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Paper 5: ENG-HC-3016 History of English Literature and Forms

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Recommended Books: 

• B. Ifor Evans: A Short History of English Literature (available for purchase and on 

the internet archive) 

• Andrew Sanders: The Short Oxford History of English Literature (1994) 

• John Peck and Martin Coyle: A Brief History of English Literature (2002) 

• Dinah Birch (Editor): The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7th edition, 

2009) 

• The Norton Anthology of English Literature (All volumes - for library )(10th 

edition, 2018)

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Paper 6: ENG-HC-3026 American Literature 

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Readings 

• Hector St John Crevecouer, ‘What is an American’, (Letter III) in Letters from an American Farmer (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) pp. 66–105. 

• Frederick Douglass, A Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass 

(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) chaps. 1–7, pp. 47–87. 

• Henry David Thoreau, ‘Battle of the Ants’ excerpt from ‘Brute Neighbours’, in 

Walden (Oxford: OUP, 1997) chap. 12. 

• Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Self Reliance’, in The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo 

Emerson, ed. with a biographical introduction by Brooks Atkinson (New York: 

The Modern Library, 1964). 

• Toni Morrison, ‘Romancing the Shadow’, in Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and 

• Literary Imagination (London: Picador, 1993) pp. 29–39. 

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Paper 7: ENG-HC-3036 British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries 

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Readings 

• The Holy Bible, Genesis, chaps. 1–4, The Gospel according to St. Luke, chaps. 1–7 and 

22–4. 

• Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, ed. and tr. Robert M. Adams (New York: Norton, 

1992) chaps. 15, 16, 18, and 25. 

• Thomas Hobbes, selections from The Leviathan, pt. I (New York: Norton, 2006) 

chaps. 8, 11, and 13. 

• John Dryden, ‘A Discourse Concerning the Origin and Progress of Satire’, in The 

Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1, 9th edn, ed. Stephen Greenblatt 

(NewYork: Norton 2012) pp. 1767–8. 

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Paper 6: ENG-HG-3026 Language and Linguistics

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Recommended Reading: 

• Akmajian, A., R. A. Demers and R, M. Harnish, Linguistics: An Introduction to 

Language and Communication, 2nded. Cambridge, Mass,: MIT Press, 1984; Indian 

edition, Prentice Hall, 1991 

• Fromkin, V., and R. Rodman, An Introduction to Language, 2nd ed. New York: Holt, 

Rinehart and Winston, 1974( Chapters 3, 6 and 7) 

• Syntax and semantics: categories and constituent structure; maxims of 

conversation, the diversity of meaning-synonymy, antonymy, homonymy and 

polysemy. 

Recommended Reading: 

Akmajian, A., R. A. Demers and R, M Harnish, Linguistics: An Introduction toLanguage 

and Communication, 2nd ed. Cambridge, Mass,: MIT Press, 1984; Indian edition, 

Prentice Hall, 1991( Chapter 5 and 6)

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Paper 1:  ENG-SE-3014 CREATIVE WRITING

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Recommended Readings: 

• A Writer’s Time: A guide to the creative process from vision through revision: 

Kenneth Atchity 

• How do you Write a Great Work of Fiction: Jennifer Egan 

•  In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable Workshop: Steve Kowit 

• The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms Eavan Boland and Mark 

Strand 

• Rhyme’s Reason: A Guide to English Verse: John Hollander

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Recommended Readings: 

-A Writer’s Time: A guide to the creative process from vision through revision: Kenneth  

Atchity 

-How do you Write a Great Work of Fiction: Jennifer Egan 

-In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable Workshop: Steve Kowit 

-The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms Eavan Boland and Mark  

Strand 

-Rhyme’s Reason: A Guide to English Verse: John Hollander

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