Maarshid Opu
Fourth Year, 08 Courses (+Viva Voce), 750 Marks
E 401
E 402
E 403
E 404
Twentieth Century English Poetry
½ unit
50 Marks
 William Butler Yeats
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”, “No Second Troy”, “Easter 1916”, “The Second
Coming”, “A Prayer for My Daughter”, “Leda and the Swan”, “Byzantium”, “The
Secret Rose”
 Thomas Stearns Eliot
“The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”, The Waste Land
 Wystan Hugh Auden
“Spain 1937”, “Musée des Beaus Arts”, “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”, “The Shield
of Achilles”
 Dylan Thomas
"After the Funeral", "Fern Hill"
 Ted Hughes
“Pike”, “Jaguar”, “Thought Fox”, “Examination at the Womb-Door”
 Seamus Heaney
“Digging”, “Punishment”, “Station Island”
Twentieth Century English Novel
 Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
 James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
 Edward Morgan Forster
A Passage to India
 Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway
 David Herbert Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
Twentieth Century English Drama
 George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan
 John Millington Synge
The Playboy of the Western World
 Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
 John Osborne
 Harold Pinter
 Tom Stoppard
Look Back in Anger
The Caretaker
Rosencrants and Guildenstern are Dead
Twentieth Century American Poetry and Drama
1 unit
100 Marks
1 unit
100 Marks
1 unit
100 Marks
 Robert Frost
“Mending Wall”, “Death of a Hired Man”, “The Road Not Taken”, “Birches”,
“Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “‘Out, Out—‘”, “Design”
 William Carlos Williams
“The Portrait of a Lady”, “The Red Wheelbarrow”, “This is Just to Say”, “A Sort
of a Song”, “To Elsie”
 Eugene O’Neill
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
 Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman
 Robert Lowell
“A Quaker Graveyard in the Nantucket”, “Skunk Hour”, “For the Union Dead”
 Allen Ginsberg
Howl, "September on Jessore Road"
 Sylvia Plath
“Daddy”, “Lady Lazarus”, “Ariel”
 Imamu Amiri Baraka
“Somebody Blew Up America", "Ka'Ba"
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Maarshid Opu
E 405
E 406
E 407
Twentieth Century American Novel and Prose
½ unit
 William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying
 F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
 Ernest Hemingway
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “A Clean, Well-lighted Place”
 Saul Bellow
Seize the Day
 Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye
Postcolonial Literature: Australian, Canadian and Indian
1 unit
50 Marks
100 Marks
 Patrick White
A Fringe of Leaves
 Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient
 Kamala Das
“An Introduction,” “The Invitation,” “The Freaks”, “The Looking-Glass”, “The
Old Playhouse”
 Nissim Ezekiel
“Background, Casually”, “Night of the Scorpion”, “The Visitor”,
“Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.”
 Amitav Ghosh
The Shadow Lines
 R K Narayan
Waiting for the Mahatma
 Rajagopal Parthasarathy
Rough Passage (selection)
 Salman Rushdie
Midnight’s Children
Introduction to Theory
1 unit
100 Marks
 Structuralism and Semiotics
Sign; langue and parole; binary oppositions; mythemes; diachrony and
synchrony; denotation and connotation; metaphor and metonymy;
paradigm and syntagm; morphology of the folktale
 Russian Formalism
literaturnost (literariness); ostranenie (defamiliarization); 'baring the device';
foregrounding; fabula and syuzhet
 Psychoanalytic Criticism
The Unconscious (Freud); id, ego and superego (Freud); Oedipus complex;
The Mirror Stage (Lacan); The Imaginary, the Real and the Symbolic
(Lacan); The Name-of-the-Father; desire
 New Critcism
Close Reading; Affective Fallacy and Intentional Fallacy
 Marxist Literary Theory
Base and superstructure; Interpellation; RSA and ISA (Althusser); Ideology;
Cultural Materialism (Williams)
 Reader Response Theory
'horizon of expectations'; Interpret[at]ive community; Implied reader
 Feminist Literary Theory
Other (de Beauvoir); Difference (Cixous); Ecriture feminine (Cixous);
Gynocriticism (Showalter); 'Images of Women' criticism; Black feminist
criticism (Smith)
 Modernism
Modern, modernity, modernization, and modernism
 Postmdoernism
Postmodern, Postmodernity, Postmodernization, Postmodernism; Grandnarrative (Lyotard);Simulacrum and Hyperreality (Baudrillard); Pastiche
(Jameson); Cyborg
 Post-structuralism and
Deconstruction
differánce; jouissance; aporia; the death of the author; absence;
metaphysics of presence; alterity; heteroglossia; carnivalesque; rhizome;
the differand; erasure; grand narrative; logocentrism; trace; Intertextuality
 New Historicism and
Cultural Studies
 Colonial Discourse Theory
Discourse; Knowledge/power (Foucault); Nature, production and reception
of culture; ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture; Popular culture; Media and mass media
Orientalism (Said); Ambivalence (Bhabha)
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Maarshid Opu
E 408
Professional Communications and Research Methodology
1 unit
100 Marks
BUSINESS WRITING
 Business Report
 Business Letter
 Business Correspondence: Job application; Curriculum Vitae; Agenda and minutes; Internal memoranda, etc.
PUBLIC SPEAKING
 Social-Ritual Speeches: Announcements; Welcomes; Award presentations; Acceptance speeches; Introductions;
Nominations; Storytelling; Toasts; Eulogies
 The Informative Speech
 The Demonstration Speech
WRITING FOR THE MEDIA
 Creating Media Text: Press release, Feature writing, etc.
 Notes and Advertisements
 Writing Book Review
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
 Research: Definition; Research questions; Generating ideas
 Sample Schedule
 Writing Proposal
 Primary and Secondary Sources
 Evaluating and Analyzing Materials
 Writing the Paper: (a) outline, (b) abstract, (c) first draft, (d) second draft, (e) final draft
 Documentation: citation, footnote/endnote, bibliography
 Presenting the Paper
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