KHALLIKOTE (AUTO) COLLEGE
BERHAMPUR-760 001, GANJAM (ORISSA) COURSES OF STUDIE FOR M.PHIL.
EXAM INATION-2014 onwards ENGLISH FIRST SEMESTER
PAPER-1 (100marks)
Research Methodology (50marks)
This paper comprises THREE groups.
The preparation of all groups is compulsory.
GROUP-A
Unit-1 (25 marks)
1. Definition and characteristics of Research.
2. Literary Research.
3. Collection and Analysis of Materials.
4. Ordering and establishing of evidence.
Unit-2 (25marks)
1. Mechanics of writing.
2. Documentation: Citing sources in the text.
3. Preparation of Bibliography.
4. MLA Style. The Production process.
GROUP-B
Criticism— (30 marks)
Topics to be taught
1. New Criticism
2. Formalism
3. Structuralism
4. Marxist Criticism
5. Feminist Criticism
6. Deconstruction
7. New Historicism
8. Post-Colonialism
9. Dialogic Criticism
(The types will be studied with reference to principles, methods and limitations.)
group-C (20marks)
A term paper in about 2000 words on a topic relevant to any of the subject listed in paper 2.
Pattern of Examination
GROUP-A (10×5)
Question shall be set from each unit with alternatives to test student's knowledge and
course content through short and long answers.
group-b (15×2)
Shall be two questions with alternative on principles and problems of typological
approaches to criticism as listed under Group-'B'.
group-C
Term Paper (as per instruction above) (20)
paper-2 (Theories of Drama, Poetry and Fiction) (100 Marks)
group-a (30 Marks)
Theories of Drama
1. Theory of Tragedy
2. Theory of Comedy
3. Theory of Dramatic Expressionism
4. Theory of Epic Theatre
5. Theory of Theatre of Absurd
6. Theory of Indian Drama (The Theory of Rasa)
group-b (40 Marks)
Theory of Poetry
1. Elizabethan Poetry
2. Metaphysical Poetry
3. Neo-Classical Poetry
4. Romantic poetry
5. Victorian Poetry
6. Modernist Poetry
7. Sri Aurobindo: The Sources of Poetry -1897
8. The main aspects of Indian Aesthetics
group-C
Theory of Novel
1. R.S. Crane : "The Concept of Plot and the Plot of Tom Jones." (Theory of Novel edited by Phillip Stevick ,N.Y. 1967.)
2. W.J. Harvey : "Character and Context of things." (The Theory of Novel edited by Phillip Stevick ,N.Y. 1967.
3. Mark Schorer: "Technique as Discovery."
(Perspectives on Fiction edited by James L. Calderwood and Harold F. Toliver, 1968)
4. R.Humprey : "The Functions of Stream of Consciousness." (Perspective on Fiction ...1968)
5. W.C. Both." Telling as showing :Dramatized Narrators ,Reliable and Unreliable."
(Perspective of Fiction... 1968)
6. Dervvent May "The Novelist as Moralist and the Moralist as Critic." (Critical Approaches to Fiction edited by S.K. Kumar and Keith Mckean, N.Y. : 1968)
7. Roland Barthes : "Introduction to the structural Analysis of Narratives." (Images/Music/text by Roland Barthes)
Pattern of Examination
Two essay type questions from each GROUP with alternatives to be set.
Second Semester
Paper-3
Dissertation on a subject approved by supervisor and duly registered for 100 marks.
Paper-4
Viva-voce -100 marks