MA Hons and Hons with Research in English Sem II_1 Syllabus Mumbai University by munotes
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SYLLABUS
M.A. Honours in English
&
M.A. Honours with Research
in English
(Research Methodology II) – Sem II
(CBCS)
(w.e.f. 201 9-20)
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M.A. Part I
Semester I I
Paper No. Name of the Paper
Paper II Post-Independence Indian Literature in
English - II
Paper IV Literary Theory and Criticism – II
Paper VI Gender in Literature – II
Paper VIII Theory and Methodology of
Comparative Literature - II
Paper X Research Methodology - II
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University of Mumbai
Syllabus for M.A. Honours and M.A. Honours with Research in English
Part – I - Semester: II
Course: Core Paper
Course Title: Post-Independence Indian Literature in English - II
Paper: II
(Choice Based Credit System with ef fect from the Academic Year 2019 -20)
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1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System
i) Name of the Program : M.A. Honours and M.A.
Honours with Research in English
ii) Course Code : PAENGHR201
iii) Course Title : Post-Independence Indian
Literature in English - II
iv) Semester wise Course Contents
v) References and Additional References
vi) Credit Structure
vii) No. of lectures per Unit
viii) No. of lectures per week
ix) No. of Tutorials per week
2. Scheme of Examination
3. Special notes , if any
: Enclosed the copy of syllabus
: Enclosed in the Syllabus
: No. of Credits per Semester -06
: 15
: 04
: 01
: 4 Questions of 15 marks each
: No
4. Eligibility , if any : No
5. Fee Structure : As per University Structure
6. Special Ordinances / Resolutions if any : No
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M.A. Honours and M.A. Honours with Research in English
Part – I - Semester: II
Title of the Course: Post-Independence Indian Literature in Englis h - II
Objectives
To enable students to comprehend Post -Independence Indian Drama and Poetry in
English against the changing social and ethical values in Indian society
To enable students to comprehend the history and sociopolitical background to
Indian theatre and Poetry in English
To enable students to understand concepts of cultural hybridity and
multiculturalism
Semester -II – Paper -II
Title: Post-Independence Indian Literature in English - II (6 Credits)
UNIT 1: Background
Liberalisation and Globalisation : The impact on Indian Drama and Poetry in English of
economic and social changes; the Globalisation of Indian culture; changes in social and
ethical values; Influence of Feminism and rise of Dalit power; the expansion of the Indian
Diaspo ra; communal violence; national and international terrorism.
Indian Theatre and Poetry in English : The history of postcolonial Indian theatre in
English; the problems of finance and audience; the issue of authenticity of voice and
accent; influence of Western and Indian Classical theatres; canonization of Indian Drama
in English. The History of postcolonial Indian Poetry in English; the influences Indian
and Western on Indian Poetry in English; Cultural Hybridity and Multiculturalism in
Indian Theatre a nd Poetry in English; Cosmopolitanism and Nativism in Indian Theatre
and Poetry in English
UNIT 2:
Mahesh Dattani: Brief Candle
UNIT 3:
Girish Karnad: Broken Images
UNIT 4:
Selections of poems written by Nissim Ezekiel, Dom Moares, Keki Daruwala, A.K .
Ramanujan, Kamala Das, Eunice De Souza, Imtiaz Dharker, Dilip Chitre, Gieve
Patel, Meena Alexander and Arun Kolatkar
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Texts for Internal Assessment and Classroom Discussion:
1. Makhija Anju : If Wishes Were Horses
2. Cyrus Mistry: Doongaji House
3. Dina Mehta: Brides are not for Burning
4. Mahesh Dattani: Tara
5. Gurcharan Das: Larins Sahib
6. Pratap Sharma : A Touch of Brightness
7. Pratap Sharma : Begum Sumroo
8. Gieve Patel: Mr. Behram
9. Asif Currimbhoy : Goa
10. Manjula Padmanabhan: Harvest
11. Nissim Ezekiel: Nalini
12. Post-independence Indian Poets in English (not included for detailed study)
Evaluation Pattern:
1. Internal Assessment (40 marks)
Sr.No. Particulars Marks
1. One Written Assignment/Research Paper on the text 20 Marks
prescribed by the teacher for Internal Assessment
(minimum 2000 words)
10 Marks
Classroom Attendance and Participation
Presentation (10 minutes with or without Power Point) 05 Marks
Viva Voce 05 Marks
Total - 40 Marks
2. Semester End Examination: (60 Marks):
Evaluation: Semester End Examination - 60 Marks - Hours: 02
The Semester End Examination for 60 marks will have 4 questions (with internal choice) of 15
marks each:
Q.1. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 1)
Q.2. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 2)
Q.3. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 3)
Q.4. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 4)
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Recommended Reading:
1. Paul C. Verghese, Essays on Indian Writing in English , N.V. Pubs., New Delhi, 1975
2. Nilufer E. Bharucha and Vrinda Nabar (eds.), Mapping Cultural Spaces:
Postcolonial Indian Literature in English, Essays in Honour of Nissim Ezekiel , Vision
Books, Delhi, 1998
3. G.N. Devy, After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism , Orient
Longman, Bombay, 1993
4. Ashis Nandy, S. Trivedy, S. Mayaram and A. Yagnik, Creating a Nationality
5. Sunil Khilnani, The Idea of India, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997
6. Amartya Sen , The Argumentative Indian, Penguin, 2006
7. Bruce King, Modern Indian Poetry in English , Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987
8. E.N. Lal, The Poetry of Encounter: Dom Moraes, A.K. Ramanujan and Nissim Ezekiel ,
New Delhi, 1983
9. Kapil Kapoor& A.K. Singh, Indian Knowledge Systems Vol. 1 & 2, Indian Institute of
Advanced Study, S himla, 2005
10. Sharma Ram: A History of Indian Drama in English , Sunoasis Writers Network, 2010
11. Chakravarty K.: Indian Drama in English, 2010
12. Bharucha Nilufer and Srihar Rajeswaran, „Whither Indian Drama?: The Politics of
Performatives, Performance and Performance Spaces‟, (Dis)Continuities: Trends and
Traditions , CDE , (Contemporary Theatre and Drama ), ed. Elke Mettinger, Vol. IX, May
2002, Vienna.
13. Vasant Shahane and Shivaram Krishnan (eds.), Indian Poetry in English:
A CriticalAssessment , Macmillan, Madras, 1982
Please Note: As per UGC norms each paper has been assigned one hour of tutorial
per week and this is reflected in the time table of the Department.
Syllabus Prepared by: Dr. Nilufer Bharucha
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Convener
Dr. Rajesh Karankal
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Member
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University of Mumbai
Syllabus for M.A. Honours and M.A. Honours with Research in English
Part – I - Semester: II
Course: Core Paper
Course Title: Literary Theory and Criticism - II
Paper: IV
(Choice Based Credit System with effect from the Academic Year 2017 -18)
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1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System
i) Name of the Program : M.A. Honours and M.A.
Honours with Research in English
ii) Course Code : PAENGHR202
iii) Course Title : Literary Theory and Criticism -II
iv) Semester wise Course Contents
v) References and Additional References
vi) Credit Structure
vii) No. of lectures per Unit
viii) No. of lectures per week
ix) No. of Tutorials per week
2. Scheme of Examination
3. Special notes , if any
: Enclosed the copy of syllabus
: Enclosed in the Syllabus
: No. of Credits per Semester -06
: 15
: 04
: 01
: 4 Questions of 15 marks each
: No
4. Eligibility , if any : No
5. Fee Structure : As per University Structure
6. Special Ordinances / Resolutions if any : No
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M.A. Honours and M.A. Honours with Research in English
Part – I - Semester: II
Title of the Course: Literary T heory and Criticism - II
Objectives
To enable students to map developments in literary theory since the mid -twentieth century.
To understand the primacy accorded to language and to critically engage with
poststructuralist and deconstructive theories against the background of Saussurean
linguistics
To interrogate the philosophy, politics and aesthetics of feminist, postmodern, postcolonial
and ethnicity studies
To understand meaning -making processes in literary texts, and the specificity of discourse s in
given genres
To explore new conceptions of historicity and textual/interpretive locations.
To enable the students to read literary and cultural texts through multiple perspectives
Semester -II – Paper -IV
Title: Literary Theory and Criticism - IV (6 Credits)
UNIT 1:
Mikhail Bakhtin, “Carnival and Carnivalesque”. In Cultural Theory and Popular
Culture: A Reader . Ed. John Storey.
UNIT 2:
Michel Foucault, “What is an Author?”
UNIT 3:
Stephen Greenblatt, “Resonance and Wonder”
UNIT 4:
Stuart Hall, “Cultural Identity and Diaspora”
Texts for Internal Assessment and Classroom Discussion:
1. Mikhail Bakhtin, “Discourse in the Novel”
2. Raymond Williams, “The Country and the City” (Excerpt from The Country and the City )
3. Loomba, Ania, “Tangled Histories: Indian feminism and Anglo -American feminist Criricism”
4. Caruth, Cathy. “Unclaimed Experience: Trauma and the Possibility of History”
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5. Love, Glen A. “Revaluing Nature: Toward an Ecological Criticism”
6. bell hooks, “Essentialism and Experience”
7. Balibar, Etienne & Pierre Macherey, “Literature as an Ideological Form”
8. Edward Kamau Brathwaite, “English in the Caribbean”
9. Lisa Lowe, “Hetrogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Making Asian American Difference”
10. Bali Sahota, “The Paradoxes of Dalit Cultural Politics”
11. Macherey, Pierre. From A Theory of Literary Production . Sections on “Explanation
and Interpretation”, “Implicit and Explicit” and “The Spoken and the Unspoken”
12. Bhabha Homi K. “Unsatisfied: Notes on Vernacular Cosmopolitanism”
13. Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak, “Planetarity”
Evaluation Pattern:
3. Internal Assessment (40 marks)
Sr.No. Particulars Marks
1. One Written Assignment/Research Paper on the text 20 Marks
prescribed by the teacher for Internal Assessment
(minimum 2000 words)
Classroom Attendance and Participation 10 Marks
Presentation (10 minutes with or without Power Point) 05 Marks
Viva Voce
05 Marks
Total - 40 Marks
4. Semester End Examination: (60 Marks):
Evaluation: Semester End Examination - 60 Marks - Hours: 02
The Semester End Examination for 60 marks will have 4 questions (with internal choice) of 15
marks each:
Q.1. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 1)
Q.2. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 2)
Q.3. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 3)
Q.4. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 4)
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Recommended Reading:
1. Bakhtin, M. M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays . Michael Holquist. Ed. Texas:
University of Texas Press. 2004.
2. Bhabha, Homi. K. The Location of Culture : New York: Routledge. 1994.
3. Colbrook, Claire. New Literary Histories: New Historicism and Contemporary
Criticism . Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. 1997.
4. Devy, G. N. Ed. Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation .
Hyderabad: Orient Longman. 2002.
5. Gallagher, Catherine and Stephen Greenblatt. Practicing New Historicism. University of
Chicago Press. 2001.
6. Gandhi, Leela. Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction . New Delhi: Oxford
University Press.
7. Habib, M. A. R . Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History . Oxon:
Blackwell. 2008.
8. Hall, Stuart. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices . New
Delhi: Sage. 2003.
9. Selden, Raman (ed.) The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Vol. 8.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995
10. Selden, Raman. Ed. The Theory of Criticism: From Plato to the Present.
London: Longman, 1988.
11. Sethuraman, V. S. Ed. Contemporary Criticism: An Anthology. Madras: Macmillan,
1989.
12. Simon During. Foucaul t and Literature: Towards a Genealogy of Writing . London &
New York: Routledge. 1992.
13. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Outside in the Teaching Machine . New York:
Routledge 1993.
14. Sturrock, J. Ed. Structuralism and Since. Oxford: OUP, 1979.
15. Waugh, Patricia. Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide . Oxford: Oxford
University Press. 2006.
Please Note: As per UGC norms each paper has been assigned one hour of tutorial
per week and this is reflected in the time table of the Department.
Syllabus Prepared by: Dr. Coomi Vevaina
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Convener
Dr. Shoba Ghosh
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Member
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University of Mumbai
Syllabus for M.A. Honours and M.A. Honours with Research in English
Part – I - Semester: II
Course: Core Paper
Course Title: Gender in Literature -II
Paper: VI
(Choice Based Credit System with effect from the Academic Year 2017 -18)
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1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System
i) Name of the Program : M.A. Honours and M.A.
Honours with Research in English
ii) Course Code : PAENGHR203
iii) Course Title : Gender in Literature -II
iv) Semester wise Course Contents
v) References and Additional References
vi) Credit Structure
vii) No. of lectures per Unit
viii) No. of lectures per week
ix) No. of Tutorials per week
2. Scheme of Examination
3. Special notes, if any
: Enclosed the copy of syllabus
: Enclosed in the Syllabus
: No. of Credits per Semester -06
: 15
: 04
: 01
: 4 Questions of 15 marks each
: No
4. Eligibility, if any : No
5. Fee Structure : As per University Structure
6. Special Ordinances / Resolutions if any : No
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M.A. Honours and M.A. Honours with Research in English
Part – I - Semester: II
Title of the Course: Gender in Literature -II
Objectives
To enable students to „de -naturalise‟ gender
To critically read the gender politics in canonical literature
To arrive at an understanding of the interplay of gender, writing and genre
To explore the subversive strategies in texts that interrogate hetero -normative patriarchies
To understand the need for new literary frameworks to accommodate the diversity in
contemporary literary production
Semester -II – Paper -VI
Title: Gender in Literature -II- (6 Credits)
UNIT 1: Background
• Critiques of mainstream feminisms; Feminisms in ‘other’ locations
• Masculinity Studies, Rethinking Masculinities
• Queer Theory, Alternative Sexualities
UNIT 2:
Toni Morrison , Paradise
UNIT 3:
Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
UNIT 4:
Indian short stories:
1. Saadat Hasan Manto, “Mozail”
2. Mahasweta Devi, “The Hunt”
3. Ismat Chughtai, “The Mole”
4. Lalitambika Antherjanam, “Goddess of Revenge”
5. Urmila Pawar, “Armour”
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Texts for Internal Assessment and Classroom Discussion:
1. Selections from the poetry of Sylvia Plath
2. Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
3. Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place
4. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
5. Roddy Doyle, The Woman Who Walked into Doors
6. Tomson Highway, The Rez Sisters
7. Hiromi Goto , The Chorus of Mushrooms
8. Adrienne Rich, The Fact of a Doorframe
9. Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night
10. Mahesh Dattani, Thirty Days in September
11. Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy
12. Chimamanda Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
Evaluation Pattern:
5. Internal Assessment (40 marks)
Sr.No. Particulars Marks
1. One Written Assignment/Research Paper on the text 20 Marks
prescribed by the teacher for Internal Assessment
(minimum 2000 words)
Classroom Attendance and Participation 10 Marks
Presentation (10 minutes with or without Power Point) 05 Marks
Viva Voce 05 Marks
Total - 40 Marks
6. Semester End Examination: (60 Marks):
Evaluation: Semester End Examination - 60 Marks - Hours: 02
The Semester End Examination for 60 marks will have 4 questions (with internal choice) of 15
marks each:
Q.1. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 1)
Q.2. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 2)
Q.3. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 3)
Q.4. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 4)
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Recommended Reading:
1. Abel, Elizabeth. Ed. Writing and Sexual Difference . Brighton: Harvester, 1982.
2. Ashton -Jones, Evelyn, and Gary Olson. Ed. The Gender Reader . Boston and
London: Allwyn and Bacon, 1991.
3. Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Fe minism and the Subversion of Identity . London
and New York: Routledge. 1990.
4. Felski, Rita. Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist literature and Social Change .
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.
5. Gallop, Jane. The Daughter’s Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis . Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1982.
6. Grosz, Elizabeth. Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists . St. Leonards: Allen
and Unwin, 1989.
7. Hite, Molly. The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary
Feminist Narratives . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.
8. Humm, Maggie. Feminist Criticism: Women as Contemporary Critics.
Brighton: Harvester, 1986.
9. Kahn, Coppelia and Gayle Greene. Ed. Making a Difference: Feminist
Literary Criticism. New York and Lon don: Methuen, 1985.
10. Moi, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics . London: Methuen, 1985.
11. Showalter, Elaine. Ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature
and Theory . New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.
12. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics . New York
and London: Methuen, 1987.
13. Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari. Real and Imagined Women: gender, culture, postcoloniality .
New York and London: Routledge, 1993.
14. Tong, Rosemarie. Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introductio n. Westview
Press. 1998.
15. Warhol, Robyn R. and Diane Price Herndl. Ed. Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary
Theory and Criticism . New Brunswick: Rutgers, 1993.
Please Note: As per UGC norms each paper has been assigned one hour of tutorial
per week and this is reflected in the time table of the Department.
Syllabus Prepared by: Dr. Shoba Ghosh
-
Convener
Dr. Coomi Vevaina
-
Member
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University of Mumbai
Syllabus for M.A. Honours and M.A. Honours with Research in English
Part – I - Semester: II
Course: Core Paper
Course Title: Theory and Methodology of Comparative Literature -II
Paper: VIII
(Choice Based Credit System with effect from the Academic Year 2017 -18)
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1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System
i) Name of the Program : M.A. Honours and M.A.
Honours with Research in English
ii) Course Code : PAENGHR204
iii) Course Title : Theory and Methodology of
Comparative Literature -II
iv) Semester wise Course Contents
v) References and Additional References
vi) Credit Structure
vii) No. of lectures per Unit
viii) No. of lectures per week
ix) No. of Tutorials per week
2. Scheme of Examination
3. Special notes, if any
: Enclosed the copy of syllabus
: Enclosed in the Syllabus
: No. of Credits per Semester -06
: 15
: 04
: 01
: 4 Questions of 15 marks each
: No
4. Eligibility, if any : No
5. Fee Structure : As per University Structure
6. Special Ordinances / Resolutions if any : No
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M.A. Honours and M.A. Honours with Research in English
Part – I - Semester: II
Title of the Course: Theory and Methodology of Comparative Literature -II
Objectives
To trace the history of Comparative Literature as a discipline and as a critical perspective
To understand the need for the comparative study of literature
To get acquainted with the various schools of comparative literature
Semester -II – Paper -VIII
Title: Theory and Methodology of Comparative Literature -II (6 Credits)
UNIT 1: Background
(A) The varieties of literature produced in different languages; Regional Literature; National
Literature; Goethe‟s Concept of World Literature; World Literature Today.
(Readings: David Damrosch , “What is World Literature?”; Vilashini Cooppan, “World
Literature and Global Theory: Comparative Literature for the New Millennium”)
(B) Comparative Literary Studies in Multilingual Contexts: Indian Perspectives
Literary Translations; Contextuality, Textuality and Intertexuality; Problems of Literary
Translation; Translation as Linguistic Bridge -building
(Readings: Sisir Kumar Das, “Comparative Literature and India: A Historical Perspective”;
Amiya Dev, “Comparative Literature in India”)
UNIT 2:
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
J. M. Coetzee – Foe
UNIT 3:
Albert Camus – Caligula
Girish Karnad – Tughlaq
UNIT 4:
Adrienne Rich (Selected poems)
Kamala Das (Selected poems)
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Texts for Internal Assessment and Classroom Discussion:
1. Albert Camus – Outsider
Bhalchandra Nemade – Cocoon
2. Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
Nietzche, The Birth of Tragedy
3. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
4. John Osborne – Look Back in Anger
Mohan Rakesh – Halfway House
5. Garcia Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children
6. Girish Karnad – Tale-danda
Shiva Prakash –Mahachaitra
7. Rokeya Shekhawat Hossain – “Sultana‟s Dream”
Charlotte Gilman Perkins – Herland
8. Selected poems of Sy lvia Plath
Selected poems of Anne Sexton
9. Baburao Bagul – “Mother”
Lalitambika Antarjanam – “Admission of Guilt”
10. William Shakespeare – Othello
Vishal Bhardwaj (dir.) Omkara
11. Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Novel and Film)
12. Bertolt Brecht – Galileo
Robert Bolt – A Man for All Seasons
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Evaluation Pattern:
7. Internal Assessment (40 marks)
Sr.No. Particulars Marks
1. One Written Assignment/Research Paper on the text 20 Marks
prescribed by the teacher for Internal Assessment
(minimum 2000 words)
Classroom Attendance and Participation
10 Marks
Presentation (10 minutes with or without Power Point)
Viva Voce 05 Marks
05 Marks
Total - 40 Marks
8. Semester End Examination: (60 Marks):
Evaluation: Semester End Examination - 60 Marks - Hours: 02
The Semester End Examination for 60 marks will have 4 questions (with internal choice) of 15
marks each:
Q.1. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 1)
Q.2. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 2)
Q.3. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 3)
Q.4. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 4)
Recommended Reading:
1. Amiya Dev and Sisir Kumar Das (eds.), Comparative Literature: Theory and
Practice , Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Association with Allied
Publishers, 1988.
2. Bassnett, Susan, Translation Studies , New York: Routledge, 2002.
3. Bernheimer, C. (ed.) Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism.
Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1995.
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4. Earnest R. Curtius, Essays on European Literature, translated Michael Kowal,
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.
5. Haun Saussy, Comparative Literature in the Age of Globalisation , John Hopkins
University Press, 2006.
6. Ngugi Wa Thiong‟o, Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature,
Culture and Politics , New York: Lawrence Hill and Company, 1973.
7. Rambhau Badode, Arvind Mardikar & A.G. Khan, New Directions in Comparative
Literature, Macmillan India Ltd. 2007.
8. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, Death of a Discipline , Columbia University Press,
2003.
9. Sureshchandra (ed.) Essays in Comparative Literature , New Delhi: Anmol
Publication, 1998.
Please Note: As per UGC norms each paper has been assigned one hour of tutori al
per week and this is reflected in the time table of the Department.
Syllabus Prepared by: Dr. Rambhau Badode
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Convener
Dr. Bhagyashree Varma
-
Member
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University of Mumbai
Syllabus for M.A. Honours and M.A. Honours with Research in English
Course: Core Paper
Course Title: Research Methodology II
Paper: X
(With effect from the academic year, 2019 -20)
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1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System
i) Name of the Program : M.A. Honours and M.A. Honours with
Research in English
ii) Course Code : PAENGHR110
iii) Course Title : Research Methodology II
iv) Semester Wise Course Contents : Enclosed the copy of syllabus
v) References and Additional References: Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi) Credit Structure : No. of Credits per Semester - 06
vii) No. of lectures per Unit
viii) No. of lectures per week
ix) No. of Tutorials per week
2. Scheme of Examination
: 15
: 04
: 01
: 4 Questions of 15 marks each
3. Special notes , if any : No
4. Eligibility , if any : No
5. Fee Structure : As per University Structure
6. Special Ordinances / Resolutions if any : No
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M.A. Honours and M.A. Honours with Research in English
Core Papers –Paper X
Title of the Course: Research Methodology II
Objectives
To encourage students to analyze linguistic/generic aspects of a research papers
To enable students to write research articles, projects and dissertations
To enrich the students with essentials of academic research in literature and
language
To equip the students with the abilities to read, interpret and write in new areas of
research
Outcomes
The students are encouraged to analyze linguistic/generic aspects of a research
papers
The students are enabled to write research articles, projects and dissertations
The students are enabled to understand the essentials of academic research in
literature and language
The students are o equipped with the abilities to read, interpret and write in new
areas of research
Core Papers –Paper: X
Title – Research Methodology II
UNIT 1: Defining Research, Modes and Methods of Research
A. Definitions of Research and its types.
B. Modes and Methods of Research
UNIT 2: Basics of Research in Literature and Language
A. Basics of Research in Literature, Perspectives, Applications and Research Findings
B. Basics of Research in Language, Applied Perspectives and Research Findings
UNIT 3: New Trends of Research in Literature and Language
A. Acquaintance with the Trends in Literature, old and new, to begin with the Literary Research
B. Research in Language so far, and new trends including rhetorical and socio -linguistic analysis
of literary texts
UNIT 4: Interdisciplinary and Multi -disciplinary Research
A. Research in Literature as Interdisciplinary and Multi -disciplinary research
B. Possibilities and Scope of Relevant projects or research papers in Liter ature and Language
with other academic disciplines
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Evaluation Pattern:
Internal Assessment (40 Marks):
Evaluation Pattern:
1. Internal Assessment (40 marks )
Sr. No. Particulars Marks
1 Written Assignment on a given topic
Presentation
Attendance and classroom participation 20 Marks
10 Marks
10 Marks
Total 40 Marks
2. Semester End Examination: (60 Marks):
Evaluation: Semester End Examination Pattern 60 Marks Hours: 02 Hours
The End Examination for 60 marks will have 4 questions (with internal choice) of
15 marks each:
Q.1. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 1)
Q.2. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 2)
Q.3. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 3)
Q.4. Essay (any 1 out of 2) (on Unit 4)
Recommended Reading:
Abdul Rahim, F. Thes is Writing: A Manual for Researchers. New Delhi: New Age International,
2005
Adam Sirjohn. Research Methodology: Methods & Techniques. Delhi: New Age International
Ltd, 2004.
Ahuja, Ram. Research Methods. Rawat Publications, 2001.
Altick, R. D. The Art of Literary Research. New York : Norton, 1963.
Barker, Nancy and Nancy Hulig. A Research Guide for Under Graduate Students: English and
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