MA-EngLit, Semester 4, Paper 1A, CreativeWriting

MA English Literature, Semester 4, Paper 1A, Creative Writing

Internal Assessment (40 Marks): Sr. No. Particulars Marks 1 2. One written assignment (producing an original piece of fiction or non-fiction). Suggestions: A short story of approximately 3000-3500 words or a biography/life of some eminent individual/or a piece of travel writing also of 3000-3500 words(that is unpublished and original) must be submitted on or before the deadline given by the department running the course. Producing two original poems (any form can be chosen by the learner) 20 Marks 10 marks for each poem (10x2) Total=40 Mark

Semester End Examination (60 Marks): Semester End Examination Duration: 2 Hours 60 Marks Question 1: Essay on Unit 1 (1 out of 2) :15 Marks
Question 2: Essay on Unit 2 (1 out of 2) :15 Marks
Question 3: Essay on Unit 3 (1 out of 2) :15 Marks
Question 4: Two editing exercises based on Unit 4 (1 out of 2)* :15 Marks *Instruction for Question 4: One verse passage and one prose passage (from fiction/ travel/life writing) to be assigned in order to test the learner’s editing skills.

 

Semester 4, Paper 1A, Creative Writing

Course Title: Creative Writing Objectives: 1.To acquaint the learners with some workable approaches that will enable them to creatively express themselves in specific genres, namely, fiction (the short story, the novella and the novel), non-fiction (with a focus on life writing and travel writing), and poetry 2.To equip the learners with a thorough understanding of these genres using texts prescribed for the purpose 3.To train them in producing creative writing by giving them practice exercises and tasks designed to empower them with this ability.

Unit 1: Introduction to Creative Writing (4 essays: fiction, poetry, life writing and travel writing)

Prescribed text: The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing edited by David Morley and Philip Neilsen

The exercises in the prescribed texts will empower the learners with skills that will help them produce short fiction, life writing, travel writing and poetry.

1. Carlson Ron. “A writing lesson: the three flat tyres and the outer story”

2. Lea, Bronwyn. “Poetics and Poetry”

3. Neilsen, Philip. “Life Writing”

4. Gislason, Kari. “Travel Writing”

Unit 2: Understanding Fiction Prescribed text: Studying Literature by Pramod Nayar

1. Narrative Vantage: point of view (narrator, narratee, implied author, implied reader, three types of narrators and narratives, reliable and unreliable narrators, narrative levels: extradiegetic, intradiegetic, hypodiegetic/second-level narrative, third-level narrative)

2. Plot (master plots, stasis, moment of crisis, rising action, falling action, denouement, linear, non-linear, flashback, flash forward, in medias res, proairetic code, hermeneutic code, diegesis)

3. a. Character (flat and round, stock characters, major and minor characters, characters as actants, stereotypes) b. Characterisation (showing, telling, speech and action) 4. Setting (place, landscape, atmosphere, historical setting, temporal order, frequency and duration)

Explanatory Note: This unit equips the student with a thorough understanding of the centrality of narrative, types of narrative (linear and non-linear) and types of plots. It also trains the learners in the various methods and techniques of characterisation such as showing and telling. It ensures that they are acquainted with the major types of characters such as flat, round, stock, major and minor as well as characters as actants. Last, but not the least, the unit seeks to develop an understanding of locations and locales in terms of atmosphere, socio-historical setting, temporal order, duration and frequency.

Unit 3: Understanding Poetry

Prescribed texts: Studying Literature by Pramod Nayar and A Background to the Study of English Literature by B. Prasad

 

A. Concepts

1. Voice, persona (prosopopeia /face-making)

2. Tone, mood and attitude

3. Hyperbole

4. Irony

5. Denotation

6. Connotation

7. Syntax

8. Rhythm (stress, metre)

9. Rhyme (end-rhymes, partial rhymes, internal rhymes, broken/split rhymes, initial/head rhyme, schemes, free verse)

10. Imagery

11. Symbolism

12. Figures of speech (simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, synecdoche, metonymy)

B. Genres

1. Lyric

2. Ode

3. Satire

4. Sonnet

5. Dramatic monologue

6. Ballad

7. Haiku

Explanatory Note: This unit seeks to equip the learners with a working understanding of the various literary forms in poetry such as the lyric, ode, satire, sonnet, dramatic monologue and the ballad. The segment will train the learners to produce these and other contemporary forms of poetry such as the haiku.

Unit 4: Editing and proofing

Prescribed text: Editing and Revising Text by Jo Billingham

1. Proof-reading

2. Copy editing

3. Punctuation

4. Spelling

5. Vocabulary

6. Grammar

7. Style

Explanatory Note: •The principles of editing and revising are to be integrated with the teaching of units 2 and 3 in particular. The knowledge of the concepts in this unit will empower the learners with the skills necessary for revising their creative output. •Learners are also to be introduced to newer forms of writing such as blogs, flash fiction, fan fiction, Instagram poetry in addition to the types listed in the syllabus. •The fourth unit should be tested in an applied and not in a theoretical manner where passages of prose and poetry are to be given to the student to edit and apply the techniques taught. •The learners are to be trained to identify errors in grammar, punctuation, style, spelling etc. and correct the prose and verse passages in order to achieve accuracy, clarity and a better flow.

Prescribed Texts:

1. Billingham, Jo. 2002. Editing and Revising Text. Oxford University Press.

2. Morley, David and Neilsen, Philip. Eds. 2012. The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press.

3. Nayar, Pramod K. Studying Literature: An Introduction to Fiction and Poetry. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Private Limited. 2013.

4. Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. Revised Edition. New Delhi:Trinity Press, 2012.

References:

1. Abbott, H. Porter. 2008. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. Cambridge University Press. Second Edition.

2. Baumwell, Dennis and Saitz, Robert L. 1978.Advanced Reading and Writing: Exercises in English as a Second Language. Second Edition.

3. Behn, Robin and Twichell, Chase (eds.). 2001. The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets who Teach. New York: Harper Resource.

4. Bromberg, Murray and Liebb, Julius. 1997. The English You Need to Know. Second Edition. New York: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc.

5. Burke, Jim. 2003. Writing Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techniques. Heinemann.

6. Earnshaw, Steven (ed.). 2007. The Handbook of Creative Writing. University of Edinburgh Press.

7. Jensen, Derrick. 2005. Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution. Chelsea Green Publishing.

8. Kooser, Ted. 2007. The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets. University of Nebraska Press.

9. La Plante, Alice. 2010. The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing. New York: W.W. Norton.

10. Rao, Cheryl et. al. 2009. Anyone Can Write. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd.

English Literature, Elective 1, Paper 1A, Poetry from Chaucer to the Present

Course: Elective I  
Course Title: Poetry from Chaucer to the Present Paper I- A

Course Title: Poetry from Chaucer to the Present  

Preamble: 
 The paper, “Poetry from Chaucer to the Present” seeks to familiarize the students with the development of poetry over a vast period from Chaucer to the present. Therefore, the paper aims at studying certain poetic genres in relation to the chief tendencies and movements of the age. This is an attempt to acquaint the students with poetic forms, development of poetry and representative poets through the ages in the wider context of socio-cultural background of the time. The selected texts are to be studied for the poetic form, the poet's contribution to the age and their place/relation to the age/movement they represent. Being a paper of literature, more precisely of poetry, it aims at developing sensitivity of the learners towards life and all that surrounds it. It seeks to foster qualities such as understanding and appreciation of other cultures and ways of life. This enhanced ability of openness of mind shall help them to see beauty in life and the world around and to form a philosophy of their own.  

Objectives: 
1.To familiarize the students with the major representative poets of every age and movements therein.  
2.To help them study different genres of poetry in the context of socio-cultural background of the age

Unit 1: Chaucer to the Metaphysical Poetry  

a) Geoffrey Chaucer: “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” from The Canterbury Tales 
b) Edmund Spenser: “Prothalamion” 
c) John Donne: “The Canonization” 
d) Andrew Marvell: “A Dialogue between The Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure”  

Unit 2: Milton to the Age of Transition  
a)John Milton: Paradise Lost, Book II 
b)Alexander Pope: Essay on Man (Epistle I )
c)Thomas Gray: “Elegy Written in Country Churchyard” Unit 

3: Romantic Revival to Pre- Raphaelite Poets 
 a)William Wordsworth: “Resolution and Independence”  
P.B. Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind”  

b)Alfred Tennyson: “The Lady of Shalott”  
Robert Browning: “Andrea Del Sarto

c)D.G.Rosetti: “The Blessed Damozel”  
Swinburne : “The Forsaken Garden”  

Unit 4: Modernism and After  

a)T. S. Eliot :“ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”  
W. B. Yeats :“ A Prayer for My Daughter” 

b)Siegfried Sasoon :“The Child at the Window”  
W. H. Auden :“1st September 1939”  

c)Dylan Thomas :“ Fern Hill”  
Philip Larkin :“The Whitsun Weddings”  
Craig Raine :“A Martian Sends a Postcard Home”  

References:  
1.Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Harcourt College Publishers, Singapore.  
2.Abrams, M.H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. OUP. 1971  
3.Allott, Kenneth. The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse. Penguin books, England  
4.Anderson J.J. (Ed): The Canterbury Tales: A selection of Critical Essays, Macmillan,Casebook Series,Tiptree (Essex),1974. 
5.Auden, W.H. : Introduction- A selection from the Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, New York, 1944  
6.Beer, John: Wordsworth and his Human Heart, Macmillan Press Ltd., Lonndon,1978  
7.Bennett, John. Five Metaphysical Poets. Cambridge University Press,U.K.  
8.Bernard Richard, English Poetry of the Victorian Period 1830-1890, Longman  
9.Bloom, Harold. (Ed.) Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism. W.W. Norton & Co. 1970  
10.Bloom,Harold. Romantic Poetry And Prose. Oxford University Press  
11. Bloom,Harold, Trilling,Lionel Victorian Prose And Poetry. Oxford University Press  
12.Bowden Muriel: A Reader’s Guide to Geoffrey Chaucer, Syracuse University Press,1964  
13.Bowra, Maurice. The Romantic Imagination. OUP, London  
14. Brettjames,Norman G. Introducing Chaucer. George G Harrap And Co Ltd  
15.Brooks, Cleanth. Modern Poetry and the Tradition. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.  
16.Bush, Douglas: Introduction, Tennyson: selected Poetry, New York, 1951  
17.Butt, John. The Augustan Age. London 1950  
18.Butt, John. Wordsworth- Selected Poetry and Prose, OUP, 1964  
19.Colins, A.S. English Literature of the Twentieth Century. University Tutorial Press Ltd, London  
20.Coulton,G G. Chaucer and His England. Methuen Drama Great Britain  
21.Cox, C.B. & Dyson, A.E. (ed.) The Twentieth Century Mind, Vol. 1-3. OUP, London, 1972  
22.Daiches, David. Present Age. The Cresset Press, London 
23.Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1-4. Allied Publishers ltd., New Delhi.   
24.Drew, Elizabeth. T.S. Eliot: The Design of His Poetry. Eyre &Spottiswoode Publishers Ltd., London  
25.Durrant Geoffrey: William Wordsworth, Cambridge University Press, London,1969  
26.Ellman, Richard.Yeats- The man and the Masks. Faber & Faber Ltd., London  
27.Elsford E.: Four Hymns and Epithalamion, Oxford, 1967  
28.Faulkner, Peter. Modernism. (The Critical Idiom Series). Methuen & Co. Ltd. London  
29.Ford, Boris.(Ed.) The Pelican Guide to English Literature Vol. 1-8, Penguin Books, England. 
30.Fraser, G.S. The Modern Writer and His World. Penguin Books, England.  
31.Gardner, Helen, The Art of T.S. Eliot. Faber & Faber Ltd., London  
32.Gardner, Helen (Ed.). The Metaphysical Poets, Penguin Books, England  
33.Grierson & Smith. Critical History of English Poetry. Chatto&Windus, London  
34. Grierson Herbert, The Poems of John Donne- Introduction and Commentary, The Macmillan Press Ltd, London,1973 35.Hamer,EnidMetres of English Poetry. Methuen Drama Great Britain  
36.Hayward, John (Ed.).ThePenguin Book of English Verse. Penguin books, England  
37.Hudson, W.H.: Gray and His poetry, London, George G. Harrp& Co.,1927  
38.Hudson, W.H. Introduction to the Study of English Literature. George G. Harrap& Co. Ltd. London.  
39.Hughes Richard E. 'The Progress of the Soul: The Interior Career of John Donne' , The Broadley Head, London,1969  
40.Keast, W.R. Seventeenth Century English Poetry. OUP, London, 1962  
41. Killham,John. Critical Essays on the Poetry of Tennyson. Routledge Chapman And Hall, London,1960.  
42.Legouis, Emile &Cazamian, Louis. A History of English Literature. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. London  
43.Lovelock Julian(ed.), Donne: Songs and Sonnets, A Casebook, The Macmillan Press Ltd, London,1973  
44.Mahoney, John (Ed.) The English Romantics: Major Poetry & Critical Theory. D.C. Health & Co. 1978  
45.Mipshi, Masoa. The Divided Self: A Perspective on the Literature of the Victorians. New York University Press. 
46.Mukherji S.B. : The Poetry of Wordsworth,Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi,1976
47.Palgrave, F.T.: Golden Treasury of the Best Songs & Lyrical Poems in English Language, London, Oxford University Press, 1956 48.Parfitt, George. English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. Longman, London.  
49.Perkins David, History of Modern Poetry, (Vol I & II). Harvard University Press, 1987  
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55.Tedlock E.W. (ed.): Dylan Thomas: The Legend and the Poet, Heinemann, 1960 
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1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System  
i) Name of the Program : M.A. English (Regular) Part II, Semester III, Elective I
ii) Course Code : PAENG301  
iii) Course Title : Poetry from Chaucer to the Present 
iv) Semester wise Course Contents : Enclosed the copy of syllabus  
v) References and Additional References : Enclosed in the Syllabus  
vi) Credit Structure : No. of Credits per Semester - 06  
vii) No. of lectures per Unit : 15 
viii) No. of lectures per week : 04  

2. Scheme of Examination: 4 Questions of 15 marks each 
3. Special notes, if any: No 4. 
Eligibility, if any: No 5. Fee Structure: As per University Structure


Evaluation Pattern:

Internal Assessment (40 Marks): 
Sr. No. Particulars Marks  
1. One written assignment/research paper on the text suggested by the teacher for Internal Assessment- 10 Marks
Presentation on the written assignment/research paper. - 05 Marks
Viva voce based on the written assignment/research paper -05 marks  
Total = 20 Marks  

2. One Internal Test based on the syllabus (one out of three questions) 20 Marks  

Semester End Examination (60 Marks):  
Semester End Examination Duration: 2 Hours 60 Marks  

Question 1: Essay on Unit 1 (one out of two) : 15 Marks  
Question 2: Essay on Unit 2 (one out of two) : 15 Marks  
Question 3: Essay on Unit 3 (one out of two) : 15 Marks  
Question 4: Essay on Unit 4 (one out of two) : 15Marks 

Note: Students’ answers must reveal sufficient knowledge of the historical, socio-cultural, and literary (movement, school of thought, ism, genre etc.) background of the age, prescribed text as well as of the author.