BU Bhopal Ph.D

Hello buddy I had applied for admission for Ph.D in Barkatullah University, Bhopal and now have to start my preparation for its entrance so will you please provide me Syllabus of English of its Entrance Exam??

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

Barkatullah University is a university in Bhopal. This University offer Ph.D course and for that admission is taken place every year

Eligibility Criteria

-Candidates should have a Master's degree in relevant discipline with 50% of marks from a recognized university.

-Candidates who have qualified in NET/GATE and MPSLET are exempted form the entrance test.

As you want Syllabus of English of Entrance Exam so here I am providing you that:

Section A

History of English Literature : 14th century to Present Day

Section B
British Literature
1. Chaucer to Shakespeare
2. Jacobean and Neo-Classical Periods
3. Pre-Romantic & Romantic Period
4. Victorian Period
5. Twentieth Century Literature to Present
All major authors and their works

Section C
American Literature
1. History
2. Major Writers & their works

Section D
Indian Writing in English
1. History
2. Major Writers & their works

Section E
Literary Theories and Criticism – Plato to the Present

Section F

1. Linguistics - Definition of Linguistics, branches, characteristics, Language varieties, Register & style, Language variation and Sociolinguistics, Language change.Synchronic, Diachronic & historical linguistics, Minimal and non-minimal pairs.Organs of speech, speech mechanism, Classification & Description of Speech Sounds,Competence and Performance, Morphology, IC Analysis, Ambiguities.

2. Phonetics - Organs of speech, speech mechanism, Classification & Description of
Speech Sounds, Consonants & Vowels. International Phonetic Alphabet, The
Phoneme, The Allophones, the syllable, The Phoneme theory & Syllable Theory.
International Phonetic Alphabet, The Phoneme, The Allophones, the syllable, The
Phoneme theory & Syllable Theory. Transcriptions – Phonetic phonemic, Strong and
weak forms, word Accent, the Word stress rules, intonation and rhythm in connected
speech. Difference between R.P & G.I.E.

3. Stylistics - Nature and scope; Figures of speech; Imagery, Morphology, Linguistic
Analysis, Phonology; Foregrounding, Repetition, Collocation, Collocational clash,
Inversion, parallelism, coupling, embedding.


Recommended Reading
Crompton Ricket, History of English Literature
Albert, E, History of English Literature, Fifth edition
W H Long, History of English Literature
E. A. Baker, History of English Fiction.
G.S.Fraser: The Modern Writer and His World
Hugh Walker, Essays & Essayists
Nicoll, A, Theory of drama
Nicoll, A, Studies in Shakespeare
Kettle, A, Introduction to the English Novel
Neill, D, Short history of the English Novel
Butcher (tr.): Aristotle’s Poetics
Scott James : The Making of Literature
David Daiches: Modern Criticism and Theory : A Reader ( Long man)
H. Adams and L. Searle (ed.): Critical theory since 1965 (Florida State University Press)
A. H. Gilbert Literary Criticism Plato to Dryden.
T. Eagleton: Literary Theory an Introduction ( Blackwell Oxford, 1983)
Verma and Krishnaswamy: Modern Linguistics: An Introduction (O.U.P.1989)
A.C.Gimson: An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English.
R.K.Bansal and J.B.Harrison: Spoken English for India.
Geoffrey Leech: A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (Longman. London 1969)
David Crystal: Linguistics (Penguin)
Verma and Krishnaswamy : Modern Linguistics : An Introduction (OUP 1989).
A. C. Gimson : An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English.
R. K. Bansal : An Outline of General Phonetics.
Mittins : Attitude to English Usage, Oxford.
K.R.S.Iyengar: Indian Writings in English.
Meenakshi Mukherjee Twice Born Fiction.
M.K.Naik(ed): History of Indian English Literature.
Elton, Shakespeare.
C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy
History of American Lietrature Goodman.
Cycle of American Literature by Robert Spiller.
Aspects of the Novel, E M Forster

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