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ELIGIBILITY :
M.A. in English and Linguistics:
You have to pass Bachelor’s degree in any discipline under 10+2+3 pattern of education with at least 50% marks.

Important Dates :
Start of Online Application Process from 10.00 a.m. on
7th February, 2014 from 10.00 a.m.
Closing of Online Application Process till 5.00 p.m. on
26th March, 2014
Start of issue of offline Application Forms(by Post) 7th February, 2014
Last date for issue of offline Application Forms (by Post) 11th March, 2014
Last date of submission of completed Application Form to reach JNU
i) Offline Application Form 28th March, 2014
ii) Printed copy of the online Application Form 2nd April, 2014

now dates for JNU M.A English literature Entrance Examination is over , next year JNU M.A English literature Entrance Exam notice is publish in February month of 2015 .


JNU M.A English literature Entrance Exam syllabus :
Entrance exam:
Language aptitude,
Current language situation in India,
Information about Indian languages,
Principles and theories of Language structure and its acquisition/learning; language use.

Contact details :
Jawaharlal Nehru University.
New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110067.
Phones: +91-11-26742676, 26742575, 26741557
Fax: 26742580

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Semester 1
Paper Eng 0101 English Poetry from Chaucer to Milton
Paper Eng 0102 Eighteenth Century English Literature
Paper Eng 0103 Literary Criticism 1
Paper Eng 0104 Optional Paper (One of the following):
Paper Eng 0104 (i) Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Drama
Paper Eng 0104 (ii) European Comedy

Semester 2
Paper Eng 0201 Shakespeare
Paper Eng 0202 Language and Linguistics
Paper Eng 0203 Optional Paper (One of the following):*
Paper Eng 0203 (i) Literature and Gender
Paper Eng 0203 (ii) New Literatures in English
Paper Eng 0203 (iii) Romantic Poetry
Paper Eng 0204 A course in another discipline. #

Semester 3
Paper Eng 0301 Nineteenth Century Novel
Paper Eng 0302 Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama
Paper Eng 0303 Indian Literature 1
Paper Eng 0304 Optional Paper (One of the following):
Paper Eng 0304 (i) American Literature
Paper Eng 0304 (ii) Literature and the Visual Arts in Europe

Semester 4
Paper Eng 0401 Twentieth Century Novel
Paper Eng 0402 Literary Criticism 2
Paper Eng 0403 Optional Paper (One of the following): *
Paper Eng 0403(i) Ancient Greek and Latin Literature
Paper Eng 0403(ii) Indian Literature 2
Paper Eng 0403(iii) The Novel in India
Paper Eng 0404 A course in another discipline. #
JNU MA English syllabus
Other Details:
PROMOTION CRITERIA
SEMESTER TO SEMESTER: Within the same Part, the candidate will be promoted
from a Semester to the next Semester (Semester 1 to Semester 2 and Semester 3 to
Semester 4), provided the candidate has passed at least two of the papers of the current
semester by securing at least 40% marks in each paper.
Note: A candidate who does not appear in a paper will be allowed ONLY ONE more
attempt to pass the paper. No further attempts for improvement will be allowed. A
candidate will not be allowed to reappear even if he/she is absent.
PART I TO PART II: Admission to Part II of the program shall be open to only those
students who have fulfilled the following criteria:
1. have scored at least 45% marks in the practical papers of both Semester 1 and 2
taken together,
2. have passed at least four of the papers offered in courses of Part I comprising
Semester 1 and Semester 2 by securing at least 40% marks in each of these four
papers and
3. have secured at least 45% in aggregate of all theory papers of Part I.
Note: The candidate, however, has to clear the remaining papers either while enrolled in
Part II of the program as a regular student or as an ex-student (after two years but within
a span period of a total of four years).
Only TWO attempts in total will be allowed to the candidate to clear any particular paper.
The candidates will be allowed to reappear for a particular paper in its respective
semester only.
AWARD OF DEGREE
A candidate will be awarded M.A. degree at the end of Semester 4 provided he/she has
passed all the papers of Part I (Semester 1 and 2) and Part II (Semester 3 and 4) by
securing at least 40% marks in each paper and has also obtained at least 45% in aggregate
of Part I and Part II.
SCOPE FOR IMPROVEMENT
1. A candidate can avail a maximum of TWO attempts to pass and improve in a
given paper within a period of 4 years of his/her admission to the M.A. course.
2. A candidate appearing in a paper for improvement after completion of Part II of
the program will be considered as an ex-student.
3. Candidates will be allowed to reappear at the examination according to the
scheme of examination (in the concerned semester) and the syllabus prescribed
for the year in which the examination in currently held.
4. The marks obtained by the candidate in the last attempt will be considered as the
final result.
DIVISION CIRTERIA
Successful candidates will be classified on the basis of the combined results of Part I and
Part II examinations as follows:
Candidates securing 60% and above : 1st Division
Candidates securing 50% and above but less than 60% : 2nd Division
Candidates securing 45% and above but less than 50% : Pass
SPAN PERIOD
No student shall be admitted as candidate for the examination for any of the
Parts/Semesters after the lapse of four years from the date of admission to the Part I/
Semester 1 of the M.A. program.
ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT
No student shall be considered to have pursued a regular course of study and be eligible
to take examination unless he/she has attended 75% of the total number of lectures,
tutorials, seminars and practical conducted in each semester, during her/her course of
study. Under special circumstances, the Head of the Department may allow students with
at least 65% attendance to taken the examination.
CREDITS
Each Course will consist of the following credit structure:
4 Theory periods+2 tutorial periods=6 credits
Each semester shall have 4 courses; each course shall have 6 periods.
Total periods per week will be 24 for a student
Total credits power semester shall be 24.
Over 4 semesters, the total credits shall be 96.
DETAILED COURSES OF READINGS
Semester I
English Literature from Chaucer to Milton
1. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales: ‘The General Prologue’, ‘The
Miller’s Prologue and Tale’, ‘The Pardoner’s Prologue and
Tale’, ‘The Nun’s Priest’s Tale’.
2. Edmund Spenser ‘April Eclogue’ in The Shepheardes Calender; ‘Letter to
Raleigh’, The Faerie Queene: Books III, V (Cantos 5, 6,
and 7), and Book VI.
Baldassare Castiglione From The Courtier, tr. George Bull (Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1967): ‘Nobility of Birth’ (pp.54-55), ‘Acquiring
Grace’, ‘Avoiding Affectation’ (pp. 65-68); ‘Friends and
Flatterers’ (pp. 90-92); ‘Playing a Part’ (pp. 119-20);
‘Favours and Honours’, ‘Arrogance at Court’, ‘When to
Obey’ (pp. 125-33); ‘The Prince’ (pp. 284-87); ‘Invocation
of Love’, ‘Proofs of Love’ (pp. 333-35).
3. William Shakespeare Sonnets 18, 29, 73, 94, 110, 116, 129, 130, 138.
John Donne ‘Satyre: Of Religion’, ‘The Ecstasie’, ‘The Relique’, ‘Good
Friday 1613. Riding Westward’.
Andrew Marvell ‘To His Coy Mistress’, ‘The Garden’, ‘Bermudas’.
4. John Milton Paradise Lost : Books 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, and 12.
Martin Luther Sections III, IV, V, IX, from On the Bondage of the Will,
in Martin Luther: Selections From His Writings, tr. Packer
and Johnston, ed. John Dillenberger (Anchor, 1961), pp.
175-90.
Eighteenth Century English Literature
1. John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel, I
Anthony Ashley Cooper,
Third Earl of Shaftesbury ‘An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit’, in Characteristics of
Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, ed. J. M. Robertson (Gloucester,
Mass.: Peter Smith, 1963), vol. 1, pp. 237-64.
2. Jonathan Swift A Tale of a Tub
3. Alexander Pope From Moral Essays: Epistle II. ‘To a Lady: Of the
Characters of Women’; Epistle IV. ‘Of the Use of Riches:
To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington’.
‘Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot’.
Bernard Mandeville ‘An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue’ [including
the Introduction], in The Fable of the Bees, ed. F. B. Kaye
(Oxford: Clarendon, 1957), vol. 1, pp. 39-57.
4. Henry Fielding Tom Jones
Eng 0103
Literary Criticism 1
1. Plato The Republic, Book X, tr. Benjamin Jowett (New York:
Random House, 1957).
Aristotle The Poetics, tr. Ingram Bywater (New Delhi: Oxford
University Press.)
2. Philip Sidney An Apology for Poetry
Samuel Johnson Preface to Shakespeare
3. William Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria, Chapters IV, XIII, and XIV.
4. Percy Bysshe Shelley A Defence of Poetry
Matthew Arnold ‘The Function of Criticism at the Present Time’;
‘Barbarians, Philistines, Populace’, in Culture and
Anarchy.

Contact:
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Mehrauli Road, Near Munirka, New Delhi, Delhi 110067 ‎
011 2674 2575 ‎

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