MA English Syllabus MDU

Can you provide me the syllabus of M.A. (English) Program offered by MDU (Maharshi Dayanand University), Rohtak as I need it for preparation of the Exam?

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The syllabus of M.A. (English) Program offered by MDU (Maharshi Dayanand University), Rohtak is as follows:

Semester I

Course I (opt. i)

History of English Literature and Literary and Critical Terms/Movements-I (From Anglo Saxon to Pre Romantics)

Section A

Unit I

Literary and Critical Terms/Movements:
Allegory, Humanism, Calvinism, Puritanism, Ballad, Lyric, Blank Verse, Caricature, The Caroline Age, Character, Dramatic Interlude, Three Unities, Chorus, Deism,
Enlightenment, Deu ex machina, Dramatis Personae, Fable, Heroic Couplet, Evangelism and Methodism, Problem Play, Realism, Burlesque, Picaresque.

Section B

Unit II
Rise of Modern English Language and Contribution of Chaucer and His
Contemporaries; Mystery and Miracle Plays; Reformation; Renaissance; Humanism;
Growth of Different Genres in the Elizabethan Period; Beginnings of British Colonialism

Unit III
Puritanism and Its Impact On Literature in the Early Seventeenth Century; Contribution of Writers like Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, John Donne and John Milton; Prose During the Puritan Age

Unit IV
The Socio Political Background and Literature of the Restoration Age with Special Reference to the Rise of Satire and Comedy of Manners

Unit V
Revival of Classicism; Literature in the Eighteenth Century; Pre-Romantics
Instructions to the paper-setter and students:
All questions are compulsory and carry equal marks. There will be internal choice in all questions.

Suggested Reading:
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms.
Andrew, Sanders. The Short Oxford History of English Literature.
Dahiya, Bhim S. The New History of English Literature.
Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature.
Evans, Blakemore G. Elizabethan-Jacobean Drama.
Ford, Boris. ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Vol. 2 The Age of
Shakespeare.
Greenblatt, Stephen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning.
Kerrigan, William and George Braden. The Idea of Renaissance.
Legouis, Emile and Louis Cazamian. History of English Literature.
Myers, A. R. England in the Late Middle Ages, Pelican History of England IV.
Norbrook, David. Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance.
Poplawski, Paul. English Literature in Context.
Scattergood, V. J. Politics and Poetry in the Fifteenth Century.
Sharpe, A. J. Early Modern England: A Social History 1550-1760.
Stevens, John. Medieval Romance.
Wrightson, Keith. English Society 1580-1680.


MA English Syllabus MDU Rohtak