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Syllabus: This paper has 8 blocks.
You don't read to read everything in IGNOU books. We have separated the important units in each block.
Out of 8 blocks , the important units are :
· Block 1 :Unit 1,2
· Block 2 :Unit 1,2,3,4
· Block 3 : Unit 1,2,3,4
· Block 4 : Unit 2,3,5
· Block 5 : Unit 2,4,6
· Block 6 : Unit 1,2,4,5
· Block 7 : Unit 1,2,3,4
· Block 8 : Unit 1,3,5
Ø Block wise important topics, the focus areas are :
· Block 1
¨ The introduction of English – describing the phases of introduction of English in India
¨ The Macaulay’s Minute on Indian Education
· Block 2
¨ The early Indian English writings
¨ Contribution of mentioned writers to Indian writing in English – Henry, Michael and Toru Dutt
· Block3
¨ Bankim’s contribution to literature
¨ The protagonist – Matangini
¨ The theme in Raj Mohan’s wife
¨ Treatment of marriage
· Block 4
¨ Nativisation of English in context of Indian English, post Independent India
¨ Indianness of Indian English
¨ Dialects and Creols, Standard versus native English
· Block 5
¨ TELI – various dimensions
¨ English studies in India
¨ Impact of colonialisation on publishing
· Block 6
¨ Making of Canon
¨ Canon and Literature
¨ Newbolt’s Report
¨ Exploding the Canon
· Block 7
¨ Canon making by Gandhi and Nehru
¨ Feminist Canon in India
¨ Dalit Literature
· Block 8
¨ Said’s Orientalism
¨ Third World Literature
¨ Decolonalising the mind
¨ Resisting Colonalisation
¨ Namdev Singh’s – Decolonizing the Indian mind
NOTE
Ø All the blocks have been chronologically formatted to proceed in a logical manner.
Ø We can’t totally skip any of the blocks in order to score better.
Ø The reason being that following the previous year paper pattern there is uncertainty in paper setting.
Ø There is no fixed pattern being followed for the paper.
· Sometimes there is overall choice given where we have to attempt any 5 questions from the given set of 8 -10 questions.
Sometimes it is divided into 3 different sections and there is an internal choice from that particular section.
· Sometimes section A and C are made compulsory for questions to be chosen from them.
· Sometimes there are 10 questions and there is internal choice between alternate two questions like Q1 or Q2, Q3 or Q4 and so on.
NOTE : DO READ THE GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS IN THE QUESTION PAPER VERY CAREFULLY BEFORE ATTEMPTING THE QUESTION PAPER TO AVOID ANY MISTAKE ON PART OF WRONG ATTEMPTATION,TO BE REGRETTED LATER ON ,IN CASE THE QUESTIOS ARE ASKED SECTION WISE IN PARTICULAR .
v Also refer to the questions given at the end of each unit and try to analyze them.
v Do go through the previous year question papers to have an overview of the questions being asked.
v While preparing do write the key points which will help in the last minute revision.
v In Block 2, the dates, literary works and other achievements of writers are very important, so try to remember them with full authenticity , as literary contribution is sometimes asked in the question.
PAPER PATTERN
Three sections based questions- A, B and C. Attempt five Questions in all out of ten Questions. Section A and Care compulsory. All questions carry equal marks.
BLOCK 1: INSTITUTIONALISATION OF ENGLISH STUDIES IN INDIA
Maculay's attack on the conventional pattern of education in India. .
Maculay's attack on the Orientalist position on Indian Education
Advocacy for the introduction of English in India was actually a tool of socio political control. Critically examine the Minutes in the light of this statement.
Importance of the English writings of Raja Ram Mohan Roy in the context of nineteenth century India.
Contribution of Raja Ram Mohan Roy to Indian English writing.
POST-INDEPENDENCE INDIA
• Fictional works in Indian English in Post-Independence India.
Circumstances that led to the introduction of English in 19th century India.
• Process in which the English gained support and consideration in Post Independence India.
• Use of English in India in Post Independence years - Journey of English from hostility to acceptance in 21st century India.
• Changed attitude of Indian middle class towards English in the 1950s.
• English played a highly significant role in the definition of Indian culture.
• Major concerns of Indian English writing in the late 18th and early 19th centurie.
• English and English studies introduced in India.
• Contribution of the social reform moments in India to the institutionalisation of English
Studies.
BLOCK 2: BEGINNING OF INDIAN ENGLISH WRITING
. Contribution of Henry Derozio to the intellectual revolution in Bengal in the 19th
century.
• Contribution to the development of Indian English poetry.
. Circumstances that led to the emergency of English in India with special reference
to Raja Rammohan Roy and Henry Derozio.
• Literary legacy of Henry Derozio
• Hindu College Calcutta have a role to play in the propagation of English Studies in
India.
• Contribution of Henry to Indian English writing.
MICHEAL MADHUSUDAN DUTT
• Analyse Michael Madhusudan Dutt's The Captive Ladies and King Porus.
• Role of Michael Madhusudan Dutt and Toru Dutt in the consolidation of Indian
writing in English.
• Account of the character of Michael Madhusudan Dutt's literary outputs in English.
TORU DUTT
• Toru Dutt's contribution to women's writing in India.
BLOCK 3: BEGINING OF INDIAN ENGLISH NOVEL
• Choice of language in his writing help in representing India.
• Has Bankim Chandra been able to capture 19th century India 'realistically in
Rammohan's wife - Rajmohan's wife is a seminal landmark in the literary map of nineteenth century India.
As a novel of social reform.
• Treatment of marriage in Rammohan's wife
• Bankim's sense of morality is strengthened by his orthodox stance in Rammohan's wife.
• Bankim' decision to write his first novel in English.
• Examine critically and comment on his influence on the social ethos of the Age.
BLOCK 4: DIFFERENT ENGLISHES
• "Nativisation of English" Meaning in the Indian context.
• The term "nativisation" of English in the context of Indian writing
• Term 'Englishes' as against 'English' is more relevant in the modern world.
• Role of literary texts in the teaching of a language
• Various attitudes toward the non-native varieties of English.
• Use of English in India is accompanied by prestige and power.
• Link between language teaching and the study of Literary texts.
• Role the English language played on India
BLOCK 5: PROBLEM OF TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH LITERATURE
Is theory useful in the study of Literature in the classroom.
• Privileged position of English in the context of translation of literaty texts.
• Formation of English Literature as a discipline in the context of England and that of Colonial India.
• Language an instrument of empowerment - Importance of English Literature as a discipline in the context of England and that
of Colonial India.
• Language an instrument of empowerment
• Importance of English literature in English language teaching.
• Influence of the global market on English Studies in India
• English be made the medium of instruction in the post-independence india
• Various stages of teaching of English literature in India.
BLOCK 6: QUESTIONING THE “CANON"
.F.R. Leavis and C.S. Lewis take up different positions with respect to English
Literature. . Contribution of F.R. Leavis and C.S. Lewis to the making of a Literary Canon.
• How useful the term 'base' and 'superstructure in the context of literary theory
today
• The phrase "exploding the Canon"
· Links between imperialism and canon formation
• What kind of Canon does Miller's argument suggest? Or is it an attack on all canon. - Formation of the 'canon' in English studies happen in India.
• Relation between canon formation and economic system in a given society.
• Issues and problems that emerge while evolving the feminist canon in Indian
English writing.
• Need for correlating a canon to its context.
BLOCK 7: EVOLUTIONS OF
• Namvar Singh views On Tagore's Gora and Anantha Murthy's Samsakara.
• Tagore with reference to his poems in Gitanjali - Neo-colonialism be resisted according to Namwar Singh.
• Tagore's role as a writer in the early 20th century Indian context. . Contribution of Tagore in the formation of a new radical canon in Indian writing
• Radicalism in Tagore's The Home and the World.
• Rabindranath Tagore's contribution to the development of an Indian Canon.
Compare Premchand's writing with that of Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao and investigate the ways in which they come to terms with the problem of Language and reader from their respective positions.
• New radical canon emerging from the writing of Tagore, Premchand and Mulk Raj
Anand.
• A dalit by birth can write authentic Dalit Literature
Silent features of Dalit Aesthetics as outlined by Omprakash Valmiki and S.K. Limbale
• Issues and problems in the construction of a feminist canon in Indian English writing
Using any two feminist writers you have studied, discuss the growth of women's literature in India.
BLOCK 8: DECOLONISING
• How does Edward Said define Orientalism?
What are the flaws, or loop holes, in Saif's
argument ?
Do they seriously undermine his argument? . Said's 'Orientalism' open up the field of post colonial studies.
• Important emphases in Edward Said's argument in Orientalism.
• Said's Orientalism as a key to understand post-colonial studies.
• The term "de-colonising the mind" mean and how does it relate to literature and literary theory. .
Why do Western critics avoid discussing the racist representation of Africa in Conrad's
Heart of Darkness.
Chinua Achebe select Joseph Conrad's heart of Darkness to analyse western representation of Africa.
• Wa Thiong'o advocate 'decolonisation of mind with reference to African Literature.
• Aijaz Ahmad considers that it is impossible to construct Third World Literature as a Category.
• Aijaz Ahmad give assertion against Jameson's that "all third world tests are
necessarily...national allegories'
• Jan Mohamed's view of Forester's A Passage to India.
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