notions of „Real‟, „Imaginary‟, „Symbolic‟, Phallogocentrism

UNIT III(Gender, Sexuality, Labour and the Politics of Desire):

Key Texts: 1. Angela Carter: Selections from Black Venus
2. IsmatChughtai: Lihaf or The Quilt

UNIT IV(Gender, Popular Culture, Media and „Gaze‟):

Key Texts: Naomi Wolf: The Beauty Myth

EN 908E CREDIT 4 CONTACT HOURS 48

(AMERICAN LITERATURE I)
Course content may be modified by the faculty offering the course from time to time.

UNIT I
Whitman :Song of Myself (Selections), When the Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, Passage to India.
Emerson :Rhodora, Each and All, Concord Hymn, The Problem, The Snowstorm, Ode Inscribed to W.H.
Channing, Hamatreya, Terminus
Frost :Mending Wall, West Running Brook.
SylviaPlath :Lady Lazarus, Daddy

UNIT II
Langston Hughes: Selected Poems
Gwendolen Brooks: Selected Poems

UNIT III
Melville :Moby Dick /
Faulkner:Light in August/ Mark Twain :The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/ Huckleberry Finn

UNIT IV
Steinbeck :The Grapes of Wrath/Hemingway : A Farewell to Arms or The Old Man and the Sea/ Alice Walker :
The Color Purple.

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NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH I

UNIT I(Poetry :African Literature):

1. Gabriel Okara: Selected Poems
Once Upon a Time, Piano and Drums, You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed,The Call of the River Nun
2. Wole Soyinka: Selected Poems
Idaure, Telephonic Conversation

UNIT II (Poetry: Caribbean Literature):

1. Kamau Brathwaite: Selected Poems
South, Calypso, Ogun, Ananse
2. Derek Walcott: Selected Poems
A Far Cry from Africa, North, The Fortune Traveller, Jean Rhys

UNIT III (Novels):

1. Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
2. Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea

UNIT IV (Drama):
1. Wole Soyinka:The Bacchae of Euripides
2.Derek Walcott Dream on the Monkey Mountain

EN 911E CREDIT 4 CONTACT HOURS 48

Creative Writing/Book Publishing and Editing
(details to be provided by the concerned teacher offeringthe course)

EN 912E CREDIT 4 CONTACT HOURS 48 Book

Review (details to be provided by the concerned teacher offering the course)

EN 913 E CREDIT 4 CONTACT HOURS 48

(Writings from the North East I)

UNIT-I (Essays):
1. “Introduction”, Dancing Earth
2. “Should Writers Stay in Prison” by EasterineIralu
3. “Introduction”, The Fragrant Joom Revisited
4. “Hard-edged Modernism: Contemporary Poetry in North-east India” by Kyanpham Sing Nongkynrih.

UNIT-II (Poetry):
1. ChandrakantaMurasingh/Shyamlal Debbarma/Shefali Debbarma: Select Poems
2. Nanda Kumar Debbarma/Prabhuda Sundar Kar/Asok Deb/Mridul Deb Roy: Select Poems
3. Memchoubi: “The Fire of Andro” and “O wind, do not sing sad songs” or, SaratchandThiyam “Sister” and
“Shroud”
4. NilamaniPhukan: “Dancing Earth”.

UNIT-III (Short Stories):

1. KeishamPriyokumar/YumlembamIbomcha: Select Short Stories

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2. Bhabendra Nath Saikia: Select Short Stories

3. Debabrata Deb: Select Short Stories

UNIT-IV (Folktales):

1. Chethuang (Tripuri Folktale)

2. Blood Thirsty Gods (Tripuri Folktale) or, SakhiDarlong
3. Manipuri Folktales
4. Naga Folktale
Suggested Readings:

1. Where the Sun Rises When Shadows Fall: The North-East. Geeti Sen (ed.), New Delhi: Oxford, 2006
2. The Oxford Anthology of Writings from the North-East India: Poetry and Essays. TilottamaMisra (ed.),
New Delhi: Oxford, 2011
3. Troubled Periphery: Crisis of India‟s North East. Subir Bhowmik, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2009
4. Emerging Literature from Northeast India: The Dynamics of Culture, Society, and Identity. Margaret Ch
Zama (ed.), New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2013

OPEN ELECTIVES TO BE OFFERED IN SEMESTER-IV

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(LINGUISTICS II)

Group A (Morphology):
1. Word classes
2. Building words
3. Morphology across languages
4. Word meaning
5. Children and words
6. Lexical processing and the mental lexicon
7. Lexical variation and change
8. Lexical disorder

Group B (Syntax):
9. Sentences: Basic terminology
10. Sentence structure
11. Empty categories
12. Movement
13. Syntactic variation
14. Logical Form
15. Children‟s sentences
16. Syntactic disorders

L. Bloomfield: Language (Holt, Reinhart) & Winston, NY, 1933)

J. Lyons: An Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics (CUP, 1968)
R. Quirk et al (ed.) A Grammar of Contemporary English (Longman, London, 1972)
N. Chomsky: Reflections on Language (Pantheon, NY, 1976)

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