Course Code: MAEN 305(A): Twentieth Century Novel (GE)
SEMESTER III
Credits 4
L.T.P
4.0.0.
Course Outcomes:
After completion of the course students will be able to:
CO1 Familiarize themselves with important themes and concepts of twentieth-century literature
CO2 Understand the connections and distinctions between modernism and post-colonial literatures.
CO3 Develop the skill of analysing texts in terms of their specific linguistic, formal, and generic characteristics
CO4 Acquire proficiency in making meaningful comparisons across time and space in literary texts.
CO5 Develop effective written arguments about literary texts.
Unit 1:
Franz Kafka The Trial,
tr. Willa and Edwin Muir (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1953).
Unit
2:
James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Unit
3:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred
Years of Solitude, tr. Gregory Rabassa (London: Harper and Row, 1970)
Unit
4:
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
Unit
5:
Sigmund Freud Sections VII and VIII,
from Civilization and its Discontents, in Freud, Civilization, Society and
Religion, tr. Joan Riviere, Penguin Freud Library, vol. 12 (Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1991), pp. 315-340.
Suggested Readings:
1. Sigmund Freud, ‘Theory of Dreams’, ‘Oedipus Complex’, and ‘The Structure of the Unconscious’, in The Modern Tradition, ed. Richard Ellman et. al. (Oxford: OUP, 1965) pp. 571, 578–80, 559–63. T.S. Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, in Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th edn, vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New York: Norton, 2006) pp. 2319–25.
2. Raymond Williams, ‘Introduction’, in The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence (London: Hogarth Press, 1984) pp. 9–27.
3. Blamires, H. Twentieth-Century English Literature. London: Macmillan, 1991.
4. Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern British Novel. London: Penguin, 2001.
5. Dodsworth, Martin, ed. The Twentieth Century. London: Penguin, 1994.
6. Williams, Linda R, ed. The Twentieth Century: A Guide to Literature from 1900 to the Present Day. London: Bloomsbury, 1992
- Teacher: SAUMYA BISHT
Course
Code: MAEN
104(A): Language and Linguistics (DSE)
SEMESTER I
Credits 4
L.T.P
4.0.0.
Course Outcomes:
After completion of the course students will be able to:
CO1 Identify the basic tools essential systematic study of language.
CO2 Understanding the intricacies of world languages.
CO3 Examine ways to improve communication between people, contributing to translation activities.
CO4 Analyse the politics of language
CO5 Assess the delicate relationship between language and literature.
Unit 1:
Language: language and communication;
properties of human language; language varieties:
standard and non-standard language, dialect, register, slang, pidgin, Creole; varieties of English; language change
Unit 2:
Structuralism: Ferdinand de Saussure; synchronic and diachronic approaches;
langue and parole; sign,
signifier, signified and semiology; syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations Saussure, Ferdinand. 1966. Course in general linguistics. New York: McGraw Hill Introduction: Chapter 3, Part I: Chapters 1 & 2, Part II: Synchronic
linguistics, Part
III: Diachronic linguistics.
Unit 3:
Phonology and Morphology: phoneme, classification of English speech sounds, suprasegmental features, syllable;
morpheme, word, word classes, inflection, derivation, compounding, English
morphology.
Unit 4:
Syntax and semantics: categories and constituents, predicates and argument structure, thematic roles, case; phrase structure; lexical meaning relations; implicature, entailment and presupposition; maxims of conversation, speech act.
Unit 5:
Akmajian, A., R. A. Demers and R, M. Harnish, Linguistics: An Introduction to Language
and Communication, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1984;
Indian edition, Prentice Hall,
1991). Chapters 3 &
4.
Suggested Readings:
1. Fromkin, Victoria ed. 2000. Linguistics: An introduction to linguistic theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Chapters 2, 11 & 12
2. Fromkin, V., and R. Rodman, An Introduction to Language, 2nd ed. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974). Chapters: 3, 6 & 7
3. Akmajian, A., R. A. Demers and R, M. Harnish, Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1984; Indian edition, Prentice Hall, 1991). Chapters 5 & 6
4. Chierchia, Gennaro and Sally McConnell-Ginet. 2000. Meaning and grammar: An introduction to semantics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
5. Chomsky, Noam. 1965. Aspects of the theory of syntax. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Chapter 1: Methodological preliminaries
6. Fromkin, Victoria ed. 2000. Linguistics: An introduction to linguistic theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Chapters: 4 & 5
7. Fromki n, V., and R. Rodman, An Introduction to Language, 2nd ed. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974). Chapters 4 & 5
- Teacher: SAUMYA BISHT
- Teacher: SAUMYATA JOSHI