Department of English & Modern European Languages

University of Lucknow

B.A. (English) Part-I

(w.e.f. 2014-2015)

Paper-I : Poetry and Drama

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for
explanation.

Unit-II : Scenes from Shakespeare

The Balcony Scene in Romeo and Juliet

*The Sleep Walking Scene in Macbeth
*The Trial Scene in The Merchant of Venice
The Opening Scene in Twelfth Night
*The Opening Scene in Hamlet
The Grave-Digger Scene in Hamlet
*The Opening Scene in King Lear
*The Recognition Scene in The Tempest

Unit-III :

William Shakespeare : “True Love”

*John Milton : “On His Blindness”
*John Donne : “Present in Absence”
Michael Drayton : “Since there’s no help left….”

Unit-IV :

John Dryden : “The Poet Shadwell’ from Mac Flecknoe”

*Alexander Pope : “Lines on Addison from The Dunciad”
*Thomas Gray : “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
William Blake : “London”

Unit-V :

William Wordsworth : “The World is too much with Us”

*P.B. Shelley : “Ode to the West Wind”
John Keats : “Ode to a Nightingale”
*A.L. Tennyson : “Ulysses”
Matthew Arnold : “Rugby Chapel”
*Robert Browning : “My Last Duchess”

Note: All the works marked with an asterisk (*) are for detailed study.
The poems figure in Eternal Rhythms: An Anthology of British, American and Indian-English Poetry, edited by
the Department of English and M.E.L., University of Lucknow, Lucknow.

The eight scenes prescribed, figure in Scenes from Shakespeare edited by the Department of English & M.E.L.,
University of Lucknow.
Paper-II : Fiction & Short Fiction

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course.

Unit-II : Fiction

Forms and Techniques, Elements of Novel, Elements of Short Story,

Picaresque Novel, Historical Novel, Gothic Novel
Epistolary Novel, Regional Novel, Dystopia, Detective Novel, Campus Fiction, Science Fiction,
Space Fiction, Metafiction, ‘Chic lit’, Junk Fiction
Plot, Characterization, Narrative Technique and Structure

Unit-III : Short Fiction

1. William Faulkner : “A Rose For Emily”

2. W.S. Maugham : “The Luncheon”
3. O. Henry : “The Last Leaf”
4. Ernest Hemingway : “The Capital of the World”
5. Guy De Maupassant : “The Umbrella”
6. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: “The Lament”
7. Mulk Raj Anand : “The Barber’s Trade Union”
8. R.K. Narayan : “The Trail of the Green Blazer”
9. Katherine Mansfield : “The Fly”

Unit-IV : Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

Unit-V : R.K. Narayan : The Man Eater of Malgudi

Note: The short stories prescribed figure in Gems of Short Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories edited by the
Department of English & M.E.L., University of Lucknow.

B.A. (English) Part-II

(w.e.f. 2014-15)

Paper-I : Drama

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for
explanation.

Unit-II : Theory of Drama

Elements of Drama
Tragedy and Comedy
Tragi-comedy
Dark comedy
Expressionist Drama
Drama of ideas
Poetic Drama
 Alienation effect
Aggro-effect
History Play
Closet Drama
The Curtain Raiser (One Act Play)

Unit-III : Eugene O’Neill : *The Hairy Ape

Unit-IV : G. B. Shaw : *Candida

Unit-V : Girish Karnad : *Tughlaq

Note: All the texts prescribed and marked with an asterisk (*) are for detailed study.

Paper-II : Prose

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for
explanation.

Unit-II : Theory of Prose

Types of Prose
Types of Prose Style
Autobiography/Biography and Memoir
Travelogue
Periodical Essay
Formal Essay
Familiar Essay
Poetic Prose (Euphuism)
Prose of Thought

Unit-III Francis Bacon : * “Of Studies”

Richard Steele : * “The Spectator Club”
Joseph Addison : * “Periodical Essays”
John Milton : * “Books”, (an extract from Areopagitica)
Oliver Goldsmith : * “The Man in Black”

Unit-IV Charles Lamb : * “Dream Children”

William Hazlitt : * “On Going a Journey”
Robert Louis Stevension : * “An Apology for Idlers”

Unit-V Robert Lynd : * “The Pleasures of Ignorance”

A.G. Gardiner : * “The Rule of the Road”
E.V. Lucas : * “On Finding Things”

Note: All the texts prescribed and marked with an asterisk (*) are for detailed study.
The essays figure in Selected Essays: An Anthology of English Essays for Undergraduate Students compiled by
the Department of English & M.E.L., University of Lucknow.
 B.A. (English) Part-III
(w.e.f. 2014-2015)

Paper-I : History of English Literature

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course.

Unit-II : From Renaissance to Seventeenth Century

Renaissance and Reformation

Miracle and Morality Plays
University Wits
Authorised version of the Bible
Metaphysical Poetry
Neo-classicism
Elizabethan Songs and Sonnets

Unit-III : Eighteenth Century and the Romantic Age

Growth of the Novel
Precursors of Romanticism
Romanticism and the French Revolution
Growth of Romantic Literature (Prose, Poetry, Drama and Novel)

Unit-IV : Nineteenth Century

Characteristics of Victorianism
Growth of Victorian Literature (Prose, Poetry, Drama and Novel)
Pre-Raphaelite Poetry
Naughty Nineties.

Unit-V : The Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries

Trends in twentieth century literature with special reference to Georgian poetry, Imagism
and Symbolism, Movement Poetry.
Twentieth Century Novel
Twentieth Century Drama, Problem Play, Theatre of the Absurd, Expressionism, Epic
Theatre.
Growth of Postcolonial literature: Feminism, Post modernism etc.

Paper-II : Modern Literature

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for
explanation.

Unit-II : Poetry
*T.S. Eliot : “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
*W.B. Yeats : “The Second Coming”
*Philip Larkin : “Church Going”
*Walt Whitman : “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
*Robert Frost : “The Road Not Taken”
 *Nissim Ezekiel : “Night of the Scorpion”
*Kamala Das : “My Grandmother’s House”

Unit-III : Drama

*John Osborne : Look Back in Anger

*Arthur Miller : The Death of a Salesman

Unit-IV : Fiction

Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Shashi Deshpande : The Dark Holds No Terrors
E.M. Forster : A Passage to India

Unit-V : Prose

*Aldous Huxley : “Tragedy and the Whole Truth”

*Virginia Woolf : “Judith Shakespeare”
Nirad. C. Chaudhary : “Tell Me The Weather And I’ll Tell The Man”

Note: All texts marked with an asterisk (*) are for detailed study.
The poems figure in Eternal Rhythms: An Anthology of British, American and Indian-English Poetry, edited by
the Department of English and M.E.L., University of Lucknow.

Paper-III : Functional Skills in Language and Literature

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course.

Unit-II : Remedial English Grammar and Use of English: Problem areas in Grammar; Common
Errors; Sentence and Paragraph Organization; Vocabulary building and Use of a
dictionary.

Unit-III : Use of figures of speech: Understanding and identification.

Unit-IV : Practical Criticism. One passage from prose and one from poetry.
Rhetoric and Prosody

Unit-V : Essay Writing, Dialogue Writing and Editing, Proposal Writing, Report Writing, Letter,
Application, Biodata/ CV and Résumé Writing.
 Department of English & Modern European Languages
University of Lucknow

B.A. (English) Hons. Part-I

(w.e.f. 2014-2015)

Paper-I : Poetry and Drama

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for
explanation.

Unit-II : Scenes from Shakespeare

The Balcony Scene in Romeo and Juliet

The Sleep Walking Scene in Macbeth
The Trial Scene in The Merchant of Venice
The Opening Scene in Twelfth Night
The Opening Scene in Hamlet
The Grave-Digger Scene in Hamlet
The Opening Scene in King Lear
The Recognition Scene in The Tempest

Unit-III :

William Shakespeare : “True Love”

John Milton : “On His Blindness”
John Donne : “Present in Absence”
Michael Drayton : “Since there’s no help left….”

Unit-IV :
John Dryden : “The Poet Shadwell” from Mac Flecknoe
Alexander Pope : “Lines on Addison” from The Dunciad
Thomas Gray : “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
William Blake : “London”

Unit-V :

William Wordsworth : “The World is too much with Us”

P.B. Shelley : “Ode to the West Wind”
John Keats : “Ode to a Nightingale”
A.L. Tennyson : “Ulysses”
Matthew Arnold : “Rugby Chapel”
Robert Browning : “My Last Duchess”

Note: All the works prescribed in Paper-I are for detailed study. The poems figure in Eternal Rhythms: An
Anthology of British, American and Indian-English Poetry, edited by the Department of English and M.E.L.,
University of Lucknow, Lucknow.

The eight scenes prescribed, figure in Scenes from Shakespeare edited by the Department of English & M.E.L.
Paper-II : Fiction & Short Fiction

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course.

Unit-II : Fiction

Forms and Techniques, Elements of Novel, Elements of Short Story,

Picaresque Novel, Historical Novel, Gothic Novel
Epistolary Novel, Regional Novel, Dystopia, Detective Novel, Campus Fiction, Science Fiction,
Space Fiction, Metafiction, ‘Chic lit’, Junk Fiction
Plot, Characterization, Narrative Technique and Structure

Unit-III : Short Fiction

1. William Faulkner : “A Rose For Emily”

2. W.S. Maugham : “The Luncheon”
3. O. Henry : “The Last Leaf”
4. Ernest Hemingway : “The Capital of the World”
5. Guy De Maupassant : “The Umbrella”
6. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: “The Lament”
7. Mulk Raj Anand : “The Barber’s Trade Union”
8. R.K. Narayan : “The Trail of the Green Blazer”
9. Katherine Mansfield : “The Fly”

Unit-IV : Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

Unit-V : R.K. Narayan : The Man Eater of Malgudi

Paper-III : Greek Mythology, Biblical References, Literary Terms & Movements

Unit-I : 10 short questions from the entire course.

Unit-II : Greek/Classical Mythology

Zeus- Mount Olympus

Oracle of Delphi
Myth of Helen of Troy
Pandora, Theseus Perseus, Argonots
Medea, Scylla, Persephone
Cupid & Psyche, Orpheus & Erudyce
Nine Muses, Furies, Medusa, Hercules

Unit-III : Biblical References

Old Testament, New Testament

Concept of Original Sin
David-Bathsheba, Samson-Delilah
Moses-Ten Commandments-Exodus
Lazarus, Magi, Ruth, Noah
 Sin & Redemption
Paradise – Purgatory-Hellfires
Holy Grail, Staff & Rod, Holy Wine
Mount Zion, Bethlehem, Jerusalem
Jesus-Nazarene- Cross-Holy Trinity.

Unit-IV Literary Terms

Different aspects of the various genres of literature would be covered.

Novel - Autobiographical Novel, Industrial Novel, New Gate Novel, Meta-fiction, Condition of
England Novel, Saga Novel, Magic Realism, Campus Novel, Stream-of-Consciousness,
Interior Monologue

Poetry - Lyric: Sonnet, Elegy, Ode, Threnody, Ballad, Augustan Verse Satire, Dramatic
monologue

Epic : Scope & types

Drama- Mystery & Morality Play, Interlude, Elizabethan Drama, Jacobean Drama, Restoration
Drama, Poetic Drama, Theatre of the Absurd, Epic theatre.

Unit-V Movements
Reformation & Renaissance
Neo-classicism & Romanticism
Modernism & Post colonialism
New Criticism, Feminism, Marxism
Surrealism, Existentialism, Expressionism
 B.A. (English) Hons. Part-II
(w.e.f. 2014-15)

Paper-I : Drama

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for
explanation.

Unit-II : Theory of Drama

Elements of Drama
Tragedy and Comedy
Tragi-comedy
Dark comedy
Expressionist Drama
Drama of ideas
Poetic Drama
Alienation effect
Aggro-effect
History Play
Closet Drama
The Curtain Raiser (One Act Play)

Unit-III : Eugene O’Neill : *The Hairy Ape

Unit-IV : G. B. Shaw : *Candida

Unit-V : Girish Karnad : *Tughlaq

Note: All the texts prescribed are for detailed study.

Paper-II : Prose

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for
explanation.

Unit-II : Theory of Prose

Types of Prose
Types of Prose Style
Autobiography/Biography and Memoir
Travelogue
Periodical Essay
Formal Essay
Familiar Essay
Poetic Prose (Euphuism)
Prose of Thought

Unit-III : Francis Bacon : * “Of Studies”

Richard Steele : * “The Spectator Club”
 Joseph Addison : * “Periodical Essays”
John Milton : * “Books”, (an extract from Areopagitica)
Oliver Goldsmith : * “The Man in Black”

Unit-IV Charles Lamb : * “Dream Children”

William Hazlitt : * “On Going a Journey”
Robert Louis Stevension : * “An Apology for Idlers”

Unit-V Robert Lynd : * “The Pleasures of Ignorance”

A.G. Gardiner : * “The Rule of the Road”
E.V. Lucas : * “On Finding Things”

Paper-III : History of English Language & Literature

Ten short-answers questions based on the entire course.

Unit-I : Language Families, Characteristics of Old English, Middle English and Modern English,
Borrowings in English.

Unit-II : Word-Formation in English

Transcription of words

Unit-III : Renaissance (Elizabethan Period, Jacobean Age, Caroline Age and Puritan Age)
Classical Age (Restoration, Augustan)

Unit-IV : Romanticism, Victorian Age, Modernism & Post Modern Period

 B.A. (English) Hons. Part-III

Paper-I : Modern British Literature

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course including three passages
for explanation.

Unit-II : Poetry

*W.B. Yeats : “The Second Coming”

“Sailing to Byzantium”
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”

*T.S. Eliot : “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

“The Hollow Men”
“The Journey of Magi”

*W.H. Auden : “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”

“Musee des Beaux Arts”
“Look Stranger”

*Ted Hughes : “Hawk Roosting”

“The Jaguar”
“Crow Alights”

Unit-III : Drama

*T.S. Eliot : *Murder in the Cathedral

John Osborne : Look Back in Anger
Edward Bond : Lear

Unit-IV : Fiction

D.H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers

Virginia Woolf : Mrs. Dalloway
E.M. Forster : A Passage to India

Unit-V : Prose

*E.V. Lucas : “On Finding Things”

*Aldous Huxley : “Tragedy and the Whole Truth”
*Virginia Woolf : “Judith Shakespeare”
Paper-II : American Literature

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for
explanation.

Unit-II

*Walt Whitman : “One’s Self I Sing”

“When Lilacs Last in The Dooryard Bloom’d”
“I Saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing”

*Emily Dickinson : “I Taste a Liquor never brew’d”

“I Felt a Funeral in My Brain”
“Safe in their Alabastor Chambers”

* Robert Frost : “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

“Design”
“On set”

Unit-III

Henry James : The Turn of the Screw

Ernest Hemingway : The Old Man and the Sea
J.D. Salinger : The Catcher in the Rye

Unit-IV

Eugene O’Neill : The Emperor Jones

*Arthur Miller : Death of a Salesman
Tennessee Williams : The Glass Menagerie

Unit-V

Thomas Paine : From “Common Sense”

James Fennimore Cooper : From “The American Democracy”
Frederick Douglass : From “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”
*Ralph Waldo Emerson : “Self Reliance”

Paper-III :Literary Criticism

Unit-I :Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course including three passages for
explanation.

Unit-II

Aristotle : *The Poetics: Mimesis, Elements of Tragedy, Catharsis, Plot, Character Hamartia
(Chapters-1,2,3,6,7,8,9,10,11,13,14,15)

Indian Poetics : Rasa and Dhwani

Unit-III

William Wordsworth : * “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”

T.S. Eliot : “The Function of Criticism”
Cleanth Brooks : “Irony as a Principle of Structure”
Raymond Williams : “Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory”

Unit-IV

Elaine Showalter : * “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness”

Frantz Fanon : From Black Skin, White Masks: “On Colour Prejudice”
Stephen Greenblatt : “Resonance and Wonder”
Roland Barthes : From Work to Text

Unit-V

Practical Criticism
Rhetoric & Prosody

Recommended Reading:

Debating Texts: Readings in Twentieth-Century Literary Theory and Method. Ed. Rick Rylance.

Paper-IV :Indian Writing in English

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course including three passages
for explanation

Unit-II Poetry

*Toru Dutt : “Our Casuarina Tree”

*Rabindranath Tagore : Extract from Gitanjali
*Sarojini Naidu : “Purdah Nashin”
“Songs of Radha”

*Sri Aurobindo : “The Rose of God”

*Nissim Ezekiel : “The Couple”

*Jayant Mahapatra : “Dawn at Puri”

“The Exile”

*A.K. Ramanujan : “A River”

“Obituary”

*Kamla Das : “An Introduction”

“The Freaks”

Unit-III Fiction

Raja Rao : Kanthapura

Anita Desai : In Custody
Arundhati Roy : The God of Small Things
Unit-IV Drama

Mahesh Dattani : Tara

Vijay Tendulkar : Silence, the Court is in Session
Pratap Sharma : A Touch of Brightness

Unit-V Prose

Nirad C. Chaudhuri : The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

Jawahar Lal Nehru : “In Naini Prison”
Amitav Ghosh : Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma

Paper-V :Communication for Business and Media

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course including three passages
for explanation.

Unit-II Basics of Communication, concept, nature and features. Distinction between

General and Technical Communication. The flow of Communication-downward,
upward, lateral or horizontal

Unit-III Business Communication

Proposal Writing
Report Writing
Project Report
Fundamentals of Documentation

Unit-IV Language Sensitivity

Cross-Cultural Communication
Media and Communication
Writing for Radio and Television

Unit-V Writing for the Print Media

Students will write Book Review/ Film Review/ Editorial/ Report/ Opinion piece/
Travelogue/ Brochures/ Pamphlets/ Advertisements

Paper-VI :Contemporary Indian Literature in English Translation

Unit-I : Ten short-answer questions based on the entire course including three passages
for explanation.

Unit-II

Bama Faustina Soosairaj : Kurukku

Om Prakash Valmiki : Joothan

Unit-III

Sadat Hassan Manto : “Toba Tek Singh”

Qurratulain Haider : The Housing Society
From A Season of Betrayal: A Short Story and Two Novellas
Ed. C.M. Naim
Trans: C.M. Naim & Susan Schwarvz Gilbert
Kali for Women 1999

Unit-IV

Prem Chand : Godan

Sri Lal Shukla : Raag Darbari

Unit-V

Adya Rangacharya : Listen Janmejay

Mahasweta Devi : Mother of 1084
 Department of English and Modern European Languages
University of Lucknow

M.A. (English)
(w.e.f. 2014-2015)
Mode of Evaluation:

Each Master’s Programme shall have four Semesters.

No. of papers in each Semester shall be four

Topics for the Dissertations of both the University & all the colleges who run P.G. in English will have to be
approved by the Board of Studies in the beginning of the IV Semester. Allotment of Supervisors will also be
done by Board of Studies.

SEMESTER I

Paper I : English Society, Literature & Thought

(16th Century including Chaucer)
Paper II : English Society, Literature & Thought
(17th & 18th Centuries)
Paper III : English Society, Literature and Thought
(19th Century)
Paper IV : Structure of English

SEMESTER II

Paper V : English Society, Literature and Thought

(20th Century)
Paper VI : Readings in Literary Criticism
Paper VII : English Language Teaching
Paper VIII : Literature and Gender
SEMESTER III

Note: Students will have to offer 4 papers in all one from each of the following groups:
Optional Papers will be functional only when minimum five students offer that paper.

Group A

Paper IX(A) : American Literature

Paper IX(B) : New Literatures in English

Group B

Paper X(A) : Forms of Popular Literature

Paper X(B) : Indian Literature in English

Group C

Paper XI(A) : Contemporary Literary Theories

Paper XI(B) : Stylistics and Discourse Analysis
Group D

Paper XII(A) : Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature

Paper XII(B) : 4 Term papers : (Three on each paper offered by the student and one of his/her choice under the
supervision of the teacher responsible for teaching that particular paper. Each term paper should be approx
5000-7000 words. Topics for the term papers (both the University & all the colleges who run P.G. in English)
will be decided by the Department of English and M.E.L., Lucknow University.

SEMESTER IV

Note: Students will have to offer 3 papers in all one from each of the following groups:
Optional Papers will be functional only when minimum five students offer that paper.

Paper XIII : Viva-Voce (Compulsory)

Group A

Paper XIV(A) : African and Carribean Literature

Paper XIV(B) : Canadian Literature
Paper XIV(C) : Comparative Literature

Group B

Paper XV(A) : Translation: Theory and Practice

Paper XV(B) : Literature and Films
Paper XV(C) : Indian Literature in Translation

Group C

Paper XVI (A) : Australian Literature

Paper XVI (B) : SAARC Literature in English
Paper XVI(C): Dissertation

Topics for the Dissertations of both the University & all the colleges who run P.G. in English will have to be
approved by the Board of Studies in the beginning of the IV Semester. Allotment of Supervisors will also be
done by Board of Studies.
 SEMESTER I

Paper I : English Society, Literature & Thought

(16th Century including Chaucer)

Unit I : Social & Intellectual Background

*Francis Bacon : “Of Ambition”
“Of Travel”
“Of Revenge”
Unit II : Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer : The General Prologue To
The Canterbury Tales
Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queene (Book I)
Unit III : Drama
Christopher Marlowe : *Dr. Faustus
Ben Jonson : The Alchemist
Unit IV : William Shakespeare
:*Hamlet
:*The Tempest

Structure of the Question paper

1. There will be four passages for explanation from the starred texts (4 marks each) 4x4=16 marks
2. There will be six short -answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 6x4=24
3. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4= 60

Paper II : English Society, Literature & Thought

(17th & 18th Centuries)

Unit I : Social & Intellectual Background

John Dryden : Mac Flecknoe
Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock
Unit II : Poetry
*John Donne : “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
“The Good Morrow”
“The Flea”
*Andrew Marvell : “To His Coy Mistress”
*John Milton : Paradise Lost, Book I
Unit III : Drama
*John Webster : The White Devil
William Congrave : The Way of the World
Unit IV : Fiction
Daniel Defoe : Moll Flanders
Jonathan Swift : Gulliver’s Travels

Structure of the Question paper

1. There will be four passages for explanation from the starred texts (4 marks each) 4x4=16 marks
2. There will be six short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 6x4=24
3. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4= 60

Paper III : English Society, Literature and Thought

 (19th Century)

Unit I : Social and Intellectual Background

Matthew Arnold : Culture and Anarchy
Unit II : Poetry
William Wordsworth : * “Tintern Abbey”
[Link] :* “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
John Keats : “The Eve of St. Agnes”
A.L. Tennyson : “In Memoriam”
Robert Browning : *“Rabbi Ben Ezra”
Matthew Arnold :* “The Scholar Gypsy”
Unit III : Fiction
Jane Austen : Emma
Emile Bronte : Wuthering Heights
Thomas Hardy : Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Unit IV : Prose
Mary Wollstonecraft : A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and
Moral Subjects
John Stuart Mill : On The Subjection of Women
John Ruskin : An Idealist’s Arraignment of the Age

Structure of the Question paper

1. There will be four passages for explanation from the starred texts (4 marks each) 4x4=16 marks
2. There will be six short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 6x4=24
3. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks, each. 15x4= 60

Paper IV : Structure of English

Unit I : Language & Linguistics:

Properties of Human Language
Linguistics as a science
Models of Linguistic analysis
Unit II : Phonology of English:
Vowels & Consonants
Phonemes & Allophones
Word-Accent
Unit III : English Morphology & Syntax:
Morphemes & Allomorphs
Processes of word formation
Structure of the Noun Phrase & Verb Phrase
Unit IV : Use of English
Language Variation
Varieties of English
Languages in Contact
Structure of Question Papers
1. There will be ten short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 10x4=40
2. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4= 60

SEMESTER II

Paper V : English Society, Literature and Thought

 (20th Century)

Unit I : Social and Intellectual Background

Albert Camus : The Myth of Sisyphus Chapters I & IV
Jean-Paul Sartre : Existentialism and Human Emotions
Unit II : Poetry
*W.B. Yeats : “Among School Children”
“Byzantium”
“Easter 1916”
“A Prayer for my Daughter”
“Sailing to Byzantium”
*T.S. Eliot : The Waste Land
*Ted Hughes : “The Jaguar”
“Voodoo”
“Crow Alights
*Gerard Manley
Hopkins : “Windhover”
Seamus Heaney : “Digging”
“Punishment”
“May”
Unit III : Fiction
D.H. Lawrence : Women in Love
Virginia Woolf : To The Light House
William Golding : Lord of the Flies
Unit IV : Drama
Henrik Ibsen : Hedda Gebler
Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot

Structure of the Question paper

1. There will be four passages for explanation from the starred texts (4 marks each) 4x4=16 marks
2. There will be six short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 6x4=24
3. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks, each. 15x4= 60

Paper VI : Readings in Literary Criticism

Unit I : Classical Theory

*Aristotle : Poetics
Indian Literary theories with special reference to the theories of Rasa,
Dhwani, Vakrokti and Auchitya.
Unit II : Renaissance, Neoclassical, Romantic and Victorian.
Sir Philip Sidney : An Apology for Poetry
John Dryden : An Essay of Dramatic Poesie
*S.T. Coleridge : Biographia Literaria, Chap XIV
Matthew Arnold : The Study of Poetry
Unit III : Modern Theory
M.H. Abrams : “Orientation to Critical Theories”
*T.S. Eliot : “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, “Hamlet and its Problems”
Wimsatt & Beardsley : “The Intentional Fallacy”

Unit IV : Contemporary Theory

Jacques Derrida : “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human
 Sciences”
Stanley Fish : “Is there a text in the class?”
*Elaine Showalter : “Towards a Feminist Poetics”

Structure of the Question paper

1. There will be four passages for explanation from the starred texts (4 marks each) 4x4=16 marks
2. There will be six short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 6x4=24
3. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4= 60

Paper VII : English Language Teaching

Unit I : Language Acquisition & Language Learning:

Theories of language acquisition
Language learning & teaching
Unit II : Methods of Teaching English
Grammar – Translation Method
Direct Method
Communicative Language Teaching
Unit III : English Language Teaching in India:
Problems of Teaching English in India
Contrastive & Error Analysis
Unit IV : English for Specific Purposes
Concept of ‘register’
Features of some register -types in English
Structure of Question Papers
1. There will be ten short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 10x4=40
2. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4= 60

Paper VIII : Literature and Gender

Unit I : Simone de Beauvoir : The Second Sex

Virginia Woolf : A Room of One’s Own
Unit II : Mahadevi Verma : Srinkhala Ki Kariyan
Mahashweta Devi : Draupadi
Rashid Jehan : Behind the Veil
Unit III : Bharati Mukherjee : Jasmine
Anita Desai : Fire on The Mountain
Sujata Bhatt : “A Story of Pearse”
Unit IV : Tehmina Durrani : My Feudal Lord
Maxine Hong Kingston : The Woman Warrior
Maya Angelou : “Phenomenal Woman”
“Still I Rise”

Structure of the Question paper

1. There will be ten short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 10x4=40
2. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4= 60

SEMESTER III

Note: Students will have to offer 4 papers in all one from each of the following groups:
Optional Papers will be functional only when minimum five students offer that papers.
Paper IX(A) : American Literature

Unit I : Wallace Stevens : * “Sunday Morning”

“Thirteen ways of Looking at a black bird”
: Sylvia Plath : *“Daddy”
*“Lady Lazarus”
Adrienne Rich : * “Diving Into the Wreck”
* “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”

Unit-II : 20th Century American novel

William Faulkner : Light in August

Saul Bellow : Herzog
Toni Morrison : Beloved

Unit III Sam Shepard : Buried Child

Edward Albee : Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Unit IV Sherewood Anderson : “Death in the Woods”

F. Scott Fitzgerald : “Babylon Revisited”
John Steinbeck : “Flight”
Katherine Anne Porter: “Flowering Judas”
Eudora Welty : “Death of a traveling Salesman”
Richard Wright : “The Man who was almost a Man”
James Baldwin : “Sonny’s Blues”
Flannery O’ Connor : “A Good man is hard to find”
Bernard Malamud : “The Magic Barrel”
Joyce Carol Oates : “Upon the Sweeping Flood”

Structure of the Question paper

[Link] will be four passages for explanation from the starred texts (4 marks each) 4x4=16 marks
2. There will be six short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 6x4=24
3. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4= 60

Paper IX(B) : New Literatures in English

Unit I : African and Caribbean Literature

V.S. Naipaul : A House For Mr. Biswas
Chinua Achebe : Arrow of God
Wole Soyinka : Kongi’s Harvest

Unit II : Australian Literature

Patrick White : Voss
*A.D. Hope : “Australia”
“Death of the Bird”
*Judith Wright : “The Company of Lovers”
“Woman to Man”
Ray Lawler : Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Unit III : Indian English Literature
Vikram Seth : The Golden Gate
Amitav Ghosh : The Sea of Poppies
*Jayant Mahapatra : “The Lost Children of America”
*A.K. Ramanujan : “The Striders”

Unit IV : Canadian Literature

Margaret Atwood : Surfacing
George Ryga : The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
*Earle Birney : “The Bear on the Delhi Road”
“Bushed”

Structure of the Question paper

1. There will be four passages for explanation from the starred texts (4 marks each) 4x4=16 marks
2. There will be six short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 6x4=24
3. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4= 60

Paper-X(A) : Forms of Popular Literature

Unit –I : Science Fiction

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine

Unit-II : Detective Fiction

Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Ian Fleming - From Russia With Love

Unit-III : Travel Narrative

Vikram Seth - From Heaven Lake
Bill Aitkin - Footloose in Himalayas
William Dalrymple -Age of Kali

Unit-IV : Children’s Fiction

Satyajit Ray - Adventures of Feluda
Salman Rushdie - Haroun & The Sea of Stories
Ruskin Bond - A Room on the Roof

Paper X(B) : Indian Literature in English

Unit I : Fiction
R.K. Narayan : The Guide
Manohar Malgaonka : A Bend in the Ganges
Mulk Raj Anand : Untouchable
Unit II : Drama
Girish Karnad : The Fire and the Rain
Asif Currimbhoy : The Doldrummers
Unit III : Non-Fictional Prose
*Mahatma Gandhi : Hind Swaraj
Nirad C. Chaudhary : A Passage to England
Unit IV : Poetry
Henry Derozio : The Harp of India
To My Native Land
Nissim Ezekiel : “Goodbye Party for Pushpa T.S.”
“Background Casually”
“Jewish Wedding In Bombay”
Jayant Mahapatra : “Hunger”
“Grandfather”
*A.K. Ramanujan : “Love Poem for a wife”
“Small Scale reflections on a great House”
*Kamala Das : “The Dance of the Eunuchs”
“The Stone Age”
(From Indian English Poetry Since 1950: An Anthology, ed. Vilas Sarang, Disha Books, 1995)

Structure of the Question paper

1. There will be four passages for explanation from the starred texts (4 marks each) 4x4=16 marks
2. There will be six short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 6x4=24
3. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4= 60

Paper XI(A) : Contemporary Literary Theories

Unit I : Northrop Frye : “Myth, Fiction, and Displacement”

Raymond Williams : “Romantic Artist” from Culture and Society
Unit II : Victor Shklovsky : From Art as Technique
M.M. Bakhtin : “Discourse in the Novel” from The Dialogic
Imagination
Unit III : Louis Althusser : From Ideology and the State
Wolfgang Iser : From The Reading Process
Unit IV : Helene Cixous : “Castration or Decapitation”?
Roland Barthes : “The Death of the Author”
Edward Said : From Orientalism

Note : These essays are available in The English Critical Tradition, Vol. II, edited by S. Ramaswamy and V.S.
Seturaman (Macmillan, 1986) Literary Criticism: A Reading edited by [Link] and J.M. Mohanty (Oxford
University Press, 1993) and Patricia Waugh & Philop Rice (eds.) Modern Literary Theory: Second Edition,
Edward Arnold, London, 1992.

Structure of the Question paper

1. There will be ten short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 10x4=40
2. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4= 60

Paper XI(B) : Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

Unit I : Style & Stylistics:

Language use
Language of literature
Stylistics and literary criticism
Unit II : Discourse Analysis
Text and discourse
Coherence and Cohesion
Unit III : Pragmatics:
 Language and communication
Concept of Pragmatics
The Co-operative Principles
Unit IV : Meaning in Interaction:
Conversational Principles
Politeness Principles
Speech Acts
Structure of Question Papers
1. There will be ten short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 10x4=40
2. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4= 60

Paper XII(A) : Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature

Unit I : Prose

B. Ashcroft, G. Griffiths &

H. Tiffin : “Cutting the Ground: Critical Models of Post Colonial
Literatures” from The Empire Writes Back (London & New
York, Routledge 1989)
Harish Trivedi : Chapter IX and X from Colonial Transactions (Calcutta,
Papyrus)
Edward Said : Chapter 12- “Among the Believers”
Chapter 17- “Reflections on Exile”
Chapter 46- “The Clash of Definitions”
(from Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays)
Ngugi wa Thiongo : Decolonising the Mind
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak : “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (select excerpt)

Unit II : Fiction

Premchand : Karmabhumi
Srilal Shukla : Raag Darbari
Salman Rushdie : Midnight’s Children
Shashi Tharoor : The Great Indian Novel

Unit III : Poetry

Eunice de Souza : “Transcend Self, You Say”
“de Souza Prabhu”
Arun Kolatkar : “Jejuri”
Meena Alexander : “Migrant Memory”
“Birthplace with Buried Stones”
Unit IV : Drama
Girish Karnad : Hayavadan
Datta Bhagat : Whirlpool
Manjula Padmanabhan : Lights Out

Structure of the Question paper

1. There will be ten short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 10x4=40
2. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4= 60
Paper XII(B) : 4 Term papers : (Three on each paper offered by the student and one of his/her choice under
the supervision of the teacher responsible for teaching that particular paper. Each term paper should be approx
5000-7000 words. Topics for the term papers (both the University & all the colleges who run P.G. in English)
will be decided by the Department of English and M.E.L., Lucknow University.

SEMESTER IV

Note: Students will have to offer 3 papers in all one from each of the following groups:
Optional Papers will be functional only when minimum five students offer that papers.

Paper XIII : Viva-Voce (Compulsory)

Group A

Paper XIV(A) : African and Carribean Literature

Unit I :The following poems from An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry, edited by C.D.
Narsimhaiah, Macmillan, 1990 for detailed study
*Dennis Brutus : “You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed”
*Gabriel Okara : “The Mystic Drum”
*Wole Soyinka : “Dedication”
*Edward Brathwaite : “Tizzic”
*Derek Walcott : “A Far Cry from Africa”
*Mervyn Morris : “Literary evening, Jamaica”
Unit II : V.S. Naipaul : An Area of Darkness
George Lamming : The Pleasure of Exile
Unit III : Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart
J. Ngugi wa Thiongo : A Grain of Wheat
Unit IV Athol Frugard : Sizwe Banzi is Dead
Femi Osofisan : Once Upon Four Robbers

Structure of the Question paper

1. There will be four passages for explanation from the starred texts (4 marks each) 4x4=16 marks
2. There will be six short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 6x4=24
3. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4= 60

Paper XIV(B) : Canadian Literature

Unit-I : Prose

Catharine Parr Traill - “Letter IX”, “LetterX”

From The Backwoods of Canada
Susanna Moodie -“Brian, The Still Hunter”
From Roughing It in he Bush
W.H. New - A History of Canadian Literature
“Codes of History”,
“Codes of Gender”
“Codes of Fantasy and Folklore” and
“Parodic codes
M.G. Vassanji - “Am I a Canadian Writer”
Unit II : Poetry

Susanna Moodie - “Indian Summer”

A.L. Purdy - “The Country North to Belleville”
“Wilderness Gothic”
D.G. Jones - “The River : North of Guelph”
Margaret Atwood - “Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer”
Dorothy Livesay - “Waking in the Dark”
Uma Parameswaran - “Trishanku”

Unit III : Fiction

Rohinton Mistry : Such a Long Journey

Michael Ondaatje : The English Patient
David Williams : Eye of the Father

Unit IV
Drama
George F. Walker : Escape from Happiness
Judith Thompson : The Crackwalker
Allison Mc Wood : Shakespeare’s Brain

Structure of Question Papers

1. There will be four passages for explanation from the starred texts (4 marks each) 4x4=16 marks
2. There will be six short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 6x4=24
3. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4= 60

Paper-XIV(C) : Comparative Literature

Unit I : Comparative Literature : Definition and Scope

Development of the Discipline
Problems and Methods in Comparative Literature

Susan Bassnett: Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction (Introduction, Chapter I).

“Reflections on Comparative Literature in the Twenty-First Century”
Sisir Kumar Das. “Comparative Literature in India: A Historical Approach”
Amiya Dev. “Towards Comparative Indian Literature”

Unit II : 1. Freud : “Daydreaming and Literature”

2. E. Balibur and P. Macheray : “Literature as an Ideological Form”
3. Paul de Mann : “The Epistemology of Metaphor”

Unit III : 1. Rassundari Devi : Amar Jiban (My Life)

2. Mary Prince : The History of Mary Prince
3. Anne Frank : The Diary of Anne Frank
4. Maya Angelou : I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Unit : 1. Aristophanes : The Frogs

 2. Shudrak : Mrichchakatikam (The Clay Cart)
3. Moliere : The Miser
4. Luigi Pirandello : Six Characters in Search of an Author

Structure of the Question Paper

1. There will be ten short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 10x4=40
2. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4=60

Group B

Paper XV(A) : Translation: Theory and Practice

Unit I : The Concept of Translation:

Social significance of translation
Some definitions of translation – eastern and western
Some terminological distinctions
Unit II : Equivalence in Translation:
Concept of ‘equivalence’
Theories of translation
Unit III : Problems of Translation:
Socio-cultural dimensions of translation
Machine translation – merits and demerits
Unit IV : Practical Translation of passages from Hindi/Urdu to English and vice-versa

Structure of the Question paper

1. There will be ten short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 10x4=40
2. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4= 60

Paper XV(B) : Literature and Films

Unit I : Basic Concepts: The Cinematic image, aspects of mis-en-scene, editing styles.
Space in the Cinema: Scale, Shooting angle, Depth, Cutting, Camera movement & framing.
Time in the Cinema
Physical Time: Time variation within a shot, Accelerated motion, slow motion, stopped
motion, Montage and Physical time, the flash back.
Psychological Time: Suspense, Rhythm & Tempo
Dramatic Time
Space-Time in Cinema
Space-Time in Cinematographic movement
Space-Time and montage: Theories of montage and realism

Mis-en-scene Characteristics: Décor, Costume & Makeup

Photographic Characteristics: Lighting, Soft Focus, Double Exposure, Negarive Image &
Distortion.
Colour : Dramatic use of colour & Special effects.
The Fifth Dimension: Sound
Film Editing
Authorship

Unit II : Adaptation of Literature to Film: Theory and Analysis

 Study of Film genres & sub-genres: Chick flick, war, Gangster/Crime, Comedy, Biopics,
Drama/Suspense/Thriller, Romance, Sci-Fi, Disaster, Epic/Historical, Guy films, Musicals,
Horror, Action, Adventure.
Analysis of the following films based on literary texts

In Love and War

A Farewell to Arms
To Kill A Mockingbird
To the Lighthouse
Frankenstein
Mistress of Spices
Hazar Chaurasi Ki Maa
Grapes of Wrath

Additional Recommended Viewing

Les Misrables
Johnny Mnemonic
The Human Stain
Provoked
The Colour Purple

Unit III : Relation of Theatre to Films

Study of cinematic versions of Plays

Shakespeare

Macbeth (Directed by Jack Gold for BBC Series)

Maqbool (Directed by Vishal Bharadwaj)
Throne of Blood (Directed by Akira Kurosawa)
Romeo & Juliet (3 Versions) 1. Directed by Baz Luhrmann 2. Directed by Franco Zefferelli 3.
Directed by Renato Castellani
Death of a Salesman (Based on a play by Afthur Miller)
My Fair Lady (Adaption of Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw)
Utsav (based on Mrichchakatika by Bhasa)
Phantom of the Opera (based on work by French Writer Gaston Leroux and stage musical by
Andrew Lloyd Weber)

Addition Recommended Viewing

Omkara
Othello
Dance like a Man
Angels in America
Cat on a Hot Tin roof
Street Car named desire
Joan of Arc

Unit IV : 1. Film as Literature

 2. Study of the following Films

1. The Hours (Directed by Stephen Daldry, based on the life of Virginia Woolfe)
2. Slumdog Millionaire (Directed by Danny Boyle)
3. Pather Panchali (Directed by Satyajit Ray)
4. Erin Brockovich (Directed by Steven Sonderbergh)
5. Schindler’s List (Directed by Steven Speilberg)
6. Khaamosh Paani (Directed by Sabiha Sumar)

Additional Recommended Viewing

7. Sylvia (Directed by Christine Jeffs based on the life of American Author & Poet Sylvia
Plath)
8. Tom & Viv (Based on the life of T.S. Eliot)
9. Rang De Basanti (Directed by Om Prakash Mehra)
10. Iris (Directed by Richard Eyre adapted from the novel by John Bayley, based on the life
of Iris Murdoch)
11. Frida (Directed by Juilie Taymor, based on the life of Painter Frida Kahlo)
12. Gandhi (Directed by Richard Attenborough, based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi)
13. What Dreams May Come (Directed by Vincent Ward)
14. Jodha Akbar (Directed by Ashotosh Gowarikar)
15. Dahan (Directed by Rituparno Ghosh)
16. Tamas (Directed by Govind Nihalani)
17. Meghe Dhaka Tara
18. Ek Din Pratidin

The Cinema as Art : Reality & Artistic Creation

Understanding Film texts : Meaning & Experience
Critical Analysis of Films

Structure of the Question paper

1. There will be ten short-answer question to be answered in 150 wards, of four marks each 10x4=40
2. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each 15x4=60

Paper XV(C) : Indian Literature in Translation

Unit I : Drama

Kalidasa : Shakuntala
Mohan Rakesh : Adhe Adhure
Indira Parthasarthy : Aurangzeb
Surendra Verma : From Sunset to Sunrise

Unit II : Fiction
Ban Bhatta : Kadambari
U.R. Ananthmurthy : Samskara
Yashpal : Divya
Ismat Chugtai : “Chauthi Ka Joda”
Shivani : “Sati”
Urmila Pawar : “Mother”
Unit III : Poetry

General acquaintance with great Indian Epics-The Ramayan and Mahabharat

Jaishankar Prasad : Kamayani
Rabindra Nath Tagore : Gitanjali
Mahadevi Varma : “Why an introduction, since you are within me”

Unit IV : Autobiography/ Biography

Amrita Pritam : Revenue Stamp

M.K. Indira : Phaniyamma
Amrit Rai : Premchand: His Life and Times (Translated by Harish
Trivedi)

Structure of the Question paper

1. There will be ten short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 10x4=40
2. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4= 60

Group C

Paper XVI(A) : Australian Literature

Unit I : *James Mcauley : “Invocation”, “To Any Poet”

Dorothy Porter : “Crete”
Kevin Hart : “Her Name”
“Flame Tree”
*Peter Porter : “Your Attention, Please”
“Competition is ‘healthy’”
Unit II : Sally Morgan : My Place
Jack Davis : Kullark
Unit III : Peter Kenna : Hard God
Randolf Stow : The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
Unit IV : David Williamson : The Removalists
Christopher Koch : Across the Sea Wall

Structure of the Question paper

1. There will be four passages for explanation from the starred texts (4 marks each) 4x4=16 marks
2. There will be six short-answer questions to be answered in 150 words, of four marks each 6x4=24
3. There will be four long-answer questions with internal choices of 15 marks each. 15x4= 60

Paper-XVI(B) : SAARC Literature in English

Unit-I : India

Amitav Ghosh- The Glass Palace

Nayantara Sehgal- Rich Like Us
Manjula Padmanabhan - Harvest
 Agha Shahid Ali – “Postcard from Kashmir”
“Snowmen”

Unit-II : Pakistan and Bangla Desh

Zulfikar Ghose - “The Loss of India”

Kishwar Naheed - “I am not that Woman”
Ahmed Ali - Twilight in Delhi
Monica Ali - Brick Lane
Kamila Shamsie - Broken Verses

Unit-III : Bhutan, Nepal and Afghanistan

Kunzang Choden - The Circle of Karma

Manjushree Thapa - The Tutor of History
Khaled Hosseini : The Kite Runner

Unit-IV : Sri Lanka & Maldives

Anne Ranasinghe - “July 1983”, and “Plead Mercy”

Yasmine Gooneratne - A Change of Skies
Shyam Selvadurai - Funny Boy
Michael Ondaatje - “Bearhug”
“Speaking to you” (From Rock Bottom)

Paper XVI(C): Dissertation

Topics for the Dissertations of both the University & all the colleges who run P.G. in English will have to be
approved by the Board of Studies in the beginning of the IV Semester. Allotment of Supervisors will also be
done by Board of Studies.