M.A. English Material (External)

 The Renaissance Literature

Hamlet: William Shakespeare

Doctor Faustus: Christopher Marlowe 

Paradise Lost Book XI

The Metaphysical Poetry

1. About John Donne

• Death Be Not Proud

• Summary and Analysis of 'Death Be Not Proud'

• The Flea

• Summary and Analysis of 'The Flea'

• The Sun Rising

• Analysis of 'The Sun Rising'

• The Ecstasy

• Summary and Analysis of 'Ecstasy'

4. About George Herbert

• The Collar by George Herbert

• Summary and Analysis of 'The Collar'

5. About Andrew Marvell

• To His Coy Mistress

• Summary and Analysis of 'To his Coy Mistress'

The History of Renaissance Age

The Neo Classical Literature:

Gulliver's Travels: Swift

Robinson Crusoe: Defoe

Tom Jones: Fielding

The Antisentimental Comedy: Sheridan and Goldsmith

The history of the Age : Neo-Classical period

Literary theory and Criticism:

Poetics: Aristotle

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

Preface to the Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth

Biographia Literaria Ch 14: Coleridge 

A Glossary of Selected Literary terms

Indian Writing in English – Pre Independence: 

The Fakeer of Jungheera: Henry Derozio (1828)

Renaissance in India – Sri Aurobindo (1918)

Kanthapura – Raja Rao (1938)

The Purpose: T.P. Kailasam (1944) 

The Background Reading – KRS Iyengar’s Indian Writing in English 

The Romantic Literature:

Unit 1  John Keats (1810-1821)

Grecian Urn, 

Nightingale

Psyche

Autumn

Unit 2 Frankenstein: Mary Shelly (1818) 

Unit 3 Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen (1811)

Unit 4 Wordsworth and Coleridge: A study of Poets (1798-1850)

Unit 5 The History of the Age / Background Reading 

The Victorian Literature: 

1 Oliver Twist: Charles Dickens (1838) 

2 Middle March: George Eliot (1871-72) 

3 Culture and Anarchy: Mathew Arnold (1867-68)  

4 Tennyson and Browning: A Study of Poets (1850-1890) 

1. Alfred Tennyson - His Biography and as Poet

2. Tennyson (Overview)

3. Tennyson's Poetry

4. Themes in Tennyson's Poems

5. All you need to know about Alfred Tennyson - Victorian Web

1. Robert Browning - His Biography and Legacy

2. Robert Browning's Poems

3. Themes in Browning's Poems

4. All you need to know about Robert Browning; Victorian Web

5. Grotesque Images as a one of the motifs of Browning’s poems.

5 The History of the Victorian Age / Background Reading 

Literary Theory & Criticism - 2: The 20th Western & Indian Poetics: 

New Criticism: T.S. Eliot’s Tradition & Individual Talent, I.A. Richards’s A Figurative Language & Archetypal Criticism : Northrop Frye 

A New Computer-assisted Literary Criticism? Raymond G. Siemens 

Structuralism and Post Structuralism – Gerard Genette’s Structuralism and Literary Criticism & Derrida’s Structure, Sign & Play

Indian Poetics: Rasa Theory & Natya Shastra 

A Glossary of Selected Literary Terms

Indian Writing in English – Post Independence: 

The Calcutta Chromosome: Amitav Ghosh (1995)

Contemporary Indian Poems:

 Kamala Das: An Introduction, 

Meena Kandasamy:

Another Paradise Lost: A Hindu Way,

Let my sisters title this, 

Born of No Placenta

Rachana Joshi: Leaving India  

Sujata Bhatt: A Different History, 

My Tongue 

Praveen Gadhavi: Poet, Bamiyaan Buddha 

Tara: Mahesh Dattani ( 1995) 

The Inheritance of Loss- Kiran Desai (2006) 

The History of the Age/ Background reading from: An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra & A History of Indian English Literature by M.K. Naik