Master of Philosophy in English Studies Programme Overview
The Master of Philosophy Programme in English Studies offered by the Department of English and Media Studies, Christ University aims at research skill development and knowledge production in the areas of English language, literature in English, literary criticism, critical theory, linguistics, the philosophy of language, folklore studies, cultural studies, creative writing, area studies, theatre, gender studies, violence studies, and linguistics. The programme desires to give a formal research platform for those who are interested in contribution newer questions and concerns related to English Studies.
Programme Objectives
The programme aims at creating a resource pool of teachers, research scholars and work as the bridge programme for Ph.D.
Eligibility for student
1. Masters in English, Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies, Communication Studies, Or
2. Any master’s degree with an aptitude in English Studies.
Programme Structure
The M.Phil. programme will be of 26 credits Semester Course
Codes
Courses Hours per
week
Cred its
Total Cred its I
RRM 131 REN 132
Research Methodology
Critical Theory and Approaches in English Studies
4 4
4 4
8
II
REN 231 REN 232 REN 233 REN 234 REN235 REN 236 REN 237
Research Methods and Writing Post-colonial Studies and Literature of Post Colonial Diaspora
Translation Studies ELT
Linguistics Women's Studies
4 4 4 4 4 4
4 4 4 4 4 4
8
III
REN 331
Research Proposal Work in Progress Dissertation Viva voce
2 2
4 2
10
26
Note: Depending on the thesis requirements of the scholar, the scholar may be permitted to take electives in other Social Science M.Phil. Programmes of Christ University.
• Each paper carries 4 credits / 100 marks.
• Continuous internal assessment (CIA): 50 % of the marks or equivalent grade for the papers in the first two semesters
• Method of evaluation : Seminars/Tutorials/Assignments/Tests
• Attendance: Attendance is part of the CIA component
• For securing a pass the candidate has to secure a minimum of 50 marks or the equivalent grade
• Minimum percentage to pass in each paper: 50% (CIA +ESE) or equivalent grade
• Additional credits may be awarded in case of publication in national/international refereed journals evolving out of the course.
Research Proposal : The M.Phil. scholar should submit a research proposal in the penultimate week of the Second semester. The proposal should include tentative dissertation title, a brief introduction to the area of dissertation, the research problem, objectives of the research, methodology, limitations, and an extensive bibliography. The scholar will have to make a presentation and defend his/her proposal in front of the panel constituted by the coordinator. The coordinator may invite others as audience for the defence.
The proposal can be accepted, accepted with suggestions or rejected. If the proposal is rejected the scholar will have to represent the proposal within maximum of 15 days for the date of the first presentation.
Work in Progress
There will be two work-in-progress (WIP) presentations. The first one will be in the final week of the second month of the third semester. The second one will be in the final week of the fourth month of the third semester. The first WIP will be Chapter II - Literature Review and one other chapter. The second WIP will be at least one other chapter. The scholar will have to email a soft copy of the WIP at least a week prior to the day of presentation.
Dissertation and Viva
The scholar is expected to submit five copies of the dissertation in the format prescribed by the Centre for Research in the last month of the third semester. The co- ordinator will make arrangements for the evaluation and the setting up of the date for viva within a month from the date of submission of the dissertation.
The dissertation will be evaluated by two examiners excluding the guide, determined by the coordinator and approved by the Centre for Research. The dissertation can be accepted, returned for resubmission or rejected. If the proposal is rejected the scholar will have to rework on the dissertation and resubmit it within the next six months, but not before three months from the date of rejection of the dissertation, after seeking necessary permission from the University.
Assigning Guides
• Guides will be assigned in the beginning of the second semester, depending on the scholar’s area of research and the areas of guides who are approved by the department BOS.
• The scholars can indicate their preference for guides in writing. However, the decision of the co-ordinator will be final in this regard.
Detailed Course Description
REN 132: Critical Theory and Critical Approaches in English Studies 40 Hours Course Introduction: The course will act as a survey of theories, approaches and movements in literary studies. The emphasis should be given to help participants locate the ideas and their emergence in specific socio-historical contexts.
Course Objectives
• To explore the various currents, pressures, and directions in contemporary criticism as aspects of the cultural present and as an ongoing conversation with intellectual precursors and earlier traditions of literary study.
• To enable readers to build their own sense of the map of modern literary critical practice.
Course Description
Module I 5 Hrs
Criticism in Ancient Greek and Roman Empire: Plato and Aristotle; The Greek and Roman traditions of Rhetoric; Greek and Latin Criticism during the Roman Empire - Horace; Longinus, Neo-Platonism
Module II 5 Hrs
Criticism from the Medieval Era to the Enlightenment: The Medieval Era - St Augustine; Medieval Humanism; Neo-classical Literary Criticism; The Enlightenment
Module III 15 Hrs
Criticism in the Nineteenth Century: The Kantian System and Kant’s Aesthetics;
Hegel; Romanticism in Germany, England and America; Realism and Naturalism;
Symbolism and Aestheticism; The Heterological Thinker – Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Arnold.
Module IV 15 Hrs
The Twentieth Century: Backgrounds and Perspectives: Psychoanalytic Criticism – Freud and Lacan; Formalisms-Victor Shklovsky, Boris Eichenbaum, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roman Jacobson, John Crowe Ransom, William K Wimsatt, Monroe C. Beardsley, T.S. Eliot; Structuralism- Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes; Deconstruction – Jacques Derrida; Feminist Criticism- Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Elain Showalter, Michele Barrett, Julia Kristeva, Helen Cixous; Reader- Response and Reception Theory – Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Hanse Robert Jauss, Wofgang Iser, Stanley Fish; New Historicisms: Stephen Geenblatt, Michel Foucault;
Bibliography
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 8th ed. New York: Wardworth, 2005.
Ahmand, Aijaz. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. Rpt. New Delhi: OUP, 2006.
Culler, Jonathan. The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, literature, deconstruction.
London/New York: Routledge, 2001.
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008 ---. The Function of Criticism. London: Verso, 2005.
Gurrin, Wilfred L, et al. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. 5th ed.
New York: OUP, 2005.
Habib, M.A.R., ed. A History of Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to the Present. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
John, Eileen, and Dominic McIver Lopes, eds. Philosophy of Literature:
Contemporary and Classic Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
John, Eileen, and Dominic McIver Lopes. Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
Klages, Mary. Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Continuum, 2006 Leitch, Vincent B., ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York:
Norton, 2001.
Rice, Philip, and Patricia Waugh. Modern Literary Theory. 4th ed. London: Hodder
Arnold, 2001.
Rivkin, Julie, Michael Ryan, eds. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Rev ed. Oxford:
Blackwell, 2003.
Rooney, Ellen ed. Feminist Literary Theory. Cambridge: CUP, 2006.
Waugh, Patricia. Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide. Oxford: OUP, 2006.
REN 231: Research Methods and Writing 60 Hours Course Description: This course will hone the reading writing and textual analytical skills of the participants. While the first two modules will be lecture oriented module three will take the workshop mode involving intensive reading and writing exercises.
Course Objectives
• To introduce the participants to the various research methods in English Studies.
• To equip students with the skill of textual analysis
• To hone research writing skills
• To expose students to the theories of reading authorship
Module I
10 Hrs
Research Methods for English Studies
Archival Methods; Oral History as a Research Method; Visual Methodologies;
Discourse Analysis; Ethnographic Methods; Quantitative methods for text studies, Textual analysis as a research method; Interviewing.
Module II
Research and Writing 5 Hrs
The research dissertation as a form of explorations; The research dissertation as a form of communication; Conducting research; Compiling working bibliography;
Evaluating sources; Taking notes; Outlining; Writing drafts; Language and style Module III
20 Hrs Writing
Generating ideas; identifying arguments and purpose; abstracting; developing paragraphs and essays; reviewing, revision, reworking; coherence and cohesion;
discovering one’s voice; genres of writing, goal setting; monitoring and evaluating writing; being conscious of one’s writing; outlining framework.
Module IV 25 Hours
Theories of Reading, Authorship, and Criticism
Barthes, Roland. 'Work to Text', 'Death of the Author' from Image/Music/Text, translated by Stephen Heath. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1977.
Derrida, Jacques. From, Of Grammatology. Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Part II, Ch.2, ". . . That Dangerous Supplement. . ."
Foucault, Michel. 'What Is an Author?' in Language, Counter-Memory, Practice, ed.
Donald F. Bouchard; also in The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow. New York:
Pantheon Books, 1984.
White, Hayden. 'The Historical Text as Literary Artifact', from Tropics of Discourse:
Essays in Cultural Criticism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.
Jameson, Frederic. 'Preface' and 'On Interpretation' from The Political Unconscious:
Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981.
----Ideologies of Theory, Volume I. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1988.
----'Metacommentary', ----'The Ideology of the Text'.
MacDonald, Peter. 'Ideas of the Book and Histories of Literature: After theory?', PMLA Volume 121, 1 (January 2006): 214-28
Bibliography
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New Delhi:
East-West Press. 2004.
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 3rd ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 2008.
Somekh, Bridget and Cathy Lewin. eds. Research Methods in Social Sciences. New Delhi: Sage/Vistaar, 2005.
Griffin, Gabriele. ed. Research Methods for English Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
The Chicago Manual of Style 15th ed. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2003.
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 5th ed. New York: American Psychological Association. 2001.
REN 232: Postcolonial Studies and Literature of Post Colonial Diaspora 40 Hours Course Objectives
• To introduce the students to concepts, concerns, critical debates in translation studies
• To expose students to the applicability of the theoretical frameworks
• To enable students to critically perceive and engage with production, signification and negotiation of meanings in translations
Module I 12 Hours
Theorising – Edward Said Orientalism, ‘Introduction’, ‘Traveling Theory’ and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (Extract) – Encountering Modernity – Michel Focault
‘What is Enlightenment?’, Bernard Yack, ‘Imagining the Modern Age’ – Gayatri Spivak Cab the Subaltern Speak, Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Homi Bhabha The Location of Culture, Introduction and Derek Walcott’s Midsummer. Ashis Nandy History’s Forgotten Doubles – Dipesh Chakrabarty, Subaltern Histories and Post – Enlightenment Rationalism – Stuart Hall Cultural Identity and Diaspora – Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Empire (extract)
Module II 12 Hours
Language and Education – Gauri Viswanathan. Introduction in Masks of Conquest:
Literary Study and British Rule in India – Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ‘The Burden of English’ – Hari Kunzru Transmission – History, Time and Memory, Michael Foucault, History – Reinhart Koselleck, History, Histories and Formal Time, Structures, in Futures Past. Paul Edwards and David Dabydeen (eds), Black Writers in Britain 1760 – 1890, Edinburgh University Press, 1991, Edward Braithwaite, The Arrivants A New World Triology, Oxford University Press, 1981. – Nation and Gender. Partha Chatterjee ‘The Nationalist Resolution of the Women’s Question – Toni Morrison, Beloved, Vintage, 1997
Module III 16 Hours
Rathi Radhakrishnan. Nationalism, Gender and The Narrative of Identity. Karen McCarthy Brown - Fundamentalism and the Control of Women. V S Naipul, A House for Mr Biswas, Penguin, 2000. Body and Performance – Russell McDougall The Body as Cultural Signifier, Helen Gilbert Dance, Movement and Resistance Politics.
Sudesh Mishra Feejee, Kuini Vuikaba Speed My Innocent Country. Postcolonialism in Textual Studies – Study of the following texts in the background of the themes/concepts discussed earlier. William Shakespeare: The Tempest. – Abdul R.
JanMohamed Worldliness – Without – World, Homelessness – As – Home: Toward a Definition of the Specular Border Intellectual – Satendra Nandan, Author’s Notes to Fiji: A Paradise in Pieces – Ashutosh Gowarikar: Lagan, Anita Desai, Fasting Feasting
Bibliography
Ashcroft et al. (eds) The Post-colonial Studies Reader, London: Routledge, 1995 Ashcroft et al. The Empire Writes Back, London:Routledge, 1989
Ashcroft, Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies, London:
Routledge, 1998
Bhabha, Homi, The Location of Culture, London: Routledge, 1994
Boehmer, Elleke, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Oxford: OUP, 1995 Bromley, Roger. Narratives for a New Belonging: Diasporic Cultural Fictions.
Edinburgh. Edinburgh UP, 2000.
Castle, Gregory. Ed. Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
Childs and Williams. An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory, London: Prentice Hall, 1997
Childs, Peter. Post –Colonial Theory and English Literature: A Reader. Edinburg:
Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
Dipesh Chakrabarty. Habitations of Modernity – Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002.
Halbwachs, Maurice. The Collective Memory. USA, Harper and Row, 1980.
Innes, CL. The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English. New Delhi: CUP, 2007.
Koselleck, Reinhart. Futures Past. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Mcleod, John, Beginning Postcolonialism, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000
Mukherjee, Meenakshi. ed. Early Novels in India. Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2002.
Nandy, Ashis. ed. The Romance of the State, and the Fate of Dissent in the Tropics.
New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2002
Rabinow , P. ed. The Foucault Reader, New York, Pantheon Books, 1984, Said, Edward, Orientalism, London: Penguin, 1978
Yack, Bernard. The Fetishism of Modernities: Epochal Self-Consciousness in Contemporary Social and Political Thought. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997
Ashcroft Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies, London:
Routledge, 1998
Ashcroft et al. The Empire Writes Back, London:Routledge, 1989
Ashcroft et al. (eds) The Post-colonial Studies Reader, London: Routledge, 1995 Boehmer, Elleke, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Oxford: OUP, 1995 Childs and Williams, An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory, London: Prentice
Hall, 1997
Mcleod, John, Beginning Postcolonialism, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000
Bhabha, Homi, The Location of Culture, London: Routledge, 1994 Said, Edward, Orientalism, London: Penguin, 1978
Young, Robert, Postcolonialism: A very short introduction, Oxford: OUP, 2003 Punter, David, Postcolonial Imaginings: Fictions of a New World Order, Edinburgh
University Press/Rowman and Littlefield, 2000
REN 233: Translation Studies 60 Hrs Course Objectives
• To introduce the students to concepts, concerns, critical debates in translation studies
• To expose students to the applicability of the theoretical frameworks
• To enable students to critically perceive and engage with production, signification and negotiation of meanings in translations
Module I 5 Hrs Main issues of translation studies
The concept of translation; What is translation studies?; A brief history of the discipline; The Holmes/Toury ‘map’; Developments since the 1970s; Semiotics of Translation
Module II 5 Hrs
Translation theory before the twentieth century
Introduction, ‘Word-for-word’ or ‘sense-for-sense’?; Martin Luther; Faithfulness, spirit and truth; Early attempts at systematic translation theory: Dryden; Dolet and Tytler; Schleiermacher and the valorization of the foreign; Translation theory of the nineteenth and early twentieth; centuries in Britain; Towards contemporary translation theory
Module III 5 Hrs
Equivalence and equivalent effect
Introduction; Roman Jakobson: the nature of linguistic meaning and equivalence;
Nida and ‘the science of translating’ 373.3 Newmark: semantic and communicative Translation; Koller: Korrespondenz and Äquivalenz; Later developments in equivalence
Module IV 5 Hrs
The translation shift approach
Introduction; Vinay and Darbelnet’s model; Catford and translation ‘shifts’; Czech writing on translation shifts; Van Leuven-Zwart’s comparative–descriptive model of translation shifts
Module V 5 Hrs
Functional theories of translation
Introduction; Text type; Translational action; Skopos theory; Translation-oriented text analysis
Module VI 5 Hrs
Discourse and register analysis approaches
Introduction; The Hallidayan model of language and discourse; House’s model of translation quality assessment; Baker’s text and pragmatic level analysis: a coursebook for translators; Hatim and Mason: the semiotic level of context and discourse; Criticisms of discourse and register analysis approaches to translation
Module VII 5 Hrs
Systems theories
Introduction; Polysystem theory; Toury and descriptive translation studies;
Chesterman’s translation norms; Other models of descriptive translation studies:
Lambert and van Gorp and the Manipulation School
Module VIII 5 Hrs
Varieties of cultural studies
Introduction; Translation as rewriting; Translation and gender; Postcolonial translation theory; The ideologies of the theorists
Module IX 10 Hrs
Translating the foreign: the (in)visibility of translation
Introduction; Venuti: the cultural and political agenda of translation; Literary translators’ accounts of their work; The power network of the publishing industry;
Discussion of Venuti’s work; The reception and reviewing of translations
Module X 10 Hrs
Philosophical theories of translation
Introduction; Steiner’s hermeneutic motion; Ezra Pound and the energy of language;
The task of the translator: Walter Benjamin; Deconstruction; Translation studies as an interdiscipline; Introduction; Discipline, interdiscipline or sub-discipline?; Mary Snell-Hornby’s ‘integrated approach’; Interdisciplinary approaches
Note: The course will use relevant texts as primary reading material.
Bibliography
Bassnett, Susan, and Harish Trivedi, eds. Post-colonial Translation: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, 1999.
Bassnett, Susan. Translation Studies, London: Routledge, 1991.
Das, Bijay Kumar. The Horizon of Translation. New Delhi: Atlantic, 1998.
Gupta, R.S., ed. Literary Translation. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1999.
Kothari, Rita. Translating India. Rev. ed. New Delhi: Foundation Books, 2006 Mukherjee, Sujit. Translation as Recovery. Delhi: Pencraft, 2004.
Mukherjee, Tutun, ed. Translation: From Periphery to Centrestage. New Delhi:
Prestige, 1998.
Munday, Jeremy Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications.
London/New York: Routledge, 2001.
Nida, Eugene A. The Theory and Practice of Translation. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1982.
Nida, Eugene A. Toward a Science of Translating. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1964
Nirajana, Tejaswini. Siting Translation: History, Post-structuralism, and the Colonial Context. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1992.
Picken, Catriona, ed. The Translator’s Handbook. 2nd ed. London: Aslib, 1989.
Ramakrishan, Shantha.Translation and Multilingualism: Post-Colonial Contexts.
Delhi: Pencraft, 1997.
Ramakrishna, Shantha., ed. Translation and Multilingualism. Delhi: Pencraft, 1997.
Venuti, Lawrence. ed. The Translation Studies Reader. New York/London: Routledge, 2000.
REN 234: English Language Teaching 60 Hrs Course Objectives
• To predict with reasonable accuracy the learning needs of any group of learners and learn ways of modifying and update such a needs analysis in the light of observation and testing.
• To introduce and nurture familiarity with current methodology.
• To foster awareness of language structures
• To expose to the variety of textbooks and teaching materials; determine the utility of these within a curricular framework.
• To using a variety of assessment instruments.
Module I 15 hours
Receptive Skills: Reasons and strategies for reading; reading speed; intensive and extensive reading and listening; reading development; reasons and strategies for listening; listening practice materials and listening development.
Productive Skills: Skimming, scanning, taking notes from lectures and from books;
reasons and opportunities for speaking; development of speaking skills; information- gap activities; simulation and role-play; dramatization; mime-based activity; relaying instructions; written and oral communicative activities.
Vocabulary: Choice of words and other lexical items; active and passive vocabulary;
word formation; denotative, connotative meanings.
Module II 15 hours
General Linguistics: Presenting the sounds of English to learners; remediation;
mother tongue influence and accent neutralization. the science of language;
(Describing language; the functions of language; the structure of language;
Linguistics; psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics. The international phonetic alphabet;
phonetic transcription; articulatory phonetics; word and sentence stress; vowel sound and articulation of vowels and diphthongs; intonation patterns;)
Module III 15 hours
Language Awareness: English Grammar and usage; word classes; morphemes and word formation; noun(s); prepositional and adjective phrases; verb phrases; form and function in the English tenses; semantics and communication; types of ELT syllabus (structural, situational, functional, communicative and emergent).
Approaches to Teaching Practices: Grammar translation; direct method; audio- lingual method; situational language teaching; total physical response; the silent way; the interactive way; the natural approach; suggestopedia; the communicative approach.
Module IV 15 hours Testing and Assessment: value of errors; problems of correction and remediation;
scales of attainment.
Lesson Planning: instructional objectives and the teaching-learning process; writing a lesson plan; the class, the plan, stages and preparation; teacher-student activities;
writing concept questions; teacher-student talking time; classroom language; class management and organization.
Module V
Colonial Politics of English; Politics of ELT; globalization and ELT, locating teaching methods, towards thinking critical ELT studies
Bibliography
Bailey, Richard W. Images of English. A Cultural History of the Language.
Cambridge: CUP 1991.
Bayer, Jennifer. Language and social identity. In: Multilingualism in India. Clevedon:
Multilingual Matters Ltd: 101-111. 1990.
Cheshire, Jenny. Introduction: sociolinguistics and English around the world. In Cheshire: 1-12. 1991.
Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge:
CUP. 1995.
Ellis, R. Understanding Second Language Acquisition. Oxford:OUP. 1991.
Holmes, Janet. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. London: Longman Group UK Ltd.
1992.
Krishnaswamy, N. and Archana S. Burde. The Politics of Indians' English Linguistic Colonialism and the Expanding English Empire. New Delhi: OUP, 2004.
Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder. Lie of the Land. New Delhi: OUP, 1993.
Richards Jack C. and Graves Kathleen. Teachers as course developers. Cambridge University Press.1996.
Richards Jack C. and Rodgers Theodore S. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press.1986.
Richards Jack C.Curriculum Development in Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press. 2001.
Richards, J.C. and Lockhart, C. 1996. Reflective Teaching in Second Language Classrooms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tharu, Susie. Subject to Change: Teaching Literature in the Nineties. Hyderabad:
Orient Longman, 1998.
Tickoo, M. L. 2003. Teaching and Learning English: a Sourcebook for Teachers and Teacher-Trainers. Hyderabad: Orient Longman
Ur, P. 1996. A Course in Language Teaching: Practice and Theory. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language. (2nd ed.) New York: Gramercy Books. 1996.
Widdowson, H G. Teaching Language as Communication. Oxford University Press.1978.
RESN235: Linguistics 60 Hrs
The economic globalisation since the early 90s has had a consequent interest in language studies for various socio-political, communicative and technological reasons. With communication - both oral and textual - becoming crucial to widen the global impact of political and economic organisations, and the consequent struggles of resistance to economic imperialism have contributed to the renewed interest in linguistics in multiple domains – Media studies, corporate communication, advertising and marketing, anthropology, and health. In the case of India, in the wake of language becoming a major site of identity politics and the consequent interest of the state through increased funding and establishment of research centres is a testimony for the relevance and need for this paper.
Objectives
1 To introduce the students to the scientific study of language
2 To expose students to the locate language in a broader socio-political, and economic setting
3 To expose students to the use of scientific study of language in multiple domains
Module I
Introduction to Linguistics. Concept of Linguistics; Branches of Linguistics;
Language: Definition, nature, properties and functions of language; sub-systems of language; Communication: Definition, nature, requirements and types of
communication.
Module II
Phonetics: Definition and branches; Brief sketch of articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics; Speech: Formation of speech; Speech mechanisms: Air stream, phonatory, articulatory and resonatory mechanisms; Classification of speech sounds:
Segmentals and suprasegmentals; Phonology: Definitions of phoneme and allophones; Phonemic analysis with reference to Indian languages; Distinctive feature analysis; Syllable: Types and structure of Syllables.
Module III
Morphology: Concepts of morph, morpheme, and allomorph and their relationship;
Morphemic analysis; Morpheme types-inflectional and derivational; Word:
Definition, types, process of word formation; Syntax: Syntactic analysis, I.C.
Analysis, Phrase structure grammar, Transformational grammar, components of functions of grammar. Acceptability and grammaticality of sentences.
Module IV
South Asia as a linguistic area; Identifying a linguistic area, language families, Indo European family, Austro Asiatic, Sino Tibetan, and Dravidian. Language isolates, Language change; Pidgins and creoles; Introduction to Sociolinguistics.
Module V
Semantics: Concept of meaning. Different types of meanings; Concepts of synonyms, homonyms and antonyms; Semantic ambiguity; Introduction to semiotics: Saussure, Pierce, and Barthes; Discourse analysis and Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics:
Introduction to psycholinguistics; Competence and Performance; Language
acquisition in children, Major theories; Introduction to Indian linguistic traditions Bibliography
Balasubramanian, T. A Textbook of English Phonetics : For Indian Students.
Macmillan 2000
Bansal R. K. and Harrison J. B., Spoken English for India: A Mannual of Speech and Phonetics. Longman. Madras, 1983.
Chandler, Daniel. Semiotics: The Basics. New York : 2002.
Hockett. C.F. A Course in Modern Linguistics. New York: Macmillian, 1958.
Krishnaswamy, N. and Archana S. Burde. The Politics of Indians' English :
Linguistic Colonialism and the Expanding English Empire. New Delhi: OUP, 2004.
Krishnaswamy, N. and SK Verma. Modern Linguistics: An Introduction. New Delhi:
OUP, 2005.
Leech G. N. Principles of Pragmatics. London: Longman, 1983.
Levinson S. Pragmatics. Cambridge, CUP, 1983.
O'Connor (1993) Phonetics. Hanmondsworth: Penguin Books.
Palmer, F. R. Semantics : A New Outline Cambridge, CUP, 1976.
Prakasam, V. and Abbi. A Semantic Theories and Language Teaching. New Delhi, Allied Publishers, 1985.
Saussure, Ferdinand de. A Course in General Linguistics. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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Thorat, Ashok. Discourse Analysis of Five Great Indian Novels. Macmillan, 2002.
Widdowson, H. D. Stylistics and the Teaching of Literature. London: Longman, 1975
REN 236: Women’s Studies 60 Hours
Course Description: This course will help students trace major feminist ideologies through history and examine the various ways in which feminist theories have informed feminist criticism. This course also attempts an analysis of the feminist movement in India, thereby underlining its differential ideologies and specificities of feminist identity.
Course Objectives:
To introduce students to women’s studies through prominent feminist ideologies and theories
To historically trace prominent feminist movements across the world including brief introductions to contemporary gender politics
To underline the need to address specificities of feminist ideologies across cultures and acknowledge the contributions of third-world feminist thought to a largely euro-centric feminist discourse
Module 1: Feminisms – Prominent Trajectories through History I “Early Feminism”: Stephanie Hodgson – Wright
Readings:
Excerpts from
Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Mary Wollstonecraft Letters on the Equality of the Sexes: Sarah Grimke
II “Second Wave Feminism”: Sue Thornam
Inscribing femininity: French Theories of the feminine – Ann Rosalind Jones Readings:
Excerpts from
The Second Sex: Simone de Beauvoir Professions for Women: Virginia Woolf The Laugh of the Medusa: Helene Cixous The Feminine Mystique: Betty Friedan The Female Eunuch: Germaine Greer
Speculum and the other Woman: Luce Irigaray Sexual Politics: Kate Millet
“Subjects of Sex-Gender System”: Judith Butler Film: Some American Feminists
III “Postfeminism”: Sarah Gamble
Readings: ( Responses to the term “Postfeminism” through third-wave and gender discourses)
“Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women”: Susan Faludi Denise Riley: Does a Sex Have a History?
What is Feminist Epistemology? – Sandra Harding Defining Hysteria : Elaine Showalter
“THEORIZING – FEMINISM AND POSTMODERNITY: A Conversation with Linda Hutcheon”
“The Sex- Gender System”: Shefali Moitra
Materializing Male Bodies – Stephen M. Whitehead
Module 2: Feminist Criticism
“Notorious signs, feminist criticism and literary tradition” – Adrienne Munich
“Varieties of feminist criticism” - Sydney Janet Kaplan
“Feminist Scholarship and the Social Construction of Women”: Gayle Greene and Coppelia Kahn
“The politics of language: beyond the gender principle?” : Nelly Furman Black Women Writers: taking a critical perspective – Susan Willis
feminist criticism: from margin to centre – bell hooks
Module 3: De-mystifying the centrality of Euro-centric feminist discourse :
Feminism and India
Critical Framework:
“Feminism in India and the West” : Mary John
“Caste, Gender and Indian Feminism” : Anupama Rao Introduction to Inner Courtyard : Lakshmi Holmstrom
“Thinking Beyond Gender in India”: Ruth Vanita
“From Violence to Supportive Practice: Family, Gender and Masculinities”: Radhika Chopra
Excerpt from Body and the Post-colonial Discourse: Jyothi Puri Excerpts for Reading:
Women Writing in India Vol I & II – Susie Tharu and K. Lalita Inner Spaces: New Writing by Women from Kerala – ed. K.M. George Truth Tales – ed. Meena Alexander
Real and Imagined Women – Rajeshwari Sunder Rajan
REN 237: Literature and Philosophy 60 Hours Objectives:
To introduce to the problems, theories and concepts of literary criticism, from the Anglo- American New Criticism to Deconstruction to Postmodernism.
To place modern theories in the philosophical and aesthetic context in which they originated and evolved.
Unit I
The Philosophical and Aesthetic Foundations of Literary Theories Kant, Hegel, and Literary Theory
From Romanticism and Young Hegelianism to Nietzsche Anglo-American New Criticism and Russian Formalism
Kant and Croce in the New Criticism
Russian Formalism between Kantianism and the Avant-Garde The Aborted Dialogue between Marxists and Formalists Unit
II
Czech Structuralism Between Kant, Hegel, and the Avant-Grade Roman Jakobson's and Jan Mukarovsky's Kantianism
Hegel and the Avant-Grade in Mukarovsky's Theory: Structure, Function, Norm, and Value
Symbol and Aesthetic Object: From Mukarovsky to Vodicka
Problems of Reader-Response Criticism: from Hermeneutics to Phenomenology From Gadamer to Jauss: The Hermeneutics of Reader-Response
From Ingarden to Iser: The Phenomenological Perspective Stanley Fish's Alternative
From marxism to Critical Theory and Postmodernism Marx, Lukacs and Goldmann: Hegelian Aesthetics
Benjamin and Adorno between Kant and Hegel: Avant-Garde, Ambiguity, and Truth Mikhail M. Bakhtin's Young Hegelian Aesthetics
Marxist Aesthetics in a Postmodern World: Alex Callinicos, Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson
Unit III
The Aesthetics of Semiotics: Greimas, Eco, Barthes Greimas or the Search for Meaning
Umberto Eco: From the Avant-Grade to Postmodernism Roland Barthes' Nietzschean Aesthetics
The Nietzschean Aesthetics of Deconstruction
The Philosophical Origins of Deconstruction: From Platonism and Hegelianism to Nietzsche and Heidegger
Derrida's Romantic and Nietzschean Heritage: ecriture, iterabilite, differance Derrida on Mallarme and Jean-Pierre Richard
Paul de Man: Allegory and Aporia
J. Hillis Miller: Aporia, Repetition, Iterability
Geoffrey H. Hartman: Negativity, Delay, Indeterminacy
Lyotard's Postmodern Aesthetics and Kant's Notion of the Sublime From Kant to Lyotard: Postmodern Aesthetics of Disharmony
Lyotard and de Man: the Sublime, Allegory, and Aporia Unit IV
Towards a Critical Theory of Literature
Literary Theory between Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche
Towards a Critique of Ideology: Ideology as Sociolect and Discourse Towards a Critical Theory of Literature
Bibliography
Eldreidge, Richard, ed. The oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature. Oxford:
Oxford UP, 2009. Print.
John, Eileen and Dominic McIver Lopes. Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings. Malden: Blacwell, 2004. Print.
Simons, Jon. From Kant to Levi-Strauss: The Background to cotemporary Critical Theory. Edinburg: Edinburg UP, 2002. Print.
