Osmania University PG Course Structure & Syllabus
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Osmania PG Syllabus
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PG English Syllabus
MA (Previous)
Semester I
Paper I
ENG 101
The English Language: History, Description and Practice (5 Credits)
Unit I:
a) Indo-European Family of Languages and its Branches; Grimm’s Law
b) Descent of English: Important features of Old English—Spelling and Pronunciation, Vocabulary
c) Middle English and Modern English: the Norman conquest, Major Changes in the English Language during Middle English Period, The Rise of Standard English; General Characteristics of Modern English
Unit II:
a) Foreign Contribution to the Growth of Vocabulary: Influence of Greek, Latin, French and German on the English language
b) Word Formation—Different Processes
c) Change of Meaning—Different Processes
Unit III:
a) Structure of the English Noun Phrase
b) Structure of the English Verb Phrase
c) The Simple Sentence—its types, constituents and organization; Coordination and Subordination—their semantic implications
Unit IV:
a) Dialect: ‘The Standard’ Dialect; Idiolect; Register
b) Style; Jargon; Slang
c) British English and American English: Differences in Spelling and Pronunciation
Unit V:
a) Functional Grammar: Transformations: Direct and Reported Speech (Use of Reporting Verbs), Degrees of Comparison
b) Functional English-I: Introducing oneself and others, Asking questions and giving polite replies, Complaining and Apologizing, Persuading people, Taking the initiative/Turn Taking
c) Functional English-II: Seeking permission, Inviting friends / colleagues, Complimenting, Expressing sympathy, Telephone etiquette
MA (Previous):
Semester I
Paper II
ENG 102
English Poetry (5 Credits)
Unit I:
Background :
Renaissance-Reformation; Neo-Classicism; Fancy and Imagination; Pre-Raphaelites; War Poetry; Modernism-Postmodernism
Unit II:
Geoffrey Chaucer
The General Prologue To The Canterbury
Tales (Tran. Nevill Coghill) lines 1-42 (“When in April
… I therefore will begin”)
John Milton
Paradise Lost (Bk I)
John Donne
“A Valediction”, “The Canonization”,
Alexander Pope
“The Rape of the Lock” (Canto I)
Unit III:
William Blake
From Songs of Innocence
(“The Lamb”, “The Chimney Sweeper”)
From Songs of Experience
(“The Tyger”, “London”)
William Wordsworth
“Tintern Abbey”, “Anecdote for Fathers”
P B Shelley
“Ode to the West Wind”, “To a Skylark”
John Keats
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “Ode to a Nightingale”
Unit IV:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese
14 (“If thou must love me …”)
43 (“How do I love thee …”)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Ulysses”, “The Sailor Boy”
Robert Browning
“My Last Duchess”, “The Lost Leader”
Matthew Arnold
“Self-Dependence”, “Dover Beach”
Unit V:
T S Eliot
The Waste Land
Phillip Larkin
“Best Society”, “Churchgoing”
Seamus Heaney
“Digging”, “Alphabets”
Carol Ann Duffy
“Originally”, “Havisham”
MA (Previous):
Semester I
Paper III
ENG 103
English Drama (5 Credits)
Unit I:
Background
Origin and Development of British Drama (till the 17th Century); Tragedy; Comedy; Restoration Drama; Theatre of the Absurd
Unit II:
Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare
King Lear
William Shakespeare
The Tempest
Unit III:
Aphra Behn
The Rover (Part I)
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
GB Shaw
Saint Joan
Unit IV:
John Osborne
Look Back in Anger
Caryl Churchill
Top Girls
Tom Stoppard
Indian Ink
Unit V:
One-act Plays
JM Synge
“Riders to the Sea”
Harold Pinter
“The Dumb Waiter”
Alan Ayckbourn
“Mother Figure”
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