Department of English

PG Programme

M A ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

 

The programme introduces the students to the essence and aesthetics of English Literature and inculcates a perceptive understanding and scholarly appreciation for the subject. The different courses serve to familiarize the students with classic and contemporary works and identify the literary practices that shape these works. Discussion of diverse literary theories enables the students to become active readers of literature with well-defined perspectives. The programme is framed to guide the students through the evolution and development of English Literature over the various literary periods and movements to its present day global status which includes varieties of English Literature. The study aims at introducing the student to the tremendous scope literature offers for critical, comparative and translation studies with special emphasis on both research and career opportunities. The programme is designed keeping in mind the changing demands of the career fields. It also helps the students to refine their communicative skills by providing special focus to improving their grammar, listening and writing skills.

Core Courses

British Literature from Chaucer to 18th Century, British Literature - 19th  Century, History of English Language, Indian Literature in English (Semester I), Twentieth Century British Literature up to 1940, Literary Criticism and Theory Part 1( Upto New Criticism), American Literature,  Post Colonial Writings (Semester II), Twentieth Century British Literature Post 1940, Literary Criticism and Theory Part 2 (Semester III), English Literature in the 21st Century, Dissertation/Project, Comprehensive Viva -Voce ( Semester IV)  

Elective courses:  European Fiction in Translation, American Ethnic Writing (Semester III), Indian English Fiction, Malayalam Literature in English Translation (Semester IV)

Status

Regular

Core Courses

Semester I -     British Literature from Chaucer to 18th Century, British Literature - 19th  Century, History of English Language, Indian Literature in English

Semester II -   Twentieth Century British Literature up to 1940, Literary Criticism and Theory Part 1( Upto New Criticism), American Literature, Post Colonial Writings

Semester III -   Twentieth Century British Literature Post 1940, Literary Criticism and Theory Part 2

Semester IV -    English Literature in the 21st Century, Dissertation/Project, Comprehensive Viva -Voce

Elective Courses

Semester III –   European Fiction in Translation, American Ethnic Writing

Semester IV –   Indian English Fiction, Malayalam Literature in English Translation

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PG Syllabus 2016 onwards

PG Syllabus 2018

PG Syllabus 2019


PG Syllabus 2020

PG Syllabus 2021

PG Syllabus 2022

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